```
After that, however, the singing shifted into a melancholic and mysteriously sorrowful performance. Cen Ye slightly bent his back towards the microphone, his voice oscillating unpredictably as he sang. It was as if a man was walking on a tightrope, with an abyss below. Yet he still lifted his head, gazing at the starry sky with clear eyes.
A group of people in the audience silently began to clap in unison.
At this moment, Cen Ye revealed a nearly hallucinatory smile. In his equally dreamlike aria, all the instruments seemed to join in his narrative. It was as though many voices were telling their own stories, or as if there was just one voice—the one he led, a symphony of a thousand demons.