Chapter 58. Judging from her tone, she seemed a bit hesitant...
Jing Yitong reluctantly withdrew his hand. He looked down at his fingertips, seemingly still reluctant to let go of the delicate touch they had just experienced. His tone carried a hint of regret: "Oh, okay."
"puff."
I don't know who was the first to burst out laughing, but then everyone in the entire listening area who saw this blunder erupted in laughter.
Song Kan couldn't take it anymore. He slapped Jing Yitong from behind, laughing and wiping away tears as he cursed, "Are you crazy?!"
The other staff members also kept laughing: "Oh my god, this is hilarious!"
"Teacher Jing, you feel so comfortable touching it!"
"You really can't blame Teacher Jing for this. I also thought Teacher Fang was letting Teacher Jing touch him, hahaha."
Fang Xingu glared at Jing Yitong: "That'll teach you to pay attention in class."
"No way, I was clearly listening very attentively to Teacher Fang's lecture," Jing Yitong quickly defended himself. "You can check how well I listened to the lecture."
Fang Xin gestured "please" towards the recording area, and this time Jing Yitong confidently put on his headphones and walked to the microphone.
Perhaps the short, intensive tutoring session had really worked, because during this recording, Jing Yitong had corrected most of the minor flaws in his singing, making his voice sound much more textured. Although his voice is on the lower end, it's not deep or muffled, unlike the artificially produced, greasy bass that some people deliberately create. Jing Yitong's singing sounds particularly natural and comfortable.
Although it still involved fragmented recording—Jing Yitong recorded this song line by line—most non-professional singers do this, so there's nothing to criticize. Besides, Jing Yitong's performance this time was already good enough.
After recording for nearly another hour, Jing Yitong's recording was finally completed. He looked expectantly at Fang Xingu through the glass, and Fang Xingu gave him a thumbs up as a sign of approval.
Jing Yitong breathed a sigh of relief. He returned to the listening area and listened to his results again until he was sure there were no problems. Only then did he prepare to leave with Fang Xingu. But Yan Tu suddenly arrived at that moment.
Seeing that the two were about to leave work, Yan Tu had a sinister thought. He stopped them and said, "Don't rush off. Record one more version together."
Jing Yitong was stunned: "Record together?"
Yan Tu: "Yes."
The sound engineer nearly spat out his water: "Damn it, Director Yan, don't try to matchmake people up! Are you trying to kill me by having them both record together?!"
He couldn't even imagine how difficult the post-production audio editing would be, since the two of them were recording together!
“I want to make a different version in addition to the normal version,” Yan Tu said confidently, and then looked at Fang Xingu, “Besides, Teacher Fang is here, you certainly won’t make things difficult for the sound engineer, right?”
Fang Xingu looked at Yan Tu with disdain: "Do you know how much I charge for writing a song or singing a song now?"
"Make the most of what you have," Yan Tu chuckled, leading the two back into the recording area. "I got a free copy by being the first to act."
Fang Xin was helpless. He had tried recording with multiple people at the same time before, but that was only when recording with professional singers. But with Jing Yitong...
Okay, it shouldn't be a big problem, he's here.
He patted Jing Yitong on the shoulder: "Brother, don't worry, I can handle it."
Jing Yitong's slightly tense heart was soothed by Fang Xingu's words. He felt relaxed and gently squeezed Fang Xingu's hand on his shoulder: "Okay."
Just as Fang Xingu had designed, "The World Is So Vast" wasn't a particularly difficult song to sing. Its melody, while pleasant, was also quite simple, and the overall tone was light and cheerful. The two warmed up their voices before recording and quickly began recording.
"Hey, are you ready?"
We are about to set off.
The world is so big,
The first step is right under your feet.
Crossing the streams and hollows of the wilderness and forests,
Crossing the turbulent strait.
If you listen attentively to nature's expression,
In fact, the journey is never complicated.
Hey, have you made up your mind?
Keep up with the pace.
The world is so big,
There will always be places you can't reach.
Experiencing the time difference between day and night,
Experience the changing seasons.
The only meaning of the journey lies in the present moment.
There's always a way to deal with wind and rain.
Keep moving forward, don't be afraid.
Spring goes and autumn comes, flowers bloom and wither.
Perhaps the winter wind is fierce in the distance,
The seasons change, and eventually, warmth and cold will alternate.
..."
When the last chorus was sung, Fang Xingu's gaze involuntarily fell on Jing Yitong.
As the seasons change, warmth and cold will eventually come together. When he wrote these lyrics while he was heartbroken on the Affogato, he probably never imagined that just a few days later, his winter would really be over, and from now on, his world would become warmer and warmer because of Jing Yitong.
Seemingly sensing Fang Xingu's gaze, Jing Yitong turned his eyes slightly and caught Fang Xingu looking at him. The moment their eyes met, smiles appeared on their faces.
A warm feeling washed over Fang Xingu. In fact, no one knew that when he wrote the song "The World Is So Big," he harbored a selfish motive that no one else could detect.
He closed his eyes, a happy and light smile on his face, and sang the last two lines of the lyrics:
"This temporary separation"
It is in pursuit of the true meaning of life.
When memories overlap with reality
We will meet again and write a new chapter together.
Since Fang Xin Gu and Jing Yi Tong parted ways on that snowy night in a foreign land eight years ago, they have embarked on two completely different paths, each stumbling and searching for their own direction in life.
They were like two parallel lines, so close yet so far apart in heart.
Just when Fang Xingu thought that this was how his life with Jing Yitong would end, Jing Yitong suddenly appeared at the recording site of "The World Is So Big". At that moment, Fang Xingu felt that the reality in front of him and the memories in his mind merged. He couldn't even tell whether it was his own illusion or everything that had really happened.
However, Fang Xin had a subtle sense that something might happen on this journey that would affect his entire life, but at the time, he could not accurately judge whether the impact would be good or bad.
But as it turns out, no matter how far apart we go, we will always meet the right person again.
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One day in early February, the show "The World Is So Big" finally released behind-the-scenes footage of the theme song recording. As a warm-up before the show's official premiere, tens of thousands of fans flocked to the platform to watch after hearing the news.
The behind-the-scenes footage begins with drone footage showing a van slowly driving up and finally stopping at the entrance of the recording studio, where the seven guests then get out one by one.
Although the behind-the-scenes footage only showed one car driving in, it was clear from the scene of the seven people getting out that they were not in the same car. At least four different cars appeared in the footage, suggesting that some people came alone, while others came in the same car as others.
The most obvious example is Fang Xingu and Jing Yitong, whose cars are exactly the same, and even the decorations inside the cars are completely identical.
Just as the fans of the Tongxinyuan CP were about to scream with excitement, the behind-the-scenes video went black, and then a warm reminder appeared in the middle of the screen: "In order to ensure the smooth recording of the theme song, the seven guests did not actually participate in the recording at the same time."
CP fans: ...
They weren't recorded on the same day? That's terrible. In that case, it's completely meaningless whether they were in the same car or not.
Many people were furious: This trashy production team dared to mess with me!
Countless fans of the couple wanted to beat up the production team when they saw this friendly reminder, but they continued watching with despair, only to find another line popping up on the screen: "But some guests did indeed record together~"
Holy crap!
The CP fans, who were just furious, slapped their thighs and almost jumped out of their seats when they saw this sentence: "You trash production team, you should explain clearly which guests were recorded together!"
But this behind-the-scenes tidbit really whetted people's appetites, yet they just wouldn't reveal anything, focusing only on pushing the pace forward. Before they knew it, they arrived at the scene of the seven guests recording.
The footage of the six people other than Fang Xin is interspersed throughout the recording. At the beginning of the video, the behind-the-scenes footage shows some of the difficulties they encountered in the early stages of recording, which caused the recording progress to stall and prevent it from proceeding smoothly.
Just as the audience was wondering where Fang Xingu had gone, the camera suddenly switched to Fang Xingu's recording area.
If one word could be used to describe Fang Xin Gu in this scene, it would be "effortless"—
He tapped his fingers to the beat of the music, looking so relaxed, but his singing was anything but sluggish. His mellow and lively vocals perfectly matched the song's upbeat rhythm. Even when he sang a cappella, his voice was enough to captivate the listener. All the listeners couldn't help but feel happy along with Fang Xingu's singing.
That's true. This is Fang Xin Gu. How could he possibly get stuck on something like singing and recording like everyone else?
Especially since the behind-the-scenes footage prominently featured Fang Xin Gu as the lyricist and composer of the song, everyone who watched this segment had only one impression: As expected of Fang Xin Gu, amazing!
Fang Xin finished quickly, and the behind-the-scenes footage then shifted to the other people slowly solving their problems. In the end, however, Jing Yitong was still unable to solve his own problem.
Just as all the viewers were getting anxious for Jing Yitong, a mysterious person appeared. Strangely, the production team's cameras didn't capture the person's face, and they even altered the person's voice. However, this person was clearly very familiar with all the staff members, and he was very casual when communicating with Jing Yitong, even volunteering to give Jing Yitong pointers.
In particular, this person's behavior with Jing Yitong was very intimate. In the behind-the-scenes footage, you can vaguely see his hand on Jing Yitong's abdomen. You can also see that Jing Yitong misunderstood what this "teacher" said and directly put his hand on the other person's throat, which caused a burst of laughter in the room.
Many viewers were on the edge of their seats, wondering who this "teacher" was, or if he was a mystery guest invited by the production team.
But some sharp-eyed people had already deduced the truth from the "teacher's" attire—wasn't that the same clothes Fang Xingu had just worn?
Holy crap, could this person be Fang Xingu?
Countless people have started to criticize this trashy production team for having the desire but not the courage to do it. Adding voice-changing effects is one thing, but not showing the "teacher's" face is another. Can't they just be open about it?
Even at the very end, there was a duet between this "teacher" and Jing Yitong, at which point everyone could guess that this "teacher" was Fang Xin Gu. What's infuriating is that the production team never released a single frame of the "teacher's" face.
This made everyone aware of the truth, but there was no conclusive evidence to prove that this person was Fang Xin Gu.
All the fans were furious, and the CP fans immediately protested, saying they would steal the master tapes from the production team.
The production team of "The World Is So Big" seemed to have anticipated the backlash they would receive after releasing this behind-the-scenes footage. Therefore, at the end of the clip, they quietly added a sentence: "The full version of the theme song recording behind-the-scenes footage will be released simultaneously with the main program at noon on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Please look forward to it~"
fan:……
Damn it, who came up with this scheme? It's disgusting and incredibly effective! They're so easily manipulated.
Even Jing Yitong and Fang Xingu, who saw this behind-the-scenes footage, were amused.
The two of them were snuggled on the sofa after watching the behind-the-scenes footage together. Fang Xin, holding the plush pillow he had just bought a few days ago, frowned and said, "What kind of perverse taste does Yan Tu have? Isn't he afraid the audience will beat him up?"
Jing Yitong laughed: "But it really makes for a good show. If I were a viewer, I would definitely want to travel back to the New Year with one click."
Just as Fang Xingu was about to reply, his phone suddenly rang. Fang Xingu picked up his phone and looked at it, then a strange expression appeared on his face.
Jing Yitong asked him, "What's wrong?"
“My grandma said she’ll be in Beijing in a couple of days and will come to see us then.”
It wasn't a big deal that Wang Jinxu was coming over, but Jing Yitong didn't understand why Fang Xingu had that expression: "It's a good thing, so why do you have that expression?"
Fang Xingu's expression became even stranger: "Judging from her tone... it seems she doesn't really support our marriage alliance?"
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Author's note: In reality, not supporting it is useless anyway.
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