Chapter 163 Purely Neurotic Speculation

The tone is not good.

It has no distinguishing features.

It has too low recognizability.

It's too deliberate and somewhat unrealistic.

After unplugging four USB drives in a row, Lin Rui looked at the only remaining USB drive in his hand and plugged it into the computer host with almost no expectation, then clicked play.

Standing to the side, Zheng Jing's face was ashen. Almost all the female artists under the age of twenty in the company had auditioned, but Lin Rui hadn't taken a liking to any of them. This situation was quite bad.

Ten seconds later, Zheng Jing's lips twitched slightly.

Watching Lin Rui effortlessly pull out the USB drive, Zheng Jing could practically declare that all female artists under the age of twenty at Tianrui had been wiped out!

Is it a matter of ability?

This factor may exist, but it is by no means the whole story.

In Zheng Jing's opinion, since Lin Rui stipulated that the age limit was no more than twenty, he naturally wouldn't care too much about these people's singing skills.

But if we don't talk about singing skills, then the intention is elsewhere.

For example, timbre?

Or is it a characteristic of the singing style?

Zheng Jing couldn't help but recall that she had reviewed every USB drive that had passed through her hands beforehand.

Admittedly, most singing voices are extremely easy to confuse, much like trying to put together a bunch of women with the same face after extensive plastic surgery and then playing a matching game with their photos. It would probably start at a hellish difficulty level.

"Xiao Rui, how about we raise the age limit to twenty-two?"

Zheng Jing was actually a little scared.

She didn't know when it started, but she always felt a kind of inexplicable nervousness when facing Lin Rui.

Just as she was about to delve deeper into this illogical phenomenon, she inadvertently noticed Lin Rui staring blankly into space. She immediately cursed herself for being too neurotic lately. He was just a natural airhead whose brain would occasionally malfunction, and the domineering aura of pressure was entirely her own delusion.

"Then let's mention twenty-two years old."

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away."

Zheng Jing breathed a sigh of relief and then began preparing for the next steps.

She didn't push her luck by asking Lin Rui to raise the age limit further. If twenty years old wasn't enough to definitively judge someone's talent, then twenty-two was undoubtedly the watershed moment for defining an artist's ability.

Just like Shen Yun back then, she was already quite adept at being a second-tier artist at the age of 23.

If an artist is still struggling at the bottom of the third tier after the age of 22, from a talent perspective, such an artist is destined not to have a high ceiling. From the perspective of a large company, such an artist has become worthless, let alone receive preferential treatment from the company's resources.

Therefore, artists struggling in the third tier of the industry will be cautious even when faced with invitations from large companies, and may even refuse them, choosing instead to join smaller companies.

Better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix.

When Zheng Jing and Luo Qi posted announcements in their respective artist groups, female artists under the age of 23 went wild.

In fact, many female artists are speculating that Lin Rui might really be going to promote a top girl group similar to XZWC!

Seeing Xiao Jingyu, Zheng Jiayou and others become popular and show signs of strongly stepping into the ranks of the top tier, it's not just the males who are envious and jealous, but the females are also going crazy with desire!

As a result, many female celebrities have almost always waited for him, and have had countless chance encounters with Fu Sheng in elevators, doors, or restroom corridors. However, everyone later realized that Fu Sheng was just a clueless and naive person who didn't understand romance.

In fact, many of the rumors circulating in the company about Lin Rui were just rumors spread by them.

That's not pretentious; it's genuinely a simple-minded dullness that makes it impossible for you to even hate them.

Finally, Zhou Rongze and the others couldn't stand it anymore. After Zheng Jing and Luo Qi gave them repeated warnings, the deliberately staged encounters stopped.