In the classical prelude, Hoshisuna’s voice cuts in.
“The moonlight sleeping at the bottom of the water, whose forgotten reflection is it…”
If Orange Quiet Forest’s singing voice is fragile ice, then Hoshisuna’s singing voice is burning ice.
Gone was the panic from being teased by Xuan Xiang in the livestream, gone was the stiffness from the equipment malfunction.
Once she returned to the realm of “performance” and “work,” Hoshisuna’s dominance came back.
She was… someone with quite a bit of performance experience, after all.
After all, within the whole group, aside from Hoshisuna who had grown up in the entertainment industry, the others were just ordinary girls a few weeks ago.
The refined hard skill made her voice ethereal yet stubborn.
At the moment the chorus exploded, the cello and heavy drumbeat perfectly interweaved.
The high note soared into the sky at that instant, the breath carrying the tragic beauty of a moth diving into the flame.
–This prelude gave me goosebumps all over.
–The little wooden girl who was at a loss and only stuttered when teased just now turned into a cool, aloof older sister the moment she sings?
–I take back what I said about laughing at her being a giraffe.
Lady Jing Zhi, please look down on me with that contemptuous look to your heart’s content.
Looking at the bullet comments that were completely won over, Chu Yong and Orange Berry in the control room finally let out a long sigh of relief.
Hoshisuna, with her hard skills, perfectly caught the heat and elevated the group’s artistic style to a higher level.
Really… we have to thank Xuan Xiang for today.
However, before the audience could recover from the shock of “Crescent Moon Court,” the screen seamlessly transitioned directly into Wu Baisheng’s MV.
If Jing Zhi’s MV was a classical moonlit tragic song, then Xuan Xiang’s song was a midsummer that could make people cry.
With a burst of lively drumming and distorted guitar strumming, its unique youth rock with fast BPM, high pitch, and difficulty to sing instantly ignited the screen.
The screen turned into a sunny summer afternoon, with large clusters of white clouds floating in the azure sky.
Wu Baisheng, wearing a shirt uniform slightly damp with sweat, ran desperately on a sun-drenched slope.
“Even if this feeling evaporates by tomorrow——!”
Xuan Xiang’s voice completely lost the teasing tone of that sly old fox from earlier.
Objectively speaking, in this fast-paced, high-note rock song, she revealed her shortcomings as a newcomer.
During the high notes in the climax, her voice trembled and cracked, and the sound of gasping became quite noticeable due to urgency.
Even with post-production tuning, it was obvious.
But amazingly, no one thought it sounded bad.
The reckless and honest shout of a teenage girl, and the realness of giving it her all.
The sourness of adolescence about to melt in the sunlight in the next second, combined with the penetrating guitar solo, directly pierced everyone’s hearts.
–This guitar, my wife.
–Originally, the high notes had some flaws, but this desperate roar that cracked instantly made me lose it.
It made me want to cry.
–This is youth!
The feeling of shouting on the rooftop, even if off-key, you have to convey your feelings!
–Why?!
A sly, venomous, two-faced scumbag who talks nonsense, yet sings so clearly and sunny?
–I got it.
Is this the capital for making Lililaya wait for her return in the snow?
A childhood friend like the sun who doesn’t care about anything, even if her singing goes off-key, who can forget her?
–Wuwuwu, Bai Sheng, go back to Lililaya quickly.
She’s still waiting for you in the wheelchair in the old music room.
–The wheelchair joke never gets old, right? Way to ruin the atmosphere.
12:10.
After the two contrasting MVs finished playing, the livestream screen cut back to Sheyue Jingzhi and Wu Baisheng sitting together.
The donation special effects had already lagged the screen so much that the virtual avatars’ faces were barely visible.
This was definitely record-breaking debut data.
Wu Baisheng was laughing heartily beside her, thanking the donations without a care, while Hoshisuna, shyly seeing the bullet comments praising her “beautiful voice,” slightly turned her head and whispered, “Thank you, everyone.”
And outside the screen.
Orange Quiet Forest was wiping the cola off the screen with a tissue in despair, grinding her teeth.
She stared at the sly fox on the livestream who was singing a touching youth rock song while ruthlessly pinning the “white-ology victim” hat on her.
“Both foxes, why make things difficult for each other?”
“Is my Fujiriria meant to be tortured by you, you bad fox?”
“Good, very good, meow meow.”
Orange Quiet Forest crumpled the tissue into a ball and accurately threw it into the trash can two meters away.
“Jing He Xuanyiang, right? Tomorrow at the company, you better pray your physical defense is as strong as your ability to stir up drama online!”
*
“Xuan Xiang, are you really okay? Should we do a makeup session according to the original plan?”
Xuan Xiang shook her head.
“It’s fine. It’s better to be unconventional, one plus one makes more than two. There always needs to be more interesting developments. Being too conventional is boring. I’m quite happy. Fun is the most important; being too conventional is no fun.”
Chu Yong also apologized to Hoshisuna.
“Hoshisuna, it was us who didn’t check the equipment in advance. We almost ruined your debut livestream.”
Hoshisuna wasn’t angry… she had been deep in thought, and was finally pulled back to reality by Chu Yong’s voice.
“Sister C, I’m fine. It was my failure to handle it. If that livestream accident had been handled by Xuan Xiang, it could have become a very interesting meme. I didn’t handle it well today.”
Orange Berry gently pulled the two into her arms.
“Everyone worked hard. Accidents are unavoidable. We’ll just do better next time.”
“Mm…”
“Okay! Let’s strive to do better… This time it’s my fault.”
Hoshisuna flashed back to a memory.
At some point, she had a similar experience, and even after growing up, nothing had changed…
She felt she wasn’t mature enough, that she still needed to become stronger.
At least the outcome was good.
Xuan Xiang turned back into a lazy little fox, languidly lying on the sofa.
“But that song of mine was too hard to sing.”
Orange Berry explained.
“Because these resources were prepared before the selection process. Some songs that are too difficult are hard for you. For future new songs, I will consider your individual abilities and styles.”
Xuan Xiang’s personal ability actually surprised Orange Berry tonight.
Orange Berry had thought she would be a bit of a sexy older sister type, since she herself was like that, but unexpectedly, the livestream had that talking-to-a-childhood-friend-from-next-door banter feel.
Although… it was quite different from the virtual avatar’s persona, at least it was still a childhood friend… it’s fine.
Moreover, she smoothly attracted the audience’s attention to the official website and official account.
From the initiative to propose a solution at the very beginning to cooperating with the staff, she did very well.
Her maturity in handling situations didn’t seem like a high school student.
“Then, let me take you home.”