The rich and powerful: Pretty Stars

Chapter 44 Forever as the first time

"Next, let's invite No. [-] contestant Gu Zhenxi!"

Ouyang Yanling's heart skipped a beat when he heard the name that haunted him, and then his heartbeat began to accelerate uncontrollably.

Gu Zhenzhen appeared on the stage in a long white dress, with a sweet smile on her face, and two deep dimples playfully appeared on her delicate face.

When they were still together with Ouyang Yanling, the two of them often appeared in the classroom wearing couple shirts by coincidence.Lin Zhaoyang used to be very contemptuous of this, and he never believed in the telepathy between them, thinking that they must have discussed it the night before.

After more than two years, I didn't expect that there is still a strong tacit understanding between the two of them.Ouyang Yanling thought of his white suit, and looked at Gu Zhenzhen with tender eyes that dripped water.

Gu Zhenzhen walked to the middle of the stage with graceful steps. She reached out to take the microphone handed to her by the host, and politely greeted Xia Chen beside her: "Hello host." After speaking, she bowed to the audience with a smile , "Hello, judges, everyone."

Ouyang Yanling looked at her, a little restless.

"Are you performing ancient Chinese poems today?" the host Xia Chen asked.

"No, today's performance is a poem by a foreign poet called "Forever as the First Time." Gu Zhenzhen replied.

"Oh? It's very different from the previous contestants. Are you ready to start?" Xia Chen asked Gu Zhenzhen, and after seeing her nod in response, she continued: "Okay, Gu Zhenzhen, please perform next."

Gu Zhenzhen took a deep breath and turned her head to signal that the music could start.

She never expected that Ouyang Yanling would be the third judge in the top ten knockout competition of "The Empress of the Harem". Although she tried her best to maintain her composure and try to make herself impeccable, she still felt a little flustered in her heart .

She didn't even dare to look at Ouyang Yanling who sat not far from the stage and stared at her deeply, even though she felt his eyes following her as soon as she came on stage.

The music is ringing.

The background music chosen by Gu Zhenzhen and Peter is the piano piece "Style of Tenderness" by Hungarian composer Tom Barabas-Adagio.

The quiet and slow piano music played, Gu Zhenzhen slowly raised the microphone, and the voice echoed softly like a gurgling water.

……

always as the first time,
As if I just met you;

You came back sometime in the night to a leaning house by my window,

a completely imaginary house,

It is here at every moment,
in the untouched night,

I anticipate yet another fascinating rift;
facade and my heart,
the only gap,
The more I walk into you,
In fact,
The keys sing more joyously on this strange door;
I think you seem lonely indoors,
At first you were all lost in the light,

A hasty glance from the corner of the curtain,
This is a field of jasmine;
I watched it on the suburban road of Grasse at dawn,
And shuttle-like flower girls,

Behind them drooping stumps stripped of flowers,

Before them is the dazzling border field;
The door curtain rolled up unconsciously,
All the flowers came hustling in,
You're trying to pass the tedious time,

never settles down until sleep;
You have to keep your face the same,
Unless I never see you again,

You pretend not to know that I'm watching you,
The good thing is I'm no more confident than you know;
Your sleepiness fills my eyes with tears,

Around every gesture of yours there is a cloud of interpretation,

This is a quest for honey;
There are rocking chairs on a bridge,

In the forest there are piles of branches that almost cut your skin,

In a glass window in Rue Notre-Dame de Rollette,

Beautiful crosslegged with two legs in high stockings;
From the center of a great white clover,

There's a silk ladder spread out by the ivy,
yes yes;
I leaned over the cliff,
From the vague feeling of not wanting to see you or not seeing you,

I found it,

love your secret,

Always as the first time.

……

Unlike the previous contestants who deliberately trembled and mourned in order to express the artistic conception in the poem, Gu Zhenzhen's voice is gentle and deep, but her words are powerful. She controls the rhythm of her voice very well, and there is an indescribable emotion in her Sadness, but it seems that there is still a firmness.

Although not everyone in the audience understood the meaning expressed in this poem, almost all of them were moved by Gu Zhen's voice, as if a feather was gently scratching their hearts, tickling Yes, sour.

After Gu Zhenzhen finished the performance, she quickly pulled away from the emotion just now. She smiled again and bowed deeply to the audience who quietly listened to her reciting the poem until the end.

The scene erupted into warm applause.

"Your voice is so nice, I was almost moved to tears by you backstage." The host Bai Zimeng came on stage and praised Gu Zhenzhen.She has been doing in-depth talk shows, and she is also a language and literature major, so she naturally heard the meaning expressed in this poem.

"Thank you." Gu Zhen said.

"Okay, then let's listen to the opinions of the three judges." Bai Zimeng looked at the judges' seat and signaled with his eyes, "Lao Yu comes first?"

Yu Tong reached out and lifted his glasses, nodded and picked up a piece of white paper on the table in front of him. He took a pen to write his comments on each contestant when they were performing.

"For this contestant's performance, I can only summarize it in eight words: quiet and peaceful, delicate and natural."

"Wow, Mr. Yu thinks highly of you." Bai Zimeng glanced at Gu Zhenzhen beside him with a smile, then reached out his hand to greet Yuan Yumei, "Next is Director Yuan?"

Yuan Yumei's face, which had been dark all night, finally turned cloudy. She said: "First of all, I would like to introduce this poem to you. "Forever as the First Time" is a famous work by French poet Breton. The audience may not be familiar with it, but I think everyone must be familiar with the phrase "Magnolia Flower Order? Imitating Ancient Jue Ci" written by Nalan Xingde, a poet of the Qing Dynasty in my country, "If life is only as it was first seen, what is the autumn wind and sad painting Fan' is familiar, right?"

When the audience heard this line that has appeared in many TV dramas, they all nodded to express their understanding.

Yuan Yumei continued: "In fact, these two songs have the same effect. They both lament the helplessness and deep nostalgia for the beautiful things gone. The difference is, 'If life is just like the first time I saw it, what is the autumn wind and the sad painting fan' mainly The emphasis is on emotion, but the poem that Gu Zhenzhen recited just now is teaching us that even if the past is no longer good, we can still love with hope."

After Yuan Yumei finished her questioning, she seemed to look at Gu Zhenzhen: "I don't know if my explanation is correct?"

Gu Zhenzhen nodded in admiration, "You understand very well."

Yuan Yumei smiled and said: "You are the best performer among the ten contestants tonight. The whole emotion and the work you selected complement each other very well, and you have a good grasp of the emotion of the voice. It can be seen that you have a profound line skills."

After a pause, she continued: "Maybe many viewers don't understand why I choose to use the contestant's line skills as a test. Everyone will definitely think, isn't there still dubbing in the later stage? But my works have always insisted on simultaneous voice acting. , because I have always believed that the authenticity and naturalness of the synchronous sound, and the close cooperation with the storyline and image image are completely unmatched by other recording techniques. I believe that the audience's ears are also keen, and they must have learned from the performance of this contestant just now. Can you hear the rich emotion?"

After Yuan Yumei finished speaking, the audience in the audience once again gave warm applause in agreement.

After listening to Gu Zhenzhen, the stone in her heart finally fell to the ground. She was worried that her sudden emergence would get bad results.

"Thank you director." Gu Zhenzhen thanked Yuan Yumei from the bottom of her heart, because she really understood her performance.

Next, Bai Zimeng said to Ouyang Yanling who had been quiet all this time: "Both the judges gave extremely high evaluations. Next, let's see if contestant No. [-] Gu Zhenxi can conquer the heart of the last judge?"

He does not mean that.Gu Zhenzhen's eyelids twitched, but she had no choice but to look at Ouyang Yanling with her scalp.

Ouyang Yanling picked up the microphone and repeated the last paragraph of the poem just now: "I leaned over the cliff, from the vague feeling that I had no hope of seeing you or not seeing you, I found it, the one who loves you The secret is always to be the first time."

In his magnetic voice, there was a hint of hoarseness, sadness and nostalgia.

Because I couldn't accept what happened, all the good things between us have become past.Cherish, maybe you want to tell me, even if that makes you sad, are you still willing to choose to love the original me?

Ouyang Yanling felt a slight pain in his heart, he was silent for a moment, looked at Gu Zhenzhen and said, "I like it very much."

Gu Zhenzhen didn't want to look at his eyes at this moment, so she looked away without any trace.

His gaze was too naked for her.There were a lot of media at the scene, if they could smell a little emotion between them, it would be a big disturbance for Ouyang Yanling.

Fortunately, the live broadcast of the show was coming to an end. Bai Zimeng glanced at the director of the show who kept gesturing to her, and sped up the rhythm of hosting.

"Okay, the three judges have all finished their evaluations. After they give the number ten contestant Gu Zhenzhen a score, we will announce the winner of the first top ten knockout match of tonight's "Harem Imperial Concubine" based on the judges' scores and off-site SMS voting. Ranking of the contestants. Below is an advertisement. After the advertisement is over, the off-site SMS voting channel will also be officially closed. Please seize the last time to vote. We will be right back.”

After the camera cut away, Gu Zhenzhen walked off the stage quickly, changing clothes for the final collective appearance of the show's top ten contestants, and also to avoid Ouyang Yanling's eyes following her all the time.

(End of this chapter)