Chapter 142 The Light Chaser Becomes the Light Bearer
When Zhang Xiaorong stood in the middle of the stage again, it was different from when she first came. The eyes of all the other singers looking at her became much more serious.

No one is as relaxed and cheerful as they used to be.

That kind of condescending comments have long disappeared.

Even though her outfit was not much different from when she first appeared on stage, she was still wearing a simple white dress, standing there as if she was isolated from the world.

Just as Zhang Xiaorong took a deep breath and made final preparations as she had done many times before, a rather special group of audience members caught her attention.

"Xiao Rong!!!"

"Teacher Zhang!!"

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Obviously, they are fans of Zhang Xiaorong.

But what attracted her attention most was not the fans' support, but the support posters they held in their hands.

As for the songs sung by Zhang Xiaorong, their popularity actually varies.

In addition to their own preferences, fans also like to discuss which song Zhang Xiaorong likes best.

It is almost unanimous that her favorite song should be "Beautiful Myth" which she sang with Bai Youlou.

The stage performance was so dynamic.

That was the first time that Zhang Xiaorong was able to attract people's attention and keep their eyes off with her stage performance.

But in fact, her favorite song is the first one she sang specifically for someone, "Light Chaser".

It was as if time had suddenly returned to the evening when I first met Bai Youlou.

She didn't see the sunset that evening, but as she walked, she came across a patch of light, which so abruptly slanted across the road that made people wonder for whom it appeared to illuminate.

She knows that light will not shine on only one person, but this does not stop her from chasing the light.
The gentle light warms the soul, and the free and warm wind blows beside me.

Those who shine are warm and bright, and those who pursue the light will also have her brilliance by facing the light.

At this moment, fans at the scene were cheering by holding up posters with the song title of "Light Chasers" and photos of the scene printed on them.

It is hard for Zhang Xiaorong not to feel that these lovely fans understand her very well.

An equally passionate two-way run!

All the lights in the venue went out, and the spotlight embraced the girl, like a pale pink rose, quietly blooming in the darkness.

Zhang Xiaorong closed her eyes and gently raised her hand.

The cello melody is elegant and sad.
The piano playing is also gentle and restrained
However, there seems to be an extremely powerful emotion brewing in it, which makes people hold their breath.

"To the blind child in all the storms of fate"

"You come from the deep sea of ​​volcanic heat and bitter cold"

"Life is an accident, a coin is reversed into dust"

"For the chance to love each other, we built boats and moved mountains"

"Going to war is an ancient destiny"

"Man will walk barefoot into the night"

"Only I can decide how I act"

The prelude strings support the vast background, the girl's voice is practical and powerful, calm and steady, and the lyrics flow through the stars, laying the best foundation for the upcoming majestic posture.

The dullness of more than forty seconds that Zhang Xiaorong had opened her eyes turned into a surge of epic feeling as the tone suddenly rose!
"Let death covet me, let fear kiss me"

"You can destroy everything I love but you can't take away my choice"

"I can be annihilated in a snap of a finger, but fate cannot defeat life"

"Let life be like violent fireworks"

"It will light up before it goes out"

"The eyes of a child~~
"If the huge waves have submerged the way here, I am the sail! I am also the boat!"

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Standing on the stage, she did not seem to be tall, but when her singing began, she seemed to become something otherworldly.

Humanity, the world, the universe.
I was stunned, even shocked!
The audience and the singers felt as if they were being pulled and lifted.

The drums closely follow the vocals, and the vocals create a huge space. In this mutual contrast, it seems to be saying only one thing:

The hymn of mankind is the hymn of courage!

"person is_".

This song title seems a bit strange at first glance, but after the performance, it seems that people can understand its meaning.
"What a terrifying rate of progress," a singer muttered to himself.

Aside from the fact that the songs written by Bai Youlou are too perverted, Zhang Xiaorong's "evolution speed" on stage is also unmatched by ordinary people.

It's almost visibly that he sings better each time.

It seems that the former light chaser is rapidly growing into his own light bearer.

"What a human war song."

In the backstage, Zhen Dongjun was clapping with He Shanshan and sighing.

This song has such a strong epic feel. Damn, now I realize that Bai Youlou’s intention of playing with this kind of grand narrative is the most ruthless!
Hey~ He Shanshan's eyes seemed a little strange when she looked at him.
Zhen Dongjun quickly came to his senses.

Zhuo, he is really a drag. If he let Zhang Xiaorong go alone, the others would have already "killed all" already.

As a result, I just sang for the show and gave the worst result since the show was recorded. I almost got eliminated.

He already had a premonition of how he would be criticized by netizens after the show was aired.

The music industry is too difficult, I might as well go back to acting.
Because even someone like Zhang Xiaorong only got second place in this annual singing king competition.

Zhen Dongjun was stunned.

what?
This can only be second?

But to be honest, Ming Jichang, who won the annual singing king award, also performed extremely well. He really practiced the song "Stars" very well, and his invincible tenor voice seemed to shatter the glass in the venue.

With the blessing of his status as a senior, it is not unreasonable for him to be named the king of singers.

At least after the show is broadcast, the audience may feel sorry for Zhang Xiaorong, but they will not think that Ming Jichang is unworthy.

Even the big sister has fallen to the point where she can only barely make it into the top three. People haven't said anything yet~
When the program crew interviewed him, he sighed three times, saying that he was convinced and agreed with the result and ranking.

After all, there are two more miserable ones behind.
Zhang Xiaorong came in second place as a new singer who just debuted this year, which is a pretty impressive result for her.

The talented senior won first place and had face. Zhang Xiaorong completed her transformation on this stage and officially became popular with full traffic, almost reaching the level of a first-line singer. It cannot be said that she became popular overnight, but the speed of her rise is also extremely terrifying.

A week later, the program was aired and the traffic was naturally full.

This final episode of the annual singing king competition can definitely be described as a fight between gods and an invincible audio-visual feast.

Regardless of whether they are seniors or newcomers, they all brought out their best skills.

Even for the singer who finally took fifth place, there were quite a lot of sliced-up videos of his singing stage on the Internet, with a lot of regret in the comments.

It's not that you're not good enough, it's that the perverts in front are too strong
On the contrary, the fourth place, the Hong Kong singer, did not receive much sympathy.

"These are all songs written by Bai Youlou. Look at the first and second, and then look at yourself. Oh, I don't know what to say."

"You should at least have defeated the big sister Li Ying. If you took third place, everyone would have been excited. You could have also accomplished the ultimate achievement of having the top three songs all sung by the same person. But now the formation is messed up because of you."

"Logically speaking, I can't blame you. The ones in front are all monsters. But I still want to say that you are not motivated. Hahaha."

"I don't blame you. I criticized Yu Zhan. That fellow doesn't even qualify to compete for the title of Singer of the Year. Will he ever be able to sing the song that Bai Youlou sold him in his lifetime? He likes to buy it but can't sing it. In my opinion, he is not as good as Lu Wenyuan."

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The Hong Kong singer has a good attitude towards these "criticisms" on the Internet.

The main reason is that people are not really criticizing him, they are more just making fun of him and having fun.

I don’t know if he was inspired by Yu Zhan’s funny personality, but he directly recorded an “apology” video and successfully gained a lot of attention and praise with this trick.

Nowadays, only those who know how to humble themselves and make fun of themselves can be more popular with the audience.

If you put yourself too high and your ideas are too sophisticated for the masses, then you are deviating from the mass line.

It would be better if he had the ability. At most people would say that he is a bit pretentious.

If you don't have the ability but still act high-handed, then you are a loser and a pretentious person. Netizens can be very poisonous.

"Hey~ Next year's Singer can really invite Lu Wenyuan to participate. It would be best if Bai Youlou himself could be on the show. We can have an all-star lineup with strong popularity. The popularity will be soaring!"

"It's unlikely to invite Bai Youlou. He's obviously not an ordinary artist. So far, he's only been to Singer to support Zhang Xiaorong once, and never participated in other programs or activities. Who can get this god out? He's wholeheartedly focusing on making movies." "I've discovered that Bai Youlou is indeed a director. Many of the songs he wrote have visual effects when they're sung. When I heard Zhang Xiaorong singing this song, I had a little intracranial orgasm. It has nothing to do with her beauty."

"Friendly reminder, this song "People Are _" is better when it is 'taken' together with the video of Bai Youlou's crew's convoy rushing into the storm. It is a pure audio-visual enjoyment."

"You don't even need to watch the video, the photo that Bai Youlou posted on Weibo has that vibe. These two really are working together from a distance. Could this song be the theme song for a movie?"

"Not really~ The Wikipedia just updated the information about Bai Youlou's movie. It's not a grand narrative, it's a motivational movie."

"What an inspirational movie, a movie about rushing into a tornado, right? Brother Lou's mental state is still so stable~"

"Hey, I'm in Shancheng, and I saw the Bai Youlou crew! But their crew's name isn't 'Daydreamers', it's clearly called 'Before Sunrise'."

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Shancheng is a very suitable city for filming movies.

Surrounded by mountains and two rivers, it has dense bridges, rows of old and new buildings, and a variety of intricate transportation...

The riverside docks, winding overpasses, and stairways hide countless vicissitudes of the past, grudges, and love and hatred!
Under the wildly growing high-rise buildings, there are the most popular barbecue, noodles and hotpot; beautiful women with all kinds of charm walking on the street make fists with great vigor; the same area is flat in the last second and a steep slope in the next second.

I clearly entered a building from the ground, but suddenly found myself on the 20th floor; I drove out of the basement and looked to the side, and found myself on the edge of the cliff of Hongyadong, which scared me so much that I broke out in a cold sweat; the navigation showed that the destination was 200 meters away, and I walked up and down the stairs for a kilometer and looked again, and the navigation had crashed.

There is a rumor in the underworld: as long as the thief successfully turns two corners, it will be difficult for the police to catch him.

Placing the characters here gives one a feeling that there is no escape from this place.

The Eighteen Stairs that lead up to the top, the residential buildings built against the mountain, the five-story high-altitude overpass, the Light Rail Line 2 that passes through the building, the "sky bus" that crosses the Yangtze River... This is an "8D three-dimensional city" with countless spaces where stories can be hidden.

There is no other filming location more magical than Chongqing.

Bai Youlou thought this place was very suitable for filming love stories.

This is a city full of desire, and its temperament is naturally integrated with every story. At the same time, it is cold and hard, and the contrast between the old and the new in the city is very obvious.

The love photographed here is like lying in a sponge, with a sense of brokenness and lingering, dreaming a wet dream and unwilling to wake up.

Under the lingering haze, it has the texture of a veil of love, while also taking into account hesitation and struggle.

After experiencing the storm in Inner Mongolia, Bai Youlou came to a city like this and felt like staying here.

Of course he did so.

Although the two films were shot back-to-back and used the same team, the accounting cannot be done in this way and needs to be more clearly divided.

After arriving in the mountain city, the money spent by the crew was the budget of "Before Sunrise".

This budget is more sufficient.

First of all, the crew was relatively small, secondly, the estimated shooting time was quite short, and finally, An Luning did not receive any remuneration.

That’s right, this girl is doing purely voluntary labor.

No one knew how Lin Juntao had fooled her, but Bai Youlou was disdainful of such behavior.

He has no shame and even deceives fools.

However, even though she does not receive any salary, the production budget of the film will not be reduced by a penny.

After deducting the part that Bai Youlou Chou shamelessly took away, there is still nearly 20 million yuan of funds available.

20 million, no special effects, just a plot, not even many extras. Just two people walking around and chatting.
If you work hard to speed up the shooting, you can finish it in two or three days.

Therefore, if one is determined to make money when making a movie, he or she can really screw the investors.

If this film was invested in solely by Bai Youlou himself, he estimated that it would only take three to five days to complete and the cost would not exceed two million.

Now there are wealthy "suckers" paying the bill, and the price has increased tenfold.

So, after arriving in the mountain city, we were not in a hurry to start shooting.

Bai Youlou and An Luning started "dating".

Question: How can two top stars in the eyes of the public date openly on a busy street without causing any scandals or public opinion crises?

Answer: There is someone at the back carrying a camera, someone providing lighting, and someone recording the sound. That's all.

You don't even need that much, just put a camera following and everyone will naturally think: you are either filming a movie or recording a show.

The two of them wandered around the mountain city in a very open manner, which made An Luning very happy.

He can date someone he likes at his own expense without having to hide it because of his celebrity status! He is really good at it~
"How did you come up with that?"

"what?"

"It's just a date."

Listening to An Luning's shy words, Bai Youlou scratched his head and said, "First of all, be normal."

"I'm normal."

"I mean you should be like in the script." Bai Youlou considered his words, but after looking up at An Luning's big, lively eyes, he decided not to consider it anymore, "Don't be such a fangirl."

This made the person blush and say, "I don't have any."

"It's obvious, and you're a little too detached right now."

An Lu Ning suddenly became a little nervous, "Don't you like lively people?"

"I like it."

After making the girl happy with his words, Bai Youlou made a change of direction, "But, we have to film a movie. It's not good for you to be so out of character. This movie is not for you to play yourself."

"Then what should I do? I'll listen to you!"

An Luning put his legs together, stood up straight, and looked like he was going to sit still and be obedient.

Just like a primary school student.

Bai Youlou was a little helpless. Who could have thought that such a simple scene in his eyes could not be filmed because An Luning's performance was too enthusiastic and jumpy, which led to the disruption of the play and the delay of filming.

He really didn't intend to waste the investors' money at the beginning.

The procrastination is also to help An Luning get into the right state.

But at this moment, an idea suddenly flashed in his mind, "Hey, aren't you and Zhang Xiaorong good friends?"

"Uh-huh."

"Just like her."

With just one sentence, An Luning was silent.

Because this sounds very strange. Is this asking her to play the role of Zhang Xiaorong and act out a love movie with Bai Youlou?
An Luning looked at Bai Youlou steadily, and that look made him feel a little embarrassed for some reason.

Is it a bit too much to say this?

Sure enough, we shouldn't use real people as examples, it's too easy to make people think too much.
But Zhang Xiaorong's feeling actually really fits the temperament of this movie.

An Luning is good in every way except that his dialogues are too passionate, and he always comes close to others, which lacks subtlety.

Of course, this kind of love is actually very passionate, but the taste is indeed different.

For example, it's like bringing Jiang Yuanchu here to film this drama. When filming a love scene, he has to keep a distance of more than one meter between him and Bai Youlou. That is another completely different kind of disharmony.

These two people are two extremes.

Zhang Xiaorong is the one in the middle.

That’s exactly the feeling Bai Youlou wants.

However, before he could change his mind and comfort An Luning, she suddenly opened Bai Youlou's eyes!

The smile on his face was much more restrained, not as bright and flying, and there seemed to be a little more tranquility between his eyebrows. His hands were crossed and gently placed on the table, and even his eyes seemed to have a little more caution and inquiry.
Bai Youlou: ???

Of course, this is not what Zhang Xiaorong usually looks like. There is a big difference between the two.

But at this moment, An Lu Ning suddenly exuded the flavor of a southern girl!
Sister Hong: Hey~ How come the little girl suddenly became normal?
What did Bai Youlou say?

That’s right, this is what An Lu Ning usually looks like when he is outside.

Although I sometimes cannot control my expression and my mood is written on my face.

But that doesn't mean she is really like a little rabbit, jumping around at all times.

Most of the time, she was never as lively and unreserved in front of others as she was in front of Bai Youlou.

She is the nation’s first love and the ultimate white moonlight.

This is her true image in the public's mind.

　Thank you for the 10000 reward from Dian灬, I wish the boss will live forever!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)