159: Chapter 159, "I Will Return," is now available!

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Awesome, awesome, truly awesome.

Well done, Wawa, you truly deserve the title of the number one Lin-fan in the Chinese Entertainment Industry.

Damn it, how can you even say such things? Doesn't your conscience hurt? Aren't you afraid of biting your tongue?

I asked you to review the blue album! Not to spout nonsense!

"The Chinese Music Industry belongs to Lin?" Are you a fan or a saboteur?

However, the interpretation of the new album was decent; at least everyone finally understood why Lin Chuyan didn't choose love songs.

Besides, while love is good, not everyone has it.

And the various struggles and efforts in life described in the blue album—everyone relates to them deeply, right?

After all, everyone is tasting the bitterness of life... and it seems we'll have to keep tasting it...

Plus, the new songs are truly good. Some found resonance in "lonely patient," some found strength in "Andy," some were healed by "Slow Soul," some fell in love with the optimistic and high-spirited spirit of "finding myself," some must play "the ordinary road" when driving, and others added another song to their KTV playlist because of "changing myself," which is just delightful...

Goodness, the value of this album really seems quite high.

Looking at the Weibo trending topics:

# Lin Chuyan Lin Mo #

# Lin Chuyan's new album is so good #

# The value of the blue album #

# Lin Chuyan the ordinary road #

Clicking into the trending hashtags, tonight seems destined to be a night of revelry, with fans offering praises over and over again.

"I don't want to say much, I just want to say that my little brother has had a really hard journey."

"Yeah, who can listen to these 13 songs and not be moved? If you ask me, renaming this new album 'My Struggle' wouldn't be out of the question."

"the ordinary road? The road to godhood!"

Besides the fans and Wawa, there was no shortage of other Singers and artists in the industry coming out to praise Lin Chuyan's blue album.

All the flattery, all the accolades, seemed to arrive before Lin Chuyan overnight.

But before he could savor it, Wu Yue came over to talk to him about work.

"Xiao Yan, there's a livestream, see if you want to take it."

"What livestream? At this time of night..."

"I didn't ask you to take it now, the earliest would be tomorrow." Wu Yue shook his head, "Do you remember Li Xue? The one from Bilibili."

"Ah, the girl from the previous livestream interview, I know, I even gave her an autograph before I left."

"Right, Bilibili wants to do another exclusive interview with you, um, it's a livestream + interview format."

Lin Chuyan thought for a moment and didn't refuse: "Okay, let's do it tomorrow night. I still have the play during the day tomorrow."

"Alright, I'll tell them. Li Xue and the others are still in Beijing; they should be here by the time they buy tickets and travel."

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Time quickly arrived at the second night.

Bilibili had already sent out the announcement, and Li Xue and the others had rushed to the spring city of Yunnan Province overnight.

Well, hard work for the workers.

"Brother! We meet again!"

It was the same three-person group as last time. Li Xue, the guy with glasses, and a little chubby guy.

"Hello everyone, long time no see, how is everyone? Thanks for making the trip."

"We're doing great, we all really like your new album, you're amazing, Brother."

"Sigh..."

Then Lin Chuyan didn't know what to say; being too humble is quite hypocritical.

Fortunately, Li Xue didn't talk much nonsense and went straight to the point: "Brother, shall we start now?"

Lin Chuyan wasn't convenient to run around outside now, and he couldn't livestream at the set, so the few of them were still in the hotel room.

"I'm ready whenever, everyone just sit on the sofa. Oh, does anyone need to use the restroom? It won't be convenient to go during the livestream, don't blame me for not reminding you."

Li Xue laughed out loud, feeling that Lin Chuyan was so down-to-earth, even reminding the staff to use the restroom.

But she was too embarrassed to go, so she looked back at the other two. Well, the guy with glasses went...

Once everything was ready, the livestream started. It was exactly 7 o'clock, not a moment wasted.

Netizens had already entered the livestream room early, and the bullet comments were already scrolling.

[Yanzi is doing well now, balancing acting and releasing albums]

[Can you stop acting? Lin Chuyan, you're confused, isn't it better to release more albums?]

[Brother Yan, sing a song on the livestream! Brother Yan, sing a song on the livestream!]

Li Xue chatted while looking at the comments: "Brother, it seems like we haven't seen many Haters in the last two days?"

"They're like rats, it's normal for them to hide occasionally, they can't be out in the sun all day, right?"

[Damn, I thought Lin the Dog had mended his ways, but after not seeing him for days, his mouth is still so poisonous.]

[This is called a change in the offensive and defensive momentum, back in the day Lin Chuyan was the one who was like a rat crossing the street.]

"Then how do you view Haters? It feels like you are the type of artist with quite a lot of Haters."

"Ah, anyway, I've figured it out now."

Li Xue didn't quite understand: "Figured it out?"

"Yes, if one Hater thinks I'm bad, that must be the Hater's problem. If a group of Haters thinks I'm bad, that means they know each other, and they all have problems."

[Lin Chuyan's mental state is something else.]

[Don't be like that, if the Haters knew you thought this way, they would be triggered.]

Li Xue held back her laughter: "Alright, then do you think this entertainment industry is quite murky?"

Lin Chuyan asked her back: "What do you think the internet is?"

Li Xue blinked and answered casually: "Sharing?"

Very good, you understand the spirit of the internet.

"...Alright, actually what I wanted to say is, hating the sky, hating the earth, hating humanity, hating parents, hating teachers, hating bosses, wanting everything to be destroyed together, this is the current status of the internet. So, understand this status, and just do your own thing."

Li Xue's livestream was originally just about talking about whatever came up, with no specific purpose. Seeing him speak interestingly, she continued to chat along this topic.

"Then how do you evaluate some people scolding you for not speaking like a proper artist, saying you have no quality, and scolding you for speaking dirty?"

The bullet comments were also getting hyped.

[Good, good, good, asking these kinds of questions is interesting, editor, ask more.]

[Lin Chuyan just speaks nastily, always hate netizens like this, does anyone really think he's awesome?]

[So we can only obediently take the abuse, right? The person above is an idiot, verified.]

Lin Chuyan shrugged: "I actually haven't said a single dirty word to them. If they still think it's dirty, this cleanliness obsession, ten condoms can't solve it, I suggest they look for the reason within themselves."

Li Xue was a bit stunned hearing him say this: "Brother, is this okay to say? That... condom thing."

Lin Chuyan didn't care: "Look, this circle is like this, very inexplicable. Everyone seems to have a tacit understanding that nothing can be said, even the three words 'condom' have become dirty in everyone's eyes. Actually, if you think about it carefully?"

Li Xue actually felt something was off too: Right, why did she immediately think those three words couldn't be said?

She continued along the topic: "Actually, I don't know why, it seems everyone is like this... but maybe that's why some people don't like you? It's, how to say, being too sharp?"

"Maybe, but this isn't against the law, right? However, I can understand why they don't like me because of this." Lin Chuyan thought for a moment, "I think there are two types of people in this world, one wants to win, the other wants to win the argument. Most people are the first, Haters are the second."

Li Xue picked up his words and asked: "And you?"

Lin Chuyan smiled: "I am the third, I want it all."

He immediately added: "As for being too sharp or whatever, I want to say, we cannot face darkness with gentleness, we must use fire."

[God, 'I want it all', please give the Haters a way to live!]

[To be fair, the sentence 'use fire to face darkness' is quite philosophical.]

[Is Lin Chuyan's mouth blessed? Or is he always like this? Just a passerby, only listen to songs, rarely go on Bilibili.]

[To the one above, he has always been like this...]

Li Xue pulled the topic back to the new album: "Brother, let's talk about the new album. I did my homework before coming, I listened to the songs, and I also read quite a few professional analyses of the blue album. In my own understanding, is this actually an album about growth? How do you view growth?"

Lin Chuyan spoke harshly, without hesitation: "Many people seek comfort when they encounter setbacks. But I want to say, any behavior of seeking comfort will not make you grow, it just gives you a temporary sense of security. Growth is actually a particularly difficult self-reflection, you must abandon all nice words, the biggest enemy in life is sometimes yourself trapped in the walls of your own thoughts."

The whole livestream lasted about half an hour, and it was coming to an end.

At the end of the livestream, Li Xue as a fan, was still a bit worried: "I always feel that these words in this livestream, people who like you will like you more, those who don't like you will feel offended and like you even less. It seems your evaluation has always been very polarized..."

"Offended? Then let's offend a bit more."

Lin Chuyan thought for a moment and decided to say something even harsher.

"Some people don't dislike me, they indiscriminately hate people like me. They were taught from a young age that being patient and low-key is the way to success, but they have lived until today and have achieved nothing. Suddenly seeing someone who is flamboyant, high-profile, and successful, their entire worldview collapses, and the past decades of patience seem like a joke. So they are triggered, they must make me disappear, make me fail, in order to restore the structure of their own worldview."

After the livestream and interview ended, Li Xue and the others left.

Before they left, Lin Chuyan even gave all three of them his autographed physical albums.

After sending them off, Lin Chuyan lay on the bed playing with his phone for a while, and then saw that there were indeed many people on the internet discussing some of his remarks from this livestream.

Well, there were indeed a lot of people scolding him, especially the last part he said in the livestream.

But this was indeed what Lin Chuyan thought in his heart, and he didn't plan to change it.

He even thought of a poem from his previous life, a modern poem by Mr. Li Ao.

The poem is very straightforward, so he remembered it quite clearly.

Well, it fits his current state of mind quite well, and it also fits his current situation very well.

So he just took it and posted it on Weibo.

Edit, publish.

"I Shall Return and Bloom"

Because I have always been that way,

So you think I will always be that way.

But this time you are wrong,

I have changed in ways you cannot imagine.

The bad will eventually become good,

The weak will always become strong.

Who could have imagined that an ugly cocoon,

Would turn into a fluttering butterfly?

Like a lotus flower entering the night,

Like a bird returning to its nest,

Or like a reclusive old philosopher,

I have faded all my sharpness and brightness.

The pitch-black tunnel will eventually be pierced through,

The thousand-fathom high ridge will surely be climbed.

When the days of the hundred flowers wither,

I shall return and bloom!