Lu Yiyao's live stream abruptly stopped, and after the program team's painstaking negotiations, the broadcast resud several hours later, but it mainly focused on capturing Lu Yiyao's daily activities. As for the luxurious seven buildings owned by Zhang nglong, they were intentionally downplayed by the production team.
As a result, when the live content was edited into the show, everything around Lu Yiyao, except for her, was almost entirely blurred. Perhaps this is the difficulty of life!
Of course, Zhang nglong's seven buildings instantly beca a trending topic, and the question of just how wealthy Zhang nglong truly is once again beca the focus of national attention.
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"Brother, can't we find any information at all about Zhang nglong's background?" Hua Yuhan had never felt such humiliation. Ever since she joined this program, all her glory had been overshadowed by Lu Yiyao.
In terms of singing ability, Lu Yiyao was leagues ahead of her! As for dance, during the first episode of the program, Lu Yiyao could hardly dance and moved stiffly like a robot.
But after nearly two months of recording the program, she seed like a completely different person, displaying amazing dance explosiveness in the next episode.
Of course, everyone guessed that Zhang nglong must have invited so master to teach Lu Yiyao. Combined with her own hard work, her dance level naturally improved dramatically. Now, her dance skills were at least at the level of soone who had trained for two and a half years.
As for wealth, Hua Yuhan, who had never worried about money, experienced despair for the first ti. It had always been her family throwing money at people! But this ti, they were almost buried alive by a mountain of money, losing even the courage to keep fighting.
"Not a trace!" Over the past month, Hua Ye had exploited all his resources to investigate Zhang nglong's background. He not only failed to find any information but even received a warning from the leader of Longxia!
The captain of Longxia never cared for such matters. It was said that after the Martial God had broken through to the Heavenly Human Realm recently, he was also crazily searching for ways to break through further, barely engaging in the affairs of Longxia. Why would he bother with these petty fights between kids?
His personal warning clearly ant sothing very different.
"Could it be that Zhang nglong is from an Ancient Martial Arts Family?" Hua Ye was certain that Zhang nglong had no connection with Longxia; otherwise, it would be impossible for him to find no information whatsoever.
Only soone from an Ancient Martial Arts Family could make the boss of Longxia cautious, as Longxia had no influence over the Ancient Martial Arts World. However, he had never heard of any major family with the surna Zhang in the Ancient Martial Arts World.
"Brother, it's the final debut performance. I don't want to be Lu Yiyao's background anymore!" Hua Yuhan's words were filled with grievance and resentnt. Since the beginning of the competition, she believed she would be the most dazzling star, but in the past two months, she had been completely outshined by Lu Yiyao.
"Don't worry. In the final competition, no external help is allowed. It will be a solo stage for individuals. Besides instrunts, nothing else can be used. Even if he is extrely wealthy, he can't surpass the limits of the instrunts themselves, right?" Hua Ye said confidently.
For example, if you choose to sing and play the piano, even the most top-level piano is only worth a few million at most. Even if you are extrely wealthy, you need to be able to buy a more expensive piano!
Even if it were encrusted with diamonds, as long as Zhang nglong could afford it, he, Hua Ye, could afford it too!
"Brother, what have you prepared?" Hua Yuhan asked curiously.
"Hehe, haven't you been learning the piano and violin since you were young?" Hua Ye said, "Then you'll perform a solo show. I've got you the most unique piano and a one-of-a-kind violin!"
"What?"
"I've already sent it to your personal practice room. You can go take a look!" Hua Ye said mysteriously.
Hua Yuhan imdiately ran to the practice room with great excitent. A car was parked downstairs, and several staff mbers were working hard to carry down a piano.
"A Steinway grand piano?" Hua Yuhan asked. Unless it was a piano made of diamonds, this was the ceiling of what a piano could be. And even if a piano were really made out of diamonds, the resonance of the diamonds would not allow it to produce a pleasant sound.
"Hahaha, if it was just a re Steinway grand piano, it wouldn't be worthy of your final stage," Hua Ye said. "Lift the cover and see for yourself."
Hua Yuhan curiously uncovered the cloth, revealing an old, and even slightly decayed piano. She was quite baffled—her brother actually prepared a broken piano for her?
Just as she was about to complain and lose her temper, her eyes suddenly caught a string of text on the piano's triangular support.
It was an engraved na.
"Beet... Beethoven? This is Beethoven's piano?!" Hua Yuhan exclaid in surprise.
Known as a household na, the music master Beethoven had owned seven pianos in his lifeti, six of which had been collected by the national museums. One Graf, however, had gone missing in 1847.
If she rembered correctly, this was that very Graf piano! And it was actually in her brother's possession!
"How do you like it?" asked Hua Ye indulgently.
"I love it!" Hua Yuhan couldn't hide the joy in her eyes, "This thing must have cost a lot of money, right?"
This piano represented not only the top-level craftsmanship of that era but also symbolized art and history.
"I bought it from an auction last year for 27.5 million US dollars. It was originally intended as your birthday gift for this year, hoping it can help you achieve good results."
Hua Ye continued, "I had several craftsn restore it, and its sound quality is absolutely top-level!"
"And this violin," Hua Ye continued, "the violin once used by Heifetz! I believe Zhang nglong could buy more expensive violins, but definitely not one more valuable than this! This ti, in terms of hardware, we will absolutely not lose to them!"
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"Oh, is that so?" Zhang nglong listened to Hong Yi's report, "Beethoven's piano and Heifetz's violin—those Hua siblings really are sparing no expense!"
"Yes, both of these instrunts are worth several tens of millions of US dollars. If they appear on stage, they will surely cause quite a stir. They've calculated this quite well."
"Is there a better violin?" Zhang nglong asked, they absolutely couldn't lose in this aspect!
"The four pianos used by Chopin, Liszt's three pianos, the two violins used by Paganini, Mozart's piano... they are all here with you," Hong Yi reported a list that contained over a hundred instrunts from the great music masters.
"But in terms of historical and artistic value, they're all about the sa. This ti the stage is a solo stage and we can't win with quantity, so there probably won't be much of a contrasting effect," Hong Yi said truthfully.
"So are we just going to be surpassed like that?" The order of the final competition placed Lu Yiyao following Hua Yuhan. Even if both of their equipnt had such sensational effects, it would be greatly diminished after Hua Yuhan's first performance.
"Mr. Zhang, to win, we don't necessarily need Western instrunts," Hong Yi said with a smile, "Our Huaxia's guqin is no less inferior to theirs!"
"A guqin? Isn't it unsuitable for playing and singing?"
"An ordinary guqin, of course, wouldn't suffice, but what about the Fuxi Qin?"
"What… what? The Fuxi Qin?" Zhang nglong was montarily dumbstruck. Wasn't that a divine artifact, on par with the Donghuang Clock and Xuanyuan Sword, from the legends? And it actually existed?
Why did it seem like the whole style had suddenly changed?
"You may not know, but while the Fuxi Qin is indeed a divine artifact, it is also a miraculous musical instrunt. It can control people's emotions with its lodies. It's a creation of your ancestors," Hong Yi said with a smile, "Compared to the Fuxi Qin, Beethoven's piano is nothing!"
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