Ch70 - Cute is Nothing in Front of Sexy

Even if members of the live audience came out and gave their opinions, almost no one was expecting much from Lu Xu’s team performance.

When they thought of the fact that ‘Monster’ was the posthumous work of Zhang Jiamu, many netizens questioned the show’s choice in songs. It coincidentally happened to be the seventh anniversary of Zhang Jiamu’s death the next day. The netizens determined that the show was just doing anything to draw popularity.

The internet was in the state of a tumultuous storm, but the show broadcasted as usual.

“Hello everyone, we are the ‘Little Effort Team’. Today the song we are performing for everyone is ‘Monster’, we hope everyone will like it…”

The lights dimmed, and the world seemed to enter a short period of silence.

When the accompaniment began, the audience couldn’t help but be stunned—

Was this lazy and sexy tone the same ‘Monster’ they were familiar with?

Before they could even think it through, Lu Xu’s voice cut through the shadows. “They all say I’m a god and worship me in the name of love…”

A spotlight came down, illuminating the person singing.

He was like a heavenly spirit, sitting high on a throne. The black suit made his face even paler, black hair, red lips like withered roses – elegant and noble.

Lu Xu stood up gracefully as he sang. The camera zoomed in and gave a close-up of his face. His glittering peach blossom eyes were enchanting and deep. At first glance, he was an elegant deity, using his affection as a trap, enticing you to fall into his carefully woven abyss of ambiguity.

Even though they saw through his lack of affection, the people who had become his prey did not want to escape.

He was too perfect. The rose that had been cast aside was like a hint of merciless abandonment. But even with this, after receiving his invitation, no one wanted to refuse.

With this one glance, Lu Xu was already breathtaking enough. Apart from sighing with emotion from his charm on stage, no one knew how to express their current mood.

The lights on stage came on, and six youths wearing suits began singing ‘Monster’. They wore suits and leather shoes, but the unbuttoned shirt buttons and their irresistible languidness already expressed their ‘scumbag’ persona.

“You’ll love me more, after all I’m an elegant monster…”

When this song came out of their mouths, no one could think that this was peaceful, and no one would question their charm.

Even if they knew that this elegance was just the monster’s facade, no one could resist becoming entranced.

Whether it was the fallen rose petals that lay on their delicate collarbones, or the sliver of waist that was accidentally shown, each and every one of their movements was that enchanting. No one could deny the monster’s charm, because they were, in fact, gods…

The song came to an end, after a short moment of silence, the screaming cheers came one after another, as if to overturn the entire stage.

Online, the tag #LuXuMonster# immediately appeared, and when clicking into it, it was a group of people crazily hitting call and screaming.

[@Big Foot Loli Rebecca: Aaaaaaaah, when Little Xu sang I nearly gave birth! How can he be so handsome, if a monster that handsome was really willing to cheat my feelings, then I would thank god every day for fulfilling my dog dreams]

[@The Name of Light is Lu Xu: Ah, I’m dead, my mom said I screamed like a chicken just now, but I really can’t stop aaa. Little Xu is so handsome wuuuu. I originally wanted to treat him like a little one, but now I suddenly have even bolder ideas. If I was to say I love you, hubby, you wouldn’t mind right @Lu Xu V]

[@Won’t Change Name Without Losing Ten Pounds: Aaaa, little one, your clothes look so good. Look at how many people admire your body. Wuuuu, I won’t lie, I’m also greedy.]

[@I’ll Use My Youth to Gamble on Tomorrow: If Xu ge crooked his finger, a diehard straight guy like me will also be willing to become a moth drawn to the flame. He’s too handsome, my god, did he eat attractiveness growing up?

[@Sweetheart Strawberry Ice Cream: Hahaha some boys shouldn’t keep saying that they’ll bend for Little Xu okay, this way I’ll have one more rival in love. Speaking of, this song “Monster” is really amazing. Little Xu and the others’ arrangement is good, Zhang Jiamu’s original work is also really nice eh!]

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At this time, no one would talk about it being a posthumous work again.

It was true that the Little Effort Team had changed parts of the song, but the fundamentals and the lyrics were still that of Zhang Jiamu’s work. To be able to write out such self-confident songs, it was unlikely that it would be equated with sadness and depression.

More and more people were praising Lu Xu, and more and more wanted to go understand the original composer.

It had to be said that Zhang Jiamu really was an extremely cool and talented singer. Everything he did was according to his plans, even his sudden death, it was also of his own volition.

This kind of man, who had control from life until death, it really was unnecessary to pity him for his suicide.

Because a lot of people liked Lu Xu who had rearranged “Monster”, there were some of them who were Zhang Jiamu’s diehard fans.

@My Lover is Called Jiamu: I was amazed after hearing @Lu Xu V’s squad’s arrangement, there’s no way I would think of it as a violation. I felt like they sang out the charm of my male god. I only used to love Jiamu, that’s why I’ll pick Lu Xu from now on, they’re the same kind of people]

[@Jiamu Ah: Never mind everything else, I’ve already cast my vote. I really like this version of “Monster”. In the blink of an eye, it’s been seven years, but I never felt that he had left]

[@My Man Isn’t Here Anymore: Seven years ago, I was younger than Jiamu by two years. Now I’m older than him by five years. No one can be young forever, but Jiamu can. Thank you @Lu Xu V for bringing us this new version. I suddenly understand. The sisters on top are right, the man that I love is always here.]

…

Many of the netizens who were determined to make things difficult for Lu Xu, all deleted their posts that they had made before the episode aired, but there were still a few comments left in the hot comments.

[@All Roads Lead To Your Home: No, it is a posthumous work, why won’t they let us say it? Zhang Jiamu’s fans are too sensitive. Besides, listen to it, how can the mentality of the person who wrote this song be healthy? Zhang Jiamu was depressed, it seems like this song was planted for Lu Xu this time]

[@The Paths Lead You Home: I don’t dare to listen, I’m scared I’ll get depressed hehe]

These two Weibo posts and comments were brought to the top, and because it had keywords, anyone could see it by clicking into Lu Xu and Zhang Jiamu supertopics.

The original poster still stood by it, only feeling like they had stated their personal opinion, and those who saw his post and felt uncomfortable had glass hearts.

Other comments told him not to speak so harshly, but he still felt that he was being sufficiently honest. Besides, once Lu Xu and the others’ scores came out and they were bad, it would prove that he was the only one with a good eye.

Although he said that he didn’t dare to listen, in the end he still couldn’t resist standing by the broadcast to watch the performance.

Who could have known how much he had hoped for an incident to happen to Lu Xu. Only after Lu Xu’s performance, did he realise that the incident was happening to him.

Previously on that Weibo post, groups of people wanted him to delete the post so as not to hurt Zhang Jiamu and Lu Xu’s fans’ feelings.

But as more and more people came, he felt even more that he couldn’t swallow this, and replied stubbornly-

[@All Paths Lead You Home: I admit that this person can sing okay enough, but he sounds sluggish, and doesn’t look positive at all. I still prefer “Pink Summer Dream”, they’ll definitely win, just wait and see if you don’t believe me.]

It took less than six minutes for him to start this fight with the netizens. After sending that reply that said to wait and see the results, Liang Da had already stood up on the stage to announce the final results—

“In this contest, the victor is the Little Effort Team!”

The entire scene was thunderous; everyone only felt as if it should have been like this anyways.

Whether it was an intentional decision of the director staff or not, when Lu Xu’s results were released, the camera immediately panned to a closeup of Lan Gaojie’s face. Although the other contestants had lost, they were convinced of their loss; after all, there was a gap in abilities, so they could accept their loss.

It was only Lan Gaojie, with his stiff face and lips, who looked very displeased.

His competitive nature was too heavy and seemed like a completely different person from the shining, singing boy onstage.

When audience members saw this shot, they felt somewhat uncomfortable. Their views of Lan Gaojie weren’t very good.

But @All Roads Lead To Your Home refused to admit weakness, and merely said that just winning a performance didn’t mean someone was a Charisma King.

It was only that not too long after, Liang Da continued, “The King of Charisma in the first public performance—Lu Xu!”

The netizens wouldn’t give up and ran over to @All Roads Lead To Your Home’s Weibo to see what kind of reaction he would have. There were even Lu Xu fans who requested he post a Weibo predicting that Lu Xu wouldn’t debut in centre position. After all, there weren’t that many people who would be slapped in the face for every post they made.

Seeing their own Weibo filled with a pile of “Hahaha”, @All Roads Lead To Your Home finally couldn’t endure it and left Weibo, pretending to be dead.

Lu Xu’s fans didn’t go to the extent of chasing others around to curse them, merely taking this as an anecdote to talk about amongst their friends.

In the first public performance, Lu Xu used his individual strength to once again become worthy of the centre position amongst all the people at the scene.

New fans and old fans all actively ran over to vote for him, only to discover that a person was missing from the rankings.

[@A Little Friend With Many Question Marks: Huh, is it because I have a bug on my side? Why does it seem like there’s one less person, is it normal for you guys?]

[@Which Is Best At Excavator Technology: Have you guys voted yet, I don’t have a voting channel for Lan Gaojie over here. Before the competition, I think I saw him in the top ten rankings.]

[@The Eulogy off Death: Lan Gaojie isn’t there +1]

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[@BTT Is My First Boy Love: Lan Gaojie isn’t there +10086]

Almost all the netizens afterwards discovered that there was no voting channel for Lan Gaojie and couldn’t help but ask if there was a bug.

As for fans of Lan Gaojie, they were even more emotional and pretty much began assaulting the program staff—

[@Jie Treasure’s Little Cute Wife: I’ve never seen such a bullying program before. My family’s artist is also in the top ten rankings. Next will be the elimination section and this is the most important time for votes, but you guys closed the voting  channel for my family. Is this deliberately shutting down on people? Even if it’s recovered, who’s going to make up for the lost votes? Is it because my family’s artist is quiet and reserved and doesn’t like putting himself out there that you guys are bullying him?]

[Our contestant is our beloved person ah, how could you bully him. If you don’t give our Jie treasure a fair platform, we won’t quit!]

The program staff on the other side felt very wronged; in order to not cause further misunderstandings, they responded within a few minutes—

[@Birth of an Idol Official V: For the explanation of closing the voting channel for program contestant Lan Gaojie—student trainee Lan Gaojie has withdrawn from the competition due to personal reasons, thus the voting channel has been closed. Please understand.]

Lan Gaojie’s withdrawal from the competition, how could it be so sudden?

When the netizens saw this they couldn’t help but be stunned. They all ran over to Lan Gaojie’s Weibo to wait for the person himself to express his feelings.