64: Guest topic

The third episode of "Music Stall" aired as scheduled. The Program Production Team had previously been clamored at by netizens to replace Lu Qingyu due to the controversy, but fortunately, the Program Production Team held firm and did not replace him. As a result, the current situation is that the pre-broadcast live stream for "Music Stall" has already exceeded three million viewers.

The Program Production Team was overjoyed. Lu Qingyu's comeback was truly spectacular. Coupled with Su Jixing's management, Lu Qingyu rebounded from rock bottom, his fan count exceeded three million, and all discussion topics reached a very high level of engagement.

Lu Jin had left, so to ensure the recording wasn't affected, the Program Production Team invited a very formidable opponent for everyone: Song Ke.

Song Ke, an original music artist, is 28 years old this year. He excels at composing and songwriting. A song he recently released even broke the single-day highest listening record on a certain music app, and his momentum is currently very strong.

Song Ke is an artist under Mingsheng Entertainment. Mingsheng Entertainment had originally decided that he would participate in this variety show, but later, Lu Jin beat him to it.

Song Ke was furious about this at the time. His musical level and overall competence were both above Lu Jin's—didn't Lu Jin just have a good father?

Losing this opportunity made Song Ke very angry. He originally thought he would have no connection with this show, but he didn't expect Lu Jin to explode with a scandal and be forced to withdraw from the show and go abroad. This opportunity had returned to him once again.

The Program Production Team contacted him three days in advance. He had made many preparations for this variety show, and he believed that as long as he had the chance, he would definitely surpass everyone.

Inside the lounge, everyone had arrived one after another. Since it was Song Ke's first time here, he stood up to greet the other three.

"Hello everyone, I am Song Ke."

Song Ke was wearing a beige sweater with a pair of light blue jeans today. When he greeted them, he had dimples on his face, which made the netizens in the live stream room start fawning over him.

"My husband is so handsome, go husband!"

"Song Ke, you are the best."

"Song Ke is very good, please support him a lot."

Lou Qingran and Lu Qingyu both responded to the greeting politely but with a sense of distance. Zhang Xiaoxiao liked to joke around, so she started chatting with Song Ke.

Lou Qingran's attention was on Lu Qingyu. With the online situation having blown up so big, there was no one who didn't know about it.

Lu Qingyu's eye sockets were slightly dark. After seeing Lu Qingyu's image in the live stream, the makeup artist had just come in specifically to touch up his makeup.

Lou Qingran asked Lu Qingyu with concern: "Are you okay?"

Lu Qingyu had been sitting in his seat, speaking very little, and looking somewhat dazed. This state had lasted for a long time. The live stream room and others who saw Lu Qingyu like this thought he was sad because of the online events from the past two days and hadn't recovered yet.

Live comments:

"Little brother, you must pull yourself together, we will all support you."

"Little brother actually has dark circles, my heart aches."

"Little brother, life is not perfect, but don't be sad because of people who aren't worth it."

Netizens were all comforting Lu Qingyu, telling him not to dwell on what had already happened, but in reality, he was considering his work content.

To get rid of the scandal and make Lu Group regain the public's favor, Lu Guozhong, despite his heart aching, paid the 170 million in child support for that extremely unreasonable request.

Having received the compensation, Lu Qingyu established DS Investment Company and DS Finance as quickly as possible and found a professional manager, Qi Fei, to manage them.

Qi Fei graduated from Harvard, had worked on Wall Street for two years, and had also worked as a manager at an overseas investment company for two years. He had extensive work experience and excellent ability.

With Qi Fei there to build the company's foundation, he basically didn't need to worry about it.

The thing that actually caused his dark circles was something else.

He had applied to a foreign university.

Lu Jin was only 18 years old this year. Normally, a child of this age should be in college. Although Lu Jin was in the entertainment industry, he was also enrolled in a foreign university.

The previous Lu Qingyu, due to his upbringing, had dropped out of school long ago. But now that he was at least a celebrity, and furthermore, he already owned three companies and intended to become the richest man in the future, it would be a bit of a social death if people talked about how their boss didn't even graduate from junior high school.

Lu Qingyu synthesized the application requirements for foreign universities and finally chose the Finance Department at Cornell University.

Foreign universities have two academic terms, autumn and spring. One semester is about three months, and the graduation requirement is to pass all courses and earn enough credits.

In his past life, Lu Qingyu had attended university abroad. He completed the four-year course and graduated in just one semester. This choice was the most time-saving for him.

Now there was one tricky problem: one of the application requirements for foreign universities is that the student must be at least a high school graduate.

Lu Qingyu had dropped out of school long ago and had not graduated from high school. The only way was for him to take the National College Entrance Exam, get into a university, and then transfer from a domestic university to a foreign one.

For the past two days, Lu Qingyu had been doing "Five Three" math, physics, and chemistry problems. The long-lost high-intensity studying made him feel a bit depressed.

Fortunately, knowledge was something he still had a connection with. After doing a few sets to get a feel for it, although he didn't get full marks, there shouldn't be any major problems with getting into a university.

Lu Qingyu heard Lou Qingran speaking to him and nodded in response: "Thank you for your concern, Sister Lou, I'm doing quite well."

Lou Qingran admired Lu Qingyu very much. Being so young and able to remain so calm under so much pressure was truly impressive. If it were her, she would have collapsed long ago.

Lou Qingran admired Lu Qingyu quite a bit: "If you have anything you need my help with, just ask."

Lu Qingyu felt Lou Qingran's goodwill. Although they had only recorded the show twice and met twice, Lu Qingyu still had a very good impression of this big sister.

"I won't be polite."

Seeing Lu Qingyu say this, Lou Qingran smiled from her heart.

Song Ke, on the other hand, was talking to Zhang Xiaoxiao, but he was paying attention to every move Lu Qingyu made.

This person should be his greatest enemy in this competition.

It was about time, so the director asked the guests to go to the stage. Hearing the voice, everyone walked towards the front stage.

The live audience began to cheer when they saw them appear. And the moment Lu Qingyu appeared, the reaction at the scene was very intense, with many people waving glow sticks and light boards below.

For this episode, the Program Production Team stipulated a PK match for young singers. It was actually also a two-hour on-site original work creation. The Host would draw lots, and whichever singer was drawn would set the topic for the original content.

The audience was very happy when they heard the rules of the competition; they could see wonderful performances again.

But the singers were not so happy. Did you think original work was like cabbage on the street that you could just pick up at will?

This season's show was a bit ruthless. Why was the most difficult time-limited original creation competition from the last season endless?

A Staff Member brought a box onto the stage, and the Host began to draw lots.

The box was full of small slips of paper. The Host drew one at random, unfolded it, and slowly said: "Let me see who the topic-setting guest for this episode is. It is Song Ke. Let's invite Song Ke to the stage."