Then, Gu Qiuyi adjusted her mindset, and the performance continued.
After singing three songs in a row, Gu Qiuyi finally took the opportunity during the break after the songs to speak into the microphone. “Thank you very much to the audience who came tonight. This is the last show of my global farewell tour. Because I was born in Yanjing, grew up in Yanjing, and debuted in Yanjing, I chose to hold this concert in Yanjing. I hope my performing career can have a beginning and an end, and end perfectly in this starting place, which can be considered as completely drawing the curtain.”
The fans were excited and sentimental. They shouted her name loudly from the audience, and some even shouted for her not to retire from the music scene.
Gu Qiuyi smiled faintly and continued. “In these years in the entertainment industry, although I have been very happy and honoured to have supporters like you, I feel that there is no banquet that does not end. There always has to be a time to say goodbye to everyone. So, I hope that in my best years, I can say a proper and grand farewell to everyone, letting everyone remember my best appearance.”
A front-row female fan shouted hoarsely, “Qiuyi, you are forever the best in my heart!”
Gu Qiuyi smiled and said, “You have to remember, nothing is forever the best.”
With that, she half-jokingly and half-seriously said to the audience, “Perhaps if I say goodbye to you now, the last impression left in your minds is the best Gu Qiuyi. But if I say goodbye to you in ten years, it might be an aging and fading Gu Qiuyi. If I wait another twenty years, before I even say goodbye, many of you might quietly discuss why that old lady called Gu Qiuyi hasn’t retired yet, clinging to the music scene at such an age, which is really annoying, right?”
“No!” The fans quickly denied in unison.
Gu Qiuyi waved her hand and said with a smile, “Alright, I’ve already decided to retire, so I won’t give you the chance to disdain me in ten or twenty years. So, these are all hypothetical questions. What I want to tell everyone is that high-quality companionship is never about being together for a long time, but no matter how long we are together, we can fully devote ourselves without regrets. In these years in the entertainment industry, I’ve always given my all. For me, I’ve already done my best to accompany everyone well, so saying goodbye now, I won’t feel any regrets. Therefore, everyone, don’t be sad, and don’t have regrets. You just need to know that the Gu Qiuyi who loves you has left her performing career forever at its peak.”
Gu Qiuyi’s heartfelt and sincere expression made the fans tear up.
Many idols rack their brains thinking about how to extend their prime, how to squeeze their fans’ spending potential, and how to use various resources to climb higher and higher.
But Gu Qiuyi had never entertained these thoughts.
She was self-disciplined, self-respecting, and at the same time very sincere to her fans. She was never pretentious or fake. Over these years, every song and every performance, she gave her all. She truly left her best side to her fans.
Moreover, the entertainment industry is cruel. No so-called virtuous and artistic old artists can maintain their popularity forever. As age increases, even kings and queens of music will have weakening influence. This follows the same trajectory as a person’s life states.
If Gu Qiuyi continued to stay in the entertainment industry, in five or eight years, she would inevitably start to decline. No matter how hard she tried, she would gradually be defeated and replaced by fresh blood in terms of appearance, stamina, and condition.
Now, by retiring directly from her peak, what she leaves to the entire Chinese music scene is a monument that has always advanced triumphantly and never gone downhill.
Moreover, in the future entertainment industry, it will be difficult or even impossible to have another idol as pure, as dazzling, and as self-respecting as her.
Because, even if someone is as pure as her, it is impossible to simultaneously possess her unparalleled talent, her family background wealthy enough to rival a country, and her spotless self-discipline.
These four points, perhaps some people in the world may possess one, two, or even three, but no one will possess all four like her.
By retiring at the height of her career at this time, she will inevitably become that unprecedented and unmatched legend in the music world!
