Chapter 201 Where do the resources come from?

Ding Ling had never seen Qiu Yuge cry.

Even in these nearly six years, she had never seen Qiu Yuge lose control of his emotions.

Qiu Yuge, who had been the youngest member of the fifth generation before Lu Yao came, was more mature than one could imagine.

He is restrained, rational, gentle and passionate.

He would smile shyly when others teased him, and would also record a carefully prepared girl group dance at the request of fans.

The company likes Qiu Yuge, not because of his appearance, but because of his obedience, his understanding, his gentleness and his rationality.

He knows what he is doing and what he should do.

He followed the company's arrangements and from the first day he signed the contract, he followed the rules and did everything a trainee should do.

This maturity allowed him to withstand the expectations of his company and fans, allowing him to take on the position of the most popular member of the fifth generation, and also allowed him to persevere through four or five years of training and successfully form a group.

Ding Ling had no doubt that he was the so-called perfect idol.

But now, hearing the sobbing sounds beside her ears, her heart was also filled with intense pain.

A rope that is always taut becomes more pitiful when it loses control.

Ding Ling wiped away her tears and was about to speak when she heard a burst of crying.

Looking over, Wei Gu was holding a tissue and crying.

Turning around again, Zhu Xiangming lowered his head, tears falling to the ground one by one.

Cangzi Shinye tilted his head back and pursed his lips. Although he looked calm, his rosy nose revealed the turmoil in his heart at the moment.

And Yin Hongxue... Ding Ling looked over and her breathing stopped.

Yin Hongxue leaned back on the sofa, neither looking down nor up, he just looked at everything in the lounge calmly, as calm as Lu Yao who was standing beside him.

But Ding Ling suddenly thought of last year.

Yin Hongxue, who was waiting for the test results in the hospital, was exactly the same as she is now.

She suddenly didn't know what to say.

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It was almost midnight when the members returned to the hotel.

As Qiu Yuge had guessed, Lu Yao did not go back to the hotel with them.

No one knew where he went, and no one asked him where he went.

Everyone went back to their rooms to rest in silence, and then got up early the next morning to put on makeup. With swollen eyes, they drank cup after cup of coffee to reduce the swelling amid the makeup artist's constant questioning.

Then Lu Yao came back as if nothing had happened.

Today's concert was perfect.

It was just as perfect as the previous times. Even Ding Ling, who was watching from the audience, was moved by the members' performance on stage.

She vaguely felt that the performance on the stage was no longer a simple song and dance, but was mixed with something deeper, which was why it had such passion and appeal.

It also gave her a sudden new answer to the questions she had always had.

She has been thinking about a problem.

The company uses this model to train trainees and select debut groups. What are the core assessment criteria?

At first she thought it was strength.

Later I thought it was personality.

Later, I felt that I was selecting variety show stars who could stand out from the crowd of materials.

But now, she feels that the biggest test for people selected through this model - at least for five generations - may be their psychological quality.

Extremely high acceptance and endurance, as well as the sense of responsibility to perform diligently and even perform better in complex situations.

After the concert, the fans also ended their short weekend and returned to their respective cities to continue working and studying.

The pictures and videos of this concert also appeared on the Internet as soon as possible.

The pictures are full of atmosphere, the neat and powerful sword dance, the radiant faces, the infectious smiles...

Although they say they want to stop being fans, people who see these things can't help but stay.

After all, it is the company that is doing the disgusting thing, what does it have to do with the members themselves?

The members have excellent professional skills and their looks are well maintained, with even visible progress... Their own children work so hard, but the company is dragging them down... Thinking of this, the fans are angry and resentful.

But before they could be angry for long, new trouble appeared in the Fifth Regiment.

Major art schools have started art examinations, but fans did not see Bai You in the candidates’ Reuters photos.

Of the five college entrance examination candidates, the other four appeared at the art examination venue, but Bai You was the only one missing.

When this fact was confirmed, it was difficult for fans to describe their emotions.

Angry but not surprised at all.

Compared with the previous incidents, the impact of this incident does not seem to be that great.

I just feel that this damn company really wants to die again.

However, before the fans had the chance to defend their rights, Bai You posted on Weibo first, responding to the matter of not taking the art exam.

To sum up, after careful consideration and communication with his parents, he decided to learn other things.

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Fans who saw the Weibo post didn’t know how to react for a moment.

A young idol who has studied dance for more than ten years and been a trainee for five or six years and has poor academic performance plans to go to college based on his academic performance?

Hmm...it's hard to judge.

The fans deleted their previous curses in shame, and at the same time, they reluctantly sent blessings to Bai You under his Weibo.

All I can say is wish him good luck.

They discovered that if they pursued the Fifth Regiment with genuine feelings, they would face backlash.

This group of people and their company do things every day that are incomprehensible to others. Don't try to understand them, or you'll go crazy.

If you watch them for fun, there will be endless fun every day.

So 'happy'.

In this way, the fan circle is in turmoil every day, but the lives of the members of the Fifth Group themselves seem to be very peaceful.

After the art exam, the classes held every night for the exam were cancelled, and everyone devoted themselves to the study of cultural subjects. In addition, in order to practice the Spring Festival Gala program, everyone got up early and went to bed late, their minds full of knowledge, and they had no time to think about anything else.

Calmness, boredom, pain... these emotions have even moved away from them, and the whole person has fallen into a state of transcendence.

This was the first sentence Lu Jianian said to the few people when he returned to the company to prepare for the family concert at the beginning of winter vacation.

"My realm has improved, brother." This was Yin Hongxue's response.

The family sports meeting and family concert were carried out in an orderly manner. Without the tension of last year when they were in the critical period of debut, this time the sports meeting and concert were very harmonious and even a little touching.

The sixth generation of trainees performed at the concert, heralding the official debut of the new generation, and this was also the last time for the fifth generation who had not yet formed a group to appear in such a family event.

There are so many members who have formed groups over the past five consecutive generations. The stage is not enough for all of them to stand on. Why should those who have not formed a group stand on it?

This last family activity is the company's last chance to let them suck blood, and it is also the only remaining tenderness.

After that, it was the world of the new generation of trainees.

The lively family event ended and the fans went home to prepare for the new year. However, before they could calm down, something big happened.

The Fifth Quadrant group suddenly appeared in the rehearsal team of the Spring Festival Gala.

As soon as the Reuters news came out, the entire fan circle of the cultivation system was shocked.

No, it should be said that all fan circles except the fifth generation were shaken.

Although many major events have occurred in the nearly one year since the debut of the Fifth Quadrant group in the eyes of fans who have been following them all the way, to be honest, there are not many things that have become well-known.

It’s great that Lu Yao won the world championship, but Go is too niche.

It’s great that the Fifth Group was the guest of honor at the ceremony, but how many people were watching the performances at the ceremony?

It is surprising that Bai You and Cang Zizhen dropped out of school to repeat a grade, but with so many people repeating a grade every year, others would not take a second look at these two people just because they are entertainers.

He also said that the company's act of forcibly taking over the data group was disgusting, but to outsiders, the fans' behavior of sending money to an empty link was even more puzzling.

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There are so many things happening one by one, but none of them can compare to the song "God Said".

But then again, although this song is popular, no one praises it for being good, and all you find when searching are clips of people changing clothes. Is its popularity due to the powerful marketing efforts of capital or the masses following the trend?

Half a year has passed since the song became a hit, and when it is brought up again, everyone seems to have regained their elegant aesthetic taste and no longer looks down on this kind of song that is "brainlessly pieced together" just for the purpose of dissemination.

So, how can a group that debuted for less than a year, has no representative works, and is not a talented training system, and even checked Weibo and found that the number of fans and data are mediocre, be on the Spring Festival Gala?

How many artists in the entertainment industry have been eyeing this performance, and how many fans hope their favorite artists can stand on this stage, and now this group with nothing is actually on it? Why?

Where do the resources come from?

The fans of the third generation are angry. They think that they have been popular for ten years since their debut, but their three generations have not appeared on the Spring Festival Gala, so why should the fifth generation be able to?

The second generation of fans were angry. They had worked diligently for so many years and brought Minghui Entertainment to glory. Although they had performed on the Spring Festival Gala before, why shouldn’t they be on the Spring Festival Gala again?

Fans of the first generation are also angry. Although artists from the first generation performed in this year's Spring Festival Gala, it is hard not to wonder whether Minghui Entertainment used the first generation's connections to squeeze the fifth generation into the Spring Festival Gala.

Otherwise, how could the Fifth Quadrant group, which has nothing, have the honor to perform on the Spring Festival Gala?

Fans of the fourth generation...there is nothing to say about the fans of the fourth generation.

No matter how you look at it, it won’t be their turn to perform on the Spring Festival Gala.

The fan circle of the cultivation system is in an uproar, and there is also an uproar outside the cultivation system.

After thinking about it, the same question comes back: why?

However, the fifth fan group, which should have been the happiest about this matter, was calm.

At first, the onlookers thought that the fans had already known the news, but after studying it carefully for a while, they found that they were also confused about the Fifth Quadrant group appearing on the Spring Festival Gala.

But once the doubts are over, that's it.

Then I did what I had to do.

No? Is this the end?

Aren't you shocked?

Are you unhappy?

Aren't you proud?

The fans of other groups who wanted to pull their braids and mock them held their breath in their hearts, but they encountered such a silent fan circle and were choked.

Looking through the online chats, there's barely any discussion. Looking through the group's Weibo, there's barely any comments. Looking through the members' Weibo posts, the comments section seems equally lackluster... So, where are you, the fans of the Fifth Quadrant? Aren't you talking, discussing, or collecting data?

Aren’t fandoms for the genre the craziest? Don’t idol groups have the most traffic?

Where are you people!