Transmigration: Lady Chi Woos The Ice cold Professor Jun
Chapter 412: Spring gala[2]

Chapter 412: Spring gala[2]

In many homes in different cities around the empire, families were sitting in front of their television screens. They were watching different television channels but on each of the channels, there was only one program, the Spring festival gala.

In some homes, the battle for the remote would not end until an elder stepped in and made the decision on which channel everyone should watch.

In the Qi home for example, Qi Lele had turned on Phoenix Tv but her brother Qi Kai grabbed the remote out of her hands and turned on the NBTV.

"What are you doing?" Qi Lele huffed angrily and she climbed over him to forcefully take the remote from him.

Qi Kai was stronger and he won the battle of the remote.

"Daddy," Qi Lele called her father with her bottom lip trembling. "Older brother is bullying me."

Their father whose head was buried in a newspaper barely looked up. "Qi Kai, give your sister the remote." He said in a resigned voice. This was a fight that took place every year. In fact all the other members of the family just watched whichever television the winner picked.

"Not fair." Qi Kai muttered. He refused to give it up.

Qi Lele walked away and when she returned, she was holding a plastic knife against Lucifer’s neck. She coughed two times and Qi Kai looked at her then his eyes went wide in horror. "Hand it over or the cat gets it."

Qi Kai screamed. "Hey, it’s just a remote, you don’t need to go this far. What is so special about your boss’s show anyway? You saw it too, they have no opening act." he threw the remote away. "There you go, please let my baby go." he pleaded.

Qi Lele smirked and she took the remote but she did not hand Lucifer over. "I need to be sure that you will behave all night. I am keeping the hostage." she said.

She was petting the black cat and it was purring comfortably. It had no idea that it was being used as leverage against it’s master.

In the Yan family, Yan Daya was also watching Phoenix Television with a gleeful smile on her face. She could not wait to see their disaster of a Spring gala.

She was not alone in this assumption, many other people were watching it for the same reason. Their plan was to watch for a minute and then change to to their preferred televisions.

Meanwhile, Phoenix television was showing the venue decorations and the live audience.

"I can’t believe the venue is filled to the brim even after the recent news. We all know that it’s going to suck." Yan Daya said and she laughed.

"Oh, Jun Muyang is there." Yan Feng said. "What a supportive husband he is."

"I think the entire Jun family is there," another member of the family pointed out.

"And the Wang family."

"I have also seen the queen dowager and the grand emperor."

Yan Daya was steaming with fury in her seat. She switched the television off with a remote and Yan Feng turned it back on.

"You should leave if you do not want to watch." he told her.

Meanwhile, it was time for the spring gala show to begin. The stars in the Phoenix sky re-arranged themselves in a dancing wave like movement to spell ’welcome to our spring gala.’

"Wow." people exclaimed.

They did the same thing and spelled, "We wish you a happy new year."

Audience members waved their glowing sticks and cheered. The excitement in the air rose and expectations for the presentations went up a notch higher.

"Are you ready to rock?" a voice was heard from all around and the viewers cheered.

A very cheerful beat that reminded the old generation of disco but with a modern twist started playing. One by one lights slowly turned on and the stage lit up and an unknown musician dressed in old clothes that reminded many people of the 1980’s was seen.

He started singing, "You are just like that that handful of fire in winter, a blazing flame that warmed the bottom of my heart."

Perhaps it was because of the rhythm and the beat people were already and cheering.

A hologram of someone else singing only one line along with the musician appeared and some people screamed.

Old madam Jun was among them, "Honey that’s Moe Si, he used to be my favorite musician." she shook the old master Jun like a rug doll.

Some people stood up and started dancing a little bit and the old madam joined in.

"She will break her back like this." the old master mumbled. In reality he was just jealous because his wife used to have a crush on Moe Si.

Another hologram appeared of another old almost forgotten musician that was once loved. She also sung one line along with the musician "You’re just like that handful of fire," and the audience cheered.

The holograms were not really singing, they were silently mouthing the words. This continued until some of the stars turned into small flames that rained down on the audience but turned into smoke and vanished right before their eyes.

When Peter Pan and his back up dancers started dancing, the waving of the glowing sticks became crazier and the cheering louder.

On seeing that the opening act of Phoenix Tv was actually successful some people switched to Pearl Tv.

Even the comments online were supportive of Phoenix Tv. A few of course were saying Du Moxi would have been better.

[Unless Moxi’s performance has extraordinary effects, Phoenix Tv might actually win.]

[I have been watching Pearl Tv for a few minutes now and Du Moxi’s countenance seems to be off.]

[Why isn’t she performing her biggest hits?]

Behind the stage in the Pearl Tv venue the executive producer was on the phone berating the manager who recommended Du Moxi. The opening act was mediocre because all the props and dance moves had been tailored to specific songs which she did not perform. For this reason Du Moxi was just singing alone on stage in front of a microphone.

The audience was yelling for specific songs but they never got their wish. Moxi’s performance was cut short by the executive producer.