Chapter 43: This Idol Doesn't Want to Retire

A fiery piece of pure music will eventually become popular throughout the entire circle of Yueqi.

After the sheet music is transcribed, versions for other Yueqi will appear.

If it could be said that "Confession Night" was previously a carnival within the violin circle.

Then, the scope of the carnival has now expanded.

What started to become popular first was the piano version of "Confession Night," also on short-video platforms.

And as for why it became popular, there are two reasons.

First, the piano version is indeed pleasant to listen to, and it caught the current heat of this piece.

Second, the girl playing the piano has very good-looking legs.

In the past, when she posted videos of herself playing the piano, they were always from an overhead Perspective, filming her hands, and the number of likes usually fluctuated between a few thousand and tens of thousands.

She has the skill, and her technique is impressive, but the watchability was a bit low.

Until one time, by chance, she posted a side-profile video without showing her face; those fair, beautiful legs under the short skirt were too eye-catching, and the number of likes directly multiplied by more than ten times.

From then on, the popularity rose.

The comment section was full of comments like this:

"Yo, are the brothers here to learn piano again?"

"This piano is really white—no, I mean, this piano is really long."

"My wife is here to make a fool of herself for everyone."

This short-video influencer was the first on the entire internet to play the complete piano version of "Confession Night," with the number of likes reaching as high as 600,000, which is four times her average number of likes for previous videos!

After this precedent, the wind began to blow, and it blew harder and harder!

Guzheng version, pipa version, erhu version...

Those playing the flute, those playing the trumpet, those playing the xiao...

And there were those classical Yueqi ensemble versions where several people went to the square to perform while wearing Hanfu.

This pushed the popularity of "Confession Night" to a new level.

And the appearance of the suona version can be called a piece that settles the universe!

Other versions, and the violin version, actually have differences in the strength of emotional delivery, but they are generally consistent.

But the suona as a musical instrument is too much of a hooligan!

For most pieces, once a suona version appears, the flavor is just so pungent!

Netizens jokingly refer to it as "Farewell Night," "Passing Away Night," or "Seventh Day After Death Night."

Countless netizens sighed one after another: "This piece, it's disrespectful to listen to it sitting down; we have to listen to it lying down."

"Hey, hey, hey! I'm just lying down, don't close my coffin lid!"

"At first listen, I didn't understand the meaning of the confession; by the second listen, I was already the one in the coffin."

Of course, there are also those two unavoidable words—"attending the funeral feast"!

No matter what the suona is playing, in short—"attending the funeral feast"!

Everyone feels that as they listen, there is a feeling of being sent off.

Many young women even feel that there is a sense of ancient people being forced into marriage...

Quite a few netizens expressed that their beloved piece suddenly turned into this flavor, and they really wanted to complain vigorously, but they didn't dare to.

After all, when they leave, they are still counting on the suona as a musical instrument to send them off on their final journey.

There are also many people tagging their friends and family, saying that when they are buried, they want this exact set!

A joyful atmosphere began to permeate the internet; many people became more addicted the more they listened, and in the end, they could only return to the original track on Penguin Music to wash their ears and clear their heads.

If you listen to this for a long time, this sound will be in your ears all day!

The person who posted this video is a bald Boss wearing sunglasses, with a strong air of the streets.

He is wearing a black tank top and is extremely burly, giving people the feeling that he shouldn't be holding a suona in his hand, but rather a wine bottle, or singing rock or something.

The reason this Boss has a certain popularity on short-video platforms is that he was once a 【Performer】, a person of status in the Opera world, and the sixth disciple of the titan Tong Qinglin!

Sigh, time is a butcher's knife.

This Boss originally became famous on the internet with one sentence.

"You've heard of Noble Consort Dances with Sword, right? That's right, the Noble Consort in this video is me."

The strong sense of contrast made him an overnight sensation.

Still Noble Consort Dances with Sword; are you sure this isn't a gang team-building event?

That's not how you do a transformation!

Under this video, there are several comments with extremely high popularity, which directly triggered heated discussions among netizens.

A netizen commented laughingly below: "I just imagined it; if Luo Mo were the one playing, it would probably be very funny too."

This bald Boss in the black tank top commented below: "Sure, I'll let him try it later."

A bunch of netizens left messages below: "Acting like you're actually that close with Luo Mo?"

The bald Boss in the black tank top replied: "He is my junior fellow apprentice, what do you think? Actually, he can play the suona too, but I taught him."

In just a few short sentences, the information density was simply too high!

If this Boss named Liu Gongming wasn't joking, then it would be too shocking.

Luo Mo can actually play the suona too!?

And he is also a disciple of the Opera titan Tong Qinglin!?

Due to the messy editing by the editor of Creating Idols, Shen Yinuo's remarks about Opera during Luo Mo's first stage performance were cut out, and it is estimated that there was likely a deeper meaning from Ning Dan in that.

Well, now the 【Mo-born People】 have started to get collectively excited.

"Luo Mo! Time for overtime!"

"Luo Mo! Stop slacking off, get up and play the suona!"

"Eh? Is everyone's focus on the suona? Am I the only one who wants to hear him sing opera?"

In an instant, the 【Mo Sheng Ren】 were all hyped up.

Getting off work? Don't even think about it.

With so many talents, why don't you perform a few more?

Get back to work for me; forget about getting off work, retirement isn't even allowed!

……..

……..

Luo Mo, who was at the recording site of "Creating Idols", was in a semi-isolated state.

He did not know that his sixth senior brother, Liu Gongming, who loved to show off the most, had caused a huge uproar in the outside world because he could not suppress his desire to act cool.

After going bald, he stopped caring about his image; his body went out of shape, and his weight doubled.

But that heart that loved to act cool never went silent.

As mentioned before, Luo Mo knows how to play Chinese classical musical instruments, and that is the suona!

Luo Mo was very interested when he was a child, so he pestered his sixth senior brother to teach him, and later he actually learned it quite well.

When his family's small restaurant opened, he was kicked to the front door by his old man and played for an hour.

In the end, he was given 30 yuan as wages.

After receiving this huge sum of money while in middle school, he treated his girlfriend Jiang Ningxi to a cup of strawberry milk tea.

Milk tea back then was very cheap, and the varieties were completely different from those today.

As for the remaining money, he bought a math workbook and asked the top student Jiang Ningxi to help him finish the whole thing.

This kid Luo Mo had been smart since he was little.

Since he had already sacrificed his looks, if he was going to date, he had to at least pull his academic grades up, right?

And didn't he get into a key high school in the middle school entrance exam?

Luo Ba and Luo Ma were so happy that they rewarded him with 1000 each; a huge profit!

It's just unclear if Jiang Ningxi still remembers that strawberry-flavored milk tea that made her work like an Ox?

At this very moment, the five mentors had compiled the member lists brought by the nine teams and were reading out the C-Position candidates for each team one by one.

Xu Chujing held the list and said into the microphone: "【Anonymous】 team, Center Position—Luo Mo."

As soon as these words were spoken, almost everyone looked at Luo Mo.

Finally, was he finally going to be the C-Position himself?

And as the one in the C-Position, what kind of performance would he bring to the second public performance?

As for Shen Mingliu's team, this time he was serving as the captain, and Ji Kangdong was serving as the C-Position.

The previously mentioned "magnanimous" statement had long been thrown to the back of his mind by Ji Kangdong.

This time, he was going to win it back!

The second place on the 【Popularity Support Ranking】 must be secured.

With that, today's recording session could be considered over.

Before returning to the dormitory, the two people in charge of the Prop Department and the stage special effects team specifically ran over to chat with Luo Mo for a while.

This scene made many trainees feel jealous.

It was obvious that the Prop Department and the special effects team also attached great importance to Luo Mo's upcoming stage presentation.

When dealing with other groups, they looked at these kids who knew nothing in their eyes with a professional gaze.

"We'll tell you how to set it up, you just listen and be obedient!"

A bunch of kids with no experience, what do they know about props and stage special effects?

But Luo Mo was different.

He was a colleague of everyone, one of their own.

More importantly, the General Director Ning Dan's 【Run Character Technique】 was still in effect, and she had instructed others to try their best to meet Luo Mo's Demand!

The two people in charge smiled and said: "Luo Mo, regarding the original track for the second public performance, remember to tell us when you have inspiration; feel free to bring up any areas that need coordination."

Tong Shu and the others looked at this treatment of their Boss and felt once again that they had followed the right person.

Didn't this just widen their path?

Luo Mo looked at the two middle-aged uncles and said: "Actually, I really do have some ideas in mind."

"Oh? Tell us about it," the two uncles said.

"For the second public performance, I want a fire, a great fire!"

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(PS: Recommending a book, "The Reader of the Great Wei", a good recent Xianxia book. The author claims to be a tender newcomer; I tried it last night and can clearly tell everyone, it is not tender.)

(End of this chapter)