Chapter 134: Wealth Makes You Reckless

He Xier, who had just pushed the door open and walked in, suddenly dilated her pupils.
"This..."
If she didn't know that her good friend Jiang Qi had never been in a relationship or dated anyone before, she would have suspected that her friend had been dumped countless times!
That heartbreaking cry, though not particularly loud, struck deeply at her heart.
This song was insanely catchy.
He Xier looked somewhat astonished at her friend Jiang Qi, who was wearing headphones, thinking to herself, *Did you secretly start a relationship without us knowing, and then get dumped without the courage to admit it?*
Otherwise, where on earth did this emotion come from?
What she did not know was that Jiang Qi had channeled the emotion into Li He's perspective when facing An Chuxia.
Li He probably didn't even know that he apparently had such a tragic past—one he was completely unaware of.
He Xier walked in and took a seat on a chair in the recording studio.
At that moment, Li He frowned slightly, shook his head, and said, "Not enough. Once more!"
"That's still not enough?!" He Xier was startled.
She had almost started to believe that her good friend had indeed been dumped by someone behind her back.
The musicians in the recording studio were also somewhat surprised. In their view, Jiang Qi was already singing exceptionally well.
As session musicians at Prosperous Entertainment, their professional competence was naturally top-notch, and they had participated in a vast number of song recordings.
The fact that all of them unanimously felt she was already doing great showed that Jiang Qi's singing was genuinely impressive.
Yet Li He always felt something was missing.
Jiang Qi didn't argue. After taking a few deep breaths, she made her second attempt.
[Later, I finally learned how to love...]
"Still not enough. Once more!"
"Still a bit off. Once more!"
"The feeling is right. Let's do it again."
Through practice after practice, Jiang Qi gradually immersed herself in the atmosphere of the song.
Meanwhile, He Xier, sitting to the side, was still struck with awe.
Teacher Jiabei is so strict.
I'm probably going to get scolded too.
Yet, the mere thought that the person scolding her would be Teacher Jiabei made it somehow acceptable!
He Xier even found herself looking forward to it.
Li He's hands stopped on the piano keys, and the other musicians in the studio stopped as well.
"Not bad. Take a break, and then we'll do the official recording." Li He returned to his usual calm demeanor, smiling as he stood up.
Singing for long periods is extremely damaging to the vocal cords, requiring uninterrupted intervals of rest to protect them.
Especially since Jiang Qi would need to take the stage to sing in September; just like Han Feng, Jiang Qi would also need to run around everywhere in September to promote her new song.
Jiang Qi stretched her shoulders as she walked out, snatched the mineral water bottle from her friend He Xier's hands, took several gulps, and then handed the scant remaining water back to her friend.
He Xier took the water bottle with an expression of utter disgust and placed it on the table. "Are you disgusting or what? There's unopened water over there—couldn't you go get that instead?!"
As if she hadn't heard a word, Jiang Qi nonchalantly sat down next to her friend.
Adjusting her sitting posture, He Xier crossed her slender legs and said disdainfully, "You practiced a song for so long, and there were still so many mistakes that required student Li He to point them out. How shameful!"
"I sang first, and I recorded first. You can get in line behind me!" Jiang Qi exuded an inexplicable sense of smugness.
So what if her singing wasn't perfect at first? So what if she made a lot of mistakes?
When it came to recording songs, she was ahead of her friend in the queue.
Heh!
Deng Qin sighed helplessly and walked out.
Ever since Jiabei started singing his own songs, the mutual rivalry between these two sisters had begun, as if they had to compete with each other in everything related to Jiabei.
By now, she was already accustomed to it.
However, this was only natural!
Outsiders might not know, but she, as the manager of both Jiang Qi and He Xier, was crystal clear about it.
How many songs had Jiabei prepared for the September song battle?
The outside world probably still believed that Jiabei himself would be the one competing in September, especially since he had personally posted a video stating that the full version of *The Ordinary Road* would be released in September.
September—wasn't that precisely the time of the song battle?
Even quite a few employees within Prosperous Entertainment thought the same way.
The few who knew that the song *Ten Years*, which Han Feng had been practicing for a long time, came from Jiabei also knew that the release date for *Ten Years* was September first.
What they couldn't have imagined, however, was that besides *Ten Years* and *The Ordinary Road*, Jiabei had actually prepared three other songs, and the quality of these three songs was not the least bit inferior to the first two.
Terrifying!
Sometimes, Deng Qin even wanted to pry open Jiabei's little head just to see how it was wired inside.
Was human creative talent truly limitless?
How could anyone be this prolific?
Even the donkeys from production teams wouldn't give birth at such a terrifying speed; it was bewilderingly fast.
...
When Li He returned to the recording studio from outside, Jiang Qi and He Xier were still bantering back and forth.
"All right, get ready!" Li He clapped his hands and said with a smile, "We're pretty much prepared. Let's aim to nail it in one take this time."
Jiang Qi's professional standards were beyond reproach, consistently operating above average; otherwise, she wouldn't have won a talent show and signed with Prosperous Entertainment.
The previous rejections were simply because Li He felt something was off—a feeling derived from comparing her delivery to the original singer of this song in his past life.
"I'm ready, Teacher Jiabei!"
Jiang Qi nodded at Li He, put on her headphones, and prepared to record once more.
The band's musicians all readied their instruments, and when the sound engineer made an "OK" gesture, the music began.
[Later, I finally learned how to love...]
Pleasing music and emotionally rich vocals.
The sound engineer nodded in satisfaction, swaying to the rhythm of the music. When he turned his head to look at Li He, he noticed the young man watching Jiang Qi sing passionately inside the recording booth with a warm, smiling expression.
"Although Teacher Jiabei's standards are extremely high, the final result is always astonishing."
The sound engineer could only think: *As expected of Teacher Jiabei!*
This recording session went without a hitch, and Li He did not call a halt this time.
The recording was extremely smooth.
As Jiang Qi came out, He Xier admiringly gave her a thumbs-up. "Not bad!"
Jiang Qi proudly raised her smooth, fair chin and strutted past her friend like a triumphant, arrogant white swan.
Her neck was held very high.
"You sang well. Maintain this state, and all that's left is to prepare for the music video recording." Li He offered his praise as well.
Jiang Qi smiled and said, "Okay!"
With the song successfully recorded, Jiang Qi felt a surge of genuine joy.
Unlike her past song recordings, she knew full well how important this song was to Teacher Jiabei, which was why she had poured extra dedication into it.
She had even put more effort into this than when she released her debut album.
He Xier crossed her arms, pressing her soft curves together slightly, and asked, "The promotion for that song *Ten Years* that Han Feng is singing must have already started, right?"
"It's already started. Sister Yang sent me a message this morning saying the company has officially begun pre-release promotion for *Ten Years*," Li He replied.
In truth, Li He felt that the hype for the September song battle was already exceptionally high, making it unnecessary to waste promotional resources on *Ten Years*; they could simply piggyback off Brilliant Entertainment's publicity.
Not only would it save money, but it would also be a great way to annoy the rival company.
However, this proposal had been rejected by Zhang Yang on the grounds that Prosperous wasn't short of that kind of money.
Li He immediately shut his mouth.
When you have money and want to be willful, what else is there to say?