老攻身患绝症[穿书]

Chapter 102

On the way back to the hotel from work, Xie Yang checked Weibo. Sure enough, there were two topics with Ge Zhuo’s name on the hot search. They were #Ge Zhuo lives in seclusion# and #Ge Zhuo responds to questions#

He clicked on the first topic and found a video of Ge Zhuo’s interview before he won the award. The video title was ‘Exploring Ge Zhuo’s Reclusive Life’. Xie Yang took out his headphones, plugged them in and clicked on the video. 

The interview was conducted in Ge Zhuo’s house. In a room decorated in the Zen style, Ge Zhuo and the reporter sat casually on the tatami mats. There was a carved short table between the two of them. Ge Zhuo was making tea for the reporter and himself using a simple and elegant tea set.

After making the tea, Ge Zhuo spoke and set the tone of the entire interview with one sentence. He said, “If you aren’t quiet then you can’t make good works.”

Ge Zhuo and the reporter had a conversation about this sentence, especially the word ‘quiet’. During the conversation, Ge Zhuo led the reporter to visit his home that was renovated from the original nature. He showed the remote mountain with a bamboo forest outside the house, which were the standards for a secluded master. He also played the piano in the forest for the reporter.

The breeze blowing, the bamboo leaves swaying, the afterglow of the setting sun and Ge Zhuo in the centre with his eyes closed and hair fluttering… it was a beautifully composed, artistic video with its own filters. 

At the end of the video, Ge Zhuo smiled calmly. “For me, it doesn’t matter if my work wins or not. I participated in the award mainly because I want more people to hear my work. It is hard to find a friend in life. If someone can understand and love the music I compose then I will be very satisfied.”

At the end of the interview, the screen froze on Ge Zhuo’s smile with the big ‘quiet’ written in cursive on the wall behind him.

Xie Yang took off his headphones, gave the interview 100 points and clicked on the comments area below.

There were obvious traces of a water army in the comments area. The hot comments were all lamenting that Ge Zhuo was a clear stream in the entertainment industry and his song was a ‘sincere work that touches the soul’. It was completely different from those who just catered to the market and the fans to make money.

Xie Yang couldn’t stand this style of comments so he quickly quit and clicked on the second topic. The page was refreshed and showed a music critic’s Weibo that was posted just after the Golden Song Awards.

Old Man With Sharp Ears: The Best Composition was given to Ge Zhuo? Am I crazy or are the judges crazy? An excellent composition like ‘IUD’ didn’t win the prize? Even if it isn’t ‘IUD’, it should be Xue Xian’s ‘Survival’. The works of these two young singers are really sincere. No matter how bad it is, at least it should be Tang Xiaoshu. Ge Zhuo’s ‘All Things’ is really ordinary!

There were thousands of comments on this post, most of them expressing the same feeling.

It stood to reason that this type of questioning Weibo post should’ve become popular a long time ago. It was probably because the entire network was paying attention to Mu Zhouyi in the past few days that it didn’t arouse much of a splash. 

At the very least, Xie Yang didn’t know there was such a post before this. Under this Weibo was a post that really triggered the topic. It was a short clip of a video of Ge Zhuo being interviewed after winning the prize. There were nearly 10,000 comments.