After Zhao Ying finished singing, she returned to the judges’ seats.
At that moment, Li Yue walked to the front of the stage, explained the rules of the Youth Singing Competition to the audience, and finally announced that the competition had officially begun.
With scattered applause from the audience, the first contestant officially took the stage.
When the contestant came up, he was full of passion, singing while interacting with the crowd.
But the crowd was a bit uncooperative—no one paid him any attention at all. Everyone fixed their eyes on their idols on the stage, leaving the singer quite embarrassed.
After he finished singing, the judges scored on the spot, the contestant bowed, and stepped off the stage.
The second contestant seemed a little nervous. After coming up, his legs kept trembling, and his voice shook as he sang, making the judges shake their heads.
“Ugh, this level of skill, and they’re still competing,” Lin Hai thought it was rather dull.
“Alright, next contestant is Liu Jun from Jiangnan University. His competition piece is ‘Yi Jian Mei.’ Let’s give him a warm welcome!”
Pfft!
As soon as host Li Yue finished announcing, Lin Hai burst out laughing.
Damn, this guy hadn’t had enough of being a eunuch, so he came here to castrate himself again!
Raising his head with interest, Lin Hai prepared to see how Liu Jun would perform.
“Hello, judges and audience friends!” Liu Jun wore a black suit, his hair slicked back shiny and neat, and as soon as he got on stage he waved at the crowd like a show-off.
“Whoa, damn!” But who would have thought—while he was busy showing off, he didn’t watch his step and tripped over the speaker cable, falling flat on his face.
Pfft!
“Hahahaha!” The audience burst into laughter.
Several judges also snorted and covered their mouths, laughing.
Liu Jun lay on the ground, his face turning blue.
Motherfucker, how did the stage crew do their job? They didn’t even arrange the cables properly, making me lose face in front of everyone.
“The cables weren’t laid out properly,” Liu Jun quickly scrambled up, smiling awkwardly and pointing at the cables on the ground.
“Our contestant number three is very particular about etiquette—he gave everyone a grand salute as soon as he came up,” Li Yue said, suppressing a laugh.
“Ha!” As soon as Li Yue finished speaking, the audience burst into laughter again.
“Hehe, I’m the most polite person around,” Liu Jun said with a smile on stage, cursing the person in charge of the cables to death in his heart.
It wasn’t until the music started that the audience gradually quieted down.
After performing the song, the judges showed their scores one by one.
It had to be said, Liu Jun’s singing skills were indeed quite solid. “Yi Jian Mei” was also his signature piece, and he actually got a decent score, far surpassing the first two contestants.
Of course, the laughter he brought to the judges at the beginning also earned him quite a few bonus points.
Looking at his score, Liu Jun felt delighted. He bowed to the stage and the audience, then happily went off.
For the next few contestants, Lin Hai felt their singing was all rather average, and he gradually found it boring.
He looked around. Liu Xinqing was playing on her phone, and Lin Yun’s eyes hadn’t left Zhao Ying the entire time.
A bit farther away, his mother was dazing off, Zhao Fang was frowning at Liu Shan, and his father was even more exaggerated—he had directly fallen asleep and was even snoring.
Then looking at Wang Peng, Liu Liang, and the others—each couple was whispering sweet nothings to their little sweethearts. Not a single one was watching the competition.
Lin Hai turned back to look at the audience seats—people were doing all sorts of things, just not watching the competition. At the very back, three guys had even pulled out playing cards and started playing Dou Dizhu.
Damn, Lin Hai was suddenly moved by himself!
After all that, he was the only one actually listening to them sing! What a noble spirit that was!
Ding dong!
“Hm?” Lin Hai’s WeChat suddenly buzzed.
He opened it and saw it was Tieguai Li!
Shit, the old guy finally replied to him. Lin Hai quickly opened the message.
Tieguai Li: A row of shocked emojis.
Pfft!
Screw your uncle! Lin Hai was so angry he almost threw his phone.
Damn, this Tieguai Li—is this some kind of weird quirk? Every time he sends a WeChat message, it’s always shocked emojis.
Little Muddy Immortal: Can you talk properly!
Little Muddy Immortal: Can you talk properly!
Little Muddy Immortal: Can you talk properly!
Lin Hai angrily sent it three times in a row.
Tieguai Li: Immortal, you only need to send it once for me to see it. Why send it three times? Followed by a shocked emoji.
Damn it! Lin Hai felt like he was going crazy!
Little Muddy Immortal: If you dare send me that shocked emoji again, I’ll change the plum blossom on your son’s butt into a sika deer! Followed by an angry emoji.
Tieguai Li: Immortal, what is a sika deer?
Lin Hai grabbed his hair in exasperation.
Little Muddy Immortal: Cut the crap, I’ve got serious business with you.
Tieguai Li: Please speak, Immortal.
Little Muddy Immortal: There’s a patient whose body and soul were previously separated. Now, after taking a pill, the body and soul have merged again. But why hasn’t this person woken up yet?
Tieguai Li: Isn’t it obvious? Because he’s dead!
Pfft! Screw you!
Little Muddy Immortal: He’s alive, and the soul is still there!
Tieguai Li: Then that’s strange. I can’t see the person right now, so I can’t diagnose. By the way, didn’t I pass the Medicine King inheritance to you? Can’t you tell after studying it?
Little Muddy Immortal: I can only tell that he’s not dead and that he’s perfectly normal, but he just won’t wake up.
Tieguai Li: There are several situations where someone can’t wake up. They’re all in my Ghosts and Monsters chapter inheritance. Go check it.
Check my ass! I failed at learning it, how am I supposed to check!
Little Muddy Immortal: I don’t want to check. Just tell me directly.
Tieguai Li: The most common situation is that the patient’s soul has been separated from the body for too long and has formed a fixed consciousness.
Little Muddy Immortal: Put it in plain terms.
Tieguai Li: May I ask, Immortal, has this patient’s body and soul been separated for more than a year?
Little Muddy Immortal: Yes.
Tieguai Li: Then this is very likely the situation. Although the patient’s soul has now returned to the body, because it was away for too long, he has formed a fixed consciousness. That is to say, in his subconscious, his current state is the normal state. He doesn’t know he’s a patient at all, which is why he can’t wake up.
Uh—Lin Hai was speechless. So in Liu Shan’s consciousness, he was still living a normal life.
Little Muddy Immortal: Then what should we do?
Tieguai Li: In this situation, the only way is to use something from reality that deeply moves him to wake him up. If you can’t wake him, he’ll be like in a dream, living forever in his own subconscious, and never wake up again.
Something that can deeply move him? Lin Hai was stunned, then frowned in thought.
Then Lin Hai’s eyebrows twitched sharply.
Liu Xinyue had told him that Liu Shan’s greatest wish was to personally see Liu Xinyue participate in the Youth Singing Competition and win the championship.
So, wouldn’t Liu Xinyue’s singing be the thing that could most deeply move Liu Shan?
At that thought, Lin Hai suddenly became excited.
He quickly opened WeChat and found Liu Xinyue.
“Xinyue, I’ve thought of a way to wake your dad up!”
