Chapter 169: Call Him God Luo

As the song "Young and Promising" ended, the audience was quiet for a moment, but enthusiastic applause soon erupted.

It was strange; the applause was like thunder, yet not many people were letting out excited Shouting or cheers.

Heartfelt songs often allow the audience to immerse themselves within.

The atmosphere had already been built up, and the theme of this episode, "Losing You," had been thoroughly brought to the fore.

After taking several deep breaths, Sun Yi finally raised his head and smiled at the audience.

Although he was smiling, the audience found it painful to watch.

"There is definitely something on this person's mind!" the audience thought to themselves.

No one felt that Sun Yi was just acting; if he had such good acting skills, he could have gone to be an Actor and won awards.

He took off the microphone and stopped sitting on the high stool; according to the upcoming procedure, he had to accept the live critique from the professional judging panel.

The female host came on stage and began calling for the audience to press the buttons to cast their votes.

Only after the audience's voting ended did the professional judges begin their critique.

For some reason, Sun Yi was not nervous at all now, not anxious at all, and did not even care what they would say.

He felt that he had just sung the song well, and it was a state he was satisfied with; that was enough.

In a sense, his state of mind had actually undergone a subtle change.

After the professional judging panel finished casting their scores on the voting devices, they began their critique.

Sitting in the front row, the well-known Lyricist Lv Yi picked up the microphone and said, "I personally like the lyrics of this song very much."

"I'll state this in advance: I'm not playing the gender card. But it is true that from this perspective, this song might be able to move a great many men."

"In any case, perhaps it's because I'm older, but I have many stirrings and have recalled many past events."

"In my view, your Singing adds to this song. If I were the Lyricist, I would give a perfect evaluation of your expressive power."

"Of course, I am not the Lyricist, so Luo Mo's fans shouldn't scold me, hahahaha."

This person had an extremely strong desire to survive; he had to qualify every few sentences he spoke, which made him seem slightly long-winded.

A music critic sitting in the second row chimed in: "Sun Yi has completed a perfect transformation in this round."

"The song 'Not Settling' in the previous episode received good market feedback, which is equivalent to having market validation."

"I think this episode's 'Young and Promising' is the peak of your personal singing technique and emotion."

"There is no feeling of overexertion, yet it has excellent resonance."

"I think the Newcomer King we were familiar with back then has returned!"

One professional judge after another continued to speak, all of them offering praise.

Even if one pointed out a slight flaw in a certain place, they immediately added that they felt such a flaw was even more moving.

The audience sitting below stared at them, especially some of the male audience members who nodded frequently, indicating: "Hmm, they finally said a few sensible things."

In the end, the comprehensive score Sun Yi received from the professional judging panel was 89.3, which was already very high.

If his popularity and status were higher, and the professional judging panel's impression and recognition of him were higher, he should have been able to break 90!

Once the score was out, the whole venue began to erupt in cheers.

Sun Yi stood up, bowed, said "Thank you everyone," and began to leave the stage.

Now, it was the turn of those Singers who had not yet performed to be nervous.

Especially the female Singer who was scheduled between Sun Yi and Luo Mo.

"This score is too high; the highest score I've received from the professional judging panel is only 76.1!" she thought to herself.

Is this the magic of Luo Mo?

But she had to admit that Sun Yi sang really well this episode; there were no issues!

With confidence behind him, this former Newcomer King finally revealed his brilliance once again!

If this momentum could be maintained, he would likely go from being Xuezang for many years to soaring into the sky; just by relying on this program, he could sit on the throne of a quasi-first-tier or even first-tier star!

"I'm so envious," she thought to herself: "I also really want to be under the protection of a Great God of songwriting."

She took a deep breath, knowing that now was not the time for wild thoughts and that she needed to be calm.

But after going on stage to sing, due to facing the crisis of Elimination, she was still too nervous.

Her singing technique was fine; she was a talented Singer. But for the sake of audience votes, she danced energetically again, resulting in a misstep; she almost slipped and had an obvious stage error.

The professional judging panel acted as if they had mastered the art of changing faces; their speech became harsh, and their words were very severe.

"If it were just a dance error, I don't think the problem would be that big, but your breathing became disordered afterward, and several breath intakes were wrong."

"I'm very disappointed; this song of yours was written by a friend of mine, and I don't think you performed it well."

"The theme is clearly 'Losing You'; don't you feel your dance was a bit too hot?"

Her final score was 72.8, a huge disparity compared to Sun Yi's!

When this female Singer left the stage and walked into the backstage corridor, she almost tripped again; she was a bit dazed.

The replacement Singer was likely either first-tier or quasi-first-tier; she felt that she was basically done for this episode.

On stage, the female host stepped up again in high heels, and after thanking the sponsors, she said with a smile: "The next one to take the stage is the youngest Singer on the 'King of Love Songs' stage."

As soon as these words were spoken, there were immediate screams from the audience.

The host continued: "When he participated in the official recording of 'King of Love Songs', his debut duration was—1 day!"

Laughter immediately came from the audience; they only felt that in the entire music scene, only Luo Mo was this interesting.

When he went to 'Creating Idols', his Total Training Duration 0 Days, but now at least he had a breakthrough from 0 to 1.

The female host added: "In the first two episodes, he had outstanding performances and won two consecutive championships on the 'King of Love Songs' stage."

"So, let us hand the stage over to—Singer Luo Mo!"

Amidst the applause, Luo Mo took the stage.

When the lights on the stage gradually became hazy, everyone vaguely saw that on the table to the left of the stage, there was a table with a violin placed on it.

"A violin!"

"Is Luo Mo finally going to play the violin again? 'Confession Night' is my absolute favorite!"

"I still have fresh memories of the last time he played the violin; it was so elegant, so handsome!"

When Luo Mo walked to the center of the stage, he did as he had before, making a 'shh' gesture to the audience below.

The audience was very cooperative, and the entire venue fell silent.

This young man possessed an innate ability to command the stage.

The stage lights dimmed slightly, and he was seen with his head lowered, sitting on a chair as the accompaniment began to play.

The prelude was dominated by the piano, and as soon as the professional judging panel heard it, they felt that Luo Mo's composition was as brilliant as ever.

He could always set the tone for a song with just the prelude; the prelude alone was enough to make one feel a deep sense of sorrow.

He did not approach the violin, which clearly told everyone that this song might have a very distinct progression of development later on.

——You can look forward to it.

Amidst the prelude, the song title appeared on the big screen.

"What a Pity There Are No Ifs".

In the arrangement of this song, the piano is actually exceptionally outstanding; to be precise, in the micro-movie-like music video filmed by Lin JJ, the main Prop is the piano.

Our side's Zhou Dong is taking a break for this round, and the gaming fanatic Lin Junjie is stepping up.

As soon as Luo Mo opened his mouth, the listeners and the professional judging panel felt a sense of stylistic consistency.

Because if you listen carefully to this "What a Pity There Are No Ifs" by JJ and then compare it to his other songs, you will find that his enunciation and articulation are a bit ambiguous, not as clear as in his other songs.

Is he leaning towards his good friend Zhou Dong?

Perhaps not.

Luo Mo adjusted the microphone hanging by his mouth, and his singing voice soon spread throughout the venue.

"【If I had made all the mistakes I could make,

And missed everything I could have missed,

It should still be in time to repent.

If I hadn't let everything out, that little conflict,

Would have been laughed off.】"

From the perspective of the lyrics, it is the kind that has a sense of story and imagery.

He sang in a slightly low-key manner; not only was his voice ambiguous and his enunciation unclear, but the overall performance also had a restrained feeling.

Under normal circumstances, what Lin JJ is praised for is his singing technique and high notes, earning him the title of a "walking CD."

There was no showing off of skills at the beginning of this song.

In the three songs Luo Mo prepared for this episode, he maintained a very consistent attitude—reaching deep into people's hearts.

"【In the face of feelings, why talk about ego,

Just muddling through is the only way to get by.】"

The murmuring vocal delivery sounded like self-deception.

The ambiguous enunciation was actually meant to serve as a setup.

In his view, this was the song with the most distinct layers among all of Lin Junjie's songs, and the one that did the best in this regard.

Right up to the chorus, the pitch was not actually very high, which would make one feel that this was a heartfelt song in the low-bass range.

"【It's all my fault, for being silent when I shouldn't have been,

And being weak when I should have been brave,

If it weren't for me, mistaking myself for being carefree,

Leaving us in sorrow,

But if the you from back then, and the me from now, could start over.】"

Sitting in the front row, the well-known composer Fei Qing looked at the lyrics in his hand, and a guess formed in his heart.

"This song, in terms of enunciation and articulation, seems to maintain consistency with 'Sunny Day' and 'Common Jasmine Orange', but I always feel that this arrangement is to fit the context."

Just like the words written in the lyrics: "silent," "weak," "mistaking myself for being carefree," and so on.

Fei Qing is a composer; he didn't actually analyze this from the perspective of the lyrics, he just felt that with Luo Mo's composition and Arranger skills, it shouldn't just be like this.

Although it was heartfelt, it was too flat.

It's not to say that being flat is bad; many songs are very moving even when they are flat, not needing to belt out high notes, as they can touch people's hearts in their plainness.

But if combined with this kind of singing style—a clearly restrained singing style—and it continues to be this flat, it will sound very tiring.

If someone else had brought such a song, he would have already given it a low score in his heart.

But because the person in front of him was a lyrical and musical genius who made him, and even the entire industry, marvel, he felt he only needed to maintain his anticipation.

"If nothing goes wrong, the explosive point will start from the violin!" He played the Prophet for a moment.

Luo Mo continued to sing with his head lowered, but he stood up and began to walk toward the violin.

He walked very slowly, and the singing voice came through the microphone hanging by his mouth:

"【If only that day, I had said what needed to be said properly,

And not been stubborn about what I should have been understanding about, if that day I,

Had not been provoked by my emotions, what would you have done?

So many 'ifs', maybe if I, what a pity there are no 'ifs'.......

——Only the result remains.】"

This was the second part of the chorus, and the pitch had already risen slightly; it was not as flat anymore.

The emotions were piling up at this moment, just like someone murmuring to themselves, someone desperately finding excuses, someone who had been repeating the word "if," finally coming to an understanding.

When singing "Only the result remains," Luo Mo grabbed the violin on the table in one motion.

The previous singing style had consistently given people an ambiguous feeling, dragging on, muddled, and heavy with a sense of hesitation.

Although he kept his head lowered the entire time, the moment he picked up the instrument, his movements were swift and extremely decisive.

The strong contrast between before and after shocked the audience.

The entire sequence of movements was extremely fluid; he brought the violin up to his shoulder directly.

Ke Ming watched this scene from backstage and felt that Luo Mo's appearance and temperament were truly impeccable; this set of movements of his was Afraid to contribute another god-tier GIF.

Meanwhile, on the big screen, a very short sentence appeared, coordinating with the performance to present the stage effect:

"【My love is very soft, isn't it? I'm sorry.】"

Ke Ming felt that the female assistant beside him was a bit mesmerized, with a look of heartache actually appearing in her eyes.

She had been with him for many years; she was arranged by a friend to learn by his side, and she had to call him Uncle. When he was working himself to death these past few years, he had never seen her feel heartache for him.

Luo Mo on the stage was seen still keeping his head slightly lowered, his eyelids half-drooped.

"Confession Night" achieved legendary status at the one-minute-thirty-second mark, with thick emotions pouring out.

Since then, many people who study the violin have called him God Luo.

And the violin part in "If Only" after the one-minute-fifty-second mark is absolutely superb.

When the sound of the violin spread throughout the venue, and when this man swayed his body with the rhythm, playing the strings wantonly, the emotions of the audience at the scene became fervent.

Interlude kill, Luo Mo reproduces the interlude kill!

The previous "weakness," "silence," "pity," and "pretending to be carefree"... all seemed to erupt at this moment.

The violin melody was melodious, rising and falling, the sound even louder than the previously somewhat depressed singing.

His love was very soft, but his regret was deafening.

Yet this song is called "If Only."

Regret is useless.

The theme of this episode—【Losing You】.

The first song, "Young and Promising," is: I did not cherish you, therefore I lost you.

The second song, "If Only," is: I could have possessed you, but I lost you.

He changed the phrasing of 【Losing You】 several times, intending to stab the audience three times in one go.

The emotional rendering of the stage was pulled to the max; the emotions of the audience tonight reached their peak amidst the sound of the violin.

When Luo Mo suddenly put down the violin and let his hands hang naturally while holding the Yueqi, the song entered the content of the B section.

The moment he opened his mouth, everyone felt a different sensation.

"The enunciation has changed, the singing style has changed, and the pitch has been raised!"

In the lounge, Zhao Xueqin could no longer sit still.

Perhaps there would be audience members with red eyes today, but for these Singers...

This day, Luo Mo is on a killing spree!

(PS: First update, 4000 words, requesting monthly tickets! Only a few hundred away from ninth place.

Thanks to "Zhisang Qingyixiu" for the Alliance Leader reward!

Thanks to "Ling Feisi" for the Alliance Leader reward!

Thanks to "Mobai" for the Alliance Leader reward!)

(End of this chapter)