On the morning of the fifth, Lin Zhengran and Jiang Xueli met up and took the music studio's car to the competition venue together.
Before they left, the owner of the music studio, a woman, very seriously stressed the importance of this competition:
"Let me be clear with everyone. Originally, this competition wasn't meant to be so formal, just a small town-level event. But after a series of changes, the scale has become much larger than before.
If you can survive today's eliminations and get your original songs onto the Little Nova Chart, you may have a future opportunity to get on the Music Candidates stage. This is a rare and incredible chance."
The owner looked at the contestants from her studio. "I won't say much more. I've seen all your discussions in the group chat over the last few days, so you're all well aware of what's at stake in this competition. Now, let's go give it our all."
Her words only stretched their already frayed nerves even tighter.
