Chapter 391: Willing to Do Anything for the Sake of Rhyme

Pure white piano adorned with silver threads, lace-edged curtains falling naturally; the woman lying sideways upon it let her eyes wander, her red lips especially fiery under the lights.

Many live fans, knowing Watching Xiao Yaxuan was today's guest, never imagined she would make her entrance this way; they found it hard to believe their eyes, and once they recovered, they shouted her name along with Zhou Yi's introduction—

"Elva!"

"Elva!!"

"Elva!!!"

As one of the hottest female singers in the domestic music market, Watching Xiao Yaxuan's popularity was beyond doubt; among the new generation, only Sun Yanzi could rival her.

Although the marketing of the Warner Twins had taken deep root, the entanglement rumored between Zhou Yi and Watching Xiao Yaxuan before his debut was often cited by CP fans; neither side yielded, neither could dominate the other.

Liang Jingru, whose song popularity was no weaker than theirs, ultimately lost on having less sensational news; whenever Sun and Xiao's fans launched a battle for the title of top new female soloist, they would automatically join forces to ignore this ballad queen nurtured by Rock Records.

Over time, with Zhou Yi as a walking news machine boosting them, Sun and Xiao's reputation among the general public was truly accepted as the candidates for the nation's top female soloist.

Zhang Liangying, who had sung a duet with Zhou Yi on "Give Me a Reason to Forget" during the song request segment, stood up the moment she saw the real Watching Xiao Yaxuan appear, jumping and shouting the loudest—especially when she saw Zhou Yi actually walk to the piano.

From the perspective of the live audience, the moment Zhou Yi sat down, the height of his eyes happened to align perfectly with Watching Xiao Yaxuan's hazy, rounded buttocks beneath the black gauze; if Zhou Yi leaned forward just a bit, his face would press directly against them!

Without those damn denim hot pants blocking the view, it was hard to say what Zhou Yi could see sitting so close.

Yet Watching Xiao Yaxuan seemed unaware, raising her microphone and singing on her own—

"Words always unclear, how to make it plain

"Every word like a trap~"

A top-tier mezzo-soprano, capturing countless listeners' ears the moment she opened her mouth; Watching Xiao Yaxuan, lying on the piano with her back to Zhou Yi, her expression gradually turning sorrowful and resentful—

"Old scores never finished, who's being unreasonable

"Your hands let go with just the right subtlety, then the war burns again~"

Zhou Yi, who had sat by the piano without moving, suddenly raised both hands after Watching Xiao Yaxuan finished that line, his fingertips striking the keys heavily; the suddenly added piano rhythm sounded like angry tones in a couple's quarrel—

"We—back-to-back embrace!

"Abusing silence in roaring!"

The growling enunciation, just like a disappointed question to a partner: "Love didn't have time to grow old, buried in the joke of war..."

Matching the song's progression, Watching Xiao Yaxuan, who had always faced away from Zhou Yi, slowly propped up her upper body, turned her head to look at the "boyfriend" playing the piano, her voice carrying a hint of remorse:

"We back-to-back embrace~

"Truths go in circles, all mixed up, just wanting me to know..."

Zhou Yi, whose fingertips stopped dancing, locked eyes with the woman turning around; the angry tones faded after venting: "Just wanting you to know~"

The band's accompaniment stopped the moment Zhou Yi's line ended; the arena instantly fell silent, leaving people at a loss. The next second, the two began singing a cappella without any musical embellishment—

"The warning of love~~~"

With just that one line, as if all things revived, the high-level band performance returned, and the beautiful melody once again wandered through the hearts of eighty thousand people in the venue.

The newly added drumbeat rhythm matched perfectly with Zhou Yi's steps as he stood up, walked around the piano, and approached Watching Xiao Yaxuan; until he stood firm behind the piano and continued singing: "Words always unclear, how to make it plain..."

Fans who thought the next part would be another duet between the two suddenly widened their eyes in shock the next second, then erupted into the loudest scream of the concert so far, rising and falling—

"Aaaaaah!!!!"

Screams! Screams! Screams!

Screams like a tidal wave!

On stage, Watching Xiao Yaxuan, this time not singing a duet or chorus with Zhou Yi, instead reached out under everyone's gaze to wrap her arm around the man's left shoulder, bringing their distance so close it was almost just the thickness of an A4 sheet of paper—

Her red lips brushed past the man's cheek; the woman, sitting on the piano with her legs curled like a lady, slowly rested her head on his right shoulder, her eyes and brows piled with happy sweetness.

"I don't want, until

"Strangers become self-inflicted

"Since we can embrace, don't let go easily~"

Sensing the added weight on his shoulder, Zhou Yi, without turning his head, couldn't help but smile at the corners of his mouth; his right hand lifted and rested on the woman's curled calf—

Watching Xiao Yaxuan, lowering her head slightly, smiled in the corners of her eyes; one hand easily covered the back of the man's hand, playing with his hard knuckles and slightly rough palm as if finding some new toy, her long red nails gently scratching the calluses on his palm formed by exercise.

Crazy!

Crazy!

Everyone's fucking crazy!

This scene, completely like lovers, instantly ignited the throats of the entire eighty-thousand-person stadium; the continuous screams were enough to show how intense the atmosphere in the venue was at that moment.

"Zhou Yi awesome! Zhou Yi awesome!"

"Elva!!!"

"Aaaaaah!!!!"

Since Zhou Yi's debut, although many unverified and baseless rumors circulated, he had never publicly interacted so intimately with a woman of the opposite sex at any event, not even once.

And now, Zhou Yi's upper arm was even pressed by Watching Xiao Yaxuan into the gap between her breasts, yet she seemed unaware.

What is this?

Is Zhou Yi making their relationship public?!

Making their relationship public in front of eighty thousand people?!

Although Wei Yuncong wasn't into CPs, seeing his idol do something so bold in front of everyone, plus the girls around him shouting nonstop like perpetual motion machines, made him feel a surge of hot blood; his whole body felt like it was on fire. After joining the crowd with two "Oh-oh-oh"s, he suddenly felt as if someone had grabbed his heart—

His body went limp, instantly losing all strength, and he collapsed directly onto the girl beside him, who was so excited she seemed like a reincarnated screaming chicken!

—?!

"Hey?!"

"Hey!!!"

A sudden accident directly interrupted the frenzy in this area; the girl who was hit immediately noticed the man's abnormality and hurriedly waved to the staff stationed in every section— "Someone please come! Someone fainted here! Someone fainted!"

Because this was an unprecedented eighty-thousand-person venue, the security team hired by Warner had assigned enough personnel to every section to ensure safety; after receiving the woman's request for help, the nearest security guard rushed over, confirmed the situation with highly professional techniques, and immediately carried him away from the concert venue.

Due to the great distance, the commotion on Wei Yuncong's side did not affect the two who had finished their performance on stage—after holding Watching Xiao Yaxuan down from the piano in a princess carry, Zhou Yi and Watching Xiao Yaxuan stood back-to-back, their hands tightly interlaced finger by finger, and together sang the song's final coda.

"Thank you!"

As a singer who had been shouting to the crowd since her debut, Watching Xiao Yaxuan, with a proud smile on her face, was like a boxer who had won the gold belt on the ring, raising her right hand high and continuously waving to the fans below.

"Thank you, Watching Xiao Yaxuan!"

Zhou Yi, who also drew out the thank you with a long tone, caught his breath, adjusted the cables behind him with his left hand, and laughed while making a self-deprecating remark: "Thanks to you, this is the first time I've shown on stage with Elva what a back-to-back embrace actually looks like."

People recovering from the deafening screams of the entire venue laughed uproariously.

Since her debut, many people had questioned, or even criticized, the song titles and lyrics of some of Zhou Yi's songs.

"Of course, I actually agree with their views quite a bit."

"Actually, sometimes these artists will do anything just to rhyme, even if it means defying basic common sense or violating established facts, just to use rhetoric or parallelism, all for the sake of looking smooth."

To those unaware, Zhou Yi, speaking here, looked like a righteous person radiating holy light, while for the fans present, he had just finished singing "Back-to-Back Embrace"—

Oh my god!

When our Zhou Yi gets ruthless, he even scolds himself!

(End of this chapter)