Chapter 197: 《A Carefree Journey》

The six Singers and six Guest Singers stood in a row on the stage; as the camera swept across, more than half were Luo Mo's people.

This Semi-finals, in a certain sense, was indeed his home field.

It was no wonder netizens would say: "King of Love Songs is almost becoming an internal competition for Xinyu Singers."

Of course, everyone was just teasing.

Who told Luo Mo that every song he brought could gain the audience's approval?

The show's General Director Ke Ming had changed into a brand-new hat again, wearing that same unchanging gray outfit.

He took the card onto the stage, preparing to announce the final rankings of the Singers.

In the bullet comments, netizens were discussing it heatedly.

"Wow, so hard to guess. /doge."

"Tsk tsk tsk, the outcome is hard to predict, hahahahaha."

"Can you stop acting? Could my Jing lose?"

"Lovers in the World is the eternal god!"

"Wishing Lovers in the World will eventually become a married couple!"

"Charge! Jing-Mo combination, charge for me!"

"Eh? Jing-Mo, Jing-Mo, this name is well chosen. I hereby announce that the Jing-Mo CP is officially established!"

Ke Ming stood in front of the row of Singers, looked around at everyone, and wore a bright smile.

Before going on stage, he had checked the show's real-time viewership data, which had once again broken the record for domestic singing competition variety shows!

At the same time, it also broke the record for all music variety shows!

"This is only the Semi-finals, it hasn't even reached the Grand Finals yet!" Ke Ming was overjoyed.

Luo Mo deserved at least half the credit for this!

He never would have imagined that the person he originally invited was just a trainee who hadn't even officially debuted.

Luo Mo had only just announced his debut the day before the show's recording.

Yet it was precisely such a pure Newcomer who helped him create a miracle in the history of variety shows!

Talent show variety programs repeatedly hit new highs because of him.

Now, singing variety programs were also creating miracles again because of him!

From some angles, he was the 【Variety Myth】, right?

Ke Ming opened the card and began to announce from sixth place.

Logically speaking, the last place and first place should have their suspense kept, but there was no help for it; first place still carried that tiny bit of suspense, while for last place, there was really no need to keep people in suspense.

"The Singer ranked last in this round is—ZengSui."

"It is a pity, ZengSui will bid Farewell to the stage of King of Love Songs."

Before her Elimination, a certain first-line female Singer finally had a name; it was a joyous and congratulatory occasion.

ZengSui smiled, bowed to the audience, and then gave a touching speech.

One could tell that she still felt very regretful.

Her mood was particularly complex.

Honestly, losing to these high-quality songs was not shameful.

But considering it from another angle, if not for Luo Mo, someone like Sun Yi might have been eliminated long ago, Chen Shanqi might not have successfully challenged the stage, and she herself, logically speaking, could have advanced all the way to the Grand Finals.

—It's a pity there are no "ifs."

The various causes and effects in the world could not be thought of in that way to begin with. Changing the perspective, without Luo Mo providing so many high-quality songs, this show could never have become this popular, and the exposure could never have been this ridiculously high.

The previous episode of King of Love Songs was more effective than an entire season of other shows.

After announcing the last-place Singer, that dog of a director Ke Ming started to keep people in suspense.

Not only was he full of nonsense, but he also spoke very slowly.

The netizens instantly exploded.

"Damn, this speaking speed is so slow it makes me wonder if my 256G blue smartphone, which cost over ten thousand, is lagging."

"I thought it was the internet speed in my house in Xicheng, Shanghai that wasn't working."

"I thought it was the internet at my alma mater, Beida, that was bad."

"I was also wondering if it was because my house on the Second Ring Road in Beijing is too big."

The reason the silly netizens were so concerned about fifth place was because the Semi-finals would eliminate two Singers.

In the end, only 4 Singers would advance to the Grand Finals.

Then they would conduct two rounds of duels.

Each Singer had to sing two songs, and the total score of the two songs would be the final score.

"Although I feel sorry for Wei Ge, I kind of want him to be eliminated," netizens said one after another.

Once Wei Ran left, the Grand Finals would be interesting.

Zhao Xueqin would have to face the encirclement of Xinyu Singers!

It was hard to imagine that Pineapple, one of the four major companies, had sent a Heavenly King-level Singer, only to encounter such a situation of being suppressed by sheer force.

Luo Mo would lead Sun Yi and Chen Shanqi to fight the Heavenly King with all their might.

In this way, the "Mo flavor" of this Grand Finals would be a bit too heavy.

After Ke Ming kept everyone in suspense for a long time, he smiled and said: "How about we insert an advertisement first?"

Wei Ge wanted to beat him up just hearing that.

"Hurry up and eliminate me!" Wei Ran thought to himself; this show was too much of a jerk!

He felt that the entire show, whether it was the competition format or the flow, was targeting him.

Is Elimination actually a form of relief?

In the end, Ke Ming still kept a shred of conscience; he didn't insert an advertisement, but instead said: "The fifth place in this competition is—Singer Wei Ran!"

For the audience, this was not particularly surprising.

It was just that Wei Ge had always been very popular with the audience, which made everyone a bit reluctant to see him go.

But when the camera turned to Wei Ran, this guy actually made a "yay" gesture.

Seeing the camera turn over, he awkwardly spun in place, then silently unclenched his fist, and threw a "scattering flowers" gesture toward the camera.

Ke Ming was stunned, Luo Mo and the others were stunned, and the audience was also stunned.

Only Li Ge, surprisingly, tacitly performed a "scattering flowers" gesture along with him...

Wei Ran and Li Ge, these two miraculous First-line Singers, their: people, songs, and memes... were each popular in their own way.

When giving his Departure speech, Wei Ran finally just looked at Luo Mo, put on the demeanor of a mentor, and said: "So, Little Mo."

"Wei Ge is leaving the competition, why don't you just finish singing that medley today?"

Luo Mo looked at him and said seriously: "How can that be? I have to be responsible for the show since I'm participating in it. You remember to stay in front of the TV when you get home and contribute to the ratings for the finals."

Wei Ge was instantly depressed.

Ke Ming began to continue his long-winded announcement of the rankings.

Sun Yi took fourth place in this round, and Chen Shanqi was third.

The Heavenly King Zhao was the runner-up once again, while Luo Mo and Xu Chujing took the championship strongly, setting the highest total score in the show's history.

"Let us congratulate the top singer of the Semi-finals—Luo Mo!"

"And also thank his Guest Singer, Xu Chujing!"

The barrage flooded in at this moment.

"Satisfying!"

"Nice, won beautifully!"

"Total domination! How could he lose? Hahaha!"

After the rankings were announced, it was time for the song promotion segment.

In fact, the show had already reached the sixth episode, the Semi-finals, and because Luo Mo had been compressing the accompaniment, the medley "King of Love Songs" only lacked the closing part.

Today he still had two and a half minutes of promotion time, but he didn't intend to sing the medley.

Luo Mo was seen putting down the microphone in his hand, then whispering something in Xu Chujing's ear.

Xu Chujing looked up at him in surprise, then nodded slightly at him.

This scene, caught by the netizens, instantly made the "CP" fans who like to find their own "sugar" say they were hooked.

"Wow, he just leaned close to Jing's ear to talk, the scene feels so sweet!"

"It's killing me, I feel like I'm watching an idol drama."

"What is he saying, what on earth are they whispering about!"

"I really want to hear it, can't you let me listen?"

After Luo Mo finished speaking with Xu Chujing, he walked over to communicate with the General Director, Ke Ming, for a few words.

Ke Ming raised his hand and made an OK gesture at him.

Then, Luo Mo picked up the microphone and faced the camera, saying: "For today's promotion segment, I won't be singing the previous medley, but will bring everyone a new song—'Walking Through Life Carefree'."

"I wrote this song for Jing, and at the same time, it is the theme song for Jing's first movie, 'Cat Demon'."

"I'll sing a few lines for everyone today; you can look forward to the full version of the theme song and the trailer for the movie 'Cat Demon' being released tomorrow."

Luo Mo's idea was very simple: you came to be my Guest Singer, so I will help you promote.

I'll use the entire two-plus minutes to promote your new movie.

Ke Ming, having picked up such a big bargain, certainly wouldn't refuse to give this much Face.

It is very normal for celebrities to go on variety shows to promote their new works. Since Xu Chujing was willing to lower herself to participate in the show, he was naturally willing to help promote it.

As for the song's accompaniment, Luo Mo had brought it long ago; he had arranged everything.

When the accompaniment started, he picked up the microphone and began to sing loudly.

"【The world is vast and long, passersby are in a hurry,

The tide rises and falls.】"

Another song that was extremely grand from the very beginning!

The entire song from beginning to end was very consistent with the song title.

Luo Mo only finished singing the A-section of the song.

"【Time doesn't know how much sorrow is in the human world,

Why not walk through life carefree.】"

He stopped there and didn't continue.

Xu Chujing looked at him, but in her mind flashed the scene on the set of "Cat Demon" where Luo Mo was dressed in white, dancing with a sword in the forest.

He came holding a sword, and left holding a sword, graceful as a startled swan, extremely carefree.

From the perspective of the movie's theme, it was precisely because the young Cat Demon was influenced by this white-clad swordsman that he was so dashing and so carefree.

In the Live Broadcast, the barrage swept across.

"Wow! It sounds good!"

"It sounds great, and I'm also looking forward to the full version sung by Jing!"

"My god, I feel like the style of this song is quite consistent with 'Lovers in the World'."

"Yes, 'A Laughter in the Sea' is like that too!"

It could be said that the movie "Cat Demon" had already undergone several waves of pre-promotion during the recording of "Creating Idols".

Now, he was once again promoting it heavily on the stage of the King of Love Songs.

This made it extremely popular and highly anticipated even before its release.

The audience's expectations had already been maxed out.

At the same time, many people began to express the same sentiment:

"If only Luo Mo had also acted in Cat Demon, how great would that be?"

But they all knew it was a bit unrealistic, because looking at the timeline, that was exactly when Luo Mo was at his busiest.

"Forget it, let's just look forward to the full version of 'A Carefree Walk' tomorrow, as well as the trailer for Cat Demon!"

(End of this chapter)