The message was sent, but there was no response for a long time. Feng Changheng looked at the two of them on the communication screen with some frustration, his brows furrowed tightly.

Recently, Mingqian has been replying to his messages at a slower and slower pace. He knows that Mingqian has a hidden cell phone in the show and can contact the outside world. There is no way that the show restricts their use of cell phones, preventing them from knowing what's happening outside.

What Feng Changheng didn't expect was that Ming Qian had already secretly contacted Director Huang, who could provide him with some good resources, when he was being questioned by the police. Through Director Huang, she had also gotten close to Chang Yue, the young master of the Chang family. The two of them were now very close and had no time to pay attention to him, a young upstart.

With the competition nearing its final stage, all the trainees are working tirelessly to improve their acting skills in order to achieve better rankings. Those with talent rely on their abilities, while those without rely on connections and resources. In short, they are using every possible means behind the scenes.

Feng Changheng has limited funds at his disposal, and the money he can spend on Mingqian is also limited. If he relies solely on Feng Changheng, it will be far from enough to get Mingqian into the industry.

Not to mention elevating Mingqian to the position she desires.

Feng Changheng doesn't understand these things now, so naturally he wouldn't realize that Ming Qian had already betrayed the promises they made to each other when they got together.

So far, "Let's Debut, Little Brothers" has eliminated three classes, leaving only classes A, B, and C, and the number of participants has also decreased significantly.

This acting assessment is an individual competition. After this, the voting will not eliminate classes, but will only select eighteen people to advance, and the rest will all pass.

In other words, trainees ranked 18th or lower have reached this stage.

Of the 36 students in the three classes they are currently in, 30 chose to showcase their acting skills through short films selected by the program, while only six chose to showcase their acting skills through stage plays.

Among these six people was Rong Yu.

After all the contestants' choices were made public, many people couldn't understand these six trainees' decision. After all, no matter how you look at it, performing in film and television dramas is easier to attract fans, while stage plays, which require a live performance to create atmosphere, are less likely to evoke empathy from the audience behind the camera.

This time, the show didn't keep the audience in suspense. After announcing the trainees' selections, they immediately played the lottery results for several trainees.

My brother received four casting opportunities from small-scale film and television productions upon his debut, with a total of 20 roles available. This means that several trainees will be competing for the same role.

For stage plays, trainees can choose roles from three stage plays. Several trainees can collaborate on a stage play, or they can perform a stage play solo. However, for the sake of fairness, there is a restriction on solo performances: no more than three supporting actors can be included, and the supporting actors do not show their faces or speak, acting as human-shaped moving backgrounds.

This might sound like a difficult task to complete as a stage play, but in fact, all three stage plays produced by the program team have been carefully selected and adapted. Even with only two or three supporting actors, the completeness of the play will not be affected, but it will put the actors' acting skills to a greater test.

This is also why other trainees are unwilling to choose stage plays.

A supporting actor is like a background prop; it's like someone is acting alone. If they act well, it's truly good, but if they act poorly, the awkwardness seems to overflow the screen.

Online opinions on Rong Yu's choice are almost unanimously pessimistic, with some even believing that he is overly arrogant, fails to recognize his own abilities, and is destined to fail, with his ranking likely to drop significantly.

The production team was clearly very prescient. After airing videos of several trainees auditioning for film and television roles in this episode, they immediately followed up in the last minute of the show with a performance clip of the trainees who would appear in the next episode.

On screen, Rong Yu's face, covered in exaggerated clown makeup, flashed by, her bright red nose taking up the center of the screen, and her eerie smile sent shivers down the spines of all viewers watching.

There was a moment of silence on the video's comment section, and then it suddenly exploded!

—Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap, holy crap! What did I just see?!

—Clown makeup! Who was that person who just wore clown makeup?!

—Ahhh! It's Little Fish! Little Fish is wearing clown makeup! What kind of stage play is this?!

—My brother just updated his Weibo after his debut. The three stage plays he played were "Monologue", "Nightmare" and "Joker". Xiaoyu probably chose Joker!

All three are stage plays that can be performed by a single person. However, solo performances require a high level of technical skill, especially "Joker," which has a lot of conflict and tells the story of a clown's contradictions and struggles on and off stage.

Exaggerated and comical makeup, amusing actions—bringing joy to others while keeping tears to oneself.

This is the Joker.

The short one-minute preview of the brother's debut has immediately raised the audience's expectations, generating immense anticipation for the next episode airing tomorrow.

Yin Chengjue was also looking forward to it, but the fact that Ming Qian was also in the one-minute preview of the next episode made his upturned lips curl into a cold smile.

Just like in her previous life, Mingqian chose to audition for a role in a low-budget film, and she even chose a rather appealing third male lead.

There were many trainees vying for the role of the male lead, as were the second male lead and the villain. In comparison, there were fewer people competing for the role of the third male lead.

Of course, that's not the point. The point is that the third male lead in this short film is a close friend of the male lead, and he will occasionally appear to put his arm around the male lead, shouldering the responsibility of selling bromance.

Ming Qian has already gained a lot of fans by forming a CP with Fei Zhengqi, and now she has chosen this third male lead, which is most likely an attempt to repeat the same trick.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention, Fei Zhengqi recently offended someone and had her past scandals exposed. A certain online forum is full of pictures of Fei Zhengqi singing and stripping in bars in the past.

The brightly lit backdrop and the somewhat youthful yet undeniably Fei Zhengqi's face instantly sparked endless speculation among netizens, who never hesitated to assume the worst about others.

Upon seeing this, some of Fei Zhengqi's fans, who were initially just fans of her looks, immediately expressed their inability to accept it and collectively unfollowed her.

The fans of the Fei Qian CP split into two sides: one side cried out that their "house had collapsed" and switched to only supporting Fei Qian, while the other side firmly believed that the post was fake and just focused on enjoying their own sweet moments.

Fei Zhengqi lost tens of thousands of followers on Weibo due to this incident, and her vote count also gradually declined.

In contrast, Mingqian's votes gradually caught up, and those who had switched to being the only fans of the original couple turned their grief and anger into motivation, frantically casting the votes that had been split in two towards Mingqian.

They were genuine fans of the two of them, making various videos and drawing many CP pictures for them, putting in a lot of effort. They truly fantasized that the two of them could be together. Now that Fei Zhengqi's shameful past has been exposed, it has naturally caused them a great psychological gap. They feel that Fei Zhengqi has wronged Ming Qian and can't help but feel sorry for Ming Qian. Naturally, they try their best to make amends to Ming Qian.

Therefore, Fei Zhengqi's attack on Ming Qian did not affect Ming Qian at all; instead, it significantly increased Ming Qian's number of fans and votes.

If Fei Zhengqi's scandals are irrefutable and there's no chance of a reversal, then the Fei Qian/Ming Qian pairing is over. Since Ming Qian is determined to generate buzz this way, she will naturally try to find another pairing that can boost her popularity.

Yin Chengjue saw through Ming Qian's scheme and naturally didn't want to give him the chance, so before the next episode aired, he anonymously posted a thread on a certain forum.

The post was very simple, titled "Prophecy Post." It listed Ming Qian's methods of using CP (couple pairing) to climb the social ladder and predicted that Ming Qian's next move would be to find another person to form a CP with, continuing her previous actions.

Of course, Yin Chengjue did not name Ming Qian by name in the post, but let those who read the post imagine it themselves.

Yin Chengjue spent money to pin the post to the top, and it quickly gained a lot of attention.

Unsurprisingly, many people have incorporated the recent events surrounding the Fei Qian CP into this discussion.

Mingqian's fans and CP fans quickly arrived at the scene, flooding the comments section with messages, saying they were taking their idols away and wouldn't participate, while also playing the victim, saying their idols were already being very humble and that everyone should stop taking it personally. Finally, before leaving, they reported the post.

So when Yin Chengjue returned after taking a shower, his post had already been automatically restricted and removed from the top of the feed due to numerous complaints.

Yin Chengjue wiped the water droplets from his head with a towel, his eyes narrowing dangerously.

Fine, he didn't even name names, yet he's already being reported and complained about. Well then, he might as well go all the way!

The next day, before the show featuring the brother's debut aired, AandD's official Weibo account posted a video and tagged Rong Yu's Weibo account.

Fans who rushed over after being tagged in the post were initially confused as to how their idol could be associated with a perfume brand. However, upon closer inspection of the AandD advertisement video, they belatedly realized that their idol had actually filmed an advertisement for AandD's latest perfume!

This is one of the most well-known perfume brands in China!

The fans of Yu Xiang Rou Si (a type of shredded pork with garlic sauce) were stunned by this incredible news and it took them a long time to dare to click to continue playing the video.

Then, they saw their little brother, dressed in a snow-white, wide-sleeved priest's robe, walk step by step into the flower room filled with red roses.

His hair was also dyed snow-white, as were his eyebrows and eyelashes. His peach blossom eyes were slightly lowered, making his eyelashes tremble like white butterflies, which also made his beautifully curved thin lips appear even more vibrant and luscious.

The camera followed his footsteps, and then he arrived at a table that looked exquisite and luxurious.

In the center of the table sits an exquisitely crafted perfume bottle, its transparent contents revealing a vibrant liquid.