The song ended.
The audience and viewers in the live stream were so engrossed in the music that it took them a long time to react.
The people at the scene looked at Fu Bai with complicated expressions; no one expected that Fu Bai could deliver such a perfect performance.
The live stream chat exploded with comments.
[I wanted more! How could it end so soon?]
[It's beautiful! The melody is beautiful, and Su Fubai's singing is beautiful too!]
Can you believe I blushed so much because of a song?
Why does Su Fubai's voice sound so familiar?
So who was the person who spent the night with Su Fubai last night? I'm tired of saying "I'm envious."
[Plagiarist, whose work did this song plagiarize this time?]
Let me see who Su Fubai's plagiarism victims are. I don't believe he can write songs!
Some people at the scene reacted in the same way as the viewers in the live stream.
"Did Su Fubai write this himself?" Su Jinhan asked the system in her mind.
The database crashed; no query or confirmation could be found.
"Your database is still crashing? You son of a bitch..."
[Repair in progress, please be patient!]
Su Jinhan: "..."
Calm down and don't be impatient.
Su Fubai was already attacking him head-on, how could he sit still?
But then the system dealt him another blow.
[Host, there's no use in being anxious. The song Su Fubai just played has been rated S-level, renowned worldwide.]
[The host's current likes are insufficient to exchange for a song of this level.]
The implication is: If you're bad at it, don't blame me for making mistakes.
Su Jinhan: ...!
Su Jinhan's face paled even more with anger.
What to do? What to do?
Are we just going to watch all the praise and compliments flood into Fu Bai?
Su Jinhan grew increasingly anxious and finally couldn't help but look to Gu Xiuzhe for help.
His eyes were wet, his face was pale, and he exuded a sense of helpless vulnerability.
If Su Jinhan looked at Gu Xiuzhe like that normally, he would immediately compromise and help him at all costs.
But Gu Xiuzhe did this only after he saw Su Jinhan.
Clearly, Gu Xiuzhe's attention was entirely on Fu Bai at that moment.
Gu Xiuzhe's face darkened when he heard Fu Bai say that he would dedicate the song "Linli" to the man he had spent the night with the previous day.
A flame called jealousy rose up, burning his chest with waves of pain.
The director of "Singing and Composition Academy" was unaware of Gu Xiuzhe's thoughts. He glanced at Su Jinhan, who was pale in the contestant area, and then at Gu Xiuzhe, who had a dark expression on his face.
Both of them looked unwell, clearly not wanting to see Fu Bai in such a prominent position.
The director, trying to guess what the sponsor was thinking, picked up a whiteboard and quickly wrote a line on it before showing it to the host.
—Ask him about plagiarizing Clarence.
The host nodded to indicate that he understood; the director had already spoken to him beforehand.
Once the production team gives such a hint, it means they intend to confirm Su Fubai's plagiarism during the live broadcast.
The host walked up to Fu Bai with a microphone in hand, looking completely absorbed, as if he were still immersed in Fu Bai's songs.
"It's beautiful, absolutely beautiful." The host praised it first, and then asked, "But I always feel that the style of this song is very similar to Clarence. When you were composing it, did you refer to Clarence's style?"
The host did not explicitly say that Fu Bai plagiarized Clarence, but combined with some scenes from the previous episode, the resemblance was very strong.
After being reminded by the host, viewers in the live stream also felt that "Linli" sounded very much like Clarence's style.
[Upon closer listening, Su Fubai's song does indeed have a bit of a Kris Wu vibe. The host is right.]
[It's not the melody that's similar, but the style. Especially the voices; Su Fubai's timbre feels similar to that of Ke Shen.]
I have a bold guess...
[Can this copycat's face get any bigger? Does he even have the right to mention Klopp?]
Fu Bai sat on the piano bench, lazily raised his eyelids upon hearing this, and sneered: "Are you trying to say that I plagiarized Clarence?"
The host was taken aback.
When the topic of plagiarism comes up, shouldn't plagiarists try their best to avoid it? Why is Fu Bai able to bring it up so openly?
Not only did Fu Bai openly mention Clarence, he also played the song that was accused of plagiarizing Clarence on the spot.
The elegant and clear sound of the piano rang out again. After the prelude, Fu Bai began to sing the lyrics.
The moment the first line of lyrics was sung, the audience erupted in uproar.
If they didn't know for sure that it was Fu Bai singing, they would have thought that the production team was playing Clarence's CD.
Fu Bai's timbre and his handling of emotions in songs are exactly the same as Clarence's.
[I feel like it's Kristaps Medusa singing...]
Am I hearing things? Fu Bai's voice sounds exactly like Ke Shen's!
"Linli" is a Chinese song, but Fubai is singing an English song now.
Different languages lead to different ways of expression.
So when Fu Bai sang "Lin Li", everyone felt that his voice was similar to Clarence's.
When this English song came on, the tracks of Fu Bai and Clarence surprisingly matched perfectly.
If it weren't for Fu Bai's adaptation of the song, everyone would have thought it was Clarence's original vocal performance.
[To the person who made that bold guess earlier, your guess might be correct.]
[It's certainly possible. Ke Shen has never made a public appearance; who can say he couldn't be Su Fubai?]
[Voices and styles can be imitated. Who knows if Su Fubai wasn't intentionally imitating Ke Shen to clear his name of plagiarism!]
The comments section was filled with arguments about whether Su Fubai was Clarence.
Su Fubai has already finished singing a song.
After the uproar subsided, the scene was extremely quiet, with almost everyone looking at Su Fubai with disbelief.
Rather than believing that Su Fubai is Clarence, they are more inclined to think that Su Fubai is imitating Clarence.
The host chuckled awkwardly, "Does Fu Bai really like Clarence?"
"Yes." Fu Bai readily admitted, seemingly oblivious to the host's hidden meaning.
He likes himself too much.
The host was delighted upon hearing this and was about to ask Su Fubai if he subconsciously copied and imitated Clarence because he liked him so much.
He had only uttered one syllable when Fu Bai's cell phone rang.
It's the ringtone for a video call on X.
Fu Bai: "Excuse me, I need to take this call."
He took out his phone and swiped to answer the video call request.
Due to the angle, the camera captured Fu Bai's phone perfectly, allowing viewers in the live stream to clearly see the person making the video call to Fu Bai.
The man, speaking fluent English with a distinct A-country accent, exclaimed excitedly, "Dear Clarence, after hearing your remix, I want to sign you immediately!"
"I've already bought my plane ticket to Country C. Wait for me!"
Soon, viewers recognized the man—
Internationally renowned director, Yerkes.
People in country C affectionately call him Coconut Island.
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