Showbiz: I Write Songs to Stay Alive. Why Are You Crying When I'm Still Alive?

Heartbreak, exposure, and healing

Genius composer Qin Yu crashes in an airplane and transmigrates into a parallel world, inhabiting the body of a critically ill research academic with only one day left to live.

Amid the joy and sorrow, he binds to a "Write Songs to Extend Your Life" System.

Original songs earn listeners' emotional points, which can be exchanged for more life.

He sings "The Dawn Is Here" to a seven-year-old survivor in the next hospital room, bringing the entire internet to tears.

The karaoke king he writes for Chen Yixun turns a concert of tens of thousands into a sea of sobs.

The song "Those Hasty Years" he writes for diva Wang Fei makes the usually icy star break down crying on a show.

Because of Qin Yu's special identity as a research academic, he writes under the pen name "After the Rain, Clear Skies."

One tearjerking hit after another, all bearing that name, comes to dominate Chinese pop music.

Then comes "I Like You," written for his girlfriend, Deng Ziqi: "Your eyes are captivating, and your laughter even more enchanting."

Only then do people realize that "After the Rain, Clear Skies" can write sweet love songs, too.

But what people care about even more is the person behind the name.

Who is he?

Where is he?

Does he,

really exist in this world?

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.