Chapter 31
As soon as Shen Huaixi said this.
Even those contestants who were nervous about whether their mentor would select them as their group and who were determined to form a five-member group for them had subtle changes in their expressions.
Everyone looked at Shen Huaixi in confusion, thinking that his last question to Su Xingyao was a bit... mean.
Although his reasons sounded very noble, the fact was that he assigned them to such a bad group.
Just break up, but in the end you have to stab someone in the heart.
What does he want to hear from the cat? To hear someone say thank you to him...
As soon as Shen Huaixi opened his mouth, the atmosphere on the stage suddenly became weird, and many contestants looked at him with indescribable expressions.
Even Fu Qingyan, who always defended Shen Huaixi, couldn’t help but look at him.
In addition to Fu Qingyan, Sheng Yan, as a mentor, also immediately sensed something was wrong. He took a few steps forward and tried to speak up to help Su Xingyao.
But Su Xingyao did not need anyone to help him. Instead, he took the initiative to turn on his microphone.
The corners of his mouth raised slightly and he spoke politely.
"Thank you, Mr. Shen."
After saying this politely, Su Xingyao shifted his gaze to his four teammates. His tone was calm, and he was not at all upset by this grouping.
"I used to sing alone, but this time I have the opportunity to work with so many outstanding singers. I am also looking forward to our new group."
Su Xingyao's answer was polite and generous, and he also took the other contestants' faces into consideration.
Although the hood covered his face, everyone could tell from his steady voice that he didn't mind Shen Huaixi's grouping at all.
After saying this, he even took the initiative to walk over to the other four teammates and stood side by side with them.
It's like a fist hitting cotton.
Shen Huaixi, feeling both uncertain and upset, could only pull up the corners of his mouth and make a cheering gesture towards Su Xingyao's back.
But his tone was not so friendly.
"Then you do your best."
Not you, but you.
Su Xingyao didn’t turn around when he heard this, nor did he respond to Shen Huaixi’s provocation.
Instead, he lowered his head, straightened his doll costume, and stood quietly on the stage.
In fact, he was not completely unpredictable about Shen Huaixi's sudden attack.
He knew long ago that the other party's mind was smaller than a needle and he wanted to fight for everything.
When he was first adopted into the Shen family, Qin Mingchuan, who was then 18 years old, had just gotten his driver's license.
The day after getting his driver's license, he drove his fancy sports car around their school every day.
Every day after evening self-study, he would come on time and find all kinds of ridiculous reasons to send himself to Shen's house.
Once, Shen Huaixi ran into him getting out of Qin Mingchuan's sports car, and the next day, the other party's foot was inexplicably sprained at school.
After that, Shen Huaixi was always in Qin Mingchuan's co-pilot seat, and Qin Mingchuan didn't come to see him for a long time.
At that time, Su Xingyao was only thinking about studying and had no interest in Qin Mingchuan or his seven-figure sports car.
In fact, he had only sat on it twice in total.
But even so, Shen Huaixi couldn't stand it anymore, and later he didn't know what he said to Qin Mingchuan, and the other party never drove that car again, nor let him sit in the passenger seat of any car.
Not long after, Shen Huaixi invited him to ride a bicycle together, and then he was injured inexplicably.
Qin Mingchuan also let it go and blamed him for pushing Shen Huaixi.
Su Xingyao is not just a person who only reads books of sages, he has also read some online novels.
In the works he has come across, even if the protagonists in the novel world have various shortcomings, at least there are no major problems with their character.
But he found that Shen Huaixi seemed to be an exception.
There's nothing wrong with loving to fight and compete, but you shouldn't use such shady means.
But his clumsy tricks always managed to deceive everyone.
No one doubted him. Instead, everyone liked him and felt that whatever he did could be tolerated. Even if he made a mistake, it was because he was too simple-minded and had no ill intentions at all.
Thinking of this, Su Xingyao lowered his eyes.
This is probably because under the halo of the protagonist, the will of the world forces everyone to have an eight hundred times filter on him.
It was like others didn’t have enough choices and wanted to choose five people, so Fu Qingyan helped him change the rules of the game regardless of principles.
*
This selection episode passed quickly.
But the remaining contestants and mentors at the scene were a little frightened, fearing that Shen Huaixi would go crazy again and suddenly form a group of six, seven or eight people for the other mentors.
But fortunately, he suddenly became normal afterwards, as if he realized that the more people are not necessarily better, but rather that they should have matching styles. He never acted up again and divided the people into groups of three according to the rules of the other three mentors.
Half an hour later, the contestants who were officially divided into groups breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he looked at the unlucky Su Xingyao with great sympathy.
He was recognized by everyone as the strongest, but he was assigned to a group with a weird style by Shen Huaixi, a layman.
No. 77 in the group is okay. This kind of player with strong overall strength can actually pair well with anyone.
But the remaining rappers and ancient style internet celebrities not only have completely different styles, but one of them is even a drag.
The contestants found it hard to imagine how the cat-headed boss with such a good voice would drag the plane forward...
After the grouping was completed, today's collective recording session ended, and the remaining time was spent by each group of mentors leading their team members to select songs.
Without the group recording, Fu Qingyan had no subsequent recording tasks.
But he did not leave, but knocked on the door of Shen Huaixi's lounge.
"Come in."
Shen Huaixi’s cold voice rang out in the house.
When Fu Qingyan pushed the door open and walked to his side, Shen Huaixi realized that the person who came was not his assistant, and a smile immediately appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Fu Qingyan handed the milk tea that he asked his assistant to buy specially to Shen Huaixi.
It is the other person's favorite flavor.
Seeing that the other person was obviously not very focused, he asked softly, "Are you tired?"
“Yeah,” Shen Huaixi happily took the milk tea and took a sip.
But after taking a sip, he put the rest of the cup aside and didn't take a second sip.
Shen Huaixi rubbed his shoulders and complained, "I am so tired from recording this show today... I am exhausted both physically and mentally."
Fu Qingyan took over his words without leaving any trace and asked, "Is it because of the grouping?"
Shen Huaixi was messaging Xu Beizhou, asking him to help the contestants in his group choose songs, and didn't listen to Fu Qingyan's words too seriously, so he nodded perfunctorily.
Fu Qingyan was silent for several seconds.
Because of the temporary change in the rules just now, he came down and apologized to every mentor again.
Especially Sheng Yan, he also realized that he suffered a lot because of Shen Huaixi today.
Originally, he wanted to talk to the group of five people that Shen Huaixi had divided, but in the end he came to Shen Huaixi first.
"Huaixi, group No. 78..."
Fu Qingyan decided to ask the other party in person, "Why did you come up with this team?"
Hearing Fu Qingyan mention No. 78 again in front of him, Shen Huaixi, who had long been unhappy with his excessive attention to the other party, suddenly felt bad again.
He put down his phone, propped his chin with one hand and said innocently, "I just think it would be more fun to put them together."
After hearing this reason, Fu Qingyan seemed to be hesitant to speak.
Finally he spoke, "Huai Xi, have you ever thought about..."
He reminded the other party tactfully.
"For some contestants, this stage may only come once in their lifetime. In a sense, the grouping determines their future fate."
Hearing Fu Qingyan's accusation against him, the smile on Shen Huaixi's face turned cold.
"so what?"
Fu Qingyan sighed, but ultimately did not say a word of blame.
"I just think that sometimes you don't have to be so willful."
Shen Huaixi smiled indifferently and blamed Fu Qingyan instead.
"Qingyan, sometimes you just care too much about others. We are just here to record a show, and we can't control the fate of the contestants. There are so many people, can you take care of them one by one? Someone will be eliminated eventually."
After saying this, he realized that what he said was too ruthless, and immediately defended himself, "Besides, the way I distributed them has obviously created more exposure and topics for them..."
I don't know why tonight, but the air is full of dampness and humidity.
Fu Qingyan was a little annoyed and didn't want to listen to Shen Huaixi's sophistry anymore, so he asked him bluntly, "Really?"
Being questioned again and again by Fu Qingyan because of strangers, Shen Huaixi, who had long been impatient, also turned cold.
"Qingyan, are you really blaming me for not forming a team rationally?"
"Or is it because I put your favorite cat in there?"
Shen Huaixi smiled.
"But can you blame me? Wasn't this all his own choice?"
"He chose Sheng Yan himself. Sheng Yan's group... is full of weird people. Isn't it the same no matter who he's in a group with?"
Fu Qingyan originally wanted to say something to Shen Huaixi, but seeing that the other party was busy playing with his phone and didn't seem to feel guilty about giving the contestants a difficult task today, he ended up not saying anything.
After knowing each other for so many years, at this moment he suddenly felt that the other person was a little strange.
Fu Qingyan looked up, and Shen Huaixi's face began to gradually become blurred in his eyes.
He found that the boy who rushed into the fire to save himself at the age of 18 seemed to have changed slowly over the years.
*
Just when Shen Huaixi felt at ease handing over all the song selection tasks for his group to Xu Beizhou, Sheng Yan was so worried that he couldn't sleep well all night.
He has four teams, and he is not very worried about the other three except Su Xingyao's team.
Although each member of those three teams cannot be considered a perfect match, they are still normal combinations. They all have their own unique styles and there are many songs that suit them.
But the problem lies with the group of five.
To be precise, the problem lies with their rappers and ancient style players.
These two singers are not as versatile as the other three. In addition to their weak singing skills, their respective vocal ranges are also very narrow.
It’s not that they can’t sing other popular songs, but the effect is not very good.
Sheng Yan, who had been struggling to choose a song all night, had obvious bruises under his eyes when he arrived at his team's exclusive practice room in the recording building early the next morning.
Seeing Sheng Yan's haggard appearance, No. 77 asked him, "Teacher, don't tell me you didn't sleep all night..."
Sheng Yan nodded weakly, "Almost."
After saying that, he turned around and asked his assistant to bring in the computer he brought and turn it on.
"Let's not talk about that for now, let's decide on the song first. The production team only gave us three days to prepare."
When the idol who sang and danced and mocked Sheng Yan at first didn't react, "What?"
Sheng Yan explained it more clearly, "In three days we will start our first live performance..."
After hearing this, the other contestants were almost going crazy.
"Three days???"
"What kind of devilish progress is this..."
When everyone was surprised, Su Xingyao did not say anything.
In fact, he had thought about this time issue after recording the show yesterday.
All previous updates from the program team were placed at 8 o'clock on Saturday night.
The director of this program often likes to assign tasks to contestants to complete within a limited time.
He wondered at the time whether the game would be held this Saturday.
But when he recorded yesterday, it was already Thursday. He thought that since it was so close to Saturday, the other party would not arrange such a devilish schedule.
But who knew that he would postpone the live broadcast to Sunday...
Thinking of this operation, Su Xingyao realized that she was too naive after all...
Because the time was too short, he already had the answer in his mind but still asked Sheng Yan a very crucial question.
"Does it count today, too?"
Sheng Yan only said three days, and did not say when or when the live broadcast would take place, so this is very important!
Sheng Yan stopped what he was doing and looked at Su Xingyao with a dazed look due to lack of sleep.
After a few seconds, he said, "Of course..."
The other contestants were silent after hearing this.
The rapper glanced at the time on the wall and realized that time was running out. "No wonder the group next door came to practice at 5am today..."
No. 77 added, “They should have decided on the song last night.”
Hearing that other teams were progressing so fast, the ancient style singer realized that he was the one holding everyone back and quickly apologized to everyone guiltily, "It's all me who held everyone back... I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
The other party bowed his head low when he apologized. Su Xingyao happened to be standing next to him, so she quickly helped him up and comforted him, "We are on the same team, there is no such thing as one of us being a burden."
Although Su Xingyao used a voice changer, her voice was very gentle.
The ancient style singer felt better when he saw that the cat-headed boss did not despise him.
"Time is tight. Right now, only our team's song has not been decided yet. We have to decide on the song first."
After saying that, Sheng Yan switched the computer interface to the songs he had chosen for the contestants.
After staying up all night, he finally selected four songs for everyone.
The rules of this show are also very perverted.
It is said that in order to promote the tacit understanding between the mentors and the contestants, the songs sung by the contestants are either the mentors' own works or works selected by the mentors.
The contestants cannot decide on the songs on their own and can only choose from the song list prepared by the mentors.
Sheng Yan was very clear that the songs he sang as an idol were not suitable for these contestants at all, so he could only help them choose other people's songs overnight.
After tuning out the songs, he immediately played them one by one for everyone.
Ten minutes later, the first three songs were played.
Sheng Yan looked at everyone, "What do you think?"
After he asked this question, the contestants all looked a little strange.
The styles of these songs are relatively diverse and inclusive, but overall they can only be said to be passable, because each song is not suitable for one or two singers, so they are not actually the most suitable for their group.
When everyone was hesitant to speak, No. 77 dropped the line on the last song with a foreign name chosen by Sheng Yan.
"Teacher Sheng, why don't you play the last song?"
"This song..." Sheng Yan glanced at the song title and paused for a few seconds before saying, "Maybe I can't sing it."
But after thinking about it, Sheng Yan still felt that it would be better to let everyone listen first, "But everyone can listen first, if it is suitable, I will think of a solution."
After Sheng Yan finished speaking, he clicked on the name of the last song.
Soon, a lively melody filled the entire room.
The fourth song is a song in a foreign language and although the language is different, the atmosphere is just right.
The singer who was concentrating on ancient music raised an eyebrow in surprise.
He didn't expect that Sheng Yan would actually compose foreign songs for them.
But although the language is different, the effect is indeed obvious.
After more than three minutes, the song ended and the singer and rapper nodded in unison.
"This song should have a rap section in the prelude...it's a place for me to express myself."
The ancient style singer finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"I feel like I can sing the part before the chorus in section C. I'm pretty good at the falsetto in this part."
Compared to the previous songs, everyone could find their own voice in this relaxing and healing foreign song, and everyone was quite satisfied after listening to it.
However, the careful singer still raised a question, "But the high notes in the chorus of this song are too high... I am a little worried."
He said it politely, but actually he had no problem with the other parts of the song, but he didn't even dare to touch the high notes, it was too difficult.
The kind that will cost him his life after singing it.
As soon as the singing and dancing singer finished speaking, Sheng Yan, who had obviously thought about this issue a long time ago, looked at Su Xingyao calmly.
"Cat, can you?"
Only one person in their team could handle this difficult segment.
Su Xingyao, who was suddenly called, looked at Sheng Yan, then nodded to her cat headgear.
“I can do anything…”
Everyone has heard it with their own ears. The chorus of this song has a very high pitch, and it is extremely difficult to switch between true and false voices.
If someone else said this so easily, everyone would probably question it.
But when Su Xingyao uttered these four words calmly, the effect was more convincing than typing ten exclamation marks.
After discovering that the most difficult part was solved so easily, everyone finally relaxed and felt a little happy that they had seen the light.
But Sheng Yan poured a bucket of cold water on everyone at this time.
"When I found this song last night, I felt that it would be quite suitable for our team if we rearranged it in a few places."
After saying that, he smiled helplessly, "But there is a big problem right now."
The contestants looked at him curiously.
"What's the problem?"
Sheng Yan spread his hands helplessly.
"We don't have the copyright for this song yet."
The singer of this song is called Lance, a new and cutting-edge singer with a very distinctive personal style this year abroad. His songs are very novel and varied, and he likes to integrate many elements in each song.
Although his songs incorporate many elements, each one is harmonious and unified, without any sense of patchwork, fragmentation or incongruity.
Because of this, his songs are not yet widely known in China.
But abroad, as soon as he debuted, he attracted a lot of attention.
Although this singer is somewhat famous, he himself is very mysterious.
Sheng Yan's team asked many people for help last night, but they couldn't find the other party's contact information.
"Lance's songs need his authorization before they can be used, but he is a little difficult to contact."
Sheng Yan finished this sentence with difficulty, and then said, "This is also the reason why I didn't let everyone listen to this song right away."
They were afraid that everyone's joy would be in vain.
Just when there was a glimmer of hope, suddenly there came a bolt from the blue.
The light that had finally ignited in the contestants' eyes went out again.
The shocked people hung their heads.
"Why are we always so unlucky..."
Sighing.
Su Xingyao, who had been standing at the edge and had not spoken a word, looked at the people with sad faces and gently raised her kitten paw gloves.
"Well... maybe I can try to contact Lance."
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