74 Short Lived (1/2)

In the next moment, the lights of the theatre gradually dimmed on the stage, the stage lights gradually became brighter.

The concert had officially started!

As the curtains on the stage slowly rose, w.a.n.g Jingwen entered the audience's eyes, suddenly came burst of wolf whistles, in fact, some of the audience directly began swearing like a bunch of rogues. Obviously these people hadn't come to listen to w.a.n.g Jingwen sing, but specifically to tease her.

Zhang Xiaohua watched through the LED display above the stage. w.a.n.g Jingwen was wearing a translucent crimson skirt with heavy makeup on her face. Her hair was dyed to match her clothes, she showed no reaction to the audiences comments or actions. But at first glance, it was obvious she appeared lonely as she received a barrage of insults and degrading comments.

”Oi stupid b**** aren't you gonna start singing, our is this part of your scam as well?”

”Scammer!”

Two front-row spectators suddenly shouted through the noise and hubbub, and soon a chant calling w.a.n.g Jingwen a scammer broke out. Instead of showing the most basic respect to w.a.n.g Jingwen, the audiences chatter and chants intensified. The atmosphere was extremely lively.

In fact, w.a.n.g Jingwen herself was very clear that this concert was pointless and unnecessary at all. If she could have chosen to, she would never have got up on to the stage.

However, in order to maintain the company's image, New Century Entertainment had insisted on running the concert. If it was abandoned halfway, it would only attract criticism from the public and the media.

Therefore, w.a.n.g Jingwen had no choice but to do what she was told. She was no longer the big star of the past. From being treated as a treasure at New Century, she was now treated worse than a dog. Even the other singers began to treat her like dirt, but she had to endure, she had lost her value in the eyes of the company. She was treading on thin ice, she could be abandoned at any time.

Therefore, even if there was only a little bit of hope of a turn around, she had decided to pour out her soul into her performance tonight. Even if she was being treated like trash at New Century, she had to hold on or she would be left with nothing. She didn't want to go back to performing at nightclubs.

After a while, the music for the first song slowly rang out.

Due to the recent heavy losses, New Century Entertainment didn't bother investing in the concert, there were no dancers, no choir, no symphony orchestra, even the background music for all the songs relied on a CD playback.

New Century Entertainment had only provided for the concert the venues and a few sets of costumes for her to change into.

Listening to the background music, Zhang Xiaohua frowned and listened for a long time, he felt like he had heard this somewhere else before, he just couldn't quit pinpoint where. He knew this was gonna bug him for ages.

”An Erhu and a Guzheng they actually used such ancient instruments, it's not like there aren't any modern string instruments,” Zhang Xiaohua thought to himself.

Sometimes he just couldn't understand the music style of this world.

After a full minute of the instrumental prelude, w.a.n.g Jingwen finally began to sing...

”I haven't felt loved yet.

Snowflakes bloom in cold climates

We tremble together

Understanding more through suffering

What is love...”

...

Zhang Xiaohua sprayed his drink out his mouth.

G.o.d, wasn't this song just ”Red Star”!

If he didn't hear the lyrics, just based on the instrumental, he never would have recognized it, as for the lyrics, it seemed they had swapped out some of the original lyrics and just made the song super dark and depressing.