Chapter 440: A Song Written for Mom

The Music God, who had always liked lurking, suddenly spoke up in various group chats, causing the originally bustling chat groups to fall into a brief, dead silence.

There was no helping it; she was among the music critics with the highest popularity and buzz, and countless people lusted after her legs.

However, her statement still made everyone feel that this format was a bit like the brainless fans in the industry.

Isn't that just how brainless fans are? My idol cannot be questioned in the slightest; if you say he is bad, it's because you don't understand!

This song "The Pain of Breathing," the lyrics are so much like youth trauma literature, we were just complaining that Luo Mo had slipped up, that's already considered a fairly restrained comment, isn't it?

In this era where everyone is a master of sarcasm, people wouldn't argue with others, but would reply in the simplest way, such as replying with only a punctuation mark: "?"

After the Music God launched her frantic attack, in every major chat group, one could see people replying with a question mark.

The repeaters also began to move in groups, following along to send question marks.

The Music God held her phone and suddenly felt very smug.

"Hmph hmph! It seems I still understand Luo Mo better!"

"None of you saw the hidden meaning in this song!"

Harboring this mindset, she began to say in the chat group: "What if I said this song is very likely not about Romance at all?"

"How is this not about Romance?" someone replied.

The Music God said: "I believe it is about family, about parents."

After these words were said, the number of people speaking in the chat group decreased again.

Because many people who didn't believe it started to re-examine the lyrics, looking at this song that felt incomparably pretentious from the perspective of family.

A few dozen seconds later, the male music critic who reacted the fastest replied with only one word in the group.

A word that expressed his shock most intuitively: "Damn!"

If you look at this song from the perspective of family, then the feeling the lyrics bring to people becomes completely different in an instant.

At first, everyone felt the flavor was too strong, but now they only feel... it's written in a way that makes one want to cry.

In the chat groups of various music critics, the conversation suddenly became even more heated.

Soon someone said: "Hurry and go look, the homepage promotional Poster for Penguin Music has changed its image! It really is family!"

After the Music God saw this sentence, she immediately opened Penguin Music and took a look.

Sure enough, the Poster image that had been hanging there initially had the main content of notifying that the song would be uploaded at 12 o'clock, so please look forward to it.

Now that the song had already been released, the promotion definitely had to be changed.

And in the picture, there was a huge iron tower, a young woman stood under the tower, and beside her stood a semi-transparent middle-aged woman.

This song sings not only of family, but more so—the child wishes to provide for their parents, but the parents are no longer there!

………

………

"The Pain of Breathing," at 12:30, after the real-time data of the Hot Song Chart updated, rushed to the top spot.

Keep it low-key, keep it low-key, it's just dominating three charts, it's just a routine operation for Xu Chujing.

What this song is most praised for is not its popularity, but its content.

It is just like on Earth, where many people have listened to this song for many years, belonging to the level of proficiency where they can hum along whenever it comes up on shuffle, yet they have always believed that this song is just writing about Romance in a pretentious way!

However, however.

The song's comment section exploded directly.

"This song is not as extroverted as 'Father,' the lyrics are not as plain, it is written more restrained and subtle, but it is equally moving."

"Shocked, I thought it was missed Romance, mutual torment, I didn't expect it to be family!"

"It's too tear-jerking, especially after suddenly realizing it!"

"It's very strange, if it were Romance, I would feel this content is really exaggerated, really pretentious, but if it is maternal love... I wouldn't have this feeling at all!"

This is not some youth trauma literature at all, youth trauma literature is too unrealistic, but everything in this song, the sense of resonance is truly too strong.

Sometimes, it is just like this. When I am gradually immune to Romance, I am instead constantly moved by family.

The whole song went directly to the number one spot on the Weibo Hot Search list, the entry is: 【"The Pain of Breathing," family】.

And at this moment in Shanghai, Tao Jie Chen Shanqi, who had not appeared for a long time, began eating vegetable salad at her dining table at home after finishing her glute workout.

A woman who must bring salad whenever she appears.

Once, having failed repeatedly in her bid for the throne of a First-line Singer, she is now already charging toward the position of 【Diva】.

Luo Mo will prepare another new album for her next year, and if nothing goes wrong, relying on next year's album, she will be able to sit firmly on the Diva throne.

Regarding the song collaborated on by Director Luo and Xu Chujing, Tao Jie is definitely full of curiosity.

Especially after she just took a look at the Weibo Hot Search.

Honestly, after reading it, she was actually a bit afraid to listen.

Most people, after seeing it, all started to become very curious and rushed to listen.

But she is different from many people.

Because you all have mothers, she no longer has a mother.

Based on her trust in Luo Mo's ability to "issue blades," Tao Jie went to exercise for a while first, and after making herself exhausted, she connected her phone to the speakers and played this "The Pain of Breathing."

When she heard the first few lines, her heart skipped a beat.

"【At Tokyo Tower, looking out for the first time.

Watching the lights imitate, the falling starlight.

I finally arrived, but with sadness,

Alone, completing our dream.】"

It is very clear that this is written about having a Promise with her mother to go see the tower together.

But in the end, only sadness and regret remained.

Scenes from the past began to flash through Chen Shanqi's mind.

Her mother passed away during those years when her career was on the rise, specifically before she had hit a bottleneck.

At that time, she had started out as a Newcomer, debuted, then became a little popular, earned money, and became the pride her mother spoke of.

When people first achieve success, they always have endless joy to share and always make one promise after another to their family.

She had said she would take her parents on a trip around the world, go abroad, go to the seaside, and go see the aurora.

But in the end, they didn't go to a single place.

Because by the time her ambition finally calmed down, when she wanted to stop and rest for a while, when she wanted to go out and relax, her mother could only be trapped in a small hospital room in a big city.

Xu Chujing's Singing continued to echo in the room.

"【You always said, there is still plenty of time, you can wait for me.

Before, I didn't understand that tomorrow doesn't necessarily mean there will be a future.】"

Chen Shanqi began to recall a time when she was on a video call with her parents while attending an event at the seaside.

She started making promises again, saying the scenery here was beautiful and that she would bring her parents along next time.

Her father couldn't help but mutter, "You busybody, where would you find the time to go traveling with us?"

Her mother would glare at him, then smile and say to her daughter on the video call, "It's fine, you go ahead and get busy, work is the most important thing."

She didn't understand before, she really didn't understand.

In fact, the subtext of every "It's fine, you go ahead and get busy" was: "Mom is waiting for you."

You promised, you promised you would wait for me.

At this very moment, Chen Shanqi sat alone on a chair, tears streaming down uncontrollably.

She kept stuffing vegetable salad into her mouth; even though she hadn't finished chewing and swallowing it all, she still stuffed it in ravenously.

The Singing echoed:

"【Missing you is a pain that breathes,

It lives in every Corner of my body.

Humming the songs you loved hurts, even reading your letters hurts,

Even silence hurts.】"

If this song is about a mother, then these lyrics can be understood.

Our lives were given by our mothers; it was she who nurtured us.

You are breathing, your heart is Dancing, continuing the life she gifted us.

Once you think of her, how could it not hurt?

This is a pain that accompanies one for a lifetime.

When Luo Mo wrote the line "Humming the songs you loved hurts" in the lyrics, a very simple little story came to his mind.

"【One afternoon, my father somehow started humming: 'There is only mom in the world.'

He only hummed one line before suddenly stopping.】"

The song's chorus lyrics, which people couldn't understand, suddenly became so clear when viewed from the perspective of family affection.

"【Regret is a pain that breathes,

It rolls back and forth in the blood.

Regretting not being thoughtful hurts, hating not understanding you hurts,

Wanting to see you but being unable to is the most painful.】"

Listening to the soothing piano in the background music and Xu Chujing's emotionally full Singing, Chen Shanqi kept her head down, looking at the floor, her shoulders heaving as she fought back sobs.

Each of these lines struck her precisely, shattering her.

Why couldn't she have been more sensible before?

Why couldn't she have been more thoughtful, more considerate?

She was clearly so easy to please.

She was clearly also very cute.

Chen Shanqi couldn't help but remember the time the whole family was going to eat at her cousin's wedding, and her mother had rarely put on makeup.

At that time, Chen Shanqi, who had long been proficient in makeup techniques, was actually stunned and casually complimented her: "Someone looks very beautiful today!"

That day, she saw a rare, girlish expression on her mother's face.

She walked to the mirror, looked at herself carefully again and again, and said with a bit of shyness: "No, no."

In your life, how many times have you complimented your mother?

And how many times have you complained about her?

During the instrumental interlude of the song, Chen Shanqi's emotions calmed down a little.

She pulled out a tissue and began to wipe away her tears.

The song officially entered the B-section.

It was precisely the content of this section that made many listeners who thought it was a Romance song increasingly dismissive, feeling that many of the lyrics looked like content that would only appear in romance novels, and they couldn't understand them at all.

But viewed from the perspective of family affection, there is so much empathy.

"【I never saw sorrow Zhang Yang on your face.

That is such a lonely kind of stubbornness.

You tore down the city walls to let me go wander,

While waiting for me in the same spot, binding yourself.】"

Many people only have a strange thought pop into their minds after growing up and facing the pressures of work and society: "How did my mom raise me to be this big?"

No matter how they think about it, they can't figure it out.

It is precisely because of this that a simple sentence on the internet—"Although Old Wang isn't wealthy, he never let Little Wang go hungry"—feels so heart-wrenching.

The line "Tore down the city wall" in the lyrics gives one the feeling of a domineering CEO novel in a Romance story.

But in reality, when we were small, Mom would always protect us well, as if she had built a city wall around us.

Yet after growing up, perhaps for the sake of studies, perhaps for work, perhaps to chase dreams, or perhaps for Romance, you will leave her side.

She will begin to learn to let go, but she herself remains within that city wall, waiting in place for you to come home.

The singing continues, and every line of lyrics can strike Chen Shanqi, even shattering her.

"You didn't say that you would also be weak and need to rely on me.

I just pretended not to know, moving freely, getting by on my own."

Word after word began to echo in Chen Shanqi's ears.

"No need to send Mom money, Mom has money."

"Are you coming home for Mid-Autumn Festival this year? Your aunt just brought over a free-range chicken... Oh, there's a gala? Alright, alright, it's fine, everything is good at home."

"Oh my, I just found some work because I was idle; did the news report embarrass you? It was Mom who didn't think it through, Mom apologizes to you."

"Don't keep spending money recklessly, buying such expensive things. We don't lack anything at home, you should save more for yourself."

"It doesn't hurt, Mom isn't in pain. Mom didn't even feel pain when giving birth to you. It's just a minor surgery; I didn't tell you because I was afraid you'd worry."

"I'm sorry, you haven't even married yet, haven't been wed, and Mom can't even comb your hair for you."

The chorus arrives again, and Chen Shanqi cries until she feels she cannot breathe.

That kind of heart-wrenching pain is hard to express in words.

She regrets not taking more photos, regrets not saying her cooking was delicious, regrets not taking her to a beauty salon, always thinking Mom didn't care about beauty...

The chorus ends once more, and Xu Chujing's singing spreads out; it is a lyric that, if written about Romance, would be dismissed by countless people as pretentious and cliché.

This one line shatters Chen Shanqi's heart into pieces.

"I swear I won't be Lying anymore,

The more I Love You, the tighter I will hold you."

Many times, during repeated arguments, it is very easy to let slip some hurtful words when one thing leads to another.

Parents in Huaxia sometimes don't know how to reconcile, and usually, during a cold war, they will only say: "Come out and eat."

When we were small, Mom would always ask the child: "Do you miss Mom?"

The child would always answer: "Yes!"

After growing up, why don't we miss her anymore?

When we were small, children would always shout: "Mom, hold me, Mom, hold me!"

"I don't seem to have ever held her properly," Chen Shanqi thought to herself.

She doesn't dare to listen to this song a second time for now.

Chen Shanqi opens Weibo and begins to promote this song, "The Pain of Breathing."

She first sends the link to the song, then writes a few brief sentences.

"The severed umbilical cord, the slammed phone, the door slammed in Anger; I spend my whole life saying goodbye to you, yet you spend your whole life telling me to be careful on the road."

"There is only one person in this world who has truly shared a heart with you."

"When you argue with Mom, just touch your belly button."

(PS: Two-in-one, asking for base monthly tickets at the start of the month, charging for the top ten on the charts!)

(End of this chapter)