Chapter 1

If you want to become popular quickly in the entertainment industry, there are only three ways: movies, variety shows, and TV series, or selling CPs in the gay adaptation industry.

Jiang Shiyu is only 22 years old this year, but he has been in the circle for many years. The company has also given him some small resources, and he has played supporting roles in several dramas, but he has always been tepid and no one cares about him.

Among those who debuted at the same time as him, two had good timing and starred in a gay drama. Before the show aired, their combined online followers were less than 100,000, but after the show aired, they already had tens of millions of followers, and wherever they went, the streets were packed.

Jiang Shiyu silently memorized their ascension paths. He also wanted to be everyone's Leopard Cat.

But before he could get a reply from the BL crew he was interviewing for, God closed the window. Overnight, all BL dramas could not get broadcast licenses and could not be scheduled. The leading actors who were waiting to become famous were left waiting in anticipation, with no chance of success even if they kept tearing up the calendar.

The path of gay-themed dramas has been crossed.

The film industry is too focused on relationships and capital, two things that Jiang Shiyu has nothing to do with. He studied diligently for several months and finally set his sights on the last word.

Talent show variety show.

No acting skills or real strength are needed. As long as you have a popular couple in the top circle in the talent show, a group of people will come up to you and kiss you, shouting "group portrait", "friendship" and "love", and your popularity will soar at an unimaginable speed.

Jiang Shiyu looked in the mirror. He was still very confident about his appearance. Of all the insults he had received over the years, not a single one had said he was ugly. He was confident that he could outshine the others and use his looks to secure a debut spot.

When the company called, Jiang Shiyu was studying the recording of the previous talent show. His agent urgently informed Jiang Shiyu to come to the company for a meeting.

Li Rong's original words were: "You must be at the company within 30 minutes. This time you're going to be famous." Jiang Shiyu said "hmm" obediently, but he sneered inwardly. The company had such a good opportunity, and he still got his turn? He was being made cannon fodder to serve as a foil for others.

When Jiang Shiyu arrived downstairs at the company, there were only five minutes left before the time his agent had given him. He rushed to the elevator and accidentally bumped into the person next to him, receiving a disdainful snort.

He had no time to pay attention to strangers and was about to be late. The elevator happened to arrive downstairs. Jiang Shiyu hurried and finally reached the 20th floor one minute before the time his agent said.

Many people had already arrived in the conference room. He immediately recognized the person next to his agent, Li Rong, as the famous talent show producer.

Li Rong was quite nice to Jiang Shiyu and waved him over to show his face first.

Jiang Shiyu was about to go over when he was suddenly pushed away. A group of people quickly surrounded the producer and took the seat that Li Rong had reserved for him. The man also glanced at Jiang Shiyu provocatively.

Wen An had just been feeling unhappy after being bumped into by Jiang Shiyu downstairs. Now that he had taken revenge directly, he felt extremely happy. However, Jiang Shiyu felt puzzled because he didn't know this person at all.

But this group of people had already taken their seats, and he couldn't pull them up. He could only find a seat in the corner of the conference room and sit down with a sense of grievance under Li Rong's disappointed look.

As usual, they started by praising the producer. Jiang Shiyu was not interested in this part at all. He looked around boredly, and then found someone who was absent-minded in class like him.

The brother next to him was actually playing Honor of Kings in this kind of meeting.

Jiang Shiyu's first reaction was shock, followed by admiration. This kind of meeting always decides the life and death of artists. Being distracted for a while was already the limit for him. There was actually someone playing games so blatantly, not afraid of offending the producer.

Jiang Shiyu's entire attention was focused on the person next to him. On the one hand, he was worried that he would be implicated if he was discovered, and on the other hand, he couldn't help but move closer to watch his game, getting closer and closer.

Suddenly, a deep voice sounded beside my ear: "Does it look good?"

Jiang Shiyu responded subconsciously: "The game is interesting, but the technique is not very impressive."

The voice paused for two seconds: "How about you come and play?"

Jiang Shiyu was about to reply, "Yes," when he suddenly realized what was happening and met Zheng Yan's half-smile. You wouldn't have known it until you saw him, but the guy next to him was quite handsome, with sharp eyebrows, bright eyes, a high nose bridge, and a sharp jawline.

You can tell he's not very happy.

Jiang Shiyu understood that no one wanted to be told their skills weren't good enough. He racked his brains to find some way to make up for it, blinked, and looked at Zheng Yanye: "Actually, it's pretty impressive."

The next second, Marco Polo and Yaomei on the screen were killed by the jungler under the tower. Yao, who turned into a deer, jumped lightly without even looking at the poor passionate green team.

…

Jiang Shiyu smiled awkwardly: "Next time, come with me and I'll help you." Then he abruptly changed the subject: "Are you here to register for this talent show as well? Why haven't I seen you at the company before?"

Zheng Yan also glanced at the producer who was talking eloquently. He had no idea what this was about. His mother saw that he was doing nothing at home and insisted that he come to learn about their own industry. He just found a room to play games, but he didn't expect that there was a meeting here.

He was just thinking about how to start, and Jiang Shiyu had already acquiesced to his guess, thinking that Zheng Yan was also new at the company and was too embarrassed to speak, so he continued very understandingly: "You're just here for the formalities, right? Hey, Brother Li just told me that the company wants to promote that boy group, those five over there, and we're just here to be cannon fodder."

Zheng Yan followed his gaze. The people surrounding the producer were all grinning with confidence. He frowned. None of these misfits could compare to the guy next to him. How did the company choose these people? Did they really think that just because they were royalty, they could treat the audience like pica?

Jiang Shiyu slumped over the table, feeling unhappy. Zheng Yan also looked at this melancholic little mushroom, with a tuft of silly hair sticking up on his head.

His heart suddenly skipped a beat.

This guy is kind of cute.

Zheng Yan also stared at Jiang Shiyu and said slowly: "Do you really want to go to the talent show?"

"Of course. You'll become famous!" Jiang Shiyu's eyes widened and he asked, "Don't you want to go?"

Before he could answer, Jiang Shiyu started muttering to himself again: "You come with me, we will definitely rise to prominence with our looks."

Zheng Yan suddenly smiled, and Jiang Shiyu felt his eyes light up. The handsome man with a rosy face smiled and said, "Okay."

He was still confused: What was good? What was good? He was confused.

*

Jiang Shiyu thought that the company had already decided on the candidate and had made preparations to be a runner-up. When Li Rong called, he was at his friend Zhu Xing's house, watching a movie on the sofa and falling asleep.

"Jiang Shiyu! You are going to the audition!" Li Rong's voice was full of excitement.

"What? Me?" Before Jiang Shiyu could react, Li Rong had already hung up the phone. He hurriedly sent him a bunch of precautions, competition schedule, and information of the people they were going with, and then pulled him into a group.

Li Rong invited "a little fish" to join the group chat Shuyan Entertainment please debut (7)

He glanced at the group members, two agents, and three members of the original five-member boy group. He was friends with all of them, but he had never met the last teammate.

Jiang Shiyu clicked on the person named "Y" with a pure black avatar and was about to add him as a friend when Zhu Xing suddenly ran out of the bathroom. He had obviously heard the call and was shaking Jiang Shiyu excitedly: "Baby! You're going to be famous!"

Jiang Shiyu: "Quick...quickly let me go."

When Zhu Xing calmed down, Jiang Shiyu realized that he had tapped the black avatar at some point and got a series of emoticons. The little man in the group holding a rose in his mouth held up the words "husband makes money and wife spends it", which was so dazzling that it hurt people's eyes.

Y smiled back.

Even though they didn't even know each other, Jiang Shiyu embarrassed himself in front of his colleagues. He glared at Zhu Xing and said: It's all your fault.

Zhu Xing immediately offered Jiang Shiyu a fruit plate in a servile manner: "Your Majesty, I was wrong."

Jiang Shiyu raised his face and said, "Then how do you remedy this?"

Zhu Xing, with a look of pain on his face as he made up his mind, offered his phone: "I'll give you my x group number."

"Really? Xingxing is so nice to me." Jiang Shiyu immediately smiled and continued to be good friends with Zhu Xing. Group X had a lot of traffic and was the largest group on the forum. He had always wanted to join but hadn't been successful. Now he could finally play in it.

By the way, you can also be a water army for yourself.

Zhu Xing saw through his little tricks at a glance and poked Jiang Shiyu on the forehead: "Take it easy. If you become famous, give me half of the money."

"No problem. How many numbers do you have in group x?"

"Eight."

"Eight?!" Jiang Shiyu almost jumped up. Wouldn't he be able to live happily in there as if he were in an empty place?

"My account is very valuable!" Zhu Xing shouted, "Remember to read the team rules, don't get reported and kicked out."

Jiang Shiyu responded with a perfunctory “Yeah.”

It was not until the day when Jiang Shiyu was at the airport flying to the island to participate in the audition that he saw Y, who pretended to be cool in the group.

He watched the man in front of him take off his sunglasses with a cool attitude, and said "Ah", and waved enthusiastically to Zheng Yanye: "What a coincidence, you are the passionate green."

Zheng Yanye: ...Marco Polo blocked me.

The man's expression froze for a second before returning to normal: "My name is Zheng Yanye."

Jiang Shiyu came over and whispered, "The three people next to us are from the same group. We squeezed out two of their five people, so they must be feeling unhappy. Let's go together."

"Okay, Yanye."

Jiang Shiyu's last words were sticky, and he looked at Zheng Yanye expectantly.

He laughed a little. They huddled together from the beginning. This guy was a little stupid.

But when he met those eyes, Zheng Yan thought, so what? Even if he's a little stupid, I can still protect him.

He whispered "Okay".

*

There were already photographers waiting at the airport to take pictures of these future stars. If anyone of them were to ascend to heaven, this would be an early investment with a super high rate of return.

Jiang Shiyu and Zheng Yan also went together. He had a lot of luggage, so he and Zheng Yan put it in the same car.

Looking at the man pushing the cart, Jiang Shiyu felt a little embarrassed. He had ten mobile phones in his suitcase. He didn't believe that the election officials would be able to find them. It was quite heavy.

There was still some distance to the parking lot, so he took the initiative and said, "Let me push it for a while."

Zheng Yan also handed the car to him neatly.

It's really heavy. Jiang Shiyu glanced at Zheng Yanye with some displeasure. He had debuted so much earlier than him, and he took the senior's polite words seriously. Besides, he was so much taller than him, so what was wrong with pushing a cart?

Apart from his face, this person is not that great.

*

On the first day, everyone arrived on the island one after another. It was already five o'clock in the afternoon when everyone was together. After handing in the prohibited items, everyone wanted to quickly get their rooms and have a good rest to prepare for tomorrow's first stage.

Someone from the program crew had already made arrangements, and Zheng Yan got the best double room. He glanced at the envious eyes of the people around him, and finally his gaze fell on Jiang Shiyu.

"Let's go, roommate."

Jiang Shiyu instantly forgave Zheng Yanye's behavior at the airport. This kid was really lucky and he was right.

He laughed to himself, and his good mood lasted until he sneaked into the room, took out his hidden mobile phone, opened the forum, and then it came to an abrupt end.