208: Chapter 208, the Grand Finals, I absolutely have to write another new song, okay?

A few minutes later, on the television screen, the host finally got the final results.

"Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for waiting."

He paused deliberately, sweeping his gaze across the audience to build up the suspense for the very last moment.

"The list of advancing contestants for the top four to top two Semifinals of this Original Song Creator Competition is..."

The host read out the first name.

"Xu Hang!"

In the resting area, Xu Hang stood up and bowed calmly to those around him.

A moment later, the host spoke again!

"The other advancing contestant is..."

"Shen Qingxue!"

Although this was an expected outcome, the moment it was truly finalized, Shen Qingxue's breathing still paused slightly.

Lu Li looked at her with a smile.

"Congratulations, you've officially advanced to the Grand Finals."

Shen Qingxue turned her head, met his gaze, and smiled slightly.

"Congratulations to you too, you played a big part in this as well."

On the television screen, the host was still continuing.

"Congratulations to the above two contestants on successfully advancing! Next, regarding the specific time for the Grand Finals, please pay attention to subsequent notices!"

With that said, the live broadcast of this Semifinals came to an end.

Promotional videos began to roll on the big screen, and staff members walked onto the stage from the wings to start packing up the equipment.

As for Lu Li and Shen Qingxue, they didn't stay long in the resting area either; as soon as the results were announced, the two of them walked outward.

Meanwhile, Xu Hang was planning to strike up a conversation with them, but when he turned his head...

"Holy crap, where did they go?!!"

Walking out of the Sucheng Grand Theatre, the air brought a refreshing post-rain sensation.

Lu Li stood on the steps with his hands in his pockets, took a deep breath, and then glanced at Shen Qingxue.

"Since the specific time for the Grand Finals hasn't been given, does that mean there's nothing much to do for the next couple of days?"

"Pretty much. Aside from practicing songs, it's just waiting for the instrumental mix of blue and white porcelain to come out."

Lu Li thought for a moment and nodded.

"Then should we go finalize the MV matters tomorrow? Jiang Cheng should have come up with a proposal by now, right?"

"She sent me a message this afternoon saying that a draft of the storyboards is already out and can be shown to us, but she said there are still some details that need to be discussed in person."

Shen Qingxue took her phone out of her pocket, flipped to the message sent by Jiang Cheng, and handed it in front of Lu Li.

Lu Li lowered his head to take a look.

What Jiang Cheng sent over were a few hand-drawn storyboard sketches. Although the lines were rough, the composition and light-and-shadow relationships could be understood at a glance.

Lu Li looked at it for a few seconds and then raised his head.

"This style is indeed alright. Shall we schedule it for tomorrow?"

"Yeah, she said anytime is fine, but she has already returned to Shanghai. If we want to meet, we'll have to make a trip back to Shanghai as well."

Shen Qingxue thought for a moment and said.

Hearing this, Lu Li didn't hesitate at all.

"Then let's go back! Anyway, Suzhou isn't far from Shanghai, and the back-and-forth costs just that much money. To be honest, I'm not short on money! Let's set the meeting for tomorrow afternoon."

Afterwards, he returned the phone to Shen Qingxue.

Shen Qingxue put away her phone, finding it somewhat amusing.

"With the champion prize money getting closer and closer, you're getting more and more full of yourself."

"That's a must."

Lu Li immediately laughed out loud.

After waiting outside for another ten minutes or so, once the audience who came to watch the match had mostly left, Lu Li got on his little electric scooter.

"Come on, get on!"

Shen Qingxue naturally sat in the back seat.

Soon, the two set off and returned to the hotel.

On the way, Shen Qingxue suddenly spoke up from the back seat.

"Oh, right."

"Hmm? What is it?"

"Are you still planning to write a song for the Grand Finals? How about just using the song wo huainian de? That way you won't waste your energy again..."

Lu Li thought about it, then shook his head fiercely and casually found an excuse.

"Of course I'm writing a new song. If I didn't have any inspiration before this, singing wo huainian de for the Grand Finals would be only natural."

"But as luck would have it, I happen to have a hundred million little points of inspiration right now..."

"Look, you can't possibly hold it in and not let me write, right?"

Even though Shen Qingxue was used to Lu Li's "hundred million points" of inspiration, she still couldn't help but gasp.

"How come you have inspiration again."

encounter and wo huainian de were not long ago, how long has it been, and he has inspiration again???

Even a nuclear-powered donkey couldn't do it like this, right?

Facing Shen Qingxue's shock, Lu Li rode the bike while calmly and collectedly answering.

"As for inspiration, you just turn your brain around one more time, pop, oh well, here it comes, and you can't stop it even if you try."

Hearing this, Shen Qingxue's heart was filled with mixed feelings.

What do you mean by just turning your brain around casually? If it were really that easy, the music in the domestic entertainment industry wouldn't be this terrible.

Therefore, she suspected that Lu Li was hinting at her, but she couldn't find any evidence.

"Don't think too much about it. Anyway, I think this song should match you very well, so you should just look forward to it properly."

Lu Li's voice came from the front.

"What song is it."

Shen Qingxue suddenly became a bit curious again.

"As for this... I won't tell you. After a couple of days pass, you'll naturally know."

Lu Li's words were full of mystery.

Shen Qingxue gave Lu Li a light, exasperated pinch, and then a burst of "ghostly howls and wolfish cries" immediately came over...

After returning to the hotel, the two of them returned to their respective rooms.

Lu Li took a shower, sat at the desk by the window, and opened the memo notebook that already had quite a few songs written in it.

You must know that the songs inside were all "top secret".

The kind that absolutely cannot be exposed.

Lu Li didn't rush to write; he just leaned against the back of the chair, running through the melody of garden party in his mind over and over again.

That's right, it was the one he said before that he wanted to sing to her.

He sat for a while, then picked up his pen and wrote a line of words on the paper.

"garden party"

The next morning, Lu Li was awakened by his phone's alarm.

He groped for his phone and saw a message sent by Shen Qingxue, consisting of just a few simple words.

"Ten o'clock, see you in the lobby, we're catching the high-speed rail."

Lu Li didn't lie down any longer; he immediately climbed up to wash up and change clothes, his movements much faster than usual.

By the time he walked out of the elevator, Shen Qingxue had already been waiting for a while.

Seeing Lu Li walk over, she didn't say much.

"Let's go."

The two didn't delay much at the hotel, hailed a taxi, and headed straight for the high-speed rail station.

After boarding the high-speed rail, the whole journey took only half an hour to arrive in Shanghai.

As soon as they stepped out of the station, the two rushed towards the address given by Jiang Cheng.

Soon, the two arrived at their destination.

The door was wide open.

Lu Li glanced over and found that Jiang Cheng's studio was actually just a rented apartment converted into one, and the space inside looked quite large.

But because some things were piled up, it looked a bit crowded.

However, no one was on the first floor.

"They should be on the second floor," Shen Qingxue said.

Lu Li nodded, and then along with her, went up to the second floor along the converted narrow wooden stairs.

There was a door, but it was half-open, and the sound of typing on a keyboard came from inside.

Lu Li raised his hand and knocked twice, and a voice responded from inside.

"Come in."

Pushing open the door, Jiang Cheng was sitting in front of the computer, with a storyboard image on the screen enlarged to a very large scale.

Hearing the commotion, she turned her head.

When she saw the two of them standing side by side at the door, she was stunned for a moment, and then a meaningful smile appeared on her face.

"You two really came together."

"Otherwise?"

Lu Li walked in openly and sat down on a nearby chair.

Shen Qingxue also sat down alongside him.

Jiang Cheng didn't continue to tease them and cut straight to the chase.

"I've listened to hair like snow several times already. It has a great sense of imagery, so I've made a version of the storyboards. You guys can take a look first, and tell me where adjustments are needed."

As she spoke, she turned the computer screen towards the direction of the two.