The CEO's Incredible Heiress

Chapter 41: Completely Ruined

Nancy and Cui Hang quickly got onto the stage. Nancy started singing and Cui Hang sang backup. Everything was in perfect harmony.

Lots of fans posted thumbs up in the comments.

“Little Raindrop is incredible. I heard she wrote the entire song!”

“She is a rare singer-songwriter talent!”

“I played her previous songs on a loop!”

“I’m sure she will win this time! She has a real chance at taking over Little Rose’s position!”

“Little Rose is collaborating with Kai, so she is a hot favorite. If Little Raindrop wants to snatch Little Rose’s title, she still has some way to go!”

Just as everyone talked about Nancy’s performance excitedly, something went wrong with one of her transitions.

Although the audience was not professionals, their ears did not lie and they could plainly judge for themselves.

In the first half of the song, Nancy and Cui Hang performed astoundingly. However, the rest of the song lost its power after they made a mistake on a transition.

Since both halves of the song sounded poles apart and ended up sounding terrible, everyone looked at each other quizzically.

The teachers noticed something amiss as well. Yu Guannan said softly to Kai, “The transition Little Raindrop made was tricky. If she managed to succeed, the second half of the song would have been even more impressive.”

Kai also detected the problem. “I already warned her about it. Perhaps she didn’t practice enough.”

He felt annoyed to see Nancy perform so badly. She wrote the song herself. How could she not know where the tricky parts were?

Nancy and Cui Hang both looked upset when they came off the stage.

The entire second half of the song was ruined, but Cui Hang was not in the position to judge Nancy since they did pretty well during rehearsals.

Some of the employees were Nancy’s fans, so they sighed, “Little Raindrop must have been too tired! Her singing and songwriting skills have always been good!”

Irene felt even more anxious when she heard this while Jennie remained unmoved.

Jennie had seen this coming.

Nancy was not a good songwriter to begin with. She only made it this far into the program thanks to Jennie’s songs and Kai’s support.

Even though Jennie had given her an amazing song, it was not an easy song to master. If Nancy wanted total control of her performance, she had to practice a lot before she went on stage.

There was barely enough time for the contestants to practice as it was. Nancy even got held up by Mr Wang dealing with her contract. Hence, she did not practice enough. So it was completely normal for her to botch the transition.

If she was capable of performing the transition well, then it was pure luck.

***

It was almost Jennie and Irene’s turn to go on stage.

She held Irene’s hand briefly and felt her damp palms.

They got changed and waited for their turn.

An employee suddenly ran over and said, “Little Stone, Little Peanut, something went wrong with the recording of the accompaniment. Can you sing the other song? Didn’t you submit two songs for the show?”

It was true that Jennie and Irene had submitted two songs along with the accompaniment. All the other teams did the same, but most teams would focus on one song and practice harder for it while they saved the extra song as a backup. Up till now, none of the contestants ever had to use the backup song.

“Why is there a problem?” asked Jennie.

They had chosen to perform Jennie’s song, so they had practiced it repeatedly.