227: Night in Ulaanbaatar

In the lounge, Su Jixing stood beside Lu Qingyu and couldn't help but exclaim.

"Levi's voice is truly amazing. It seems like people in the West are naturally suited for this style of music."

"And that high note, it must have hit A5, right?"

Levi had added that A5 high note on purpose. It wasn't originally that high, but thinking about how Lu Qingyu had previously sung an A5, how could he lose to him here?

Consequently, everyone heard Levi's stunning high-pitched performance. On stage, Levi's face flushed red; that A5 high note was somewhat difficult for him, but it wasn't impossible to hit.

Lu Qingyu: "That was a good performance."

Lu Qingyu chimed in with a compliment. It was almost his turn to go on stage, yet there wasn't a hint of nervousness on his face.

Initially, Su Jixing had worried that since Levi performed so well, his younger brother might feel pressured. Should he offer a few words of comfort?

But seeing Lu Qingyu's current state, he felt that his worries were unnecessary.

Levi's performance was nearing its end, and Lu Qingyu walked toward the front stage after hearing the director's voice in his earpiece.

On stage, after Levi finished his piece, the audience stood up one after another to applaud and cheer for him.

Levi smiled as he looked at the audience. He felt he had delivered an excellent performance. He had spent a month polishing this song, and this was his first time performing it on stage.

These Dragon Country audience members should feel honored.

The audience's applause lasted for nearly a minute. Levi walked off the stage leisurely. When he crossed paths with Lu Qingyu, he nodded toward him with the attitude of a superior—a psychological display of no longer regarding Lu Qingyu as a threat and feeling that he had crushed him.

Lu Qingyu ignored him and walked onto the stage for his final performance.

Levi had hired his own band; sorry, but he had hired one too—and it was a Mongolian band.

During the stage transition, everyone saw people dressed in ethnic attire, carrying string instruments they didn't recognize, go on stage with Lu Qingyu.

Lu Qingyu stood on stage. The director, watching Lu Qingyu's handsome appearance on the monitor from below, felt his heart tighten.

It was the final round, and he didn't know if Lu Qingyu would truly be able to defeat Levi.

To be honest, Levi's performance today was too strong—better than all his previous ones.

It wasn't just the director who was sweating for Lu Qingyu; the other singers backstage, as well as Lu Qingyu's fans and the viewers watching the show, felt the same.

The music slowly began to play. Lu Qingyu was dressed in a black suit, as deep as the night.

The standard for measuring a good song has never been just high notes; the arrangement, the fusion of instruments, the meaning expressed in the lyrics, and the singer's interpretation are all very important.

The highest level of a good song is to seamlessly blend technique into the emotions of the entire piece; technique exists to serve the emotion.

And this song was a very important one in Lu Qingyu's mind.

"Ulaanbaatar Night"

"You have been gone for so many years"

"You are still by my side"

"That day, your smiling face"

"Now, when I close my eyes, I can still see it"

The opening was nearly a cappella, with the occasional sound like wind chimes. But what surprised people was that they heard another voice in the background beneath Lu Qingyu's singing. As soon as that sound emerged, it immediately gave people the feeling of seeing vast grasslands and boundless Freedom.

The first time Lu Qingyu heard this song was when Teacher Tan sang it. She was commemorating her father, while he was commemorating his grandfather.

His grandfather had once been his closest relative. Before his grandfather passed away, he was most worried about him—back then, he hadn't been diagnosed with cancer yet.

Fortunately, his grandfather didn't know that he would also pass away less than half a year after him. When his grandfather left, he must have been comforted, thinking he would have a successful career and a house full of descendants.

"Wind blowing across the wilderness, please slow down"

"I use silence to tell you, I am drunk"

"The night in Ulaanbaatar, so quiet, so quiet"

"Even the wind cannot hear, cannot hear"

"Clouds drifting to the horizon, please slow down"

"I use running to tell you, I will not turn back"

"The night in Ulaanbaatar, so quiet, so quiet"

"Even the clouds do not know, do not know"

The lyrics carried a sense of sorrow, and Lu Qingyu's voice was deep yet bright.

Only a few lines of lyrics in, and it resonated with many people, making them want to shed tears.

Everyone was still holding back their tears, but the dialogue-like singing that followed made their tears stream down uncontrollably.

"Hey, are you there"

"You exist in every corner of this world"

"Hey, are you there"

"You pass through the wind"

"Pass through the clouds, pass through everything, and return"

Lu Qingyu waved toward the sky, reminding everyone of the people they missed the most.

【Wuwuwuwu, this song is really going to be the death of me.】

【This is just too good, Lu Qingyu is my god forever.】

【I'm crying to death, it made me think of my grandma.】

【This is the real Dragon Country music.】

Lu Qingyu's high notes served the emotions he wanted to express in the song; they erupted when the emotion was infused to a certain degree, leaving people with a sense of catharsis.

Backstage, Levi watched Lu Qingyu singing on the television, and his heart gradually grew tense.

He had underestimated this person after all.

At this moment, Lu Qingyu was already immersed in the song.

He couldn't understand it; every time he thought this was Lu Qingyu's limit, Lu Qingyu would break through that limit to show him.

"What has our world changed"

"What is our world expecting"

"What is left of our world"

"Our world has only deserts left"

"Wind blowing across the wilderness, please slow down"

"The singer sheds tears from time to time"

The director below the stage clenched his small fists excitedly. Great, he felt that Lu Qingyu had it in the bag.

After the final line of the song, filled with deep emotion, was sung, the entire venue was silent for a moment, followed by an explosion of thunderous applause.

Many people stood up to applaud while shedding tears.

The audience's reaction was the most authentic. Earlier, the audience had been enthusiastic for Levi's performance, but after Lu Qingyu's performance ended, the audience was a bit delirious.

The applause lasted for more than three minutes; the audience's hands were already numb from clapping.

The singers backstage were also very excited. When Lu Qingyu appeared, they couldn't wait to toss him into the air.

Morin: "That was too good, it sounded amazing."

Sister Na: "You did us proud, you really brought honor to us."

Su Wang: "You are my idol now."

Lu Qingyu: "Thank you all for your support."

After Lu Qingyu's performance ended, Levi's expression was not very good. He had tens of millions of followers on Instagram, and since he started participating in this show, his followers had increased by over 2 million.

He usually followed news related to himself, so he naturally knew that fans and viewers at home and abroad were now focused on the championship battle between him and Lu Qingyu.

If he were to lose, it would be equivalent to losing face in front of tens of millions of people.