Chapter 105 It's about the quota again.
"Of course we have to broadcast it!" said Lu Xingxing, the assistant director of "Little Songs Gathering". "Such good material, we might as well use it."
“Xu Weiyang’s team has been strongly demanding that we delete this part of the dispute,” another person said. “If we broadcast it, Xu Weiyang’s company will definitely lodge a serious protest.”
"Are we afraid of them?" Lu Xingxing rolled her eyes dismissively. "It's not like we framed her. She said those disgusting things herself, and now she's blaming us?"
Hou Jun looked up from his reverie and said, "This episode didn't have much to offer to begin with. It was only thanks to the blessing of the God of Variety that we had this footage. It would be a disservice to the God of Variety if we didn't include it in the final cut."
The others listened to Hou Jun's serious-sounding, nonsensical reasoning and laughed as if it were nothing new.
"However, let's edit it a bit, so that the audience doesn't really think that Lu Yanhe's previous performance was very poor," Hou Jun said. "That kid is very hardworking, and he came to our show to sing his new song. He's practically one of our own now, so we have to take care of him."
Lu Xingxing nodded in strong agreement.
That's true.
"Yan Liang helped out today, and we'll arrange for him to appear on our show a couple more times later," Hou Jun added. "He has good singing skills. We'll talk to his manager and have him prepare two songs properly, with a better arrangement that suits him, so that it won't be like this time with 'Chasing Dreams,' which was just a perfunctory effort."
"This arrangement of 'Chasing Dreams' was probably prepared for him by Lu Yanhe's company. His company doesn't value him at all."
Hou Jun curled his lip. "They won't even let him appear on the show, how can they value him?"
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Lu Yanhe was unaware that he had unexpectedly received preferential treatment from the production team of "Little Song Gathering".
On Wednesday at noon, Lu Yanhe handed the signed termination agreement to Zhou Ping'an.
In order to get these termination agreements signed by Lu Yanhe as soon as possible, Zhou Ping'an ran to the gate of No. 13 Middle School at noon.
After receiving it, Zhou Ping'an didn't say a word and turned to leave.
Lu Yanhe watched Zhou Ping'an walk towards his car parked by the roadside, curled his lip, and turned to walk into the school.
As I was going upstairs, I ran into Chu Saiying coming downstairs with a sullen face.
The moment their eyes met, Chu Saiying immediately looked away, as if she didn't want to look at him at all.
I don't know what made him so urgent, but he rushed downstairs.
Before Lu Yanhe even entered the classroom, he could hear the lively sounds inside.
It was unusual for the classroom to be so noisy at midday; almost everyone was talking to the person next to them, chatting excitedly.
Lu Yanhe walked up to Li Pengfei with a puzzled look and asked, "What's going on?"
Upon seeing him, Li Pengfei immediately stood up and said, "Guess how Chu Saiying got the recommendation quota for independent enrollment?"
"Didn't Xu Zijun give up?"
"Do you know why Xu Zijun gave up?" Li Pengfei asked indignantly. "Chu Saiying's family took 200,000 yuan to buy the quota from Xu Zijun's family, so that Xu Zijun would give it up!"
Lu Yanhe's eyes widened in shock.
On the day he recorded "The Skills of the Workplace," he wondered if Xu Zijun and Chu Saiying had reached some kind of agreement behind the scenes, just like the content of that program, which made Xu Zijun give up this quota. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be true!
How did you find out about this?
"Oh, Chu Saiying sent the message herself, but she sent it to the wrong place, to the class group."
Li Pengfei took out his phone and showed it to Lu Yanhe, who then saw that just five minutes earlier, Chu Saiying had sent a message in the class group.
His message read: "Did you sign a confidentiality agreement with Xu Zijun and her family? Recently, many classmates have been discussing her giving up her recommendation quota. You need to make it clear to her family that this matter cannot be leaked. If anyone finds out, you can forget about getting the 100,000 yuan."
Clearly, Chu Saiying intended to send this message to someone else, but whether it was a slip of the hand or something else, he accidentally sent it to the class group.
It was immediately screenshotted and caused an uproar.
These words do not directly state that Chu Saiying spent 200,000 yuan to buy the quota from Xu Zijun's family, but these words are enough for everyone to infer this content.
Lu Yanhe read the message twice in surprise before returning the phone to Li Pengfei.
"That's really... no wonder I ran into him on the stairs earlier, he was in such a hurry."
Li Pengfei looked disdainful and said, "He was guilty and ran away."
Lu Yanhe looked around, but couldn't find Xu Zijun in the classroom.
"Hmm? Where's Xu Zijun?" Lu Yanhe asked.
Li Pengfei shook his head, "I don't know, they were just in the classroom, I don't know where they went."
Lu Yanhe inexplicably thought of the scene where he had seen Xu Zijun secretly wiping away tears.
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Li Pengfei never considered himself a good student, nor did he think he was good at studying, but he was self-righteous because he didn't need to rely on studying hard to get a good life in the future.
His life is already very good now, and his future is also very bright.
He's definitely a rich kid.
He's already thought it all out: he's relying on his dad now, and on his brother in the future.
But he never felt that he had the right to laugh at or look down on those who worked hard.
On the contrary, he actually admires this kind of person quite a bit in private.
Just as he initially admired Lu Yanhe, it was precisely because he was surprised that Lu Yanhe had suddenly changed his personality and started attending school every day that they began to become friends.
Chu Saiying had always wanted to bring him into her camp.
So much time has passed, and Li Pengfei still ignores Chu Saiying's attempts to win him over.
Li Pengfei didn't care much about class, wealth, or poverty—those things that Chu Saiying cared about.
Li Pengfei also disliked others using this kind of thing to distinguish each person.
To be a rich second-generation who can just lie down and relax, you must be prepared to lie down and relax, recognize that you are a good-for-nothing, and then accept the gifts of fate with a clear conscience—instead of thinking that you can do better than others if you just try harder.
Li Pengfei found Chu Saiying's family's actions utterly shameful.
That's absolutely outrageous.
"Isn't this just a disguised way of paying money to buy a quota?" Li Pengfei complained to Lu Yanhe.
At this moment, Luo Zicheng asked, "What's wrong now?"
Lu Yanhe and Li Pengfei both looked at Luo Zicheng in surprise.
Luo Zicheng said nonchalantly, "It's not like we robbed Xu Zijun for nothing. One paid to sell, and the other received money to sell. It was consensual on both sides. Don't you find it ridiculous that you're all here making a fuss about it?"
Luo Zicheng's words were like a dagger, piercing a fact that everyone had unanimously overlooked—no matter how you look at it, it was Xu Zijun who gave up, which allowed Chu Saiying to get the recommendation spot.
(End of this chapter)
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