When Zhang Yuqi woke up the next morning, she was in a fairly good mood. After getting it all out yesterday, she felt quite better. She was now more motivated to work hard and do her best.
Her last project was singing for an advertisement. It was a barely known brand of perfume. She had to sing a soft song, which showed a pretty girl dancing around a ballroom.
Yuqi was considered a nobody in the industry. She had a very beautiful and unique voice, a little husky and thicker, more like western singers. Although she had natural talent and a beautiful voice, due to her negligible fanbase, she was never chosen in bigger projects.
Then there was Zhang Youwei to snatch all the fairly good projects that were given to Yuqi.
This time she had to get a bigger project. She was fed up of waiting for chances. All these years, she had listened to Ouyang Ziyuan, when he said to not fight with others for something. Now, Yuqi understood that it was all for Zhang Youwei.
The recently popular comic, 'Walking to you', was going to be adapted into a drama and there was going to be an open audition for the female Ost singer. This was her only chance to get out of the unofficial ban that Zhang Youwei had put on her.
Although, Yuqi couldn't register for the audition due to Zhang Youwei's interfering, she was confident that if she could get a chance to let the judges listen to her, she could definitely get the project.
The audition was today. Yuqi cooked up a plan and put on a simple jeans and t-shirt, and went to the venue with her guitar. She only played the guitar when practising at home and had never brought it out. She was also not that famous, so there was no need to be afraid of being caught in the street.
The audition venue was fairly crowded. Zhang Yuqi found an empty spot, opposite the venue gate and waited patiently. One by one, they entered and left. Slowly, the place became less and less crowded until everyone left.
After a very long time, the judges appeared at the door, There was the music director, the producer, the writer and an award winning singer, Li Xu. Like a street singer, Zhang Yuqi put the guitar cover on the ground and started singing.
"The night is blooming,
there's just you and me,
the wind is cold, please hold me closer.
There's no more chance to bid you a goodbye.
Please remember the good moments we had.
Our past, let's leave it untouched,
just remember me forever in your heart.
I still feel for you, even though we're no more together.
I wait for you so that you come back to me.
Though I don't want to admit, I miss you.
How happy we were,
do you still remember the sweet taste of love?"
The song was full of feelings. Yuqi had gone through such a situation, thus the song came from her heart. Under the bright afternoon sun, a beautiful girl sang her heart out with no care for her surroundings. This beautiful image pulled at one's heartstrings.
When Guo Yusheng heard that melodious honey-like voice, he was a bit surprised. This kind of vocal tone was very rare for Chinese females. The girl looked pretty simple, but one could see from the way she sang, that she was really talented. The emotions, the pitch, the technique, everything was on point. This song, he had never heard before, which meant that, it was her own creation. The melody was also well thought out and made the song really soothing.
The producer and writer were completely lost in the song.
Li Xu was also pleasantly surprised. This little girl was really good.
When Yuqi finished her song, she first looked around as if looking for people. Then she saw the group of four standing a little away from her, looking at her. She looked a little flustered seeing them, then she bowed at them and then started packing her things. She deliberately acted this way because she didn't want them to think that she did such a thing for getting their attention. Then she proceeded towards the way she came from as if nothing happened.
As she walked a few steps, Director Guo caught up with her.
"Little girl, are you a singer?....are you interested to sing professionally?...or have you signed with a company?...oh..oh...most importantly, do you want to audition for a project?"
When Zhang Yuqi heard the director, Guo Yusheng speak that way, all the admiration she had for this person suddenly collapsed. Was this still the dignified music director that she had heard of? He looked like a child asking for candy with sparkling eyes. She didn't know whether laugh or cry.
"Hello sir, I'm Zhang Yuqi. I am signed with Xing Ye Entertainment since 4 years. I'm just a small artiste, sir."
On hearing the girl, all the four people felt something was wrong. Xing Ye Entertainment, although not one of the best, was a well-known company and had many popular singers. How was this girl, with her talent, still not popular after staying there for 4 years? Either the higher ups of Xing Ye were deaf or there was some under the table business.
"Yuqi, you will sing the Ost of 'Walking to you'. I'm sure you'll do a great job. I will contact Xing Ye and tell them. You go and prepare."
Zhang Yuqi felt her heart leap. She had taken the first step towards her dream.