Mu Qiu squatted down with her face covered, wanting to scream for help.
That song "La La La Wu Mi" was already "heart-shaking" enough, and now they have to perform "Hero Song" to leave a mark on the music scene? That’s not so nice for the audience, is it?
"Spare me, Brother Cheng is sitting down there, I don’t want to be this embarrassed."
Guan Yu pulled her up: "Don’t be afraid! If he loves you, he should love all of you, including your off-pitch singing!"
"...Wuwuwu, I’m begging you, spare me, I still care about my face."
Li Yang frowned: "I care about my face too. Sister Guan Yu, I have a concert to hold later, your antics might affect my career."
Guan Yu selectively ignored him, flipped her hair, and pulled out the long-lost red silk scarf from her pocket to wave it.
"Dare to run, and tonight I’ll sing ’Hero Song’ outside your room all night long."
"..."
Forget it, quick pain is better than prolonged agony.
Two microphones ended up in the hands of Mu Qiu and Li Yang, while the one in Guan Yu’s hand was placed aside, the bright red scarf fluttering in the wind.
This singing and dancing arrangement... Shu Ran’s eyelid twitched wildly.
Shi Yuhuai directly stated: "It’s over."
Beside him, Xu Cheng and Zhang Li burst out laughing.
Xu Cheng: "What’s with ’it’s over’? Hahaha, Sister Guan Yu hasn’t danced on the show before, what if she actually has some skills?"
Shi Yuhuai retorted: "Skills from square dancing?"
While they struggled, the smart Shu Ran was already searching for napkins to plug her ears.
The only one who remained relatively calm was Cheng Zhirang, and Lin Lian, watching him from the front, asked: "Brother Cheng, will this performance reach the point where we need to cover our ears?"
Cheng Zhirang answered honestly: "Generally speaking, it’s quite brainwashing. If you don’t want to lose hope in the original song, I suggest you cover up a bit."
"...Okay."
If Cheng Zhirang said so, this performance must be quite wild.
Wild Member No. 1, Guan Yu, had already turned her back towards the shell room, preparing for the start of the dance. Mu Qiu and Li Yang, holding the microphones, hesitated to get in tune.
The staff, being considerate, restarted the music from the beginning and even thoughtfully replaced it with an instrumental version.
Well, now they could only tough it out and sing.
Mu Qiu and Li Yang exchanged glances, gesturing: Song God, you go first.
Li Yang: You want to go first? Then you go first.
So the two of them "tacitly" didn’t open their mouths, and all that was left was an awkward bout of background music.
Mu Qiu widened her eyes and gestured again to Li Yang: Why aren’t you singing?! Never mind, I’ll go first.
Li Yang gestured back: Why aren’t you singing?! Are you saying we sing together? That works too.
Then, when they started singing, they clashed.
"...Hehehehe, follow the Big Dipper! A bowl of wine for a life-and-death friendship!"
"When it’s time to go, let’s go! You have me, we all have it!"
One sang the first half and the other the second half. If not for the different pacing into the song, it was actually quite a "seamless cooperation."
Meanwhile, Guan Yu, who had prepared her dance moves, began her unique dance.
Following their lyrics, she leaned back as if drinking and breaking a bowl, then swung the red silk scarf left and right, imitating the walk of a robust man, with a forward-backward shoulder shake.
This "robust man" seemed a bit tipsy, staggering with crossed legs, and when they sang about the fiery venture across the nine states, she interjected with: "Hey! Hehe!"
The shell room was quiet, the suppressed chuckles in their throats audible and clear.
Shu Ran: "Blame myself, only covered my ears, didn’t cover my eyes in time."
Shi Yuhuai: "Help."
Xu Cheng: "I take back what I said earlier."
Lin Lian: "Can I open my eyes now? I want to cover my ears."
Chuchu: "I think maybe don’t open your eyes."
Jiang Zhufeng: "Brother Li Yang looks like he’s singing in pain."
Shu Ran: "How could he not be in pain? His brain will automatically loop this song for half a month now."
Cheng Zhirang had turned his face away, laughing for quite a while.
Out of respect for the female guests, he didn’t want to mock their singing and dancing, but the audiovisual effect they created was indeed... rather outrageous.
Luckily, Li Yang was trying hard to bring the song back to its tune; otherwise, this would be like a major traffic accident on a highway.
The others couldn’t hold back any longer, hanging on the small balcony railing, shouting at the three people opposite.
"Alright, that’s enough! Stop!"
"Guan Yu, you better stop, you’re about to twist out a bone spur!"
"Lalalala, stop singing, lalala!"
"Your stage performance is really too amazing; we fully understand your talent now, can we call it a wrap?!"
Guan Yu maliciously twisted their words, joyfully yelling at Mu Qiu and Li Yang: "They say it’s really nice to listen to, they want some interaction!"
Mu Qiu: "...The wind and fire travel across the nine states, are you really that idle? Hey! So idle!"
Li Yang nearly had a heart attack and couldn’t continue.
The key point? Mu Qiu had high notes but no tune to speak of, so he could only step onto the wooden platform behind him, compress his abdomen, and raise the pitch even more into the microphone, trying to bring the song back on track.
"Haiya yi er ya! Hai ei hai~ yi er ya!"
Mu Qiu saw his confident posture, her eyes widened for a moment: Goodness, what happened to still caring about reputation, how come now he’s addicted to singing?!
She refused to admit defeat, so she followed his example, stomping on the step and shouting the lyrics at an even higher pitch than his.
"See injustice on the road, shout once! Act when the time comes!!!"
Li Yang glared and raised the tone again on top of hers: "Travel across the nine states fiercely and boldly! Hey hey! Heyhey er yo!"
Mu Qiu took his glare as a provocation, raised her voice and tone again, and even really added some interaction:
"Hehe follow the Big Dipper! A bowl of wine for life-and-death friends! Friends on the left, friends on the right, friends in front and behind, everyone join in!"
The group originally intending to stop their wild performance stood dumbfounded.
Guan Yu gave a twist, feeling a bit sprained, and decided to give up the bold solo dance, grabbing the mic and pulling Mu Qiu, Mu Qiu pulling Li Yang, the three of them "joyfully" ran towards the shell room.
Rushing into the shell room, scattering the group inside in panic, everyone desperately trying to run out.
Guan Yu caught the "pale-faced" Shi Yuhuai, clinging tightly, thrusting the mic to his mouth: "Come on, Brother Huai, sing a line!"
Shi Yuhuai: "..."
"Don’t know how to sing? Such a famous song, and you don’t know how?! No worries, I’ll teach you! Come on, ’See injustice on the road, shout once!!’"
Veins popped on his forehead: "My ears are going to go deaf!"
"Wrong! Lyrics are wrong! Should be ’act when the time comes!!’"
Shi Yuhuai: Did I ever say I wanted to sing?!
After forcing this shy straight man, Guan Yu randomly grabbed Zhang Li and Chuchu, put her arms around their shoulders, pressed their waists down, creating a nightclub head-bobbing scene.
"Come on! Start singing! A bowl of wine for life-and-death friends!"
Chuchu: "...Life-and-death friends..."
Zhang Li: "Aren’t the lyrics wrong? Shouldn’t it be ’travel across the nine states’ now?!"
Guan Yu: "You blockhead! We’re singing a vibe! A vibe, okay?!"