A Low Rank Female Goes Viral Across the Galaxy-Chapter 198: Wild Man

For her second song, Jiang Qin didn’t sing another one with a New Year’s theme.

After all, as anyone who’s watched a New Year’s gala knows, one or two festive holiday songs are appropriate for the occasion, but any more than that is just tacky.

"This next song is called ’Countdown.’"

"The cherry blossom season yet to come

The camera still unused

The restaurant we’ve yet to see..."

The shift from a warm, cozy scene to a romantic, modern one didn’t feel abrupt to the audience in the slightest.

Instead, they quieted down, silently swaying the light sticks in their hands.

"The clock hand keeps counting down

The joy we have left

The fervor of our embrace..."

The previous song had awakened a sense of longing within them.

Now, this song was telling them to cherish the present moment.

The clock hands were moving forward, but their lives were counting down with them.

Though the audience was immersed in the song, their thoughts began to wander.

However, many people interpreted the word "cherish" differently.

For the audience members, they still had plenty of time to spend with family and friends, but their time with their idol was fleeting.

Take today, for instance. To get here, you needed money, free time, and lightning-fast fingers for ticketing!

So right now, they wanted to cherish this moment all the more—this moment when they were closest to Jiang Qin.

The Jiang Fans were still lucky. As long as they kept queuing at the Moonlight Bar, they were bound to get in eventually.

But for other celebrities, fans might only get to see them in public three or five times a year.

This was especially true for actors. It was normal for them to disappear from the public eye for three to five months at a time, making it incredibly difficult for fans to see their idols in person.

After hearing this song, they wished they could use a magnifying glass to examine every single detail of this moment.

"Sob... Can we change the lyrics to this song? Make the clock hands stop."

"Sigh. People always get extra sentimental on days like these."

"You guys are overthinking it. We’re here to have fun, so just be happy!"

"Exactly! Do you have any idea how hard it was to get these tickets? How can you have the energy to mope about stuff like that? Just enjoy the moment.

Besides, didn’t Qin Bao’s song tell you to cherish the time you have!"

"Oh, that’s right." Snapping out of it, people quickly refocused, resuming their cheering and waving of glow sticks.

If nothing else, the song was still incredibly energetic and joyful.

And it was a new song!

A lot of new songs were released in December, but many of them were grating on the ears, and a lot of them sounded the same.

People had already listened to the good ones on repeat until they were sick of them.

Hearing this new song now, everyone felt like their ears had been saved.

Due to the problem of genetic diseases, a great many people in the Interstellar era loved listening to music, so they would never complain about having too many new songs.

After all, they relied on music to calm themselves when they were in pain, suffering from insomnia, or feeling ill.

The audience’s excitement only subsided a little after Jiang Qin finished her two songs and left the stage.

Coincidentally, the one to take the stage right after her was Cang Hong.

The first song he performed was "Stars," the Federation’s hottest track of the past month. Many people had come tonight specifically to hear it live.

So, of course, the song was part of his set.

Who wouldn’t be captivated the moment that magnetic voice rang out?

Some people are primarily attracted to voices. When they hear one they like, do they perhaps close their eyes, ignore the person’s real face, and picture a more suitable one in their mind?

But Cang Hong was different. He was the type whose handsome face perfectly matched his voice.

Those who didn’t know him would never guess that behind his sultry looks, he was just a shy young man with a bit of social anxiety.

Performing "Stars" was enough to make him break a sweat, even in the freezing weather.

Dotted with sweat and slightly out of breath, Cang Hong spoke. "That was ’Stars’ for all of you. The next song I’m going to sing is a new, unreleased track.

I want to take this moment to thank Miss Jiang Qing for writing this song for me.

This is ’Wild Man’!"

"I chose not to enter the village

So the mountains are my only...

My only refuge

A lone star, a dim fire, they keep me company..."

In a different style from "Stars," the moment "Wild Man" began, everyone could tell from its tone that it had a distinct melody.

The opening verses were pleasant but not yet stunning—not until the chorus hit.

Cang Hong sang in a somewhat hoarse, roaring voice, "Hiding in the mountains, watching fireworks,

Guarding that patch of mud,

No longer relying on the world’s hands

To make my excuses!"

Those few simple lines elevated the song to a whole new level.

It was yet another song in a completely different style!

A cry from the heart, delivered with a unique vocal style.

Without a doubt, this song, along with Jiang Qin’s two new songs from earlier, would top the trending charts tonight.

It even pushed the trending topic for "All Nations Pay Homage" down to third place.

The other performances were ranked even further down.

They even overshadowed the hype around tonight being the cutoff for the Interstellar Hot Songs Chart.

The search terms were filled with "Countdown," "Wild Man," and "Spring Breeze Ten Miles Report New Year."

Of course, some questions from the fans were mixed in with the hype.

[Don’t you guys feel like Qin Bao’s favoritism toward that little lion, Cang Hong, is a little too obvious?]

[It’s true. In the whole Federation, he’s the only one Qin Bao writes songs for over and over again, right?

All of Cang Hong’s current hit songs were written and composed by Qin Bao.

There’s got to be something going on between them, right?]

[It’s very possible. They’re at the same company, they’ve collaborated multiple times... It’s normal for sparks to fly between a handsome guy and a beautiful girl.]

[I think I just discovered a shortcut to get close to Qin Bao...]

[Impossible! Cang Hong is an S-level male! How could he be enchanted by *that female*? No way! Stop spouting nonsense!!!]