Becoming a great entertainer started with being cyberbullied.

Some actors rely on talent to act.

As soon as the camera is pointed at him, he can immediately get into character.

Some actors rely on hard work to act, writing 100,000 words of character biographies just to help them understand the role.

Some actors rely on experience to act; they might act in a romance drama, or they might act as a police officer, observing a case being solved from the police station.

The same principle applies to singers.

Fang Ruoxi is probably the first type of singer.

Singing relies on talent. Just by looking at the lyrics, you can tell what kind of feeling you want to convey and what kind of 'soul' you want to give the song.

Li Ming and Chen Hong clearly belong to the third category.

They need to have the corresponding experience to sing with that feeling.

The song was already written, but Fang Ruoxi was a little unconvinced and had Chen Hong and Li Ming sing it again.

Then, the effect was not as good as the first time.

After the two walked out of the recording studio, the three of them stared at each other in disbelief.

However, in Shen Qiu's eyes, this song sung by the diva and the king of pop was already quite good.

Li Ming and Chen Hong were unsure what kind of feeling Fang Ruoxi wanted. "Why don't you sing it once?" they suggested.

Fang Ruoxi then walked into the recording studio.

As soon as the intro started, she was instantly in character.

"Red beans grow in the south."

Under the acacia tree, the young girl Mu Shaoai plucked a string of red beans from the tree.

She held the string of red beans, lost in thought.

With just this one line of lyrics, they directly took control of the people outside the recording studio.

How can someone evoke a vivid image in someone's mind with just one line of lyrics?

"Most likely to forget the poems of the ancients,"

"The thing I despise most is unrequited love."

She uses her singing to transport listeners into a poignant love story, allowing them to experience the bittersweet pangs of unrequited love.

After finishing the song, Fang Ruoxi walked out of the recording studio and said, "I wanted something like this."

She emphasized, "It's a male-female duet."

Li Ming: "..."

Chen Hong: "..."

They both shook their heads.

It's not that they can't do a 100% imitation, but rather that the pride of superstars makes it impossible for them to sing a song without their own 'flavor'.

It's not that superstars can't cover famous songs.

But the songs they cover always have their own unique flavor.

Li Ming and Chen Hong have been famous for a long time, and their own styles have long been established.

“No, I can’t sing it with that feeling,” Chen Hong said.

Li Ming frowned slightly, "Ruoxi, you can sing the female vocal part yourself."

Chen Hong thought for a moment, "You know what, all the people I can think of who can sing love songs well are in Tianyin."

If it weren't for Fang Ruoxi's version of "Xiang Si" (Longing), Zou Rong might have said that Li Ming and Chen Hong's version was already very good.

He would advise Fang Ruoxi to stop being so picky.

But as a (former) musician, the most amazing thing about a song is that if you settle for something less, it's just torture for yourself.

So Zou Rong asked, "Can't you sing this song solo? I don't think it necessarily has to be a duet."

"If a female vocalist sings this song solo, all you can hear is a woman's yearning for love."

"But the most perfect version of this song, 'Longing,' should be a duet between a man and a woman, with the emotional treatment of the male voice being completely different from that of the female voice."

Zou Rong didn't understand, so he could only try to persuade Fang Ruoxi.

"But Ruoxi, this is already number one, and we haven't even finished the song yet. You're aiming for the gold medal for composer!"

Zou Rong was so anxious that he scratched his head and cheeks.

“The ‘Big Three’ are no pushovers either. You’ve broken Tianyin’s first place so many times. If they pull off something big this month, we’ll have to start all over again!”

"Ruoxi, we have achieved some results, but we must not get carried away!"

Fang Ruoxi is an absolute perfectionist when it comes to music.

Fang Ruoxi insisted, "I believe this song must be a duet between a man and a woman."

Fang Ruoxi is usually easy to talk to her own people, and rarely does she leave such a leeway.

Seeing that an argument was about to break out, Chen Hong quickly tried to smooth things over, "Hey, alright, alright, let's discuss this together, don't get carried away."

Li Ming, who was biased towards Fang Ruoxi, asked, "Ruoxi, who do you want to find for the male voice section? Do you have a target? If they are at Tianyin, I might be able to talk to them privately."

That's the problem.

Fang Ruoxi spends her days either 'surviving' or 'fighting wits and courage' with the 'Big Three'.

There's no time to build connections.

I witnessed some of the superstars' abilities when I participated in the National Day rehearsal last time.

However, stylistically, none of them fit the song "Longing".

Simply put, Fang Ruoxi felt that none of those superstars could capture the feeling she wanted in their singing.

Fang Ruoxi shook her head. "I don't know either, but none of the superstars I've seen can sing the feeling I want."

Zou Rong, with his short temper, was about to lose it. "Boss, you said this song has to be a duet, and you got to choose the person yourself, but you don't know who to choose!"

"Just tell me straight, are you trying to force me to jump off this cliff?"

Chen Hong quickly tried to pull him away jokingly, "No, Mr. Zou, you can't let the late emperor die before his great undertaking is even halfway done!"

Zou Rong: "..."

At this moment, Shen Qiu, the new employee who had been silent all along, spoke up.

"Well, I do have a recommendation... but this person..." he mumbled.

Zou Rong hurriedly asked, "Who is it?"

Shen Qiu scratched his afro, said nothing, and directly opened his phone, pulled out a video from his photo album, and played it.

In the quiet recording studio, music flowed silently from an old smartphone.

A guitar, a man.

A cigarette, a bottle of wine, a night of sorrow.

The song is an old one, and the accompaniment relies entirely on that guitar.

The man singing had a great voice, and Fang Ruoxi's eyes lit up almost from the very first line of the lyrics.

As soon as the second line of lyrics was sung, Fang Ruoxi knew who the male singer for the song "Longing" was!

That's the person in the video!

When she sang the third line of the song, she and Zou Rong started singing almost at the same time.

"It's him!" Fang Ruoxi exclaimed.

“He absolutely cannot!!!” Zou Rong.

Fang Ruoxi frowned and looked at Zou Rong.

At this moment, the atmosphere in the recording studio was extremely subtle.

Zou Rong stared wide-eyed at Fang Ruoxi in disbelief. "Holy crap! Are you crazy?! You used him?"

"Aren't you afraid of being cursed to death?"

Even Chen Hong didn't try to smooth things over this time.

Li Ming frowned as he looked at the video on his phone. "Is this Geng Bin?"

Shen Qiu nodded sullenly.

The people in the video are so different that even their former friends don't recognize them.

Li Ming sighed, though it was unclear what he was sighing about.

"If it's Geng Bin, Ruoxi, it might really be no good. Asking him would get her scolded."

Fang Ruoxi's heart sank. "Is he a disgraced celebrity?"

Li Ming was surprised, "You didn't know?"

Fang Ruoxi mumbled, "Well, I didn't pay much attention to the entertainment industry back then."

Zou Rong immediately gave her a "science lesson," saying, "Holy crap! Geng Bin is practically a 'public enemy'! Yes! Nobody mentions what happened to him back then anymore, but believe it or not! If you dig him up and he sings, netizens will spit on you and you'll be trending on social media in no time!"

At this moment, Shen Qiu could no longer hold back, "Brother Geng isn't that kind of person!"

"He was definitely framed back then!"

He was somewhat agitated, stood up angrily, and his eyes were red.

“I originally thought that this place—” he suppressed his rising anger, “was different from Tianyin!”

"Ha! What should I say? All capital is equally corrupt?"

"Alright, Mr. Zou, we're on different paths, so goodbye! I don't serve capitalists who can't distinguish right from wrong!"

After saying that, he turned to leave.

But Fang Ruoxi called out to him, "Wait."