Chapter 26 Chapter 26
Hu Yanming looked at Chu Xi's determined expression and sighed helplessly.
"Okay, but we've already agreed that as the spokesperson for Jiyue, we might need to film some promotional photos later. We can't delay this."
"Also, if we really try our best and still fail to meet the requirements for participating in the Olympics, then we can stop being obsessed with this and return to the entertainment industry to focus on our careers, okay?" Hu Yanming's eyes were full of sincerity.
Chu Xi thought for a moment and nodded in agreement: "Okay."
If she really tries her best but still fails to get a spot in the Olympics, it will be too late for her to prepare for the next one given her age.
Hu Yanming finally felt relieved, and after calming down, he continued driving.
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After receiving the signed contract, Wang Yang leaned back comfortably on the recliner in his office.
He rested his hands under his head, his belly sticking out, and his legs resting on the footrest of his office chair, looking elegant and comfortable.
"Mr. Wang." A voice mixed with anger came from outside the office.
The office door was pushed open, and Xu Qianqian walked in with anger on her face.
"I heard you helped Chu Xi secure the endorsement for the Jiyue brand? I'm clearly more popular in the company right now. Why didn't you prioritize me over Chu Xi for this big endorsement?"
Wang Yang frowned, annoyed by her unreasonable behavior.
However, after thinking about Xu Qianqian's father's financial resources, Wang Yang suppressed his anger. He stood up, looked at Xu Qianqian with a smile, and said comfortingly, "You know, Chu Xi participated in a sports variety show a while ago. Her character is more in line with Ji Yue's needs. This is also difficult for me."
Xu Qianqian scowled, folding her arms in front of her. "I don't care. Whatever Chu Xi has, I must have too. Find a way to help me get a spot in a sports variety show. If the company has any financial difficulties, my dad said he can help invest some more."
When Wang Yang heard this, the smile on his face immediately became even brighter.
"Oh, look at what's going on. It's not that serious. But if you say so, there seems to be a sports variety show in the circle recently. It was jointly invested and produced by the State General Administration of Sport and a leading company in the industry. The main purpose is to promote the sport of shooting."
"This variety show is more popular and will definitely have a good reputation."
Xu Qianqian's eyes flashed with a hint of anger, "Okay, I want to participate in this variety show!"
Chu Xi became famous because of a sports variety show and has the resources he has now.
Once she finishes participating in sports variety shows and becomes popular, she will definitely be able to get the endorsement of Jiyue!
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"The leader's intention is to film this reality show promoting the shooting in our team, along with this trial training. The trial training will last for a month, and the filming period will also be a month. Then, all the entertainers and guests will follow the same standards as our training team members."
Wang Ruiguo held the phone in his hand and calmly relayed the notice he had just received to Wang Xingwen.
Wang Xingwen, who was sitting opposite him, was silent for a moment. "It seems the leaders are really looking forward to the next Olympics. They seem to have been actively promoting and promoting sports culture recently."
Wang Ruiguo's wrinkled face lit up with a smile. "That's great! Normally, our athletes only get noticed at the Olympics. If there are more programs promoting sports like this, more people will understand the difficulties athletes face in training."
"Okay, then we'll do our best to cooperate." Wang Xingwen continued, "I still have to stay in Linhai City for three days, and the other team members haven't finished their competition yet. You can arrange the filming cooperation."
Wang Ruiguo nodded. "By the way, Wannan won the silver medal this time. How is she feeling?"
Wang Xingwen: "It's okay, she has adjusted. This mistake is not a bad thing for her. Making a mistake now will make her more stable in the future."
"Yeah, that's right."
After hanging up the phone, Wang Ruiguo felt a little bit of anticipation.
Jiang Wannan and Chu Xi are both doing well in the team now.
Their shooting team is expected to win glory for the country this time.
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The next day, Chu Xi, who had not rested for long, packed his luggage again and prepared to go to the Kyoto Provincial Shooting Team for trial training.
During the tryout period, athletes must live in uniformly arranged dormitories.
Chu Xi reported three days late because of participating in the competition and could not waste any more time.
In the afternoon, Chu Xi came to the shooting team with his suitcase to check in.
Wang Ruiguo smiled and patted Chu Xi's shoulder. "I heard about your performance in the finals. It was good. This tryout shouldn't be difficult for you. Don't feel too stressed."
Chu Xi nodded, "Yeah."
After completing the check-in procedures that day, Chu Xi quickly adjusted his condition and joined the team.
"Come, let me introduce you to everyone. This is Chu Xi. She is two days late because of a competition. She will participate in the tryout with everyone later." Wang Ruiguo, who was in charge of the team's tryout, introduced Chu Xi to the other athletes.
This group of athletes participating in the tryouts were sent by various municipal training teams and sports schools.
Everyone has participated in competitions of all sizes, and can understand the situation where competitions delay tryouts.
They all smiled and nodded to Chu Xi in greeting.
Wang Ruiguo continued, "Also, the shooting team has received a notice from their superiors that starting tomorrow, they will be cooperating in the filming of a variety show promoting shooting sports. Four artists will be coming to the shooting team to participate in this trial training with everyone. Everyone, be prepared."
Upon hearing this, the surroundings immediately began to talk.
"Are there any celebrities coming to film with us? Can they keep up with our training schedule?"
"A while ago, I saw a variety show online that was filming celebrities going to a fire station for experience. I guess it's similar to ours?"
"Oh, I guess they're just pretending. If they really follow our training standards, which artist can stand it?"
Chu Xi stood quietly in the team and remained silent.
Soon, it was time for lunch.
A girl wearing a pink hairpin from the team came up to Chu Xi and asked, "Sister, do you want to go to the cafeteria together?"
Yang Ruoxue has a pair of extremely bright eyes, and when she blinks, it feels like stars are twinkling.
Chu Xi didn't recognize her and looked a little confused. "Who are you?"
Yang Ruoxue scratched her head and continued, "I also practice air pistol. I saw the news about the National Shooting Championship a few days ago. I know you won the air pistol championship. That's amazing. I want to learn from you."
"What's your name?" Chu Xi looked at her and asked.
"My name is Yang Ruoxue, and I'm from Donghua Sports School." Yang Ruoxue replied with a smile.
Chu Xi had heard of Donghua Sports School, which was responsible for training various types of sports students and sent a large number of talents to various provincial teams every year.
"Okay, let's go." Chu Xi nodded and turned to walk towards the cafeteria.
Yang Ruoxue hurriedly trotted after him, muttering, "Sister, how did you manage to win the championship even though you signed up alone? That's amazing! Although I didn't see the finals, it must have been incredibly exciting. I saw news reports saying Lu Meng was chasing us closely..."
On the way to the cafeteria, Chu Xi was sure that Yang Ruoxue was a chatterbox.
Sometimes she didn't have time to answer, and Yang Ruoxue would start talking to herself and start the next topic.
After Chu Xi realized that she just loved to talk, he gave up the idea of interrupting her.
The two of them walked into the cafeteria together and started to get their food.
That afternoon, staff members of the "Centripal Shooting" program team entered the shooting team one after another and began to install the shooting lenses.
The training team looked at the high-end cameras curiously and gathered around to discuss:
"Will we be included in the film together?"
"So we're going to be on TV together, right?"
"I guess they're mainly filming other people's artists. Who would watch us training?"
Chu Xi was not affected by this little episode. He continued to stand on the cushion and practice standing with a gun.
She held the gun in her hand, raised her arm steadily, kept it in a horizontal line, stood in a standard posture, and kept her body motionless in the same place.
Yang Ruoxue, who was resting and drinking water on the side, looked at Chu Xi's back and felt a little more admiration in her heart.
Originally, she thought Chu Xi was an extraordinary genius, which was why she could win the championship in one fell swoop.
But after observing for half a day, I realized that the effort Chu Xi put in was no less than that of others. In fact, she put in more effort.
Touched by Chu Xi's spirit, Yang Ruoxue put down the water bottle, stood up in one go, stood on the cushion together, and began to practice the gun-holding posture with Chu Xi.
"Sister, I'll practice with you!"
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The director of the "Centripal Shooting" program team had already arrived at the shooting team's office.
Director Li and Wang Ruiguo shook hands politely. "Coach Wang, you've worked so hard. You've trained so many champions who have won championships for our country. I have a lot to learn from you."
Wang Ruiguo smiled and waved his hands, "That was someone's hard work that earned him the championship. I was just a guide at best."
After the pleasantries, the two sat down around the tea table.
Director Li took a sip of tea and continued with a smile, "This is what I mean, Coach Wang. Our artists are definitely not as good at training and shooting as you professionals. I was thinking that in order to ensure smooth recording later, why don't you send a team leader over to guide the guest artists? Wouldn't that be more appropriate?"
Wang Ruiguo understood what he meant. After a moment's contemplation, his eyes suddenly lit up. "You know what? I actually have a suitable candidate for team leader. You may have heard of her before."
"Really?" Director Li looked a little curious.
"Have you heard of Chu Xi?" Wang Ruiguo couldn't help but smile when he mentioned her. "Her talent in shooting really amazes me."
Director Li was stunned for a moment, and it took him a while to react before he spoke: "Are you talking about... Chu Xi who participated in the Super Star Games some time ago?"
"Yes, it's her. She is also participating in the tryout with our team. It's just right, let her lead your celebrity guests, isn't it suitable?" Wang Ruiguo smiled so hard that the corners of his mouth opened wide, revealing his white teeth.
Director Li was suddenly a little confused.
Chu Xi...why did you come to the shooting team tryout?
Isn't she an entertainer?
"Director, our program is mainly to promote shooting sports, so it needs to be filmed in a more professional and realistic way. I'm worried... whether Chu Xi can convince the audience." Director Li said worriedly.
Wang Ruiguo immediately waved his hand, "I can assure you, she's absolutely fine. You may not have heard of the National Shooting Championship, but it's a very high-level competition in our industry. Chu Xi just won the championship a few days ago."
These words shocked Director Li.
champion?
Some time ago, he specially invited Chu Xi to record this program, but was directly rejected by Wang Yang on the grounds that he had no schedule.
He thought Chu Xi was busy with other matters.
So, she went to participate in the competition and won it?
Wang Ruiguo was afraid he would worry, so he continued to explain, "Let me put it this way. Our team's athletes, who have been training for over a year, only won silver medals in this competition. Some of the others didn't even make the top three. You should understand the value of this competition."
There are not many people who pay attention to sports competitions, and even fewer who know about shooting competitions.
So it’s normal that Director Li didn’t know about this.
"Oh, okay, that's great." Director Li came to his senses and nodded quickly. "Thank you for your cooperation, Coach. It's settled then."
Wang Ruiguo also nodded, stood up with a smile, and personally saw Director Li out.
After Director Li left the shooting team, he was still wondering: How abstract! An artist actually participated in a shooting competition and won the championship.
But this is also a good opportunity to promote it.
Apart from the Olympics, people usually pay too little attention to sports competitions. Therefore, even though the competition Chu Xi participated in was very important, almost no one in the country knew about it.
It seems he can use this incident for publicity.
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In the afternoon, when Chu Xi finished training, he was called to Wang Ruiguo's office alone.
Wang Ruiguo briefly recounted the recording of the program and also asked about the training of the artist guests.
Chu Xi had no objection and nodded in agreement: "Okay."
"Yes. The celebrity guests will be coming tomorrow morning. You and I will go greet them then."
Wang Ruiguo looked at her and said kindly, "Go back and rest quickly. Don't get tired."
He is now becoming more and more satisfied with Chu Xi, and everything about her is good.
In the team, some athletes have a very strong desire to win, and they get angry when they encounter something.
Although they are good at achieving good results, they have unstable personalities and mentalities and need guidance and comfort all the time. The coach loses a lot of hair almost every day when guiding them.
Almost no one dislikes someone like Chu Xi, who is always calm and rarely causes trouble for others.
Chu Xi nodded, "Yeah."
As night fell, Chu Xi returned to her room to rest.
She leaned against the headboard and counted the balance on her bank card.
This morning, the company's finance department has successively transferred the basic salary and some notice fees that were previously owed to Chu Xi.
The total amount is more than 180,000.
I have just signed the contract to endorse the Jiyue brand. I will pay a part of the deposit first, and will pay the balance after the subsequent endorsement advertising shooting is completed.
The money currently on hand, plus Ji Yue's subsequent endorsement fees, is enough for Chu Xi to prepare for the Olympics.
Moreover, after joining the provincial team, all training and competition expenses will be reimbursed by the team.
Chu Xi turned off his cell phone, lay down on the bed, closed his eyes and prepared to rest.
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#"Shooting at the Heart" will start filming at the Kyoto Provincial Shooting Team#
The next morning, the program became a hot topic and sparked heated discussions among many netizens.
[Holy crap! It's a variety show promoting shooting sports!]
I've seen so few variety shows promoting shooting sports over the years, which is truly remarkable. Compared to skiing, table tennis, and basketball, shooting training is so boring that audiences don't enjoy watching it, and directors are afraid to film it. This show really surprised me.
[And the production team actually went to the shooting camp to film, so it should be able to make it look pretty realistic, right?]
Oh my god! Look at the guest list! Even the most celebrated actor of the past has been invited, and the actress who's been rumored to be a bit of a star on set is here too. Wow, what a star-studded cast! I'm really looking forward to it.
The variety show "Centripte Shooting" is jointly produced by the United Sports Bureau. Its main purpose is to promote shooting sports, so the recording must strictly follow the shooting team's trial training process, which will definitely not be particularly easy.
Because of this, the program team was rejected many times when inviting celebrity guests.
After much hard work, the program team finally got together four guests:
Wu Yuliang is well-known in the industry for his love of shooting, so when the director invited him, it really didn't take much effort.
Second place, Xu Qianqian, recently participated in the big production "Hot Blood Glory", and she has also played major supporting roles in several hit TV series before, so her popularity has always been good.
The director actually didn’t quite understand why Xu Qianqian took the initiative to ask to be on this show, but since she took the initiative to ask to come and could make up the number of people, the director didn’t delve into it too much.
The third one is an old actor who won the Best Actor trophy more than ten years ago. He is 35 years old this year and has first-class acting skills, but his popularity is far inferior to that of today's top actors, and he has not filmed a movie for a long time.
He was invited this time because he had played the role of a shooting athlete before, and it was considered that he might be a hot topic.
Fourth, there is an actress who often spreads negative news online. It is said that she often acts like a big shot in private and her reputation online has always been very bad.
The director knew her and knew that all the things on the Internet were false.
This time she was willing to participate in the show under pressure, just because she wanted to reverse her reputation and public opinion through this positive variety show.
In addition to these four celebrity guests, the program team’s official announcement list also specifically mentioned a mysterious guest, who is a very popular artist recently and will also appear on the show.
What other mysterious guests could this show invite? Don't tell me, I really can't think of them.
[It must be something related to shooting, but the production team also said it's been quite popular recently. Which shooting-related artist has been popular recently?]
[There's no shooting, but there is one archery pro, I think her name is Chu Xi. But after that variety show ended, there's been no news of Chu Xi, and I don't know what she's been up to.]
[Chu Xi? No way? If it was Chu Xi, wouldn't she just join the guests in the tryout filming? Why is she specifically labeled as a mystery guest?]
Those who are called mysterious guests by the program team are generally people with relatively high strength or fame.
Considering that this variety show is related to shooting, netizens began to speculate that this mysterious guest may have a relatively high status in the field of shooting.
[Could it be a retired Olympic shooting champion or something like that?]
It's possible.
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After breakfast, Chu Xi was called over by Wang Ruiguo and began to prepare to welcome the arrival of the celebrity guests.
The program crew's bus slowly drove into the shooting team.
After the bus stopped, the door opened and Wu Yuliang got off first.
His eyes were filled with unconcealable joy, and he looked around excitedly, "I'm finally back."
Last time, he took advantage of Sister Xi's help to visit the shooting team.
I didn't expect to be here again so soon. And this time, I'll be participating in the tryout with all the members of the shooting team.
It’s exciting to think about it.
Wu Yuliang was feeling happy, but when he turned around, he suddenly caught a glimpse of Chu Xi standing beside him with the coach.
Chu Xi had her hands behind her back with a calm expression on her face. When she saw him, she nodded and greeted him.
Wu Yuliang was stunned.
Why is Sister Xi here too? Didn't the director tell me that Sister Xi would be participating in this show?
Before he could ask any more questions, Xu Qianqian, who got off the car second, was the first to shout, "Chu Xi?! Are you participating in this show too?"
She looked incredulous, as if she had seen a ghost.
Before coming, the program director communicated with the guests about who would participate in the recording.
But she didn't receive the news that Chu Xi was also a guest on the show.
"No, you misunderstood." Wang Ruiguo brought Chu Xi to them, then turned around and looked at Chu Xi, motioning her to explain herself.
Chu Xi stepped forward, hands behind her back, and began to introduce herself: "I am Captain Chu Xi, responsible for taking you to the shooting team tryouts. For the next month, I will be arranging your training and daily activities. Please give me your guidance."
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