One Song, Red Peking Opera, and the Dawn of a Peking Opera Era

Peking opera, a fading national art, has fallen out of favor with modern audiences.

But with the arrival of Su Chen, this once-mighty king rises from the ashes like a phoenix.

At the New Year's Eve gala, his Peking-opera-style song "Chi Ling" moves countless viewers.

It steals the spotlight from the reigning pop diva.

It crushes the top boy bands and girl groups.

One Peking-opera-style song after another appears: "Guanghan Palace," "The New Drunken Concubine," "Snow on the Cold River"...

And so begins an era when Peking-opera-style music takes the world by storm.

And so a figure like a demon king appears in the music scene.

Wherever Su Chen goes, the great singers and music legends step aside.

His fans hail him as "the National Team's leading master of music!"

Other singers joke, "Please, National Team, leave us amateur singers a way to make a living..."

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