Showbiz: A Dimensionality-Reducing Blow, Starting with a Traditional Music Competition

Xia Chen transmigrates to a parallel world.

He gets pushed into teaming up with Zhang Bichen for a contest to write ancient-style songs.

Zhang Bichen: "Xia Chen, enter the contest with me! I'll compose the music, you write the lyrics, and we'll split the prize money if we win."

"I really can't do that..." Xia Chen begins, then suddenly stops.

Wait, ancient-style lyrics?

Didn't some genius online in his previous life come up with a formula for these?

Keywords: cinnabar, the world, slaughter, home, youth, elegance, fleeting years like flowing water, a face like a painting...

Sentence patterns: xxxx, xxxx, nothing but a xxxx

You say xxxx, I say xxxx, and in the end it's all xxxx

xx, xx, grant me a xxxx

After confirming that this world doesn't have this brilliant formula,

Xia Chen grins. "Fine, I'll come clean. I'm actually a master of ancient-style music!"

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