Chapter 423: Daring to Play Like This in the Grand Finals?

Night has fallen, and the stars are still invisible in the night sky of Beijing.

The Wang brothers of Pineapple TV are still cursing at each other, forcibly suppressing the urge to swear.

As for Luo Mo, he is already sitting on the sofa with Xu Chujing, waiting for the live broadcast of the Grand Finals of King of Love Songs.

Tonight is the coronation night of the new 【King of Love Songs】!

Luo Mo asked Xu Chujing, "Who do you think will win the championship tonight?"

Xu Chujing shook her head and said, "I can only say that I hope Tong Shu takes first place."

People always have their preferences; Tong Shu was a trainee of hers during Creating Idols, so he counts as half a student.

Trainees like Tong Shu would always call out "Teacher Xu Chujing" whenever they ran into her on normal days.

Unlike Luo Mo, who called her Jing from the very beginning, and now even shows signs of being a disciple who rebels against his master.

Speaking of which, he glanced at Xu Chujing, who was curled up on the sofa, his gaze traveling from her curled-up, slender legs all the way up, and then he couldn't help but say:

"If you're going to wear a nightgown at home, why do you have to put an outer garment over it?"

——"Hello, Stranger."

Xu Chujing wears a nightgown because it is more comfortable, and she is too lazy to coordinate her daily outfits. However, because her figure is too well-endowed and she doesn't want to let Luo Mo off so easily, she will casually throw on an outer garment or a shawl.

When a couple has just gotten together, there is sometimes such a period of feigned reserve.

That is why some people jokingly say: "Truly being together doesn't start from the first kiss, but from the first fart."

At this moment, Xu Chujing frowned and glared at Luo Mo, saying, "I'm in my own home, I'll wear whatever I want, why do you care?"

The Heavenly Queen has a powerful aura and is full of momentum.

Luo Mo began to tease her on purpose, acting like a rogue, his gaze starting to move downward, looking again at her charming, curled-up legs.

The meaning was clear: if you won't let me look, I won't look; I'll look at what I can look at.

Xu Chujing was indeed provoked, and she couldn't help but lift her jade-like foot and kick Luo Mo.

It was just that the force was very light and the speed was very slow, comparable to a cat kneading dough?

Seeing his chance, Luo Mo grabbed her slender ankle in one go.

Xu Chujing felt a bit ticklish and didn't dare to struggle hard, lest the hem of her lace nightgown separate or roll upward.

Luo Mo lifted her feet directly, shifted his butt on the sofa, moved about thirty centimeters closer to Xu Chujing, and placed her shapely calves on his thighs to pin them down.

"Let's watch the show like this," he said.

Xu Chujing turned her head away and didn't speak. Her eyes stared silently at the big screen, which counted as Tacit Consent.

At this moment, the female host had already taken the stage to thank the gold-daddy sponsors for their naming rights.

It is the final episode of the second season of King of Love Songs, so they must express their warm gratitude.

With her legs pinned by Luo Mo, Xu Chujing couldn't move her body easily, so she changed the direction of her toes and hooked them twice against Luo Mo's abdomen.

"What's wrong?" Luo Mo felt he was being teased, yet he feigned composure and said, "Touching my abs, taking advantage of me?"

"Help me get the Glasses next to you," Xu Chujing said.

She has mild nearsightedness, but most of the time she wears contacts or simply doesn't wear anything.

Luo Mo glanced at the side of the sofa, picked up the silver-rimmed large-frame Glasses, felt the lingering sensation on his abdomen, and began to put the Glasses on Xu Chujing with one hand.

The moment the Glasses clicked onto her nose, he covered her vision with his palm, and then instantly kissed the red, full lips of the Heavenly Queen Xu.

"Jing, there's a fee for making me run errands," Luo Mo said shamelessly.

Xu Chujing pushed Luo Mo away, looked into his playful eyes, and, feeling angry, took the initiative to kiss him, saying, "Then go pour another glass of water."

"You got it," Luo Mo said with a smile as he went.

At this moment, at the scene of the King of Love Songs Grand Finals, the performance order was already being announced.

This order is determined based on the rankings from the Semi-finals.

Luo Mo set down the two glasses of boiled water and said, "The songs I prepared for them this episode are all quite strong."

"Is that so?" Upon hearing this, Xu Chujing became a bit more interested.

Most of the Singers who can make it to the Grand Finals of King of Love Songs are not simple.

Looking at their fame, the other few Singers are either first-tier or near first-tier.

On other stages, they are usually the ones bullying others.

But on the stage of King of Love Songs, they have been bullied every episode.

They only regret that Luo Mo is not in their behind-the-scenes team!

In this episode, many viewers could see that these competing Singers were actually not as nervous as they were in the previous episodes.

By the time they reached the finals, everyone's mindset had leveled out.

Many were quite open-minded: "Before, it was to advance, so we could sing a few more songs on this S-Rank variety show with huge exposure. Now that it's the finals, it doesn't matter anymore."

"Is the final ranking important?"

"Not important at all."

"What we want is to enjoy the stage."

"It's definitely not because we can't win."

And the professional judges, in the final episode, began to be more generous with their scoring, just like in the first season, giving out higher points.

Actually, this is also a clever approach.

——Handing the decision-making power over to the live audience.

In this way, they can avoid getting flamed as much.

Those who can stay until the final episode are no ordinary people; everyone has a massive fan base.

The show is about to end, the work is all done, there's no reason to look for trouble in the days to come.

You can scold the live audience. Scold me? Don't even think about it!

Very soon, it was Tong Shu's turn to go on stage.

In the Semi-finals, the song "Mountain and River Map" performed by Fengge Group had a massive advantage in a live setting; it could be said to have directly ignited the entire venue, so their final score was once again slightly higher than Tong Shu's.

Standing at the entrance of the stage passage, Tong Shu took three simple deep breaths.

He had already grown from that green, inexperienced boy in "Creating Idols" who would be incredibly nervous the moment he stepped on stage, into an excellent Singer who could hold his own.

This boy, who was raised single-handedly by his grandmother, sometimes recalled the past and could never have imagined that he had originally only wanted to borrow a performance outfit from Brother Mo, yet it changed his entire life.

Today was the grand finale of "King of Love Songs"; he did not have much of a utilitarian mindset, nor did he think about the final ranking.

He only wanted to finish singing this final song well.

Because this song was rather special, he also wanted to perform it more steadily.

Tong Shu still remembered to this day that after the first stage of "Creating Idols" ended, Brother Mo, who was sitting beside him, became the first trainee to receive an A-grade rating.

Then, there was a trainee named Meng—Meng something, he couldn't quite remember the name—who challenged him, requested a battle, and wanted to snatch the spot in Class A.

It was on that day that Luo Mo, wearing a white short-sleeved shirt, casually picked up a violin and played—"Confession Night," which was still very popular to this day—during the violin duel!

Tong Shu was completely stunned when he heard it back then.

It was at that moment that Luo Mo happily achieved his first 【Achievement】 after transmigrating: Xiwanshaodi +1.

And the song Tong Shu was going to sing today had two relatively special aspects.

The first was that there was a large amount of violin in the accompaniment.

After the stage passage opened, Tong Shu, wearing an off-white suit, strode toward the stage.

Watching him greet the live audience, Xu Chujing couldn't help but say, "Tong Shu is indeed much more mature than before."

"That's for sure, you don't even look at who is training him." Luo Mo switched on his cocky mode.

The accompaniment of the song began to play at this moment.

A good piece of music can create an atmosphere, and can even make people imagine a scene in their minds.

This song was exactly like that.

The music was tranquil, and the violin sound was melodious.

It could make you feel that you were currently in the middle of the night, perhaps with a bright moon and scattered stars.

Luo Mo chose this song as Tong Shu's final song not only because he had seen this stage performance by Zhou Shen on Earth, but also because he personally liked this extremely classic piece.

The violin sound playing on the stage at this moment was entirely performed by Luo Mo.

Tong Shu picked up the microphone and began to sing.

"【Still leaning in the sleepless night, looking at the stars on the horizon.】"

"【Still hearing the violin, like weeping and complaining, teasing once more.】"

"【Why is there only a crescent moon left, remaining in my sky?】"

"【After tonight, all news will be cut off.】"

Tong Shu's timbre was still as unique as ever, and very attractive.

At the same time, his Singing did not give people a sense of showing off. Despite having extremely high vocal skills and a heavenly voice, he would not deliberately display these, but instead, each time he would perform appropriately according to the context of the song, singing it just right.

This had always been Luo Mo's Requirement for him.

The camera swept across the faces of many live audience members at this moment, and many of them revealed expressions of surprise.

Even sitting in the professional judging seats, many judges were greatly astonished.

"Cantonese!?"

"Tong Shu actually sang a Cantonese song!"

Although many people who knew Tong Shu were aware that he came from Yue Province, they had never imagined that a new Cantonese song would appear in the grand finale of "King of Love Songs."

This program had been on for two seasons now, and no Singer had ever sung a Cantonese song!

To be precise, everyone had also never heard a Cantonese song written by Luo Mo!

This was the second special aspect of this song.

Honestly, the audience only felt it was novel, but in the eyes of the professional judges, this was quite risky.

Was the audience for Cantonese songs broad?

The answer was yes.

Looking across the whole country, who couldn't hum a few Cantonese songs?

In many singing variety shows, one could also hear many Singers covering Cantonese songs, but those were all familiar classic tracks.

Those who dared to sing new Cantonese songs were few and far between.

After all, there were still many people who, if they listened with their ears, simply could not understand what the content being sung was.

At times like this, it tested the quality of the song, as well as its ability to grab the audience upon the first listen.

After all, they say music has no borders; many people don't understand what foreign language songs are singing about either, but as long as it sounds good, that's all that matters.

At the moment Tong Shu sang, the song title appeared on the big screen.

——"Half-Moon Serenade".

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(End of this chapter)