Chapter 78

The main directors of the program team for the song "Little Bear Candy" were Ling Wei and another rap instructor. That afternoon, the trainees who were assigned to this song followed the two teachers to the corresponding practice room and began the usual part allocation session.

As the main group dispersed, Chu Yu was still rubbing his eyes. When he opened his eyes and looked up, Luo Jiayu was already standing in front of him. While he was still confused, he naturally took his other hand, turned his head to the door and said, "Let's go."

The corners of his mouth are so upturned that he can't suppress them.

Chu Yu was led by him through the crowd. His eyes looked a little confused because of sleepiness, but he never broke free.

Luo Jiayu's hands were much warmer than his. When they were still in school, Luo Jiayu liked to pull him to compare the size of their hands. Both of them had long fingers, but Chu Yu's were slender, while Luo Jiayu's were half a knuckle longer than his, and the joints were also wider.

When holding hands, the difference in palm size creates a more distinct touch.

But Chu Yu had experienced this kind of touch many times recently, and he had gradually become desensitized without realizing it, so that when his hand was held, his first reaction was to feel it was very natural, rather than subconscious resistance.

He had forgotten the past when Luo Jiayu would carefully remind him "You can hold my hand when you are afraid of the dark" before entering the haunted house, and when he held his hand in front of the beverage vending machine and wanted to hold their fingers, but he would avoid her.

So on the way to the practice room, the other people's teams were sparse and loose, only he and Luo Jiayu were as close as conjoined twins, and they had to imitate kindergarten children, walking in a line and holding hands.

One of the children obviously had ulterior motives. He was talking about some random topics while holding the finger of another child, as if he was trying something in an invisible place.

"You chose the vocal group, right?"

Chu Yu was still asleep, and looked as if his soul had left his body. He turned around blankly when he heard the voice: "Huh?"

But Luo Jiayu's real interest lay elsewhere, and he didn't care whether he heard his question or not, so he simply changed the subject:

"Are there any songs you like among those seven? I looked through them and they're all just average. I don't think there's anything you particularly like. This one we were assigned definitely isn't one of them either, but that's okay. We can work together, and even if Candy Bear sounds like something from a kindergarten performance, we can still sing it in our own style. And I actually think this song suits you quite well."

Chu Yu: "Yes, I chose vocal."

"You also think it's right and it suits you, right? It proves that my intuition was correct."

Luo Jiayu, who was becoming increasingly happy after listening to the instructions, felt that he was a little closer to his childhood friend today:

"Come on, we want to be first this time too!"

Chu Yu blinked in confusion, but still agreed appropriately, "Yeah, come on."

It was a confusing yet enjoyable conversation.

Although one person was sleepy and couldn't hear what the other person said, and the other person was distracted and couldn't hear what the other person said at all, they managed to talk about completely different things to the end, and miraculously, both of them felt that they had a very pleasant conversation.

Luo Jiayu felt that he had laid the groundwork enough, his childhood friend had already let down his guard, and it was time to strike while the iron was hot. So he turned his face to the window at the other end of the corridor, pretending to appreciate the morning scenery, but his fingers gradually and quietly touched the gaps between the fingers of the hand in his palm.

After his fingertips were completely embedded, Luo Jiayu waited quietly for a second or two. When he found that he was not shaken off, he suddenly tightened his fingers.

His movements throughout the process were stealthy and smooth, and only the slightly red tips of his ears revealed his long-term planning and nervousness.

Chu Yu could feel the hand holding his tightening little by little until their fingers were interlocked, but before the other party tightened their fingers, he was in a daze, wondering whether there was something wrong with his brain or Luo Jiayu's brain in the previous conversation.

His thinking ultimately proved fruitless, but his claws had already been hijacked by the other party, and by the time he reacted, it was already difficult to break free. Sleepiness lengthened a person's reflex arc and reduced his sensitivity to stress. He just quietly let the person lead him, and he lowered his head in acquiescence.

The air around the two people was quiet but undercurrents were surging, but the barrage in the live broadcast room had already exploded eighteen times.

However, at this moment, a figure with the three big words "disappointing" written all over his body slowly moved over.

Bai Yu had been observing the two of them for a long time, especially Luo Jiayu. Since the debut position given by his sponsor was snatched from him, he looked at him with contempt.

In order to gain more popularity, he actually went to such an extent of being gay, and his acting was so realistic that he almost believed it. It's really disgraceful!

He has thick eyebrows and big eyes and looks arrogant, but it turns out that he wants to be famous even more than him behind the scenes. It really shows that you can't judge a book by its cover. He has such a mean mind.

When Bai Yu complained in his heart, his vicious male supporting character's urge came back and he wanted to go up and mock him.

So Bai Yumao, whose temperament and personality resembled those of a vicious queen in the harem, inadvertently slid closer to the two innocent children. Facing Chu Yu's bewildered eyes, he softly squeezed out a few words from between his teeth:

"It's almost business."

Luo Jiayu's mouth, which was secretly grinning towards the window, was halfway down when he heard the familiar voice and immediately fell into a puppy-dog face, not even bothering to turn his head back.

But White Lady continued to complain: "Selling out to you guys to this extent, aren't you really afraid of backlash?"

The other person spoke in a sarcastic tone, and Chu Yu frowned slightly. He didn't like people talking to him in a roundabout way, because he usually couldn't understand and was too lazy to understand the hidden meaning of the words. However, he was very sensitive to emotions, and it was obvious that the other person looked very unfriendly.

Then the gentle Capybara opened his mouth.

Almost at the same time, Luo Jiayu, who turned his head lazily to look at the scenery outside the window, also spoke nonchalantly.

Luo Jiayu: "There are vegetable leaves on your teeth."

Chu Yu: "You're stuck."

Obviously, the latter sentence was a thousand times more lethal to Bai Yu, because Luo Jiayu, who said there were vegetable leaves on his teeth, didn't even bother to look at him.

White Snake looked shocked, turned around and quickly left to find a small corner to touch up her makeup.

By the time I realized that the pure nude makeup I had carefully applied that morning was still intact, the two children next door had already walked into the practice room hand in hand.

Because everyone's position was decided early on in this grouping, the parts were allocated in turns among the three groups: vocal, dance, and rap. Since Luo Jiayu was the only rapper in the "Little Bear Candy" group, he was directly exempted from the election process.

In the middle of the practice room, five people formed a circle. After Luo Jiayu entered the room, he released the fingers holding each other's and sat down next to Chu Yu very naturally. Lyrics paper and a tablet computer with downloaded demonstration stage videos were placed between the few people.

The staff helped project the stage video onto the big screen in the practice room. Everyone first gathered together to watch the video, and then gathered together to discuss the part allocation, starting with Chu Yu's vocal group.

The vocal group consisted of only Chu Yu and Bai Yu. Bai Niangniang, who grew up drinking Biluochun, was obviously much more proactive than Chu Yu. As soon as the part that was almost a solo was marked out, she raised her hand and said, "I can sing this part. I think I'm more suitable."

When the next non-solo but also brilliant harmony part came out, he immediately added: "I want to try it, my voice is quite suitable for this part."

Bai Yu kept chattering, while Luo Jiayu held his chin and flipped through the lyrics paper. From time to time, he turned his head and extended his elbow to nudge his childhood friend beside him. Chu Yu turned his head to look at him, and he winked at him:

——Come on, Pikachu.

Chu Yu also blinked at him slowly.

But Luo Jiayu didn't understand and could only understand that he was saying "Pika Pika".

——Go Pikachu!

——Pika Pika.

——Go and defeat your opponent, Pikachu!

——Pika Pika?

——I believe you Pikachu!

——Pika Pika…

——Are you still not going to come up, Pikachu?

Luo Jiayu was so tired of blinking that he felt like he was blinking as fast as Song Lai, but Chu Yu stretched out his finger and made a gesture, and this time he understood.

——Let’s talk about it later.

When it finally came to the harmony part with rap, Chu Yu obediently raised her hand after Bai Yu took over as usual:

“…I want to try it too.”

If negotiation fails, then a battle is necessary. Bai Yu's sharp eyes swept over Chu Yu in front of him, but what he measured was not their singing skills, but the strength of the capital behind them.

He had never heard of any sponsor in the circle supporting Chu Yu, and he initially concluded that the other party's background was not strong. Moreover, Chu Yu's ranking in the second public performance did not improve but declined, which further confirmed Bai Yu's speculation.

Bai Yu was a little proud, and his expression seemed to be anticipating victory: "Come on."

It just so happened that the mentor was there when they were assigning parts, so the rap mentor sang the rap directly and the two candidates took turns singing harmony.

Luo Jiayu held his chin and watched the two people stand up and start the battle. As soon as he saw Bai Yu's expression, he knew what the other party was planning. After looking away, he curled the corners of his mouth emotionlessly.

He had spoken to his agency for the second time during his two days off. With eight million in reserve funds and the name of a well-known entertainment company with two newly built systems, the boss decisively agreed and said that he would consider getting his debut position back, and arranged a time for negotiations.

Before this, he had verified the company behind the staff member who had private contact with Bai Yu. He followed the clues and found out that the boss behind the scenes was the young master of the Deng Group whom he had rejected before.

It turns out that the idiot was so angry after being scolded by him that he specially found a trainee who had a bad relationship with him to replace his debut position, just to disgust him and let people see the power of capital.

Continuing to investigate, they discovered that the staff member who Guan Chuyu had detained came from the same company as the two of them. It was really like all their enemies were gathered together, making it very convenient to settle accounts.

Luo Jiayu's current goal is to expose all the plans of these people.

A smaller goal is to make Bai Yu lose this battle completely.

Bai Yu's professional ability is not good enough, and this time there is someone behind him who is really arrogant. In the end, he lived up to everyone's expectations and leaked his real voice halfway through the singing, and sang out of tune halfway through.

In the end, all the trainees voted for Chu Yu, but Bai Yu remained calm and gave the rap instructor next to him a pitiful look, but the other party acted as if he didn't see it.

He was anxious but unwilling to admit defeat. He left the practice room on his own and tried to ask the staff for a cell phone. He originally wanted to call his sponsor, but then he changed his mind and called the producer and shareholder of Ding Yen, who was said to have a good relationship with the sponsor. He spoke in a sweet voice:

"Hello, Brother Lu, it's me, Xiaoyu. I want to ask about the Sangong this time...ah?"

The expression on his face changed from smugness at the beginning to disbelief, and finally to terror, as if his house had caught fire and he had just discovered it.

The air pressure outside the door was shockingly low, while inside the door, the dance group had already started an internal battle. Due to the huge difference in strength, Luo Jiayu decided which one to vote for without even glancing at it. He began to read the lyrics absentmindedly, and halfway through, his head "buzzed" and he suddenly realized something.

He suddenly turned his head to look at Chu Yu. His ears were still hot and his expression was still confused, but the corners of his mouth had unconsciously opened up into a grin:

"You want to provide harmony for my rap?"

Chu Yu was startled by his quick movements, and nodded after hearing what he said.

"Yeah, I want to try."

He was very interested in this harmony part, and the lyrics indicated that this section was for free expression, so he could adjust the pitch and rhythm himself. The creative space was large and casual, which was a part he would like.

But Luo Jiayu didn't care about that. He was so happy that his head was burning. He put his hands on her again and spoke quickly as if he was afraid of getting burned by boiling water. However, his voice became lower and lower due to some unclear emotions until it was gradually inaudible:

"... Let's talk about how to design this segment tonight."