Dong Yiru was still buzzing with excitement, showing her the comments, which were uniformly filled with "My heart is shattered." Under Mu Mu's Weibo post, there were plenty of people within the circle eagerly gossiping about what the female lead in the photo looked like from the front. Mu Mu replied very seriously to one of his acquaintances with a Verified Account: "She's pretty, exactly my type."
Below that came another row of comments: "Is this the start of a love triangle? (⊙o⊙)!"
The comment queue was incredibly neat...
...
...
"You know, Mu Mu is my Favorite Voice Actor as a coser. If I weren't constantly following him, I definitely would've missed it. Don't worry, it really was deleted in seconds... probably no one managed to save it..." Dong Yiru was still chattering away.
Gu Sheng was left speechless.
I need to calm down, calm down...
That was her only thought.
She couldn't stay in the supermarket any longer. Fortunately, Dong Yiru was still on duty and didn't dare talk to her too much. Gu Sheng made up an excuse and hurried off, walking all the way home. As she entered, she saw her mom washing dishes in the kitchen. Hearing the door, her mom glanced back: "Why are you back so suddenly? Didn't you say you weren't coming home this week? I didn't save any dinner for you."
"Um... I went to a classmate's house, and it was nearby, so I just came back on the way."
Her mom didn't say much, pointing to the fridge: "Your dad and I are on night duty taking care of Grandma tonight. If you're hungry, there's bread in the fridge. Help yourself."
She hummed in acknowledgment.
It was better this way, better this way. Otherwise, if she was out of sorts all night, her parents would definitely start questioning her.
She walked into her room and touched her face—it was burning hot, and she could already imagine how red it must be. After being teased so intensely all day, looking back, she still admired herself for managing to hold out until she got home. T.T
Top talent...
Qiang Qingci...
Mo Qingcheng...
These three names combined into one person, and that person had been the voice she had loved ever since she first entered the circle. Back then, she didn't know he could sing. She had only hoped that one day she could compose and arrange her own music, write lyrics for a story song, and receive a few lines of spoken parts from the Top talent—that would have been enough.
Enough.
How simple her thoughts were back then...
She changed into her pajamas and sat on the small balcony in her room, her hand unconsciously resting on her guzheng. Her heart was still beating fast and slow... How on earth did she and the Top talent... end up in this kind of relationship... Was the Top talent serious, or was it just a casual joke in the Two-dimensional world, something he couldn't be bothered to clarify?
She remembered that sometimes, when big names within the circle hinted at their affection for the Top talent, there would be some romantic rumors, but they always faded quickly. Mo Qingcheng truly wasn't the type to publicly clarify things or make statements, almost as if he existed outside the Two-dimensional world. Except this time...
She touched her face again.
Still burning hot. T.T
Was she going to spend the whole night drifting off into another world...
She unconsciously plucked a string on the guzheng, the clear sound suddenly stirring another matter in her heart—"Shang Xie"... Today was Valentine's Day, and the Top talent had said he would release "Shang Xie" on Valentine's Day?! Oh no, oh no, with all these waves of comments, it was too terrifying. She hadn't figured out what to do yet... If things kept getting this high-profile, she was really going to go completely crazy.She took a deep breath, moving from the balcony back to her bed, where she lay face down, staring at her phone. Between making a call and using WeChat, she decisively chose the latter… It seemed like communicating this way would keep her a bit calmer.
After thinking for a moment, she typed and sent: "Are you done with work?"
Soon, a voice message came back.
Mo Qingcheng’s voice came through clearly: "Hold on, I just finished showering. Let me put on some clothes first."
……
……
She successfully conjured up an image in her mind, and the next second, she buried her face deeply into her pillow. It was just too, too…
Soon, her phone rang—not a WeChat notification, but an actual call. Gu Sheng turned her head to look at the phone in her hand. The screen displayed Mo Qingcheng’s name. He had actually called her, not through WeChat, but a real phone call… Gu Sheng hesitated for over ten seconds before answering.
"Have you had dinner yet?" This was the first sentence Top talent said to her in their first phone call.
"Not yet…" Gu Sheng blurted out.
"I’m still at the hospital. Want to eat together?"
……
……
Heavens, could someone send her a few pounds of courage so she could reject Top talent twice in one day?
In the quiet room, she could even hear Mo Qingcheng’s breathing on the other end of the line… She shamelessly chose to ignore his question and shifted to her main point: "Actually, I wanted to talk about the song we recorded…"
His voice softened, immediately understanding: "‘Shang Xie’?"
"Yeah… ‘Shang Xie.’"
"What about it?"
"I wanted to ask… could we… release it on a regular day instead?" As a singer, she couldn’t bear not releasing a song she had recorded so seriously, but if it were released today, she didn’t know if she’d ever dare to go online again T.T.
"Sure, that’s fine."
……
……
Just like that?
Well… that was simple.
Gu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief.
"However, we might need to replace it with another song," Mo Qingcheng chuckled. "Because they already know I’ll be giving them a gift today."
She knew, of course, that "they" referred to his fans.
Right, since he had already promised… it wouldn’t be good not to release a song. Gu Sheng also felt it wasn’t right, but… releasing that song today was something she genuinely couldn’t handle—truly, genuinely couldn’t handle.
"How about this: we collaborate on a new song tonight," Mo Qingcheng thoughtfully offered another suggestion. "Do you have any existing arrangements? Send them to me, and I’ll sing. How does that sound?"
"…That works too."
It seemed like the only option T.T.
Why wasn’t Top talent a singer? If he were, he’d probably have some backup tracks on his computer, right? Then they wouldn’t be scrambling to replace a song at the last minute with nothing to release.
"The newest one on my computer… is probably ‘The Koi Copy,’" she told him somewhat sheepishly. After all, this was the song everyone was cover singing right now. Having Top talent sing it… didn’t seem special enough.
"Alright, let’s ‘fry koi’ tonight," his voice carried a faint resonance, completely unbothered. "Will you do the harmonies?"
"…Okay."
She agreed, climbing out of bed to search for her newly arranged version of "The Koi Copy." Truthfully, it was only because everyone was cover singing this song that she had playfully used a guzheng as the main melody on a whim. Harmonies… she had only tried them once or twice. The thought of harmonizing for Mo Qingcheng still felt overwhelmingly daunting.After half an hour of effort, the accompaniment was finally completed.
She really sent it over, still feeling uneasy...
Until...
He sent a WeChat message: "Sent it, you can give it a listen."
So fast?
Could it have been done in one take?!
……
T.T Indeed, he's a top talent.
She went to the top talent's Weibo. Since he was still in the hospital, he had only recorded the song using the "Changba" app after receiving the accompaniment and posted it. The Weibo post was clean, with no explanations or tagging anyone.
Gu Sheng breathed a slight sigh of relief. The harmony... should it be unrecognizable as her, right?
That would be best T.T
Though the Weibo post was only three minutes old, the reposts had already exceeded a thousand.
Suddenly, she didn't dare to click the link to listen, yet deep down, she still desperately wanted to hear the top talent's version of "Jinli Chao" right away... In the end, she mustered the courage and clicked the link.
As she took a deep breath, she could already hear the prelude of the song she had played on the guzheng.
The prelude of this song wasn't short...
And against the backdrop of the guzheng, she clearly heard the top talent's distinctive low voice gently begin:
"This song is from me and her to all of you. Happy Valentine's Day."
Author's note: O(∩_∩)O
That night of the song event was truly beautiful—gentle, doting, dazzling, magnificent, enchanting... There must have been something for everyone to like, right? Haha
I’m truly grateful to my guests, my favorite voices, for giving us such a splendid night. I’m still excited just thinking about it~
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