Chapter 54: The Smile of the Rainbow

"Thank you all for the love, I can already feel your enthusiasm!!"

"Now then, please wave your glow sticks and let me see where you are, okay?"

Standing beneath the spotlight, Jiang Qin seemed to be glowing.

Well, she actually was glowing. After all, her outfit today was shimmering, and her makeup was sparkly too.

Throughout the entire bar, various multicolored lights were swaying.

There were support boards, glow sticks, and colorful bubbles shooting out from the center of the stage.

The background accompaniment had already transitioned to the next song.

Holding a large bubble machine in her hand, Jiang Qin created bubbles toward the front of the stage while singing the new track.

Her tone was exceptionally cheerful:

"The sky is fluffy cotton candy, even if it falls down, so what?

Take a deep breath and shake off the sadness, if you feel like exploding with anger, just sing out loud.

Love is very easy, very easy, yeah, yeah~"

Her playful dance and the childlike, colorful bubbles allowed everyone to feel Jiang Qin's joy in that moment.

"The rainbow is a smiling face, if you feel sad, lift your head and sing out loud.

Do you all know it?"

The guests, unable to contain their excitement, were no longer satisfied with sitting in their booths and crowded all around the stage.

Seeing Jiang Qin pass the microphone over, they screamed and continued the lyrics:

"Love is very easy, very easy, yeah~ yeah

The mood is very easy, very easy, woo~ oo

Dreams are very easy, very easy, yeah, yeah~"

Everyone might not have remembered all the lyrics, but they memorized this particular phrase.

Because it was genuinely joyful.

Their heads were completely filled with "very easy, very easy"!!

Beta couldn't even be bothered to look at the livestream room anymore. Holding its recording device, it kept snapping away: this light and shadow is good, this angle is good, this atmosphere is good, and this one too, and this one...

Because of the excited state of her spiritual sea, her spiritual entity had been wandering outside.

To be precise, it was wandering around Jiang Qin, following her with starry eyes and even drooling.

It was a complete aesthetic-obsessed spiritual entity, exactly like her physical self.

Meanwhile, the viewers in the livestream room were already crying with envy.

[Is this still a bar? This is a concert! The tears of envy are flowing from the corners of my mouth!]

[Hehe, bars in the past were low-level male shelters; bars nowadays are high-end clubs...]

[Sob sob... Just a student here, I really don't have time to listen to the live performance. Can't Jiang Qin just do a universal tour?]

[You can tell that Qin Bao has completely shaken off the shadow of being abducted; she is visibly and tangibly happy.]

[Indeed, compared to her previous stages, she has clearly let go a lot more now.]

[Qin Bao is exceptionally energetic today.]

[Singers of the Federation, you can pack up and leave. My Qin Bao is going to reserve two spots in the top ten charts again.]

[Pfft hahaha, hilarious. Don't let it be the end of the month where the top ten of the July charts only has one person's name, that would be the ultimate joke.]

[Facts prove that imitation can only survive for a fleeting moment; only those who continuously innovate can survive in the music industry.]

[The film and television industry is the same. Yes, I am pointing at you guys in the film and television circles. Can you guys have some originality?]

[My whole family hasn't watched TV or movies in several years.]

[Seriously, the MV storylines accompanying Qin Bao's songs are even better than current film and television works.]

[I suggest you brainless female fan-girls not hype her up too outrageously, lest the higher she is praised, the harder she falls!]

After posting this bullet comment, Bode Luke angrily smashed the cup on his table.

Sitting beside him, his manager didn't reprimand him upon seeing this, but simply said calmly: "What's the rush? She's just a female. Once she finds a partner, naturally she won't bother working anymore."

Yet Bode Luke still couldn't control his anger.

"How long will that take? She doesn't have a single partner right now. Even forced matching with male spouses only happens if she's still single at thirty.

By the time she turns thirty, I'll probably be a complete nobody in the music industry."

"Then what do you suggest? Dig out her brain and install it in yours?"

"Can't the company help me hire a composer from the Empire?"

The manager sneered and asked, "Are you paying for it? Do you know how high those Empire composers' fees are? It's a 9-1 split!

That's right, the composer takes ninety percent and the singer takes ten. If the revenue doesn't reach a certain threshold, the singer has to compensate the composer for their losses."

Because composers from the Empire were arrogant, believing their songs were foolproof.

If the returns weren't ideal, it must be the singer's fault.

Therefore, the losses were naturally compensated by the singer.

Of course, such bullying terms were only directed at Federation singers.

After all, Federation singers were notorious for singing whatever flopped; they wouldn't give face even to famous Federation pop stars.

At most, they would just roll their eyes a bit more politely.

Hearing that he had to pay out of his own pocket, Bode Luke wore a stifled expression. "Then are we just going to let Jiang Qin monopolize the entire chart all by herself?"

"Didn't I advise you? So many people didn't release songs this month, but you were so stubborn and insisted on releasing one. Look, you've sunk right to the bottom."

"Endure, endure, endure! Are we supposed to endure every month she releases a song, and step aside for her month after month?"

The manager said impatiently, "The big companies aren't even anxious yet, what are you panicking about?

Our company is small, and you aren't famous, why must you rush to stick your neck out?

Wouldn't it be better to wait until those big companies enter the fray and then come out to grab a share of the spoils? Look at you now, the song I bought with such hard work has been ruined by you again.

If this keeps up, the two of us might as well pack our bags and get fired together!"

Bode Luke didn't speak further, but looking at his eyes, it was obvious he was unconvinced.

However, the manager ignored him. Being unconvinced was useless; this wasn't a contest of combat power. Even if he regarded Jiang Qin as an enemy, he couldn't deny that her songs were indeed novel and excellent.

"Alright, stop posting those random things in her livestream room. If you get caught, just wait to be canceled by the entire internet."

With that, he left. He needed to figure out how to sign a new newcomer.

Bode's future prospects were already clear at a glance; he recently wanted to sign a female singer and follow the path of imitating Jiang Qin, which might just make her blow up overnight.

Popularity, after all, was meant to be ridden while it was hot.

...

However, getting more and more furious, Bode refused to listen to his advice.

As soon as he returned to the livestream room, he went on a tirade.

[A female's greatest purpose is to soothe males and reproduce offspring, not to show her face out in public.]

[There are so many singers in the music industry, it doesn't lack her. She is already a privileged female, yet she still comes to snatch the survival path of low-level males. It's truly disgusting.]

[What's so good about these bubblegum pop songs? They have zero inner connotation, only people with no taste like you would enjoy them.]

[Isn't she just relying on that face to seduce those males? Otherwise, who would like someone's songs like this.]

[Those singers didn't lose to her songs, they lost to her gender. Who made her a noble female, after all.]

("Rainbow's Smile" by Cyndi Wang)