Chapter 178: No Hiding This Time
“Senior’s book is so scary…”
Taking advantage of the afternoon’s free time, Sakuraya Rio stayed up all night to finish all the chapters of Malice, then couldn’t sleep the whole night.
At the beginning of reading, she was completely deceived by Yenoyaguchi Shu’s notes! She really thought Higa was a bad person, even felt that poisoning the cat was too much.
But as Officer Kaga gradually uncovered the truth, her back started to feel cold.
“When I read to the end, I couldn’t help but look at the window, always feeling like some black shadow floated by, it was really so scary.”
Yu Wei saw the lingering fatigue on Sakuraya Rio’s face, the faint dark circles exceptionally noticeable, after all, her skin was very fair.
“Got it, go practice singing!”
Honestly, he seemed to have really not considered Sakuraya Rio’s singing skill issue. Yu Wei could master a song after switching it, but Sakuraya Rio couldn’t…
To the Future was a song of moderate difficulty, but the chorus part required stable breath to support long notes, which was still quite challenging for someone with no foundation.
“Rio-chan, have you learned singing before?”
Sakuraya Rio’s name is written as Sakuradani Rio, pronounced sakuratani rio, Chinese phonetic approximation is roughly “sa ku la ta ni rio”.
After getting a bit more familiar, Yu Wei started calling her that, and she seemed to quite like this nickname, obediently looking up every time she heard it.
“I’ve learned it, but I feel like I have no talent.”
Sakuraya Rio’s answer was quite modest. Actually, her mom was an elementary school music teacher, and she started practicing vocal music when she was very young, with very solid basic skills.
Just a simple test tone, and Yu Wei was shocked by her breathing and vocalization method. This kind of technique was clearly not that of an ordinary music enthusiast, at least an academy style.
This counts as no talent?
Just mastering these techniques was already much stronger than little stars with plain voices.
Besides the joy of finding treasure, Yu Wei also felt a bit of subtle surprise. Was the Japanese entertainment industry this competitive? Someone of Sakuraya Rio’s standard could only come to study abroad?
Thinking carefully, it seemed that over there, those with a bit of talent started training at around ten years old, with a very strict training system and high elimination rate. Maybe Sakuraya Rio was one of the eliminated ones.
Yu Wei naturally wouldn’t ask about this. This time he also drew the guaranteed one, and got a usable one.
Sakuraya Rio really liked this song. The core of To the Future was the bond between mother and daughter. Studying at university in a foreign country made the feeling of missing family especially profound.
After simply practicing singing it twice, Yu Wei clearly saw her eyes redden, not sure if it was from tiredness or really moved, probably both.
Sakuraya Rio’s basic skills were very good, plus a certain emotional resonance, her mastery of this song was very high.
Practice time passed in a flash, and soon it was the day of the performance recording.
Worth mentioning, in the novel Yu Wei wrote the day before, he wrote about native character Deng Shi and the little idol’s competition.
However, yesterday’s chapter only wrote up to the little idol finishing singing and Deng Shi taking the stage, the song hadn’t even been sung yet, and the voting segment hadn’t started.
Maybe because her voice was quite unique, or perhaps because she was the first native AI to appear, this character’s popularity value was unexpectedly quite high. Yu Wei even saw fans in the book review section.
Virtual songstress fans said, being a fan of a non-existent female singer must be really tiring…
The main reason was that the previous Bubble was too strong. Although it was AI, after listening a lot, everyone inevitably took it as real. Plus, a fake singer wouldn’t collapse house, which was much better than real people.
This time Yu Wei didn’t dare to write a too top song. Mainly, the little idol on the opposite side wasn’t strong either, with poor resources, not even a guest singer, no need to overkill.
So after thinking it over, he planned to lightly do Peach Blossom Promise.
……
“Why is it you?”
While queuing for ticket inspection, Qi Luo An spotted at a glance the one in the queue dressed so tightly covered. He pulled down his baseball cap, with sunglasses and mask blocking his face completely, looking suspicious no matter how you saw it.
Usually in such public places, being sneaky like this was either social anxiety or a star.
She recognized this sunglasses wearer from far away. The reason was simple: this was her big bro. Even turned to ash, she would recognize him.
Qi Yuan was startled by the suddenly jumping out weirdly dressed girl, stunned for a few seconds before realizing this was his little sis.
First time coming to see an offline event, too nervous, so much that he didn’t dare look at others much…
“No work these two days, came to support my good buddy.”
More than just recently no work, ever since the last massive drop in fans, he hadn’t recovered, no work coming to him.
Before, as an idol, business activities and endorsements had fans buying in, acting in costume idol dramas had fans doing data, which made him look falsely prosperous.
An idol without fans is like cutting off one arm. Even with strength, capital prefers those who bring commercial value.
Choosing other idols has fans as guarantee, choosing one with similar fan drop, risk too high.
Qi Yuan now had no other way, could only bring out some representative works to transform quickly. Everything has pros and cons. Once he successfully transforms completely, it would definitely be more long-term than the idol path.
“And you, what are you here for?”
Even if Qi Yuan was a bit slow, he could clearly feel his little sis wasn’t being honest. She wasn’t this attentive to her own big bro.
Not mentioning their average relationship for now, parents occasionally recorded programs, but she never went on-site to support. How come for Yu Wei…
Qi Yuan figured it out: either Qi Luo An wanted to harm Yu Wei as he thought, strangling Tomorrow’s Star in the cradle, or she wanted to harm Yu Wei for life.
As Yu Wei’s good brother, he couldn’t accept either. He didn’t want Yu Wei to go astray, nor did he want to be Yu Wei’s brother-in-law.
How could little Qi Luo An match a hero like Yu Wei?
Go cool off on the side!
“No work these two days, came to support my good buddy.”
Qi Luo An felt a bit guilty and didn’t know how to explain, simply directly copying and pasting her big bro’s original words. You know, Yu Wei is also my buddy.
She just wanted to go back to queuing, but was nailed in place by Qi Yuan’s one sentence.
“No work? Aren’t you busy writing a book?”
Qi Luo An’s mind went blank upon hearing this. How did he know about this? How could such an embarrassing thing be known by her dumbass big bro?
If it were someone else, she might have been embarrassed to the scalp numb and confessed without reservation on the spot, but facing Qi Yuan, her embarrassment quickly turned into anger.
Damn it, really want to punch him…
“Pretty easy to guess.”
Seeing his little sis’s deflated expression, Qi Yuan couldn’t help showing a smug smile, starting to analyze slowly, “Able to explosive update 30,000 words, clearly not Yu Wei. I’ve seen him writing, speed is quite slow.”
“He’s busy shooting programs, taking advertisements, recording songs, tuning AI, obviously no time to write another book.”
“Here’s the thing: during the time Yu Wei was abroad, updates were especially weird due to time difference, but both books updated around the same time, meaning another author was also in the abroad group, it’s you, right?”
This was actually pretty easy to guess. Netizens couldn’t because they didn’t know Yu Wei’s life situation. People familiar with Yu Wei could easily reach the conclusion.
Qi Luo An instantly realized that on the day she went on sale with explosive updates, many people already knew, just didn’t say it openly.
Someone as sharp as Shen Yutong definitely guessed it too. Her pretending not to know was probably waiting until after their chorus…
Knowing but not saying equals not checking, the promise still holds.
Thinking worst case, she might have already started analyzing word by word from the first chapter for grammatical errors.
Shame surged like a tide, Qi Luo An felt her ears buzzing, wishing to find a hole to crawl into.
Why are they all so sly one by one?
In inner struggle, Qi Luo An was in a dilemma: explode in rage and counterattack, or endure the embarrassment and leave?
Choosing the former shows she’s broken defense, choosing the latter shows she admits defeat.
Why did big bro find out? He was absolutely the last person she wanted to know she was writing a book, because he would definitely sarcasm coldly.
Sure enough, Qi Yuan’s sarcasm though late but arrived, saying what she wrote was watery and boring, without Yu Wei’s novel traffic no one would read it.
After many experiences, Qi Yuan had grown, become much more down-to-earth, but that didn’t mean his personality changed.
Facing little sis, must strike with heavy fists!
“Copied a dozen chapters of reader comments, you’re human? If I were your reader I’d call the police.”
“Know genuine mystery? You write it, assuming things?”
“The beginning probably written with Yu Wei’s help. I don’t believe your level could pass signing. Newcomer internal submission pass rate is only about 10%.”
Qi Luo An was almost overheating, they say don’t expose shortcomings when scolding, but her big bro specialized in targeting her weaknesses. Dao heart not shattered would be strange.
Lies don’t hurt, truth is the sharp knife. What he said was all true, how could it not hurt?
This was unavoidable. Who let him discover she was writing a book? Weakness voluntarily exposed to enemy, isn’t that a live target?
She was just about to soften, play dead and run away, but suddenly came back to senses. Eh, how does this kid know the newcomer internal submission probability so clearly? Could it be…
“Awkward blackening, my internal submission was written by myself, Yu Wei just helped look over it, he didn’t even make me revise.”
Qi Yuan seemed not to expect she still had energy to respond, hearing she passed on her own, his tone unconsciously weakened.
“Still just average.”
“How do you know the internal submission pass rate? Even I as a writer don’t know this.” Qi Luo An caught her breath, smiling ambiguously as she probed: “Could it be, you’ve specially researched it?”
“No such thing!”
Saying this on his mouth, actually Qi Yuan had been rejected six times already…
During this time he had nothing to do, heart full of frustration, subconsciously wanted to learn Yu Wei and write a book.
Although Yu Wei wrote entertainment novels which had no direct relation to his strength, it seemed it could help adjust his mindset.
Perhaps precisely because he depicted a illusory entertainment industry, he had the confidence to persist in self in the real entertainment industry.
Qi Yuan wanted to borrow some success experience, but six rejections in a row broke his defense. Damn, bro’s tutorial why useless?
This kind of thing, he naturally wouldn’t admit in front of little sis.
Even if he didn’t admit, Qi Luo An could tell. This was catching failure disease.
She was thinking of mocking a couple more sentences to regain face, but was interrupted by the ticket inspector’s call from not far away. While they were bickering, others had already entered.
“Suggest reading my book, read it well, learn well.”
Qi Luo An had no time to mess with him, teased one sentence and directly ticketed in. Qi Yuan was itching with anger but really couldn’t do anything to her. Failure has no right to speak…
By the time they entered, the program recording was about to start. Qi Luo An’s free of charge internal ticket was in the front row, Qi Yuan sat in the last row corner.
“Finally came.”
Yu Wei only relaxed after seeing Qi Luo An enter. When she asked for tickets he was there, but program was about to start and couldn’t find her after searching for a long time, inevitably a bit worried.
Good that she’s fine.
They entered almost right on time. As Qi Luo An sat down, the recording of the ninth episode of Music Blind Box officially began.
Normally Qi Luo An didn’t pay much attention to the pre-performance interview segment, but today she unusually listened to Sakuraya Rio’s interview.
Senior, tsk tsk tsk, calling so intimately…
Yu Wei’s interview also made her itch after listening. Oh my, even Rio-chan was used, private steamed goose heart.
Envy made her face distorted.
For Yu Wei, there was bad news today: the program team arranged them to perform first.
Previously Yu Wei never performed first when singing, second third fourth positions all had, but never opened the show, mostly finale.
Netizens’ evaluation of this was that Yu Wei typically dishes according to the opponent: acts when strength weak, does a fifty-fifty without offending, heavy fists without holding back when strength strong.
This was netizens’ hot topic during Castle in the Sky live broadcast: don’t let Yu Wei think you’re strong.
The program team took this seriously, immediately made a plan: next program let Yu Wei open.
Not like watching others’ strength before acting? Let you go first, see how much strength you bring out.
Like hiding things? This time won’t let you hide!
