Huayu: Were you ever a top star before writing nonsense?

"This is outrageous! Just to hear a song? So many people came?" Li Jiahang was dumbfounded.

"Who says otherwise? I just don't understand them." Lou Yixiao shook her head.

She and Li Jiahang were both students in the 06 class of the Performance Department at the Shanghai Theatre Academy. The difference is that Li Jiahang majored in Drama and Film Performance, while she majored in Musical Theatre.

"By the way, what are you doing here? You don't seem to be a volunteer, do you?" Li Jiahang asked.

Lou Yixiao raised an eyebrow and smiled.

"I heard there's a genius junior in the class of 07? I've come to check him out."

Li Jiahang: "..."

He glanced at Lou Yixiao with utter speechlessness.

So you're just here to join in the fun too.

"Hurry up and go in, or there won't be any seats left."

"Um."

Lou Yixiao entered the theater.

Not far behind her were Zhao Ji, Li Jinming, and Hai Lu, the three women.

……

At 7 o'clock sharp, the party officially began.

Two hosts, a man and a woman, walked onto the stage, one dressed in a red suit and the other in a purple evening gown.

"Autumn is deepening, the stars are shining brightly, and tonight we gather here... The new students will use songs as their dreams and dance as their words, shining their first ray of light on the stage."

Backstage, the performing arts students were quickly preparing for their performances.

Putting on makeup, memorizing lines, warming up their voices, and exercising... they were treating tonight's gala like a major exam.

Shen Can listened quietly to the host's introduction.

There was no tension, no excitement.

He is very calm.

—Old Yi Cong.

His gaze casually fell on the students, as if he were an observer in the bustling world, detached from the events.

Beside him was a guitar case, which he had borrowed from Xu Xinran specifically for tonight's performance.

It's not that Shen Can can't afford a guitar; if he saves up and eats more steamed buns, he can buy a guitar for a little over two hundred yuan. But there's no need for it.

If you can borrow a good guitar, there's no need to buy one.

He plans to buy his own "special weapon" guitar when he has more money in the future.

Shen Can believes that a man must know how to manage a household.

"Xu Xinran said I'm a kept man... That's ridiculous. I earn my living through my eloquence and abilities. That's what you call being a kept man and then forcing myself to live off him."

Thinking of Xu Xinran, Shen Can felt he had gained a deeper understanding of the saying "a woman's heart is like a needle at the bottom of the sea".

Last time at the KTV, this young lady kissed him more than ten times, and even tried to hit him, which shows she was really letting loose.

After she sobered up, she pretended to have amnesia, as if nothing had happened...

Women are indeed complex creatures.

Just as Shen Can was lost in thought, a boy wearing a black shirt and jeans walked up to him.

"Let me introduce myself, I'm Pubaja." Pubaja smiled brightly.

He said he wanted to get to know me, but he didn't extend his hand.

"Shen Can." Shen Can didn't extend his hand; he remained seated.

"I know you, you're quite the star, aren't you? Everyone says you're the strongest freshman of 07." Pu Bajia looked down at Shen Can.

Shen Can found it amusing; it sounded like Pubaja was unconvinced?

"Those people have good taste," Shen Can said.

"Hard to say."

Pubaja shook his head.

In his opinion, those people were simply blind. Shen Can became the strongest freshman of 07 after only singing one song?

But he was the champion of "My Hero".

In what way is he inferior to Shen Can?

Can the outcome be determined based on just one song by Shen Can?

unfair!

"Tonight, I want to have another match with you," Pubaja said with a smile.

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Genxin, Meng Li, Zhou Fang, Li Mou, and others all looked over.

Their thought was, "Why does this smell of gunpowder? This is going to be interesting."

The musical theatre performers who were participating in the gala also looked over.

Shen Can was unaware that some of his classmates were worried about him.

His idea was quite unique: "It seems like someone once said: 'People who smile a lot are usually lucky.'"

He stood up, and his height gave him the advantage of looking down at the man who was faking a smile. He thought to himself that this man was incredibly lucky.

"Then let me teach you a lesson," Shen Can thought to himself.

He didn't reveal his thoughts; his response to Pubaja was a slight nod and a brief remark:

I'm only giving you one chance.

Pu Bajia gave a soft snort and turned to leave.

Shen Can shrugged and sat back down in the chair.

"Um... good luck." A girl wearing glasses walked up to Shen Can and said softly.

"Thank you." Shen Can smiled. The girl was Tan Zhuoran, his classmate. In his memory, she was a very shy girl.

……

As time passed, the students took to the stage to perform, presenting one program after another to the teachers and students in the audience.

Musical "The Burning of Opium at Humen", song "Twilight", erhu performance, clapper talk performance, folk dance...

When the seventh program ended, the female host announced the name of Pu Bajia and the song he was going to sing, "Two Ends".

This is a song sung by a male and female co-star.

After the female host finished speaking, Pu Bajia and Zhou Fang walked towards the stage one after the other.

As he took his final step onto the stage, Pu Bajia turned back and glanced at Shen Can expressionlessly.

Tan Zhuoran and another male classmate witnessed this scene and felt indignant on Shen Can's behalf.

"How could he do this!" Tan Zhuoran said angrily.

"Childish," the male classmate commented.

Shen Can looked at Tan Zhuoran and said, "Don't worry about him."

Young people are competitive, that's normal and not surprising.

However, the song that Pu Bajia was going to sing piqued his interest.

"Two Ends" is a Mandarin pop song with lyrics by Chen Xinyan, music by Tingkat9, and sung by A-mei and Pu Bajia. It was included in A-mei's album "STAR" released on August 3, 2007.

Looks like everything's okay?

Actually, it's quite interesting.

This song first appeared in public when Pu Bajia participated in the variety show "Go Fighting! Boys", where he and A-mei sang it together.

This is also the first time A-mei has included a duet with someone else in an album.

The reason she did this was most likely because of Pu Bajia's face; at that time, he looked remarkably like Wang Lihong.

There were rumors circulating online that A-mei had previously dated Wang Lihong, and the two broke up in 05.

So much so that when fans saw A-mei and Pu Bajia on the same stage, they all exclaimed:

"How did you find someone who looks so much like them?"

—What is stand-in literature? (Leans back tactically).

"Speaking of which, Xiao Lu seems to have publicly expressed her admiration for Wang Lihong. Could this be the reason why she was dating Pu Bajia and then got injured and hospitalized due to their close friendship?" Shen Can wondered.

On stage, Pu Bajia gave it his all.

Although he looks like Wang Lihong and is known as the "Little Wang Lihong of the Snow Region," he is not the real Wang Lihong after all, and he still feels a lot of pressure facing Shen Can's singing skills and looks.

Especially their looks.

He had seen far too many cases where one's values ​​were dictated by physical appearance.

Even if Wang Lihong herself came, she might not be able to surpass Shen Can's looks.

This world is so unfair; some people win most of the battle just because of their looks.

Just like Jiang Yuyan in "The Little Fish and the Flower Without Flaws", she was so bad, but after the TV series aired, the discussion about her was no less than that about Fan Xiaopang, because Yang Xue was good-looking.

Moreover, Zhou Fang's singing skills are definitely far inferior to A-mei's, so he needs to bring out his best performance in this round.

"Last chance? Damn it, Shen Can is even more pretentious than me! I have to win! I have to crush him under my feet!" Pu Bajia told himself.