Chapter 192: What Turned You Into This?
“If you could be reborn in elementary school, what would you do?”
During a break in the program recording, Chi Leying’s casual question caught the program team’s attention. This question was quite interesting and very fitting.
They hurriedly aimed the camera at Yu Wei, who was busy grading students’ compositions, wanting to hear what he would say…
“Beat the teacher, kiss the school belle, burn the curtain.”
Yu Wei seemed to answer without thinking, his red pen still circling and crossing on the composition notebook, but this response directly startled everyone in the office.
Chi Leying didn’t expect him to answer like that. The program team felt it was a bit inappropriate, while the other teachers felt inexplicably beaten.
What did the teacher do to you?
It seemed a bit too extreme. He was so bold to say it, truly not treating everyone as outsiders.
Even with her emotional intelligence, Chi Leying didn’t know how to respond for a moment. Doing this in elementary school—saying he was young and promising wouldn’t be overkill.
“Just kidding. This is a plot from my Charlotte Troubles.”
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this. They thought Yu Wei really meant it. If it was a movie plot, exaggerating for dramatic effect was understandable.
Anyone who followed Yu Wei a bit knew this movie. It seemed to really be a rebirth comedy film, which matched.
So in this movie, the protagonist openly beats the teacher, kisses the school belle, and burns the curtain after rebirth? Was it that stimulating?
Don’t say it, after hearing this, they really got a bit curious. They definitely had to go to the cinema to support it later.
Yu Wei’s words had a bit of an advertisement flavor, but the advertising effect was quite good, successfully making them feel anticipation.
“The script has been finished for some time, right? When does filming start?”
Chi Leying had some understanding of this. After all, Yu Wei’s script bridge retold on the program went viral, so it was hard for her not to know.
“After the program finale, probably.”
The topic rarely turned to the movie, so Yu Wei took the chance to ask more: “Are you interested in joining the cast?”
I want free of charge, let me have it for free quick!
“Is there a role suitable for me?”
Chi Leying didn’t agree directly but skipped straight to discussing details, essentially accepting by default.
Yu Wei’s work quality was guaranteed. Even if the movie was average, just him as a person was worth investing in and befriending. Chi Leying had no reason to refuse.
“Yes, come play the school belle.”
Chi Leying, who was dragging the online class progress bar, paused her index finger but soon pressed it back. Wasn’t it about kissing the school belle? Taking advantage of her, huh?
She treated it as Yu Wei joking and didn’t take it to heart. For filming, it was nothing; she had that much professionalism.
Though she hadn’t tried it yet…
Elementary school teachers weren’t busy when there were no classes, provided they weren’t homeroom teachers. Being an elementary homeroom teacher was tough—managing studies and discipline, occasionally coaxing children.
Such things couldn’t be prevented. Who stole whose pencil required half a day of mediation, and communication with parents was frequent.
Of course, this wasn’t Yu Wei’s concern. He could steal time in the busy office to write. For other teachers, it would be strange, but for him, it was normal.
Near lunch break, Tong Yulu finally sent the competition video. She chose an old love song Brother Younger Sister.
The song alone was fine, but combined with the giegie famous scene, it was somewhat abstract. Yu Wei didn’t even dare to open it in the office.
Forget it, let the readers eat first.
Yu Wei quickly finished the new chapter. The native AI Liu Mangbing sang an internet celebrity song, May the world’s beauty loop around you.
The song wasn’t bad, just superficial and formulaic, with some piled-up rhetoric. Compared to current internet celebrity songs that mess up lyrics just to rhyme, it was still much stronger.
Even internet celebrity songs were declining in quality…
Gentle musical style songs actually weren’t suitable for AI to sing. After all, AI’s biggest flaw was lacking emotion. No matter how precise the melody, it couldn’t convey that feeling.
Between cold internet celebrity songs and doing abstract, Yu Wei wasn’t sure which would win. He didn’t deliberately give Tong Yulu a weak opponent; whether she won depended on fate.
Almost the instant he published the new chapter, Chi Leying, who was spacing out at her desk, let out an “mm-hmm,” clearly receiving the update reminder.
Chi Leying actually didn’t read Yu Wei’s novels, but since Top Streamer started the competition, she would occasionally click in to gossip.
The fake competition was too exciting!
Recently, it seemed Tong Yulu’s turn was coming, so she had to keep paying attention to her rival’s trends.
She skimmed the new chapter quickly, then swiped back. The first competition video was the AI native’s new song. Chi Leying planned to listen to it first; she had to give Yu Wei face.
Listening to the gentle melody, she nodded. It seemed pretty good.
When she heard “By now orioles fly and grass grows long, the loved one is on the way,” Chi Leying truly felt a warmth in her heart, as if gently embraced by simple goodwill.
The lyrics had strong sense of imagery. The scene of traveling through wind and rain to finally embrace made her involuntarily imagine it. The scene was beautiful.
Although the AI’s emotionless voice weakened the goodwill, and the song had limitations, Chi Leying quite liked this style.
What impressed her most was the ending: “Let starlight add a bit of rainbow, let sakura secretly kiss your forehead.”
The gentle touch of sakura brushing the forehead, and the warmth of starlight weaving with rainbow—such girly imagery, who knew how Yu Wei came up with it…
Tough to beat!
It depended on who it was compared to. In Yu Wei’s works, this song was average, but on the market, it was definitely competitive.
The gentle melody and healing musical style easily won short video favor. Going viral was just a matter of time.
It wasn’t her belittling Tong Yulu. For mass-produced girl group little idols like them, it was possible this song would outfire her.
With her half-baked kung fu, could she really beat this song? Hopefully she could invite a strong guest singer to carry her.
For some reason, Chi Leying even felt inexplicably worried. If Tong Yulu fell here, she would feel a bit regretful.
Was this the bond between rivals?
“Going out for some air.”
Seeing Chi Leying finish May the world’s beauty loop around you and about to listen to the next, Yu Wei directly found an excuse to leave the office.
The scene was too beautiful; he didn’t dare look.
Chi Leying didn’t think much, just flipped to the next page with slight curiosity. She knew the song Tong Yulu chose—it was a good song, but whether she could sing it well was another story.
She thought it would get straight to the point, but unexpectedly, the video started with a daily life segment.
Tong Yulu had a simple ponytail, wearing a red butterfly bow, holding a lollipop, sitting on the back seat of an electric bike. In front seemed to be her agent, but wearing a helmet.
The evening breeze lifted her stray hairs, looking fresh and sweet. Even though Chi Leying didn’t get along with her, she had to admit Tong Yulu had some looks.
Was she really planning to shoot an MV? Singing skill lacking, so using visuals to compensate?
It still felt not great. Netizens had seen everything nowadays. No matter how well edited the video, if the content sucked, no one would buy it.
Just as Chi Leying anticipated her performance, Tong Yulu in the video suddenly said in a sickly sweet voice: “Brother, if you buy me this, your girlfriend won’t get mad, right?”
Her voice was like pickled in saccharin. Chi Leying instantly froze like acupoint struck, holding her mobile phone stiffly in place.
What kind of play was this?
But the torment had just begun. Tong Yulu’s lines hit like a chain of bombs in the eardrums.
“Pretty tasty, bro try a bite… Ah! If your girlfriend knew we shared the same lollipop, she wouldn’t get jealous, right?”
“You’re riding the little electric bike carrying me; she won’t beat me up, right?”
Every line’s ending note dragged sticky and long, paired with suddenly wide eyes and twisted mouth, making Chi Leying involuntarily gasp.
Holy crap!
She subconsciously clutched her chest, feeling her heart gripped by an invisible hand. Wasn’t this straight-up soul-stealing?
Had this guy finally gone crazy, feeling she couldn’t win and deciding to retaliate against society?
Vicious!
If she could still endure up to here, the final line with eye-rolling demonic expression, “Unlike me, I only feel sorry for giegie,” completely killed the competition.
Chi Leying nearly threw her mobile phone, squeezing a short “Ah?” from her throat somewhat ungracefully.
What turned her into this…
Seeing her rival suddenly go nuts, Chi Leying didn’t gloat but felt a chilling bewilderment: Who am I, where am I, what ghost thing did I just watch.
Though she didn’t like Tong Yulu much, she never had these symptoms before. When did it start? How did she not know?
Don’t do this; I’m scared.
No one had attention left for the singing afterward, because few could watch that segment unscathed.
Their minds were full of the demonic clip sound “I only feel sorry for giegie.” They couldn’t focus on the song even if they wanted.
Many hadn’t reacted yet and simply dragged the progress bar back to the start. So weird, watch it again.
Even after Chi Leying closed the video, “giegie” kept auto-looping in her brain, even overwriting her pronunciation memory of “brother.”
Done for, her brain got raped by that guy.
Too late to regret now. She shouldn’t have opened this video today. Chi Leying instinctively wanted to complain to Yu Wei, but turning back, he hadn’t returned.
Yu Wei, who watched the video on his mobile phone in the corridor, was quite shocked. He didn’t expect Tong Yulu to have such talent. He only described it verbally, and she mimicked it perfectly.
Though her talent was average, she was absolute at doing abstract.
He didn’t dare listen a second time anyway, so he went back to check the voting comments. Tong Yulu’s votes even had a slight lead.
“No, need to vote it up to be seen by more people.”
“I don’t know which is nicer to listen to, but I know which is funnier.”
“Done for, can’t look at Little Deer straight anymore.”
“Phone fell in bed crevice, listened for an hour, enjoyable.”
Tong Yulu’s abstract performance indeed got recognition from many. After all, human brain defenses crumbled before abstract art…
As AI singing rounds increased, readers and netizens’ novelty wore off. Compared, doing abstract was definitely more fun.
Evidence found that humans couldn’t be replaced by AI. AI really couldn’t pull off such abstract stuff.
More importantly, everyone realized AI could be replaced. Even if Bing Ding were eliminated, there were still Jia Yi. AI eliminated, songs still sung. But humans eliminated? Gone.
Tong Yulu’s abstract had no substitute for now, so priority to send her in. Everyone was expecting more fun.
In just one lunch break, passersby who heard rushed to boost Tong Yulu’s votes to a new peak. At this point, champagne could basically be popped.
Chi Leying hadn’t recovered from the demonic lines when her fans’ support group asked if they should vote manipulate for the AI.
She and Tong Yulu just didn’t get along, but their fans purely hated each other. Chi Leying’s fans didn’t want to see Tong Yulu win the competition, so they were always ready to act.
They finally won with difficulty, happy for just a few days, then rival pulls abstract and wins? No way they could accept it.
They wanted to monopolize the victor’s title anyway, especially with rival right behind. As long as the main person gave the order, they’d go stir trouble.
“No need.”
Chi Leying recalled the demonic famous scene again. She didn’t seem as resistant as at first. “She deserves it.”
Indescribable. Let her win once.
