You're about to retire from the entertainment industry, yet your concerts are still so popular?

At that moment, all the listeners' eyes widened, and goosebumps rose all over their bodies once again!

Ye Chen's singing sent chills down their spines and made their blood boil!

"Peace has arrived!"

They're gone.

The person she was waiting for will never come back—

After Ye Chen finished singing, the accompaniment continued.

It lasted for nearly twenty seconds before gradually subsiding.

The singing had stopped, but Ye Chen's heavenly voice still lingered in the ears, unforgettable.

Especially their passionate hearts made them understand—

Grandma is waiting for her children to return!

We are waiting for the return of countless martyrs!

Just when everyone thought the song was over.

Stage aisle entrance.

Jiang Mengting held the microphone, focusing her energy and seizing the last opportunity.

At the end of the song, solemn images of the remains of martyrs in South Korea being returned to China for burial were displayed on the stage screen.

At the same time, she immediately recited in a solemn voice, "Grandma, the hero has returned."

The moment those words were spoken, countless people who understood the core message burst into tears!

Has the hero returned?

But what they heard was: none of the heroes that Grandma was waiting for had returned alive!

"Ye Chen, have you ever considered how we fans feel when you write songs like this?! It hurts my heart to listen to them!"

"This song is so uplifting and heartbreaking, it made me cry so much! Ye Chen, where's your sweet moment?!"

"I've never heard a song so powerfully energetic from the inside out; the concept and scope are incredibly high!"

"It made me cry today! I haven't cried in over twenty years, Ye Chen, I hate you!"

"During the War of Resistance against Japan, many Chinese sons bid farewell to their parents and went to the front lines. At that time, many grandmothers, even those who were illiterate, not only did not object, but also told their children not to worry about them."

"Peace came, they left... Isn't this what we learned in history books? It really brings tears to my eyes!"

now.

Jiang Mengting couldn't help but stand there and choked up.

It's not because she's tone-deaf that she can still participate in the emotional moments of singing.

It's because Ye Chen said that this voice-over was telling Grandma that the hero has returned.

She understood all too well that what the hero returned with were scattered remains!

Special guest area.

Li Shuyuan and Professor Zhang exchanged a glance, both sensing the doubt and the strangeness.

"Old Zhang, this song...! The phrasing stops here?!" Li Shuyuan was completely dumbfounded. "The spoken parts clearly have no ending point?!"

Professor Zhang was also quite bewildered: "The narration is interrupted for such a long time? Was it deliberately placed after the song's accompaniment ended?"

"I have a feeling that this spoken line clearly indicates that the song is not over!" Professor Zhang was full of questions.

"Professor Zhang, when I hear the phrase 'the heroes have returned,' I think of the images of the remains of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army martyrs returning to China."

With red eyes, Zhang Yiming pointed to the stage screen and added:

"Those photos on the screen are images of the tenth batch of martyrs returning home."

Li Shuyuan and Professor Zhang instantly understood: "Ye Chen is telling everyone: after many years, the heroes that Grandma had been hoping for and waiting for have truly returned home!"

Tears welled up in Zhang Rui's eyes again as he gritted his teeth and said, "Ye Chen! You're stabbing me in the back with your last sentence!!!"

He was really crying and angry!

They weren't the only ones who were stabbed.

The song "Grandma" sings of a grandmother with bound feet watching over her children who were thrown into the flames of war during the revolutionary era, pulling one after another, only to have them all called away by the cries of resistance.

This song about national righteousness has elevated the music scene, completely transcending the previous themes of romance and love.

So, the song ended.

The fans in the audience applauded and cried their eyes out.

"Ye Chen! You owe me for my tears! I didn't bring enough tissues with me today!!" A girl's sobbing voice came from Section A.

Immediately afterwards, cries of grief rose from all directions.

"Our nation has a glorious and splendid history, once vast and boundless, yet in the last century it has endured countless hardships, its land shattered and its rivers and mountains broken!"

"Yes, that's why Ye Chen said in the song that the adopted son that Grandma longed for all came out of the mountains and became a hero of the new China."

"It was because of their unwavering resistance and sincere love that they protected the land and their grandmother."

In section D, Duoduo hugged a police teddy bear and looked up at her mother.

"Mommy, why is everyone crying?"

Mom gently wiped her eyes with a tissue and said softly, "Because everyone is very touched."

What is being moved?

"Being moved is... a warm feeling in your heart, a bittersweet feeling, wanting to cry and laugh at the same time."

……

on the stage.

Friends.

Once the audience's emotions had gradually calmed down, Ye Chen raised the microphone:

History is vast, but history books are small. They contain the greatness of heroes, but when we casually flip through them, we see their entire lives...

"Therefore, the great mothers who raised these warriors should not be forgotten either."

"This song is dedicated to all the great heroic mothers in the world. And they are all heroines!"

After speaking, Ye Chen bowed in each direction.

At that moment, the entire audience erupted in thunderous applause once again.

Interspersed among them were shouts from fans:

"Ye Chen! Stop bowing! We should be thanking you!"

"You sing so well! Please don't retire from the industry!"

"Ye Chen! Stay!"

But Ye Chen did not respond to these calls; now is not the time for interaction.

The next song is still waiting for him.

Ye Chen slowly scanned the entire room. "Today is May 4th, so I've been thinking about a question."

The audience quieted down, and some even sat up straight, watching him speak.

"When young people our age ran around a hundred years ago, did they ever imagine that a hundred years later, someone would be passing on their stories?"

At that moment, no one answered.

The stadium was so quiet you could hear a pin drop; this sudden question stunned everyone.

"Yeah, they probably didn't think of that," Ye Chen answered himself. "When they rushed into the storm, they probably only thought that if they made it out of this path, their descendants wouldn't have to follow it."

Ye Chen raised his hand and gestured across the entire venue, then pointed to the "standing audience" on the mountain: "And we are the 'descendants' they are talking about."

These words are like a needle, gently piercing the hearts of countless people.

"So, the next song is called 'Misplaced Time and Space' (May Fourth Version)."

As soon as Ye Chen finished speaking, the director, following Ye Chen's rehearsal, switched to the largest screen on the stage, showing footage of public domain films and television programs depicting the War of Resistance against Japan and the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Scenes of pioneers from a century ago are montaged into a high-energy video.

Projecting videos was unavoidable, as four days was far too short for Ye Chen to design the stage.

Even with such a rough cut, the audience in the stadium was deeply moved!

On stage, the prelude to the music has already begun.