“What the heck?”

The agent looked bewildered, but soon his face broke into a wide smile. “I’m here to congratulate you. Your new single ‘Glory’ is now the top song on the new song chart. This season, you’ve already taken the lead!”

“Taken the lead?”

Chen Zhiyu glanced at his agent. “I just realized today that the title of this song isn’t very auspicious. Do you know what ‘short-lived glory’ means?”

“Don’t jinx it!”

The agent retorted disapprovingly, “Don’t curse yourself for no reason. The new song was released at seven this morning, and now it’s nine. ‘Glory’ reaching the top in just two hours shows that our song is the strongest this season. Even Sand Sea has been outdone by us. Zheng Liang’s ‘Caramel’ is currently in second place, and its numbers are slightly behind ours. As long as we maintain our advantage over Zheng Liang, the championship song of this season is secure!”

“You really are a jinx,” Chen Zhiyu said, looking dejected.

Seeing Chen Zhiyu’s demeanor, the agent became even more dissatisfied. “Chen Zhiyu, what’s wrong with you? You’re not satisfied even after reaching the top? Are you complaining about the company sending you to suppress newcomers? Fine, I admit, the company was wrong in doing that, but the chief has promised to compensate you with a concert. Pull yourself together.”

“Suppress newcomers?”

Chen Zhiyu chuckled, “Who’s suppressing whom is still uncertain. The company’s plan might backfire, so don’t blame it on me.”

“What do you mean?”

The agent suddenly laughed, “You can’t be worried about Zhao Yingge, can you? As expected of a veteran singer, you’re really steady. Actually, I was a bit worried about us failing too, so before coming here, I checked the ranking of ‘Flammable and Explosive’. It’s just tenth place, far behind your current ranking. See for yourself.”

As he spoke, the agent opened the new song chart on his phone.

After glancing at the ranking, he was suddenly taken aback. “Huh? How did it become seventh? I just saw it was tenth. Is there a bug in the chart?”

“Hmm.”

Chen Zhiyu wasn’t surprised at all, maintaining a mysterious demeanor. “I suggest you refresh it again later. There might be a surprise.”

“Later?”

The agent, almost instinctively, refreshed the page again, and then he was dumbfounded, eyes wide open.

“What the… sixth place?”

He turned sharply to look at Chen Zhiyu.

Even a fool should realize something was off.

Chen Zhiyu shrugged, “Looks like we, Brilliant Silver Light and Sand Sea, have become the perfect backdrop. Just wait, tomorrow’s news headline will be ‘Bloom Champion Zhao Yingge Rises on the Shoulders of Two Top Singers’.”

“Is it really that dramatic?”

The agent was momentarily uncertain.

He didn’t dare to leave, staying with Chen Zhiyu.

The two of them stared at each other in silence for half an hour before the agent opened the new song chart again.

“What place is it now?”

Chen Zhiyu asked nonchalantly.

The agent’s mouth twitched, “How is this possible… it shouldn’t be… in just half an hour… it jumped to third place?”

Already third?

Chen Zhiyu uttered three words, “Absolutely killing it.”

The agent nodded in agreement, “Zhao Yingge is really fierce.”

Chen Zhiyu shook his head, “Zhao Yingge can’t compare to me in terms of fan base. The reason she can dominate the new song chart is purely because the quality of the song makes up for the lack of popularity. So the real powerhouse is the creator of this song, Xian Yu!”

“Xian Yu, huh? He’s been quite popular lately.”

The agent asked, “Can we still hold onto first place?”

Chen Zhiyu took a deep breath, “That depends on how fierce Xian Yu can be.”

The agent sighed in relief, “You mean we still have hope?”

Chen Zhiyu shook his head, “Don’t get me wrong. Being surpassed is just a matter of time. What I mean is, I don’t know how many days it will take for Xian Yu to reach the top.”

…

Many people in the industry were paying attention to this season’s new song chart.

Precisely because of this, many witnessed the massacre show that ‘Flammable and Explosive’ put on during the first day of the season!

The new song chart was in chaos.

The guy in sixth place was resilient, trying to maintain a smile as he told his friend, “Did you see that? It seemed like a song just whooshed past me.”

Friend: “…”

This wasn’t an isolated case. Everyone who watched themselves get overtaken by ‘Flammable and Explosive’ felt similarly.

Soon after, the singers on the chart all had the same thought: Could Zhao Yingge really take down the two tough competitors ahead?

No way, right?

No way… right?

It took only a few seconds to go from certainty to uncertainty.

Because anyone who understood the industry could see that ‘Flammable and Explosive’ was likely to be a dark horse that would make a comeback!

The industry was also in shock.

Many found it unbelievable.

Before this, everyone thought Starlight was doomed this season, and the media repeatedly ignored Starlight.

The blockade set by two top singers was not something a singer of Zhao Yingge’s level could break through.

But the result seemed different from what many expected.

Zhao Yingge effortlessly made it into the top three on the first day!

It was normal for Zhao Yingge to be third. After all, she was the champion of ‘Bloom’, and her fame wasn’t weaker than that of an ordinary debut singer. But getting third on the first day, and doing so with such ease and speed, was very unscientific.

Why?

Zhao Yingge wasn’t that popular yet, right?

Logically, she should have gone through a brutal struggle to barely secure third place. At least, that’s how the industry’s script was written.

So how did it happen so quickly?

Looking at the momentum of ‘Flammable and Explosive’, one might think Zhao Yingge was also a top singer—

Of course, Zhao Yingge wasn’t a top singer.

The real reason wasn’t hard to analyze.

A veteran music producer in the industry, after listening to ‘Flammable and Explosive’, smiled with emotion and said, “This is truly a textbook example of a Master Composer carrying a song. This is why composers hold such a high status in the industry.”

That’s right.

A Master Composer carrying the song.

It was the Master Composer who single-handedly made up for the singer’s lack of popularity, allowing Zhao Yingge, who was far less famous than top singers, to exude the aura of a top singer.

Actually, no one needed to remind them.

Industry insiders were well aware of this.

A powerful Master Composer has this ability.

But when everyone looked at the name behind the composition column with anticipation, they couldn’t help but exclaim in unison, because this name had been appearing with excessive frequency lately—

“It’s Xian Yu again!”

Why use “again”?

Because most people couldn’t imagine that the Master Composer who single-handedly turned the tide and directly helped Zhao Yingge confront two top singers was actually this newcomer composer in the industry.

Three consecutive good songs.

Is this fish really a newcomer?