Rock and Roll: Glorious Years

"And then?"

When pressed for answers, Bian Lang took a drag of his cigarette, which had been mostly smoked by the sea breeze, threw the butt into a beer bottle, and slowly said, "Later, Wong Ka Kui went to heaven, and we all miss him very much."

Although Mumian and Lunzi hadn't been playing rock music for as long as Bian Lang, and were younger than him, they'd listened to quite a bit of it. Since the Huang brothers' names weren't known in the scene, they assumed Bian Lang was just making up a story.

"Bian Lang, this is also a love song, why don't we use this one for the competition!"

"Okay, but let's ask the production team later if this is within the rules." Bian Lang just said it casually, not taking it seriously at all.

Seeing that it was getting late, Bian Lang, realizing that the two had a chance to take things further, went back to his room first.

When uploading "Cold Rainy Night", Bian Lang encountered the same old problem again. He could remember how to sing the song, but he was still unsure if some words were written correctly. This made him decide to put the plan to refine the Cantonese lyrics on the agenda.

At 9:30 a.m. the next morning, in the hotel's conference hall, all 30 of the participating musicians had arrived except for one young, handsome man.

Bian Lang didn't know how the production team managed to get Xia Yuxi, who had walked out of the show yesterday, back. He was still smiling the whole time, and the production team didn't mention any reshoots. Bian Lang guessed that they had to work overtime during the post-production editing.

So, the remaining young man and two guitarists automatically formed a strange combination of two guitarists and two lead singers with Xia Yuxi.

Next, it's time to choose a song. According to the rules, the order of song selection is to add up all the team members' scores from yesterday, and the team with the lowest total score goes first.

Xia Yuxi's team had a young, low-scoring member who was a liability, and since there were only four people in total, she got the first chance to choose a song. Bian Lang, on the other hand, was given a default score of 25 by the production team, and since the other four scores weren't low either, he ended up in last place.

Bian Lang didn't care. He didn't like any of the seven songs originally, so he just changed whichever one came up.

Xia Yuxi, who came in first place, didn't choose his own song, which was both unexpected and understandable. If he got a high score, people would say he arguing that he adapted his own song, making his victory unfair!

However, the song selection process was somewhat unexpected for Bian Lang. After Xia Yuxi's walkout yesterday, he was invited back, and the many ambitious rock musicians deliberately avoided choosing his works.

In the end, this hot potato was left to Bian Lang.

"This is disgusting..." Bian Lang cursed inwardly, "This coincidence is really disgusting."

Seeing this unexpected situation, Xia Yuxi secretly felt a surge of satisfaction: "Someone used your work in a competition yesterday. This time, I'll have you adapt my work and see who gets more popularity after the show airs."

The others cast sympathetic glances at Bian Lang, as if to say, "Brother, it's better to sacrifice a friend than yourself. We'll just have to make you suffer."

However, Bian Lang made no comment and simply took the cue card representing Xia Yuxi's song and left.

The other team members didn't look too good either, but since Bian Lang didn't say anything, they naturally wouldn't do anything out of line.

After Niu Boyi announced the start of the 3-day limited-time adaptation competition, the team captains led their teams to the rehearsal room prepared by the production team.

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In Shanghai, the "little witch" who had been waiting in Kunming for three days without seeing Bian Lang was looking at her screen in frustration. Bian Lang had previously gained her a lot of followers, but she hadn't seen him at all, and the signed EP deal was still unresolved. After posting that live video, Bian Lang completely disappeared from Weibo, leaving her completely helpless.

But she has professional ethics; she can't fake her fans!

So when fans asked her to wear a JK (high school girl) dance as an apology, she felt like dying.

Just then, the top-ranked woman sent her a private message: "Witch, look at this link, it has Bian Lang's performance!"

When the little witch saw this private message, she immediately clicked on it as if she had seen a savior.

The video was posted by a Russian girl, and the content was Bian Lang and his friends' impromptu performance at the night market last night.

Before she could even finish reading, the little witch sent this girl a private message to try and network with her.

Half an hour later, the little witch who had obtained the original copyright through a proxy started creating her own video. She praised Bian Lang's creative talent from a professional perspective and commended his internationalist spirit before uploading the video.

Then I sent a private message to the top-ranked lady on the leaderboard to ask for favors. Apologizing in JK uniform is impossible. Rock fans will never give in!

An hour later, in a photography studio in Beijing, Tao Xiaoyu was taking a break and touching up her makeup while shooting promotional photos for a brand. At this moment, her agent carried over a tablet and said, "Xiaoyu, take a look at these two videos."

Tao Xiaoyu took the tablet, put on her headphones, and opened the first video. After watching for only 10 seconds, she realized that this was the song that Zhong Hua had asked her to record last night. The video's sound quality was average, with a lot of noise from the scene, but Bian Lang's performance was truly captivating, and the atmosphere at the scene was incredibly high.

She glanced at the comments and likes under the video and was completely stunned.

The over 60 likes and tens of thousands of comments gave her the illusion that she was inferior to other internet celebrities. But when she clicked into her profile, she found that she was just a minor internet celebrity with over 1 followers, which is considered a low-level influencer on Xiaohongshu.

However, those 60-plus likes are considered top-tier traffic on Xiaohongshu; it would be impossible to get that number without tens of millions of views.

She didn't even need to look at likes, favorites, or shares; the sheer volume of comments was enough to show her how popular the video was.

"Then contact Producer Chung, and we'll schedule a time for me to sing a demo first." After saying that, she started looking at the comments on the two videos.

The comments on Xiaohongshu were mostly from Russian netizens, all saying the same thing: "The Chinese musicians who understand us best!" The comments didn't break even after scrolling down several times, giving Tao Xiaoyu the illusion that all the Russian netizens on the internet had seen this video.

As for Little Witch, the opinions were all over the place. Some condemned Little Witch for misleading the public, some praised Bianlang for being awesome, and some complained that Bianlang didn't upload audio.

"Bian Lang, this name sounds familiar." After searching the name, Tao Xiaoyu realized that she might have missed a very good opportunity.

"Sister Lian, have you contacted Producer Chung yet? If not, don't mention the sample thing, just agree to it!"

The agent had returned to her side and said somewhat helplessly, "Xiaoyu, we're too late. Producer Zhong has already decided on the cast."

"Who is it?"

"They didn't say anything over there, so why did you react so strongly just now?"

"If I had known earlier that it was Lang who wrote the song, I would have agreed immediately."

Upon hearing Bian Lang's name, Sister Lian's heart skipped a beat: "What does this have to do with that Bian Lang?"

Tao Xiaoyu knew he wouldn't react quickly enough, so she handed him the tablet and let him look at it himself. After scrolling through the tablet for a while, Sister Lian opened her phone and looked at the sheet music that Zhong Hua had sent her yesterday.

"No way, producer Chung is such a rip-off! If I had known it was Bian Lang's song, then... this, this, this... oh my god..." Sister Lian was so excited that she started speaking in Shanghai dialect.

The same thing happened to several other female singers. Zhong Hua, whose phone was ringing off the hook, didn't know what was going on at first. Later, one of his managers let it slip, and he found out about it by searching online.

Overjoyed, he immediately instructed the film's publicity team to devise a plan to capitalize on the hype, and at the same time called Qiu Luo: "Camel, let's have dinner together around the time of Bianlang. He can choose any place, I'll treat."

Qiu Luo, who was in the middle of a discussion with the music film director, asked, completely bewildered, "What's wrong, Producer Zhong? Is there a top star willing to take the job? Or a superstar?"

"No, you can find out by searching the song title online. Bian Lang's move will save us a lot of money on marketing and promotion..."

Meanwhile, Huang Wei also received a message from her agent. After watching the video, she exclaimed, "Oh, it's Bian Lang's work! Looks like I'm really lucky this time!"

She then had her agent contact Bian Lang to express her gratitude and arrange a time to have dinner. She also specifically instructed her agent not to mention anything about inviting her to collaborate on a song.