The commercial ended.
The live broadcast cut back to the studio.
Due to Liao Yiqi's elimination, the competition had reached its climax. The countless Chinese viewers sitting in front of their televisions could even smell the gunpowder in the studio. The atmosphere was very tense!
"This commercial is really long!"
"It's starting!"
"Dong Shanshan is so fucking beautiful!"
"This show has made her popular."
"Right, Dong Shanshan, Petal Shower, Sunset Glow, and The Clown are all popular!"
"Even The Clown is popular? He was nearly KO'd! "
"Isn't there still going to be a second round?"
"He won't be able to catch up in the second round."
"I'm starting to believe that The Clown is a newcomer now."
"Yeah, he doesn't even understand the basic rules and rules of the entertainment industry."
"That might not necessarily be the case. The Clown might know that by not canvassing for votes, taking off his mask, or allowing his guest partners to show their faces, it would definitely affect his votes. It would definitely be disadvantageous to him, but he still chose not to do so. Perhaps it's because of his personality. He just wants to win fair and square. Is that possible?"
"Come on."
"Do you think that everyone is like Zhang Ye?"
...
Onstage.
Dong Shanshan faced the camera and said, "Welcome back. Now, can the staff please reopen the voting channel? The voting channel has been reopened. The second round of the competition begins!"
In the second round, which was also the final round, each contestant only had one song left to perform. This song would determine their ranking and victory. Although the contestant who became the grand champion would still have one more chance to perform and the entire stage would still have one song left for him, the prerequisite was that he would have to win first.
The voting channel opened!
The real-time tallies were displayed!
First: Flowing Time, 3.15 million votes.
Second: King of Oddity, 2.68 million votes.
Third: Petal Shower, 2.35 million votes.
Fourth: Sunset Glow, 2 million votes.
Fifth: The Clown, 1.3 million votes.
The difference was too great!
The Clown had already fallen behind!
Han Qi's face darkened and she did not say a word!
Hu Fei was not in a good mood either. He felt that he had let The Clown down, and so did Spinach. Hu Fei had purposely sought out Spinach to apologize to her. The setting up of the competition was a mistake on their program team's part, so Hu Fei felt bad about it. However, Liao Yiqi was not in the mood to speak at the time. Hu Fei could tell that Liao Yiqi had suffered quite a blow, so he was even more worried about The Clown. He was worried that he could not handle the pressure. The Clown was the singer who had won the Masked King the most times on this stage. He was clearly one of the favorites to win the championship, but now he had fallen to last place. No one could accept such a contrast!
But there was nothing they could do about it. The result was already set. The Clown was basically out of the running for the championship. They could not call for a halt, nor could they change the rules at the last minute. All they could do was carry on!
The arrow was nocked! He had no choice but to post it!
The Beijing Television Station's Station Head and a few other Station Heads were sitting in a remote corner. The Station Heads were here to watch the competition in person. After all, this was the most popular variety show in Beijing Television Station's history. The entire television station's attention was on them and they had high hopes for them.
With Dong Shanshan's announcement, the final round of the competition began!
The place was dead silent!
Li Xiaoxian (Sunset Glow) appeared!
"I've always been told that I don't know how to write lyrics, compose music, or sing.
"I've always been told that I don't know how to enjoy life, laugh, or enjoy life.
"I've always been told that I don't know how to be emotional, understand women, or understand romance.
"I've always been told that I don't know how to be patient, flexible, or flexible."
It was actually a rock song!
Sunset Glow was actually singing a rock song!
A female contestant from The Voice had also sung this song before. However, the style of the song sung by Li Xiaoxian was completely different. There was a lot of emotion in it. Li Xiaoxian had used a quiet and repressed voice of a woman to sing a rock song with a sense of resistance!
"Who told you that I don't know how to sing!"
The entire studio perked up!
Screams rang out one after another!
Xiaodong and Amy looked at each other and smiled in relief.
Their group, Spring Garden, was the most popular girl group in the country. However, they had always been the subject of controversy. A lot of people suspected that they did not have any singing skills and that they only relied on their looks and figures to make a living. They had heard those criticisms countless times over the years, but they had never responded to them. Today, Li Xiaoxian stepped forward. She used her identity as Sunset Glow to tell everyone that they could also sing. They could also sing those songs that people thought they could not sing! And they sang very well!
After the song was finished, Sunset Glow's votes immediately soared!
The audience could see the real-time tally of the votes changing constantly!
In an instant, it had increased by several hundred thousand votes and surpassed Petal Shower's!
Li Xiaoxian's solo performance brought out all of her singing skills and reverted back to the Sunset Glow of the past!
The next person to take the stage was King of Oddity!
"My child.
"My child.
"Without you, how could I have a future?
"My child.
"My child.
"Daddy's waiting for you, come back!"
This was a charity song. It was an anti-kidnapping song. The original version was sung by ten celebrities. Two of the ten people from that year were now sitting in the audience. One of them was Grandma Zhang Xia and the other was Jiang Hanwei. A lot of people had heard this song before and it immediately evoked a lot of their memories.
To be honest, King of Oddity's singing was very average. He was good at changing pitches, but some songs were not suited for it. He had added some complex inflections and pauses into the song to make it sound a little "oily." But for some reason, the audience was very touched and bought into it!
Before the song was finished, King of Oddity's votes had increased by more than 500,000. It had increased even more than Sunset Glow's and was almost on par with Flowing Time's in first place!
Some of the audience members were clapping non-stop.
"What a great song!"
"I miss this song so much!"
"Looks like King of Oddity is really going to do charity!"
"Yeah, that's what celebrities should be like. They should be like King of Oddity!"
"Just based on this charity song, I have to vote for King of Oddity!"
"I've already voted for him. I can't vote anymore."
During the first round of voting, most of the people watching the show had already voted. As such, the second round of votes did not increase as much as the first round. In the first round, there were easily one or two million votes. But in the second round, there were only a few hundred thousand votes. This was very normal since everyone who should have voted had already voted. It was also because of this that all the other contestants, other than The Clown, had taken off their masks in the first round. They knew that such a situation would happen, so they wanted to gain an advantage from the start. Otherwise, their chances of winning in the second round would be very low, unless someone suddenly sang a heaven-defying song. But that was obviously not very realistic. This was also the reason why the program team and the rest of the people believed that The Clown had lost the chance to win.
There weren't many votes left!
The further it went, the fewer votes there were!
...
The votes kept changing.
When Li Xiaoxian saw this, she gave a wry smile.
Xiaodong was also a little speechless. King of Oddity's song was clearly just average, so how did he manage to get so many votes? It looked like Xiaoxian would not have a chance of getting into the top three this time.
Zhang Ye had already changed into his costume and had his makeup done. He was watching the live broadcast in the waiting room and was shaking his head.
This again?
Was he playing the charity card?
Was he addicted to it?
Was there no end to it?
Zhang Ye was not opposed to doing charity, so of course he would not object to it. But for him to do this on such an occasion, wasn't his motive too obvious? To put it more seriously, this was moral blackmail. He was using other means than singing to get the audience to vote for him! Li Xiaoxian had sung very well. Although she was not in her best condition today, she still managed to bring out most of her potential. Yet she still did not have as many votes as King of Oddity?
Instantly, Spinach's words echoed in his mind.
Was there really no way out if he just sang quietly?
Zhang Ye was silent.
Then he clenched his fists!
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