After the Music Industry Blacklisted Me, One Song Made the Whole Internet Weep

Showbiz + original music + livestream comeback + independent entrepreneurship. After a lip-sync scandal at a concert attended by thirty thousand people, sound engineer Chu Heng refuses to falsify live performance data for a top-tier star. His company makes him take the fall, and the entire industry blacklists him. After leaving the backstage world, he can see the audience's emotional spectrum, the gaps in their attention, and the exact moment a song truly resonates, but he can't conjure a melody or lyrics out of thin air. To pay off equipment damages, he sings an original demo he'd kept hidden in a rainy underground passage. His livestream, which had just thirty-seven viewers, draws a hundred thousand overnight. Just as everyone is moved to tears, the platform's copyright system reports that the song was registered under someone else's name by his former company the day before. From an old guitar and a street livestream to an independent recording studio, an original music label, and a citywide live music network, Chu Heng is determined to make the music industry hear something real again. But when he takes the stage at his first ten-thousand-seat venue, a patch of black frequency appears in the emotional spectrum of the crowd before him, belonging to no one.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.