Chapter 4 I am Jiang Huai, a trainee of Jingming Media.
In the blink of an eye, the contestants of "Produce Producer" were about to enter the camp. The night before, Jiang Huai first logged into Chu Yuanqing's vest and created a Weibo account.
He observed the naming styles of the current female celebrities in the domestic entertainment industry and found that half of them were high-end but incomprehensible English words, and the other half were two Chinese phrases that looked very atmospheric but had nothing to do with each other. There were also some really amazing names, but he couldn't learn them.
Jiang Huai originally wanted to use English words to name his characters. After all, He Zhou, the prototype of Chu Yuanqing, had studied abroad. However, he was severely ridiculed by the system.
819's words were really vicious: [Chu Yuanqing is a top student, but you are not. You graduated from high school but didn't go to college, do you know the meaning of these words? ]
Jiang Huai was angry: [Can you please stop making me sound like someone who escaped the nine-year compulsory education? I studied for twelve years, okay? Even in high school, my grades were pretty good!]
[Actually, to a top AI like me, most of you humans are just as stupid, and I’m not attacking you on purpose.] The system said coldly, [Find something that’s related to you, such as your birthday, zodiac sign, etc.]
This is indeed possible. He happened to be born on the Spring Equinox, so these two characters look pretty good. Jiang Huai changed his user name, asked the system to help him create an avatar, and then inspected his Weibo square.
The most popular one was a large picture of him in uniform with several other contestants. There were surprisingly many people praising him in the comments, but they all seemed to be passers-by from outside the circle who were joining in the fun. There were a few real fans who had been chasing him before, but not many.
Being popular with the public is also a kind of win!
Jiang Huai fell asleep contentedly.
July 6, 2024, Saturday, is the day when the contestants of "Produce Producer" enter the camp.
Jiang Huai got up in the morning, and while taking the subway to the company, he first controlled Chu Yuanqing to take a camera and rest in a hourly room of a hotel next to the program recording base.
He can only control one vest at a time. When he enters the camp in the afternoon, he has to control Yu Lan in addition to the main body. The system's control over the vest is limited to fully automatic work, and it can't help with anything else. Jiang Huai has to do everything himself.
Therefore, you must plan ahead so that you can put on Chu Yuanqing's vest and take a picture of yourself.
...I really worked hard to get a picture.
There are four trainees from Jingming Media participating in this talent show, including him. The others are Yin He, Pang Zheyan and Zhou Chengwen. According to the plan, the three of them will perform the first stage together, and Jiang Huai will perform alone.
The four of them had met in the practice room before, and were quite familiar with each other. They didn't talk about everything, but it wasn't awkward. When Yu Lan was recording the contestant recruitment, Zhou Chengwen lent Jiang Huai the camera.
According to the arrangement of the "Produce Producer" program team, after a brief arrangement after entering the camp and filming some pre-match speeches and dormitory selection shots, the first stage live broadcast began immediately that evening. A week later, the first episode of the program was officially broadcast and an edited version was released.
The company attached great importance to this project and arranged the makeup and styling to match the songs selected for the first stage in advance. Jiang Huai stood in front of the full-length mirror and looked at himself.
The eye makeup is particularly prominent, with sharp lines drawn on the three-dimensional eye sockets, making them look particularly deep. The makeup artist deliberately emphasized the aggressiveness, and the gray eyeshadow between the brow bones echoed the overall look, giving the whole face a sense of refinement and mystery like an ancient Greek sculpture.
The dark grey sleeveless vest fits Jiang Huai's tight and powerful body, showing his lean muscle lines. The wide black leather belt across his waist raises the waistline to optimize the body proportions while adding a bit of unruliness. The deliberately messed up bangs on his forehead just retain his youthful vigor of a 19-year-old boy.
He now looks...
Very powerful.
[So cool. I feel like you don't need to be gay anymore, just mirror and be the real Narcissus. Look at the screenshot I took. ]
Indeed. In the screenshot, he stares at himself in the mirror calmly, keeping a certain distance, as if they are two interdependent yet independent souls. But these two souls happen to have the same face, thus showing a subtle twin feeling.
It’s a pity that the screenshots of 819 can only be saved in the system and cannot be retrieved and posted on Weibo. Otherwise, I feel that when he becomes famous, many people will cry out, Jiang Huai thought regretfully.
Everything was ready, and the four of them took a nanny car to the program recording base. They talked and laughed on the way, and Jiang Huai occasionally responded a few times, but in fact most of his attention had been transferred to Yu Lan's vest.
Yu Lan is a solo trainee, she doesn't have a company, so she has to do all her makeup by herself. Fortunately, her face is impeccable, so Jiang Huai did a rough makeup, mainly to emphasize the atmosphere and left it at that.
He chose a ballad song for Yu Lan that was not difficult to perform for her first performance. The main theme was a song that she sang well enough so as not to hurt other people's ears. She also wore a light silk shirt with a few smart ribbons on her wrists to match her personal style. She added a waist belt as an accessory to the white trousers with a good drape, so that it would not look too monotonous.
After all, it was just a pseudonym, so it was fine. He looked at the time and took a special car to the program recording base.
Half an hour later, the two sides arrived at the program recording location with only five minutes difference. Yu Lan's position was closer, so she was the one to arrive first.
There was still a long way to go before entering the base. There was a lot of noise on the side, all of them were media station girls who had been waiting in advance to take photos, and the scene was even a bit chaotic with all the guns and cannons gathered together.
Chu Yuanqing was sandwiched between these people. Jiang Huai got off the nanny car and found the person at a glance based on the previous position. Jiang Huai controlled Yu Lan to walk forward slowly. During this time, while there was no one behind Yu Lan, he quickly cut Chu Yuanqing's vest and took a few photos of himself.
It is one thing to think about it, but the actual operation is even more complicated than expected. Jiang Huai just feels like an octopus now, with three tentacles corresponding to three brains doing different things.
And... plans simply cannot keep up with changes.
The trainees walking together were walking too fast, and the feeling of the real body and the vest walking at the same time was quite subtle - the field of vision was divided into two areas, the left side was Jiang Huai's own, and the right side was Yu Lan's.
While he was walking on his own path, he had to use his mental power to control Yu Lan's movements. The two of them were of different heights, so their strides were naturally different. Their vision was seriously out of sync when they walked, and Jiang Huai almost felt like he was going to get 3D dizzy.
He was so tense that his head even started to hurt.
Just as Jiang Huai was stunned, the vest was temporarily out of control, and Yu Lan stopped suddenly. Because of inertia, she naturally leaned forward and was about to fall to the ground.
In a flash, Jiang Huai simply gave up controlling Yu Lan completely, concentrating his mind on his main body, and with a control that did not allow for any hesitation, he accurately grabbed his vest that was about to lose balance.
Yu Lan had a dull expression on her face, as if she hadn't reacted to what was happening yet, when she was grabbed tightly by Jiang Huai.
The system screamed a reminder: [Quick, quick, quick! Cut Chu Yuanqing to take the photo! Now and immediately! ! Quickly take the photo, quickly take the photo, quickly take the photo! ! ! Isn’t the CP photo here? ! ? ]
The body's actions are faster than the brain's reactions. Chu Yuanqing stood in the distance and pressed the shutter button numbly.
In the camera, the ribbons of Yu Lan's shirt flew in the air, and her expression was out of control and dull, but because her face was so pretty, it made people feel that her amber eyes revealed a hint of hazy confusion, which formed a sharp contrast with Jiang Huai's resolute, firm, and somewhat anxious eyes behind her.
Actually, this should have been a somewhat funny scene. But the two people's faces were so good that there was nothing wrong with them. Their clothes happened to be one black and one white, so they looked very well matched, and there was even some dramatic tension.
Moreover, the distance between their bodies was very close, and Chu Yuanqing's shooting angle was a bit far, not very good, but by accident he managed to get a very genius dislocation.
...If he himself didn't know the actual situation, he would probably think that it was Jiang Huai who was embracing Yu Lan.
Jiang Huai came back to his senses and started a conversation between his left and right brains: "...Are you okay? Are you okay? I let go?"
Yu Lan's expression was cold: "It's okay." He raised the corners of his mouth slightly, revealing a very light smile, "Thank you."
[Too! Right!] The system exclaimed in exaggeration, [When did you come up with this idea? Why didn't you tell me in advance? You even hid it from a system like me? Are you trying to do something big without telling me?]
[…You think too much. This is not something I planned in advance.] Jiang Huai’s headache eased a little, and he was finally able to control the two people to walk properly. [It’s really too difficult to control the vest and the main body at the same time. It even gives me a headache. I was distracted for a second, and Yu Lan almost fell.]
【Oh, so that's how it is. Don't worry, it's okay. If you can attract fans during the live broadcast of your first stage, you should be able to rise to C-level tonight. By then, your mental strength will be much stronger than it is now. In theory, you can control two vests at the same time. If you only control one, you can easily do all kinds of details. Come on, host! 】
[Okay. If I continue to be in this kind of pain, I can’t imagine what I’ll be like when the show is being recorded.]
[So when are you going to post this picture? Isn't Chu Yuanqing's account your personal website? Are you going to open another CP website? ]
[We'll talk about it later. You don't understand. Being gay requires laying the groundwork. Not all sugar needs to be released immediately and eaten immediately. CP fans will dig up old materials themselves. ]
Entering the player base, the dormitory is a four-person room. Jiang Huai naturally lives with the remaining three people from Jingming Media. Yu Lan specially chose the room next to Jiang Huai, not only for the sake of being gay, but more importantly, if there is something that needs to be used by both the main body and the vest, it will be easier to communicate.
In order to prevent the tragedy from happening again, he really learned his lesson this time. He waited until he and his companions finished recording their pre-match speeches and sat on the chairs in the lounge area for the initial stage performance and began to wait idly before he controlled Yu Lan to leave the room.
As a contestant, even though he had debuted in his previous life, Jiang Huai still didn't quite know what to say during the pre-match speech and had to rely entirely on improvisation.
But when he was in front of the camera, he felt that he still had something to say.
"Hello everyone. I'm Jiang Huai, a trainee from Jingming Media."
He said sincerely and from the bottom of his heart: "I am very lucky to be here to participate in the recording of the program. I promise that I will respond to everyone's support and expectations with every performance... Before leaving, I checked Weibo and saw that some friends said they liked me. Thank you, I will always cherish every bit of your love."
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