Chapter 246

171. (Revised text) Ye Zi: If only I could see him, how wonderful that would be.

Magic Capital.

Yunheng Grand Hotel.

In the large conference room specially prepared for business cooperation.

A press conference involving three parties' capital was being held.

The host invited a total of one hundred and thirty-six media outlets, large and small, from within the Eastern Nation.

"Hello, Director Fang Lan, I am a reporter from Huadu Press Media. Could you give us a detailed introduction to the relevant details of the cloud concert that is to be held soon?"

"Which aspect are you referring to?" said Fang Lan, the director of Tianyin Music's Planning Department, from her seat.

"For example, the form it will take, the time, the performers, the songs to be sung, and so on."

Fang Lan nodded and brought the microphone a little closer.

"We have initially decided to hold this cloud concert between Christmas and the Lunar New Year."

"We are already past early December now, so please follow our official website for the specific time."

"As for the form it will take, since it is a cloud concert, naturally it will rely on a live-streaming platform."

"For this cloud concert, our Tianyin Music, joining hands with the two major platforms Douyin and Shark, will, when the time comes, carry it out in the form of a live broadcast on these two platforms."

"As for the songs to be sung, viewers and fans who are familiar with the streamer Brother Shiguang should already have some understanding and expectations. We have carried out post-production processing on Brother Shiguang's songs."

"Excuse me — will Mr. Shiguang himself appear?" a reporter asked.

In fact, many of the reporters present were most concerned about this very matter.

Fang Lan smiled, but began to play coy.

After all, whether the streamer Brother Shiguang would appear was itself a selling point.

Although the host was well aware of the answer to this question.

But for now, this matter naturally could not be revealed to the media in advance.

"Hello, Director Fang Lan, Tianyin Music has always taken mainstream music artists as its core development direction. What exactly is the consideration behind holding a concert of this scale for an internet streamer?"

"Have you heard Brother Shiguang's songs?" Fang Lan looked at this reporter.

That reporter smiled, "I've heard one. Overall, it felt pretty good."

"You should know that even for a singer, in an album there are often a dozen or so songs, but among them perhaps only one or two serve as the lead tracks," said Fang Lan, looking toward the audience below.

"However, as of now, Mr. Shiguang has a total of eight songs."

"These eight songs — let me put it this way — each and every one of them is enough to make any singer's entire album famous!"

"The excellence of these eight songs is enough to make eight singers famous."

"Yet all eight songs come from him alone."

"We are holding this concert for him not out of any intention to support an internet singing streamer, but simply because his songs have maintained this quality, and he has been able to produce eight in a row. This level — in the entire history of the Chinese music scene — is unprecedented."

Fang Lan's words placed Brother Shiguang on a very high pedestal.

Among the media reporters below, some were nodding, while others remained puzzled.

That person called Brother Shiguang, essentially speaking, was merely an internet streamer.

Someone who, solely on her own, traveled and checked in at various places, occasionally singing a song or two along the way.

In this era where traffic is king, this kind of part-time singing streamer, compared with front-line singers in terms of traffic, was certainly far inferior.

Moreover, Tianyin had deliberately kept things under wraps before, and only today held this press conference.

It was equivalent to suddenly announcing this news without sufficient warm-up from the outside world.

The media, for the moment, were still unable to adapt.

Therefore, among the reporters below, in fact most expressed doubt, doubting whether such a cloud concert could achieve the expected results.

Shark Platform.

Ye Zi's live stream room.

The singing streamer Ye Zi was singing.

She was covering a song.

This song was "Mohe Dance Hall," the one the streamer Brother Shiguang had sung a few days earlier.

The song came to an end.

The fans naturally heaped all kinds of praise in the bullet comments.

【Brother Shiguang's singing carries a sense of heartbreak, while Ye Zi sings a kind of tenderness within that heartbreak.】

【So the same song, when sung by a man and when sung by a woman, feels different.】

【Ye Zi's vocal timbre feels very suited to Brother Shiguang's songs~】

As the bullet comments said, Ye Zi said:

"Babies, do you still remember that night, when Brother Shiguang was live-streaming and he sang that song, that drunk old man?"

"His story is really quite sigh-inducing~"

"It's truly hard to imagine that a full thirty years would grind a young person into an old one, yet his feelings for his deceased wife never changed."

"Yet he torments himself in that way."

【Brother Shiguang's song was actually dedicated to that old man.】

【Do you remember, that night, that old man was completely immersed in it, tears streaming down his face.】

【Brother Shiguang is really a strange person — how can he grasp the inner heart of a person so clearly?】

【Perhaps it's possible that he himself has had some extraordinary experience.】

Ye Zi watched the bullet comments.

She pursed her little mouth, "Babies, I have an announcement to make to you."

"A couple of days ago, the official Shark account formally sent me an invitation."

"Inviting me to attend the upcoming Cloud Concert."

"This concert is named 'Wings of Time'; judging by the name, you babies should all understand."

"Yes, it is related to the streamer Brother Shiguang."

"The officials have already collected, organized, and post-produced Brother Shiguang's songs, so this concert is held for the streamer Brother Shiguang, and I am participating in this concert."

"Mainly, I will join singing streamers from other platforms to select Brother Shiguang's songs and perform covers."

"The officials allow each streamer to independently select one or two of Brother Shiguang's songs for a cover."

"Lately, I have been wondering, which of Brother Shiguang's songs should I choose?"

Ye Zi said this.

The fans in the live room also began to offer her suggestions.

【Ye Zi is naturally suited for 'Once Is Enough'!】

【I think Ye Zi is suited for 'Stranded'; she fits songs with a stronger lyrical sentiment~】

【'Wish Granted' is quite good, unfortunately, currently only half can be heard, and we don't know if the officials have restored it...】

【Ye Zi, you should sing 'Maple'! Trust me, you fit that melancholy, sorrowful lyrical style~】

Ye Zi looked at the various opinions in the bullet comments.

In fact, she herself truly had no idea.

Mainly because for each of Brother Shiguang's eight songs, she liked every single one very much.

Every time she performed a cover in her own live room, the figure of the streamer Brother Shiguang from Brother Shiguang's live room would always float before her eyes.

"Sigh... I will think about it carefully myself; during this period, I will practice more," Ye Zi said. "If only I could meet Brother Shiguang. When I perform a cover myself, it is actually imitating the exterior; if I could meet Brother Shiguang and ask him about his creative insights, perhaps my feelings would be more profound, and I would sing even better."

Saying this.

Ye Zi suddenly realized that Brother Shiguang's live room had not streamed for several days.

172. (Text revised) The him she saw was far too haggard.

A black motorhome.

Continued speeding forward.

Ning Chen occasionally glanced at that white navigation device.

It showed that the distance to that coordinate point was getting closer and closer.

The direction was towards Chengdong.

The road to Chengdong, in an instant, gave Ning Chen a feeling as if a day had passed since yesterday.

On the passenger seat beside him.