Chapter 459

Jiu'er is the name of the female lead in the literary work "Red Gao Liang," and the author of this novel is the first Chinese recipient of a Nobel Prize, having won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012.

Although "Red Gao Liang" was not the work that won the prize, it remains an excellent novel and had previously been adapted into a film and a television series. The film version of "Red Gao Liang" even won numerous international awards, and the actress Gong Li, who played the female lead Jiu'er, relied on this role to become the first Chinese female star to go international.

Although Miss Luo Quan did not explicitly point out where this song "Jiu'er" originated, aside from "Red Gao Liang," there likely isn't a second suitable answer.

It's just that people don't know how Miss Luo Quan will interpret it this time. Netizens speculate that due to the subject matter, she will most likely sing it in the style of a classic red song; in any case, it certainly won't be a pop style.

After all, the subject matter is relatively serious, and Miss Luo Quan herself said that this was originally a song prepared to be sung at a gala.

However, when the song was released in the evening, everyone discovered that their guesses were wrong again.

(PS: It is recommended to search for "Jiu'er" on Bilibili; the first result is it.)

The beginning of "Jiu'er" is a long, drawn-out sound of a suona, with a melody that is winding and desolate, making one feel a surge of tragic emotion the moment it is heard.

As the instrument with the most distinctive timbre among traditional Chinese instruments, the suona can perfectly interpret both joy and sorrow with a single tone.

Just as netizens joke, this is an instrument that can be played from your birth all the way to your seventh-day funeral rites; the life of a person in the old society could not be separated from it.

And Miss Luo Quan had also said in a previous livestream that the suona is the instrument she is most proficient at, but because this thing is truly too noisy when played, Miss Luo Quan almost never plays it during livestreams.

Back when she was on the stage of "I Am a Singer," Miss Luo Quan did add a suona solo after her performance to satisfy the fans' requests, which was the "Naiheqiao" she had carefully prepared.

Unfortunately, this segment was cut by the show's production team, but Miss Luo Quan later re-uploaded this piece to Bilibili, and after being used by a group of "ghost animal" masters, it became a famous funeral song on Bilibili.

As long as there is a place with a "standard ending," this song will surely appear, and as long as this song appears, there will definitely be people typing phrases like "lifting the coffin," "burial," "joyfully sent off," or "covered up."

This time, the suona appeared again at the beginning of the new song "Jiu'er," and everyone thought that a new funeral song was about to emerge. Just as everyone was preparing to spam the memes, Miss Luo Quan's singing voice suddenly appeared:

"That field beside me, ah,"

"The scent of jujube flowers at hand,"

"The sorghum is ripe and red across the sky,"

"Jiu'er, I am sending you to the distance..."

After singing a not-very-long segment of lyrics, a strong sense of imagery rushed forth. From Miss Luo Quan's singing, fans seemed to see a boundless field, covered in ripe red sorghum stretching all the way to the horizon.

Not long after the first image appeared, Miss Luo Quan's singing voice rang out again. What was somewhat surprising was that the lyrics had not been changed at all; they were still the same few lines she had just sung.

However, there was a very significant change in the emotion, shifting from the leisurely, joyful mood at the very beginning to something high-pitched and intense.

Especially after the second verse, a long vibrato from Miss Luo Quan suddenly made the tone of the entire song tense.

After a short pause, the third and fourth verses followed one after another. The lyrics were still those same four lines, but Miss Luo Quan's singing voice changed from high-pitched to angry, as if the Jiu'er in the song had encountered some irreconcilable enemy, which in turn made the fans listening to the song feel a surge of rage.

After the fourth verse ended, there was another high-quality trembling tail note, a common technique in folk singing, but one that also very well demonstrates a singer's foundation.

Although Miss Luo Quan is a pop singer, facts prove that her talent in singing is not limited to any one genre; whether it is folk or bel canto, her level is just as ridiculously high as her pop singing.

By this point, the entire song had reached its final section, with the intense suona leading the listener's emotions to a climax.

While the suona was still sounding, Miss Luo Quan's singing voice suddenly exploded, the surging sound waves trembling the eardrums of all listeners, and an incomparably tragic emotion swept through everyone's hearts.

Following Miss Luo Quan's soft singing in the ending section, the song concluded amidst the fading sound of the suona.

The listeners finally let out a long sigh of relief at this moment; listening to this one song felt like hearing a person's entire life. The listeners' emotions also completely followed Miss Luo Quan's singing as it progressed.

This state is the realm every singer dreams of—that is, the singer infusing emotion into the singing voice, then using the voice to move the audience, achieving ultimate resonance between person and song, and subsequently feeling empathy.

Before this, what Miss Luo Quan was most criticized for was the lack of emotion when singing; critics with sharper ears felt that listening to her songs always gave them a sense of dissonance.

But now, Miss Luo Quan's singing voice is full of emotion, and the previously criticized shortcoming has now been completely made up for.

The lyrics and melody of "Jiu'er" actually don't have anything particularly special about them, but after injecting emotion, it was able to become so layered and distinct, with five verses presenting five different images—it is simply a rare masterpiece among folk songs!

Even because of its progressive nature in emotion, it is very likely to become a popular test piece in major professional singing competitions.

This is a song that is a complete display of skill, and it is a dual display of emotion and high notes. It is difficult for an average person to satisfy even one of the two, but Miss Luo Quan managed to take care of both.

Therefore, after the song was released, it sparked quite a significant topic in the domestic music scene.

However, outside the music circle, it seemed like "loud thunder but small raindrops."

Folk singing is a style that can very well demonstrate a singer's strength, but because the musical form is relatively serious and not as casual or free-spirited as pop, the rate at which the general public can accept it is relatively lower.

And Miss Luo Quan's fans naturally listened to this new song the first chance they got. At first, after listening, they felt: "Wow, so amazing, this is truly sung perfectly."

But after listening to it a few more times, most people quickly developed fatigue. Compared to "Jiu'er," her "Bubble" is undoubtedly more listenable and catchy.

However, Miss Luo Quan didn't intend for "Jiu'er" to be very popular this time; this was just a response to those "rhythm masters."

After responding, she no longer wanted to care about these comments on the internet.

In another month or two, she will be going to the University of Tokyo, so it won't matter how big the drama is on the domestic internet by then.

As for now, it is naturally better to look at fewer of those "intelligence-lowering" comments; after all, out of sight is out of mind, and maintaining a happy mood is the secret to eternal youth, which is more effective than applying any amount of skincare cream.

Of course, on the other hand, Miss Luo Quan also has to start putting her limited energy into the two new tasks issued by the system.

As mentioned before, the system's chain tasks have been updated, and they came in a pair. It wasn't a difficult "choose one of two" situation, but rather she could choose both.

One is to film a movie related to love with her siblings and achieve a box office of several hundred million. Miss Luo Quan already has a plan for this task and has invited her sister Angela to help.

By then, two great beauties—who are also sisters—will be performing on stage together; just based on this gimmick, there's no need to worry about movie tickets not selling.

The conditions for the other task are completely different; it requires Miss Luo Quan to film a movie using a skill she is proficient in and achieve a box office of several hundred million.

Miss Luo Quan's first reaction upon seeing the task description was music. Using her experiences since her debut as the script would absolutely be the most popular "big heroine" movie at the moment, which could also be called a "Dragon Proudly Arrogant" invincible enhanced version.

Her experiences over the past two years have been so legendary that Miss Luo Quan feels that if she really put them on the big screen, the audience might find the script too outrageous.

Miss Luo Quan thought about it carefully and felt that her script was truly too exaggerated; she estimated that it would be hard for the audience to accept a heroine whose "protagonist halo" could be this strong. Besides, if it were really filmed, it would also make her look narcissistic, so she abandoned this plan.

But besides music, what other skills does she have?

Her cooking is actually not bad; with so many recipes in the system, taking them out to film a "A Bite of China" would be enough.

But for a movie with a food theme like this, the box office would likely be quite unsatisfactory, and because she would have to cook, she estimated that her hands would likely appear on screen more often than her face.

Although her hands are also very beautiful, compared to hand-fetishists, ordinary people would definitely prefer to see her face.

Thinking it over, Miss Luo Quan felt that filming a cooking movie still had no future, so this plan was also abandoned.

But soon, she thought of another one of her numerous skills.

As the most multi-talented star in the entertainment industry, Miss Luo Quan knows too many things, including niche skills like playing the suona and driving a tractor.

And among so many skills, kendo has always been one of Miss Luo Quan's most proficient.

Before obtaining Kyokushin Karate, Miss Luo Quan's strongest form of combat was also when she held a long sword. One must know that she also has the title of "Menkyo Kaiden" in the Hokushin Itto-ryu. When she fought against Junko's kendo master grandfather, she also held out for quite a long time; her level of excellence goes without saying.

If she were to film a movie with kendo as the theme, Miss Luo Quan suddenly remembered a Japanese action movie she had once watched, which was also about a swordsman; the fighting was quite satisfying, and the box office was also very good.

If she made slight modifications and used her own genuine Hokushin Itto-ryu skills to film this movie, she thought it would likely have a lot of gimmicks.

Although a white girl filming kendo in Japan sounds incredibly dissonant, considering her current level of popularity in Japan, these problems are no longer problems.

To use the words of many Japanese netizens themselves, as long as it is a Miss Luo Quan movie, even if the content is an hour and a half of footage of her taking a nap on the sofa, there would definitely be plenty of people spending money to enter the cinema to catch a glimpse of her sleeping face.

As long as it is her work, these fans will not be unsupportive.

Of course, she is not the type of person who likes to scam fans; after all, she is not like some streamers who call people "family" on their lips but actually treat them like suckers.

Regardless, she still hopes that her work can live up to the trust the fans have in her and the money they have spent.

After thinking it over repeatedly, Miss Luo Quan has basically finalized the kendo-themed movie.

Because the background takes place in 19th-century Japan, the corresponding preparations for filming will definitely have to be arranged after returning to Japan.

Fortunately, the time limit for this chain task is very generous, giving her a full year; she can completely film this one in the summer and then film the second one with her sister in the winter.

When Miss Luo Quan wrote these things down on her memo one by one, she suddenly discovered that her schedule for this year was truly packed.

Besides the two movies she is starring in, the filming work for "The Lord of the Rings 2" has also been put on the agenda and will start before long.

"Resident Evil 2" cannot be forgotten either; fans on the forum are urging her almost every day, Twitter has people asking her every day when she will film the sequel, and a large group of actors are also waiting for her news to continue working.

Over at Su Yu's side, there is also "The Devil Wears Prada" waiting for her; these movies, big and small, add up to as many as five!

Not to mention that during this period, fans will definitely urge her to release a new album, which will also be exhausting and mentally draining.

Some things really cannot be pondered carefully; pondering them directly gave her a headache.

She had agreed to be a salted fish lying down and counting money, but she didn't expect that she had unknowingly owed so many debts, and the kind that she couldn't even shirk; Miss Luo Quan suddenly felt like crying but had no tears.

An adult's breakdown sometimes happens in an instant. Even though it wasn't twelve o'clock yet, Miss Luo Quan's mood suddenly became melancholic. Now she began to understand Wen Xia's mood when she sighed about being a year older.

Her energy is indeed far inferior to before!

She gets up later and later in the morning, and breakfast and lunch are now combined into one meal. After eating, she plays with her phone for a while, and even though she feels like she hasn't done anything, it's already evening.

A day just passes like this, and sleepiness suddenly surged into Miss Luo Quan's heart again.

Although every time before going to sleep, Miss Luo Quan tells herself that tomorrow she must go to bed early and get up early, not stay up late playing on her phone, and do more meaningful things, such as studying and exercising.

But when a new day arrives, she still repeats everything from yesterday; this is what she finds most unacceptable.

She feels that it must be because she spent the last two years being too much of a "salted fish," which caused her energy cap to lower, and that is why she now has no energy for anything.

"It's time to pull myself together!" Late at night, Miss Luo Quan posted such a status on Bilibili to motivate herself.

Fans who were still browsing Bilibili immediately swarmed in to watch:

"Night-time melancholy?"

"Go for it, Luo Xiaoquan, you are the best!"

"Can't hear you! There's no energy at all!"

"What do you want to pull yourself together for in the middle of the night? Staying up late is the skin's greatest enemy, especially for a girl like you who has already entered her twenties."

"Unknowingly, Miss Luo Quan has already aged. Ah..."

Seeing these comments, Miss Luo Quan finally relaxed a lot.

Whenever she falls into confusion, silly netizens are Miss Luo Quan's greatest reliance for improving her mood, and this time was no exception.