Chapter 934: Like

"Don't be afraid of your own mediocrity, don't worry that you don't deserve everything you have now, and don't think you aren't qualified to pursue better things."

Yan Liang said: "Each of us will face opportunities in life; if we grasp them, it's because we grasped them ourselves. Even for me, reaching where I am today, I can be the person I am now."

"The young battlefield is about moving forward bravely."

After Yan Liang finished speaking, he smiled at everyone.

The prelude music faded.

The whole venue slowly quieted down.

Yan Liang picked up the microphone and closed his eyes.

He sang a cappella: "Today I, finally stand on this young battlefield, please give me a beam of love's light."

His voice was very clear, like a bird about to fly into the sky.

As the word "light" faded away, the music finally started.

Yan Liang opened his eyes.

The whole venue's lights shone brightly.

"That's so flashy." Backstage, Li Zhibai, who was changing clothes, watched the live broadcast. Even though his eyes were red, he couldn't help but complain.

Lu Yan He curled his lips helplessly.

"Why do I feel like his singing skills have improved?"

"I think so too." Li Zhibai said. "He must be secretly practicing."

Lu Yan He nodded: "His singing skills are better than ours now."

Li Zhibai said: "He must have secretly found a teacher to practice."

Lu Yan He: "Too much."

"Yeah, the next song is still me, they are still changing clothes."

After finishing the song, Yan Liang said with a smile.

"What should I sing for the next song?" he asked.

Everyone started shouting some song titles.

As an actor, Yan Liang has actually sung several OSTs for the film and television dramas he starred in.

With the broadcast of the dramas, these songs also have popularity and fame.

Among them, two are also very popular.

Yan Liang said: "I don't know how many people got to know me through *Gold Rush*. As an actor, it was from this drama that I truly experienced the feeling of being reborn from the outside in for the first time. It was very painful, very agonizing, but because I thought about how many surprises it would bring to everyone when this drama met everyone, I could grit my teeth and persist. I also like this song *True Gold Doesn't Change*, thank you all for always being there every time I needed support."

Suddenly, the lights in the whole venue dimmed.

Only one spotlight remained on him.

Yan Liang was stunned.

This wasn't quite the same as the rehearsal.

On the big screen at the venue, a VCR suddenly appeared.

The director of *Gold Rush*, Wu Zhouyou, appeared on the screen.

"Yan Liang, didn't expect it, right?" he said with a smile. "When Director Hou Jun called me and told me that you chose the song *True Gold Doesn't Change* as your performance track at the concert, and hoped I could record a VCR to say something, I agreed immediately. However, I thought about it for several days, but I didn't know what to say."

"Because there are too many things I want to say. *Gold Rush*, from the first part to the second part, and now to our spin-off film, we have fought side by side and experienced many difficulties. Whenever I thought we couldn't push forward, you always firmly supported me with your strength, allowing this story to continue."

Yan Liang looked at the big screen in surprise; this was completely beyond his expectations.

"At that time, you were already a popular idol, a big star. I was very worried that you wouldn't be willing to accept my idea, or even, as some people said, think I was a perverted director who insisted on making a handsome young man thin as a skeleton. However, the first time you met me, you said to me, 'Director, tell me what you want me to do, say it quickly, I will use 100% of my strength to do it.' I have never told you, if you hadn't said that to me, I would have likely given up my initial idea and chosen an easier way to film."

"If you hadn't personally and actively agreed to my idea and gone to the most authentic rainforest in Southeast Asia to film, *Gold Rush* would definitely not be what it is now. The rest of the crew definitely wouldn't have followed me there."

"You are an actor who will use 100% of your strength when acting, and you are also a person who will use 100% of your strength in everything you do. I am very honored to have met such an actor in my career, who not only gave me help but also influenced my view on the profession and professionalism."

"I hope you know, you must always remember, as an actor, that you were able to turn yourself into such a character in *Gold Rush*, you never have to worry that you are inferior to anyone. Such worry should belong to others. You will be an outstanding actor; I firmly believe this."

"I hope everything goes well at your concert, we'll continue drinking together later." Wu Zhouyou finished speaking with a smile.

The VCR ended.

Yan Liang's eyes were red, and tears were almost about to burst out.

He turned around and wiped them with the back of his hand.

Lu Yan He and Li Zhibai had already arrived at the side of the stage.

This VCR was something even they didn't know existed.

Lu Yan He and Li Zhibai looked at each other.

"Director Hou!" Li Zhibai widened his eyes, looking at Hou Jun. "How could you pull such a surprise?"

Hou Jun said with a smile: "When I was preparing for this concert, I communicated with you and slowly realized that for you, this concert is actually a review, a summary. So, forgive me for acting on my own. Based on this theme, I made some surprise designs."

Lu Yan He didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

But this surprise from Hou Jun was indeed very moving.

"Wait, you didn't do this for us too, did you?" Lu Yan He asked.

Hou Jun smiled: "Guess."

Yan Liang finished singing *True Gold Doesn't Change*.

Li Zhibai went on stage.

"I admire you, you were actually able to finish singing this song. I was watching from the side of the stage, and I was so moved I couldn't control my emotions."

Li Zhibai said.

Yan Liang asked: "Was it a surprise prepared by you and Yan He?"

"No, how could it be us? We rehearsed together." Li Zhibai laughed. "It was Director Hou Jun."

Yan Liang: "Too much, pulling something like this without warning."

"Right, let's not pay him, let him work for free for us." Li Zhibai said immediately.

Yan Liang nodded: "Sure."

A face suddenly appeared on the big screen at the venue.

It was Hou Jun's.

Hou Jun waved his hands, shook his head, and said: "No."

The whole venue burst into laughter.

Yan Liang: "Then I'll go change clothes first, it's up to you."

"Leave it to me, you insidious villain who secretly practices singing." Li Zhibai said hatefully.

Yan Liang gave Li Zhibai the middle finger directly.

Li Zhibai watched Yan Liang leave the stage and sighed from the bottom of his heart.

"So depressed, that dog Yan Liang still has big hits like *Gold Rush* and *The Summit* that have nothing to do with Yan He. My big hits seem to all have something to do with Yan He. Doesn't that make me the real lackey clinging to Yan He? Damn."

Li Zhibai cursed with a smile.

The whole venue burst into laughter.

"Dear directors, dear producers, dear screenwriters, look at me, I want to get rid of Lu Yan He's shadow, I want to be my own Superstar!"

Some sad, moving emotions were swept away.

"Oh, no, I filmed *Grass Flying* myself, that has nothing to do with Lu Yan He." Li Zhibai nodded seriously, expressing self-approval. "I'm still capable."

Li Zhibai shrugged his shoulders.

"Siqi, where are you? I know you're here, but I don't know where you are."

Lu Yan He, who was off-stage, was completely confused.

What the hell?

What does he want to do?

The on-site photographers had long ago remembered the positions of some key figures, just to be able to switch cameras at the first opportunity.

Sure enough, the next second, Chen Siqi was found by the photographer and projected onto the big screen.

Chen Siqi—those who came to attend this concert probably all knew her.

As soon as she appeared, the whole venue boiled over.

Chen Siqi waved her hand in confusion.

Li Zhibai said seriously: "Didn't expect it, right? You weren't called out by Lu Yan He, you were called out by me."

Chen Siqi made a helpless gesture.

Li Zhibai: "Alright, actually there's nothing else, I just wanted to say, you are not alone."

Chen Siqi had a "what the hell?" bewildered expression.

Li Zhibai: "Many people say that you only built up your career at Jump Up by relying on Lu Yan He, um, Yan Liang and I also often say that, we are just the male version of Chen Siqi."

Chen Siqi: "..."

"Let those people be jealous." Li Zhibai laughed loudly. "Who told them they don't have a friend like Lu Yan He in their lives? The next song, I want to sing it to you and Lu Yan He, Lu Yan He, you prick up your ears too."

"*Killing Wolf*."

"I give up on this old six." Lu Yan He rolled his eyes and complained.

Hou Jun laughed.

He said: "Did you write these transitions yourselves?"

"It wasn't me, anyway." Lu Yan He shook his head and denied. "I would never let him transition like that."

"But the transition is very interesting, really." Hou Jun said. "This is the most un-concert-like concert I've ever done. Yan He, I really hope you can keep this concert going. You don't need to do it every year, but do one at some key time points. This is a gift for your fans, and also a memento for yourselves."

Lu Yan He: "We'll talk about the future later, I didn't say we wouldn't do it in the future."

Hou Jun: "Hmm."

Hou Jun: "Maybe I can rely on this for retirement, it can be my retirement insurance."

Lu Yan He: "Forget it."

"This song, he's singing it to Lu Yan He and Chen Siqi, why isn't he singing it to you?"

Chen Bige asked in Jiang Yuqian's ear.

Jiang Yuqian said: "Him? Normal."

"Normal?"

"He only likes me physiologically." Jiang Yuqian said seriously. "If Lu Yan He were a woman, he would definitely be with Lu Yan He."

Chen Bige stared at Jiang Yuqian, dumbfounded.

Jiang Yuqian smiled mischievously at her.

"Just kidding."

Chen Bige: "... I'm an old person, don't make such jokes with me."

Jiang Yuqian hugged Chen Bige.

"Comforting the old person."

On stage, almost every line of Li Zhibai's lyrics was being sung along by everyone in the audience.

This was a song that the whole venue was singing along to.

"Li Zhibai is really quite handsome." Chen Bige said. "Especially at times like this, concerts really make it too easy for a person's charm to be magnified."

"Yes." Jiang Yuqian nodded. "It's too unfair. Everyone sees our best selves in film and television dramas, and then looks at the real us. Without the characters and filters, it's a deduction, while these singers, the more live they are, the more they shine."

After the song ended.

Li Zhibai said: "Sang for Lu Yan He and Chen Siqi, it's time to sing for myself."

A group of people were stunned.

Li Zhibai: "Um, it's also for you."

He said suddenly.

Everyone was stunned again.

You?

For whom?

Then everyone realized.

It was Jiang Yuqian.

Jiang Yuqian also came to the scene?!

Li Zhibai adjusted his headset and smiled.

"A new song, *Like*."

Many years ago, Lu Yan He heard this song at a gala program.

At that time, the singer Gu Juji was still known to him for *Romance in the Rain*.

He didn't know that he was also a singer.

This song wasn't very famous.

But inexplicably, Lu Yan He only heard it once, and liked it very much, and downloaded it, listening to it over and over again on the way home from school, on the way to school.

This isn't a classic popular song, but for an adolescent boy, perhaps, it was a song that could express his feelings.

And when Lu Yan He wanted to write a new song for Li Zhibai, searching from his own playlist, among a series of songs expressing liking sung by men like Danny Chan's *I Like You Anyway*, he found this one.

The wantonness of a teenager, the straightforward liking.

This is the *Like* that best fits Li Zhibai at the moment.

Li Zhibai turned his head to look in a certain direction of the audience.

"Like your hair."

"Like your cheeks."

"Like the light you can't hide in your eyes when you smile."

"Like teasing you."

"Like calling you a fool."

"Like seeing your panicked look when I scare you."

"Want to hug you."

"Press against my chest."

"Want to tell you, this can't go on."

"Want to kidnap you."

"Want to take you home."

"Want to promise you forever very seriously—"

Li Zhibai walked off the stage, passed through the crowd, and walked to the front of the friends and family section.

The camera followed him the whole time.

On the big screen at the venue, this scene was being broadcast in real-time.

Thus, under the eyes of everyone, Li Zhibai walked through the sea of people all the way to Jiang Yuqian.

Jiang Yuqian was stunned, sitting blankly in place.

Chen Bige had a sweet, watching-the-show smile, her eyes shining as she looked at the two of them. ===== CHAPTER 935 =====