After listening to Bai Mo’s explanation.
Bai Yurou ultimately still could not hold back and asked the other question in her heart:
“Then Sister, do you know Ye Xuan?”
“Of course I know her,” Bai Mo looked at her little sister with some bewilderment.
“A singer of her level—it would be abnormal not to know her, right?”
“Then… then Sister, do you know that she is your rival?”
Bai Yurou’s voice grew quieter.
“Just now I went to your room and couldn’t find you, then I discovered that you actually have her albums…”
“Pfft.”
Bai Mo understood the meaning in her little sister’s words and could not help laughing.
“Rival? That’s all just a persona hyped up by the entertainment circle. I’ve only met her a few times. It’s not like we really have any grudge.”
She laughed as she explained to her little sister.
“Besides, the part about her saying she’s my fan should not be fake. From her reactions on the various programs, she is really very familiar with me. She was the first person to publicly call me her idol on a program after I became popular. Of course I became curious and paid a bit more attention.”
Hearing her older sister say this, most of the doubts in Bai Yurou’s heart were resolved, yet new ones emerged again.
“Then Sister, why didn’t you say these things when you were asked about Ye Xuan in interviews before…”
The moment the words left her mouth, she felt that she was a bit stupid for actually asking such a childish question.
“Isn’t it still for you all?”
Bai Mo smiled and tapped her little sister’s nose. “The rival persona has to be maintained after all. No matter what, Ye Xuan is still someone from a competing company. She has long stabilized her ‘my fan’ persona and can say on programs that she has always paid attention to me. But if I also revealed that I don’t have any malice toward Ye Xuan, wouldn’t the fans explode? This rival setting has already gone deep into people’s hearts. Look, even you, Rourou, were this shocked after knowing. Let alone other people.”
“So I just need to keep maintaining an attitude of not being familiar with Ye Xuan in front of the public. If possible, I would also very much like to become friends with Ye Xuan in private.”
If the words Bai Mo said to Bai Yurou were known by the public, they would most likely occupy another page of the trending searches.
But it was precisely because she was her most beloved little sister, family worth trusting, that she had said them all.
Bai Yurou would not go around spreading these words of her older sister either.
She had only asked out of pure curiosity.
Now that her curiosity was satisfied, it was enough.
Afterwards Bai Mo turned the topic back to luxury goods and handbags that Bai Yurou was no longer very interested in.
Bai Yurou could only casually respond a few times and tactfully declined her older sister’s proposal to gift her another foreign brand perfume.
“Rourou, do you want to go play in Sister’s recording studio?”
Right after the two sisters finished eating, Bai Yurou was wiping her mouth with a tissue when she heard her older sister ask her.
“Ah?” Bai Yurou was stunned for a moment, not understanding why her older sister suddenly asked this.
That recording studio was basically used by her older sister for work at home. She had almost never gone in.
“Because you were listening so absorbedly at the doorway of the recording studio just now.”
Bai Mo explained with a smile.
“Want to personally go in and experience Sister’s working atmosphere? Maybe Rourou will discover that she is the same as Sister and suitable to become a singer.”
“Bai Mo, I’m warning you. Don’t even think about bringing your little sister into the entertainment circle.”
Zhou Wanting, who was sitting on the sofa watching TV, heard the two’s conversation and directly called her second daughter’s name in warning.
She had not been able to stop her second daughter back then, but she absolutely could not let her youngest daughter also wade into this muddy water.
“Alright, Mom. I was only joking. As long as my little sister is happy herself, it’s fine. It’s not necessary for her to become a singer.”
Bai Mo hurriedly explained to her mother, then said to her own little sister again, “But does Rourou want to go try the recording studio? Just treat it as playing around.”
Bai Yurou had been a bit curious to begin with. Hearing her older sister say this, she nodded. “Okay.”
Then Bai Yurou also guaranteed to Zhou Wanting, “Mom, I’m only going to take a look. I guarantee I won’t become a singer like Sister.”
She had not even experienced the youthful university life yet.
She really did not want to enter the entertainment circle.
Zhou Wanting looked at her two daughters saying this and did not stop them either. She only instructed, “Then Rourou, you go play. Take care of your body. Don’t strain too hard when singing. Don’t make yourself faint again.”
After obtaining their mother’s permission, Bai Mo once again took her little sister’s small hand and walked toward the recording studio on the third floor.
It was Bai Yurou’s first time seeing her older sister’s recording studio.
Acoustic foam was neatly stuck on the walls like gray puzzle pieces.
Soundproof glass divided the room into two halves. Inside was the recording area with a microphone set up.
Outside was an entire row of mixing consoles and monitoring speakers whose names she could not call out. In the corner sat a piano as well.
“This one at home only meets basic needs. The more professional equipment is all over at the studio.”
Bai Mo looked at her little sister’s little appearance of having her eyes drawn straight and added, “If Rourou wants to go, Sister will take you over there to play another day. Anyway the company belongs to our own family. Big Brother probably won’t say much either.”
The studio naturally referred to Bai Mo’s studio at Star Entertainment.
Big Brother was now the boss of Star Entertainment, so it was not a difficult matter for Bai Yurou to go play.
But there was no real need.
Bai Yurou shook her head. “Sister, let’s try this one first.”
“Okay.” Bai Mo responded with a smile.
She led her little sister into the recording area with the microphone, had her sit on the chair, gently put the headphones on her head, then turned around and walked to the mixing console on the other side of the glass.
“Rourou, what song do you want to sing?”
“Aurora Flower.”
Bai Mo heard this name and smiled faintly. She adjusted the equipment and lightly pressed the play button.
This was one of Bai Mo’s famous songs.
Unlike her other songs that required forceful explosions, the melody of Aurora Flower leaned toward being plain and soothing, yet it demanded extremely high control of emotion.
For Bai Yurou, whose body was weak and who could not sing high notes, this was actually a pretty good choice.
Inside the recording room, Bai Yurou heard the prelude begin and opened her mouth to sing:
“I have always been willing to believe,
Even if there is still fragility and confusion in my heart,
I still talk about the future with a smile on my face,
And this present moment is the dream I saw back then…”
Three minutes passed. Bai Yurou finished singing the last line and took off the headphones.
“Rourou sang so well!” Bai Mo saw her little sister take off the headphones and immediately praised her.
Actually, Bai Yurou’s singing could only be considered ordinary hobbyist level.
If placed in Voice of Dreams, she was afraid she would not even pass the open audition.
If one used the standards Bai Mo had used to treat the contestants in the latest episode to pick faults, one could casually pick out a whole pile.
Bai Yurou was her most beloved little sister.
Of course she would not use the set of standards for treating contestants to harshly criticize her.
She would not say those professional words like “Rourou, your breathiness is insufficient” or “your emotion is not in place.”
She only purely praised her.
“Sister, tell me the truth. Did I sing very poorly?”
Bai Yurou knew her own situation.
Although Ning Mu’s timbre was very good, Lin Ye was completely tone-deaf.
From childhood to adulthood his singing had always gone off-key. Bai Yurou herself was only at amateur level.
Averaging amateur and tone-deaf together certainly would not be anything amazing.
“It’s not that bad.”
Bai Mo smiled and comforted her.
“Although it really can’t compare to professionals, Rourou, you don’t want to enter the entertainment circle anyway. Among ordinary hobbyists, you already count as quite impressive. Later Sister will guide you a bit more, and you’ll be able to sing very nicely too.”