Chapter 263: Day Of Pilgrimage
Two days later, the music festival opened as scheduled, and Pei Ningle, as one of the heavyweight guests of the day, occupied the entire main stage.
The crowd had already surged into the venue, and many audience members had gathered around the main stage.
Pei Ningle was behind the stage, doing the final adjustments with the accompaniment band.
Compared to the first music festival performance before, this band’s musicians were obviously much more professional. There was no need for Pei Ningle to emphasize and explain; they had already mastered the accompaniment key points for her three songs. During the previous rehearsal, they found almost no issues after just one or two run-throughs, making Pei Ningle feel almost like she was singing to an accompaniment tape.
But on the other hand, precisely because of their professionalism, Pei Ningle really hadn’t memorized the names of these musicians this time, because there was relatively little time for conversation and interaction.
Now, when arriving behind the stage to prepare for the performance, the musicians still had a strictly business attitude, which actually made Pei Ningle somewhat miss the previous accompaniment band—despite their level actually being inferior to this one.
She turned her head to look again, and Wang Heng, Han Yixuan, and Ye Xun were all standing not far away on the side, waving to cheer her on. Seeing them, Pei Ningle took a deep breath and said to the musicians: “I’m all prepared, let’s go on stage.”
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“For this matter, we didn’t remind Xiao Le, is that not so good?” Ye Xun suddenly asked.
Wang Heng: “We mentioned it before getting on the airplane, so there’s no need to remind her again.”
Han Yixuan, standing on his other side, said: “From what I know of her, Xiao Le has probably already forgotten about this. But the fans are also acting out of good intentions, and Xiao Le’s feeling should be surprise.”
Wang Heng glanced at her: “Should be? Are you sure it’s surprise, not fright?”
Ye Xun’s gaze scanned back and forth among the fans closest to the stage below. She noticed that the most enthusiastic and expectant-looking audience members seemed to all be young girls, just like that clumsy female fan in the hotel a few days ago. And many of them seemed to occasionally flash a bright lime green in their hands…
“They seem to have something?” Ye Xun suddenly asked.
Han Yixuan glanced toward the audience and explained: “Someone in the fan group made support paper, and it was already distributed just now. As long as they are audience members willing to watch Xiao Le’s performance here, regardless of whether they are loyal fans, they seem to give it to them. When the performance officially starts, raising the support paper should make for a great sight.”
Ye Xun couldn’t help but ask: “These loyal fans, do they get any remuneration for doing these things?”
Han Yixuan shook her head: “No remuneration at all. I actually tried asking, but they said that taking money in support activities would always feel like tarnishing faith.”
“Tarnishing faith…” Ye Xun murmured, speechless for a moment. She originally thought that her past self was already a loyal fan of Pei Ningle, but now it seemed that those girls who paid out of pocket to make support paper and organize support activities were the true die-hard fans in the real sense. Compared to them, Ye Xun realized she was at best a passerby fan, and an impure one mixed with a love rival relationship.
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The brief introduction on the broadcast ended, and Pei Ningle and the musicians walked onto the stage.
Today’s young girl wore a white short-sleeved top and denim shorts, with her hair tied into a high ponytail. Such a youthful outfit naturally didn’t suit high heels, so she added height-increasing insoles inside her canvas shoes. Thus, under the sunlight, the girl’s already slender and fair legs appeared even longer than usual.
At the center of the stage, a standing microphone stand was already waiting for her.
Amid the increasingly loud cheers, Pei Ningle walked to the microphone stand and took the microphone off it. At that moment, something happening below the stage made her freeze on the spot, her whole body stiffening.
She saw the girls in the front row simultaneously raising lime green paper, all printed with【Pei Ningle I love you】,【Best Lele】, and similar support slogans.
Immediately after, starting from the front row, the lime green color spread backward, with countless people raising such support paper. Of course, many in the back were boys, and their expressions were clearly not as fervent as the female fans’, mostly a bit embarrassed.
Pei Ningle’s big eyes blinked, becoming a bit wet again.
Holding the microphone, she spoke: “I’ve participated in a music festival before, and I still remember that after singing, the applause from so many audience members made me cry… Now it’s good, I haven’t even started singing yet, and you’ve already made me cry.”
Below the stage, girls’ screams rang out: “Lele don’t cry, Lele is the best!”
Pei Ningle wiped the corner of her eye with the back of her hand and couldn’t help laughing: “Okay okay, no crying. What I actually wanted to say is, thank you very much for everyone’s support. Really, at first I just wanted to write songs and sing them myself, and if someone came to listen and I could earn money… Isn’t that a very selfish wish? But I didn’t expect that one day this dream would actually become reality… Alright, no more talking, let’s start.”
Following the order from the previous rehearsal and the order of creation and release, first《Lost》, then《Dawn》, and finally《Sleepless》.
So far, these were the only three songs she had released. And these were also the songs she was most familiar with, so even though she was still a bit nervous, every note was as steady as the recording studio version.
But while singing, Pei Ningle noticed that many female fans below the stage seemed to be whispering to each other, nodding and conferring. This made her a bit puzzled—did they have another surprise prepared?
When the third song《Sleepless》 finished, finally, the surprise came.
“Lele Wife, we love you!”
First, a dozen girls shouted this. Two seconds later, more people joined in.
“Lele Wife, we love you!”
Next, not just the front row, the shouting spread backward, becoming increasingly chaotic. Boys’ voices mixed in too. But whenever a boy dared to shout, the condemning gazes from the surrounding girls would immediately make him shut up.
Amid the noisy “wife” cheers, the loudest shouters were undoubtedly the female fans, especially the fervent die-hards in the front row. This made Pei Ningle involuntarily recall Han Yixuan’s statement when she had persuaded her back then—”Female fans are much more fervent than male fans, and yuri fans are the most steadfast among them.”
While the young girl stood on the stage at a loss, she suddenly heard Han Yixuan’s voice from the side and behind:
“Xiao Le, leave the rest to the host, hurry and slip away!”
Pei Ningle came back to her senses, bowed deeply to the audience below, blushed, and said into the microphone: “There is no wife here!”
Then, she ran off in a flash.
But the fans below didn’t mind. Or rather, everyone welcomed this kind of genuine girl even more…
And found it even more fun to tease.
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PS: Speaking in the author’s note, pirated and certain channel readers might not see it, so putting it here. In short, this book《Everyone is going to kill me》 needs to be renamed soon per the website’s request. Suggest collecting it on Qidian to avoid not finding it.
Seeking recommendation tickets and monthly tickets, thank you everyone.
