Foreseeing the Future: The Scheming Film Queen and I Got Married - Chapter 7

The concert began at eight thirty. The venue was set inside the gymnasium of a well-known university. It was not hard to find, with signs guiding the way along the entire route.

Dong Yao and Lin Yunyi arrived a little after seven. They could have checked their tickets and entered early, but Lin Yunyi did not want to go in so soon. Instead, she wandered around nearby.

First, she met up in person with a few friends from the fan group. After that, she went to the support team to get silver light sticks. She even had a colorful “Qiu” character written on her arm and face.

Lin Yunyi wanted to write a “Qiu” on Dong Yao’s face too, but Dong Yao firmly refused.

At eight o’clock, they checked their tickets and entered.

Dong Yao had brought quite a lot of drinks and snacks in her bag, but when they passed through security, all of them were stopped. They were not allowed inside.

Dong Yao looked at those snacks with pain in her heart. She could only find a place to temporarily leave them, hoping they would still be there when she came back.

After entering the venue, the size of the place was almost dazzling.

Dong Yao was among the earlier batch of people to enter. At the moment, the stadium was still sparsely filled and not yet packed.

The two of them found their seats and sat down.

Dong Yao was seated in Area A. Although it was not the first row, it was still one of the areas closest to the stage.

Over the next ten or so minutes, people entered one after another. When Dong Yao turned back to look again, all the empty seats she had seen when she came in were now completely filled.

Densely packed.

Gu Shiqiu really was famous. Such a large stadium could hold tens of thousands of people, and it was almost entirely full. Dong Yao could not help thinking this.

Suddenly, the prelude sounded from the stage.

The lights lit up.

Instantly, the noisy, chaotic audience fell quiet.

For some reason, Dong Yao became nervous too. She stared at the stage for a long time, but a full minute passed, and the person on stage still had not appeared.

Dong Yao glanced at her phone. 8:29. There was still one minute until eight thirty.

No one knew who started it, but someone in the audience suddenly shouted Gu Shiqiu’s name. One voice quickly became two, then ten, then a hundred…

“Gu Shiqiu! Gu Shiqiu! Gu Shiqiu!”

The voices drowned out the accompaniment on stage, echoing endlessly.

Lin Yunyi, sitting beside her, was swept up by the atmosphere and also began shouting along.

Dong Yao glanced at the time again. It was eight thirty. Gu Shiqiu should be coming out now. She had thought the person would appear, but instead, the accompaniment on stage stopped, and the lights went out.

People below the stage began discussing.

“What’s going on?”

Before anyone could figure out what was happening, a clear singing voice came from the dark stage. That voice was as warm as a spring breeze, making those who heard it unconsciously calm down.

Dong Yao stared at the pitch-black stage. Her heart began to thump uncontrollably. Perhaps it was the environment and atmosphere driving her along, but even as an audience member, she could not help becoming nervous too.

As the singing began, there were no more stray noises from the audience. Everyone listened intently.

The first three lines were sung a cappella, without accompaniment. After three lines, the accompaniment started, and a beam of light lit up the stage.

The person standing beneath the light wore a white long dress. She was slender, with long hair flowing down.

Dong Yao unconsciously held her breath.

The person on stage held the microphone, eyes closed as she sang softly. Her voice echoed throughout the stadium. The fans consciously raised the silver light sticks they had been given, swaying them left and right to the rhythm of the song.

Dong Yao also joined the crowd waving their silver light sticks.

When the song ended, Gu Shiqiu smiled faintly and introduced herself in a low voice. “Hello, everyone. I’m Gu Shiqiu.”

The atmosphere instantly reached a climax. The audience screamed wildly, and Dong Yao trembled from the sudden shouting.

Fortunately, the screams only lasted for a short while. Everyone soon quieted down again.

The person on stage was dazzling.

So dazzling that she seemed like a star in the sky, visible but unreachable.

For some reason, Dong Yao suddenly felt that those dreams really were only dreams.

How could someone so far beyond reach possibly exist in her future?

What future? What transmigration? It was nothing but a grand dream.

Dong Yao smiled in relief. She could not quite call it disappointment, but she also could not say she was not disappointed. It was a strange feeling.

Throughout the concert, Gu Shiqiu sang a total of thirty songs. Depending on the different styles of the songs, she changed into many outfits.

There were soothing love songs, inspiring songs, ancient-style songs, and even rock music that did not seem to match Gu Shiqiu very much. They were all her original songs. At times, she sang hot songs and danced powerfully; at other times, she played instruments and sang.

The atmosphere remained high the entire way through.

Dong Yao watched with great focus, but the more she watched, the more she felt that Gu Shiqiu was very far away.

But she soon pulled herself out of that emotion.

Gu Shiqiu had always been someone very far away. There was no such thing as “feeling farther the more she watched.”

The final song had just ended.

At an ordinary concert, this would be the end, but Gu Shiqiu’s concerts were a little different. After each concert ended, she would leave around ten minutes or so for fans to go on stage and interact with her.

The screen began playing confession videos from fans in different places.

Gu Shiqiu looked at the fans on the screen, a smile on her lips, her gaze soft and gentle as water.

But for some reason, Dong Yao kept feeling that Gu Shiqiu’s gentleness at this moment was different from the gentleness she had given Dong Yao in the dreams.

The gentleness in the dreams had been very real.

The gentleness now seemed as though it had been covered with a veil. It could not be called fake, but it absolutely could not be called truly real either.

During the interaction segment, a host came on stage.

Gu Shiqiu was calm and composed, sometimes speaking eloquently and sometimes interacting with the fans below the stage.

The host said, “Next, we’ll draw one lucky fan to come on stage and interact closely with Shiqiu!”

As soon as those words were spoken, the audience erupted.

Dozens of lights swept one by one across the audience seats. Wherever the lights stopped, that person would be the lucky audience member.

When the lights swept over, Dong Yao held her breath.

In the past, Dong Yao would absolutely never have thought that the lucky audience member would be herself. For this kind of interactive segment, they probably arranged someone in advance, right? And even if they did not, among tens of thousands of people, how could it possibly be her, Dong Yao?

The probability was too small.

So small it was practically impossible.

But she had a kind of premonition, a very strange premonition. She felt that the lucky audience member would be herself.

“Stop!” the host’s voice echoed in her ears.

The lights stopped along with it, landing on a middle-row seat in Area C, “a hundred and eight thousand li” away from where Dong Yao was sitting.

Dong Yao’s heart suddenly sank, but very quickly, she shook her head and smiled.

Why had she had that kind of premonition just now? Was she being overly confident?

The host said, “Please welcome the friend the light has chosen to come on stage. Everyone, don’t be disappointed. We can still choose one more person.”

The lights began sweeping across the audience seats again.

Dong Yao no longer held any expectations for it. She took out her phone and glanced at the time. It was already past ten.

Whoosh!

A dazzling beam of light stopped above her head.