Chapter 217

"That's... that's it?"

"Yes!" Su Meng nodded and said earnestly.

"This matter is very important to me!"

Wu Guangren's mouth twitched, and the look in his eyes at Su Meng was extraordinarily complicated.

After a moment, he snatched the sheet music away and said irritably.

"I agreed!"

"How about it? My popularity today is pretty good, right?"

Ducking into the bathroom, Hua Chenyu impatiently dialed through successfully to his manager.

The manager was silent for a moment, then finally spoke.

"Today... your popularity... dead last!"

"What?" Hua Chenyu leapt up at once.

"I performed so damn well, wrote a song in two days, even recorded it, and I'm actually dead last?"

The manager sighed and said helplessly.

"You probably won't believe it when I tell you, but today Su Meng... went to the Imperial Capital Yinyuexue Academy to trash the place..."

"The hell?" Hua Chenyu was dumbfounded on the spot.

After hearing the manager's explanation, his entire face contorted.

"How is this possible? How the hell could it be?"

"I performed so hard, and all the traffic got sucked away by him?"

The manager sighed and said helplessly.

"The team had an urgent discussion and felt we can't keep going on like this."

"Hasn't your song already been recorded?"

"Tomorrow morning, you go find them!"

"Find them?!" Hua Chenyu's voice was razor-sharp.

"I still have to go find them?"

"Yes!" the manager said firmly.

"We figured it out — the songs Su Meng wrote for those people are most likely garbage songs."

"Especially that 'Song of the Five Rings' — what kind of crappy lyrics, what kind of crappy name?"

"Tomorrow you go find them, play your song right in front of them, slap them in the face, and take the traffic back!"

"I see..." Hua Chenyu fell into deep thought.

"I actually finished recording?"

Boss Yang listened to her own voice through the headphones, her face blank with shock.

Xiao Yueyue nodded, also a bit dazed.

"Normally my singing is just so-so, but for some reason, singing this 'Song of the Five Rings' feels especially smooth."

"No matter how I sing it, it just feels right — like... this is my song."

"Me too!" Boss Yang set down the headphones and nodded emphatically.

"I even have this illusion that this song only tastes right when I sing it."

"No matter who covers it, no one can surpass me!"

Liu Tianxian sighed and said softly.

"Looks like my progress is the slowest."

"But this song isn't that hard — I can finish recording it before noon today."

"That's perfect!" Su Meng chuckled.

"Get everything wrapped up this morning, and come to my music launch event this afternoon."

Huh? The few of them instantly felt uneasy.

Those funeral songs of yours — you're really damn going to officially release them?

"Oh, everyone's here!"

A voice came in as Hua Chenyu walked in from outside, a fake smile on his face.

Seeing him come in, the others gave slight nods, the equivalent of a greeting.

Hua Chenyu didn't mind and chuckled.

"I heard everyone's been recording songs these past two days? How's it going?"

Seeing the others had little interest in talking, Deng Ziqi spoke up.

"It's alright, progress is decent."

"Didn't you record a song too? Is yours done?"

Hua Chenyu smiled smugly, putting on a show of modesty.

"Lucky these past two days, my condition was great too — my song is already recorded."

"Just about to officially release it."

"Is that so? Congratulations!" Deng Ziqi offered politely.

But inwardly she was unconvinced.

Isn't it just a lousy song?

Looks like it's clashing with the same period as my new song?

But it doesn't matter; at best, you'll fight for third place.

You want to challenge my second place? You're still far off.

What? You're asking who's first? It has to be "Shanhe Map."

Hua Chenyu has already made up his mind, chuckling as he said.

"Deng Ziqi, how about I sing it here so you can listen?"

Deng Ziqi was helpless; why was this person like a leech?

But since he said it, it was hard to refuse.

She pointed at the recording studio and said.

"Then go in and sing it; I'll just learn from it."

"Great!" Hua Chenyu's eyes lit up; he handed the backing track to the sound engineer and hurriedly ducked into the recording booth.

Although it was just a performance in the recording booth, Hua Chenyu still unleashed his own "Summoning the Gods" technique.

His body contorted in various bizarre ways.

The degree of that contortion was simply beyond the limits of the human body.

The crowd outside couldn't hear the sound; seeing only this scene, they all instinctively turned their heads away.

It was eye-searing; it was damn eye-searing!

Su Meng turned his head and suddenly noticed an erhu placed in the corner; an idea suddenly struck him.

He grabbed the erhu and said with a grin.

"Come, come, let me treat everyone to a brand-new performance."

A brand-new performance?

Everyone present and in the live stream cast curious glances.

Su Meng pointed at Hua Chenyu in the recording booth, a wicked smile appearing on his face.

"Next, please enjoy a segment from the Yu Opera: 'Picking Up Manure Early in the Morning'."

"Performer... Hua Chenyu!"

What? Everyone's eyeballs nearly popped out.

Picking up manure early in the morning... Hua Chenyu?