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Chapter 85 Close Your Eyes_1

Chapter 85: Chapter 85 Close Your Eyes_1

This guy in front of me is a tall man with a muscular build, are you telling me his name is Chen Xiuli?

Ding Yue quickly pulled Lin Zhirou away.

He didn’t want any trouble.

Mainly because he didn’t stand a chance in a fight.

"Principal Ding, the competition is about to start."

Wen Ruohan reminded him after looking at the time.

"Alright, I got it."

Replying, Ding Yue reminded Lin Zhirou, "Student Lin Zhirou, we’re heading to the audience seats now. Put up a good fight, remember our goal of being in the top 10 and compete for the championship. Show them what you got!"

"Hmm."

Lin Zhirou nodded gently.

Afterwards, Ding Yue followed Wen Ruohan and Director Jiang to the auditorium. Wen Ruohan purchased seats in the middle, after all Principal Ding had said, money was not an issue.

The venue was quite crowded, mostly filled with young college students since this was the National College Student Art Festival Music Competition.

Before the competition started, a few opening performances took place, but they were by not so well-known singers and dance groups.

The only familiar face was a second-rate singer.

About twenty minutes after the opening performances, the host came on stage to announce the beginning of the final round.

The first one to perform was Wang Jin from the Southwest District.

As a top-contender from Shu City Music Academy, Wang Jin was undoubtedly talented. He was also popular and known as the ’Prince of High Pitch’ from Shu City Music Academy.

Indeed.

The moment Wang Jin appeared on stage, the audience started cheering.

"Wang Jin! Wang Jin! Wang Jin!"

"Ah!!! Wang Jin is so handsome!"

"Handsome? He’s not as handsome as the guy next to me." At that moment, a girl near Ding Yue muttered.

Ding Yue happened to hear this.

This girl does have taste.

With his high-pitched song, Wang Jin won the enthusiastic applause from the audience and appreciation from the judges.

His opponent was in quite a predicament.

The opponent was so intimidated by Wang Jin’s imposing presence that his performance suffered. Ultimately, unsurprisingly, the majority of judges chose Wang Jin.

After Wang Jin from the southwest district, the girl from Guizhou Province took the stage.

Unfortunately, she lost to her opponent by a narrow margin of two votes and was regretfully eliminated.

Lin Zhirou was the seventh to perform and was also the third contestant from the southwest district.

"Next up are contestants from the seventh group, Chen Xiuli from the North China District and Lin Zhirou from the Southwest District."

The host introduced.

"A face-off between two girls?"

"Hahaha, a girl fight, just pull each other’s hair."

"Chen Xiuli or Lin Zhirou, just going by the names, I choose Lin Zhirou."

"I feel like I’ve seen the name Lin Zhirou somewhere online."

"True, it sounds familiar."

"Remember that male campus flower trending topic?"

"Oh yeah, I remember now. Lin Zhirou, the campus flower of Mist City Arts and Science University."

"What?! Are you saying Lin Zhirou is a guy?"

"No, Lin Zhirou is a girl. Super gorgeous. The ’male campus flower’ was called Huang something."

While the audience was abuzz with discussions, the contestant named Chen Xiuli took the stage.

At this moment.

The audience was dumbfounded.

Holy shit, Chen Xiuli is a guy! And a burly hunk at that, full of muscles!

"You’re telling me this guy’s name is Chen Xiuli?"

"What the heck, he’s a man?"

"Hahahaha what?!"

"I hope Lin Zhirou isn’t a guy too."

"Don’t scare me!"

After Chen Xiuli took the stage and briefly introduced himself, he started his performance.

This seemingly fierce boy.

Darn this, he sings so delicately and gently, it’s a refreshing surprise!

But to be honest, Chen Xiuli’s singing skills are average at best, his biggest highlight is the contrast he presents. Everyone thought him to be a tough, high-pitched guy, but his performance was quite gentle.

This contrast earned him a wave of compliments.

Even the judges gave him slightly higher points than expected.

Next up is Lin Zhirou.

Clearly, the name Lin Zhirou didn’t disappoint the audience - it’s a girl.

And she’s an extremely beautiful girl with a great figure.

As soon as Lin Zhirou appeared on stage, the young guys in the audience began to get restless.

"I’m so excited, it’s finally Zhirou’s turn." Wen Ruohan clasped her hands together in anticipation of Lin Zhirou’s performance.

Ding Yue at this moment was quite calm.

It all depends on how Lin Zhirou performs. Chen Xiuli isn’t that strong, but his performance has been well received by the judges.

While he is amazing, his singing just wasn’t as outstanding as led to believe.

If Lin Zhirou doesn’t perform the song "Fragrance of Rice" well, she may have difficulty defeating the tough Chen Xiuli.

But as long as Lin Zhirou gives a regular performance, beating this tough Chen Xiuli shouldn’t be hard.

"Wow, isn’t she too beautiful?"

"With this beauty, Wei is dead!"

"What a great figure."

"She’s a goddess!"

"Oh no, I’m feeling a heartbeat!"

Lin Zhirou on stage, she’s just an alluring part of the scenery.

Then came the familiar introduction to "Fragrance of Rice".

Of course, this intro is only familiar to Ding Yue, to others it’s a strange yet pleasant preamble.

Ding Yue had teachers from the music major at school arrange the accompaniment for the three songs he gave to Lin Zhirou.

So, very few people have heard the melody of "Fragrance of Rice", you could count them on one hand.

"What’s this song?"

"I’ve never heard it before, but the melody is pretty nice."

"This intro is really special."

The intro melody of "Fragrance of Rice" includes summer insect sounds and children’s laughters, so it gives people an intense feeling of immersion.

"If you have too many complaints about this world~

You have fallen and dare not continue to move forward~

Why, people are so fragile, and degenerate~"

When Lin Zhirou sang this song, it gave Ding Yue a different feeling from Director Zhou. After all, one is a male voice and the other is a female voice.

But Lin Zhirou sang it well, mastering every rhythm and melody with perfection.

Of course.

This is the basic expectation from a music major student.

Most importantly, Lin Zhirou conveyed the emotions of the song well, at least making Ding Yue, who had listened to "Fragrance of Rice" countless times, feel very satisfied and pleasantly surprised.

"This song is good."

"Is it an original song? No wonder I didn’t hear it before."

"The melody is quite lively, and the lyrics are very inspirational."

"I’m feeling it."

"A good song will give people goosebumps when they listen to it, I am having them, all over."

The audience was astonished.

Not only is Lin Zhirou beautiful, the song she sang was also very attractive.

The judges were also quite amazed when they heard Lin Zhirou’s "Fragrance of Rice".

"This song is really high level."

"Her singing skills are also very good."

"I haven’t heard such a pleasant original song in a long time."

The judges watched Lin Zhirou as she was singing, all whispering appreciative and satisfied comments to each other.

At this point, Ding Yue.

He closed his eyes, savouring Lin Zhirou’s enchanting voice~

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