Peninsula Landlord

Chapter 442: Prelude to Returning to China

"How about you listen to this song of mine first?"

"Listen to music? Have you finished this song?"

"And can you compose music?"

When they heard Huang Xu's words, Sunny and Kim Taeyeon's first reaction was disbelief.

It’s not that they look down on Huang Xu, but because writing lyrics is not as mysterious as imagined.

Even if you are not a professional, it is not difficult to copy the lyrics as long as you learn a little.

Especially Huang Xu’s lyrics, which are so easy to understand.

But when it comes to composing music, it is much more difficult than writing lyrics. Even if it is plagiarism, it requires certain professional knowledge.

So does Huang Xu have this ability?

"Ah~~, you guys don't trust me that much?"

"Besides, when have I ever lied to you?"

Seeing the two people's suspicious eyes, Huang Xu no longer hesitated. He reached out and took the lyrics from Kim Taeyeon's hand, and sang to them at the top of his voice.

"Let’s learn to cat meow together, meow meow meow meow meow together"

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"No, you really can?"

Although the scene of Huang Xu singing with his throat pinched was very funny, neither Sunny nor Kim Taeyeon had the intention to laugh at him.

Instead, he looked at Huang Xu with shock on his face, his eyes full of disbelief.

As professional singers, although they are just idols in a girl group, they still have the most basic appreciation ability.

Although the song sung by Huang Xu was very simple, and he was a tall boy over 1.8 meters tall, he pinched his throat to sing a song that was obviously for girls, which made the scene very funny.

But that doesn't mean the song is bad.

The rhythm is simple, but catchy, even though I only listened to it for the first time and only the beginning.

But they both already knew the general effect of singing this song.

And most importantly, in their minds, they have already begun to imagine Tara and her friends singing this song.

It’s not because of how talented they are or how deep their research into music is, but because Tara had sung a similar song a few years ago.

The song "BobeepBoBeep" became an instant hit after its release, and it is extremely similar to the current song.

The same simple rhythm and long repetitive lyrics are very brainwashing and easy to get addicted to.

And the dance of several people with cat claws was even more impressive.

This song not only caused a huge sensation in South Korea, but also achieved explosive success in Japan.

Now Sunny and Kim Taeyeon can already imagine the scene of Tara and her friends performing in sexy costumes, cat claw gloves, and cat ear headbands.

Just as the two were immersed in their own imaginations, Huang Xu, who was singing with his throat pinched, had lost all the courage he had just mustered.

The singing also stopped.

However, to his surprise, when Sunny and Kim Taeyeon heard him singing this song, they did not laugh, but instead squinted their eyes and stared blankly.

This made Huang Xu feel quite strange.

He is aware of his singing level, and even among ordinary people, he is not considered a microphone master.

Singing this lovely song at this level and with the voice squeezed, the effect is self-evident.

So after Huang Xu stopped, he looked at the two people who were unwilling to speak for a long time and instead looked at him with scrutinizing eyes, and then explained.

"Let me first state that I am not a pervert."

"I was just thinking"

"We know, we're just a little surprised."

"I didn't expect you to be able to write songs, and the quality of the songs you wrote is actually quite good."

After the two sighed, they looked at each other and began to question Huang Xu tacitly.

"Huang Xu, when did you start learning music?"

"How come we don't know?"

"And you never told me before, you know these things?"

"Yeah, not only do you know how to do it, but you're obviously not a novice, you can even compose music."

"Tell me, how many things are you hiding from us?"

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"Well, let me explain."

Looking at the two people who were approaching and examining him, Huang Xu hurriedly began to explain.

"I didn't say it before because I really didn't know how to do it, and I still don't know how to do it now."

"I just watched Tara's song and got inspired, so I wrote it casually."

"Didn't you see that I revised it many times?"

As he spoke, Huang Xu pointed to the traces of modification on the document to prove that he was not lying.

Kim Taeyeon and Sunny, after looking at the modification traces on the document, nodded in agreement.

"Indeed."

"Yeah, I said I didn't lie to you!"

Seeing the two of them nod, Huang Xu also breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, when he was copying the lyrics in the afternoon, he couldn't remember some of them clearly, so he revised them many times.

Otherwise it’s really hard to explain now.

However, before Huang Xu could relax for two seconds, he heard Kim Taeyeon continue to ask.

"Okay, I won't talk about the lyrics and inspiration, but where did you get this song?"

"I remember that you don't seem to be able to play any musical instruments, and you haven't studied composition."

"Uh~~, I"

Looking at Kim Taeyeon who was looking at him again, Huang Xu was speechless for a moment.

From the time he started writing songs until just now, he had never thought about how to explain the fact that he could compose music.

And now Kim Taeyeon and Sunny were staring at him, which made Huang Xu feel a little embarrassed.

Fortunately, he quickly remembered a program he had watched before and told them about it.

"I really don't know how to play any instrument. I just hummed these."

"Hey, do you think I will believe it?"

In response to Huang Xu's explanation, both Kim Taeyeon and Sunny rolled their eyes in silence.

They said they didn't believe Huang Xu at all when he said he could write a song of this quality just by humming.

After so many years of debut, they have never heard of such an outrageous thing.

However, seeing Huang Xu's expression of "That's what I did, what can you do to me", Kim Taeyeon couldn't help but remind Huang Xu.

"Huang Xu, can the chords you hum match the C major chord?"

"How come I didn't know you were a one-in-a-million musical genius?"

"C major? What's that?"

Huang Xu was confused after listening to Kim Taeyeon's words.

He had no idea what she meant by the key of C major.

But after he finished speaking, he felt a sense of regret that he had just said the wrong thing.

But it's too late to remedy the situation now.

Sure enough, after hearing Huang Xu's words, Kim Taeyeon's face immediately showed an excited expression.

However, she did not directly expose Huang Xu's lies, but first explained to Huang Xu.

"C major is actually a canon chord, one of the universal chords for arranging music. It is usually composed of 156344."

“And the song you wrote fits perfectly with this chord arrangement.”

"If you can write a song that fits the key of C major without ever having studied music, then you may be a rare musical genius."

"Well, it's comparable to Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach." "Uh~~~~"

Although Kim Taeyeon didn't say it explicitly, Huang Xu immediately understood that his mistake just now had made the two of them doubt him.

However, his panic only lasted for a short time before he calmed down.

Yes, I copied this song myself, but who knows?
The most important thing is, he has no way to explain it?
I can't confess to them both that I'm a reborn person.

So when facing the two people's questions, Huang Xu maintained the same attitude: this song was written by himself.

Although he has never studied music, doesn't know how to play various musical instruments, and doesn't know much about music theory.

But he just wrote a song by humming.

His attitude made Kim Taeyeon and Sunny very angry.

They clearly knew that Huang Xu couldn't write such a song, but he refused to admit it and insisted that he wrote it, and they had no evidence.

After a stalemate, the two men, who had no way to deal with Huang Xu, had to give up and continue questioning.

But in the end, the two of them still warned Huang Xu.

"Don't let us find the evidence."

After saying that, the two of them stood up and left the table, leaving Huang Xu with a mess.

Huang Xu looked at the two people who stood up directly without saying anything, but quickly finished the remaining food.

Then he took the bowls and plates and went into the kitchen to start washing them.

Given Sunny and Kim Taeyeon’s current condition, Huang Xu didn’t dare to go over to them for help.

Fortunately, today’s dinner was not complicated and Huang Xu cleaned it up quickly.

When he came out of the kitchen, Kim Taeyeon and Sunny were snuggling on the sofa, not knowing what they were doing.

"What are you doing?"

He walked over to the two of them, watched them writing and drawing on paper, and asked them curiously.

Hearing Huang Xu's presence, the two of them raised their heads, holding what they had just written, and spoke to Huang Xu.

"Of course I'm composing music for you."

"Composition?"

Looking at the musical score on the paper, Huang Xu was also a little confused.

It seemed like he just sang the beginning just now. How did the two of them compose the music for this song?

And he can't compose music, but can Kim Taeyeon and Sunny do it?

He remembered that these two people seemed to have never written any songs.

Perhaps because she saw the suspicion in Huang Xu's eyes, Sunny couldn't bear to watch it anymore.

"Ah~~, what's that look in your eyes?"

"Do you look down on us?"

"No, I'm just curious."

Looking at Sunny's eyes, Huang Xu hurriedly explained.

"Even though you are idols, you probably haven't learned how to compose music."

"And I just sang the beginning, how do you know what the song will be like next?"

"It seems you really don't understand!"

Hearing Huang Xu's question, Sunny and Kim Taeyeon smiled at each other, and then continued to speak to Huang Xu.

“Who said we didn’t learn to compose music?”

“We studied a lot of music theory and composition before our debut.”

“Just because we didn’t write it doesn’t mean we won’t do it.”

"And it seems that you really don't know much about composing music?"

"How to say?"

Huang Xu looked at Sunny's proud expression and started asking questions according to her words.

Seeing Huang Xu being so cooperative, Sunny smiled and introduced Kim Taeyeon to her.

"Taeyeon has been studying music composition since her debut."

"As for your song, even though we only heard the beginning, the chord progression is actually just a C major chord."

"Taeyeon only needed to make a slight move to write out the chords for your song."

"Is that so?"

After listening to Sunny's words, Huang Xu also looked at Kim Taeyeon.

He and Kim Taeyeon have known each other for such a long time, but he has never heard that she has such a skill.

And I don’t think I’ve ever heard that Kim Taeyeon wrote her own songs in her previous life.

Kim Taeyeon looked at Huang Xu's doubts, nodded, and gave an affirmative answer.

"Well, I don't know what you were thinking, nor do I know how you hummed it."

"But it's no problem to make a basic arrangement based on the C major chord."

"What do you think?"

As he said that, he handed the document in his hand to Huang Xu.

However, after Huang Xu took the document handed over by Kim Taeyeon and looked at the musical notation on it, he was stunned.

Although he knew musical notation and had taken music lessons as a child.

However, there are only a few classes in a semester, and music classes are often occupied, which is not enough for him to understand the musical notation.

So after taking a look at it twice, Huang Xu awkwardly gave it back to Kim Taeyeon.

"That, I don't understand."

"can't read?"

Looking at Huang Xu in surprise, Kim Taeyeon also felt like covering her face.

Since he doesn't know anything, how did he write this song?

Bought it from someone else?
Or is it true that you just hummed it out?

However, thinking back to Huang Xu's stubborn look just now, she did not continue to press the issue, but instead spoke to Huang Xu.

"Okay, I'll sing it for you."

Then, her unique singing voice rang out in the living room of the apartment.

Although the lyrics of this song are very simple, the melody is just C major, which is known as the universal chord.

But with the blessing of her voice, it also becomes beautiful and pleasant.

Huang Xu even suddenly felt that it might be okay for Kim Tae-woo to sing this song.

Although Kim Taeyeon has started to lose weight now, the baby fat on her face has also disappeared a lot.

But she still maintains a soft and cute state, giving people a grandma-like feeling.

In this case, singing this lovely song is not as simple as one plus one being greater than two.

Huang Xu and Sunny, who were watching nearby, were both somewhat intoxicated by it.

And it continued until Kim Taeyeon finished singing, and neither of them had woken up from their intoxication.

After singing the song once, Kim Taeyeon looked at the two stunned people and asked.

"What are you doing?"

"Why do you always have this expression?"

"Is it because I don't sing well?"

"No, you sang very well, and not only did you sing very well, you also sang very well."

Looking at Kim Taeyeon's cute expression, Huang Xu couldn't help but hold her in his arms, gently pinched her little face and explained.

Kim Taeyeon, who was hugged by Huang Xu, leaned directly into Huang Xu's arms and looked at Huang Xu with some confusion.

"very nice?"

(End of this chapter)