For GONG Linna, her early explorations of music were quite difficult. At the age of 5, the little Linna performed on stage for the first time. Since then, the stage had become the center of her life for a long time. From her hometown Guizhou to Beijing, by participating and winning in various nationwide singing contests, Linna began to enjoy the taste of success. When her career was on the rise, the lip-synching experience made her realize that the so-called success was not what she really wanted. “I was very depressed when the song’s over”, she said in the Salon, “I stood on the stage that I desired, but I was confused and lost.”