For the next two days, Mu Cai spent most of his time practicing the dance to the theme song.
He himself had high musical talent, and since the theme song wasn't particularly difficult to sing, he easily memorized the lyrics. When Mo Hengqing came to Class A to give him instructions and led him through the song twice while playing the piano, Mu Cai was able to sing the theme song perfectly without having to learn to sing like the other trainees in Class A.
Instead, it saved him a lot of time for dance practice.
For the past three days, Gu Yunchen would teach Mu Cai to dance every night.
Originally, Mu Cai only wanted to be a salty fish, but the atmosphere of the people around him had a strong atmosphere of hard work. Sometimes Mu Cai practiced until nearly eleven o'clock at night before returning to the dormitory. The sound of music from various dance rooms could be heard in the corridors, and people who were practicing singing with headphones could be seen under the streetlights. In the dormitory, he can see his teammates pointing at the mistakes in each others' performances.
In such an atmosphere, Mu Cai also somehow became more attentive. After Gu Yunchen helped him correct his actions one by one, and trained him several times, Mu Cai was finally able to sing and dance the entire theme song.
On the day of the recording, Mu Cai was the second one to record. He was already very familiar with the movements and song and was able to dance quite smoothly. There was no fixed movement for this dance until the end of the song, so it could be done freely. Thus Mu Cai smiled at the camera and showed love.
It took about half a day for all five levels of graded trainees to be recorded.
The judges began to re-grade the performances of various trainees that afternoon. Tang Feng was sitting on the main seat, and under the watchful eyes of the surrounding instructors, he first started to access the videos from A grade trainees.
The first trainee danced very well, but he was probably too nervous and forgot the lyrics halfway through his singing. Although he quickly picked it up again, the mentors present still only gave him a B grade.
Tang Feng quickly pulled out the video of the next trainee.
The footage quickly showed a young man in pink clothes with a pale face.
The eyes of all the tutors present lit up.
It was precisely Mu Cai.
Because of his previous stage performance, all the tutors had a deep impression of him, so naturally, they were looking forward to the performance of the other party.
The Mu Cai in the video pursed his lips slightly and bowed towards the camera, "Hello tutors, I'm Mu Cai, I hope I can hold my A rank this time too!"
After the young man said this, he revealed a smile. His eyebrows were curved, the corners of his mouth were raised, and his sweet red lips showed a hint of his tiger tooth.
Fang Yajun almost held his heart and said, "He's too good-looking, I'm really looking forward to his performance!"
The mentors present nodded silently.
After Mu Cai in the video said this, he began to sing and dance. His voice was like a stream echoing in a valley, ethereal and distant. Even when singing a fast-paced song like the theme song of the program, it still had a different flavor.
Mu Cai's dancing movements weren't very pretty, even a little stiff, but he was smiling the entire time, not a single movement was left behind, and the entire dance was completed to a certain degree. When the song was finished and the last movement was carried out, the young man in the camera suddenly knelt down on one knee, a pair of thin white hands making a heart in front of his chest shown on the camera.
His forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat, and his slight gasp could be heard as the closing sound of the video. The young man's smile had remained until this moment, and his eyes were radiant, dazzling under the light above his head.
Fang Yajun couldn't help but scream with joy, "Oh my god! He's becoming more lovely to me! How can he be so good-looking! I'm going to give him A grade!"
Bei Bin looked thrilled as well, "I give this song full marks! His vocal talent is really too good, and his vocal transition went really well!"
Mo Hengqing smiled and added, "Moreover, the pitch and intonation were brilliantly grasped, I guess he learned a musical instrument, he seems to know intonations."
When Bei Bin heard this, he couldn't help but look at the other party indignantly, "I'm really jealous of you! Why is my luck so bad, I wish I had drawn A class back then! So I could hear him sing all the time!"
Mo Hengqing crossed his arms and raised his head slightly, not even looking at Bei Bin, with an undue complacency, "You would have regretted it because he learns very quickly. I had to trick him into singing more than once under the pretext that his breath was a little unsteady. It sounds better to listen to it live, and you don't even know how the faces of the A-rated trainees next to you would be."
Bei Bin felt so devastated he didn't want to talk.
Tang Feng had been watching this farce from the side while smiling. He saw the mentors had already expressed their feelings completely, so he promptly spoke up, "Then what kind of opinions do the other mentors have? Fang Yajun-sensei just gave him an A rating, right?"
Fang Yajun immediately nodded his head.
Bei Bin said evenly, "I'll give an A too!"
Mo Hengqing echoed, "I am going to give an A too."
Tang Feng turned his gaze towards Gu Yunchen, who had been silent since the beginning, and smiled like a fox, "Then what's Mr. Gu's opinion?"
Only then did Gu Yunchen opened his mouth in a reserved manner, "Although the dance was still very stiff, it's much better than before. And the length of his training was very short, only one month. With such poor basic skills and still being able to dance like this, it's not in vain I taught him the moves over and over again so I will give him an A too."
Fang Yajun glanced at the man beside him, the envy and jealousy in his eyes were almost overflowing, even the words he spoke were sour, "A full three days eh! You've taught such a well-behaved Mu Cai for so long, what are you dissatisfied with! What a gain you had!"
Gu Yunchen listened to his words, his face remained calm. But Fang Yajun saw his pride from his slightly raised chin and the upturned corners of his mouth!
Fang Yajun was so angry!
Tang Feng frowned.
This damaging friend of his, who usually looked like a cold person and refused to let anyone in… With an appearance like that, he didn't expect him to be able to smile so gently one day.
Tang Feng felt goosebumps rising on his body from looking at him.
He eased the malignant chill in his heart, then he cleared his throat and solemnly announced, "That's it then, Mu Cai's grade rating is A." he said, and picked up the red stamp and printed it on Mu Cai's rating certificate.
A bright red A appeared right next to Mu Cai's smiling face.
……..
The next morning, all the trainees gathered at the designated location. Tang Feng announced the results of the re-grading of all the trainees in the order of DCBFA. Among the ten trainees of the A grade, five of them had no changes in their grades, including Mu Cai, Liang Yunxi, and Alan, while the remaining five were downgraded to B or C grade.
Among the B grade, four trainees were upgraded to A grade. Those in the other grades weren't able to get promoted to A grade, so now they had a total of nine A-ranked trainees.
After Tang Feng announced the results, he told all the trainees present that, except for those in the F rank, everyone else would have to record the theme song collectively on the official stage. And one of the A-ranked trainees would be born as the C-position in this stage recording.
The C-position was the person who would be standing in the middle and the most prominent position on the stage. Tang Feng wanted all the trainees in Group A to prepare a performance that fits in with the theme song within an hour, and then the crowd would choose the C position based on the votes.
Mu Cai wasn't too interested in the C position, plus he really wasn't a good dancer, so he couldn't prepare anything in an hour, so he just went up to sing a song.
He thought everyone should be aware of his strength, but he didn't expect when the time came for the voting session, people still flocked to him, pasting small votes on him.
Mu Cai at first wanted to push back and let them think it over. As a result, one boy was quick-eyed enough to take his resisting hand and patted his other hand directly at his heart, "Cai Cai, my heart decided it should be you!"
Mu Cai, "…"
As a result, the next person who came over to vote for him took the opportunity to touch him and then fled joyfully in the midst of several murderous gazes from all directions.
Mu Cai was forced to be the C-position and had to practice his dance even harder, and ended up successfully completing the recording of the theme song while collectively singing and dancing with the other trainees on the stage.
This was the end of the second issue of the "Rookie Star" variety show. At the same time, the first episode of the recording began to be released on Sweet Orange Video at a weekly frequency.
Since Sweet Orange Video had spent a lot of effort to promote this variety show, and Rookie Star did gather quite a few star mentors, this show was already a hit before it even aired. Now that the first issue of the show had started to air, the number of viewers was naturally climbing steadily, quickly reaching an explosive level of popularity.
Most of the trainees, who were taking a break, stayed in their dorms to watch the show.
The material of the first two days was cut into a two-hour long broadcast, and most of them had more or less given the camera a chance. Sitting on his bed, Mu Cai saw quite a bit of footage of himself in the show, such as his performance on stage with his teammates, and the interviews he gave when he came off the stage.
And it was only after watching the show that Mu Cai realized that there were a lot of trainees who had been telling him how cute he was and how good he looked and so on since the seat selection session. When he went on stage to perform, the number of times such words appeared reached a peak.
Even after Mu Cai's performance, in the interview that followed, the trainees interviewed, including Liang Yun Xi and Zhao An, were all sparing no effort to tell how good-looking he usually was and how radiant he was during the performance.
They had such an excited look as if he was some sort of remarkable person.
Mu Cai, "…."
This face seeking world was terrible.
At the end of this issue, the tidbits of the trainees back at the dormitory building were also given.
Only then did Mu Cai see what he had thought should be the part where everyone returned to their dormitories to rest tiredly, there were so many people lying at the entrance of their dormitories, watching his conversation with Lin Jiayi like a voyeur.
Lin Jiayi was also interviewed after he came out of his dormitory. Faced with both of their unhappiness, this is how Lin Jiayi replied, "We have met each other before, my brother and his brother knew each other, that's how we got to know each other. I was the one who was bad and bullied him before, so he ignored me."
This guy actually had the face to look angry and aggrieved when he said that?
After Mu Cai finished watching it, his heart had transitioned from being somewhat shy to having no fluctuations at all. He was physically and mentally exhausted, so he could only turn off his phone and lay peacefully on his bed like a salted fish.
It was 10 at night. After Mu Cai turned off his cell phone and went to sleep, what he didn't know was his Weibo followers were growing rapidly and his name was also trending on the hot search in many ways.
#Liang Yun Xi and Mu Cai#
#I'll carry this ship to the clouds#
# Your smile is a plus#
#Where's the color girl #
The author has something to say,
Gu Yunchen, "He's even set up a CP with that Liang Yunxi!"
Lin Jiayi, "Don't panic, I'm still here."
Mo Hengqing, "Yeah, no need to panic, I'm here too."
Liang Yunxi, "…."
Mu Cai woke up the next day and was still washing up, when suddenly Zhao An came running into the bathroom with his phone especially excited, "Cai Cai! You're on the hot search!"
After that, he suddenly slammed the phone screen with his hand hard in front of Mu Cai's face.
Mu Cai looked at the other party's excited look as the other was grinning and exposing his white teeth. If it wasn't for hearing Zhao An's words, Mu Cai would have thought it was the other party who was on the hot search.
Mu Cai had just woken up and was still a bit groggy, he mechanically brushed his teeth and obediently followed the other party's movements to watch a small video on the screen.
A somewhat familiar voice came from the video, "All the prohibited items should be confiscated."
It was the crew of the show "Rookie Star" talking.
This should be the scene when they recorded the first episode when all the trainees returned to the dormitory after their ratings were finished and the staff came to collect their mobile phones.
Mu Cai still remembered that there was a staff member who lied to him, saying that if there were any prohibited items, they would be confiscated, and then his luggage would be checked.
At that time, Mu Cai had stayed up all night, his IQ had dropped rapidly in a short period of time, and his brain wasn't in the condition to think straight, so he was really fooled.
Sure enough, as the video progressed, the next video was of him being stunned when he heard the words, and the post-production staff gave him three pink question marks on his head. The next moment, the Mu Cai in the video stupidly asked, "Do you want to take away that doll too?"
He usually sleeps with his soft dolls in his arms, so when he came to the show for the recording this time, his suitcase was stuffed with one of his favorite cat dolls.
The staff went along with the joke/prank, "Of course I'll take it away."
Immediately afterward, the young man in the video squeezed the cat doll that looked as soft as a cloud, his cheeks puffed up slightly, and handed it out with some reluctance. His brow furrowed slightly as he held the doll's chubby belly tightly as he asked, "Can you pretend that you didn't see it?"
The staff teased him, "No, we have to be impartial."
Mu Cai in the video was sad, as he handed the cat doll over and said in a very aggrieved tone, "Then help me keep it safe and don't get it dirty."
The rest of the story develops exactly as Mu Cai remembers it, the staff says they pranked him, and the teenager in the video gets very angry and turns around holding the cat doll in his arms.
That was the end of the entire short video.
Mu Cai completely woke up from his morning stupor.
On the side, Zhao An was still chattering, "Ah, Cai Cai, that cat doll of yours is so cute! Where did you get it? I want one too! Of course, it would be even better if we could order a smaller version of the Cai Cai doll…"
Liang Yun Xi urgently came from outside the bathroom, "Zhao An what are you doing? You should tell Mu Cai to finish washing up quickly so we can go have breakfast, we have to record this afternoon."
Zhao An got scolded by the captain, he spat out his tongue at Mu Cai and went out in grief.
Mu Cai remembered the video from earlier, and hurriedly finished washing up and applied his maintenance products, after that he followed Liang Yunxi and the others out.
They went to the cafeteria to have a meal and found a place to sit down and eat. Mu Cai stuffed a bun into his mouth while turning on his phone to log on to Weibo.
It was a mobile phone issued by the program, without a sim card, and could only connect to the wifi of the filming location to access the internet. There were only two apps on the phone, Sweet Orange Video, and Weibo, and the participants can't add or uninstall the apps by themselves.
Mu Cai logged on to his Weibo, but there was no notification. Su Xingyun should have cleaned it up for him in advance.
He checked his Weibo and found that since last night's broadcast, that is in just one night, his followers had already gone up by hundreds of thousands.
The effect of this show is too good!
When Mu Cai returned to the home page for recommendations, he saw a post by the official account of "Rookie Star".
The official Weibo of "Rookie Star": are dolls prohibited? [confused]
–will it be taken away?
–Can't we just ignore it? [Crying]
Immediately below this Weibo caption was the video Mu Cai had just seen.
Zhao An was scooping up tofu pudding with a spoon on the side, he swallowed a spoonful of the smooth and tender tofu pudding and asked Mu Cai, "Cai Cai, have you seen the hot searches related to you?"
Mu Cai bit his bun and shook his head, "Not yet."
Zhao An gulped down the rest of the tofu pudding, grabbed his phone, and said, "Then you quickly search for the words 'Yun Cai' and 'Chen Cai'."
Mu Cai swallowed the last bite of the bun into his stomach, as he picked up his phone and started typing. As he typed, he couldn't help but ask, "What is it?"
Liang Yunxi was drinking soy milk across the table from Mu Cai. He raised his eyes to glance at the young man and answered, "'Yun Cai' is the name of my cp with you."
After he spoke, his expression remained unchanged, but his heart beat rapidly, looking forward to Mu Cai's reaction.
The teenager sitting opposite of him had just finished drinking soy milk, and his sweet red lips were very moist. He opened his eyes wide and looked at him, full of incredulity, "Me and the captain? Where do the two of us have a cp feeling, ah."
Liang Yunxi, "…"
Liang Yunxi felt very heartbroken and devastated.
With a broken heart, he simply handed over his phone.
When Mu Cai took a look, he saw a very popular Weibo post on the screen.
I'll carry the Yun Cai banner: gosh, what kind of divine love is this!
There were two gifs underneath the caption. One was of him pillowing on Liang Yunxi's shoulder, and the other party reaching out to help him stroke his hair, with gentle movements and a smile on his face.
And the second one was of Liang Yunxi's interview. After their first stage performances were rated, the other party kept praising him for being good-looking and working hard.
These two scenes Mu Cai had seen on the show last night, at that time he only felt it was a normal friendship, how come now that they were cut out separately… Why were they giving out a strange feeling about this?
A layer of blush appeared on the pale face of the young man in front of him, and his gaze moved away shyly.
It seemed he wasn't that much of a fool.
Liang Yunxi looked at Mu Cai's cheeks and felt somewhat comforted in his heart.
However, in the next moment, the person in front of him tilted his head slightly, and a somewhat confused look appeared on his face, "And what is 'Chen Cai'?"
Before Liang Yunxi had a chance to speak, Zhao An said straightforwardly, "That's Instructor Gu Yunchen and your cp!" saying this, he actively showed his phone screen to Mu Cai.
Mu Cai saw a screen full of squeals and gifs.
All the gifs were taken from his interview.
The young man's eyebrows were curved and he beamed, "I admire Mr. Gu very much. I think he's very handsome, a great dancer and a good actor. I've watched all of Mr. Gu's movies!"
The following was accompanied by Tang Feng's line, "Teacher Gu said your smile is a plus."
Mu Cai, "…"
Although he deliberately said this to fit in with the personality of the original owner and push the plot forward, Mu Cai still felt his face heat up a bit when he saw the look he had in the video.
The blush on the cheeks of the young man was like a bright sunset, he looked a bit shyer than when he heard the news about the two of them.
Liang Yunxi's heart trembled, he felt a bit irritated for some reason and was about to say something to divine the other's thoughts, when suddenly Zhao An's raucous voice reached his ears, "Cai Cai, I'm telling you, there are more than just these two pairs! You still have a Heng Cai cp with Instructor Mo Hengqing, and the Lin Cai cp with that Lin Jiayi!"
Zhao An said while exclaiming, "Cai Cai, you're full of cp flags, and I'm super excited to see it. Which pair among the cp's do you think I should ship you with?"
Mu Cai, "…"
Mu Cai's inner vicissitudes couldn't bear to tell this foolish child.
No matter which pair you ship, it's all fake!
They're just business cp!
……
Tang Feng, who was sitting in his room munching on bread, couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Gu Yunchen was eating fritters and soy milk, and didn't even move his eyelids when he heard laughter.
Tang Feng, however, refused to let him go and waved his phone screen under the other's eyelids, "Look, a large Shura scene!"
When Gu Yunchen looked up and raised his thick eyelashes, he saw a picture on his phone screen.
Death Gaze.
Gu Yunchen, "…"
Gu Yunchen's throat rolled as he drank the soy milk down before he gave Tang Feng a blank look, "Boring."
Although he said that, he didn't push Tang Feng's hand away, instead he clicked on the comment under the Weibo post.
Tang Feng was already familiar with the duplicity of his damaged friend. He put down the bread in his hand and pulled his chair out, sitting in front of the other party, taking a look at his cold friend's face, "How is this cp?"
Gu Yunchen didn't even look up, "People nowadays are too idle and have nothing to do but think random thoughts."
Tang Feng raised his eyebrows, seemingly unintentionally he agreed and said, "Yes, your fans don't do such things, after all, they want you to be single until you reach your forties or fifties. But it's good you don't care, your cp isn't big anyway, just like Mu Cai and Mo Hengqing, Mu Cai and Lin Jiayi, the people who ship these cp's are few. His and Liang Yunxi's cp fans are the real thing."
Gu Yunchen, "…"
Gu Yunchen said coldly, "What's there to ship between Liang Yunxi and Mu Cai."
As he said this, he happened to turn on Weibo.
[Call the Cheng Cai shippers out. Cai Cai just respects our ancestors, understand? We can't afford the likes of Brother Gu! The captain is so sweet and true to our Cai Cai! He helped him with dance training, even using his shoulders as a pillow, they live and eat together, and they also share the same interests, so I must trouble fans to have face and don't assume!]
This Weibo post was trending, with over 1000 likes and a bunch of comments underneath that were blackened.
Gu Yunchen, "…"
He couldn't resist scrolling down and seeing another Weibo post.
[Cai Cai is the baby of the group! Captain, Li Shengmin, Lin Jiayi, and movie emperor Mo, all of them spoil him quietly! I'll eat whichever pair of cp it is!]
What about him? How come he's not in there!
Gu Yunchen felt suffocated in his heart, his expression was cold, even the words he said were somewhat sarcastic, "There are quite a few cp's in Mu Cai's group."
"That's not true!" Tang Feng exaggerated, "He's simply full of cp flags, not to mention the Feng Cai cp, I was grouped with him, even Fang Yajun can get together with him and make a rumor, and he's justifiably famous."
Gu Yunchen, "…"
Tang Feng looked at his friend's choked appearance and said, "It's just a bunch of cp's, don't be too concerned. You know more cp's, the higher the ratings will be. Didn't you also invest in "Rookie Star"? It just so happened you can set your own rules and can make money by forming more cp's, so why not do it?"
"And, if you ask me, although you hate being tied up since your debut and your scandals are almost zero," Tang Feng looked at Gu Yunchen who was staring at his phone screen and said meaningfully, "I don't think you hate being in a cp with Mu Cai to make others kowtow, don't you think I'm right? "
Gu Yunchen was silent for a moment, only humming from his throat.
Although Tang Feng was chatty and nosy, some of his words were not unreasonable.
It didn't feel bad to be in a cp with Mu Cai.
But hearing Mu Cai was in a cp with someone else, he felt annoyed.
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Liang Yunxi: Why are some people so nosy and mention those niche cp!
Zhao An: _(:з )_
Gu Yunchen: Although some people are very nosy, sometimes their brain works well.
Tang Feng: ……
At 2 pm, all the trainees gathered at the designated location and lined up in the different color squares according to their ranks.
The judges were standing in front of them, as Tang Feng took the speech card and announced the rules for the elimination rounds that would begin tomorrow.
After the individual ranking was over, the next thing to be done was the group challenge. On Tang Feng's left side, there was a wall that was divided into five equal areas, each with the name of a song posted on it.
Tang Feng first took the trainees to quickly listen to the short melodies of the five songs, and then he told those present that later on, the one hundred trainees would form twenty teams, and the captains would choose which song to perform. There would be a battle between the groups that chose the same song.
After Tang Feng finished speaking, he put his hand into the lottery box he had just brought up with a smile and announced, "Next I'll be drawing the lots, let's see who the first captain will be–"
As he said that, he took out a slip of paper from the box. Tang Feng's eyes swept over the open slip of paper once, he grinned and said, "Congratulations to An for being the first captain of our group confrontation!"
The crowd in the room applauded, and An came out of the line of A-ranked trainees while pressing the brim of his hat.
Tang Feng reached out,pointing at the wall with the song titles on the side, and asked with a smile, "An, which song do you want to perform?"
An raised his eyes, glanced at the wall and quickly stood in front of the area with the song title of "Mechanical City" posted on it.
Tang Feng looked at the other party and said, "Now, please choose your teammates."
Only then did the trainees present understand that all the team members would be chosen by the captain. For a while, all of them showed a little nervous look on their faces.
One must know that An was very good at singing, dancing and rapping, and that he had a relatively mature aura. If anyone teamed up with him, An would definitely become an asset. The score and popularity of the whole team should also increase accordingly, and the possibility of winning in the group confrontation would be fairly high. If possible, everyone definitely hoped to be favored by him.
An listened to the words without raising his head, "I want Mu Cai."
Mu Cai, who had been named, had a slightly surprised look on his face.
Although he also felt that An must be a good teammate, he did not expect the other party to choose him without hesitation, after all, he did not know the other boy well.
But when he thought about it, An was a loner and didn't seem to know anyone very well. His decision to choose Mu Cai, with whom he had spoken before, did not seem so difficult to understand.
When Mu Cai thought of this, he also walked out of the square of the A-ranked trainees.
Seeing the pale teenager in pink clothes meekly walking towards An's direction, the trainees' original desire to be chosen by him was now even stronger, and also brought a few moments of intense jealousy.
Being the first captain was different, he could choose Cai Cai first!
They also wanted to be the first captain, so that Cai Cai could obediently take the initiative to walk towards them!
There was a small flight of steps in front of the wall with the song names, and Mu Cai walked to stand on the step, one level higher, behind An's.
Tang Feng's gaze inadvertently glanced toward Gu Yunchen's side, and when he saw that the other party looked ice-cold, without a word, he turned his gaze and smiled, "Now An, you can continue to choose your other teammates."
Mu Cai looked towards the squares of trainees and saw his original teammates looking at him. He had some reluctance in his heart, if he could choose, Mu Cai would still like to be with his previous teammates.
But he didn't know who An would choose.
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He was thinking here and there, when he suddenly felt a hand gently tugging on his own. Mu Cai looked down and saw An's earrings shining in the overhead light, a pair of dark eyes looking at him from under the brim of his hat, "Who do you want to choose?"
Mu Cai's eyes widened slightly, "Are you going to let me choose?"
An nodded, "I'll Listen to you."
Their voices were not deliberately lowered as they spoke. Their collar was still carrying the mic. The atmosphere in the arena was a little tense at this time, and no one was talking, so everyone could hear the two men's words clearly.
The eyes of the trainees at the side of the room suddenly became eager, and they all looked at Mu Cai with great expectation.
Mu Cai thought about it and asked An, "Is there a rap in the song you chose?"
Although he had listened to all five songs before, he only remembered the characteristics of the one he liked more and had forgotten the others long ago.
An said, "Come closer, I didn't hear you clearly."
Although Mu Cai was a bit puzzled about how the other party could not hear him when the two were so close, he did not think much about it and bent down a bit as he was told. In order to keep himself balanced on the steps, Mu Cai gently placed both hands on An's shoulders and continued to ask, "Is there a rap part in the song you chose?"
The teenager's shallow breath hit his neck as An said with a calm expression, "Yes."
At this moment, the eagerness on the faces of the trainees present turned into jealousy and anger.
This An has a heavy heart! How can he not be able to hear from such a close distance? Isn't he just bullying Cai Cai's innocence and trying to take advantage of it!
Mu Cai thought for a moment and suggested, "How about choosing Zhao An? He has practiced rap for a long time before, he should be able to shoulder this responsibility, but I ……"
In fact, Mu Cai didn't understand rapping very well, and he was not too sure about how good Zhao An's rap level is, so he was afraid of dragging the other party back.
An, however, did not give him a chance to hesitate and said directly, "Zhao An."
Zhao An, The B-ranked trainee, immediately ran out of the room with a happy face.
An did not share the other party's meaningful gaze, but once again asked Mu Cai behind him, "Who else do you want to choose? I'll listen to you."
Mu Cai inexplicably felt that, at that moment, the boy was very much like a faint king, and he, like the favorite concubine of the senator. Whatever he said, An would listen to everything.
This idea was a bit absurd, ah.
Mu Cai shook his head and began to think seriously. He had not had much contact with other people since he had entered the Rookie Star program and was more familiar with his own teammates.
He thought about it and said to An, "Let's have Li Shengmin, he can sing the chorus part."
There were only five people in the group, and the teammates definitely couldn't all be crammed in, so Mu Cai had to consider his choices carefully. When the first episode was aired, he had paid attention to the online voting, and found that both Liang Yunxi and Li Yuzhe had quite a high number of votes. Both were in the top ten. The two of them had a very strong singing capability and were great dancers, no matter in which team they ended up, they would certainly get the core position.
Although this time the challenge would be taken up in groups, from the 100 trainees 40 would be eliminated by the end. It didn't mean that if a group lost, everyone in that group would be eliminated. It's just that the winning group members would receive 500 more votes each on top of their original ones. The final elimination would still be based on the total amount of votes the trainees received, eliminating the 40 people with the lowest scores.
Now in this group, he must be the lead singer and An would be the lead dancer. In between Liang Yunxi and Li Yuzhe, no matter who comes into the team, the person would be overshadowed. It would be better to let them go to other teams that would let them express their outstanding colors.
However, Li Shengmin had relatively less votes than the previous two, but there was a higher chance of their team winning, which might help him gather more votes.
As for Ding Nan, Mu Cai looked at the usually silent other party, now looking at him with hopeful eyes. His heart couldn't help but feel a little guilty.
They were from the same group, and Mu Cai was clear on the strength of the other party. Ding Nan was not good at singing, and his dancing ability was similar to Mu Cai's. If he came into the group, the contrast would be more striking, and it would likely make the team lose. If this team had been Mu Cai's own, it would be fine, but he was now choosing the members for An. He could not harm the other party.
"There is one more position, who do you want to choose?" An looked at Mu Cai.
Mu Cai struggled for a while, but finally gave up, "We are still short of a sub dancer, do you have anyone in mind?"
An pondered for a moment and, with his eyes locked on Mu Cai, he leaned his whole body towards him as he said, "What do you think about Lin Jiayi?"
Mu Cai, confronted with the other party's suddenly enlarged face, felt a little uncomfortable. He stepped back and said, "Your choice, I'll listen to you."
The corner of An's mouth suddenly hooked, "Good, then listen to me." He turned his head and shouted, "Lin Jiayi!"
Lin Jiayi, who was wearing a blue sweatshirt, walked out from the line of B-ranked trainees with a look of surprise in his raised eyebrows.
The rest of the trainees immediately felt very disappointed, and the whole room even let out a gloomy sigh.
Gu Yunchen was standing behind Tang Feng, his eyes unblinkingly looking at Mu Cai.
His mind recalled the appearance of Mu Cai talking to An just now.
The young man had put a pair of dazzling white hands on An's shoulders, as he leaned down slightly, his long eyelashes blinking gently, and his pale complexion was slightly pink because of An's approach.
The distance between the two of them was too close.
So close that it seemed as if they were kissing.
The irritation, the discomfort that had appeared so many times before, appeared once again. And this time it was stronger than any other time in the past, causing a rare frown to appear on Gu Yunchen's often cold face.
He wanted to drag Mu Cai over and tell the other party not to be so stupid, how could he be fooled by such a small trick? That docile look, and those intimate touches, don't just show it to others so casually.
It's best that they all bloom only in front of him alone.
Gu Yunchen pinched his hand in annoyance, realizing that he had lost control of his emotions.
This loss, that hadn't occurred for many years now, appeared once again just because of his possessive desire for Mu Cai.
Gu Yunchen lowered his thick eyelashes to hide the deep look under his own eyes.
As the lottery continued, both Liang Yunxi and Li Yuzhe entered the stronger teams. And Ding Nan was left to the end, together with the four people who were left unpicked, forming the last team.
The remaining people did not look good, and Ding Nan's gaze was even more gloomy. He gritted his teeth and didn't look at anyone, just stood in silence with his temporary teammates under the wall of a certain song.
After the teams were chosen, everyone was interviewed.
It was the last day before the official training. The staff gave each trainee their own cell phone to call their family in front of the camera.
There were only three numbers on Mu Cai's phone, Wang Li's, Father Mo's, and Mo Hengqing's.
Wang Li was not good to him, so he didn't want to call her. However, even if Mo Hengqing was nice, he was the program's mentor, so it was impossible to call him either.
Finally, after thinking about it, Mu Cai could only dial Father Mo's cell phone number.
He knew that Father Mo was in charge of a business group and was usually busy. There was a high probability that he wouldn't answer the call. If he couldn't get through, he would let the team know that there's no one else left to call.
Unexpectedly, when Mu Cai was tangled in his thoughts, the call connected.
The loving voice of Father Mo came from inside, "What's wrong with Cai Cai?"
Mu Cai was a little surprised. He hadn't expected the call to connect, and the person who picked up was Father Mo himself. He hurriedly said, "Uncle, I'm calling you from the program team."
The person on the other end of the phone seemed to be smiling, "Good, how is Cai Cai feeling?"
Mu Cai said, "Fine, I'm eating well and sleeping well, and I got an A grade, the most powerful one."
The listener laughed, "Good, I see. I have watched your show before, Cai Cai performed very well, sang well, and danced well."
Mu Cai didn't expect Father Mo to watch his show. The man did not have a formal license with Wang Li, so he was not even his own stepfather, but he still took the time to watch him on the show. Mu Cai felt a little surprised, but also a little happy.
His tone became much more relaxed. After talking to the other party for a while longer, he couldn't resist urging them to take care of their health and hung up the call.
Mu Cai was very happy to know that someone cared about him. So much so, that even the fatigue and the nervousness he had had since the recording of the program disappeared, allowing him to show a bright smile in front of the camera.
After knocking on the door and entering the president's office, the secretary of the president of Yao Mo Group saw that Mr. Mo had just hung up the phone with a smile on his face.
Did he negotiate another big deal with some company?
The secretary guessed this in his heart and handed the document in his hand to Mr. Mo to look over.
Mr. Mo was obviously in a very good mood. He flipped through the document for a while, confirmed that there were no problems, and signed it, then looked at his secretary lightly, "Right."
The secretary respectfully lowered his head and waited for his boss' instructions.
Mr. Mo asked, "Have you watched that new Sweet Orange Video's 'Rookie Star' program?"
The secretary's respectful expression froze on his face, and while he couldn't help but doubt his ears, he asked tentatively, "Mr. Mo, are you interested in getting involved in the entertainment industry?"
They belonged to a trading company, so they had very little to do with the entertainment industry. Despite that, as long as the market research was done well beforehand and experts were invited to guide them, with the financial strength of Yao Mo Group, there would be no problems even if they lost a few projects.
The secretary privately thought to himself.
Who knew, Mr. Mo shook his head, "No, I wanted to say that, if you watch that program, help me to vote for Mu Cai."
Secretary, "…"
President Mo was not aware that he had spoken out of turn, "Also, ask the employees of several subsidiaries if they have watched the program and ask them to pay attention to it, and those who have not voted can consider voting for Mu Cai."
The secretary felt a little winded. His face stiffened as he said, "Yes, Mr. Mo."
"Oh, right," Mr. Mo pondered for a moment and said, "What you just proposed is good, let's start with movies. You contact a few relevant professionals and see what movies are worth investing in these days."
When the president's secretary exited the office that day, he felt like he had not actually woken up that morning.
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Employees of Yao Mo Group: ??? Why has the company recently undertaken the canvassing business??? But Cai Cai is so cute, hehehe (?﹃?)