Chapter 29: CH 27

Chapter 27: Yu Nian, put on your clothes!

At this moment, a faint sound of closing the door was heard from Xia Mingxi’s side, and someone asked, “What sulfuric acid and bomb? What are you talking about, baby?”

“Damn it!” Xia Mingxi slapped his face and finally struggled, “Nian Nian… You didn’t hear anything, did you?”

Yu Nian nodded wickedly and said, “Well, I didn’t hear anything, baby Xia.”

“Shit!” Xia Mingxi didn’t look away from Yu Nian and spoke quickly, “My parents are back; don’t talk, don’t talk. I’m hanging up, good night!”

The video call was hung up. Yu Nian put the phone aside and turned the pencil in his hand. He took a cookie in his left hand and put it in his mouth. Thinking of the sulfuric acid and bombs that Xia Mingxi said just now, he couldn’t help laughing again.

Still, if he looked closely, these cookies were pretty cute.

The next morning, Yu Nian made a video call, let Yu Qing listen to the song he wrote, and asked her, “How is it?”

“It sounds very good,” Yu Qing said without any makeup on her face, looking not very good. The blue shadow under her eyes was very heavy at the moment.

Yu Nian looked at her carefully, “Sister, you haven’t slept well in the past two days?”

“Well, I’m shooting all night scenes, but I can handle it,” Yu Qing put down her hand rubbing her temples, raised her eyebrows, and smiled, “But you, didn’t you say you didn’t have inspiration before? How did you suddenly write the song again?”

Yu Nian pressed the keys with his idle hands and replied, “I ate two cookies last night and was suddenly very inspired. I wrote it out very quickly. Wait till I finish this song, then I’ll let you listen to it again.”

Yu Qing yawned, her voice a little hoarse, “Okay, take your time. But you can get inspiration after eating cookies? Then in the future, if you can’t write songs, I’ll send the cookies to your house box by box.”

Yu Nian just laughed and didn’t answer.

At ten o’clock in the morning, Meng Yuan came to pick him up, and while driving, he told Yu Nian about today’s arrangements.

“After today’s shooting, there is an interview. It won’t take much time, only about an hour. I’ve made a list of all the questions they’re going to ask, and if nothing unusual happens, you just have to think a little to answer. As for… If the questions asked don’t match the list, and are not easy to answer, I’ll be standing beside you, you just have to give me a signal.”

After a while, Yu Nian remembered what Yu Qing had mentioned in the morning and said, “By the way, Brother Meng, isn’t Yu Qing filming Director Xu’s “Ancient Road”?”

Meng Yuan looked at the road, “Yeah, that’s right. It’s already been a few months, but the shooting hadn’t been finished yet, what’s wrong?”

“Yu Qing recommended me to sing the promotional song for the movie, and they agreed to let me try it.”

Meng Yuan’s psychological endurance was very good, but after hearing this, he was still surprised. He drove forward without accelerating and hurriedly reacted, “Yu Qing gave you the lead?”

Yu Nian nodded, “Well, she told me to seize this opportunity myself.”

“This opportunity is really good! I know about the fact that Director Xu is looking for a singer to sing the promotional song for his movie, but you just participated in a “Sound of Nature”. Although you were in the hot search and had enough strength, the overall competitiveness is still quite high. But since you want to fight,” Meng Yuan recalled the news he heard from various places, told the situation, “You have two biggest competitors, one is You You, and the other is He Junyu. These two want to seize this opportunity.”

Yu Nian remembered, “Is You You the singer who was on a hot search for his birthday before?”

“That’s right, when he was celebrating his birthday, the fans filled the five buildings of the financial center as support, and there were many others; too many to remember. Anyway, the momentum was huge.” Meng Yuan looked through the rearview mirror. Glancing at Yu Nian, he smiled and joked, “Your ‘Nian Gao’*’ is also very good.”

[*T/N: Gao (糕) means cake, Nian Gao (年糕): literally means New year cake.]

Seeing Yu Nian pursing his lips and laughing happily, Meng Yuan laughed along, “I had seen it. The name ‘Nian Gao’ is quite good, and the ‘Nian Gao’ is also called ‘Nian Nian Gao’, which is a homonym of Nian Nian Gao* and has a very good meaning. “

[*T/N: Nian Nian Gao (年年高) means your life, work, and your fortune will be better and better year by year.]

He changed his words, “That’s why I’m worried. You are just starting here, but You You’s fan base is already very large. Maybe at that time, if you squeeze him out, you will be besieged by his fans when you turn around.”

Yu Nian shook his head, “I’m not afraid of this. In the face of opportunities that everyone wants, one should always fight with all of their strengths, and whoever is stronger will win.”

Meng Yuan liked Yu Nian’s mentality of not being afraid of things: “Yes, there is no reason to give up without fighting for an opportunity!”

When they got backstage, Xia Mingxi had already arrived first, and he ran over as soon as he saw Yu Nian.

Yu Nian was leaning on a crutch and saw him approaching, “Baby Xia—”

Xia Mingxi’s eyes widened, his fingers pressed to his lips, “Shh—!”

Yu Nian was amused by his expression: “Come so early today?”

Hearing that Yu Nian didn’t call out that shameful nickname, Xia Mingxi was relieved: “Isn’t there an interview? I was called up by my ancestral agent before dawn, and I didn’t dare to go back to sleep even if I wanted to.”

Yu Nian laughed at him, “Would you have been punished?”

“Yes!” Xia Mingxi patted Yu Nian’s shoulder and sighed, “You understand me!”

He lowered his voice again, “By the way, didn’t Xu Xuan withdraw from the competition? Lin Xiang, who was a replacement singer in the last issue, was originally eliminated, but now he has come back to fill the position. His agent was overjoyed, and he quickly purchased a Weibo hot search. There are all kinds of fancy and exaggerated talks about him on the internet, almost praising him as a koi.”

Yu Nian had a strong impression of Lin Xiang. He has a very sunny personality. The thing he liked most and was good at was fighting with his agent and dancing very well.

Xia Mingxi murmured, “Speaking of which, my parents are also coming during the recording. It is said that my mother also specially made a diamond-studded lamp sign and decided to hold it up when I was on stage. I’m afraid I’ll be too shocked when I see it!”

Yu Nian rolled his eyes and smiled, his eyelashes drooping slightly, “It’s great that your parents can come. If my grandmother was still there, she would definitely bring my grandpa to come with me. “There won’t be a light sign, but my grandfather will most likely grab a brush and draw a big banner.”

Xia Mingxi knew that Yu Nian’s family was gone, so he said, “Nian Nian, do you… miss them?”

Yu Nian did not evade: “En, I miss them very much.”

He remembered the time after his grandmother’s death; it was as if the world had lost its light. When he woke up in the middle of the night, he suddenly found that he was alone in the whole world.

But he still had a lot of things to do, and there were still many cultural relics that still needed to be recovered. He couldn’t let himself be immersed in sadness, and he couldn’t be so cowardly.

The interview and rehearsal went very smoothly, but Meng Yuan might have had a psychological shadow. When Yu Nian stepped on the stage, he stared at his feet the whole way from the side as if chasing the light, for fear that Yu Nian would fall again.

In the last game, Yu Nian finally drew the first lottery. After changing into the costume, the stylist was helping him with eyeliner, and the assistant on the side was asking, “Are you sure about winning the championship this time?”

Yu Nian closed his eyes and replied, “I will do my best.”

“Is there anything you want to say to the fans who support you?”

After the eyeliner was drawn, Yu Nian looked in the direction of the camera, tilted his head, and said with a charming smile, “I will work hard to live up to your liking.”

The cameraman who was shooting took a deep breath, as if he had fully foreseen that when this shot would be released, it would be forwarded thousands of times by fans.

On the other side, in the study, Xie You turned on the computer, and on the screen was a well-decorated stage in the studio. The lights were not fully on, and the details were not very clear.

Qu Xiaoran sat on the chair next to him, drinking from a bottle of mineral water. Seeing Xie You staring at the stage intently, he nudged him with his elbow, “I said Xie Xiaoyou, when it comes to prodigals, you are actually even better than me! After spending so much money, the show team only sent you a real-time picture; don’t you think you’re at a loss?”

“No loss; I can witness him get first place.”

“……” At this moment, Qu Xiaoran felt that the mineral water he drank was bitter.

That was not what he was asking!

At this time, after a few deep sounds penetrated the stagnant air in the audience, a beam of light appeared on the dark stage, instantly illuminating the person sitting on the luxurious seats in the center of the stage.

Qu Xiaoran looked at the picture that appeared on the screen, and was stunned for two seconds, “He…, just when the lights were turned on, he suddenly raised his head and looked at the camera with a murderous look!”

Xie You’s eyes softened, “It’s beautiful.”

Qu Xiaoran quietly rolled his eyes — Xie Xiaoyou, your vocabulary was too lacking, right?

On the stage, Yu Nian wore a white court-style costume with a golden pattern and fringed epaulets. With stretched arms and long legs, he sat arrogantly on the seat, revealing a contemptuous aura.

The whole place was silent.

Qu Xiaoran talked a lot and was amazed, “I saw him at a private restaurant last time; doesn’t he have a very gentle personality? Why does he feel like a different person when he comes on stage? But it’s really amazing. The facial features and figure are completely unremarkable. It’s as if he came out of comics.”

Xie You couldn’t bear to move his gaze, and replied briefly, without turning his head, “En.”

Seeing Yu Nian standing up from the seat, Qu Xiaoran approached suspiciously, “Hey Xie Xiaoyou, isn’t your Yu Nian having a foot injury? What is he doing? What the hell, is he going to dance?!”

Xie You frowned slightly and was a little worried, but soon relaxed again, “He knows what he is doing.”

The music sounded. Yu Nian stepped heavily on the stage, and the background lights flickered. Once again, the drum started to beat rapidly, shaking people’s hearts.

With his legs spread, Yu Nian stood in front of the metal microphone stand. His slender and fair five fingers were on the microphone, his delicate jaw slightly raised, and in time with the rhythm, he sang in a very clear and high-pitched voice that instantly energized the audience.

The treble was cut cleanly and neatly, bypassing the microphone stand and going directly to the black headset. The rhythm of the music rose like a flame. Correspondingly, Yu Nian’s dance was also extremely powerful and smooth. Every muscle and every joint in his body was affected by the music. He was completely in control. The golden fringes of the epaulets trembled, lighting up slightly under the light; he raised the corners of his mouth heartily.

At the climax of the song, Yu Nian shook his sweaty forehead while dancing, unbuttoning the golden buttons on his clothes.

The next second, with the intense dance movements, the narrow waist, and the white chest and abdomen covered with fine sweat were all exposed under the light, completely displaying on the big screen by the close-up shots, triggering the scene in an instant. There was a scream from the audience!

The cup in Xie You’s hand was not held steadily, and the water spilled out and fell on the carpet—

Yu Nian, put on your clothes!!