Watching William confidently get on stage, it wasn't only Ari truly couldn't believe his eyes.
The other contestants were murmuring low enough that the microphones wouldn't pick it up while making sure their mouths were covered by the camera.
And the judges were the same way as well.
Selena had a stern face. Kim Young-woo shook his head in disappointment. Jaywalks looked pissed, and Jelissa-
Ari had never seen Jelissa look so genuinely upset when staring at somebody.
Her gently smiling expression was gone, and she looked like she wanted to scold somebody.
And for once, Larry Jackson wasn't smiling at William. It made sense since he was the one who had taken a lot of heat for being the mentor who was supposed to guide William in producing a song.
Originally, he had been getting praised for ending up with a musical genius, but since the backlash over William's stolen song, he
