Who taught you to be a celebrity like this?

"It's nothing, it's nothing." Ding Yan waved her hand, ignoring the surprised looks from Zhang Xiaoqi and Duan Lin, and gently stroked Li Xiran in her arms.

Some things are simply incomprehensible to outsiders.

Even she couldn't control her emotions when she heard Li Ye sing "The Ordinary Road" at Liu Yufen's house.

Ding Yan had initially been somewhat resistant, but upon hearing Li Xiran's sobs, she couldn't help but feel a lump in her throat.

When Li Ye came out of the recording studio, he saw Li Xiran sobbing and trembling in Ding Yan's arms. He gave Zhang Xiaoqi, who was welcoming him with open arms, an apologetic smile and walked over to pat Li Xiran gently.

"What's wrong, Xiao Xiran?" he asked in a tone as if coaxing a child.

Seeing this heartwarming scene, Zhang Xiaoqi clapped his hands awkwardly and left the control room with Duan Lin.

"Look!"

Ding Yan, unusually, raised her voice and said, "Brother is out!"

Li Xiran finally stood up and saw Li Ye, who was half-squatting and smiling at her.

"elder brother."

She cried out and instinctively hugged Li Ye, burying her head in his shoulder, just like when she was a child.

Li Xiran had tried to understand Li Ye's changes before, but later she found it increasingly difficult to comprehend them.

Of course, she can't understand it in the short term.

But from Li Ye's singing, she could hear what kind of pain Li Ye had gone through and how much effort he had put in to finally get through it.

After a while, Li Ye and Ding Yan came out of the production studio. Li Xiran, being shy, left her to calm down by herself.

"Excuse me..."

"Great, that's wonderful!"

Before Ding Yan could finish her apology, Zhang Xiaoqi excitedly grabbed Li Ye's hand: "Your performance just now was amazing! It was something I never imagined. And yes, only someone your age could have this kind of mindset!"

Li Ye gave a forced smile, his mouth tightly shut, and his body leaned back slightly.

The main problem was that Zhang Xiaoqi's saliva flew onto his face.

Zhang Xiaoqi didn't notice anything and pulled Li Ye towards the control room.

It was too late to stop it.

Li Xiran was still fanning herself inside when she saw the two of them come in. She immediately lowered her head and ran out, her eyes and face flushed, and her neck was burning red.

This is what girls are like.

She was crying uncontrollably just moments ago, but after she finished crying, she became shy and hesitant to face anyone.

"At first I thought you were pretending to know what you didn't, but after listening to you sing, I realized that I was the one who didn't know. You sang it so perfectly."

Zhang Xiaoqi didn't care about the girl's feelings; his eyes were only on Li Ye: "Oh, by the way, I've always wanted to ask you what the 'via' in the lyrics means."

"I looked it up online, and in Italian or Latin etymology, it seems to mean 'road' or 'journey.' In English, as a preposition, it also means 'path' or 'passage.' So, could you tell me exactly what it means?"

Zhang Xiaoqi's eyes behind his glasses seemed to be glowing.

To this, Li Ye could only shake his head... "I don't know."

Zhang Xiaoqi, however, seemed to suddenly understand: "I see, I get it!"

No, what exactly do you understand?

Li Ye was astonished, and Zhang Xiaoqi, as if answering a question prematurely, said with a hint of smugness, "It doesn't necessarily have a specific meaning. Connecting the preceding 'Are you leaving?' and 'Where are you going?', it sounds like urging, hesitation, and also like a question and answer to itself."

"When you sing this word, the pronunciation is long and drawn out, with a sense of extension, which sounds like an endless highway."

"So that's it! So that word is the theme of this song!"

Zhang Xiaoqi's smugness grew even stronger, as if he knew everything about Li Ye, and he pressed him for an answer: "Am I right?"

"Uh, right...?" Li Ye was a little confused by his reading and thinking, his brain simply couldn't process anything.

"Haha, so you like this kind of thing too, you like readers to guess what's going on."

Zhang Xiaoqi waved his hand: "Alright, even if someone asks me what this word means in the future, I won't tell them. Let them figure it out for themselves."

Having achieved his goal, Zhang Xiaoqi composed himself and returned to work.

However, although he knew the feeling Li Ye wanted and how to achieve it, he still needed to make more attempts to make it the best it could be and satisfy both him and Li Ye.

Zhang Xiaoqi is not only a top-notch producer and arranger, but also an all-around musician who can play many instruments.

After setting the tone, he tested each of the instruments he knew for Li Ye.

Li Ye shook his head repeatedly, while Zhang Xiaoqi frowned deeply: "Is the tune wrong?"

Then, somewhat irritated, he pressed a few buttons on the control panel, and a slightly distorted sound effect came through his headphones.

"That's it!"

Li Ye's eyes lit up: "That's exactly the electronic sound we want! We should use this sound for all instruments!"

Zhang Xiaoqi frowned. He could understand that this electronic sound could indeed create a feeling of being on the road, like being on a rugged, desolate highway.

But......

"This is fucking too thick!" Zhang Xiaoqi couldn't help but swear.

To make a top-notch producer like him, who strives for perfection, do work that anyone could do in a roadside recording studio, isn't that an insult?

"It really works, you can trust me, Teacher Zhang." Li Ye looked at Zhang Xiaoqi earnestly.

"Alright."

As a teacher, Zhang Xiaoqi felt that he should support his students' ideas and give them a chance to try.

"Then you can go back now. Just come back to record the song tomorrow."

But the teacher also has his own pride and doesn't want to see this student, whom he both loves and hates, anymore.

......

Just like the news that Li Ye wanted to collaborate with Fanxing through a studio spread throughout Fanxing.

The story of Yang Zhenzhen, who had personally helped him into the sedan chair and left with a dark face, hoping to see him make a fool of himself, also spread.

One of the bolder staff members took the initiative to ask Zhang Xiaoqi, who was on his way home from get off work, what had happened.

Zhang Xiaoqi finished the humiliating accompaniment in less than an hour. He was in a good mood and praised Li Ye highly before leaving, humming the melody of "The Ordinary Road".

After a period of time, the news spread and fermented, and then became: Zhang Xiaoqi angrily rebuked Yang Zhenzhen: What's wrong with Li Ye taking some shares of Fanxing?

Of course, this rumor is too exaggerated for anyone to believe, but it's fine to have a laugh about it.

Chen Yusheng and other senior executives received video and audio files of Li Ye singing "The Ordinary Road".

"Listen to that, how well he sings!"

Liu Yufen, beaming with pride, gently patted the boy next to her who was staring intently at the TV projector: "Doesn't this brother sing quite well?"

"Yes, Grandma."

The boy nodded vigorously, thinking, "Wow, if I could sing this well, picking up girls would be so easy!"

Liu Yufen glared at Chen Yusheng again: "You're acting like I've harmed you by letting you see Ono. What's with all this talk about avoiding suspicion? If Ono doesn't want to cooperate with you anymore, don't come begging me for help."

Chen Yusheng's wife nodded in agreement, saying, "This child has a very unique temperament, which is rare in the entertainment industry."

Chen Yusheng could only helplessly say that he was not.