Chapter 128: Authorization and the Eccentric Young Lady
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Host Yang Yang stepped onto the stage. “Alright, Jiang Xin, choose your team!”
“I choose Coach Zhou Lun’s team!”
“Yeah!” Zhou Lun made a victory sign at the camera.
Jiang Yun looked stunned.
“How’s that, Jiang Yun? Didn’t see that coming?”
Jiang Yun shook her head with a surprised laugh. “I truly did not expect it.”
Wang Feng picked up the microphone. “Could you tell us why?”
After a moment, Jiang Xin said, “There’s no particular reason. I just feel that *Blue and White Porcelain* should be sung by Coach Zhou Lun.”
Jiang Yun paused for a moment, then said earnestly, “I now formally announce: I am granting *Blue and White Porcelain* for him to perform. From now on, I will no longer sing it, and the MP3 already released will be taken down.”
A stir swept through the room.
The studio audience gasped, and viewers at home and online did the same.
“Jiang Yun is incredible!”
“Not even walls could withstand it—only Jiang Yun!”
“Jiang Yun is bold!”
Zhou Lun looked incredulous. “Jiang Yun, that’s not possible! You already gave me three songs!”
“Brother Zhou, just accept it.” Jiang Yun said, with a serious face, and Zhou Lun blinked in surprise.
“Well… all right then. I’ll obey.”
Jiang Yun nodded and immediately made a call on the spot.
“Hello, Editor He, please take down *Blue and White Porcelain*.”
“What’s wrong?” He Yong’s voice came through.
“I’ve reassigned this song to another singer. Zhou Lun will now be the one credited as the lead vocalist,” Jiang Yun explained.
“Understood.”
She hung up. Every one of her movements was being recorded by the cameras.
Jiang Yun smiled. “All right, let’s continue the competition.”
Her move left everyone in shock.
Host Yang Yang reacted first. “Please have the four coaches turn around—the next contestant, please come on!”
The four red chairs in Jiang Yun’s section slowly turned toward the audience.
Tian Zhen gave Jiang Yun a big thumbs-up. “Well done, Brother Jiang Yun!”
Jiang Yun just smiled.
Soft music began.
A woman’s voice rose:
“Let youth stir your long hair, let it draw your dreams;
Unaware, this dusty world has already carved your smile into its memory.”
Mentor area.
“Wow—another girl,” Tian Zhen sighed.
“She has this dreamlike, almost ethereal feeling,” Wang Feng said.
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“Mm,” Zhou Lun nodded.
Jiang Yun added, “The cover is very good.”
On stage the girl looked radiant, wearing a shepherd’s hat and a white traditional gown, singing with a soft tone.
“The red heart and blue sky within are the beginning of life.”
The audience fell silent, listening intently.
“This girl gives off a magical, unreal feeling!”
“Such a hazy mood!”
As she sang, she began to dance lightly.
“Seasons turn, autumn and spring drift by—who is it that life has arranged in destiny’s web…”
“Thap!”
Jiang Yun was the first to turn.
“Thap, thap!”
Tian Zhen and the two others followed immediately.
Backstage. Green room.
Host Yang Yang moved before the camera. “Now Jiang Yun’s team has seven contestants, and Coach Zhou Lun’s team also has seven. Right now only two contestants remain backstage.”
“Looks like all four coaches will pick contestants in the Rebound Round!”
Yang Yang walked up to the two remaining contestants—a boy and a girl.
“Both of you, greet our viewers at home.”
The girl waved at the camera. “Hi, I’m Zhu Xiaoxiao, I’m twenty-three. I hope you like me and support me!”
“Good, our contestant Xiaoxiao has greeted everyone. Now your male counterpart, say hello.”
“Hi, everyone, I’m Zhu Lu, also twenty-three, and I’m Xiaoxiao’s brother. I hope you also like and support me too!”
“Whoa! Siblings both on *The Voice*!” Yang Yang teased. “Did you go to school together as well?”
Facing the tease, Zhu Lu answered seriously. “We were in the same class in primary school, then junior high, then high school, and we were still in the same class in college.”
“By college you were different classes?”
“No. In college too, we were in the same class.”
Yang Yang frowned slightly, not at the answer itself, but because Zhu Lu was speaking in such short, hurried breaths.
He shifted into host mode. “So have you both graduated?”
“We graduated, and now we work in the same company,” Zhu Xiaoxiao said.
“This...”
“And we are both participating in *The Voice*. We are also going to join Coach Jiang Yun’s team.”
“Alright, alright... good luck.” Yang Yang wiped at sweat that wasn’t there.
“We’ll have to do a lot of things together in the future!”
Back on the stage, the lovely girl finished her performance.
“Introduce yourself,” Jiang Yun said.
“Hello everyone, my name is Li Zhen. I’m twenty-five years old, and I’m a high school physical education teacher.” Li Zhen wore a white traditional coat, giving her a classical beauty.
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“Wow, a high school teacher! Her students must be so lucky,” Zhou Lun teased.
Li Zhen offered an awkward but polite smile.
Zhou Lun rubbed his nose; Li Zhen’s smile had somehow made him blush with discomfort.
“How did you think of joining *The Voice*?” Wang Feng continued.
Li Zhen said, “Because my dream when I was young was to study music, but in the end I ended up studying physical education.”
Li Zhen’s words made all four of Jiang Yun’s coaches laugh.
“Ha!”
“Ha-ha!”
“So your point is that you’re already old?” Zhou Lun laughed.
“You heard it yourself,” Wang Feng added. “She said ‘when I was young.’ Little girl, you’re still very young—you’re the same age as Jiang Yun. If you say you’re old, you’re calling him old too.”
Jiang Yun rolled his eyes. He’d been hit even while doing nothing.
“Well…”
Li Zhen was left speechless. “Fine.”
Tian Zhen took the microphone. “Li Zhen, don’t listen to them—they’re just making jokes.”
Li Zhen smiled and said nothing, cleverly not taking the bait.
Tian Zhen asked, “Now a key question: why did you choose this song?”
Li Zhen’s eyes lit up and she spoke freely. “This song is filled with a dreamy, elusive mood. It feels as if life and death are only a dream, just flowers reflected on water. Every time I hear it, I get the feeling of stepping away from worldly dust.”
“Oh, I…”
The four mentors around Jiang Yun were all speechless. Could this style of singing really carry such life philosophy?
Wang Feng said, “Now I understand why you mentioned your younger days.”
“Little sister, I think you shouldn’t be here singing. You should become a nun,” Zhou Lun joked.
Li Zhen stammered.
“How about that, Li Zhen?” Tian Zhen asked gently, like an older sister.
Li Zhen said, “I really have thought about becoming a nun.”
“What?”
The audience erupted in surprise: “This girl is so eccentric, but I like her!”
“No, don’t become a nun!” Zhou Lun said quickly. “Look at how handsome Jiang Yun is. If you date him, you’ll be filled with love instantly!”
“Hey, Zhou, while saying that you slipped into a full rap mode,” Wang Feng said, laughing.
“Right!”
“Come on, look how handsome our Jiang Yun is—dating him makes your heart burst with love! This world is beautiful; calling it all illusions and renouncing life is just nonsense!”
“Yeah, yes. Jiang Yun is handsome and charming—if you date him, your wishes will certainly come true.”
Tian Zhen joined Zhou Lun and Wang Feng in the banter.
Jiang Yun watched them trade lines and playfully pose, then just sat back, mute with disbelief.
He rolled his eyes and said, “You three, stop clowning around. I can’t take it anymore.”
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