Chapter 149: Whoever Believes Him Again Is A Dog
The day after the opening ceremony ended, Yu Wei updated a new chapter of the novel, pitting the native Lu Ren Jia against the young idol Xia Zan.
This was the first time Yu Wei directly wrote about the shortcomings of his new song, having the protagonist Wei Yu rate the new song 7 points in the novel…
It was a earth-shattering first, as in entertainment novels, after singing a song, you can evaluate it however you like, but before the performance, writing too many flaws in the song is self-lowering prestige.
Readers would ask, you know the song is bad, why choose it?
Although Yu Wei’s book is not quite like traditional entertainment novels, directly pointing out the song’s shortcomings is indeed the first time.
After all, writing his own song into the novel carries some promotional effect.
Others promote their works and wish they could plaster gold on their faces, boasting shamelessly, but this guy is ruthless enough to even curse himself…
The new chapter was written like this.
[“We Are Not the Same” finished its final segment, Lu Ren Jia deeply bowed, sweat dripping from his forehead.
The five mentors looked at each other, their gazes revealing complex evaluation meanings. The song’s melody was catchy, but under professional scrutiny, it had many controversial points.
Meng Han picked up the microphone first: “From an arrangement angle, this song uses a 6543 harmony progression. It’s not overly clichéd but still a common template. The wooden guitar broken chords all stick to chord tones, lacking novelty—no strength where it needs strength, no aesthetics where it needs aesthetics. The delay effect in the chorus is misplaced.”
He raised the rating board: 6.5 points.]
Teacher Meng’s move was too ruthless, directly giving the lowest score in the audience. In “Enthusiastic Praise Top Streamer,” three of the five mentors were not very satisfied with this song.
Meng Han, as the mentor role in the novel, was said to be dumbfounded after hearing about it. How could he possibly give such a low score to Yu Wei’s song? Wouldn’t that hurt him too much…
The novel’s same-name role has nothing to do with the real person!
This score was naturally given by Yu Wei himself. Everyone was truly surprised that he was so harsh on his own song.
Even for a discarded draft, no need to completely deny it. Sharply critiquing it before release—aren’t you afraid everyone will dodge it later?
Seeing the contestant was another native character, readers thought it would be another bloodbath scene like “Bubble,” but unexpectedly, it turned out to be a “problematic work.”
So this match still has suspense, provided that the opponent Xia Zan isn’t much worse than the AI.
Xia Zan was also nervous inside. As the number one person in “intentional defeat,” he got his wish into the loser group for the revival match. He thought he could just ride the traffic wave, but ended up matched with this guy.
By now in the competition development, he already understood that the so-called reward for losing was absolutely a smokescreen, the purpose being to lure everyone in to kill them.
Yu Wei’s move was too ruthless. He completely didn’t manipulate the match result, but could still pit you in all sorts of inexplicable places.
“This time I must win.”
Losing to a passerby AI had too great a negative impact. He would truly be attacked by the masses, so Xia Zan didn’t want to lose and didn’t dare to lose.
Fortunately, Yu Wei’s song this time seemed to be his discarded draft, with lower quality. For Xia Zan, this was a very good opportunity.
His song was recorded line by line, then fixed by the company’s sound mixer—basically no big issues audible. He just didn’t believe he could still lose to AI after doing this much…
“Domestic is still better.”
Yu Wei had just finished recording the song in the recording studio. Foreign recording studios charged quite high, and language barriers made communication inconvenient.
This kind of music element definitely had no related lines in “Malice,” and the translation didn’t understand music either, so it was a hassle after fussing for half a day.
Before leaving, Yu Wei clearly saw a bit of contempt in the sound engineer’s gaze—not quite mockery, just that they really didn’t think highly of this song.
They couldn’t understand the lyrics, but foreigners could still get the melody. People here naturally focused on melodic beauty and had some research on it.
However, the biggest flaw in “We Are Not the Same” was the melody—it was like running into the gun muzzle. No wonder they couldn’t look favorably on it.
But no matter, he didn’t want to record truly good music here anyway. Internet celebrity songs have their own playing style.
After sending the rough-cut song to the technical department, Yu Wei contacted music supervisor Hong Hui after a long time, asking him to keep an eye on it. For tuning songs, still need a professional to assist.
“Going live, going live.”
These days were the film festival’s screening phase, nothing noteworthy. When “Sound Mixer” is exhibited, Lu Zhou will go watch.
Yu Wei had nothing to do, so he simply went live to gather some advanced fusion materials.
Because yesterday’s live broadcast was a huge success, as soon as he went live this time, the live room viewer count started rising rapidly, looking just like a top streamer’s setup.
Today Yu Wei didn’t go out, quietly live writing in the hotel. Once the AI song is ready, he can update directly.
“Why does the streamer speak French? Learned from French films. Those interested can try it.”
“Not that kind of film… How many lines could that kind have?”
“When will the new chapter update? Writing it, writing it.”
The live room audience was really too many; Yu Wei couldn’t reply to them all, so he could only write while glancing occasionally.
Soon, many viewers who participated in the voice chat yesterday also came. If anyone was most expectant of this song, without a doubt it was them, these fusion materials.
Being able to personally participate and brutally beat the young fresh meat—they could brag about this for two and a half years, especially after hearing their opponent was Xia Zan.
No need to say anything to this vase who indulges fans in online violence against cast changes in adaptations and still hypes the male lead. They would personally handle his retirement ceremony…
Lu Ren Jia, carry their beliefs and ideals and keep going!
“Any female fans want to voice chat?”
Yu Wei stopped typing, looked up at the screen, and the originally lively bullet comments all turned into a sea of question marks.
“Collecting some female voice materials, why the question marks?”
Yesterday’s voice chats were mostly male readers; later some female fans joined, but the base was still too small in comparison.
To make the material library richer, voices of all types definitely couldn’t be missing, and in internet celebrity songs, female voice songs even have a higher proportion.
The root cause is mainly that female voices have higher compatibility with short videos, the main medium for internet celebrity song spread.
Right after he spoke, a female fan actually joined voice chat, though slightly awkward, clearly a bit nervous.
Yu Wei glanced at the bullet comments—surprisingly some netizens were fishing by shouting “mommy,” true gods…
As the live broadcast continued, Yu Wei finished the new chapter, but the AI side still wasn’t tuned, so he could only write a bit more of “Malice.”
Seeing Yu Wei start counting words again, everyone quickly realized this kid seemed to be writing another book.
“Is the streamer writing another book… I have no other books left.”
Of course the live room didn’t believe it. The same pattern of writing first then releasing works—the novel featured Yu Wei’s unpublished “Malice.” Besides him, who else could do it?
These days Yu Wei’s overseas updates were at ungodly times. Coincidentally, that twin sunflower book’s updates were also similarly ungodly.
How could other web novel authors sync with him at such times?
“Actually, that book was written by a friend of mine.”
“A friend, huh?”
Yu Wei not answering was fine, but this answer instead convinced the netizens: your “friend” is you yourself!
The technical department’s message came right on time. Yu Wei received the video, put on headphones and listened once—nice, it really had that inner flavor.
“I’m going to update the novel and start voting. Everyone can go watch.”
Netizens were just about to chat about the match when Yu Wei closed the live room. In a sense, for this match, the audience were the contestants.
At least after voting starts, better not to open the live room. After all, he’s the organizer, can’t have obvious bias.
Let everyone rely on their own abilities.
Xia Zan’s singing video performance was good, no obvious mistakes, but somehow, completely no sense of breathing or building power.
Felt like he sang more like AI than the AI. AI singing retains some breathy voice per template; he didn’t even pretend.
No need to think, Xia Zan definitely recorded line by line, even word by word fixed. Looked like he really didn’t want to lose.
But the match win or loss wasn’t up to him. When everyone clicked the native character’s singing video, all they saw was a gray background and lyrics.
Heard Yu Wei’s AI for this song used quite a few netizens as materials—wouldn’t fuse into something weird, right?
Suddenly a low, world-weary male voice started singing. This voice seemed to have magic, successfully stunning the audience in front of their screens.
If they didn’t know it was fused, they’d probably really think it was sung by a uncle.
AI fusion is true fusion—no weird accents or splicing feel. The song’s auditory perception was pretty good.
But looking at the song title “We Are Not the Same,” everyone still involuntarily felt a bit eerie.
Why does it feel like the fusion materials are shouting in unison…
“We Are Not the Same
Everyone has different circumstances
We are here
Here waiting for you.”
Fusion materials also have gaps, so we are not the same.
Just as written in Yu Wei’s novel, this song’s shortcomings are obvious—the lyrics a bit corny, the tune monotonous—but its strengths are too strong. After listening, only one line sticks in the mind.
“We Are Not the Same.”
Even a discarded draft at this level?
This song might be a bit demeaning for top tier singers, but it can completely make a newcomer or internet celebrity famous—after all, it’s too brainwashing and can evoke some resonance.
Many actually feel the song is average after listening, but when voting, their minds are full of “We Are Not the Same,” with zero impression of what Xia Zan sang.
So what to do? Can only vote. A song with memorable point is better than one with none.
Many actually feel AI Lu Ren Jia sings more human-like than Xia Zan, after all, the advantage of “We Are Not the Same” is its authenticity.
This AI is backed by everyone’s joint contribution—each person gave their strength. Though the singing voice is cold, it’s full of human flavor.
In contrast, Xia Zan’s finely tuned song initially attracts with its smooth melody and near-“perfect” voice line.
But this “perfection” doesn’t come from the singer’s real performance ability, but from technical piling.
Hard work for the sound mixer…
Xia Zan’s song sounds glamorous but lacks the vitality and emotional tension that singing should have—like a meticulously repaired piece of porcelain.
Compared to the exquisite but tasteless “pre-made song,” “We Are Not the Same” has obvious shortcomings but is sufficient as a snack.
After listening to Yu Wei’s discarded draft, Xia Zan had only one thought: whoever believes him again is a dog.
Deprecating it in the novel, he thought he had hope. But releasing it still hits so hard—what is this if not fraud?
As expected of a novelist; he’s mastered praise after criticizing.
Voting just started and he was already gapped by the native. With this song’s brainwashing degree, spread speed will only accelerate, win chance shrinking.
Xia Zan naturally wouldn’t sit idly. Losing to a AI pieced from passersby is absolute shame; he still had backups.
The good-for-nothings joining this fake program “Enthusiastic Praise Top Streamer” aren’t just him—some on bench, some already advanced.
Everyone was tricked in by Yu Wei…
If no action, they’ll become AI’s toys. They must unite!
