Chapter 10: History

It wasn’t just the Rose Bar; many bars on Tai Street discovered that their regular customers had dropped by a fifth today.

Only bars that employed B-rank females or several C-rank females remained unaffected.

However, these two types of bars shared one common trait: they were very expensive!

Even though many people had seen the trending topics on the StarNet, most were simply focused on the fact that Jiang Qin sang well.

They were mostly males living in the middle or lower tiers of the city, and practical benefits were more important to them.

Therefore, only those driven by curiosity or those who simply loved listening to music went to Moonlight.

Most people still honestly went to their usual bars, ordered a beer-flavored inhibitor, and waited for that tiny bit of soothing.

But even a small fraction of people was enough to pack Moonlight Bar to capacity.

One had to remember, this was a bar that could hold twenty thousand people!

You Wei was at the entrance helping to collect the cover charge, the smile on his face never fading.

"Boss, is your little female going to sing those same two songs tonight?"

"Not necessarily. What she sings is Miss Jiang’s freedom; our bar doesn't interfere."

After all, they had hired a Soother, not a resident singer!!

Singing was just Miss Jiang’s unique method of soothing. As long as she was performing the act of soothing, it didn't matter if she sang, danced, stared into space, or played games.

"Can't you communicate with her? We came specifically to listen to a live concert."

You Wei reminded them speechlessly: "Guest, this is a bar, not a concert hall..."

"I know it's a bar, but C-rank group soothing is actually optional for everyone anyway. You might as well just host a concert; the foot traffic might even be higher."

One had to know that once those two songs were uploaded, they had already surpassed ten million views in an hour.

Although that wasn't much for a Federation with a population of nearly a hundred billion, at least a third of that population lived on barren planets or spent their time in places without signal.

If you further exclude the elderly, the very young, and those who didn't like music or the internet, ten million views in an hour was already quite impressive.

And this data was still rising rapidly.

Netizens left comments one after another

[It’s really hard to imagine that a song of this quality was actually an original work by a Federation singer.]

[The person above is wrong, she’s not a singer, she’s a Soother!]

[That’s true, very few beastman females are willing to step into the entertainment industry. Some movies even have males cross-dressing as female characters.]

[I actually don't think our Federation is lacking in C-rank females; it's just that high-quality singers like this are too rare. The little female should just leave the bar and become a composer or a singer. It would be a great way to slap the Empire in the face.]

[How many star coins do we lose to the Empire every year? It’s all because our Federation’s entertainment industry is disappointing.]

From songs to television and movies, they couldn't compare to the Empire in a single category.

It was mainly regarding plots like space wars; the things the Empire brought out were all new, and because they were wealthy, everything was performed with real props.

They even spent huge sums of money to change the appearance of that equipment.

It looked incredibly intense.

Unlike their Federation, which always followed behind others, eating leftovers and chasing trends.

As time went on, the booing only grew louder.

***

Capital Planet.

Inside Tianwen Entertainment, a man with long, water-blue hair tied behind his back was quietly listening to music with his eyes closed.

As the head of the composition department, no matter how busy Lan Yuyan was, he would always make time to listen to the music charts of both the Federation and the Empire.

It was already June 25th. Generally, singers who wanted to climb the monthly charts would release their songs before the middle of the month.

By the end of the month, almost no one would release new songs, preferring to save them to compete for the next month's charts.

After all, who would be foolish enough to spend five days competing against someone else's month-long view count?

As it turned out, he had actually seen such a fool today.

"Jiang Qin? A newcomer?"

At first, Lan Yuyan wanted to mock this person for being foolish and not knowing how to plan a release date, but as he watched the rankings for these two songs refresh faster and faster, he didn't think so anymore.

Let him listen, then. What kind of charm did these two songs have that could make people currently suffering from entertainment fatigue listen to them over and over again?

Of course, it was also possible that this was a newcomer being pushed by capital, in which case the view count would be fake.

He first clicked on *Anonymous Comfort*.

The two songs had only been released for three hours, yet they had already squeezed into the tail end of the top hundred.

And they were still slowly rising.

[I no longer shed tears...]

At the very first line, Lan Yuyan could tell: this was a little female favored by the heavens, and very likely a beastman female with mermaid genes.

The voice was ethereal and clear; listening to it felt as if his ears were being enveloped by soft clouds.

Especially the lyrics—they reached straight into one's heart.

It reminded him of his own youth.

Back then, he had been truly stubborn, refusing to turn back until he hit a wall. Whatever he wanted to do, even if he ended up battered and bruised, he had to see it through.

But in the dead of night, he would lick his wounds alone.

The warmth in the lyrics was something he had longed for but never obtained back then.

He had never been comforted, nor had he been blessed by anyone. To get to where he was today, he had gritted his teeth until they cracked and broken his own spine.

After listening to it once, Lan Yuyan silently spent two star coins to download it, and listened to it two or three more times before his emotions settled.

At this moment, he had a rough fantasy of this little female, Jiang Qin, in his heart.

She who could write such a song must be a very gentle, warm female who loves to smile...

Holding onto a certain sense of palpitation, Lan Yuyan clicked on *As You Wish*.

He held even higher expectations for this song, which was ranked above *Anonymous Comfort*.

You are the distant road,

I am the child walking in your eyes.

Lan Yuyan, listening quietly, felt very conflicted after finishing *As You Wish*.

He didn't deny that the song was beautiful, but he loved the beauty described in the lyrics even more.

In the history of interstellar development, there had once been a time of peace.

Back then, technology wasn't advanced. The ancients only used combustion tools like matches and lighters. Every household ate white rice, green vegetables, fruits, and raised livestock.

However, those peaceful days only existed for a hundred years in history.

With the development of technology and environmental pollution, the mother planet began to purify itself. All plants and animals mutated and grew wildly, natural disasters occurred frequently, and human living space was constantly compressed.

There was no choice; their ancestors could only choose to abandon the mother planet and immigrate to other planets.

But the universe was not safe either.

Besides humanity, many other races lived here.

(End of chapter)