Chapter 106 Only One Name

After the sports meet, the trainees immediately started preparing for the family concert.

The second, third, fourth and fifth generations of the family will all participate in this family concert. The fifth generation, who are trainees, will be required to perform a total of eight programs, excluding the opening dance and the closing song for all performers.

On the evening after the sports meet, the fifth-generation trainees received the program for their performance.

Half a month ago, when they were still recording The Fifth Era, they held a song selection meeting for this concert. At that time, they had a preliminary program plan. Looking at the final result now, it is not much different from the original one.

All members will perform two songs, one is "Chasing the Wind" and the other is a cover of a senior's song "Goodbye".

Then the four rappers Qiu Yuge, Cang Zizhen, Yin Hongxue and Luo Wenbo will have a collaborative stage.

Zhu Xiangming, Wu Hai, Wan Yuanzhou, Huang Xi, Lü Jianian, and Wu Anyi will have a vocal collaboration stage.

Then, Qiu Yuge, Jiang Mu, Qiao Sinian, Wang Mingzhi, Cong An and Bai You will have a singing and dancing collaboration stage.

RAP, vocal music, singing and dancing, one collaboration each.

Very tactful.

Then Zhu Xiangming, Cang Zizhen, Yin Hongxue, Bai You, Wu Hai, Wan Yuanzhou, Wang Mingzhi, and Luo Wenbai will have their own performances with their senior brothers.

So, that’s eight programs in total.

On average, each person has to prepare two to three stages in a week.

Excluding the rehearsal time, there may be less than four days left for everyone to study and practice.

Time is very limited, but it is not impossible.

Holding the program and the schedule for the next few days, everyone's expression was heavy.

There was only one exception.

Qiu Yuge glanced at Lu Yao inconspicuously. The other party was leaning back in his chair, looking down at the document with no sign of nervousness, as if this schedule was not difficult for him at all.

But it is true that this schedule, which seems very tight in their eyes, may actually be considered easy in Lu Yao's eyes.

Qiu Yuge took a deep breath and secretly suppressed his somewhat anxious mood.

"Teacher, doesn't Lu Yao have any program?" Suddenly, Bai You's voice rang out in the quiet conference room.

Everyone looked up and saw Bai You holding the program, staring at Ding Ling intently.

Hearing Bai You's question, Qiu Yuge hurriedly looked down at the program list and found that except for the two programs at the beginning and the end with the name of "all members", Lu Yao's name was not on any of the other programs.

What's going on?

Lu Yao has no stage?

Could it be that Lu Yao was injured again?

Everyone subconsciously recalled the concert where Lu Yao only had two performances.

But shouldn’t it?

Lu Yao was fine when he participated in the sports meet during the day. Could something have gone wrong after the meet?

Ding Ling interrupted everyone's thoughts: "He has other plans."

There was only one sentence, no other explanation, but Ding Ling lowered her eyes, obviously not wanting to answer any more questions on this issue.

Bai You opened his mouth, said nothing, and then closed it again.

Cong An looked at Lu Yao with worry on his face.

Late that night, a post quietly appeared in a fifth-generation group with very strict admission screening.

[Some people don't have a program for this family concert]

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Main Building

You can guess who it is

[1st floor]

? ?

【2nd floor】

Am I reincarnated? I feel like I saw a post like this a few months ago.

【3rd floor】

It can't be Yin Hongxue again, right?

【4th floor】Owner

Reply [3rd floor]

no

[5th ​​floor]

If it's not Yin, then who is it?

【6th floor】Owner

Hint: He is a very controversial person recently.

7th Floor

...Isn't that LY?

8th Floor

Reply [7th floor]

Recently, there is controversy, and no one else but LY

…

28th Floor

The OP didn’t reply, so it’s really LY?

29th Floor

Wow, exciting.

30th Floor

So, have the rights protection and reporting efforts of other fans during this period been effective? Why did the family concert company refuse to let Lu Yao perform?

【31st Floor】

Reply [30th floor]

You dare to use your name? Be careful and you will be reported soon.

32nd Floor

So is the company really going to give up on LY? Same thing with the daytime sports meet. He only participated in one event and then left. He never came back.

【33rd Floor】

Reply [32F]

Isn't it because of physical reasons?

【34th Floor】

Reply [33rd floor]

Do you really believe it?

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58th Floor

That shouldn't be the case. Although LY has been controversial recently, to be honest, his controversies are not a big deal. There are many artists in the entertainment industry with negative news. His controversies are only discussed in the training system. If it were in a talent show, those show fans might even buy into it. Is the company afraid of this? Impossible.

59th Floor

Reply [58th floor]

I think so too. To be honest, I find it amazing that they could argue for so long over such a small matter.

I have been a fan for so many years, and I have seen all kinds of negative news. What happened to LY is nothing, it's just a personal character issue.

You could say he's pretending, insincere, but that doesn't affect anything.

Are those fans really just elementary school students? If something doesn't go their way, it's like the sky is falling.

60th Floor

Reply [59th floor]

I feel like other platforms have more water armies, and weren't the first two weeks finals weeks? Maybe those students were busy with exams and didn't have time to control the comments.

61st Floor

So LY really has no stage? No way? LY's fans are devastated.

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Discussions about the family concert, mixed with sports meets and Fifth Epoch programs, were very lively during this period.

Fans from all generations made witty remarks, saying both good and bad things.

Now, if you click on the account of a more active fan of the cultivation system, you can see that this person may have just reposted a live shot of the sports meeting in the previous second, and then reposted a large analysis of the Fifth Era in the next second, and then in the next second, it turned into all kinds of gossip about the concert.

It's quite complicated.

We can only be thankful that it is winter vacation now, so students have plenty of time to surf the Internet and watch melons.

But the working class is not so happy.

A series of activities came one after another, with one piece of news every day, and my time was completely occupied.

However, this also reflects Minghui Entertainment's determination to attract traffic to the Fifth Era.

During the broadcast of the program, the sports meeting and the concert were held one after another. Not only did the third generation participate, but the second generation also performed. This operation clearly highlighted the purpose of building momentum for the fifth generation, and it was impossible for anyone not to notice it.

The fans of the seniors are angry, the fans of the juniors are happy, and the audience watching the show are also happy.

The show "The Fifth Era" was broadcast much better than Ding Ling and Du Tang had imagined.

In Ding Ling's original conception, although there were third and fourth generation traffic in the first two episodes, due to the limitation of the training-based audience, it might not be possible to expand many fans. Therefore, the choice of Du Tang and Lvyang Film and Television was also to hope that the audience brought by the director and the platform could bring a new audience group to the Fifth Era program.

At the beginning, it was exactly as they planned.

As a veteran talent show director, Du Tang is well versed in the ins and outs of competition system design. He also has his own mature logic for editing rhythm. He knows how to arouse the audience's emotions and attract public discussion.

Since the trailer, thanks to the promotion by Lvyang Film and Television, the show "The Fifth Era" has gained a lot of attention. As soon as the show was broadcast, fans who came to watch the show also contributed to the number of views immediately.

The data for the first period is good, which is a good start.

Ding Ling was already very satisfied.

As long as the subsequent programs can maintain the volume and data of the first episode, Yu Dingling will consider the program a success.

But who would have thought that the program's playback volume would continue to rise, and in the third episode, it even topped the Green Ocean Film and Television Variety Show List.

An achievement that Ding Ling couldn't even imagine.

This was beyond Ding Ling's expectations and also attracted the attention of a number of senior executives of Lvyang Film and Television.

They even held a meeting immediately to analyze the reasons why the Fifth Era had such high ratings.

After some investigation and analysis, Lvyang Film and Television came to a conclusion that they themselves could not quite believe.

Although The Fifth Era is a boy group selection program that aims to showcase the trainees' handsome looks, excellent performances, and unique charms, the audience's focus has changed as the program progresses.

Ignoring those speeches that are obviously press releases and the mechanical comments made by robots, and searching for "Fifth Era" on major platforms, what appears is not stage mashups and timely face-licking, but big analyses that no one expected.

What is being analyzed is not anything else but the interpersonal relationships among the fifth-generation trainees.

The staff member who conducted the investigation at Lvyang Film and Television still remembers that when she searched for the Fifth Epoch on the video platform, she found that there were numerous analysis videos. The UP hosts took screenshots frame by frame, performed slow-motion analysis, and inferred the trainees' psychological activities from every micro-expression. Moreover, the number of views of each video was not low, which almost became a new theory - the Fifth Epoch.

And in their comments, the program "The Fifth Era" has become a large-scale observation record of interpersonal relationships.

? ?

No, is this normal?

Lvyang Film and Television also thought this result was ridiculous, but after checking the backstage playback data, they found that the largest proportion of viewers were indeed not the star-chasers they had expected.

It was so outrageous, yet so magical. The data in black and white was right in front of them, forcing them to believe it even if they didn't want to.

After Du Tang came to this conclusion, he smiled helplessly.

When he first recorded the show, he made a lot of presets for post-editing.

Whether it is deliberately creating conflicts, editing special story lines, or editing a few CPs...hit editing techniques are everywhere in his mind.

However, after a few days of recording and communicating with Ding Ling, Du Tang and the directors discussed and unanimously decided that, just like the name of the Fifth Era, they would present the most realistic program.

Just like a documentary, it records the trainees' time over the past month in detail.

There is no script, no malicious editing, only honest footage that records everything.

This truth unexpectedly impressed many viewers.

Perhaps it is precisely this authenticity that can accurately record the "weird" relationship between the fifth-generation trainees and give the audience room for analysis.

Du Tang was not surprised that the Fifth Academy caused heated discussion. After all, let alone the audience, even he, the director who had been with the trainees day and night for more than a month, still didn't understand the relationship between the five generations. And the center of the interpersonal relationships - Lu Yao, was shrouded in a veil of mystery that could not be uncovered.

One of the videos that greatly increased the discussion volume of the Fifth Academy was so impressive that Du Tang had to admire it after watching it. He exclaimed that the video was really wonderful, and at the same time, he couldn't help but become curious about the original material of the video - the Fifth Epoch.

Even the director wants to watch the show after reading the analysis, so wouldn’t other viewers want to watch the show even more after reading the analysis!

How can these analyses be considered ordinary? They are free advertisements, and they are highly effective!

Du Tang was ecstatic and saved this analysis video.

This video is indeed one of the reasons why the Fifth School of Analysis has become so popular.

This is a long video analysis by the UP host after the end of the second episode.

In the video, he analyzed the relationship between other trainees and Lu Yao from various angles, each person's micro-expression, and even the number of times they looked back at Lu Yao, and came to the following conclusion:

Other people's feelings towards Lu Yao are quite complicated. They are both wary and yearning, both afraid and longing. They really want to have a good relationship with Lu Yao, but they dare not.

As soon as this conclusion came out, it immediately aroused countless questions.

Everyone knows that the trainees have a bad relationship with Lu Yao, and some even said in interviews that they think Lu Yao cannot make his debut. How can such a relationship be something they yearn for and admire?

The remarks that went against the mainstream opinion made this UP host a laughing stock for countless people. Many viewers came to check in, but doubted their eyes after watching the show.

No...it seems...what this UP host said is interesting?

After reading the UP host's analysis, some people couldn't help but doubt their own judgment.

Then I went back to watch the show with that conclusion in mind, and it seemed like I actually noticed some differences.

After the third episode was broadcast, the trainees' performances all verified the UP host's analysis. Countless viewers were shocked and came back to check in.

For a time, the analysis of the fifth school was very popular.

Those who post their own posts and videos, and those who comment on other people's discussions, all argue with each other fiercely.

Sometimes when Ding Ling searches online, she feels like she’s going to have a split personality.

On one hand, there is the clamorous public opinion about Lu Yao, and on the other hand, there are interpersonal analyses with different opinions. It is like two different worlds. They are clearly talking about the same person, but with completely different emotions.

As a result, the staff in charge of public opinion in the company were extremely busy during this period, and most of their time was spent on Lu Yao every day.

Even so, the comments about Lu Yao in the final report submitted were very ambiguous.

Is there any risk in this public opinion?

Hard to say.

Although there are indeed many things to worry about, time waits for no one, and the most important thing has arrived, which is the family concert.

Ding Ling was busy early on Saturday morning. There were too many things to deal with, and family concerts are always broadcast live, so there is no room for any mistakes.

The trainees also arrived at the venue early to prepare, waiting nervously and expectantly for the concert to begin.

The audience also arrived early and waited excitedly in the venue.

The online live broadcast platform is also undergoing final debugging. Although it has not yet started, tens of thousands of viewers have gathered in the live broadcast room. They keep posting barrages of comments, and names slide across the room one after another.

Finally, at two o'clock in the afternoon, the live broadcast room started on time, and the performance on the scene officially began.

Song Rui calculated the time early and ordered takeout. Before the live broadcast started, she opened the live broadcast room and sent messages to Shen Sisi while waiting for the live broadcast to begin.

As soon as there was any movement in the live broadcast room, she immediately looked up and watched the live broadcast.

She had been to family concerts for many years and they were very lively, but to be honest, she didn't particularly like them.

Because the fifth generation is a trainee, they don’t have many performances in the family concerts. Every time she watches a four- or five-hour concert, the time she sees the fifth generation may only add up to half an hour, and this is the result of the collaboration stage between the fifth generation trainees and their seniors.

The performances of the seniors may be wonderful, but that’s the thing about not loving someone: no matter how wonderful they are, they can’t be seen in her eyes.

Song Rui sighed and only hoped that this year when the fifth generation was about to debut, they would have more stages.

The music started and program information appeared on the screen.

Opening dance performances from the fourth and fifth generations.

A medley of new songs from the fourth generation and the fifth generation's "Fifth Commemorative Album".

As soon as the music of "The Fifth Album" sounded, a smile appeared on Song Rui's face involuntarily. After watching the program for three weeks and watching countless videos, the melody of this song has been deeply imprinted in her mind. She can dance along with her eyes closed.

Especially the clip of Lu Yao's performance, Song Rui can see countless covers and videos using this music as BGM no matter which platform she is on. It can only be said that this song is really popular.

This song was so popular that Song Rui almost vomited after listening to it.

But Song Rui also deeply understands why this song became popular.

Lu Yao sang so beautifully and danced so beautifully.

The smiling face blooming in the sun, the swinging ponytail, and the crisp ending sound, all added up to create a strong impact on the visual and auditory senses. Every time she sees this clip, Song Rui can't help but start to smile, and then dance and sing along softly.

It's magical.

real.

Now that the Fifth Generation was performing this song on stage, Song Rui could even hear the chorus from the audience in the live broadcast room.

The order of the songs shows how popular this song is.

You have to know that there are countless second, third and fourth generation fans in the audience.

They can all sing it, doesn't this show how popular this song is?

After the song ended, the fifth-generation trainees bowed and left the stage. Song Rui took out her phone and started checking Weibo.

According to her experience, the next generations will be the second, third and fourth generations. If she wants to see the fifth generation, she will have to wait at least twenty to thirty minutes.

Just as Song Rui expected, half an hour later, she saw the fifth-generation trainees appear again.

A RAP stage performance by Qiu Yuge, Cang Zizhen, Yin Hongxue and Luo Wenbo.

Song Rui has a mother filter and thinks everyone performed very well.

Although her senior fans had posted a series of comments such as "What the hell", "The singing is so bad", and "It's a bit funny" in the barrage, she skillfully ignored them.

In the tense relationship between seniors and juniors in the training system, unless the juniors are undoubtedly outstanding, any performance of the juniors will be criticized.

She's used to it.

After the RAP stage, the fifth generation vocal stage followed.

Song Rui thought the chorus of six singers was very good and everyone performed very well.

Although there were mostly criticisms in the barrage, the string of names posted by the fifth-generation fans was enough to cover up most of them.

It’s just a little strange that Lu Yao was not among the singing chorus?

Although Song Rui didn't know much about music, over the past six months, all the comments she saw said that Lu Yao had good vocal skills, and his voice was the best in the entire Five Generations, and not bad in the entire entertainment industry.

You are definitely a great singer, why don’t you take part in this stage?

Before Song Rui could wonder for long, the two stages of the fifth generation ended, and the next to appear were the senior brothers. Song Rui sighed and sincerely hoped that the day of the fifth generation's debut would come soon.

Although it would be difficult for all the fifth-generation members to gather on the stage at that time, at least there would be a special performance, and she could concentrate on watching the fifth generation without having to watch anyone else.

Another half an hour later, the fifth generation finally came up.

In the enlarged panoramic view, you can only see a series of densely packed little kids running onto the stage, standing in the center, and the program information is displayed on the screen.

Song Rui's eyes swept over the series of names on the performance list. There were so many people, it seemed that everyone was on stage.

The lights came on, shining on the trainees. As expected, there were more than ten people. If not all members, then - why was it fifteen people?

Song Rui sat up straight.

After going through the quadrant assessment, Song Rui strangely mastered a skill, which was to quickly judge whether there were fifteen or sixteen people on the stage based on their standing positions.

This time there are fifteen people again. Who is missing? What happened?

Song Rui couldn't help but purse her lips, paused the live broadcast, and started counting directly based on the panoramic view.

Soon, the results came out.

Lu Yao is missing.

Why wasn't Lu Yao on stage? Was he sick? No, was Lu Yao there during the opening show? It seemed like he was there; she had no impression of him not being there.

So Lu Yao was still there during the opening show, but why was the whole stage gone?

Is he injured again?

Many guesses flashed through Song Rui's mind. She clicked the screen and the live broadcast continued, but now Song Rui could no longer concentrate on watching the show.

Lu Yao is not here, why?

She felt vaguely uneasy.

As soon as the two full-member performances of the fifth generation ended, Song Rui immediately sent a message to Shen Sisi.

There was no response from the other party.

Song Rui put down her phone. Yes, Lu Yao was not on stage, and Shen Sisi must be the most anxious and busy person right now. It was normal that she had no time to reply to messages.

Thinking of this, Song Rui exited the chat software and opened the forum instead.

She hadn't logged into the forum for a long time, but she used to know a few of the more active groups of fifth-generation fans. She hoped that people were still using those groups so that she could see some news in them.

After finding one of the groups, Song Rui clicked on it. Fortunately or unfortunately, she saw a post floating on the homepage at a glance.

【Have you eaten this melon?】

There is nothing written in the title, but the hundreds of replies clearly show the popularity of this post.

Song Rui clicked on it immediately.

【Have you eaten this melon?】

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Main Building

[Screenshot][Screenshot]

Some people say that Lu Yao will not attend this concert?

[1st floor]

Come again?

【2nd floor】

True or false

【3rd floor】

Where did the news come from?

【4th floor】

Reply [3rd floor]

It is Group 555

[5th ​​floor]

Reply [4th floor]

It's actually this group. That's very likely.

6th Floor

No, why isn't Lu Yao on again?

7th Floor

No way.

8th Floor

Is that so strange? I think it's quite normal.

9th Floor

The concert is tomorrow, we'll know then.

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[112th floor]

It's actually true?!

[113th floor]

Wow

[114th floor]

There is no Lu Yao on the stage

[115th Floor]

Reply [114th floor]

But I saw him opening the show.

[116th floor]

Reply [115th floor]

Then why didn't he go on stage with all the members?

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Song Rui quickly read a few replies and then left the group. Just then, Shen Sisi sent a reply. A pop-up window appeared at the top of the phone screen, with only three cold words.

'have no idea'

Song Rui put down her phone and felt a huge sense of confusion in her heart.

Why?

Why?

Why wasn't Lu Yao on the stage for all the members? Countless reasons flashed through her mind, but she immediately rejected them one by one.

There was only one reason left, and Song Rui didn't even dare to think about it.

She really wanted to send a message to Shen Sisi, but when she opened the chat box, she didn't know what to say.

Blame the company? Blame the negative reviews? Find a solution? Comfort? Persuade?

What's the use? They don't even know what happened.

Separated by a screen, their power is so small that they can't do anything for Lu Yao.

Song Rui had completely lost the mood to watch the concert. The live broadcast was playing on her computer, but her hands were just blankly swiping on her phone, not knowing what she was looking at.

It was not until a long time had passed, when it had darkened outside the window and the only light in the room came from the computer and mobile phone, that she came back to her senses and looked at the computer screen.

The previous show had just ended and the room was silent, with only the occasional cheers of fans coming from the speakers.

The concert is about to end.

This thought suddenly arose in Song Rui's mind.

She sat up straight and reached for the mouse.

It seems there is no need to watch this concert anymore.

Just when she was about to close the live broadcast room, a dense barrage of comments suddenly appeared on the screen.

'? ? ? '

'Am I seeing this right?'

'What'

A flood of question marks flashed across her mind. Just when Song Rui was curious, a name suddenly crossed her eyes and made her stop.

"No, Lu Yao? He's alone? What's going on?"

Her hands were faster than her brain, and Song Rui subconsciously closed the barrage.

The video was much slower due to the previous pause, and at this moment it was several seconds behind the barrage.

When Song Rui saw the program information pop up later than other viewers, she understood the reason for the confusion in the comments.

For the upcoming show, there was only one name written in the performer section.

Lu Yao.

A one-man stage.

No, what happened?

Song Rui suspected that she was hallucinating.

Lu Yao actually has a solo stage?