Gu Sheng despairingly removed her headset, then quickly perked up and began carefully selecting songs for future use. For example, choosing more reliable, decent songs with beautiful melodies and lyrics... to salvage her image.
Next time, she must be more assertive and firmly say to the Top talent: Sir, let me sing this song for you...
She prepared seven or eight sets of lyrics and BGM (background music), finally feeling somewhat composed.
"Gu Sheng, how far have things progressed between you and the Top talent?" Geng Xiaoxing asked with feigned calmness.
"Huh?" Gu Sheng looked at her as if she were a ghost.
"You're already meeting privately in a locked room. Aren't you afraid his fans will hunt you down?" Geng Xiaoxing shook her head and sighed softly. "Tall trees catch the wind. Keep a low profile, an absolutely low profile."
Geng Xiaoxing had probably been holding back for a long time. Finally saying what she wanted, she gleefully kicked the trash bin back into place, picked up her wallet, and went to eat.
Gu Sheng thought for a moment, then checked her Weibo again.
Painfully, she deleted "seeking song collaborations" from her personal bio... After all, since the Top talent was following her, she should at least save some face for him, hmm. But she really was just a Little Transparent, genuinely loved singing, and truly no one ever asked her to sing... She genuinely wanted to "seek song collaborations"...
She silently closed the webpage, wondering if it was due to suspicions of "Clutching Thighs" that she should be more cautious even when privately seeking collaborations.
For the Top talent's sake, hmm, Sheng Sheng Man, you'd better tone it down a bit.
However, after this little episode, Qiang Qingci and she had no further interactions.
Every winter vacation always coincided with the Spring Festival holiday.
Many people involved in this anniversary celebration didn't have much time to go online after returning home, or had limited internet access. Everyone agreed to hold one final internal meeting on February 13th at a fixed time to finalize the anniversary celebration program.
Then everyone would need to prepare separately.
Because it was close to the Spring Festival, Gu Sheng's family's supermarket closed particularly early.
They would shut down as soon as it got dark.
On Little New Year's Eve, she specifically went to help close the shop and happened to see a commotion across the street. Standing behind the glass door, she glanced over. Since they were near a hospital, they often encountered doctor-patient disputes every now and then, so she was used to it. However, this time she spotted a familiar face—the young man who had come to buy the large fruit yogurt that night.
The reason she noticed him was because he and the three others with him, both men and women, had clearly become the targets of the attack.
When Gu Sheng recognized him, the woman on his right was being grabbed by her clothes, and he was reaching out to block... while blocking, a fist swung and hit him in the face.
"Ah!" Gu Sheng exclaimed involuntarily.
Immediately after, she heard a series of clattering noises. Turning around, she saw several bottles of drinks had fallen outside the refrigerator.
"Seriously... you might as well scare me to death," Cousin complained while bending down to pick them up. "I hate it when women scream randomly—super irritating. Do you think this is a midnight horror show?"
"I didn't mean to..." Gu Sheng walked over to help him pick them up and put them back in the refrigerator. When she looked back at the situation outside the hospital entrance across the street, it was already over. The troublemakers were still there, but the man and his companions were gone.
Gu Sheng guessed that this person might be a hospital intern? Or something else?
Anyway, being so young, he probably wasn't a doctor, right?
He seemed quite chivalrous, though, knowing how to protect the girls...After silently giving her approval, she decided that the next time this young man came, she would definitely give him a... 20% discount. Hmm.
February 13th happened to be the third day of the Lunar New Year.
By the agreed-upon time of nine o'clock, she had already tidied up the snacks in the living room in advance—mainly meat dishes like duck tongues and beef tripe, paired with spicy peanuts and iced black tea. After making all the preparations, she went online and entered Perfect's room.
Just as she entered the lobby, her mom came in to ask about visiting relatives the next morning, which delayed her for a bit. After finishing the conversation and turning back, she was surprised to find that the flood of messages on the screen was all about her.
To be precise, everyone was gossiping like crazy.
"Is that Sheng Sheng Man @@~ If Sheng Sheng Man is here, Top talent must be here too!!" "What?!!! Where? Where?" "That one, that one... Why is Sheng Sheng Man an Orange Horse!!!! Ah, blind my eyes, come and blind my eyes!" "Calm down... Top talent and her, well, you know..." "I'm flipping the table! Sheng Sheng Man, I'm not done with you!" ...
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Gu Sheng was completely stunned.
She really wanted to say... Top talent would indeed come, but it was for official business and had nothing to do with her, ahhhhh...
After weighing her options for three seconds, she quietly slipped into the Encrypted Room.
The people here had no idea that chaos had erupted outside and were still chatting idly. As usual, the group leader Jue Mei Sha Yi and Feng Ya Song were leading the banter, with a few others occasionally chiming in.
Qiang Qingci wasn't speaking, but he was in the room.
Gu Sheng's first thought was, had his computer been fixed?
Then she quickly realized that her attention was too focused and needed to be diverted.
"Let's release something first to warm things up," Feng Ya Song lazily suggested. "Consider it a treat for the fans. We can release the official story song during the anniversary celebration."
"Good idea," Jue Mei Sha Yi agreed.
The deputy group leader Dou Dou Dou Bing chuckled. "You, the group leader, and I, the deputy group leader, don't have the final say. The highlight after three years is our Qiang Qingci."
Over the headset, Geng Xiaoxing's laughter was clearly audible.
Soft and sweet... soft and sweet...
Gu Sheng thought, hmm, it must be because of Jue Mei Sha Yi... Even though she still didn't have solid evidence, a tomboyish girl suddenly changing her ways definitely had a reason.
While she was speculating, Qiang Qingci suddenly spoke up, calling her name: "Sheng Sheng?"
Somehow, he had dropped the "Man"... It seemed a bit... well, gave off an ambiguous vibe.
"Top talent, I'm here," she immediately responded.
"You like ancient style, I remember."
"Mm..."
He paused briefly. "So, what's your favorite song?"
Instantly, "Hanging from the Southeast Branch" popped into Gu Sheng's mind... No way? Top talent? You wouldn't sell me out and use this for the warm-up, would you? She lamented in a jumbled mess, carefully thinking it over again and again. "I quite like 'Sword Roars in Jianghu.'"
"'Sword Roars'?"
His voice didn't seem to be in the best condition today.
But the hoarseness was quite sexy...
"That's the song from Sword Three," Feng Ya Song lazily reminded him with a laugh.
Qiang Qingci hummed in acknowledgment. "I know."“But there are many covers of this version, and we need to find quite a few... It seems like we need six singers and one for the spoken parts? For anything produced by Perfect, if it doesn’t have a luxurious cast, we’d be too embarrassed to release it…”
“True, suddenly needing so many people…” Jue Mei Sha Yi was also hesitating.
Qiang Qingci, however, didn’t pay much attention to their opinions.
Instead, he asked her, “Sheng Sheng? Who do you think would be suitable?”
“Me?” Gu Sheng thought for a moment, piecing together her favorite cast. “Fei Shao, Linglong Titou, Mo Mo Er…” She listed her six favorite voices suitable for singing this, and finally added with certainty, “And the spoken parts absolutely must be by Qiang Qingci, definitely.”
“Me?” Qiang Qingci chuckled lightly. “That’s not difficult.”
“Yeah, only you isn’t difficult…” Gu Sheng sighed mournfully, suddenly feeling she had gone too far.
Seriously, Qiang Qingci doing the spoken parts isn’t difficult??!!
Thank goodness this is in a small room, right? If you said that outside, you’d be whipped to death on the spot, okay…
“The people you mentioned…” Qiang Qingci was thinking.
These were all veterans from the early days; many only hold song events now and no longer take on new projects…
And some don’t even bother with song events anymore, having completely disappeared from the scene, okay?
He suddenly asked, “Dou Dou Dou Bing, what do you think?”
Dou Dou Dou Bing was unexpectedly silent for three seconds, then finally let out a long, long sigh, confessing with great melancholy, “Top talent, I hate you… Ah, fine. Sheng Sheng, thank you for your high regard. I am Mo Mo Er.”
Gu Sheng was stunned.
Didn’t expect that, truly didn’t expect that…
Didn’t expect… that this senior was lurking in Perfect…
Dou Dou Dou Bing repeated again, “Qiang Qingci, I hate you,” and continued mournfully, “Of the people you mentioned, I can invite two. But as for the remaining three, it’ll depend on whether they’re willing to give face to the top talent. However~” She coughed lightly twice, and Feng Ya Song immediately chimed in, “But one of them, Linglong Titou, is an obsessive fan of Qiang Qingci, you know. Obsessive fans, you get it, right? Sheng Sheng, think carefully about whether you want to sell Qiang Qingci to someone else~”
“Uh…”
Although the teasing in this YY Room is all very casual.
But being teased alongside Qiang Qingci… really…
Really makes it impossible to respond naturally, to joke or get angry freely.
“We don’t need three,” Qiang Qingci said lightly, expressing his resistance. “One of them, let Sheng Sheng sing.”
Before Gu Sheng could react, Dou Dou Dou Bing and Feng Ya Song had already exclaimed in surprise.
Feng Ya Song was overjoyed: “Sheng Sheng, you’re about to become completely famous~”
Completely famous…?
Gu Sheng didn’t care about whether she would become famous. All her attention, all, all, all, all of it, was focused on her favorite cast. The best voices, the best spoken parts.
And one of them… was herself.
What kind of feeling was this?
It was like a contestant who just made it into the preliminary round of a singing competition suddenly being told they were about to collaborate on a song with Jacky Cheung, Jay Chou, Terry Lin… and so on, with Daniel Wu doing the spoken parts, okay??!!
Gu Sheng kept pressing a glass of ice against her face.
I’m so green, so green, going crazy, about to go crazy, truly about to go crazy…
Author’s Note: Happy White Valentine’s Day Should I put together some kind of cover and post it on Weibo… as a gift for you all? Let me think about it, hmm.
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