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As the song ended, everyone tried to comfort Zhao Mengqi, who was beside herself in sorrow. Qin Guiyue glared at Xiao Luo with daggers in her eyes, convinced that it was Xiao Luo who had hurt her.

Guo Qinghe sensed that the situation was becoming awkward, so he quickly suggested a singing competition to liven up the situation. He promptly said, ”I'm proposing a singing competition where everyone gives it a shot with their best songs. We'll determine the winner by the system's highest-scoring contestant, what do you guys think?”

”That is a great idea, but there have to be some incentives for the winner. It'd be boring if we didn't have a prize to compete for.” Zhang Dashan said.

Guo Qinghe thought for a moment and responded as he adjusted his glasses, ”How about this, each of us contributes two hundred to the prize pool, so that makes it two thousand four hundred bucks. The winner gets one thousand two hundred, the first runner-up gets eight hundred, and the second runner-up gets four hundred. How about that?”

”Chairperson, you can just be honest with me, if all you want is two hundred bucks, then you really don't have to go by this singing competition trick.” Saying that Hu Shuiping slapped the two hundred bucks on the table, pouting and acting as if he was offended.

He was a barrel of laughs, and they all knew that Hu Shuiping was tone-deaf. His singing was so terrible that it would be more entertaining to listen to a monk reciting the scriptures. Some people could earn a living by singing, but in Hu Shuiping's case, listeners could get so agitated it would likely cost him his life.

”Shui, don't so upset about it. Who knows this scoring system may not recognize you are tone-deaf, then you would definitely be the champion.” Zhang Dashan gave a pat on his shoulder and said sarcastically.

”F*ck, you're always screwing me up like this, is it so difficult to stop hurling insults at me? F*ck off!” Hu Shuiping shot back.

The prize money has been collected, and the bundle of notes was placed visibly on the table to stir up their competitive spirit. The singing competition was about to begin.

Everyone encouraged Hu Shuiping to sing first, and they anticipated more laughs.

Hu Shuiping seemed to be quite happy to entertain everyone, so he confidently chose to sing ”Si Le Dou Yao Ai.” So horrible was his rendition of the popular song, that it made everyone cover their ears up.

Xiao Luo had his hands over the little loli's ears, but he ended up suffering, as Hu Shuiping murdered every aspect of the song. It was difficult to put the finger on any particular flaw, but besides being off-key, he also got every line of the lyrics wrong. Still, he was so engrossed that he was singing it out loud with his eyes closed.

He sang his lungs out and even bowed at the end of the song. But when the final score flashed on the screen, everyone burst out laughing hysterically.

”What the f*ck, the execution was fierce as hell, but the result was like f*cks. 11 points, hahaha...” Zhang Dashan laughed uncontrollably, with his hands on his belly.

Hu Shuiping was pouting again and actually looked genuinely dejected. He had expected a much better score than that.

The entire room was in stitches, and even the karaoke staff couldn't help themselves.

Qin Guiyue was up next, and she was known for her awesome singing voice. She chose an English song, 'it's Amazing'. She was indeed skillful and enunciated every word well, and she had a beautiful voice that made everyone fall in love with her singing. When she ended her song, the system flashed the score: 98 points!

”What the heck! No point to compete anymore, the champion's Guiyue, without a doubt.”

”Didn't you expect that, have you forgotten that Guiyue was the main vocalist in the band when she was in college?”

”How'd I forget that. I just thought that the results might be different this time, since the score is produced by a machine, instead of a human.”

Everyone was surprised as a tally of 98 points was an extraordinary score to them.

”My throat isn't in the best condition today, on any other day, I would've hit a full score with this song.” Qin Guiyue said, not satisfied with what she got. As conceited as she seemed, she wasn't simply blowing hot air. She indeed was a true songbird who frequently patronized clubs, and she was particularly confident with this song.

Everyone applauded with a look of amazement on their faces. Hu Shuiping even declared aloud, ”Chairperson, give the first prize to Guiyue at once, I can't handle any more of this psychological trauma.”

”Hahaha...”

And everyone once again tore up with laughter as they saw the look on Hu Shuiping's expressive face.

Footnotes:

[1] ”Tu Xingsun”: An extremely short character in the Investiture of Gods who is skilled at earth-style spells, who abducted, and married a beautiful and tall lady named Deng Chanyu.

[2] ”Fengshen Bang”: In English, ”The Investiture of the Gods,” a 16th-century Chinese novel and one of the major vernacular Chinese works in the gods-and-demons genre written during the Ming dynasty.

[3] ”Si Le Dou Yao Ai”: A popular Chinese rock song by Xin Yue Tuan that features extremely high notes and growling in the chorus.

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