After the competition, the program team organized a short meeting with the contestants to determine the filming schedule for the next few days. Each group will have to record a video during rehearsal to be used as editing material for the program. By the time these trivial matters were resolved, it was already two o'clock in the morning.
Shen Huai drove Ye Cang home, and somehow they talked about "Summer Insects" on the way.
Lu Yang did not like to be interviewed in the past, so most of the creative background of "Summer Insects" came from the imagination and fabrication of later generations. Shen Huai thought there was some inside story, so he was considerate and did not want to ask about other people's privacy.
Ye Cang took the initiative to speak: "There is no inside story. The previous record company did not allow me to say it."
Shen Huai suddenly became curious.
Ye Cang coughed and said, "I was very poor back then. The attic I lived in was small, dark, leaky and drafty. Especially in the summer, lots of bugs would get in and knock the light bulbs around. It was very annoying, so I put some glue on the light bulbs, but the bugs still foolishly knocked against it, and then all of them got stuck..."
Although Shen Huai knew Ye Cang well and had never thought of a story about a stubborn person pursuing his dreams and being proactive, Ye Cang's words still made his eyelids twitch. He thought only elementary school students would do such childish things.
He interrupted Ye Cang: "What happened next?"
"Hmm." Ye Cang spread his hands, "Then the light bulb exploded, and the whole building lost power. It was not repaired until midnight."
Shen Huai: "..."
He felt that the record company's approach was right, otherwise his image would be so broken that no matter how thick the fan filter was, it would be useless.
Shen Huai didn't say anything, but Ye Cang's story was not finished yet: "That night I lay on the rooftop, writing songs in the moonlight. I wrote for the whole night, and when I realized it, my legs were numb. I couldn't move, so I leaned on the railing. The moment I saw the sunrise, I suddenly felt that there was no difference between me and those stupid insects, - but what can I do? The light is there."
He said as a matter of course, but Shen Huai was stunned and didn't speak for a long time. After
Ye Cang finished speaking, he didn't hear Shen Huai's response, and he lowered his head to play with his mobile phone nonchalantly.
Shen Huai listened to the sound effects of the game behind him, pursed his lips, but the eyes behind the glasses seemed to light up
. After returning home, Shen Huai changed out of his suit, washed up, changed into home clothes and walked out. His hair hung softly in front of his forehead, glowing a light linen color under the light. When he returned home, his expression softened. Compared with the elite persona outside, he now seemed several years younger, like a college student who had just graduated from campus.
He did not sleep, but turned on the computer and searched for all the random songs since the start of "Tomorrow's Star". Rows of song names passed before his eyes, and the relevant content of these songs also appeared in his mind. This was the homework he did when he just took over Ye Cang, and now he was just confirming it.
Everyone thought that Ye Cang was unlucky to draw "Summer Bug", only Shen Huai noticed something wrong, but he did not make trouble at that time. Now he has read all the songs and confirmed that none of them is as difficult as "Summer Bug".
There are many songs of the same difficulty as "Summer Bug", but there are a total of 136 songs since the start of the competition. It is impossible that only Ye Cang "happened" to draw it.
Shen Huai's eyes gradually turned cold. He didn't want to interfere in the competition, but if someone was secretly playing tricks...
Shen Huai thought about it, wrote an email and sent it out.
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Although the live broadcast of the "Star of Tomorrow" top ten competition has ended, the topic of this program has just begun. Netizens were very busy this evening. First, they posted a circle of friends to express their feelings, then went to Weibo to mock Xia Fei for self-contradictory, and watched the jokes of major marketing accounts. Finally, they enthusiastically participated in the fan-black battle on major platforms.
The entertainment forum is the largest entertainment gossip forum in the country, with a huge traffic. "Star of Tomorrow", as the most popular entertainment talent show recently, occupies half of the homepage, so a related post came out and immediately attracted everyone's attention.
——Fuck, I, a Ye Cang
hater, am going to become a fan today! LZ doesn’t like anyone but Ye Cang. I watched the live broadcast today to see how he got eliminated, but I never expected that! After listening to his singing, I actually became a fan!!! [Video][Video]
1L: Are Ye Cang fans not going to be drama queens today?
2L: Fuck, I’m the same as LZ. I became a fan after watching the live broadcast today. The part where he was talking back to Zheng Zhao was so cool! I couldn’t stop laughing!
3L: Get out of your own business!
…
35L: I went to watch it out of curiosity. I just want to say fuck!
36L: Fuck +1
37L: Fuck +2
…
123L: Committing suicide once is like being reborn! This performance is like being worn through a mask!
188L: Actually, his voice was not bad to begin with. Now that he has found the right singing style and gained confidence, it is normal that he is different from before!
189L: Can LS fans please be a little more careful when praising others? Using this audio-edited video to praise his singing skills? [Vomiting]
200L: I was there, and I can testify that he sang better there than in the video. Everyone in our row cried...
...
Ye Cang's popularity almost skyrocketed, and he occupied the top spot on the trending search in just one night.
Ming Wei was shocked when she woke up in the morning and saw the trending search. She didn't expect Shen Huai to actually bring this abandoned child back to life. She hurriedly called him, but Shen Huai's reaction was very calm.
This morning, his phone was almost blown up. No one had high hopes for Ye Cang before, so he ended up in Shen Huai's hands. Now, of course, many people regretted it, but they could only say a few sour words in the name of congratulations.
Shen Huai didn't care about these insignificant jealousies. He glanced at his watch. It was already half past ten, but the door upstairs was still tightly closed.
Just when Shen Huai decided to wake Ye Cang up, the door of the upstairs room was finally opened, and Ye Cang staggered downstairs with a head of hair like a bird's nest.
Shen Huai looked at him, he was bleary-eyed, even his slippers were inside out, even though he had seen this scene many times, Shen Huai was still worried that he would miss a step and fall down the stairs.
Ye Cang washed up like a wandering soul, then sat at the dining table, holding a piece of toast in his mouth, eating breakfast while playing with his phone.
Shen Huai turned off the iPad and stood up: "I have something to go out for a while, and my aunt will come over to cook at noon, remember to eat."
Ye Cang responded in a daze.
Shen Huai was a little helpless, he could only hurriedly give a few instructions and left home.
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Shen Huai arrived at a private restaurant. After a while, a man wearing a duckbill cap walked into the private room. When
he saw Shen Huai, he took off his cap, revealing his handsome face underneath. "You are such a busy man, you finally have time to meet up with your old friends?" The other person smiled and punched Shen Huai. "I couldn't believe the email you sent yesterday."
Shen Huai also smiled, but it was not the usual restrained social smile, but the relaxed expression when seeing a friend.
The man's name is Chen Chiyu. Two years ago, he graduated from a prestigious foreign university and returned to China to found Chiyu Technology, becoming a new Internet elite.
He and Shen Huai were childhood friends and they had always had a good relationship. However, they had been busy with work in recent years, so they had not been in contact as often as before. However, after receiving the email from Shen Huai, Chen Chiyu took it very seriously and specially put aside his work to come out and meet him.
Shen Huaisi had no idea that he was using a sledgehammer to kill a nut, and asked, "Have you watched the video I showed you before? Is it possible that this random song selection software has been tampered with?"
Chen Chiyu didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Is this trivial matter worth your attention? You even called me out specially." Despite saying so, he still answered seriously, "This kind of random program is easily interfered with. It's not difficult to specify a certain song as you said. But even if you get evidence that the other party has modified the program, it's useless if the source of the evidence is illegal and has no legal effect."
Shen Huai also knew it, but said, "I just need to confirm whether someone has tampered with it."
"That's very simple." Chen Chiyu took out a small U disk, "There is a small program in this U disk. When the time comes, you find a way to insert this U disk into the target computer. As long as someone changes the program, it will start, record everything and send it to your email."
Shen Huai took the U disk and put it in his pocket: "Thank you."
"You are still polite to me for such a small matter."
After talking about the business, the dishes came. The two ate and chatted. Chen Chiyu said: "I say, are you really addicted to being a broker? Don't you plan to come back?"
Shen Huai curled the corners of his lips and asked back: "What's wrong with being a broker?"
"It's not that bad, I just think it's a waste of your talent. It's a pity that you have such skills." Chen Chiyu smacked his lips regretfully.
Shen Huai chuckled, "There's nothing to regret. I think what we are doing now is much more interesting than a pure money game."
When he said this, Chen Chiyu remembered something and asked, "Did the young artist you brought before break up with you? I saw him attending brand events and participating in variety shows these days. I heard that he will also star in a web drama. Wow, it's very lively."
Shen Huai smiled and didn't seem to be interested at all.
Chen Chiyu propped up his chin: "You really don't care?"
Shen Huai: "He is not my artist, why should I care?"
Chen Chiyu: "That's not the case. After all, you have spent so much effort on him. He is ignorant and doesn't know that the vocal and dance teachers you hired for him are all top names in the industry. Yet he betrayed you over such a small matter. Aren't you angry or sad?"
Shen Huai said lightly: "I can't say I'm angry or sad. It's just a failed investment. I'm a little disappointed."
Chen Chiyu smiled strangely: "You are too heartless. Now I feel a little sympathy for him."
Shen Huai ignored him.
Chen Chiyu said again: "Hey, I'm really curious, what exactly do you want to do by hiding your identity and being the agent of such a small artist?"
Shen Huai had never thought about this question before. When Chen Chiyu asked him this question, he frowned and thought about it, and for the first time showed an uncertain expression: "I don't know, maybe I want to see... the meaning of life?"
Chen Chiyu: "..."
If it were someone else, Chen Chiyu would probably laugh at the other person and say he was in the late stage of middle school, but looking at Shen Huai who frowned and was serious, he could only sigh silently.
The thoughts of the big guys are really hard to understand.