As Zhang Fan spoke, Chen Yuze’s slightly upturned lips twitched uncontrollably. The amused expressions on everyone else’s faces in the private room froze instantly. Even Zhao Qingqing, standing beside him, looked at Zhang Fan with disbelief. How had she never known Zhang Fan possessed such a skill?
It was almost indistinguishable from the original singer. Such a sweet singing voice emanating from a man’s throat?
“Did you not turn off the original singer? Sun Lili, quickly turn off the original singer,” someone said, unable to believe it.
“I did turn it off. Yan Xue sang it just now,” the heavily made-up woman, Sun Lili, stammered in surprise.
After finishing four lines of lyrics, Zhang Fan looked at Ling Yanxue, signaling her to duet with him.
Ling Yanxue finally snapped out of her shock and quickly sang along with Zhang Fan:
Listen to me
Hold my hand and walk with me
Let’s create a happy life
Yesterday is gone, tomorrow might be a pity
Will you marry me today?
…
Singing up to this point, Ling Yanxue almost dared not look at Zhang Fan. She felt they were too in sync. Midway through the song, the love ballad had affected her emotions. She slowly reverted to her female voice, and seeing this, Zhang Fan also changed his voice back to a male one.
In the second verse, they used their respective original voices to complete this extremely ambiguous love song, with the blue-suited boyfriend watching with a complex gaze, their unspoken understanding evident…
It was over…
Everyone in the private room was astonished. If Chen Zeyu’s expression hadn't been so grim, they would have applauded their perfect rendition.
Chen Zeyu’s face was extremely unpleasant. He felt as if a whole field of grass was growing on his head, as if he had been publicly cuckolded.
Fortunately, his composure was deep, and he quickly concealed his emotions.
He began to look at the man he had initially dismissed with a proper gaze. At first glance, he seemed so ordinary, but how could a man who could make him and his subordinate stumble in such a short time be ordinary?
He observed for a while, but failed.
Because Zhang Fan maintained the same demeanor, no different from any other impetuous youth, and there was nothing to discern. He decided to take the initiative.
After hearing Zhang Fan sing, Zhao Qingqing couldn't help but pull Zhang Fan aside and interrogate him, "Brother Zhang Fan, when did you become so good at singing? I never knew!"
Zhang Fan said proudly, "I've always been very good, I just didn't show it."
"Then why did you sing off-key even when singing children’s songs in kindergarten?" Zhao Qingqing was somewhat unconvinced.
"Ahem, wasn’t that because I was afraid my brilliance would overshadow other talented classmates?" Zhang Fan couldn't help but feel a bit embarrassed at this point.
Indeed, he had always been tone-deaf when singing, and his singing could be deadly. But that was only in his previous life. After his rebirth, everything changed.
Did his voice become brilliant after his rebirth? Of course not.
But once Zhang Fan cultivated to the peak of Qi Refining, he became different.
Body refinement, bone refinement, marrow refinement. Zhang Fan had used spiritual energy to temper every part of his body. With his Qi Refining complete, his body was like dark iron, impervious to bullets. Strictly speaking, it was no longer a mortal body, but a quasi-Dao body.
As a quasi-Dao body, the inherent flaws in his body would naturally be repaired. Being tone-deaf was certainly a flaw.
Even when he broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage, he would experience a true transformation, shedding his mortal flesh completely and achieving a true Dao body, with a greatly increased lifespan.
A true Dao body possessed jade bones and golden blood, immune to all poisons.
Just as they were chatting enthusiastically, Chen Yuze walked over.
He approached Zhang Fan, lightly smoothed his left sleeve, revealing his gleaming Vacheron Constantin watch, and extended his right hand with a smile, exuding full gentlemanly demeanor: "A pleasure to meet you, Chen Zeyu of Zhenxing Group."
Zhenxing Group’s Chen Zeyu, Zhang Fan had some impression of him. In his previous life, Ling Yanxue had fallen into despair because this guy cheated on her with an eighteen-line celebrity, leading her to indulge in smoking, drinking, skipping classes, and fighting. She was a jack-of-all-trades, and was eventually expelled by the school, disappearing from everyone's sight, her whereabouts unknown.
A generation of unparalleled long legs thus retired from the martial world, leaving many admirers sighing with regret.
Zhenxing Group was a well-known construction company in Donghai City. Its chairman, Chen Xianglin, was originally a street vendor who developed by taking on small, fragmented projects, eventually building a large company with assets close to a hundred million yuan. This was something many people greatly admired.
Zhang Fan leaned back on the sofa, hands in his pockets, not bothering to stand up. He casually glanced at the man standing before him and said indifferently, "Zhang Fan, Class 3, Year 2, Donghai No. 7 Middle School."
Chen Zeyu, following in the footsteps of his subordinate, received no response to his outstretched hand, and was again put in an awkward position.
"Zhang Fan from Class 3, Year 2?" Ling Yanxue, standing nearby, suddenly uttered a soft "Oh," and stared at Zhang Fan, "Are you Qin Luoshui's boyfriend?"
"Qin Luoshui's boyfriend?"
"Yes, I heard Qin Luoshui's boyfriend is also named Zhang Fan, and he's also from Class 3, Year 2. Could he really be Qin Luoshui's boyfriend?"
"How is that possible? How could Qin Luoshui's boyfriend look so rustic?"
The crowd began to murmur, disbelief in their eyes.
"Are you really Qin Luoshui's boyfriend?" Chen Zeyu, upon hearing this, forgot his embarrassment and asked.
"No," Zhang Fan shook his head.
Chen Zeyu breathed a sigh of relief. This was because Qin Luoshui had a higher popularity at Donghai No. 7 Middle School than his own girlfriend. If this young man with such ordinary looks and background was Qin Luoshui's boyfriend, it was something he, who was proud of himself, could not accept.
He knew that Qin Luoshui's popularity was not only due to her own beauty but also the immense power of her family, which was rumored to be very influential in Yan Jing.
Originally, there were some wealthy young men at Donghai No. 7 Middle School who had pursued Qin Luoshui. When their advances were rejected, they secretly resorted to underhanded tactics, but without exception, those who harbored ill intentions were forced to withdraw from school.
In fact, Chen Zeyu knew that those people were probably dead.
Qin Luoshui's background was something he could not even reach, let alone aspire to. How could this seemingly ordinary young man in front of him be Qin Luoshui's boyfriend?
However, Zhang Fan's next words completely shattered him.
"She broke up with me a week ago, so I'm no longer her boyfriend," Zhang Fan said truthfully. Although he had insisted on not breaking up at the time, he knew that under pressure from Qin Luoshui's family, they had indeed broken up.
But Zhang Fan was not one to give up easily. In his previous life, he was ordinary, yet he never gave up. In this life, no one would stop him; anyone who obstructed him would become a pile of withered bones beneath his feet.
Everyone in the private room looked at Zhang Fan with incredulous eyes. This guy actually dated Qin Luoshui? Even if they broke up, it was probably something he could brag about for a lifetime.
After all, with his ordinary appearance and family background, managing to date a campus beauty was something worth showing off.
However, they immediately thought of Zhang Fan's seemingly unremarkable appearance (well, his singing was good now) and couldn't help but look down on Qin Luoshui, thinking her standards for a boyfriend were too low.