Chapter 191: Let's Start with a Chinese-Style Song

The "Motto" segment was arguably a major highlight back in the original *Creating Idols*.

Trainees would write down their mottos at the very beginning, and then recite them after achieving a good ranking; it was very evocative.

Even when someone was unfortunately eliminated, reading their motto made people feel a sense of regret, yet it was also very inspirational, showing that although they were eliminated, they would never give up on their dreams.

Of course, the absolute climax of the entire program was definitely Luo Mo's line: "Do not worry that you have no bosom friends on the road ahead; there is no one under heaven who does not recognize you."

The sudden addition of this segment did catch everyone slightly off guard.

It wasn't particularly difficult; whose mind isn't filled with a few inspirational or positive phrases?

Grandiose words, after all, anyone can say them.

Wei Ran even cracked a joke at this moment: "Ning Dao, I am a celebrity mentor, after all. Are we now following the same procedure as the trainees back then?"

With the atmosphere stirred up by him like this, a smattering of laughter erupted throughout the venue.

Ning Dan looked at him and said, "Then you go first."

Wei Ran widened his small eyes, looking like a shocked local dog.

He looked at his Guest Singer and said, "Hurry up, help me think of one."

The live comments started to increase at this moment: "Looking at this interaction, it's 80% likely to be Li Ge."

"Confirmed, it's Li Ge."

In the end, Wei Ran only said a poem at the level of an elementary school student in this world.

To tell the truth, he no longer had any great ambition for this program.

At the beginning, his idea was to secure third and fight for second; his goal now was just to strive to advance to the finals.

This kid Luo Mo is too fierce; it's one thing for him to go around slaughtering the competition all by himself, but he's also openly carrying the other contestants.

Heh, and he keeps leaving me hanging day after day, how evil!

As a result, after each Singer finished speaking, when it was Luo Mo's turn, he immediately said, "Then I will only say half a sentence; just like last time, the complete version will be saved until after the finals end."

Wei Ge heard this, his expression twisted, looking dumbfounded.

He secretly made a resolution in his heart: "I will never participate in a program with this kid again."

From now on, it's either you or me!

Ning Dan naturally would not refuse any Requirement from Luo Mo; her red lips pursed slightly, the corners of her mouth lifted, and she said, "That's fine."

In the lounge, outside the camera's view, Xu Chujing looked at Luo Mo with great interest.

Her curiosity had been piqued.

Luo Mo exchanged a glance with her, then faced the camera and said in a deep voice:

"【Know that in my youth, I held lofty aspirations.】"

The second half of the sentence is temporarily held in Retention; it will only be appropriate during the finals.

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This temporarily added segment concluded with Luo Mo's half-sentence.

The netizens were highly engaged, and through the first half he spoke, they began to compose their own second halves…….

Of course, most were joking and not composing seriously.

"Know that in my youth, I held lofty aspirations; I swore to marry five babes!"

"Know that in my youth, I held lofty aspirations; if I don't go bald, who will!"

"Know that in my youth, I held lofty aspirations; sorry, I have no great ambitions, I don't even have a chest."

Amidst a mess of live comments, the Live Broadcast began to enter the segment of announcing the performance order.

Attentive netizens had already discovered during the last episode that there was no segment for filling out the 【Royal Power Points】 in the envelopes!

"Ah, I can't see President Luo casually fill in 30 points and then spin his pen in public."

The reason is simple, because it is already the Semi-finals.

Starting from the Semi-finals, what matters is the accumulated remaining 【Royal Power Points】!

The higher the remaining points, the later the performance order.

"Then, let us take a look at what the remaining Royal Power Points of the six Singers are!" Ning Dan said loudly.

In the previous five episodes, Luo Mo had obtained a total of 330 points, leading by a wide margin.

At the same time, he fixed his bet at only 30 points per episode, so after the first five episodes leading up to the Semi-finals, he still had 210 points left, leading by a wide margin.

At this time, someone in the live comments started to clamor.

"That's not right, 30 points per episode for 5 episodes, doesn't that mean 150 points were consumed?"

"Did the program team's math get taught by a PE teacher?"

Someone immediately answered this question in the live comments.

"Buddy, no points were bet in the first episode; only four episodes were bet on."

Once this was said, the live comments began to scroll in waves—"My apologies."

Ultimately, according to the rankings, the performance order for this episode was: a certain first-tier female Singer, Chen Shanqi, Wei Ran, Sun Yi, Zhao Xueqin, and Luo Mo.

That first-tier female Singer had been doing quite well in the first few episodes, but later she was always hovering on the edge of Elimination, and the points she bet each time were high, resulting in her final remaining score being worse than Chen Shanqi, who had only participated in two episodes.

Sun Yi had a high score because he understood financial management; knowing he would inevitably have to perform first, he bet 0 points, and later, when he started getting high rankings, he voluntarily warmed up the stage for Director Luo, betting points lower than 30.

The audience expressed great satisfaction with this order, feeling that it was only satisfying to watch it this way!

After the order was announced, Ning Dan, wearing a long black dress with a curvaceous figure, turned to face the audience and said, "Then, please let the Singers and Guest Singers begin their preparations."

"Let us first enter a commercial break that, in the eyes of Director Ke, is very brief."

Once this was said, the netizens were amused again.

"Too savage! These words are too savage!"

"Dog director, come out and get scolded!"

And the commercial break was indeed six minutes long, just as everyone had expected.

But the audience could understand this; it was a Live Broadcast, and the stage needed preparation, after all.

The first first-tier Singer to take the stage had a second-tier male Singer from the same company as her Guest Singer.

She knew she would likely face Elimination in this round, so she didn't bother putting in the effort to invite a big star; it was better to give some exposure to someone from her own company.

The two performed a love song duet titled "Love's Stone."

As for the details of their stage performance—omitted.

Next, it was time for our Tao Jie.

When Chen Shanqi and Jiang Ningxi stepped onto the stage together, the barrage of comments instantly flooded the screen.

"Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap!"

"Goddess! My Goddess Jiang Jiang!"

"Hahaha! I knew it!"

"Welcome everyone to the Semi-finals of King of Love Songs: Creating Idols Side Story."

Jiang Ningxi's dazzling appearance made the atmosphere of the entire venue boil over.

Who doesn't love a pretty girl?

This pair of slender legs with astonishing proportions wasn't just stepping on the stage; they were stepping on the tips of everyone's hearts.

A simple walk onto the stage was turned into a runway show by this Leg Fairy.

Ke Ming switched the camera feed directly from backstage, aiming it at Shen Yinuo inside the VIP box.

Xiao Shen gave a sweet smile and waved at the audience watching the Live Broadcast.

The energetic girl's smile was highly infectious, making the audience watching the Live Broadcast feel as if their hearts had been struck.

"Ah! So Xiao Shen is here too!"

"This is killing me, can this dream collaboration get any more intense?"

"Summer is back! My summer is back!"

"Nice, Luo Mo wrote another song for his mentor."

"A great student produces a famous teacher, any problems? No problems!"

After Jiang Ningxi and Chen Shanqi stood on either side of the center of the stage, mist began to rise around them, as if they had arrived in a dream.

In Luo Mo's view, having this song's performance order be relatively early was actually quite good and quite appropriate.

It allowed the audience to listen carefully while their focus was still relatively calm.

And for Jiang Ningxi, this song was capable of striking her heart.

Because in terms of theme, the focus of this song regarding Romance was—childhood sweethearts.

During the rehearsals over these past few days, both Jiang Ningxi and Tao Jie attached extreme importance to this song.

The reason was simple—it was Chinese Style!

As the Founder of Chinese Style, Luo Mo had yet to write a Chinese Style song for anyone else in the market until now.

This was the first one.

At the same time, in the current music scene, although some people had followed the trend and released some decent Chinese Style works, there were no excellent works yet among female Singers.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, you will also find: on Earth, those who achieved high accomplishments in the field of Chinese Style were mostly male Singers.

Conversely, in the ancient style genre, there were many female Singers who shone brightly.

Therefore, for the two women, if they sang it well, it would be a breakout work.

And the quality of this song was beyond doubt.

Because its Lyricist was Fang Wenshan, the composer was Zhou Jielun, and the Arranger was Lin Maike.

Everyone might be relatively less familiar with the Arranger Lin Maike, but his representative works include "Love in BC," "East Wind Breaks," "Hair Like Snow," and "Far Away," etc.

In other words, this was the combination of three legendary swords.

Since Yuan Hewen wanted to fight another round, Luo Mo had no intention of playing along with him slowly.

That would be too tiring and too boring.

As for the so-called claim that Luo Mo stood on his shoulders to pioneer Chinese Style...

Carrying the civilization of an entire planet, Luo Mo felt his shoulders might not be able to bear so much.

Three songs would be enough to crush you.

"Accompany your old rival Huang Xishan and retire by putting down your pen together," Luo Mo said in his heart.

The accompaniment sounded at this moment, and the emotions began to spread.

The prelude was still the type that sounded very simple, but it completely established the emotional tone of the entire song.

At this moment, four lines of text appeared on the big screen.

"【My hair was just covering my forehead, I played with flowers in front of the gate.

You came riding a bamboo horse, circling the bed to play with green plums.】"

These lines came from the hand of the Poetry Immortal Li Bai.

This was equivalent to telling everyone directly that this song was about childhood sweethearts.

The barrage of comments exploded instantly, covering the sky and the earth.

"There's poetry! Afraid it's ancient style or Chinese Style!"

"Chinese Style! It must be Chinese Style!"

"Haha, the anticipation is here, a head-on clash with Yuan Hewen!"

After the poem disappeared, the song title emerged on the big screen.

— "Little One".

Chen Shanqi was the first to start Singing; from the very beginning of the song, the imagery was very strong, and the lyrics were written beautifully as well.

"Memories are like a storyteller,

speaking with a local accent.

Jumping over puddles, bypassing the small village,

waiting for the fate of an encounter."

The camera cut to the professional judging panel.

Lv Yi, sitting in the first row, mouthed to the Lyricist beside him: "There are elements of Chinese Style."

Netizens cannot tell whether it is Chinese Style or not because they do not understand whether the melody follows Chinese Style, so Ke Ming intentionally cut to a two-second shot.

After receiving affirmation from Lv Yi, the emotions of the audience were instantly ignited.

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(PS: First update.)

(End of this chapter)