Sang Zi's body was not as flexible as Luo Shixi's. When his legs were opened to 120 degrees, he was no longer able to hold on. He looked at Luo Shixi, who was almost sticking to the wall, with a ferocious face, his tone full of disbelief.

"You really haven't practiced before? How can a grown man do the splits?"

Luo Shixi said weakly: "Do you think I know why I can do the splits? Who would do the splits for fun when they have nothing to do?"

Before Luo Shixi was forced by Bai Jingzhou to stretch his legs, he had no idea that he could actually learn the splits so quickly.

But it's really fucking painful.

It’s a hundred thousand times more painful than yesterday’s leg stretch!

Luo Shixi lay on the ground, in despair.

Bai Jingzhou jumped down from the cabinet behind him and walked in front of Luo Shixi: "Can you press it a little more?"

As he spoke, he pressed his heel against Luo Shixi's thigh and slowly moved backwards.

Luo Shixi looked like a salted fish that had been tortured, and this time he struggled violently again, like a fish being scalded by boiling water. He hugged Bai Jingzhou's calf and begged for mercy: "No! I really can't do it anymore, Brother Jingzhou... Um, don't use too much force, it hurts."

Bai Jingzhou thought it was almost done, and thought Luo Shixi really couldn't bear it any more, so he stopped. But he still pressed his heel against Luo Shixi's thigh to prevent him from pulling back.

"That's it for today, but in a few days we'll have to do it all."

Luo Shixi:?

The future is dark.

The reason for practicing the splits is that Luo Shixi's dance part involves a split, which is done instantly. The effect of such a stage presentation is naturally explosive, but it is a nightmare for Luo Shixi, who has never been exposed to classical dance.

The dance teacher once asked Luo Shixi if he wanted to change this job, but Luo Shixi shook his head and refused.

Changing to any other action will not bring better results.

So he could only endure the pain of doing the splits.

Although the movements of others were not as difficult as Luo Shixi's, they were almost the same. Fortunately, Bai Jingzhou was there to give them guidance. He even told them many small tricks, which made their practice more effective.

When the time was up, Bai Jingzhou immediately retracted his feet and let Luo Shixi get up slowly.

Luo Shixi tried to close his legs, but he couldn't do it for a long time, and his thighs were numb.

"Slow down." Bai Jingzhou knelt on one knee in front of him, massaging the tendons on Luo Shixi's thigh and asked him, "Are you feeling better?"

Luo Shixi lay on the ground, looking hopeless. After a long while, he took a breath and replied, "It's almost done. I'll get up."

He held Bai Jingzhou's hand, stood up from the ground tremblingly, and leaned weakly against the wall.

"Life is so hard." Luo Shixi's eyes were empty.

Sang Zi pounded his legs twice and stood up from the ground: "I can't bear the hardship of life. I'm going to the toilet first."

He said and pushed the door open and went out.

Luo Shixi looked at Bai Jingzhou who was unscrewing the bottle cap and drinking water. The other person was taller than him and looked a little thin from the side, but his frame was well-proportioned. Years of dancing practice had given Bai Jingzhou a good posture, and his back was always straight.

Luo Shixi asked him: "Brother Jingzhou, how old were you when you started dancing?"

Bai Jingzhou took a sip of water. The mineral water was just taken out of the refrigerator by the staff. There was still a layer of mist on it. When he held it in his hand, even his fingertips felt cool, which neutralized the heat from practicing dancing in the afternoon.

He squinted his eyes and thought seriously for a while, then said, "About five years old? Or six years old? Around that time."

Luo Shixi took a breath: "So early?"

"Well, my grandma studied classical dance. She started teaching me when I was a child. Later, her health became poor, so I went to a specialty dance class." Bai Jingzhou wiped away the mist on the outside of the mineral water bottle, and the mist turned into water droplets, dripping down his fingers.

As if he had thought of something interesting, a hint of smile appeared in his eyes: "From childhood to adulthood, I was always the only boy in all the special classes I attended."

Luo Shixi burst out laughing: "Imagine."

Sang Zi came back from the toilet, approached the two of them with a mysterious look, and asked them in a low voice: "Guess what I saw just now?"

Bai Jingzhou responded to his boring question with good temper: "What did you see?"

Sang Zi winked at him and said, "Guess."

Bai Jingzhou smiled and didn't want to pay any attention to him.

Luo Shixi was too lazy to pay attention to Sang Zi's tantrum and turned to leave.

Bai Jingzhou called him, "Come along, Xiaoxi. I just need to go to the preparation room."

Sang Zi was anxious and quickly grabbed the two men's arms: "Hey hey hey! Come back, I haven't finished talking yet!"

Luo Shixi and Bai Jingzhou looked at each other, and both saw smiles in each other's eyes.

Luo Shixi turned around and said, "Hurry up and tell me, we both have something else to do."

Sang Zi didn't keep it a secret this time: "I went out to the bathroom, and I saw Guo Yuan was also in the bathroom."

"Isn't it normal for people to go to the toilet?"

"Of course it's normal for him to go to the toilet, but he actually had a cell phone in his hand! What a cell phone!" Sang Zi raised his voice, "I haven't seen my cell phone for five days, three hours, twenty-six minutes and forty-eight seconds! But he! He was actually playing with his cell phone!"

???

Why the timer?

Everyone around looked over because Sang Zi's voice suddenly increased.

Luo Shixi quickly covered his mouth: "Keep your voice down."

Sang Zi nodded to indicate that he understood. After Luo Shixi opened his mouth, he lowered his voice and said to Luo Shixi and Bai Jingzhou, "When this kid saw me see him, he hurriedly hid his phone, fearing that I would see it. Humph, he didn't know that I had already seen it."

Bai Jingzhou frowned: "Where did he get the phone?"

Sang Zi curled his lips and said, "He must have bribed the staff and got it from there."

When Luo Shixi heard Sang Zi say this, he also began to miss his mobile phone. Before, he couldn't live without his mobile phone for a whole day, but now he has almost gotten used to the days of practicing dance without a mobile phone and unable to contact the outside world.

But there is no point in thinking about these things. The most important thing right now is to do the second public well.

He patted Sang Zi on the shoulder and said, "Okay, don't be angry. When Er Gong's vacation is over, you can play however you want."

When Sang Zi heard about the second public performance, he naturally thought about the ranking after the second public performance. He ranked 17th in the last first public performance, which was considered above average among the 60 people, but only 35 people were left in the second public performance, so his ranking was not good enough. If he relaxed a little, he would probably be squeezed out by others.

Thinking of this, Sang Zi put Guo Yuan and the mobile phone behind his mind and started to practice intensively.

===

When Liang Yulan returned home at night, they saw the empty lower bunk and thought that Luo Shixi had not come. Unexpectedly, a head popped out from Bai Jingzhou's bed at this time.

"Brother, you're back." Luo Shixi greeted Liang Yulan happily.

"Well, Xiaoxi, why are you in someone else's bed?" Liang Yulan looked up and looked at him.

Bai Jingzhou also poked his head out and nodded to Liang Yulan as a greeting.

"Good evening."

"The song that Brother Jingzhou chose is in a foreign language. I happened to have come across it before, so I thought of helping Brother Jingzhou," Luo Shixi said as he jumped off the bed.

"careful!"

Liang Yulan and Bai Jingzhou shouted at the same time.

Luo Shixi saw Jiang Yan jumping down like this all day long and thought that he would be fine. However, he overestimated himself and lost his balance after jumping down and almost fell to the ground.

Fortunately, Liang Yulan caught him.

"Are you okay?"

"I'm fine." Luo Shixi shook his foot. Fortunately, he didn't sprain it, otherwise it would have been troublesome for the dance class.

"Don't do this next time." Liang Yulan's usually cold and calm tone was tinged with a hint of severity.

Luo Shixi was often scolded like this when he was a child, so he was used to it and admitted his mistakes very quickly.

"Okay, I was wrong, please forgive me."

As he was talking, he remembered something and looked up at Bai Jingzhou who was looking at him worriedly on the upper bunk and said, "By the way, Brother Jingzhou, my Spanish is not very good. At most, I have a basic level. You should ask me. He knows more minor languages."

Bai Jingzhou looked at Liang Yulan following Luo Shixi's words, but the other party did not look at him. Instead, he half squatted down and lifted Luo Shixi's calf to check if he was injured.

Bai Jingzhou was on top, and if he glanced down he could see the slender white calf and Luo Shixi's thin and protruding ankle bones.

"It's really okay, brother. I'm not hurt at all." Luo Shixi said, lowering his trouser legs to cover his calves, "Brother, do you want to help Brother Jingzhou?"

Liang Yulan then stood up and looked at Bai Jingzhou.

Bai Jingzhou lowered his eyes and said in a sad tone: "Xiaoxi, don't you want to teach me?"

Even though he knew that Bai Jingzhou was pretending, Luo Shixi still felt soft-hearted and hurriedly explained: "That's not the case! I just thought that my brother's level is higher than mine, so I can help you. Otherwise, what if I mislead the students?"

Bai Jingzhou wanted to say something: "Xiao Xi, you..."

"Okay." Liang Yulan interrupted Bai Jingzhou's unspoken words and smiled at Luo Shixi, "I'll teach you."

"Yeah!" Luo Shixi smiled at Liang Yulan, then looked at Bai Jingzhou, "Brother Jingzhou, don't worry, my brother is very skilled, I promise I will teach you until you learn it!"

Liang Yulan tapped his nose and said, "Okay, go do something else. Don't you want to soak your feet?"

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot again!"

Watching Luo Shixi's back as he hurriedly ran to the bathroom, Bai Jingzhou retracted his gaze and gave Liang Yulan a smile without any hint of a smile, in other words, a fake smile: "Thank you for being willing to teach me."

"You're welcome."

The two looked into each other's eyes, undercurrents surging, and then they looked away at the same time. Liang Yulan sat on the chairs to peel apples, while Bai Jingzhou continued to ponder the lyrics.

There was no more conversation between them.

Luo Shixi brought out a foot bath bucket and put two large bags of mugwort in it. The water was steaming hot, so he poked the water into the bucket little by little to test it. Finally, he put it in and sighed comfortably.

Luo Shixi sat on the bed soaking his feet and chatting with the two of them. He didn't notice that the two of them only chatted with him but never had a conversation.

As they chatted, Luo Shixi brought up what Sang Zi said today.

"I wish I had a cell phone, too." He sighed.

Liang Yulan suddenly thought of something and asked, "Are Guo Yuan and Zhou Huaishu from the same company?"

Luo Shixi was confused: "Really? I don't know."

His eyes looked at Bai Jingzhou who was lying on the upper bunk.

Bai Jingzhou pondered for a while and nodded: "If I remember correctly, it seems to be true. This time their company sent in seven trainees, including Zhou Huaishu and Liang Yuan."

Luo Shixi: "I don't know about this... That's not right, how did you know?"

He didn't even know, and Liang Yulan had been abroad for many years and didn't pay attention to the entertainment industry, so he probably didn't know either.

How come I know it better than him now?

"I've read his information before." Liang Yulan didn't say much.

"But I didn't expect that Guo Yuan and Zhou Huaishu are in the same company." Luo Shixi shrugged.

Because of Zhou Huaishu, he couldn't like their entire company.

Liang Yulan didn't say anything this time. He was turning a small knife in his hand, from his little finger to his index finger, and then from his index finger to his little finger. It was dazzling, but people were also afraid that the sharp blade of the knife would cut his fingers.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Luo Shixi called him: "Brother? What's wrong with you?"

Liang Yulan raised his finger and the knife spun in the air before being caught in his hand and then placed on the table.

Liang Yulan smiled gently at Luo Shixi: "I'm going out for a while."

After he said that, he walked out, went straight to a studio and knocked on the door.

After the door opened, the staff inside were surprised to see Liang Yulan: "What's wrong?"

"Excuse me, can I borrow your phone?"

"Cellphone? No way, none of you can use it."

The staff member disagreed at first, but after the two of them talked for a few more words, they took it out and gave it to Liang Yulan.

"Thank you." Liang Yulan smiled politely to the staff.

Even though they are used to seeing handsome men and beautiful women every day in the entertainment industry, the staff members were inevitably dazzled by Liang Yulan's smile, thinking that she was really gentle and considerate.

Liang Yulan dialed a number and the call was quickly picked up.

"Hello, this is the secretary of Liang Group..."

"Yang Dong." Liang Yulan interrupted the other party's long introduction.

"Director Liang? Director Liang, you finally called me! You don't know that the chairman and his wife have recently started to..."

Liang Yulan pinched his nose and listened to the other party's long speech. The main idea was that his parents were very angry and he should go back quickly and stop making trouble.

"I see," he replied calmly after Yang Dong finished speaking, "I called you because I want you to help me check out a trainee named Liang Yuan and his company."

He must find out everything that involves Luo Shixi.

Yang Dong: "The entertainment industry? We don't have any business in the entertainment industry."

Liang Yulan hummed, his tone calm: "I remember that before I joined the program team, there was a company called Senran Media, which had problems with capital turnover. Now I think the time is about right. Let's contact their president and merge them."

"This... you did this?" Yang Dong was shocked.

"I did it?" Liang Yulan thought of something interesting and chuckled.

Just one sound made Yang Dong feel creepy all over. He thought to himself, "Please don't laugh, it's creepy."

"He was greedy and ate more cake than he could digest. How can it be my fault?"

Yang Dong: “…”

This cake must have been placed in front of them by you, right?

"I don't have much time here. After I find out everything, I will organize it into information and submit it to the program team. I will say it is a gift for me and then hang up."

"What about the chairman and his wife...?"

Liang Yulan turned around and smiled politely to the staff behind him. The words in his mouth froze into ice: "Yang Dong, figure out who you belong to."