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Fang Yu's performance continues to gain momentum.

"I wish everyone smiles often, and that you nurture yourselves with love. Tomorrow, we'll be even stronger!"

"I wish you could run faster than that black man on the world stage, and that talented people would emerge year after year!"

To say that these lyrics have any extraordinary literary merit...

No, it's as straightforward as an old man chatting at the village entrance.

But you'd say it's rustic?

Every word of that song resonated deeply with the people.

"Swagger around! Swagger around! Lotte will take care of your troubles!"

"Congratulations! May you prosper! Shout it with great enthusiasm!"

When the chorus melody starts again.

The atmosphere at the Fang family's cottage was completely ignited.

Zhao Guifang and Fang Daqiang, the elderly couple, are now completely brainwashed by this song.

The two of them shouted at the top of their lungs, echoing Fang Yu's words:

"Congratulations on your fortune!"

"Congratulations on your wonderful performance!"

Although the tune had drifted to Siberia, the genuine joy it evoked was something no one could stop.

Liu Yifei was also caught up in the enthusiastic atmosphere.

She was too embarrassed to sing along, but the rhythm of her clapping got faster and faster, and the amplitude of her body swaying increased.

Those eyes, which were originally detached from worldly affairs, now curved into crescent moons, filled with the vibrant warmth of everyday life.

The live stream chat was completely flooded with the four characters "Gong Xi Fa Cai" (Wishing you prosperity).

[I'm hooked! Completely hooked! I feel like I won't be able to get through the year if I don't listen to this song by now!]

[I've already recorded it! I'm going to set it as my alarm for the next year! Waking up to "Wishing you prosperity" every day sounds so exciting!]

[What kind of amazing person is Fang Yu?! He can write calligraphy that's astonishing, paint priceless traditional Chinese paintings, and now even his songs are so down-to-earth and so catchy! How many more surprises do you have in store for us to discover?]

Putting everything else aside, based on this song alone, Fang Yu has already secured it as the number one song on my New Year's playlist! Nobody can dethrone it!

……

the other side.

Sister Wang's New Year's Eve dinner was a bittersweet experience.

From the moment Fang Yu shouted "Gong Xi Fa Cai" (Wishing you prosperity) during her live stream, her phone became a vibrator.

One after another, I was bombarded with calls from unknown numbers.

She picked one up casually.

"Hey? Is this Sister Wang? I'm the copyright director at Tencent Music! We want Fang Yu's song 'Gong Xi Fa Cai' exclusively! Name your price!"

Before Sister Wang could even swallow her saliva, another phone rang.

She decisively switched lines and started another one.

"Happy New Year, Sister Wang! This is NetEase Cloud Music! Don't pay attention to those stingy old guys at Tencent! We'll double the price! We'll sell everything we own to get the first release!"

"Sister Wang! Coolmuse Music requests to join the battle!"

"Sister Wang! Soft drink music..."

Listening to the executives of those major internet companies on the phone, shouting themselves hoarse about the fierce competition in bidding.

Sister Wang felt a wave of dizziness and almost fainted from happiness on the spot.

Having worked in this industry for so many years, she has seen countless big scenes.

But a song that hasn't been recorded or released yet, but was only sung once on a live broadcast, can cause a frenzy of competition among all the top music platforms on the internet.

If he were to release a professionally edited studio version, wouldn't this kid turn the Chinese music scene upside down?

……

The scene cuts back to Kaoshantun.

The song finally came to an end.

Fang Yu used a series of "Gong Xi Fa Cai" (Wishing you prosperity) to bring the atmosphere of the entire song to its climax.

"Congratulations on your fortune!"

"Congratulations on your wonderful performance!"

"The best please come over, the worst please leave. Politeness never hurts!"

"May you be happy and prosperous!"

After singing the last line.

Fang Yu bowed deeply to the camera once again.

The movements were exaggerated, but the sincerity was evident.

"Great! Well sung!"

Fang Daqiang was so excited that his face turned red and his neck bulged, and he clapped his hands so loudly it shook the heavens.

"Absolutely! Don't they know whose son he is!"

Zhao Guifang looked proud, her back ramrod straight.

Liu Yifei clapped vigorously, her fair palms turning red from clapping.

She looked at Fang Yu, who was still posing, and sincerely praised him.

"Fang Yu, this song... is really good."

When she said "good," she didn't mean how skillful the technique was or how elaborate the lyrics were.

Rather, it's the purest kind of joy contained in this song that can instantly ignite people's emotions.

This was the most festive song she had ever heard.

Fang Yu was a little flattered by the praise, scratched his head, and chuckled.

Andy Lau is awesome!

This system is awesome!

However, he had no idea.

In the short few minutes he sang.

This newcomer, who has only been in the industry for half a year, has already surpassed 99% of his peers in the entertainment industry and has one foot already in the door of next year's Spring Festival Gala.

Just then, the hour, minute, and second hands of the quartz clock on the wall finally aligned on the number "12".

clang--!

clang--!

clang--!

The New Year's bells rang.

Outside the window, the sporadic sounds of firecrackers suddenly became more frequent, crackling and popping throughout the night sky.

Happy Chinese New Year!

"Happy New Year!"

The family members exchanged blessings, their faces beaming with happiness.

……

Beijing, CCTV Spring Festival Gala Studio 1.

The clock has just struck midnight.

On stage, the hosts wore perfect smiles and announced the next program after the New Year.

Logically, having successfully navigated the most stressful and error-prone highlight of the entire event—the "midnight countdown"—all the staff should have breathed a sigh of relief.

If the remaining programs are broadcast as scheduled, the task of this year's Spring Festival Gala can be considered basically accomplished.

But this year, the atmosphere in the control room was terrifyingly oppressive.

The chief director, Wang Jianguo, known as Director Wang, is a man whose hair is mostly gray. He is staring silently at a small screen in front of him.

On the screen, what was being shown wasn't their own gala, but a clip of a live stream that had just been downloaded from the internet.

In the video, a young man is sitting on a large heated kang bed, a typical feature of rural Northeast China, with a window decorated with bright red paper-cut decorations behind him.

He wasn't holding a microphone; in front of him was a cheap Bluetooth speaker that cost 9.9 yuan with free shipping. He was belting out a song into the camera, using the most down-to-earth and infectious voice, over and over again:

"Congratulations on your fortune! Congratulations on your amazing success!"

"The best please come over, the worst please leave. Politeness never hurts!"

Sudden.

"Snapped!"

Director Wang raised his hand and slapped his thigh hard.

"How foolish!"

"How could I be so foolish!"

"This song! This is the kind of song ordinary people want to hear during the Lunar New Year!"

He pointed at the screen and said to the staff around him with great distress.

"Listen to these lyrics! How genuine and simple they are!"

"Every line of the song resonates deeply with the people!"

"Listen to this melody again! It's simple! Catchy! Lively! Festive!"

"Isn't this a hundred times better than the songs we sang at the gala?!"

"And this singer! Fang Yu, right?"

Director Wang pointed to the young man on the screen who was still making faces at the camera.

"Look at this young man's energy and spirit! That genuine joy! This is how young people should celebrate the New Year!"

"If we had put this song in the midnight finale, tonight's ratings and reviews would have been absolutely phenomenal!"