Chapter 104: Good Girl

After finishing the filming of *Cat Demon*, Luo Mo set off on the journey back to Shanghai.

For him, this filming experience could be considered quite good.

Whether it was the period costume look, the action scenes, or the later "True Head-Pat Kill," he found it all very interesting.

As he took a nap on the plane, the image of Xu Chujing looking up at him would occasionally surface in his mind.

There is a saying: Don't pretend you don't care; you were clearly moved.

Luo Mo is not the type to be coy; he admitted to himself that in that scene, he was truly moved.

There is nothing to be embarrassed about; in Luo Mo's view, if Xu Chujing were thrown into ancient times, she would be at the level of a beauty who could topple kingdoms.

Most importantly, he had an indescribable desire to explore her; the closer he got to her, the more he wanted to delve deeper.

A beauty is like fine wine; once you get addicted, you will become greedy for the cup.

"Who can resist this?" Luo Mo smiled and dismissed the wild thoughts in his heart.

Although the feeling of petting a diva is wonderful, he still missed the days of petting Baibaibai more.

After all, when petting a cat, Baibaibai would interact with him, gently nibbling his fingers with its teeth, grabbing his palm with its two little fleshy paws, and then sticking out its little tongue to lick a few times, signaling that it still wanted to be petted.

The diva has a powerful aura, but she couldn't give him this level of interaction.

However, this was indeed the first time since his soul merged that such strange emotions had arisen in Luo Mo's heart.

"Sure enough, it's the age where hormones are secreted crazily." He smiled, put on an eye mask, and continued his nap.

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After returning to Shanghai, Luo Mo began to focus on the production of two new albums.

Li Junyi also came to Shanghai to report.

Regarding the fact that Brother Mo was working on Tong Shu's album and had no intention of releasing songs for him for the time being, Li Junyi didn't feel any imbalance in his heart.

He was very clear about the gap between himself and Tong Shu in terms of singing.

His strengths lay in dance and choreography, not in singing.

But for some reason, Luo Mo didn't seem to have given up on Li Junyi's potential in singing.

Li Junyi's biggest shortcoming was that he absolutely could not hit high notes, and while his heavy bass range was stable, it lacked character.

After thinking about it, Luo Mo felt he could try to develop in the direction of folk, but this required diligent practice.

The same person can have a variable singing style; this requires Li Junyi to find the feeling more and see if he can find a suitable way of singing.

Once found, a transformation will occur.

Like a singer on Earth named Yan Renzhong, who used to be lukewarm when singing, but once while recording a short video, he caught a cold and sang "Possible Night," and this video went viral instantly.

It even brought up the popularity of this song.

Whether he was really sick or had found a special way of singing, Luo Mo didn't know.

He only knew that in the comment section at that time, netizens gave well-intentioned advice: "Excuse me, can you please stay sick forever?"

Then his "cold" really never got better, and the special vocal line and singing style have continued to this day.

Li Junyi's voice is relatively low, but because he lacks confidence when singing and is afraid of not hitting the notes, he would strain his throat to sing, which instead resulted in less effect.

His comprehension is worse than Tong Shu's, but fortunately, his temperament is steady, and he is not competitive, so Luo Mo still thinks highly of him.

He will release an album for him when his level is sufficient.

Time passed quickly, and the day to record *Walking and Singing* arrived.

This program was also made by Ning Dan's team, but she herself did not serve as the General Director.

However, for this episode, she would take over the position of General Director and record it herself.

Ning Dan went to the recording location a day earlier than Luo Mo to make preparations.

As for Luo Mo, he simply packed his luggage, brought some basic daily necessities, and set off.

This episode of *Walking and Singing* is equivalent to a spin-off of *Creating Idols*; Wei Ran and Li Ge would both participate in the recording, but Jiang Ningxi and Shen Yinuo could not participate due to schedule conflicts.

Regarding this, Shen Yinuo complained in the group for a long time, saying that it was a real pity she couldn't hear the full version of "Gentle" on the spot.

As for Jiang Ningxi, she never spoke in the group; the song "Gentle" did not evoke good feelings for her.

The program *Walking and Singing* is actually about celebrities living in several RVs, which travel to various cities with different customs, and then everyone brings their musical instruments to sing some songs on the streets or in some large outdoor venues.

There are only three resident guests: a veteran singer-songwriter named Cao Lei, a new-generation male singer named Liu Qinghong, and the musical instrument genius girl Ding Xiaoyu, whom Luo Mo had met before.

Their personas are a bit like a family of three, with an unreliable dad taking an even more unreliable son and a worried "good daughter" on a self-driving tour across the country.

As for the guests of each episode, they aren't much more reliable either; they just play music and mess around along the way.

Sometimes, this variety show doesn't even care if the songs are popular or good; they just want to play and get the variety show effect.

At the recording site of *Walking and Singing*, the "National Little Sister" Ding Xiaoyu was sitting in the RV tuning her guitar, but she was a bit absent-minded today, looking out the window from time to time.

This girl, who just turned sixteen this year, had no makeup on her face.

Perhaps it was the advantage of her age, or perhaps her skin was truly excellent; with a bare face, her skin still looked incredibly delicate, without any flaws.

She just tied a simple ponytail, and because she looked very approachable, she has always had excellent popularity with the audience.

In this variety show, every time everyone sees this quiet girl practicing instruments alone, they feel very comfortable, with a sense of peaceful years.

Many netizens have said that her parents must have saved the galaxy in their past lives to be able to give birth to such a well-behaved, sensible, and beautiful daughter in this life.

Just at this moment, a nanny van stopped next to the RV, and a man wearing a black short-sleeved shirt got out and took out his luggage.

As soon as Ding Xiaoyu saw Luo Mo, she stopped what she was doing, took a deep breath, put the guitar on the table, and immediately got out of the car.

She had followed *Creating Idols* from beginning to end, and since *Confession Night*, she had been deeply attracted by Luo Mo.

However, after getting out of the car, she didn't dare to get too close to Luo Mo, but kept a distance that was neither too far nor too near, nodding to greet him.

"We meet again." Luo Mo smiled at her and said, "Wait a moment."

He opened the door of the nanny van again and began to call Wei Ran and Li Ge to get out.

These two had come in the same car as him, and as soon as they got in, they started snoring loudly, the sound deafening; one wondered if they hadn't slept all night.

"Wei Ge, President Li, we've arrived, wake up!" Luo Mo said.

After the show ended, Luo Mo started calling Wei Ran 'Wei Ge', and as for calling Li Ge 'President Li', it was because he had his own rap label, and most acquaintances called him that.

"Huh? We're here?" Wei Ran and Li Ge woke up in a daze, then got out of the car in a daze.

Outside, Ding Xiaoyu was greeting everyone very politely, calling everyone 'Teacher' at every turn, exceptionally well-behaved.

Luo Mo glanced toward the camera crew and quickly spotted Ning Dan in the crowd.

Ning Dan gave him a slight smile, then made a 'shh' gesture, signaling that they were already recording and he didn't need to greet her specifically.

The impression she gave Luo Mo was that although this woman was very serious and domineering at work, with an air of a dictator radiating from her entire being, her lips were nonetheless sexy and rosy, and she had dimples when she smiled.

Luo Mo felt she was a bit like a combination of Yu Nan and Zhu Zhu; perhaps because of the dimples, she looked even more like Zhu Zhu when she smiled.

The other two resident guests of *Walking and Singing* also walked over at this time; Cao Lei had a very high status in the music industry, and both Wei Ran and Li Ge had to call him Teacher Cao, so Luo Mo, being a person who respected his elders and understood the rules, followed suit and called him that too.

As for the up-and-coming Singer Liu Qinghong, he was only two years older than Luo Mo. He was quite talented, but his musical style was relatively Niche, the kind where everyone thought the songs were pretty good while watching the show, but once downloaded to their phones, they rarely took them out to listen to in daily life.

Some songs are just like that; you think they're pretty good when you watch the live performance, but if you just listen to them, they don't really click.

As for Liu Qinghong, he felt envious of Luo Mo, who had become famous at a young age and had exploded in popularity within just a few months.

Cao Lei immediately ushered everyone onto the bus, saying he wanted to make everyone his secret-recipe milk tea.

This was a mandatory process for the show, because the title sponsor of this variety show sold milk, and the sugar daddy had to appear in every episode, at least five times.

After getting on the bus, Luo Mo took a sip and felt the taste was alright.

Cao Lei glanced at Wei Ran and Li Ge; Wei Ran had brought an acoustic guitar, and Li Ge had brought a bass.

Only Luo Mo had brought no Yueqi at all.

He opened the topic by saying: "Eh, why didn't Little Luo bring any musical instruments? I heard from the production team that your violin and suona are exceptionally impressive."

Hearing this topic, Ding Xiaoyu, who was drinking milk tea obediently on the side, immediately looked up and said: "Yes!"

Her tone was slightly high at first, but she immediately lowered her head in embarrassment afterward.

Cao Lei smiled and said: "Yo, turns out there's a fan here."

This made Ding Xiaoyu even more embarrassed, and she buried her face directly into her teacup.

Luo Mo looked at Cao Lei and said: "Teacher Cao, before coming here, I messaged Yu on WeChat, and she promised to let me use her Yueqi, so I got lazy and didn't bring any."

"Not bad, Luo Mo, you've done your prep work thoroughly!" Wei Ran looked at Luo Mo and said: "Anyway, I don't care; you must get the full version of *Gentle* finished for me in these next few days!"

"That wasn't written in the Contract, that's extra pay," Luo Mo said with a smile.

Wei Ran looked at him and said: "You kid! Aren't you preparing your first solo album recently? What, is *Gentle* not on it?"

Wei Ran said this on purpose, counting as indirectly advertising Luo Mo's first album on the show.

Luo Mo shook his head and said: "Alright, alright, *Gentle* is already produced, but I didn't plan to put it on the album because its style doesn't unify with the rest of the songs on the album."

"Is that so!" Wei Ran said.

As soon as Ding Xiaoyu heard about the new album, she kept pricking up her ears to listen from the side, but this time she didn't speak.

By the afternoon, everyone started preparing the music for the evening performance together.

According to the Requirement of the production team, a total of six songs had to be sung.

Except for Ding Xiaoyu, each person would sing one song, and then everyone would collaborate on one song at the end.

The entire show would actually spend most of its time on this collaborative song.

Cao Lei looked outside and said: "Summer has just passed, how about we use summer as the theme and make a closing song?"

"That works!" Wei Ran and Li Ge's eyes lit up, feeling it was very interesting.

Just as everyone was preparing to discuss which song to cover, Wei Ran suddenly looked at Luo Mo and said: "Luo Mo, in your inventory, do you have any new songs about summer?"

In an instant, everyone's gaze fell squarely on Luo Mo.

"That would require setting the style first," Luo Mo didn't answer directly, but said with a smile.

"Good fellow, listening to your tone, you have several songs about summer in different styles?" Wei Ran gave him a thumbs up.

Li Ge remembered at this moment that when Luo Mo performed the suona and Electronic Music, he was the one responsible for DJing.

And on that computer of Luo Mo's, there were indeed four documents.

Li Ge was stunned for a moment and said: "Luo Mo, if I remember correctly, you seem to have four documents on your computer, labeled: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter."

Luo Mo nodded and said: "I do."

"Hiss—" Wei Ge immediately gasped.

He was planning in his heart whether to find a way to go steal Luo Mo's computer!

Just how much inventory does this kid have!?

Cao Lei thought it was quite interesting and said: "That works, then let's set the style first. Then we'll see Little Luo's performance!"

After finishing, he looked at Ding Xiaoyu and said: "Let the little sister decide; I can tell, she is definitely a fan of Little Luo."

"Ah? I decide?" Ding Xiaoyu looked up at everyone, looking lost.

This girl had a relatively low presence most of the time on the variety show and spoke little; Cao Lei took good care of her and often steered the topic toward her.

Li Ge chimed in from the side: "Yu, give him a hard one; recall his previous songs and find one with a different style!"

Ding Xiaoyu looked at Luo Mo with an inquiring expression on her face.

Luo Mo nodded and said: "It's fine, play however you want to play."

He remembered that when Ding Xiaoyu was filming *Cat Demon*, she was very uninhibited in front of the camera; even something as uncomfortable as being on a wire, she felt very happy and relaxed.

In life, she should be quite repressive of herself.

Everyone liked her and thought she was well-behaved and sensible, as if the rebellious phase of adolescence had simply bypassed her.

The little girl was always very refined, just so quiet, very polite to everyone, and spoke in a soft, gentle voice, never noisy or troublesome.

Luo Mo, on the contrary, felt that she could actually be not-so-well-behaved occasionally.

At such a young age, why live so exhaustingly?

Meeting Luo Mo's gaze, Ding Xiaoyu gathered her courage and tentatively asked, "Then... is rock and roll okay?"

Once these words were spoken, the rest of the people were all startled.

They had not expected this suggestion to come from Ding Xiaoyu; this was not her usual style!

Upon hearing this, an expression of endless hesitation and difficulty immediately appeared on Luo Mo's face.

Just as Ding Xiaoyu felt she had said the wrong thing and put the guest in a difficult position, Luo Mo said, "It's not impossible."

I am stumped; I am pretending.

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(End of this chapter)