219: Temporary redesign

He asked the Agent to inquire with the Program Production Team about the song Lu Qingyu was going to sing tonight. A short while later, the Agent returned with a song title: "Left Hand Points to the Moon."

Levi asked the Agent to search for this song online, but after nearly 20 minutes of searching, they couldn't find it. What kind of song was this?

Levi became a bit impatient: "Did you get the song title wrong?"

Levi's Agent was also a foreigner and couldn't write Chinese song titles; they had even asked the director to send it to their phone.

"The song title was copy-pasted, it's exactly this."

The two of them downloaded three music apps from the Dragon Kingdom. There were songs called "Left Hand," songs called "Pointing to the Moon," and songs called "Moon," but there was no song called "Left Hand Points to the Moon."

Levi listened to all of these songs. He didn't think any of them sounded good, and he had a vague feeling that none of these were the songs Lu Qingyu intended to sing.

"Could the director from the Dragon Kingdom have intentionally given us the wrong song title?"

Levi stroked his chin, lost in speculation. If the director knew, he would certainly cry out in injustice—it wasn't that they couldn't find it, but that the song simply didn't exist in any music player.

The Agent, unable to contain their impatience, went to ask the director again. This time, the director told them directly that it was a new song and couldn't be found at all.

The Agent silently rolled their eyes, thinking, 'It's intentional, it's definitely intentional.'

After learning the news, Levi actually felt relieved. Singing a new song on a stage like this was a very risky move.

However, given Lu Qingyu's brilliant performance in the last round, Levi thought about it and decided to re-arrange the song "Vanishing Love" once again.

Ordinary songs typically span two octaves. To give the music more depth, Levi expanded the vocal range to four octaves. After the rehearsal, he submitted his finalized version to the Program Production Team.

The director was hesitant at first. He hoped Levi could sing the original version. The rehearsals were already over, and everyone was familiar with the original, but no one had practiced this new version. It would be bad if something went wrong during the live show.

But Levi insisted on doing it, especially after learning that Lu Qingyu was not attending rehearsals.

He felt that Lu Qingyu was too cunning, because he knew the song performances of everyone on site, but the others didn't understand him, and didn't even know what song he was singing.

In the end, the director agreed to Levi's request. After all, he was an international superstar and a big shot; if he had some demands, so be it.

Thus, the songs of the other six singers remained unchanged. Lu Qingyu did not participate in the rehearsal, and Levi submitted a new version after the rehearsal. The program arrived at the semi-finals on the evening of the second day.

Lu Qingyu's schedule was the same as last time: get off the plane and immediately rush to the venue.

Before they even reached the studio building, the car passed a square one kilometer away. Lu Qingyu looked out the car window and saw, to his surprise, many fans cheering for him.

Bright yellow lights twinkled like Stars in the night. In the front row were neat light boards with Lu Qingyu's name and logos for cheering him on.

These fans came from all over the country. They hadn't been able to buy tickets to enter the venue. The open space around the studio building was quite narrow; if they cheered there, Lu Qingyu might see them, but it would affect the entry and exit of other singers and the Staff Member.

Thus, they had to settle for cheering at the square one kilometer away, but the downside of doing this was that Lu Qingyu had no way to interact with them and might not even see them.

More than 800 fans came to cheer this time, with two or three hundred locals, while the rest had traveled specifically from other cities.

The weather tonight was mediocre, with a light breeze blowing outside. The weather forecast said there might be a drizzle in two hours. This kind of love from the fans moved Lu Qingyu deeply.

He cherished the support from his fans very much. The connection between fans and idols was very pure. Imagine one person supporting and liking another person without reservation, even though they had never even met that person.

Su Jixing also saw the fans cheering outside, but the car was driving too fast, and he didn't have a chance to take out his phone to take pictures.

"After the program ends, the fans will upload the photos of the cheering to the internet. You can repost them to keep as a memento."

Lu Qingyu thought about it and made a sudden decision: "Help me reschedule my flight for tonight."

The original ticket was for a flight two hours after the program finished, which would be in the early hours of the morning.

Su Jixing guessed that Lu Qingyu might want to meet the fans after the program ended.

Su Jixing said: "On the way back, we'll pass by here. We can spare five minutes to meet the fans."

He meant that Lu Qingyu didn't necessarily have to reschedule the flight. Lu Qingyu shook his head: "That would make the time too rushed."

Su Jixing thought that was true, especially considering the director of the Program Production Team—he was very dawdling. His dawdling style was one of a kind and quite famous in the industry.

Su Jixing said: "Then let's change it to the 4:00 AM flight tomorrow."

Before getting out of the car, Su Jixing finished changing the flight time. With 15 minutes left before the program started, Lu Qingyu arrived at the scene.

The other guests were already prepared. The appearance order for the Program Production Team had already been decided by drawing lots before the previous episode ended.

The top four singers from the competition could draw their appearance order from fourth to eighth, while the bottom four contestants needed to draw their appearance order from first to fourth.

In the last round, Lu Qingyu drew sixth place, Levi drew fifth place, Caesar drew the last spot, Su Wang drew first place, and Sister Na was in third place.

The lights, stage, and Host were in position. The program countdown was 30 seconds. The director personally operated the live broadcast camera and stood in front of the stage.

During the live broadcast warm-up, a large number of viewers had already flooded in. As of now, the number of viewers had exceeded 60 million and was still growing rapidly.

The director felt vaguely excited, because he had a premonition that today's live broadcast would definitely break the record of the previous episode again.