The five songs for the group's new mini album have finally been finalized. After a period of practice, the members of Moonlight Boys will enter the recording studio in a few days.

The company has also begun promoting the upcoming mini-album within its fan base. While fans haven't been directly informed of the mini-album's release plans, the company has only hinted on the official website and in some fan groups, suggesting "look forward to a little surprise from the group soon" to heighten anticipation.

Only after all matters concerning the album have been finalized and the official release date of the songs has been confirmed, will they begin to reveal that new songs will be released and launch related publicity.

Today, Su Yin specially made time to listen to the final practice results of the songs in this mini album by the members of Moonlight Boys.

In the rehearsal room, the six members stood in a row, and suddenly it seemed as if they were back in the days when they first joined the company as trainees.

At that time, there were only a few people in the company. Every week in the training room, Su Yin would line up the members and assess them one by one, giving them scores and ratings, analyzing each person's strengths and weaknesses.

Later, as they gradually gained popularity, the company grew larger and more teachers of various specialties joined. Su Yin no longer personally supervised their training as she had before.

Su Yin had come to inspect the five songs on this mini-album after they had practiced for two or three days, but she hadn't been around since the company had been busy with other matters. They also had their own dedicated agent to take care of all their affairs.

Everyone originally thought that there were no major problems with their rehearsal last time, and that Su Yin might just enter the recording studio at the very end and might not even follow up on their singing session this time.

Unexpectedly, in the last few days, Su Yin suddenly came for a surprise inspection. She still had them standing in this familiar place, in a familiar posture, and had the members stand in a row facing her and sing live for the inspection.

The members of the Moonlight Boys Group suddenly became nervous.

The members still remember how Su Yin graded them and pointed out their problems without mercy. Even though Su Yin was the boss, she had a good temper and was easy to get along with.

But at this time, Su Yin became particularly terrifying. She took out a notebook and cast an emotionless gaze on them, picking out their previous questions and comparing them bit by bit.

Last time, although Su Yin did not act particularly strict, she also pointed out some areas that she felt needed adjustment and improvement, and urged them to practice well.

The members who originally thought that there was no problem in practicing these five songs suddenly felt a little unconfident. They were not sure whether they had successfully corrected the problems she mentioned... or whether they had met Su Yin's requirements.

As the accompanying music played from the speakers behind them, the six members diligently sang the first song from their mini-album. Six pairs of eyes stared at Su Yin, but her expression remained unchanged, revealing no emotion. She simply pointed, signaling them to continue with the next song.

In the training room, the inexplicably stagnant atmosphere began to increase the pressure on the six members of the Moonlight Boys Group and the vocal teacher in charge of teaching tonight.

Just now, the six members' performance wasn't particularly good, but it wasn't bad either. However, everyone had a premonition that Su Yin's silence wasn't a good sign, and she was likely going to be criticized.

After all, Su Yin is well-known for her strict requirements and high standards in the company.

After all five songs were finished, the members waited anxiously for Su Yin's comments. They performed a bit better in the middle two songs, but fell back a bit in the last two.

Today, Su Yin still wore her signature high ponytail and a gray professional suit. She looked capable and powerful.

She sat in a black, swivel reclining chair, her legs looking exceptionally long in high heels and trousers. In her right hand, Su Yin held a black fountain pen, and in her left, a notebook she'd used year-round. She scribbled a few lines of incomprehensible content, then set the notebook aside, resting her pen-holding hand against her forehead. She remained silent for several seconds.

After two years of getting along with each other, the members in front of her had roughly figured out her personality. Seeing her silent, they felt a pang in their hearts, and finally heard her speak.

“A little disappointed.”

Su Yin's voice wasn't particularly loud, and her speech was still slow, but this time everyone could clearly hear the displeasure in her tone. She frowned slightly, and because she was sitting and looking at the standing members, her raised eyebrows made her look particularly sharp and serious.

As if she also noticed the helplessness of the group members, Su Yin stood up, looked at them, and threw down a series of words.

"From your debut album to the five songs in this mini-album, the songs I gave you weren't very difficult. Have you ever thought about why?"

A few members occasionally met Su Yin's eyes, but immediately looked away, lowered their heads, and listened to her continue.

Su Yin, in straightforward words, revealed the truth behind their immense popularity: "Because I'm unsure of the abilities of several of you, I don't dare sing for you. I'm afraid if you mess up, you'll be laughed at and everyone will be disappointed."

It had been a long time since Su Yin spoke to them so harshly. The members felt that her words were like a sharp knife stabbing at them, making their hearts tighten for a moment and finding it difficult to think, especially the one or two relatively weaker members among the six.

"You've all watched the stage videos. Have you ever compared yourself to others? How far behind are you in dancing, singing, and stage presence?"

"You all know your training time and your strength. The training time is simply not long enough, and your strength is insufficient! The fans are very tolerant of you, the Moonlight Boys. I won't be tolerant of you, and you should be even less tolerant of yourselves!"

Suddenly, Su Ying turned her attention to the vocal music teacher again: "How are their classes going during this period?"

The vocal teacher was suddenly asked, and was stunned for a moment, then immediately replied: "Everyone's attitude is still there. It's true that we were quite busy recently. So, maybe we didn't have enough time to practice these songs."

"Wang Jiazhen, please stand up. I want to ask you a few questions." Su Yin randomly called out a name and pulled out one of the members.

"Give me a detailed report of your entire schedule for yesterday and the two days of last weekend. Exactly what time you woke up, what time you returned to the company in the afternoon, and how much time you spent on homework. Also, how do you schedule your evening training now? What time do you return to the dorm?"

In fact, after all, Su Yin had personally led them the entire trip a year ago, so she knew exactly how each member's schedule should be arranged, how long it normally took, and which time period was wrong. Once she asked, she knew everything.

"Yesterday morning I woke up at 6:30, and school started morning reading at 7:20, and ended at 11:30. In the afternoon, class started at 2:00, and I went to the company for dinner around 5:25. I started doing homework at 6:00. Yesterday I did it for more than an hour and a half, I can't remember exactly. Then I went to training."

Wang Jiazhen answered obediently, then he hesitated and spoke in a much lower voice: "Yesterday I trained until 9:30 and returned to the dormitory."

"Last Saturday and Sunday, I got up at 7:30..."

Su Yin pointed out Yin Haoran again and asked him what time he returned to the dormitory after training yesterday. Yin Haoran hesitantly replied that it was almost 9:30.

After hearing this, Su Yin called the staff again and asked for the video of the six members' training over the weekend, and watched it at high speed in front of all the members.

The six members, their teacher, the staff member who delivered the video, and Su Yin all watched as several members joked and played around with each other during a weekend training session. Some, apparently not yet exhausted after training for a while, requested a break and then slipped out. There were also several terrifying moments where they were urged by their teacher to return to training.

Watching the weekend training video, several members were obviously lazy and careless. Everyone felt that the time it took to play the video was like an eternity. The feeling of being executed on the spot made them so embarrassed that they didn't know what to do with their hands and feet.

The teacher was also extremely embarrassed. Although he was not the one who taught the class on the day the photo was taken, this feeling, combined with what he had just said about their attitude, made him feel humiliated. He also tried to prepare himself mentally for the boss's wrath that was bound to come.

Secretly glancing at Su Yin's increasingly cold expression, the Moonlight Boys were truly terrified. As if being held in a frying pan, waiting for the video to finish, everyone was ready for Su Yin to slam the table, even to be subjected to a barrage of curses.

After watching the video, Su Yin's mind became even clearer. Perhaps it was because the members had finished their intense stage preparations and military training for variety shows a while ago that they had become somewhat slack. Some of them had started to want to relax and slack off, and the rest of the group had been dragged along by the same tendency.

In fact, the members were not particularly lazy, but they were definitely more relaxed than before.

When people relax, they seem to be still practicing, but the effect of the practice is completely invisible.

Su Yin noticed something was wrong because it had been quite a while since she last heard these five songs. Back then, they had just started learning them and had practiced for over a week, but the members' performances were worse than she had expected, with almost no improvement. She knew just how much effort they had put in during that time.

Being an idol is just like that. You practice incredibly hard but don't achieve any significant improvement, and from the outside, your progress might not be noticeable at all. But once you relax, the smoothness, power, and beauty of your dance moves, as well as your breath and pitch control in singing, will quickly reveal your slackness, making it even more tiring and difficult to pick it up again!

This trend must be suppressed. Su Yin can allow the idols in the training system to improve slowly, but she will never allow them to grow slowly or even stagnate in strength due to slackness or laziness.

To be her artist, you must obey her arrangements and absolutely maintain high demands and high goals for yourself, and the goal is only to be the best idol.

What's more, the world seems not to be so harsh on artists, but it's just an appearance.

It's not that they're not strict, it's just that people in this world are more rational and more accustomed to treating artists with a normal attitude. There are very few people who are obsessively paying attention to an artist's every move, madly insulting and cursing them, and other extreme emotional groups.

Originally, when Su Yin came to this world, she believed that this world was definitely a paradise for all artists. Without these extreme fans and extreme haters, ordinary audiences would still be willing to pay for various cultural and spiritual products.

But later, she saw that many artists in the past and during this period disappeared without a trace.

Even though the company spent a fortune on publicity and exposure, everyone remained indifferent. Su Yin realized how lucky she was to be able to attract these people's attention with the successful operation methods of the previous world, and how lucky these young people were to be loved by them.

But if they really think that their fans are convinced by their company's tactics, and have been firmly tied to the development of the group, it is very likely that within a year, or even less than a year, their group will gradually fade away and become lost in the crowd.

In some ways, the flip side of this world's kindness is the indifference of many people. If you can't always give me what I want, I don't want to pay attention to you anymore.

Therefore, Su Yin will never allow any members of the group to slack off!

She turned to the teacher and said, "I don't want to see them train like this anymore. Those who deserve a scolding must be scolded, those who deserve detention must be kept in school, and those who need to increase the intensity of their training must increase it severely."

Su Yin turned sideways to look at a few people, and continued to speak to the teacher while watching them. "Especially for those who openly act naughty and playful in the training room and disrupt others' training. We must increase the intensity and duration of their training. Let them practice whatever hurts the most and what they fear the most. And make them return to the dormitory alone at the end of the day to avoid disrupting others."

Su Yin knew that due to the popularity of several variety shows and the first stage performance, it was not just the six members, many people in the company had this idea.

Variety shows gain popularity quickly and quickly, and our company's production standards are top-notch, so we should record more variety shows. As for stage performances, we can just buy the copyright and do cover dances and singing, and the results will be just as good.

But all this is only because the company has only debuted one group and has been established for just over two years, so it does not have such a large reserve of songs and dances of its own.

The company and the group do not have a strong enough foundation and strength, and can only rely on variety shows and covers of other people's works on stage to quickly attract the audience's curiosity and the popularity of fans.

However, these are only the most cost-effective options when the company is not strong enough in the early stage and does not have a corresponding song promotion mechanism.

If you want to truly gain a foothold in this world and create idols that shine for a long time, you must insist on high standards for the artists' abilities.

I plan to hold a meeting tomorrow in the company with all the staff related to artist training, especially those who are responsible for the daily training and assessment of the artists. They must all be on their toes and not be lenient with the artists or lazy or slow in their work.

At the same time, Su Yin also reflected on herself in her heart. She said that others were dazzled by the prosperity in front of them, but in fact, wasn't it she who influenced them?

She asked herself: Have I really never been complacent? Have I really not been moving too fast over the past year?

Currently, the company is working hard to find suitable songwriters and choreographers to fill the role, and is also actively searching the Internet and industry professionals to collect suitable works.

But all of this work takes time to accumulate. However, looking at the current atmosphere in the company, the attitudes of the artists and many staff members, Su Yin knew that this work had to be accelerated and kept a close eye on.

Su Yin also reminded herself: As the boss of a company, she must always maintain a comprehensive understanding of all departments, artists, and trainees, and promptly identify any deviations from her path. She also needed to constantly consider what she truly wanted to achieve by founding Yuexiang Entertainment.

Money is important, but she definitely did not establish this company just for money, continue to work hard in the idol industry, or take the subsequent series of actions.

Being an idol is not only her career, but also her dream for two lifetimes.

She also needs to make the artists and all staff in the company think through thoroughly: how important the artists' own abilities and works are to the future development of the company.

Today's vocal teacher also knew that some of their teachers were more relaxed with these members who had already debuted, and did not dare to speak for them anymore. He nodded like a chicken pecking at rice. The member who was looked at by Su Yin immediately nodded like a crazy chicken.

Su Yin turned to the six members and shouted, "Start now, practice these five songs again! If you still can't sing them well, I'll stay up all night with you and send you to school tomorrow morning!"

"yes!"

Without giving it any more time to think, the six members quickly responded and began practicing again with their vocal teacher. Su Yin stood by and watched them train.

This time, no one dared to be careless or to play around or slack off. They all followed the teacher's practice seriously. There were a few times when a member's eyes accidentally glanced at Su Yin, and they immediately straightened up, corrected their attitude, and dared not look away again.

During this period, the five songs were sung over and over again by the members, each person's share was refined word by word, and the chorus parts were also corrected for flaws over and over again.

When the members felt their throats were getting tired, Su Yin asked the staff to bring them throat-soothing tea. After letting them rest for a while, they continued practicing again.

This training intensity will not hurt their throats, but it is necessary to teach them a lesson!

Without constraints, even the most self-conscious people will easily become lazy.

After practicing until 11:50 in the evening, Su Yin stood aside and looked at her watch. She said that the teacher would stop here today and told the vocal teacher that he could go back and rest. A relevant meeting would be held tomorrow, so she asked him not to be late in the morning.

The six members of the Moonlight Youth Group finally waited until they could pass this stage. Who knew that Su Yin only asked the vocal teacher to leave first, but had no intention of letting them go back to the dormitory. Instead, she turned around and asked the six members to follow her to the training room downstairs.

Several members couldn't help but wail inwardly, truly exhausted and unable to sing anymore. Outwardly, however, they didn't dare show any emotion.

When everyone thought that Su Yin wanted them to go downstairs and continue training with her, they suddenly realized that it was already midnight, but the lights in the training classroom downstairs were still on.

Su Yin asked them to be quiet, and then led the six members to the back door of the training room. In the training room downstairs were the A and B classes of full-time male trainees that the company later recruited.

The members of Moonlight Boys had to go to school, practice, and frequently had various activities scheduled every day. Furthermore, their practice rooms were not on the same floor, so the members of Moonlight Boys were not very familiar with most of the company's later trainees.

Because they had to get up early for classes the next day, the six members usually trained until around 10 a.m. before returning to the dorm to wash up and rest. They hadn't really paid much attention to what the other trainees at the company were doing. Although, during weekend breaks from training, I'd curiously gone downstairs a couple of times to check in, and I knew the new trainees were all quite talented.

It was only when I first joined as a new employee that I felt a sense of crisis, but in the end I didn't take it too seriously.

After all, whether it's luck or some other reason, they're the only debut group in the company right now, and Moonlight Boys has indeed thrived, achieving their current popularity. As for the later trainees, according to some of the older members of the company, the company won't be launching another group like them anytime soon. And with so many trainees, it's unclear how many will make it to debut.

Therefore, several members of the Moonlight Boys group either didn't pay much attention to other trainees, or thought to themselves that although their abilities might not be as good as theirs, they had already debuted and were no longer on the same platform as them.

I was also constantly improving, and I had a lot of fans who liked them, so I didn't pay much attention to the company's trainees anymore. I consoled myself with these reasons and excuses, and gradually, I lost my sense of urgency.

Especially after going through the intense stage preparation and military training variety show recording, I received all kinds of great praise, and I think I put my whole heart into it.

It's probably okay to take it easy for a week or two! I'll definitely get back to my normal practice rhythm later!

However, at this point in time, having just been scolded by Su Yin, the six teenagers felt guilty and embarrassed when they saw that there were still many trainees training seriously in the training room downstairs.

They thought Su Yin would say to them, look how hard they work.

Su Yin just said a few simple words to them, and without waiting for their response, she let the members go back to the dormitory to everyone's surprise.

"Do you know how many idol groups like yours have debuted across the country during this period?"

“Can you imagine what it will be like when a new idol emerges that will subvert the public imagination?”

"Stretch your skin tight!"

"Don't let your own people, let alone those outside, beat you down."