HuaYu97: Starting as a Singer

Chapter 128 [128] You want me to spend money to buy tickets to sing for you?

Ren Quan and Li Bingbing will be there mainly because they haven't received any work recently.

Li Bingbing wanted to come to Taiwan again to see how her younger sister was doing.

In addition, Li Xue sent them two concert tickets, so they decided to come and join the fun.

The two celebrities weren't the only ones at the event; Tao Ze also brought his newly-smitten girlfriend, Melody Liu Xiangong, to the concert.

Zhang Tong had no friends in Taiwan, and Qi Yuan was worried that she would be bored, so he arranged for Tao Ze and Liu Xiangong to take her with them so that she would have some company.

When Tao Ze met Zhang Tong, he felt that Qi Yuan and he were kindred spirits, both enjoying picking up girls.

Last time it was a young model, this time it's a different one.

I wonder if Qi Yuan has surpassed him in terms of quantity; he's dated dozens of girls.

Wang Lihong from Sony, Li Zongsheng from Rolling Stone, Liu Ruoying, and others also came.

After all the audience members had entered, Li Bingbing and Ren Quan, who were sitting in the front, turned around and saw that all they could see were light boards and glow sticks with Qi Yuan's name on them.

Even though Qi Yuan hadn't taken the stage yet, the fans' screams were already coming in waves.

The atmosphere at the concert with tens of thousands of people was so powerful that even as a spectator, I felt a surge of excitement.

The sounds coming from all directions made it difficult for Li Bingbing and Ren Quan, who were sitting next to each other, to communicate.

If you shout loudly without getting close enough to the other person's ear, they won't hear what you're saying at all.

"There are too many people, all the seats are full," Li Bingbing shouted.

"I saw it too, Qi Yuan..."

Ren Quan originally wanted to say that Qi Yuan was too popular, but before he could utter the words "too popular," his voice was drowned out by the cheers of tens of thousands of fans.

Because the concert has started.

An electronic voice announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Taoyuan stop of the Qiyuan World Tour. During the performance, please refrain from recording or filming, and please put your mobile phones on silent or vibrate... The concert is now officially starting."

After the opening remarks, fireworks shot into the sky in front of the stage, deeply stimulating the senses of the audience.

Every second the budget is being burned.

The piano chords of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" filled everyone's ears.

As the stage lights came on, people saw Qi Yuan, dressed in a white suit, descending from the sky on wires. He was standing on a very high-tech 'spaceship' and had a guitar slung across his chest.

The bottom of the spaceship spews fireworks, making it look like a small alien spaceship using engines to control its descent speed.

This incredibly cool scene was designed by Warner Bros. and Pepsi with a huge investment.

The proof of the spacecraft bears the Pepsi trademark.

Even the white suit Qi Yuan was wearing was designed by someone from Pepsi.

Blue and white have always been Pepsi's main colors. In the past, when Zhang Guorong and Liu Dehua were Pepsi spokespeople, the clothes that Pepsi customized for them were mainly blue.

Starting with Aaron Kwok in 97, white clothing became a viable option.

Qi Yuan chose white over blue.

He descended from the sky playing his guitar, and the fans roared loudly and intensely. Li Bingbing and Zhou Jielun, who were sitting in the front row, felt like their eardrums were about to be ruptured.

After landing, Qi Yuan adjusted the mini microphone near her mouth and began to sing while playing the piano: "Love is a strange thing, I started to lose control of my whole body. Love is a skill, I started to not even be myself anymore. I've done so many foolish things for you, the first one was writing poems for you. Writing poems for you, freezing for you, doing the impossible for you, learning to play the piano and write lyrics for you... I forgot to say that the most beautiful thing is your name..."

The show opened with "Writing Poems for You," followed by a series of songs from both the new and older albums, including "Jiangnan," "The First Time," "Serious Snow," "Love Me or Him," and "Yellow Race." The dance troupe took the stage starting with "Jiangnan," and Qi Yuan occasionally danced during the performance.

People were surprised to find that Qi Yuan was actually a pretty good dancer.

He possesses master-level dance skills, which is top-tier among ordinary people.

After singing five or six songs, Qi Yuan, following the concert script, said to the fans in the audience, "How about we play a game and pick a fan to sing 'Dong Feng Po' with me?"

"it is good!"

The screams were deafening, and some fans even screamed until their voices cracked.

Qi Yuan walked to the edge of the stage and pointed to Zhou Jielun in the audience: "It's you."

The staff handed the microphone to Zhou Jielun.

Jay Chou's brain has gone blank. He paid to see Qi Yuan's concert, but Qi Yuan, you little brat, made me pay to sing for you?
He even brought his female classmates with him when he went on "Super Newcomer King". He was really nervous about singing at a concert with tens of thousands of people.

Liu Genghong understood Qi Yuan's intention.

Chou Chieh-lun was in a daze and was practically supported by Wen Lan and Liu Geng-hong. It took him five or six seconds for his brain to start working again.

Looking around, he saw all the fans watching him, which made him feel nervous and scared, but also somewhat expectant.

"His name is Zhou Jielun, and he is the composer of the song 'Dong Feng Po'."

Qi Yuan first introduced Zhou Jielun, then asked him, "Can I hear you sing?"

Zhou Jielun's palms were sweating with nervousness. He took a deep breath and asked in a trembling voice, "Uh... will there be subtitles later?"

He can't even remember the lyrics he wrote himself, so how could he possibly remember the lyrics written by Quan Fangwenshan?

Without a teleprompter, he was afraid he would turn Qi Yuan's "Qi Yuan" concert into a "Incoherent" concert.

"Yes, I want to hear if you can give a different feeling when you sing 'Dong Feng Po'."

As the intro to "Dong Feng Po" began, Zhou Jielun adjusted his baseball cap and looked at Gao Yuanyuan, Liu Genghong, and Wen Lan beside him. The three of them were cheering him on.

He mustered his courage and sang according to his feelings: "A lamp of sorrow stands alone by the window, I pretend you haven't left behind the door, revisiting the old place under the full moon only makes me feel more lonely, the candlelight that is awake in the middle of the night cannot bear to blame me."

With each line he sang, the fans in the audience would erupt in the most sincere cheers.

He actually kind of enjoyed the feeling, but the tension wouldn't disappear immediately.

He raised his right hand, signaling to Qi Yuan on the stage to take over.

Then he realized that Qi Yuan was just clapping, not actually catching the ball.

He could only continue singing: "A pot of wine, drifting and wandering the world, is hard to swallow; after you left, the wine warms memories, but longing makes me thin..."

When the chorus came, he raised his right hand again, but Qi Yuan still showed no intention of singing along, so he had no choice but to finish the chorus.

Many singer-songwriters can bring their own unique flavor to songs they wrote for others and sing them again.

The same goes for Jay Chou; as his later fans would say, it's 'full of Ba-style'.

As she sang, Jay Chou noticed that paparazzi had sneaked into the concert and taken many photos of her.

Jay Chou was both surprised and delighted. After the concert, could he really become famous?
He might become a singer who debuts at a superstar concert?

(End of this chapter)