Chapter 151: Even Ye Qing Won't Do

Lu Jia Jia's words undoubtedly stirred up a huge wave instantly.

He had just finished speaking into the microphone when the audience fell silent, all eyes on him.

Those on stage also turned to look at Jiang Cheng and Lu Jia Jia, their faces showing surprise.

"You're still looking at a piece of trash, your singing is ear‑splitting!"

"I haven't even asked you to compensate me, and you're already protesting!"

"His protest is ineffective—take his microphone away; I don't want to hear his voice!"

"If he says another word, I'll unfollow and never watch this show again!"

"Last time I heard his song, it was okay, but I didn't expect this episode to drop such a huge turd on me!"

"This bastard only cares about his own enjoyment, doesn't treat the audience as human—get him off the stage!"

The live‑stream audience immediately began mocking: a person standing on such a big variety‑show stage, singing like nonsense, protesting the vote results—this is just a huge turd, and they want to disgust another wave of people.

Who can stand this?!

On stage stood the 16 singer‑composer pairs; Ya Ya stood nearby, hearing Lu Jia Jia's words, her heart tightened, and she hurried over in her high heels.

This is a live broadcast, not a recorded one!

If it were recorded, we could edit in post‑production, wouldn't have to worry about on‑stage accidents or conflicts, and could even decide later whether to keep this segment.

But a live broadcast is different—there's only one chance; if an accident spirals beyond repair, the loss would be unbearable for the production team.

But just as she reached Lu Jia Jia's side, she heard the director's voice through her earpiece.

"Don't interrupt her—keep extending this topic!"

Hearing the director's voice, Ya Ya froze for a moment, her long legs planted, her mind racing.

The backstage director held a walkie‑talkie; he made this decision out of sheer necessity.

The first episode was recorded; they not only highlighted Jiang Cheng's catchy song, but also left a lingering suspense about the composer's dissatisfaction with Jiang Cheng and Lu Jia Jia wanting to switch teams—so the highlights and anticipation were fully maximized.

That's why the production team dared to launch the second episode as a live broadcast, hoping to make a big splash.

But the second episode is almost over, with no highlights and instead a huge turd has appeared.

The live‑stream's viewer count and data fluctuated like a roller coaster, and the director's forehead broke out in a cold sweat.

Thus, at the show's final moment, Lu Jia Jia's single word "protest"

directly pushed the live‑stream's data to its peak—the highest point since today's broadcast began; the chat heat shot to the platform's forefront, and the stream data was maxed out.

Viewers kept pouring into the live‑stream!

So for the director, if he cuts off Lu Jia Jia now, today's show is doomed to fail, and after it ends he'll be waiting for the whole internet to scold him.

But if he lets Lu Jia Jia continue speaking, extending this conflict,

there's a chance he'll still be scolded after the broadcast, but at least the heat is up—having heat and traffic means the next episode can still go on.

And if, by some chance, they manage to create a hot topic, it'll be like Nobita holding Shizuka's hand and striking it rich!

On stage, Ya Ya finally felt ready.

In fact, only less than five seconds had passed—exactly the time for the audience below to react.

Ya Ya said: "This is our singer, Lu Jia Jia."

Then she looked at Lu Jia Jia and asked: "May I ask, contestant, why are you protesting the result? You should know our competition result is decided by a unified vote of the live‑stream fans and the on‑site audience, and all the data are real and verifiable."

Lu Jia Jia shook her head and said: "I've never doubted the production team's data being falsified." The live‑stream audience instantly laughed.

"Doesn't he himself know? Just look at the public screen now—no need to fake anything."

"Good thing he has self‑awareness, knowing what kind of trash he is!"

"So what the hell is he protesting about?"

"This episode Lu Jia Jia disappointed me, but I know Jiang Cheng's only capable of this level."

Ya Ya also asked her ultimate question: "Then what is your protest about?"

Lu Jia Jia cleared her throat, spoke calmly and confidently: "I know this song disappointed many, the competition result placed me last—I understand that's understandable—but I protest this result!"

???

The live‑stream comment section was full of question marks.

"We don't know what's wrong with this person—you said you understand it's understandable, yet you still protest a damn thing?"

"If you're protesting, then tell us what's going on!"

"Not keeping the audience waiting long, Lu Jia Jia continued: 'My protest is because the problem isn't that I sang poorly—it's that the song itself is flawed!'"

"A problematic song, as a singer I've already done my utmost to sing it well!"

!

"From this angle, I think I shouldn't be the worst performer!"

"The song's flawed—don't blame me for singing badly!"

"If the problem lay in my singing, I'd accept last place!"

When Lu Jia Jia finished speaking, the people on site were shaken, and the audience whispered to each other.

People who came later to the live‑stream, some not understanding why, stopped typing and waited for what came next, wanting to know what was happening.

Some who had watched both episodes now stepped forward to explain:

"To be frank, Lu Jia Jia's singing just now was indeed hard to listen to, but it's truly not her fault—if you watched the previous episode you'd know her vocal range is still fine."

"Have you heard 'Love Trade'? That's written by Jiang Cheng, the composer of the song Lu Jia Jia just performed. In the first episode, Lu Jia Jia was paired with him, and back then she said she didn't want to be on his team, claiming he couldn't write songs, but the production team disagreed!"

"I think Lu Jia Jia is being totally wronged this time—clearly Jiang Cheng can't write songs, yet he's dragged her down to last place as well!"

"I think Jiang Cheng, because Lu Jia Jia once said he only writes cheap pop songs, deliberately wrote this pretentiously deep song for this episode, making it a mishmash!"

As the live‑stream's barrage scrolled, the later viewers also got a rough idea of the situation.

"Who is Jiang Cheng?"

Just that somewhat handsome young man next to Lu Jia Jia.

All the focus pointed at Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng naturally understood as well, took the microphone from Ya Ya's hand, and said:

I think there's nothing wrong with my song.

Lu Jia Jia smiled, turned her head to look at Jiang Cheng, and said, "Whether your song has a problem isn't up to you; it's up to the performer. If you say your song is fine, Ye Qing is your partner, right?"

He's the first-place winner of this episode; let him sing it once to see if there's any problem.

Jiang Cheng glanced at Ye Qing standing there and said frankly, "Ye Qing won't work either; he still needs a bit more practice."

(End of chapter)