Chapter 126: What Sort of Magic Does Su Bai Truly Possess?

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“Could it be Su Bai?”

Everyone had thought of the recent pictures circulating online of Su Bai and Yang Xiaomi out in the wilderness...

Could the two of them be dating?

And had Su Bai given Yang Xiaomi this song?

Good heavens. The thought alone was almost too much for them to bear.

Did it really have to be so heart-wrenching...?

Still, no one dared to jump to conclusions.

“First, I’d like to borrow something my friend once said to me when he wrote a song for me. I’d like to share it with everyone now!”

“To quote a line from the lyrics: I hope that, for the rest of your lives, everyone here will laugh freely each day beneath brilliant sunshine, and bicker and fool around with the person you love most in an atmosphere of complete freedom.”

“Remember the beauty of the past, cherish the beauty of the present, and look forward to the beauty of the future!”

“Thank you, everyone!”

A thunderous round of applause erupted throughout the venue.

In that instant, everyone’s impression of Yang Xiaomi underwent the most direct and dramatic change.

If anyone dared to say that Yang Xiaomi could not sing, they would be the first to disagree!

Find someone else who can make every person in the audience cry with a single song, if you can.

Leaving her technical skill aside, the sheer ability to stir the emotions of everyone present was already something countless people could learn from.

Many young performers these days were merely singing.

Their songs contained none of their own feelings.

That was why some singers could move others so deeply, while others could sing and leave their listeners utterly unmoved.

The ability to awaken an emotional response in everyone—

that, too, was a kind of mastery.

After quite some time, the host finally said, “Ms. Yang Xiaomi, why don’t you tell everyone who this friend of yours is?”

“Otherwise, everyone will keep thinking about it, and they may have trouble hearing what I’m saying.”

The venue once again exploded with laughter.

Everyone agreed that the host had an excellent command of the stage.

Whenever the performers changed, or anything unexpected threatened to throw the event off course, the host always managed to step in and steer the conversation back to the main topic.

Yang Xiaomi smiled as well. “Actually, everyone has already heard one of my friend’s songs.”

“The creator of this song is the same person who wrote Teacher Xue Qianqian’s ‘The Actor’—Su Bai!”

The announcement sent a shock through the audience.

It was actually written by Su Bai?

Both songs had come from the same person’s hands, so how could their emotional tones be so completely opposite?

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One moment, everyone was being torn apart by unbearable sorrow; the next, they were drowning in sweetness!

It was as though the entire audience had been pressed to the floor and rubbed mercilessly against it.

Someone in the crowd could not help asking, “What kind of earth-shaking love must Su Bai have experienced to arrive at such profound insights?”

“When love is sweet, his songs raise goosebumps.”

“When love ends, they make you want to take up a knife and prove your convictions!”

Everyone present sighed with emotion.

“I wonder what it would feel like if Su Bai himself sang these two songs—‘Once Is Enough’ one moment, and ‘The Actor’ the next.”

“My goodness, you’re making us endure a double torment!”

Yang Xiaomi was very pleased by the audience’s reaction.

Judging from the response in the hall, everyone had clearly acknowledged her ability.

She had, in a sense, accomplished the reason she had originally come to sing this song:

to change the way people saw her.

The host watched as the atmosphere grew increasingly difficult to control.

The entire discussion had been led toward Su Bai.

It had completely lost all connection with the current show, *Light of Tomorrow*.

“Ms. Yang Xiaomi’s performance truly gave everyone an entirely different experience!”

“I suspect that when everyone was listening to Teacher Xue Qianqian’s song earlier, they were all reminded of their own painful memories.”

“So now she has used a sweet song to soothe the wounds in everyone’s hearts!”

“Everyone feels much happier now, don’t you?”

“Still, experiencing two extremes—ice and fire—is a real test of our endurance!”

“Now, are you looking forward to seeing what kind of sparks will fly this season under the guidance of our three mentors?”

“Next, let us welcome our first contestant to the stage!”

Everyone found themselves deeply in agreement with the host.

It truly had been an ultimate experience of ice and fire.

No one could deny it.

Yet when the host mentioned the sparks that this season’s contestants might create under the guidance of the three mentors, everyone’s anticipation rose once more.

Earlier, the show had not seemed particularly compelling.

Now, compared with before, it suddenly had far more to offer.

As soon as the first contestant took the stage, the host returned backstage.

Director Tian Ye could not help giving the host a thumbs-up.

That ability to control a live audience was truly exceptional.

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In an instant, the host had drawn everyone’s thoughts back to the competition itself.

Even the host could not help saying, “This has been an extraordinarily difficult challenge!”

“Never before have we seen the emotions of a live audience pulled to such extremes.”

“At most, there would be wave after wave of cheers. Once the cheering ended, everyone would settle down and return their attention to the competition.”

“But this time, if no one had stepped in to control things, the whole place might have descended into chaos!”

Tian Ye sighed as well. “Exactly. That is Su Bai’s magic.”

“Before witnessing this round of mentor performances, I had never truly understood why Su Bai had become so phenomenally popular.”

“But experiencing it here in person makes it completely imaginable—the kind of magic Su Bai’s songs possess.”

“As everyone keeps saying, what an extraordinary scene it would be if Su Bai came and sang this song himself.”

The host pictured it for a moment and found the thought almost impossible to imagine.

With a sigh, the host said, “If Su Bai held a concert, wouldn’t he send the entire audience into delirium?”

Tian Ye, too, could not imagine such a scene.

When Yang Xiaomi had first approached him, he had merely been interested in Su Bai’s popularity.

But after seeing what had happened today, he suspected that Su Bai’s eventual arrival would create a spectacle the likes of which had never been seen before.

Every program sought a strong opening.

The first contestant to take the stage was indeed quite capable.

All three mentors approved of the performance.

Everyone in the venue enjoyed a feast for the ears.

Though it was still somewhat inferior to the performance by the three mentors moments earlier, it was undeniably impressive for a newcomer.

Yet after the first contestant won the unanimous approval of all three mentors, the next several contestants were rejected one after another.

Then a contestant appeared onstage carrying a guitar, and Yang Xiaomi’s heart stirred at the introduction.

“Hello, mentors. My name is Zhou Buyi, and the song I’ll be performing for everyone today is ‘If One Day I Become Very Rich.’”

If Yang Xiaomi remembered correctly, Zhou Buyi was an artist signed to Su Bai’s company.

She had no intention of giving an artist under Su Bai’s banner any special treatment.

She was simply curious to see what level of ability the artists trained by Su Bai possessed.

Although Su Bai’s company, Tiancheng Entertainment, had been established only a short time ago, Yang Xiaomi had learned a great deal through her contact with them during this period.

She always felt that Su Bai possessed a certain kind of magic.

The magic to turn stone into gold.

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