The Queen's Rise to the Top

Chapter 422

Gu Beihuai was doing makeup while Nan XiangWan was eating beside him.

Sure enough, at dinner time, old Baby Yang Rongjun knocked on the door and came in, smiling and carrying his dinner.

Yang Rongjun: “Let’s eat together? I’ll bring another bottle of wine?”

Nan XiangWan: “Did you bring chicken legs?”

Yang Rongjun: “You rendered me speechless!”

After speaking, he sat down on the sofa next to Nan XiangWan. As he lifted his head, he saw the face reflected in the mirror.

Yang Rongjun almost spilled his food box!

Gu Beihuai greeted: “Teacher Yang, long time no see.”

Yang Rongjun: “Why are you here? Wait, this is only the ninth episode, not the last episode. Are you here to mess things up? If so, I won't do it anymore. I'll also find helpers! You're bullying people!”

He was very excited and almost started venting.

Gu Beihuai: “Don't worry, I'm just a background dancer wearing a mask.”

Yang Rongjun: “You still can't give Nan XiangWan such an advantage as a newcomer! You are a... tsk tsk, coming here to hold down the fort for her! I'm done!”

Gu Beihuai: “It was a spur of the moment decision.”

Yang Rongjun: “Oh spare me, an old man's bones! Nan XiangWan has been ranking first every time. I thought I could surpass her this time with the Chinese style theme. But here you come!”

Gu Beihuai laughed nonstop. Teacher Yang was very lively indeed, and the old artist didn't put on airs.

While the two were chatting, Zhong Lingfei and Wei Sha also came over to talk about this week's theme. But as soon as they came in and saw Gu Beihuai sitting there, Wei Sha turned around and left!

She was still subconsciously afraid of seeing the big boss.

Zhong Lingfei was startled, then calmly greeted them and sat down to chat for a few sentences.

But she didn't stay long either, and found an excuse to leave after five minutes.

The two girls' reactions left Gu Beihuai confused. Was he a tiger or a lion, so frightening?

Yang Rongjun: “Hey! Little Gu, you're not as popular as me!”

Gu Beihuai sighed: “Teacher Yang, why don't you practice one more time?”

Yang Rongjun picked his teeth disdainfully: “My throat hasn't changed in 30 years! The tune might not change anytime soon, but what's there to practice?”

Gu Beihuai smiled and stood up, revealing the same costume he wore as Nan XiangWan.

He put on the mask and smiled back: “Are you sure?”

Yang Rongjun's toothpick fell from his hand in shock. He looked sharply at Nan XiangWan, then at Gu Beihuai, and back and forth between them.

The two's stage costumes were exactly the same, down to every detail.

The black sleeveless martial arts onesie as the base layer, with a crane-inspired modified Hanfu coat on the outside, in a short sleeve design.

The most amazing thing was the embroidered crane patterns, which were hand-embroidered.

The short sleeve design revealed both people's similarly fair but different skin tone arms, which were also similarly slender and toned, with eye-catching muscular lines.

Those two pairs of hands, with such distinct joints!

With the mask on, Gu Beihuai was like Nan XiangWan's shadow.

Inseparable like a shadow.

Yang Rongjun's eyes changed. He got up solemnly, then strode out of Nan XiangWan's waiting room and went back to practice singing.

These two rascals actually unleashed their big move in the ninth episode!

Without even seeing the later stage, Yang Rongjun knew that just the reveal of this look would bring down the house.

Yang Rongjun even had to admit, the two standing together as one person and one shadow was quite dazzling.

Feeling the crisis, even old Baby started seriously practicing singing. His voice echoing in the hallway surprised many people.

Everyone knew that in the previous episodes, Yang Rongjun was either smoking or drinking, treating it like child's play.

What got into him today to start vocal exercises?

After Gu Beihuai scared off Yang Rongjun, his eyes behind the mask looked at Nan XiangWan.

Nan XiangWan shrugged: "Too cool!"

Gu Beihuai: "Me?"

Nan XiangWan: "Of course me!"

Gu Beihuai: "..."

He had asked the wrong way.

Jing Da Shuai hummed an off-key tune while packing up. He looked back at the two of them, sizing them up and down.

Jing Da Shuai: “Hmm, the clothes suit you two well, very good-looking.”

Nan XiangWan: “Wow, why so generous today?”

Jing Da Shuai: “When was I not generous? But keep these two outfits safe, they are high-end Chinese fashion, very expensive.”

Nan XiangWan covered her sleeves: “Don’t worry about that!”

Time quickly arrived at night, and the audience started entering and taking their seats.

Jie Chou was still in the C seat. He still didn't understand how Xiao Dong's assistant had so much power that she could squeeze out musicians from other companies and reserve this spot just for him!

Just as Jie Chou had sat down comfortably and taken out his fan sign, a tall figure sat down next to him.

The two looked at each other and jumped up shouting “Holy crap!”

Jie Chou: “Why are you here? Don't tell me you defected?”

Gong Jin: “Watch your words! You're the defector! Fox brought me here.”

Jie Chou: “Ah? Fox? That's right, where did he disappear to recently?”

Gong Jin: “Don't even mention it, you have no idea what kind of days I've had these past few days!”

Jie Chou: “Don't tell me you got tricked by Fox into taking time off?”

Gong Jin: "..."

Jie Chou’s laughter stopped abruptly: “I feel sorry for you.”

...

At 8pm sharp, the lights of the Singers stage lit up.

Opening time!

Guan Liangzhe ran onto the stage wearing a delivery man's outfit, panting and wiping sweat as he ran.

The stage lights shone on his face, clearly much darker than before.

Live comments:

- Here he comes!

- What's my Zhang Ge wearing? Hahaha!

- I'm dying, I'm watching both his variety shows live - this week the useless duo took on a job as delivery men and have been delivering packages all day!

- Don't laugh everyone, how miserable for Zhang Ge, didn't even have time to change before coming to host!

- Last week too, the first episode filming of "Experiencing Life" variety show, Guan Liangzhe also came in athletic clothes without makeup because he had to rush to record Escape Room at night!

- Haha! The crazy thing is he still has to record Secret Room at night!

- Three variety shows in two days, such vigorous energy! Does he not sleep?

...

Nan XiangWan was also watching, her gaze shifting across Guan Liangzhe's face.

He had clearly tanned a lot after not seeing him for a few days.

While watching the livestream, she also practiced lowering her throat position with the method Gu Beihuai taught.

Repeated practice makes the low notes sound much better.