Chapter 18: Chapter 18 Shock Chapter 18: Chapter 18 Shock Wu Mu had a blast.
He was genuinely happy.
Not only did he eat well, sleep well, and have a good ti for free, but the show even paid him to be there. Each week he earned five to six hundred points. He truly wanted to stay forever.
But the online comnts hoped he’d drop dead sooner rather than later.
“I’m truly disgusted by this guy! I don’t know what act he’s trying to pull!”
“Everyone else is serious, and then there’s him, acting all carefree. Is he trying to show that he’s so talented he doesn’t need to try? That he can easily whip up a great song?”
“The most annoying are those who just try to show off. Even if his songs later on are good, I’ll still trash them!”
“Is Wu just living in the past, thinking he can impress us just by putting on this act?”
“Huh, probably bought a song sowhere, thinking he’s got it in the bag, then started crafting his image. What a clown!”
No audience mber thought Wu Mu was genuinely enjoying himself; they all believed he was just crafting an image for himself.
If it had been the naïve old-generation audience, he might have actually fooled so.
But today’s viewers have seen it all, and they viewed these tactics as nothing more than a joke.
The likes of Mo Mo, who had swept countless dostic and international awards and was revered as the Nation’s Little Heavenly Queen, were earnestly writing songs. Wu Mu thought he was better than Mo Mo?
The viewers harbored a strong distaste.
Finally, the songwriting segnt on the show ended, and they moved onto the stage performance.
Then, it was Wu Mu’s turn again.
It was the scene where Mo Mo said she was nervous, and Wu joked, telling her to watch and learn.
A declined influencer teaching the Nation’s Little Heavenly Queen? Hilarious.
The audience was sick of it.
By this point, the editing intentions of the program were very clear.
The goal was to relentlessly make Wu Mu a target of hatred, to provoke the viewers’ disgust, until it exploded the mont he went on stage.
This tactic was clear not only to the insiders but to many long-ti viewers as well.
But realizing this didn’t an they believed Wu Mu could put on a spectacular show.
Maybe the song was indeed good, but shockingly good?
They didn’t believe it.
If Wu Mu’s performance didn’t blow them away, then he might as well get ready to defend his family.
However, they didn’t have to wait long; Mo Mo imdiately drew number 1, making them the first group to perform.
First was Mo Mo, who sang her song “Rebirth.”
Her masterful vocal skills provided a feast for the eyes and ears.
The live comnts were filled with “sounds great” and “worthy of Little Mo.”
Then Wu Mu took the stage.
After so stalling, Wu Mu finally stood still at the center of the stage.
The lights dimd, leaving only a dim spotlight on him, making him appear alternatively visible and invisible.
The slow piano notes began to play.
“Finally found an excuse under the influence of alcohol,”
“to express all my feelings.”
It was as if a whisper reverberated in everyone’s hearts.
…
“Until that ti you were in my heart,”
“I will no longer sing praises of you as a Heavenly Queen.”
“It won’t be anymore.”
As the song ended, everyone just stared blankly at the figure on the stage.
Silence filled the air, both in the live comnts and in front of TV screens.
It wasn’t until that previously despised Wu’s female fan publicly confessed her love that everyone suddenly snapped out of it.
???
Just now, was that Wu Mu’s live performance!?
The edits in the earlier trailer were actually real!?
Everyone was hugely shocked, with a surreal sense of their worldview collapsing.
The comnts had already exploded.
“People are stunned, what did I just see? Was that Wu?”
“Holy shit shit shit!!”
“Am I still dreaming!?”
The dense barrage of comnts completely covered the screen.
Wu Mu’s anti-fans were utterly dumbfounded.
“Before the show, I thought the people crying were clowns; can a song really make you cry? It seed so fake, but after watching the show… it turns out I’m the clown.”
“I was truly shocked, I didn’t cry, but my girlfriend beside was sobbing uncontrollably, clutching onto , asking if I would ever leave her.”
“It hurts so much, I just felt like I had beco him, abandoned by everyone, without any hope for life. Is Wu Mu okay, why did it feel like he was saying goodbye to everyone when he sang?”
“Suddenly, I found I couldn’t hate him anymore, it just seed like he hasn’t had it easy… Although I know it’s wrong to judge a singer’s personality based on one song, I couldn’t help but think, what if it’s true? What if my hatred could be the last straw that breaks him?”
Without a doubt, Wu Mu’s performance overturned everyone’s expectations.
By this point, no one rembered Wu Mu’s previous “disgusting” acts.
Everyone was still influenced by the Heavenly Queen’s emotions.
Even Wu Mu’s anti-fans couldn’t deny that the live performance genuinely had substance.
It’s not that songs at live concerts can’t deeply imrse people, with several audience mbers in tears.
But like Wu Mu’s performance, to imrse almost everyone like this was unprecedented; everyone experiences different things, and so people are just more rational and less easily influenced.
Yet, even the rational ones found it hard not to be affected by that performance.
The show continued.
Wu Mu left the stage, then other contestants ca on.
Normally everyone pays close attention to the new songs of other contestants, but now they seed a bit distracted.
Everyone was still thinking about Wu Mu’s recent performance of “Heavenly Queen.”
After hearing “Heavenly Queen,” listening to other people’s songs felt like being in a sage mode, emotionally detached.
Many people simply turned on the TV and started browsing various social dia platforms.
And online, it was evident that Wu Mu’s new song had created a sensation.
On Weibo, #WuMuHeavenlyQueen topped the trending search list.
And the next five entries were all about Wu Mu.
#WuMuSongMadeCry
#WhoDidWuMuWriteHisNewSongAbout
#SingerSongwriterWuMuLive
#IsWuMuOk
#WhatHappenedToWuMuAfterTheCollapse
On Douyin, Wu Mu’s popularity was rapidly soaring.
All the trailers released by the show team made the hot list.
Soone’s recording of the song performance from the TV quickly entered the top three, although it was promptly deleted by officials due to copyright issues, but underneath this hot topic, people continuously uploaded their copies.
On a parallel world version of B-Hu – Understand-Hu, everything was about Wu Mu.
“How do you evaluate celebrity Wu Mu’s performance in ‘Singer-Songwriter’ season three, episode two?”
“How do you evaluate celebrity Wu Mu’s song ‘Heavenly Queen’?”
“Why did the song ‘Heavenly Queen’ resonate so profoundly, and how was it achieved?”
Wu Mu’s song had undeniably gone viral.
Everywhere people were discussing his song’s sound.
And in addition to the online buzz, this song also brought Wu Mu an unexpected gain.
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