Chapter 1041: Winning!

The performance ended.

Suddenly, a few female audience members stood up.

“I love you, The Clown!”

“I’ll love you no matter how ugly you are!”

Applause rang out through the studio!

Screams came from all places!

“This is so good!”

“This song is so amazing!”

“What a good song this is!”

“I’m ugly, but I am so tender?”

“I want to learn this song! I must learn it!”

“The Clown surprises us every time!”

“Yeah, I thought that The Clown wouldn’t do well this week. When I read a lot of the comments by industry insiders and other people, they were all talking about how he had done too well. Now that we were into the fourth episode, the audience would no longer feel that he was fresh. That would only make it harder and harder for him to proceed and possibly even put him on the decline. But after listening to him sing today, I find that all those comments are bullshit! How could The Clown not be good enough? Is this what you call not good enough? Is this what you’d fucking call a decline?”

“Each of his songs gets better!”

“What I most admire about The Clown is that he tells a story through each of his songs. And, the stories are always about himself and fit the situations to a T!”

“How surprising!”

“Where did all those songs come from?”

“I don’t know. Damn, who on earth wrote them for him?”

“Even a master lyricist and composer like Wang Zhuishu, who is on the judging panel, could not possibly come up with so many earth-shattering songs in such a short span of time, could he? Could it be that Wang Zhuishu, along with Zhang Ye and a dozen of those famous songwriters, fucking wrote all those songs for him? And they’re even tailor-made for him and the situations that he’s in? That’s impossible! If it were that way, why hasn’t anyone recognized him yet?”

“The Clown!”

“The Clown!”

“The Clown!”

The shouting came wave after wave!

This song that had come from Zhang Ye’s previous world was the famous classic by Zhao Chuan, “I’m Ugly But Tender,” and it had shocked everyone in the studio. A classic would always be a classic. This song that had stood the test of time in Zhang Ye’s previous world was also capable of shocking people here now that it had been brought to this world!

The host came back onstage.

Dong Shanshan smiled. “Let’s welcome Marshal Persona back to the stage.”

Marshal Persona came back up to the stage and gave The Clown a nod.

The Clown nodded back to greet him.

Dong Shanshan looked over to the guessing panel. “Judges, what do you think?”

Chen Guang opined, “My eyes turned red just now. After four episodes of King of Masked Singers, this is the first time I’ve felt my eyes turn red in the studio. I don’t have much to say. This song affected me deeply. Marshal Persona sang well today. In fact, he sang especially well. However, The Clown’s performance can only be described with two words: absolutely perfect!”

Amy said, “Earlier, Teacher Chen and Teacher Yao told us about how people who don’t exactly have outstanding looks have it almost impossible in the entertainment industry. Although I personally feel that Teacher Chen and Teacher Yao are both quite handsome, after I finished listening to your song, I experienced a lot of emotion. I won’t say anything more as there isn’t much else to say.” She spread her hands and said, “I just like The Clown very much, so much that I can’t use words to describe my like!”

Zhang Xia talked from a technical point of view, “Marshal Persona is a very good singer and is very comprehensive technically. I can tell from his singing that he has a very strong foundation and should be a professional singer. His status in the music industry should also be quite high.”

Marshal Persona smiled.

Zhang Xia said, “As for The Clown, I really do not know who he is. There’s no one I can match him to. Listening to his song today, it felt a little different from his previous two songs. There are even some parts where even the average person would think they could hear a mistake. Like the trembling in his voice? The crack in his voice? But I don’t think that’s what it is!”

Wang Zhuishu said, “Correct.”

Zhang Xia continued, “The way The Clown sang today was by using his emotions to drive the music. He used his raw emotions to sing and transmitted his innermost feelings to everyone through the music. I’ve already said this once before, but this is such a high standard and not something that every singer can hope to have. This song’s difficulty lies not in its high notes or other aspects, but in its expression of emotion. Handling this emotional nuance is truly difficult and I personally believe that I couldn’t sing this song either. There can only be two outcomes when singing this song. Either it gets sung really badly or it gets sung really well, of which The Clown belongs to the latter category! Even if the pickiest person faced The Clown’s song today, they wouldn’t be able to nitpick a thing! It’s that good, just that good!”

The Clown nodded to express his thanks. He wanted to say “you’re flattering me,” but suddenly remembered that he might say it with an accent since this was a commonly used phrase in the Beijing region. So he did not dare to say it since he was afraid that he would get recognized immediately.

Yao Jiancai said, “If I were to vote, I would also vote for The Clown. It’s just that simple!”

The judges were done commenting.

Dong Shanshan followed up with, “Alright, we’ll proceed to the voting now.”

The voting began!

The audience picked up their voting devices!

Marshal Persona looked at the audience, as did the judges. Actually, no matter what their comments were, it was all useless since the voting depended entirely on the audience. They had to be convinced of a contestant’s performance. Just like in the previous round where Flowing Time and Spinach were at a pretty similar level of singing with an unclear difference, the audience did not see it that way and voted for Flowing Time in a one-sided affair. The right to vote and decision-making laid in the hands of the audience!

When the voting began, the conclusion became obvious!

When a lot of the people saw the real-time tallies on the big screen, they exclaimed!

The Clown: 10 votes.

Marshal Persona: 1 vote.

And then.

The Clown: 45 votes.

Marshal Persona: 9 votes.

The difference was too large!

There was basically no suspense as to how it’d end!

In the end, when the final tallies were counted!

The Clown’s total votes: 377 votes!

Marshal Persona: 123 votes!

Dong Shanshan announced, “The winner of this match: The Clown!”

The Clown bowed in thanks.

Marshal Persona applauded the winner.

The moment he got off the stage, The Clown was surrounded by people!

Xiao Lu was flabbergasted. “Teacher, you were so awesome!”

Dafei said sincerely, “You sang great up there!”

Meanwhile, Flowing Time had gone backstage at some point in time and was nowhere to be found.

Han Qi was beyond excited. “Teacher Clown! Why didn’t you use this song for the next round? With it, you definitely wouldn’t have lost to Flowing Time, even against a hundred-plus Hokkien speaking audience members!” She was both happy for The Clown and bemoaning the disadvantage he had!

This song was incredible!

But what about the next round?

Flowing Time had challenged him!

Even if Teacher Clown had done well in this round, when he faced Hokkien singer Flowing Time in the next round, he would still not have a good chance of winning. In Han Qi’s opinion, this huge killer move should have been used as a last resort. But Teacher Clown had brought it out in the first round!

However, Zhang Ye simply smiled, not saying a word.

The next round?

He had a song up his sleeve for the next round!

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