Chapter 179: Who Taught You To Sing Like That?
“Brother Yu, this time you go first and set an example.”
The Program Team arranged for Yu Wei to perform first, and the other guests agreed with both hands and feet.
No method, this kid loves watching others perform too much, how he performs depends entirely on the previous singer’s performance, he gets stronger when facing the strong, unknown strength.
This also leads to extremely painful performances before Yu Wei, no matter how well one performs, he always finds a method to surpass you, as long as you perform before him, there’s a high possibility of becoming his showing off material.
Others don’t show off, he doesn’t show off, but if anyone tries to show off in front of him, he can counter with an even bigger show off.
As expected of a web novel writer, he understands cast a brick to attract jade too well, the only method to not become Yu Wei’s brick is to perform after him.
Although the stage is hard to follow, it’s still better than being directly crushed…
Let Yu Wei open, without reference he definitely won’t dare to be careless, if he performs well, it’s understandable if everyone can’t follow the stage, if he performs average, they have a baseline in their hearts, later coming up is not impossible.
A known card is always easier to play than a hidden card, Yu Wei going first is to make him reveal his bottom card first.
“Then I’ll cast a brick to attract jade.”
Unfortunately, protagonists always appear last, looks like he’s not the protagonist.
But the only thing comforting Yu Wei is that this episode’s teammate is very reliable, if using Qi Luo An’s level as the unit of measurement, Sakuraya Rio is about 1.3 An.
Who let that guy slack off himself, hasn’t practiced basic skills for eight years, becoming roadside level is normal.
Seeing Yu Wei and Sakuraya Rio stand up together, the on-site audience quickly realized that Yu Wei prepared a chorus this time.
Looks like they came to the right place today, compared to civilian contestants’ singing, they still prefer Yu Wei singing, the more immortal fight, the more worth the ticket price.
Can’t imagine how happy it would be to come on-site for the sixth episode…
After nodding to the audience, Yu Wei walked straight to the piano nearby, this scene directly caused cheers from the on-site audience, he knows what everyone wants to see, not only chorus, but also piano play.
After Yu Wei shone on the international stage with Castle in the Sky, everyone started expecting his piano, these hands are not ordinary hands, these are hands of a national master who went abroad.
Back and already thinking of showing off to everyone, this guy is a bit too fan-pampering.
While Yu Wei lightly touched the piano keys and looked at Sakuraya Rio, signaling her to start, Sakuraya Rio looked timid, but once on stage she seemed like a completely different person, her gaze much more resolute.
She held the microphone, her gaze met with the senior at the piano for a moment, the two nodded tacitly—the performance formally began.
When Yu Wei raised his hand, almost everyone’s sight on-site stopped on his hand, this scene like a slow-motion close-up in an old movie, slow and full of ceremony.
The next second, his fingers danced lightly on the piano keys, the prelude melody flowed naturally like a stream, the audience instantly held their breath, afraid to destroy the on-site atmosphere.
When the piano sound gradually faded, Sakuraya Rio took a deep breath, closed her eyes, as if summoning memories from deep in her inner heart, the instant she opened her mouth, her voice was clear and slightly trembling, perfectly blending with the piano’s afterglow.
“Look down at your feet
This is the path you will walk
Look ahead
That is your future.”
After hearing the first line of To the Future, the on-site audience’s mood was similar to novel readers seeing the Japanese lyrics, what is this?
Japanese song, how could it be a Japanese song?
Before, Yu Wei brought out a new song every episode, on-site audience could taste something fresh, this time it’s good, surprisingly only a Japanese song, not even a new song to hear, they lost big time.
Although they haven’t heard this song, there are plenty of Japanese songs everyone hasn’t heard, hearing Japanese, their first reaction is pity.
The audience can understand, civilian contestants don’t know Chinese, probably can’t sing old songs smoothly, singing Yu Wei’s new song is even less realistic, in this situation Japanese song is undoubtedly the best choice.
Yu Wei also can’t perform well in this situation, can only blame their bad luck, not coming early or late, but picking today.
Should’ve known not to buy tickets for this episode…
No wonder Yu Wei suddenly arranged piano accompaniment, probably afraid everyone would be disappointed, so specially compensating in other places.
Seeing Yu Wei so thoughtful, even if they felt a bit unbalanced, their anger dissipated, fine, Japanese song it is, hearing Yu Wei sing a Japanese song is not a wasted trip, after all he hasn’t sung one before.
Sakuraya Rio didn’t look at the audience, but slightly lowered her head, gaze on her own toes, she wasn’t nervous, but immersed in the song, as if really gazing at that “path to walk”.
“Look at your feet, this is the road you will walk” is her favorite line.
Her singing didn’t seem to come from her throat, but overflowed from the softest corner of her inner heart, To the Future is a daughter’s monologue to her mother, so she sang it very soothingly…
Like the steady footsteps of her mother in memory, holding her “walked together until today”.
Even without understanding the lyrics, everyone clearly felt Sakuraya Rio’s emotional singing and impressive singing skill, this civilian guest’s strength is not to be underestimated, Yu Wei found a treasure.
Entering the second part of the main song, the piano accompaniment melody slightly rises, Sakuraya Rio’s singing injects a trace of real vulnerability, emotion begins to build.
Wait, where’s Yu Wei’s singing?
Hearing this everyone instantly snapped back, they were waiting to hear Yu Wei sing, but from the song start until now, Yu Wei just sat there playing piano, mouth not even opened.
This isn’t right…
Everyone loves watching Yu Wei play piano, but they came on-site definitely to hear Yu Wei sing.
Playing piano is icing on the cake, but you can’t have icing without the cake.
Everyone patiently listened to two more segments, but Yu Wei still showed no sign of opening his mouth, the crowd couldn’t help looking at each other, disappointment evident on their faces.
Turns out it’s not a chorus.
So they couldn’t even fulfill the small wish of hearing Yu Wei sing a Japanese song, this trip today, got absolutely nothing.
No new song they could accept, but not even singing at all, really hard for them to control their emotions, today they were total suckers.
Even Qi Luo An didn’t expect Yu Wei not planning to sing at all, she knew this Japanese song was newly written by Yu Wei, but no matter what, not singing is not okay…
Yu Wei vaguely heard scattered complaints from the audience seat, but he had no time to care, because the song was about to reach the iconic part.
The piano sound here turns to grand octave chords, jointly pushing her voice line to the peak.
“Look down at your feet
This is the path you will walk
Look ahead
That is your future.”
Sakuraya Rio gripped the microphone tightly with both hands, nearly shouting as she repeated “future”, each repetition stronger, as if carving hope into the listeners’ hearts.
This line exactly corresponds to “Later, I finally learned how to love…”, Yu Wei also hummed a segment softly.
Even though already somewhat disappointed, Sakuraya Rio’s whisper-like gentle and lingering singing still made everyone stunned.
Even without understanding the lyrics, the beautiful melody and emotional performance still struck the heart.
Setting aside Yu Wei’s halo, objectively this song is actually pretty good, especially the tune, carrying a flavor of healing and hope, a work worth repeated savoring.
Those with strong hands-on ability already opened the music recognition function on their mobile phone, came all this way, if nothing else just take it as being recommended a Japanese song.
Bought tickets to discover songs… grit teeth and consider it not a loss.
“Eh?”
Just as they wondered what this unfamiliar Japanese song was called, the search record on the screen left them dumbfounded, none, surprisingly no match?
Some did recognize the song, but the recognized songs were all sorts of weird ones, just no Japanese song, completely mismatched.
The audience tried a few more times unconvinced, but still couldn’t find a match, this is really bizarre.
They even switched several apps, all ended in failure.
No way, even if music recognition has some AI stupidity, after trying so many ways, there should be some result, how could it completely not find it?
The on-site singing is clear enough, if it can’t recognize this, unless this song doesn’t exist at all…
This thought emerged and began spreading uncontrollably, until it occupied the entire mind, they suddenly had an absurd and outrageous speculation.
What if, they mean what if, what if this Japanese song is Yu Wei’s new song…
The sudden guess made their scalps tingle involuntarily, just like forgetting to turn off auto-renewal, they should’ve thought of it earlier.
Yu Wei brings a new song every episode, who says he can’t bring a Japanese song?
Once immersed in this assumption, all previous doubts were explained, even becoming the strongest evidence.
The new song Later he specially wrote in his novel a few days ago, hasn’t been sung yet, right?
Earlier they didn’t think that way, so overlooked this, the repeated “hora” in Sakuraya Rio’s song sounds a bit like “later” in Chinese.
Actually these two hiraganas are pronounced “hora”, normally this mimsound homophone might be a stretch, but now…
Their gaze toward Yu Wei unconsciously carried some shock and doubt, if it’s really true, then they were badly tricked, who could’ve thought Yu Wei would write Japanese songs?
This tune’s melody is very good, if it’s Yu Wei’s work then it’s not strange.
Although the possibility is not small, up to now, this is still just their guess, whether this Japanese song is Yu Wei’s work has no decisive evidence yet.
The audience no longer cared if they lost or gained, now they just expect the performance to end quickly, then get the answer from Yu Wei’s mouth.
On stage the song’s singing entered the finale, the arrangement simplified from complex, returning to pure piano accompaniment, Sakuraya Rio’s singing also settled down, seeming to deliver this final blessing directly to every listener.
Finally ended, the audience never so eagerly awaited the song to finish, actually Sakuraya Rio sang very well, but the suspense of this song was too appetite-hanging.
Just as everyone impatiently planned to clap and ask, Yu Wei who was originally sitting by the piano suddenly stood up, making an action beyond everyone’s expectation.
He took the microphone…
Buddy, what are you doing, isn’t it already finished?
Planning to give an award winning speech early?
Yu Wei clearly wasn’t speaking, because after raising the microphone he seemed to subconsciously start building momentum, who speaks with momentum?
Bad, he’s planning to sing.
As if to respond to their guess, the familiar melody rang again, the arrangement seemed somewhat different, but the prelude basically identical.
Again? He really plans to sing!
Originally the audience eagerly awaited Yu Wei singing, but now that Yu Wei really wants to sing, they instead a bit don’t want to hear it…
Can’t you answer everyone’s doubts first then sing, anxious to death.
At first everyone thought Yu Wei was doing chorus, result he didn’t even open his mouth, now partner finished singing, he suddenly jumps out to sing?
Who taught you to chorus like this?
Yu Wei didn’t say their program is chorus…
Bilingual song cooperation stage, not good.
