Chapter 185: Shine to Your Heart's Content

In Shencheng, Huang Xishan was watching the Live Broadcast of the fifth episode of "King of Love Songs" in his living room.

Upon seeing the results, his expression suddenly turned extremely ugly.

"How is this possible!" he said, unable to believe it.

In his view, the professional jury's score was leading by a full point, which was already high enough.

A Heavenly King-level Singer naturally has enough status and National Popularity; this song "Master" was exquisitely produced, and with the added fame of two Great Gods like himself and Yuan Hewen, there was no reason to be overtaken and suffer a crushing defeat in the audience score.

Most importantly, losing on the audience vote is what is truly unsightly!

No matter how good a song's reputation is within the industry, it is just the "self-indulgence" of professionals.

The market is what matters most; the listeners are what matter most.

You group of people who consider yourselves professionals act high and mighty, don't treat us listeners as human beings, and then still want to earn our money?

Screw you!

The high score given by the listeners proves that in their hearts, they prefer that song "Father".

"Is it because of the added emotional element, because of the resonance?" Huang Xishan sat dejectedly on his mahogany chair.

In terms of resonance, the bond between master and apprentice versus a father's love—naturally, the latter is more intense.

Huang Xishan's face was now turning from green to red.

To seek a collaboration with Yuan Hewen, he had already lowered his pride.

During the collaboration, Yuan Hewen's face filled him with disgust. It was as if the grievances of the past ten-plus years had finally been won by Yuan Hewen.

In Huang Xishan's view, this was originally a high-emotional-intelligence approach.

Before retiring, shaking hands and making peace with Yuan Hewen would have been a "reconciliation of the century," leaving behind a fine story for the music scene.

Being crushed by Luo Mo before retiring is not retiring; it is more like being kicked out of the music scene with one's belongings in a bundle.

Although winning would have felt a bit like a dimensionality-reduction strike and would have been a well-deserved victory, at least he could have maintained some final Decency, right?

But the result was a loss! This strike that hit the soul from this young man tore everything to shreds!

"I put on a smiling face for so many days, and in the end, I actually lost?" Huang Xishan thought.

This made him feel an involuntary resentment toward Wang Shisong.

After all, according to the initial plan, it was just for him and his apprentice Zhao Xueqin to collaborate on one last album, and then he would quietly retire and start enjoying life.

But because of the variable that was Luo Mo, Wang Shisong insisted he write a song for the boy band NINE-T, which resulted in "Giant Shark," and then the netizens branded him with the meme "Whale Fall in the North and South, Sharking in the East and West."

Immediately after, it was Wang Shisong again who had Zhao Xueqin and Luo Mo's albums compete against each other, and agreed to the invitation from "King of Love Songs."

In the end, he took such a massive tumble!

"Wang Shisong has ruined me!"

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On the other side, Yuan Hewen was also watching "King of Love Songs."

He was very confident in the melody of this song "Master," feeling that among all his works to date, he wouldn't dare call it his peak, but it was definitely a top-tier choice.

"It's just that Huang Xishan's lyrics are a bit lacking," he thought to himself.

During the collaboration, he had also provided feedback several times, complaining that Huang Xishan's lyrics were not grand enough, too reserved, and didn't quite match the style of his melody.

After several revisions, the effect was indeed much better, but compared to the lyrics of "A Laughter in the Ocean," there was still a distance.

When he was watching the show and saw the professional jury give the highest score in history, he nodded slightly, feeling it was only right.

But when Luo Mo's "Father" came out, his heart tightened.

The emotional resonance was too intense; even as an opponent, Yuan Hewen couldn't help but immerse himself in it, feeling quite sorrowful.

He knew very well that "Master" and "Father" took two extremes.

The former focused on 【Technique】, the latter focused on 【Emotion】.

If the professional jury hadn't given "Father" a lower score than "Master," he would have felt the situation was unpredictable.

But unexpectedly, Luo Mo still managed to achieve a great reversal by relying on the audience score!

Yuan Hewen was instantly furious; this little old man, who looked very much like a private secretary in an ancient county magistrate's office, said resentfully: "Sure enough! Huang Xishan's lyrics were indeed not up to par!"

"If he could have done just a little better, even just a little bit better..."

"This round would have been impossible to lose!"

You have to know, the title of that previous report was "Yuan Hewen: Luo Mo stood on my shoulders to pioneer Chinese Style."

And yet, your ancient-style song couldn't even beat someone else's modern pop song.

He didn't even need to use his most proficient Chinese Style to fight you!

Yes, Luo Mo is truly on your shoulders now, Yuan Hewen.

Because—he is riding on your head!

Tonight, Yuan Hewen deeply understood the meaning of a phrase—total loss of face.

"Huang Xishan has ruined me!"

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……..

The powerful championship win of "Father" caused Luo Mo to super-evolve, becoming a four-time champion on the show.

The entire venue erupted in warm applause and screams; on the professional jury side, Lv Yi also stood up to applaud Luo Mo, congratulating him on this song that had written itself into his heart.

Honestly, if Lv Yi hadn't directly given a perfect score, the outcome of this match would have been even more suspenseful.

Seeing him stand up to applaud, Luo Mo turned slightly and nodded to him in thanks.

Zhao Xueqin now felt a bit dizzy; he hadn't quite heard what that bald guy Ke Ming was saying either.

The barrage comments experienced another massive explosion at this moment.

"So comfortable! So comfortable!"

"I was nervous to death because of these professional judges, but thankfully the live audience is on our side!"

"Exactly, I like 'Father's' too, but 'Father' is still more moving."

"Heaven, Earth, Sovereign, Kin, Teacher; Kin comes before Teacher, so losing is not unjust."

"Fans of Heavenly King Zhao, don't be upset. Look at how broad Luo Mo's perspective is. It's fortunate he didn't go and make another patriotic love song to write about patriotism, otherwise you would have lost even more miserably!"

"There's some truth to that, but that would make the victory seem a bit ungentlemanly, hahaha."

The program's camera swept across the face of every Singer, giving a close-up of everyone's micro-expressions.

The close-up shot of Heavenly King Zhao froze for a full ten seconds, making even the slightly dazed Heavenly King Zhao notice it, and he finally revealed a slightly stiff smile toward the camera.

"Killing the Heart!"

"Shrimping the Heart."

The netizens began to jeer.

And according to the flow, it came to the song promotion segment that everyone had already become a bit accustomed to.

Chen Shanqi, who won third place, also very decisively handed over her own song promotion time to Luo Mo.

Honestly speaking, for her, who is aiming for the first-line, 30 seconds of song promotion time could be used to sing a song from her previous album, which would still have a traffic-driving effect.

But Tao Jie is very sensible and also knows how to be content.

Being able to leave two classic songs on this stage, she felt she was already satisfied.

"A woman cannot want this, and want that, and want everything," she warned herself.

Seeing her so well-behaved, Luo Mo nodded slightly.

Before the song promotion, Director Luo informed Chen Shanqi: "There is a song inside later that is very suitable for you; I will release the full version for you in the future."

This song is Sun Yanzi's "What I Miss".

Upon hearing this, Chen Shanqi only felt a current suddenly sweep through her whole body; it was as if something in the bottom of her heart had been pierced, and a sense of joy instantly gushed out and overflowed.

She instantly became focused, wanting to guess exactly which song it was.

As for the silly netizens watching online, they had already opened a betting pool in the bullet comments.

"I'm blind guessing! The third one is for her!"

"Then I'll bet on the fifth one!"

"I'll bet on the last one!"

The song promotion segment was originally slightly boring, but because of Luo Mo's medley of songs, it added a different kind of interest.

As for Heavenly King Zhao, due to his mentality slightly collapsing, he actually sang off-key during his song promotion; this situation is extremely rare for him.

Finally, Ke Ming held the microphone and asked the inner voice of the vast number of netizens: "Luo Mo, have you finally decided on a name for this medley of yours?"

Luo Mo smiled and said: "Isn't this still waiting for Director Ke to come and buy the naming rights?"

He waved his hand and faced the camera, saying: "If I'm lucky enough to make it into the finals, then at the end of the finals, I'll tell everyone the song title."

Listening to his words, the audience's curiosity was instantly piqued.

They had heard medleys of golden hits before; there was nothing strange about that.

But to have so many new songs that they had never even heard of strung together was unheard of.

"This is a conservative estimate of at least 30 songs, right?"

Although the sense of immersion dropped significantly because everyone hadn't heard the full versions of the songs inside, and it was relatively difficult to resonate, it couldn't stop everyone's curiosity about just how many songs were in Luo Mo's music library!

All the suspense will be revealed in the grand finals of "King of Love Songs".

At the end of the fifth episode, Ke Ming loudly announced the rules for the Semi-finals.

"The Semi-finals will adopt a guest-singing mode; every Singer can invite a Guest Singer to help them charge into the finals!"

"And the theme of the Semi-finals is—【Only Romance】!"

"Then—we'll see you next week!"

The fifth episode ended here, and many viewers felt it was not enough.

The main thing is that this dog of a director, Ke Ming, threw out such a bombshell at the end.

Everyone was already used to the guest-singing system.

But what's fatal is that there are too many big shots in this program.

Just like Zhao Xueqin, when he looks for a Guest Singer, that would at least be a First-line Singer, right?

Then, in the next episode, it will definitely give people the feeling of gathering half of the music scene!

"Awesome!"

"The next episode will definitely be a gathering of masters!"

"This is equivalent to having to compete on Connections, compete on resources, and compete on background!"

"Luo Mo, you must let Tong Shu come. Shu, Mom loves you!"

The audience just felt the suspense was truly too great.

Who exactly will come to be the Guest Singers?

In Shanghai, Xu Chujing turned off the Live Broadcast of "King of Love Songs".

She picked up WeChat and sent a voice message to Tingting in the publicity department, saying: "Tingting, suppress the news for now, and release it tomorrow night."

The news she spoke of was that Pineapple had contacted her studio, wanting to invite her to be a Guest Singer.

Once this news came out, it would likely instantly top the Hot Search and make it known to everyone.

But after listening to Luo Mo's "Father", she knew that this song would explode on all major platforms and then detonate the tears of netizens.

Variety shows are variety shows after all; many people will watch them, but not necessarily watch them in real-time.

In her view, the heat of this "Father" could still be higher, and the effect it produced could continue to ferment.

After all, this stage design was truly superb; the image of the old man stuffing dumplings into his pocket before the song even began was already moving enough.

Many people, after watching it and then listening to the song, will surely be struck by Luo Mo's talent and applaud in admiration.

"I won't join in the excitement tonight; you just shine to your heart's content," the woman smiled slightly and said in her heart.

(PS: First update.)

(End of this chapter)