Chapter 355: If Evil Were a Gorgeous and Cruel Movement

The female Psychologist pushed up the Gold-rimmed Glasses on the bridge of her nose and exited the promotional page for "Chapter Seven of the Night" on Penguin Music.

With five minutes left until the song's upload countdown, she didn't know what prompted her, but she specifically went to search for songs like "Worry-Relieving" and "Someone Like Me" from the Masked Singer stage.

Opening the lyrics, she saw that the Lyricist and Arranger column had already been changed from 【Earth】 to 【Luo Mo】.

Yes, since the mask had been removed and the identity fully revealed, the studio would certainly have contacted the major platforms to change the names of the Lyricist and Arranger to Luo Mo's real name.

Earth was just a code name, just a pseudonym for Luo Mo.

"But why use the name Earth for 'Chapter Seven of the Night'?"

"Why do the Lyricist, Composer, and Arranger... all say Earth?"

"Yet the singer is listed as Luo Mo?" the Psychologist wondered, puzzled.

Perhaps it was her profession, or perhaps a woman's sixth sense, but she always felt something was wrong.

As mentioned before, this woman was a big fan in the 【Mo Xu CP】 and a person in the management tier of the fan circle.

She opened a large group of 2,000 people and saw that, sure enough, they were also discussing it fervently.

But these people just thought it was interesting and didn't think much of it.

"I advise Luo Mo to behave himself and stop trying to ride the coattails of our Teacher Earth, hahaha!"

"Amazing, I'm riding my own coattails!"

"I feel like he's just messing around."

"Understandable, after all, our Teacher 【Earth】 is also a Top Traffic in the music scene."

"Let Chen Luo and Xu Lianying see the power of our Teacher Earth!"

The female Psychologist looked at everyone's banter and sighed, saying: "Could it be that I'm overthinking it? Could it be my occupational hazard?"

Fortunately, this song titled "Chapter Seven of the Night" was about to be released, and when she listened to it then, perhaps she would know.

Therefore, she didn't continue to dwell on it, but instead joked in the group: "Hurry and tell Luo Mo to work overtime. What 'Chapter Seven of the Night'? I haven't even seen the first six chapters!"

As soon as she popped up, she was immediately sought after by thousands.

"Ah, it's the lady! Requesting an update for the CP fanfic!"

"Exactly, where are the first six chapters?"

"I haven't seen them either!"

"Haven't seen them +1!"

And when the hour struck and the song was uploaded, dozens of people in the group sent two words at the same time—"Listen to the song!"

The female Psychologist turned on her Bluetooth speaker, clicked to preview, contributed a stream count, and then immediately clicked download.

Right from the start, she heard the sound of percussion Yueqi.

It was very crisp and had a strong sense of rhythm.

Yet it gave one a feeling of psychedelia, Suspense, and thick fog rising all around.

Immediately following that was the sound of a violin.

The violin sound was so melodious, yet that sense of Suspense and strangeness became even more intense!

She had the volume turned up very high and couldn't help but say: "Why does it feel like I even heard the sound of a crow?"

"And... the sound of a typewriter!?"

The Psychologist was not a music critic of the level of a Music God; her knowledge of music theory, Yueqi, composition, and arrangement... was all superficial.

However, even as a layperson, listening to it, she just felt that this intro was awesome!

"It's not the same feeling as 'Nocturne', but it really has a dark vibe."

"Is it a bit Gothic?" she thought to herself.

In short, the imagery was very strong, as if the dark night had truly arrived, with crows and owls perched on the branches, surrounded by a hazy, thick fog.

When the singing started, the female Psychologist exclaimed in surprise: "Rap!?"

The entire set of lyrics also gave people a very strong sense of narrative.

"【1983 alleyway, December is clear.】

【Chapter seven of the night,】

【The typewriter continues to push toward the next line that approaches the truth.】

【The mist from the briar pipe, the fragrant withered trees,】

【Silently weeping to me.】"

Because "Sherlock Holmes" did not exist in this world, many ordinary listeners would not be very sensitive when listening to the song and reading the lyrics.

However, no one thought too much about it either.

Just like many people on Earth who listen to "Chapter Seven of the Night" haven't necessarily read Sherlock Holmes.

Many people don't even know that this song is a tribute to Sherlock Holmes.

Yes, this song is a tribute, rather than specifically singing about a certain part of "Sherlock Holmes."

To be precise, it was Zhou Dong himself indulging in a detective addiction; in that era, he spent a full four million to film a detective MV with a cinematic quality, starring himself as "JAY·Holmes."

There are actually many songs with a narrative sense, like Luo Mo's "Red Actor" as well.

The line "Though my position is humble, I dare not forget to worry for the country, even if no one knows me" clearly has a protagonist.

And like the earlier "Fireworks Cool Easily," the lyrics also look like they have a story.

But in reality?

The Lyricist Fang Wenshan didn't write a background story at all; he just used this technique to write a song, and the stories circulating online are ones the netizens made up themselves.

Therefore, people wouldn't feel it was very abrupt when they first heard "Chapter Seven of the Night."

In fact, most audiences listening to songs... don't care about that much at all.

Just listen to it, and that's it!

On the contrary, because of "Galan Rain" and "Fireworks Cool Easily" that came before, their infinite curiosity was piqued.

This song... does it also have a background story to look into?

Is Luo Mo going to release some stories next?

As the song continues to be sung, the Psychologist watches the lyrics, capturing the key points.

Many keywords actually clearly indicate the theme of this song—detective!

Blue Star also possesses a large number of detective-related works, some obscure, some explosive.

In recent years, Suspense and crime-solving web dramas have also been very popular, with quite a few hits.

So everyone is very familiar with this stuff!

She mutters to herself: "【The bloody opening】, 【the missing pistol】, 【the illusion of the symbol on the jewelry box】, 【the contradiction leading to the dead end he built】, 【the evidence perfectly buried】..."

"These contents can make people directly imagine a grand drama."

"That kind of battle between detective and criminal, between Righteousness and Evil!"

Undoubtedly, this song is shaping an arrogant, high-IQ, and extremely clever criminal.

He even plays the detective for a fool.

And the one sentence the Psychologist pays the most attention to is the last line before the chorus climax.

"【The corner of the mouth lifting in mockery of Scotland Yard.】"

There are two reasons why she pays special attention to this sentence.

One is because it is very vivid.

There is a saying: don't fear the villain being evil, fear the villain being handsome.

Many viewers, when watching dramas, cannot help but let their values follow their eyes.

If a villain is handsome and extremely charming, and after doing everything, gives a mocking smile, it immediately fits that widely mocked term—wicked, charming, arrogant, and unrestrained.

The other reason is her occupational disease.

She always feels that this can reveal a certain psychology, a certain state of mind.

Her intuition even tells her that this is the reason why Luo Mo insisted on using "Earth" as the name for this song.

"Perhaps not the whole reason, but at least part of it!" she guesses.

The Rap part at the beginning ends here, and the Psychologist notes the key point: the mocking corner of the mouth lifting.

Then, the chorus begins.

Xu Chujing's voice appears.

Many people, when listening to this song, if they don't listen carefully, will think that the chorus only has a female voice.

Actually, that is not the case!

It is that when the female voice is Singing, there is a male voice harmonizing, only the voice is very low and clearly very repressed.

Then after the female voice finishes singing, there will be a line of male Rap for a duet, precisely hitting every beat, but the voice is also relatively soft and easy to ignore.

Throughout the lyrics, there is a sense of back-and-forth between the male and female.

"【Female: If Evil is a gorgeous and cruel movement."

Male: Then Righteousness is a deep and helpless melancholy."

Female: Its finale, I will write it with my own hands."

Male: Then I will light up the faint light in the ashes.】"

Listen carefully, and combined with this god-tier composition and Arranger, it makes people feel that this back-and-forth feeling is very engaging.

——A sense of confrontation!

Yes, it is a sense of confrontation.

The song reaches the B section, but the lyrics do not have any repetition.

The sense of story becomes increasingly intense, and the tone of Luo Mo's Rap part also becomes more heated and intense than in the A section.

It is very obvious that the whole Drama is starting to reach a tense moment.

That is to say, the sense of confrontation is progressing.

The entire lyrics are the same as the A section; a few simple words can allow the audience to imagine the plot.

【Soil without footprints】, 【abrupt and subtle floral fragrance】, 【deliberately displayed clothing】...

You really don't need any images to float before your eyes; you look at these words, and the image appears directly in your mind.

In the Rap part of the B section, the one sentence the Psychologist captures as a key point is—【Everyone wears a mask and is Lying for different reasons】.

She pays attention to this sentence mainly because of the two words "mask".

This makes her think of "Masked Singer", and the "Earth" mask that Luo Mo wore.

For some reason, she remembers at this moment: "That mask, it seems to be... a human face!"

Yes, in the whole show, other people's masks were strange and bizarre things; like Li Junyi's "Superstar" mask, it was just a dim planet.

Some people were flowers, some were animals...

Only Luo Mo used a Pingping, ordinary face.

The Psychologist's occupational disease flares up again, and she begins to try to explore the depths of Luo Mo's heart.

Once she thinks of that mask, she inexplicably gets goosebumps.

The phone is connected to the Bluetooth speaker, still playing this "The Seventh Chapter of Night".

She opens her computer, listens to the singing, and starts searching for the footage of the final episode of "Masked Singer".

She drags the progress bar directly to the stage where Luo Mo performed "Fake Monk".

Then, she dragged it all the way to the very end.

"If I remember correctly, there is a long section of 【Angry Voice】 in the beginning of this song."

The female Psychologist thought for a moment and muted the computer.

She wanted to analyze the only public appearance of 【Earth】 based on the Singing in "Chapter Seven of the Night".

Yes, Earth only appeared this one time.

At this moment, "Chapter Seven of the Night" had already reached the very end of the song.

The chorus section was surprisingly no longer Xu Chujing's voice.

It shifted to Luo Mo's male voice, which was pulled very high, singing in a female key with a high-pitched falsetto.

The appearance of the falsetto seemed to push the entire plot of the story to its climax!

"【If Evil is a magnificent and cruel movement,"

"Its finale, I will write with my own hands,"

"The light of dawn, air-drying the last line of sorrow,"

"Black ink, stained with serenity.】"

Accompanied by this Singer, she watched the final scene on the stage of "Masked Singer" on the computer.

Luo Mo wore a mask and repeated the lyrics from "Fake Monk" three times in one breath.

"【I want people to see me.】"

"【I want people to see me.】"

"【I want people to see me.】"

While singing this line, he kept his mask on, his eyes cast downward, his head slightly lowered.

Not until the very last moment did he lift his head, his gaze staring straight into the camera.

"【But you don't know... who... I am!】"

This mask was so Pingping, yet it was a part branded deep within Luo Mo's soul.

I have made the mask public, I have revealed the truth for everyone to see!

But no one realized it.

It was a little bit like a... perfect Crime?

Low-level villains, like the kind sung about in the song: wearing different masks while Lying.

High-level villains reveal their true faces, speaking the truth, yet you think it is a mask, a lie!

On stage, Li Junyi had already unmasked, and Luo Mo's identity had already been announced, but he had sung the entire stage performance wearing a mask.

As the song ended, the audience shouted: "Unmask! Unmask!"

The female Psychologist caught Luo Mo helplessly shrugging his shoulders slightly.

Since she was a Psychologist, she was very good at catching body language.

Immediately after, she began to slow down the playback speed to watch Luo Mo lift his hand to unmask.

At this slow speed, she could see more clearly and observe more small details.

As for unmasking, Luo Mo lifted it from bottom to top, so the first thing to be revealed would definitely be the chin, then the mouth, and then bit by bit upward.

When the lower half of Luo Mo's face was revealed, the Psychologist clicked pause immediately.

At this very moment, the ending accompaniment of "Chapter Seven of the Night" was still continuing—that ding-dong percussion creating a sense of Suspense, along with the powerful piano notes at the finish!

Accompanied by this powerful piano finish, she saw the corners of Luo Mo's mouth under the mask, for an extremely brief instant, just for an instant...

——slightly curled upward!!!

(PS: First update, nearly 4000 words, finally wrote the crossover between "Fake Monk" and "Chapter Seven of the Night"!)

(End of chapter)