Chapter 224

Everyone knows that the Ruthless Empress has a rival.

Many music scene groups evaluated it like this: "True? Hard? Clash!"

This is a head-on collision between national team member Zhou Ru and old-school king Guo Yu!!!!

The taste of war instantly came out!

"Masked Singer 3" welcomed its greatest popularity and attention since its broadcast, and countless people are looking forward to the next episode.

Everyone knows that the Avenger lost a lot of face this time, and he will definitely bring out all his strength in the next episode.

And everyone knows that with the domineering personality the Ruthless Empress has shown, after watching this episode, she will definitely go head-to-head with the Avenger!

The next episode is full of highlights.

But is the Ruthless Empress... really from the national team? Everyone was fooled by those twins.

Over the next two days, the second season of "Year Hare Affair" was broadcast normally, with the fifth and sixth episodes being extremely heart-wrenching, "cheating" the viewers out of countless tears again.

And in terms of music variety shows.

Guo Yu's appearance and his confrontation with the Ruthless Empress made the popularity of "Masked Singer 3" far exceed "I Am a Singer."

There were discussions everywhere on the internet.

Some stood with the Ruthless Empress.

Some stood with the Avenger, Guo Yu.

With the show broadcast to this point, it can basically be determined that the champion of the "Masked Singer 3" finals will be produced between these two, unless a stronger challenger appears.

But this situation is basically impossible.

Guo Yu's appearance has completely raised the upper limit of the singer status on the masked stage so far; no such existence had appeared in the first two seasons.

Looking at the internet, generally speaking, everyone is more optimistic about Guo Yu; after all, he is an old-school king.

His singing strength is unquestionable; in addition, having played an almost open hand, he also possesses far more attention and popularity than other masked singers. At least the votes from the live audience, celebrity guests, and professional judges will be biased towards him.

As for the Ruthless Empress...

"There's a chance of winning, but not much," a musician analyzed in a music scene group.

Others in the group replied one after another:

"The Ruthless Empress can also be considered to have played an open hand; now it can basically be determined that she is Zhou Ru. But everyone knows that the national team usually appears on the stage of large-scale galas, and in terms of influence in pop music, it is not comparable to Guo Yu. On this point, the Ruthless Empress is at a disadvantage."

"Yes, you can ask on the street; the vast majority of people know Guo Yu, unless they live in a village without internet. But Zhou Ru... really not many people know her; only we in the music scene know her best."

"However, speaking of strength, the gap between the two is not big. It depends on their own song selection next; Zhou Ru is good at high notes, and Guo Yu is good at love songs."

"The next episode should be very interesting."

"Yeah, the Ruthless Empress shouldn't be able to win the championship next episode; the championship will change hands."

"Actually, I'm interested in the codename Guo Yu took, 'Avenger.' Who does he want to take revenge on? I haven't heard that he has a grudge against Zhou Ru? Could it be a romantic dispute? Did Zhou Ru dump him?"

"This shouldn't be guessed blindly; Zhou Ru was a goddess back then, it's true, but she is very self-respecting and loyal to her feelings; she is not a 'scum girl.' Moreover, she is already married now, and her family is happy."

"Guo Yu's comment on Zhou Ru might have been said relying on his seniority as an old predecessor; he did debut earlier than Zhou Ru and is a king! As for the meaning of the codename, that is unknown; maybe it was just taken randomly. Just like Zhou Ru taking the codename 'Ruthless Empress,' it might just be that she happened to be reading the 'Shrouding the Heavens' novel and then used it casually."

"..."

The young girl naturally didn't know about the discussions in the music scene.

They have always belonged to the type that has their own legends in the music scene but are always hanging out in the wild, occasionally coming out to carry the whole field.

They only have a few friends in the music scene.

Hengdian.

Mingyue is filming, and Youyue continues to be busy with the preparations for the "Mountain Village Old Corpse" crew, which is basically almost done.

According to the original schedule, they should actually be recording the show at the Masked Singer program group today.

But the program group temporarily changed the broadcast method from recorded to live, so they are still in Hengdian today.

That is to say, the next episode will be broadcast live, which will start at eight o'clock this Sunday night.

As for the reason...

The young girl guessed it might be related to the unprecedented surge in popularity. In previous seasons, Masked Singer usually only started live broadcasts during the finals, but this year, by the fifth episode, it already possessed popularity higher than the finals of previous seasons. If she were the person in charge of the program group, wanting to make the show bigger and stronger and create new brilliance, she would also do this.

Recorded broadcasts have the advantages of recorded broadcasts, and the fault tolerance rate for the program group and singers is very friendly.

Some scenes that are not suitable for broadcast can be directly cut during post-production.

This is also why most of the Spring Festival Galas in the previous life were recorded, not live.

Live broadcasts don't work; there are not a few cases of broadcast accidents in variety shows that use live broadcast methods.

And the requirements for singers will become very high. Because it is live, there is no chance to redo it at all.

Every flaw and every mistake they make during singing will be magnified.

Along with it, the whole person will become more nervous.

Therefore, for gala-type programs like this that are broadcast live, many singers will choose to lip-sync, or even the program group will require them to lip-sync; they only need to be on stage, holding the microphone to perform, and just pretend. Anyway, most of the audience can't tell.

Making a living, it's not shameful.

But for music variety shows like "Masked Singer 3," it is definitely not allowed to lip-sync!

I'm afraid they would be sprayed to death by the audience!

No program group or singer dares to joke with their reputation.

Of course, live broadcasts also have the advantages of live broadcasts.

For example, the audience's sense of participation will be greatly enhanced, the popularity will be much higher, etc.

At this moment.

Youyue received a call from the "Masked Singer 3" program group.

"Regarding the Avenger, it's not that our program group deliberately wanted to make trouble; we didn't arrange any relevant script, and you know, that person... we couldn't arrange him either. We just tentatively sent him an invitation to the show, not expecting him to really come." On the other end of the phone came the voice of the general director, Xu Xiangdong, explaining.

The outside world all guessed that the Ruthless Empress was Zhou Ru.

But he knew that the Ruthless Empress was Xu Mingyue!

In terms of popularity and status, Zhou Ru is not Guo Yu's rival, but isn't Xu Mingyue his rival? They are a Heavenly Queen + Song Daddy!

Just the identity of a Heavenly Queen alone would make Guo Yu think carefully before speaking, not to mention they are also Song Daddies.

Therefore, he felt it was necessary to explain.

If Xu Mingyue misunderstood that he had specially invited Guo Yu to pick faults for them for the sake of the show's effect, that would be bad.

There are still three episodes left until the show ends, and he doesn't want any unpleasantness between the program group and Xu Mingyue at this time.

Of course, he was ecstatic in his heart, even wanting to dance on the spot!

The more fiercely Guo Yu and Xu Mingyue fight, the more beneficial it is for the program group.

Isn't that what the audience wants to see?

Just like seeing people arguing, many people will run over to watch.

Besides being a repeater, human nature also includes the nature of liking to watch the fun and not fearing that things are too big, and liking to eat melons.

Guo Yu and Xu Mingyue fighting, isn't this fun appearing?

"Oh," Youyue replied faintly.

Whether it's the program group making trouble or the Avenger relying on his seniority to pick faults with her.

Anyway, with that sentence from his last episode... this grudge is settled.

Wanting to step on me to get ahead, it's not that simple.

She is not a magnanimous person.

Lu Xun once said: Only women and villains are difficult to raise, and a transformed woman is also a woman.

On the other end of the phone.

Xu Xiangdong: "..."

Stunned for a moment.

He had anticipated many reactions from Xu Mingyue after hearing this, such as surprise, questioning, etc., but he didn't expect it to be so calm, as if Guo Yu's words didn't affect her at all, and she didn't care about such things at all.

At this time.

The cold voice of Youyue came from the other end of the phone.

"Help me find a suona player in advance; I will use it in the next episode."

Xu Xiangdong's head went blank, and he was completely stunned.

What?

— Author's Notes —

PS: Some people asked about the Ruthless Empress revealing her face... unified reply, soon.