At 3 a.m., the landmines in front of the station

Su Che began to "reflect".

I started to doubt myself.

"Upon reflection, my mother's unwavering belief from the very beginning was—'You can't possibly be better than your father.'"

"If that's the case, why can't I trust her just this once? She has no reason to lie to me about something like this, so what am I resentful about?"

"Hoping to fight against fate and achieve a good outcome?"

"Haha."

"After An Qing arrived, she's been practicing singing for me, but I guess she doesn't really like singing that much. She prefers painting."

"Yuan Xiao also practiced the piano desperately, transforming from a little kid who couldn't even press the F chords properly into a little expert who could instantly switch from the low positions to the 12th fret to perform a chord sweep."

"Gu Zhi clearly doesn't like bass, but she's put aside her differences and is studying hard with Nana."

"Xiao Xiao is doing everything, and she's even writing about the Imperial Uncle with all her might, working day and night to lighten my burden."

"Senior...Senior contributed her time, effort, money, and connections. Everyone...everyone was working hard for my unrealistic idea."

"But, if you can't beat them, you can't beat them."

"I can't beat my dad. If I want to beat him, I can only... outlast him."

"He will live shorter than me. I can only beat him in this pathetic way."

"But when a person dies, all obsessions turn to dust, and my hatred for him no longer has any meaning, so in a way, it is equivalent to me losing."

"I don't want to lose."

"I can't win."

"I'm a piece of trash."

"It's inferior to everything."

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……

No one knows just how big the psychological trauma is for Su Che right now.

The melody of "Echoes of the Night" seemed to have bewitched Su Che, trapping him inside.

Su Che remained silent, completely withdrawn, until, in the final moment, he suddenly heard a sound—an extremely discordant interval.

Boom! ! !

"?"

Ok?

Su Che thought he was hallucinating.

Looking back suddenly,

Upon seeing the four musicians on stage, they all froze, and the lead singer's face turned ashen in an instant.

"what happened?"

Su Che narrowed his eyes, pulling his thoughts back to the present.

If I'm not mistaken, there seems to be a major problem with the accompaniment in the outro at the end of the track.

Because the gothic band only had four musicians, they relied heavily on conveyor belt technology on stage.

In other words, musicians can play flawlessly, but the engineering must also be finely tuned to be in sync with the beat every millisecond.

If you make a single wrong click or misstep in any step, and it's not noticed in time after uploading, it can easily lead to a mismatch between the timing and the musician's live performance, rendering that section of the performance a failure.

Now, Styx turned around and looked at bassist Haiyin with a "grim face".

He looked very angry.

He ignored even the judges and audience members and started cursing on the spot:

"Fuck you, I told you to proofread the project properly. Did you go out drinking heavily last night and mess around with the accompaniment again? You messed it up perfectly fine!"

"I'm sorry, boss, I was wrong, I was really wrong. I shouldn't have gone out partying with girls. Yesterday I went to the Bunny Girl Wonderland. I really didn't drink too much on purpose, they were just too good at getting drunk."

"Get lost. Stop acting like a jerk. Go home and stay put. I'm going to get a knife, and I'll chop your thing up in a bit."

"..."

Chaos broke out on stage at one point.

The host quickly signaled to the live broadcast director to cut off the camera and not to publicize it.

Su Che was dumbfounded.

I'm a little confused.

He couldn't understand why such a skilled team would encounter problems with the conveyor belt installation...

"No...is this...right?"

At this moment, Blackwing and Endbeat each stopped a musician, and the four of them had no intention of continuing, so they walked off the stage ahead of schedule.

The moment they brushed past Su Che,

Su Che felt that, if he wasn't mistaken,

The lead singer's face seemed to have an inexplicable sense of exerting full control over something, which was quite strange.

……

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Chapter 281 Killing Dad

What a pity! The high-energy gothic band "Echoes of the Night" made a mistake during their semi-final performance! A conflict broke out among the musicians, escalating into a physical fight on stage!

Dark horse "Seven Colors" wins first victory in the Mosse semi-finals with a crushing 95 points! Advances to the round of 16!

"Rumors circulate online of Night Echoes contestants verbally abusing each other on stage! A compilation of the judges' reactions and the audience's shocked expressions!"

That evening, news articles flooded in, as if they had been written in advance and were ready to be released at any time, all within a span of no more than 30 minutes.

Su Che lay in his hotel room, staring blankly at the ceiling, feeling utterly powerless.

He has only one feeling right now—

"Puzzled".

Yes, confused.

Although "Seven Colors" scored 95 points, which is considered decent and reasonable,

But "Echoes of the Night" scoring 68 points is truly outrageous.

If there hadn't been that unexpected event, the opposing team should have had no problem getting 97 points.

Looking at the whole match, it seems that starting with Xiang Xuechuan's team, our team's victories were not achieved through strength at all. Either there was disagreement within the opposing team, or there were some unforeseen circumstances caused by non-technical reasons. In any case, we always managed to barely get past the line, but in terms of strength, we were completely inferior to our opponents. It felt like we were flying close to the ground.

On the bright side, advancing is certainly better than losing; but to say that our side won fair and square is not quite right either. It's like punching cotton – we put in the effort, but it hits the air.

"Oh, Su Che, my good captain, good brother, good master, good... cough um, cheer up~ You've already won, what are you going to do, delete the results and start over? If you ask me, we should focus on the next team and stop dwelling on the past..."

Lin Xiao sat beside him, attentively massaging his calves.

She pinched and squeezed here and there, and would secretly take a handful of things every now and then. The little expression on her face was extremely flattering, which Su Che found very endearing.

"That's enough, I'm thinking."

He glanced at Xiaoxiao, who was still grinning: "What are you thinking about? Didn't we agree that we should go on a team-building activity after each competition? Look at you, you're not happy when you win, and you're even more unhappy when you lose. You really have the temperament of a young master, so difficult to deal with..."

With just a few words, Xiao Xiao aroused Su Che's anger, and he pulled her close, wrapping his arms around her body and holding her firmly by his side.

The other girls watching were quite envious, and couldn't help but be very interested in Xiao Xiao's new "Yin-Yang Provocation" skill.

At this moment, the head maid spoke up, asking softly beside him, "Young master, do you have doubts about the result of the competition?"

"Ah."

Su Che nodded. "You should have seen the live stream. Do you think their strength would have such a fatal flaw?"

"A fatal flaw..."

"Yes, it's a problem with the backing track; it's not matching the track."

Generally speaking, no.

Bai Qiao was unsure, so she added, "But if one of their members was drinking and caused a misoperation... it's not entirely impossible."

"Is that what you think?"

Su Che frowned, unable to imagine that someone who had drunk a lot of alcohol would not just fall asleep, but instead go back to the arrangement table or workstation, turn on the computer to redo the already completed accompaniment project, and then accidentally touch the mouse after a bunch of random operations, causing the tracks to become misaligned.

If it's really such a coincidence, then I might as well believe that I am the heir of Tianhai, or that the entire Tianhai was created by that old man.

"Nana, what do you think?"

He turned to look at Jiang Nai.

Jiang Nai is, after all, a professional bassist, and has a unique understanding of stage issues.

He pondered for a moment and said, "Well, in terms of performance, we definitely can't beat them. As for the mistakes, they've already explained the whole story. But I think that if such a big problem really happened, a normal band would definitely stick to the performance and finish it first, then go home and settle the score later."

After all, their song only had a misalignment in the last 3 seconds, which would at most deduct 5 points; there was absolutely no need to stop playing. The most common thing our music teachers say is—

Once a song has begun, no matter how big the mistake, you must persevere and finish it; this is a musician's most basic quality.

"really."

Su Che nodded slightly, agreeing with her opinion.

He advanced again in a daze, which made him feel a little uncomfortable while reviewing the game.

This outcome was completely unexpected for Su Che, so he was unprepared for what lay ahead.

I never even thought about winning.

"How about we grab a late-night snack to relax and then talk about the top 8?"

Senior student Yu tide suggested: "We still have 6 days to prepare. Instead of looking back, let's focus on the future."