After Tong Jian finished talking to his fans, the stage darkened again.
Xie Yang exited in the darkness.
The next stage belongs to Tong Jian and his friends, so he can take a break for a while.
On the stage, the prelude of "Dreaming", one of IUD's famous songs, sounded. Xie Yang walked backstage to the sound of music. Hu Biao immediately came up to him and shoved his phone into his hand. He said with relief, "Look! Look! Those marketing accounts on Weibo are all silent. Before you even finished singing your song, they secretly deleted all the material that discredited you! Bah! I'll settle accounts with them one by one later!"
Jie Yang looked at the screen of his mobile phone and saw the Weibo homepage of a famous music critic, who had just posted a Weibo post.
Lao Wen with sharp ears: I just watched the performance of a certain young newcomer who was recently criticized and scolded by thousands of people. I just want to say, you all criticize newcomers of this level, how high are your expectations? It’s destined to be a hit, the new IUD is destined to take off, and it’s destined to win awards. I won’t say more. I’m going to be a fan of Jie Yang. This kid’s voice is so magical!
"And the live broadcast room. The tone has completely changed now. The comments before were so chaotic that it was unbearable to watch!" Hu Biao clicked on his phone again and brought up the live broadcast room.
Xie Yang looked over.
The comments in the live broadcast room were flashing rapidly, and the popularity of the live broadcast room was also rising rapidly.
——Now all I can think about is Jie Yang’s low singing in the middle. It’s a killer tone, an absolute killer tone.
——Nothing to say, it smells so good.
——I heard that there’s a reversal here? I missed the opening, and the atmosphere on Weibo was weird. What was going on?
——I got goosebumps when Xie Yang was chanting in the middle.
——This piece of music is so thoughtful. Is this piece of music really composed by Xie Yang?
——It’s too late. Has the rich second generation fallen from grace? Did the rich second generation fall from grace?
——Turn nm and get out!
——It felt like Jie Yang didn’t even sing a few lines, and he stood far away from the camera. Didn’t he say that he held the performance to promote himself? Just praise it like that?
——Why are there only three people singing “Dreaming”? Where is Jie Yang?
——He was torn apart so much that he doesn’t dare to go on stage.
——I have to say this: I have always thought that Jie Yang is very handsome, but I have never dared to praise him for fear of being criticized.
——Hahahaha, I’m Mo Bin’s black fan, but I’m so happy. Xie Yang is awesome! Mo Bin, with a new song of this level and a new artist with this voice, do you regret planning to go solo?
——The director is so stupid, he should give the camera to Mo Bin at this time!
——By the way, did Mo Bin go? Didn't he still have an attitude of "even though my brother betrayed me, in order to make IUD's memorial performance not look bad, I decided to endure the sadness and go support them"? Is he still sad now? Hahahaha, IUD is about to take off again, is he happy for his brother? Ha ha ha ha!
Hu Biao said, "Let's vent our anger."
Xie Yang chuckled, nodded, returned the phone to Hu Biao, walked to the side and sat down, recalling the feeling of singing on the stage just now, took out his phone and sent a WeChat message to Qiu Xing: Did it sound good?
Qiu Xing replied immediately: Where are you?
Xie Yang: I’ll be back on stage later.
Qiu Xing: How long is a while?
Xie Yang: About an hour later.
After a while of silence.
Qiu Xing: That sounds ugly! Waste of time!
VIP seats.
Qiu Xing put his phone into his pocket with a gloomy face, asked Liu Sha for earplugs and noise-canceling headphones, put them on, leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes to rest. The live broadcast platform is their own, and Liu Sha has communicated with it in advance, so he is not worried about being captured by the camera.
…
The performance continues on the stage.
When they saw that there were only three people left on the stage, there was a brief commotion in the audience, but soon, the prelude to "Dreaming" sounded, and everyone put aside their doubts and actively participated in reviewing the old days of IUD. The fans were even a little secretly happy. To them, IUD's old songs should only be sung by old members of IUD, even if one person was missing from the group.
Five years, four albums, forty-two songs, twenty of which were composed by Xu Chenhao.
After "Dreaming" came "Imagination", and then "Unity"... one song after another, the three of them did not stop, did not talk to the fans, and only waved to the fans occasionally. They presented this last stage belonging to IUD with all their seriousness and concentration.
After singing all twenty songs written by Xu Chenhao, they finally stopped.
The music disappeared completely, and the breathing sounds of the three people came through the microphone.
The audience seats fell silent, and fans looked expectantly at the sweaty old members of IUD on the stage.
Tong Jian raised his hand and shouted happily: "Iud is five years old!"
The fans chanted along.
Ke Lan and Xu Chenhao smiled. Tong Jian raised his hand again: "Happy birthday to us!"
The whole audience cheered and kept saying Happy Birthday.
Tong Jian raised his hand to suppress the cheers, and the cheers gradually died down.
"I'm very happy to present this performance to everyone." Tong Jian took a deep breath, suddenly turned sideways, and said excitedly, "Now, I'm even more happy to formally introduce the new member of IUD, Jie Yang! Welcome everyone!"
The audience was silent for a moment, and then sparse applause broke out with hesitation and uncertainty. After being brainwashed by negative news for two months, most fans were unable to willingly accept Jie Yang into the group after only listening to one new song. And the new songs, people outside said that Jie Yang bought other people's songs...
Qiu Xing opened his eyes, took off his headphones and earplugs, and listened to the perfunctory applause, his face darkening.
Tong Jian didn't expect this to happen. He was stunned for a moment and said again: "Everyone welcome Jie Yang!"
The applause broke out again, then quickly stopped.
Ke Lan and Xu Chenhao frowned.
In such an unwelcoming atmosphere, Xie Yang walked onto the stage with a guitar. He changed into a simple white T-shirt and jeans, a very youthful and simple outfit. Standing next to Tong Jian and others who were wearing gorgeous performance costumes, he seemed out of place.
Qiu Xing overheard some fans whispering that Jie Yang was trying to be special and act fresh, and he was so angry that he squeezed the armrests of the chair until they crackled.
Xie Yang didn't care about the fans' attitude. He took the microphone handed over by Tong Jian, looked in the direction of the VIP seats, accurately found where Qiu Xing was, smiled, and said: "A song "Reincarnation" is dedicated to the audience who came for me."
Qiu Xing paused, then slowly loosened his hand.
After Xie Yang finished speaking, he returned the microphone to Tong Jian. Regardless of the fans' attitudes, he walked to the microphone and chair that Ke Lan and Xu Chenhao had set up for him, sat down, held the guitar in his arms, and adjusted the height of the microphone.
The lights on the stage gradually dimmed, Tong Jian and others left the stage, and only a beam of light shone down from above, covering Jie Yang.
There was another commotion in the audience, and no one knew where it started. The rainbow-colored cheering lights suddenly went out one by one, and the fans' own light signs were turned off one after another. In the blink of an eye, most of the auditorium was dark, with only a few sparse lights still on.
Black light.
Seeing this, Tong Jian, who had already stepped off the stage, took a step forward and tried to rush back onto the stage, but was pulled back by Ke Lan and Xu Chenhao.
"Damn it." Hu Biao cursed and helped to hold Tong Jian back. "They've already sung the new song, why are they still like this! Don't go. Jie Yang is right. There will be a day when they cry and apologize to Jie Yang!"
VIP seats.
Even though Qiu Xing rarely watched performances, he knew that this situation where most of the lights in the venue were dark was very strange. He frowned and looked at Liu Sha beside him and asked, "What's going on?"
Liu Sha lowered her voice and explained what the black light meant.
Qiu Xing's face was as gloomy as water. He turned his head and glanced grimly at the dark audience seats behind him. He said to He Jun on the other side: "Go get some shiny things. Get the most expensive and best ones!"
He Jun: "...Boss, you have to make the light board yourself. The cheering sticks are distributed by the staff when you enter the venue, and you threw ours into the trash can."
"..." Qiu Xing said impatiently: "Go pick it up!"
He Jun turned around and said to Zhou Miao next to him: "The boss asked you to pick up the cheering stick."
...You fart! It was clearly for you to pick it up!
Zhou Miao glanced at Qiu Xing's malicious expression, but dared not say anything. He stood up and walked towards the place where he had thrown the cheering stick before.
Liu Sha thought of something and whispered something into Qiu Xing's ear. Qiu Xing listened to her and took out his cell phone.
On stage.
After Xie Yang adjusted the position of the microphone, he looked up at the mostly dark auditorium. Just as he was about to look away and start singing, he suddenly noticed a light coming on in the VIP seats. Unlike the colored light of the cheering stick, that light was like a star, only a point, and was white.
He looked over, and because the stage was dark, he was lucky enough to see Qiu Xing with a gloomy face holding a mobile phone. He smiled silently, lowered his head, and gently plucked the guitar.
The melodious and soothing music flowed out, like the wind blowing across the lake, creating ripples. The atmosphere on the stage, which had been heated up by Tong Jian and others, instantly mellowed.
Jie Yang leaned close to the microphone and sang the first line of the lyrics.
The ear-catching and clear voice spreads out slowly, blending with the sound of the guitar, like a stone falling into a lake, stirring the most itchy part of people's ears and hooking the quietest part of their minds.
There was a commotion in the audience.
Long Shuyou's eyes lit up surprisingly and he leaned forward unconsciously.
Mo Bin, on the other hand, slumped in his chair, his palms full of cold sweat. He wanted to leave, but with Huang Mo on his left and Long Shuyou on his right, he couldn't leave. If he left, he would be even more embarrassed.
And... he looked at Xie Yang on the stage with jealousy in his eyes.
Xie Yang shouldn't be like this.
…
From the moment Xie Yang sang the first line of the lyrics, his attention was no longer on the stage. His thoughts sank into the music, and what emerged before his eyes were bits and pieces of the end of the world.
When preparing for his solo, the first song that came to his mind was "Reincarnation".
"Reincarnation", the four seasons cycle, life goes on. That’s what this piece is about.
Although he had a hard time in the first year after the apocalypse, he still had hope in his heart. At that time, a melody often popped up in his mind. It was quiet, slightly sad, but with a warm undertone.
That melody was the prototype of "Reincarnation".
Shortly after writing "Reincarnation", he truly realized the cruelty of the end of the world, knew that there was no hope anymore, and all that remained was painful survival, so he consciously forgot the existence of "Reincarnation".
Now, the hope that he thought would never appear has come to him. He dug out this song from the depths of his consciousness, and wanted to use it to formally bid farewell to his desperate past life.
Xie Yang half-closed his eyes and sang softly into the microphone.
There are no difficult showmanship, no complicated arrangement, no gorgeous lyrics, but the simple melody touches everyone's heart.
He said: May the pain and despair end soon, why haven’t you brought me a good future yet?
The water source is polluted, animals mutate, social order is out of balance, and all things decay... A leaf falls into the polluted water source, and before it is about to turn black and rot, it is finally washed onto a piece of clean soil by the water. The seeds on the leaves fell to the ground, took root and sprouted.
He said: A good future will definitely come.
The singing gradually faded.
The whole place was dead silent.
Qiu Xing came back to his senses and was the first to applaud.
Liu Sha and others also applauded. Gradually, everyone in the VIP seats raised their hands, and then the audience area behind the VIP seats, the audience areas on the left and right sides, the audience area on the second-level stands... the applause soon filled the entire venue.
Xie Yang came back to his senses and looked directly at the starlight in the VIP seats. He stood up, put down his guitar, and picked up the microphone on the stand.
The fans seemed to break free from the spell of the fairy's singing, suddenly came to their senses, and stopped applauding awkwardly.
The whole place fell into deathly silence again.
Xie Yang looked towards the audience and said, "This is my first time performing on stage. I am very happy."
Still quiet.
"I once said that I would make those who scolded me cry and apologize to me. You all must have scolded me."
There was a uniform low "ah" from the audience and everyone started to get agitated.
"Now I take that back."
There was even more commotion in the audience.
"If you can continue to support everyone in the new IUD in the future, I am willing to apologize to you." Xie Yang bent down, "I'm sorry."
The audience gradually quieted down.
The barrage in the live broadcast room also stopped.
After pausing for a few seconds, Xie Yang stood up and said, "Now I'll leave the stage to Tong Jian." After that, he retreated into the darkness and disappeared.
The drum beats began, then gradually became denser, the prelude to a new song sounded, and the dark stage lit up again. Tong Jian, who had changed his outfit, stood on the high platform on the left with red eyes. When the camera moved to his face, he couldn't help but say, "I've already said that Yangyang is fine now. You believe what the haters say, what the marketing accounts say, and even what the people who have left say, but why don't you believe what we say?"
The entry point of the first line of lyrics has passed. Hu Biao, Ke Lan and Xu Chenhao in the backstage did not want to blame Tong Jian for this mistake.
There was silence in the audience.
Tong Jian wiped his face and said, "Let's play the accompaniment again. Everyone must listen carefully. The next song "Wutong Shuo" is a solo song that Yangyang wrote specifically for me. It is the beginning of a new chapter for me. You must listen carefully!"
The accompaniment stopped and then started again. Tong Jian leaned sideways to adjust his breathing, put on his best state, and put the microphone to his lips.
A few seconds later, the auditorium exploded.
Solo song? The beginning of a new chapter? What does this mean? Didn’t we just introduce the new team members? Besides, he, they no longer wanted to boycott the new members...
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