All-rounder Artist

As Overlord won against his opponent by a large margin, Lin Yuan’s family was having dinner while watching this round of the team match —

“Overlord is so powerful!”

Lin Xuan couldn’t help but marvel.

Lin Yao, who was sitting beside her, nodded in agreement.

He was the champion of all four seasons of the ranking competition, and in the team matches, he crushed his opponents by the widest margin. Overlord truly lived up to his name.

He was simply domineering beyond belief.

“He’s incredible.”

Their mother, a retired music teacher, commented earnestly, “Based on their current performances, only Swan and Lone Wolf have any hope of defeating Overlord. But even these two seem less impressive than Overlord. Overlord is just like a singing machine…”

“Our Prince of Lanling is also very strong!”

She has genuinely taken a liking to Prince of Lanling; these days, ‘I Surrender’ is the only song on her playlist.

Lin Yao corrected her older sister, “Prince of Lanling is not ‘ours’.”

Lin Yuan: “…”

Actually, Prince of Lanling does belong to your family….

Antarctica barked twice, seemingly wanting to say something.

Lin Yuan’s face changed swiftly, and he stuffed a piece of rib into Antarctica’s mouth.

Shut up!

This dog knows too much!

Just then,

His sister exclaimed, “Look! Look! Goldfish is about to reveal his identity!”

Lin Yuan instinctively looked at the TV.

Goldfish was about to unveil his identity and it was indeed the same as the netizens’ guess:

Chen Zhiyu!

Lin Xuan laughed, “Indeed, the originator of the eternal second place!”

Lin Yao said, “It seems like all the other ‘fish’ moved on to the next round, and surprisingly, Chen Zhiyu is the first ‘fish’ to unveil his identity.”

Their mother added, “Chen Zhiyu was unlucky to have Lone Wolf as his opponent, who is a King of Singing.”

“…”

Lin Yuan remained silent.

After finishing dinner, he went upstairs to check the online Forums.

The online discussions were all about ‘The Masked Singer’, and many topics intrigued Lin Yuan.

Such as the public guessing the identities of certain singers…

Of course,

there was also the inevitable comparison of the remaining singers’ strengths.

Currently, there were twelve singers left.

Approximately weighing his strength in the eyes of the public, Lin Yuan found himself around sixth place.

This ranking was consistent with his expectations.

The audience judged him based on his performances so far.

After receiving the System’s singing enhancement, Lin Yuan had not chosen particularly challenging songs, so his full potential still remained unmanifested.

The recent ranking was a rough estimate of a slight increase.

Because Lin Yuan, in the team competition, sang a song that required excellent singing skills, titled, ‘I Surrender.’

This song demonstrated his talent and helped him beat the crowd-favorite Illaoi, the Samurai.

Furthermore,

There were also discussions about Chen Zhiyu’s identity reveal on the internet—

“Finally, a fish has surfaced!”

“I knew it was Chen Zhiyu!”

“Hahaha, the eternal second placer indeed!”

“He’s already retired, now is the era of King Fei!”

“There was no suspense at all; when Chen Zhiyu chose the Goldfish character, it was practically like tipping off his identity!”

“So does this mean we probably guessed the identity of the other ‘fish’ correctly?”

“Hahaha, think about it, apart from Chen Zhiyu, all the other ‘fish’ will meet in the next round!”

“The ocean world indeed!”

“…”

Lin Yuan began to doubt.

Next time, I might be up against one of those ‘fish’.

There are just too many ‘fish’ in this competition!

Twelve contestants!

Four of them are ‘fish’!

The chance of drawing a ‘fish’ as an opponent is a third!

Ah.

Lin Yuan slapped his forehead.

My math teacher would be furious.

Excluding myself, the probability should be four out of eleven.

What are the chances I’ll draw a fish?

And if Lin Yuan did draw a ‘fish’, he felt that it would likely be someone familiar because he could recognize those voices.

Just then, Lin Yuan’s phone suddenly rang.

It was a call from Tong Shuwen.

“Sorry to bother Teacher Admirable Fish again. I wanted to discuss the rules of the upcoming competition with you.”

“Which rules?”

“In the next challenge, we’ll split the twelve singers into two groups to compete, and the six singers who lose will have the opportunity to challenge the winners. If successful, they can keep their spot on the stage…”

“Mmm.”

If that’s the rule, winning the first round is rather pointless. There must be additional rules.

Naturally, Tong Shuwen considered this:

“To encourage everyone to focus on the first round, we’ve decided to give the winners a hundred-vote head start. So they’ll naturally have an advantage when the two groups compete.”

“I see.”

The rule was more comprehensive than what Lin Yuan had imagined.

He completely understood the intended reasoning of the program management.

Aren’t they just anxious over the unpredictable results of the drawing lots, causing top singers to face each other early and lesser singers to advance?

But now, things could be different.

If Lin Yuan were to face the White Swan, even if he makes an error and loses, he can pick one of the six winning singers to challenge—

It was a safety net.

What’s a hundred extra votes to his opponents?

If his skill is truly superior, a hundred vote difference isn’t significant. It’s possible to catch up.

Of course.

This hundred-vote advantage can be quite crucial when the contestants are similarly skilled.

Because when the skill level is equal, a hundred votes can genuinely determine the winner and loser!

Thus, the intentions of the show management are clear:

Advance the stronger singers as much as possible to the final round.

Tong Shuwen smiled: “It’s good that you can accept it, we certainly need to discuss this in advance with the singers.”

“Mmm.”

Lin Yuan ended the call.

The next several days, Lin Yuan didn’t do much else.

Just practiced singing.

The System provided Lin Yuan a singing skill, but it doesn’t mean he can afford to slack. If he wants to fully control his singing skills or even go beyond, it takes practice.

He practiced until the night before the challenge.

He didn’t stop until nine o’clock at night.

He needed to take a bath and go to bed.

Tommorow he’d need to be at the music center, and he needs a good rest tonight to keep his performance up to par.

As Lin Yuan got up, Antarctica ran proficiently towards the bathroom and opened the door. Usually, this means Antarctica also wants to take a bath together.

Yes.

This dog can now open the door by itself.

When no one is available to walk the dog, it opens the door and runs out by itself—

Walking itself.

It has quite a few buddies around here anyway. It’s just that Xiao Huang hasn’t been playing with it recently.

Since discovering Antarctica’s behavior, Lin Yuan has started to lock the door. He knew that Antarctica couldn’t be allowed to go out on its own.

Even though Antarctica doesn’t seem like the type to bite anyone, it’s always better to reassure passersby.

Entering the bathroom.

Lin Yuan began to bathe.

He washed not only himself but also helped Antarctica take a bath. However, halfway through washing, Lin Yuan suddenly felt that something was wrong.

The temperature of the water seemed to have dropped…

Many people have probably encountered similar situations. The bath water starts warm, then suddenly turns cold.

This is embarrassing.

Because both Lin Yuan and Antarctica’s bodies are covered in body wash, and his hair is foamed up with shampoo.

Antarctica was anxious.

“There’s still a chance…”

Lin Yuan hurriedly tried to rinse off —

Himself.

By the time he finished rinsing himself, the water had completely cooled down. Clearly, there was only enough hot water left for one “person”.

Lin Yuan thought about it:

Continuing to wash Antarctica with cold water would be intolerable for it. It would be better to dry Antarctica for now, and give it another bath tomorrow.

Thinking of this.

Lin Yuan began to gently wipe down Antarctica while humming a tune to soothe and comfort it:

“It’s all just bubbles…”

Antarctica appeared to have lost all hope, passively allowing Lin Yuan’s manipulations.

What ill intentions could a cute little dog have?

His mother called from downstairs:

“It looks like the water heater is broken. Lin Xuan, call someone to repair it tomorrow. You guys should skip the bath for today!”

“Thank God I didn’t bathe.” Big Yaoyao’s voice of relief.

“I’ve already taken my pants off, and you tell me this!” His sister exclaimed in frustration.

Zoom Zoom.

Lin Yuan took out the hairdryer, drying Antarctica, and simultaneously blowing away the foam behind its ears; all the while continuing to sing:

“I should’ve known it was only bubbles, fragile to touch, just like your wounded heart, silently suffering…”

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ps: Thanks to [Qixi Xi]leader for the contribution. Paying homage to the leader, this is today’s first update.

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