Star Maker: the Starlight Code of Lao Cai

Deep in the old street paved with bluestones, the lights of "Zhiyin Musical Instrument Store" are always on until late at night. Lao Zhou, a down-and-out musician, led three young apprentices to form the unknown "Old Street Star-making Cluster". They don't chase traffic, they only do one thing: salvage the sounds buried by life from the fireworks of the city. Aunt Zhang, who fried fried dough sticks, had a voice that contained the warmth of the morning mist and the fire; Lao Chen, the shoe repairman, had his toolbox filled with lyrics about life; these ordinary people whose sharpness had been worn away by time sang "The frying pan at three o'clock in the morning" and "The years of sewing and mending" to the band's folk music accompaniment. But after the grassroots singing unexpectedly became popular, capital came with gold-plated contracts, and rumors and suppression followed. When their partners were shaken by fame and fortune, this group of star-makers, known as "rustic", stood on the Avenue of Stars holding musical instruments and shoe repair boxes. There was no gorgeous packaging, no assembly line arrangement. What they sang was not a song, but the light hidden in the folds of life for every ordinary person. In the end, the fireworks melody of the old street conquered the national stage, and this group of star-makers still stayed at the alley, letting the fragrance of fried dough sticks wrap their singing and illuminate the path of every ordinary person to pursue their dreams. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.