"Hello everyone!"
As the music played, Haruka, Miki and Chihaya came onto the stage and waved to everyone.
"Welcome to Night 765!"
The lights began to flicker, and cheers immediately emerged as the girls appeared. The audience under the stage waved their light sticks and shouted loudly.
"Huh... Now it seems like we've made a good start."
Looking at the crazy audience below, Fang Zheng breathed a sigh of relief. This time, he adjusted the program list based on the style of many Hollywood movies. Most Hollywood movies have simple and direct plots, which are no different from elementary school students' essays. They are so-called popcorn movies. What you watch is heartbeat. One word is enough to make you feel good. Whether it is reasonable or not, whether it is logical or not is not something the audience needs to consider.
So generally, a successful Hollywood blockbuster will open with a super exciting fight or car chase or something, which instantly draws the audience in, and then they won’t think about the plot and logic of the movie.
Fang Zheng is doing the same thing now. He knows very well that most of the audience here today are fans of STARS and Ryugu Komachi. They may not even be able to count how many idols there are in 765, but they are definitely not so stupid that they can't even recognize the group they like.
If we proceed as planned, someone will definitely notice that the three people from Ryugu Komachi are not present, which will cause trouble. In this case, we might as well get them excited from the beginning, and then they won't pay attention to these troubles...
But this itself is not easy, which means that the three members of S.T.A.R.S. must take the lead first, because only in this way will the audience not have questions like "Who is this person on the stage? Where is Ryugu Komachi?"
The one with the heaviest burden among them is Miki. Haruka is too friendly and Chihaya doesn't expect her to be able to speak well. If Miki can't mobilize the audience, then everything that follows will be out of the question.
This was much more stressful than Fang Zheng going on stage by himself. After all, Fang Zheng had no control over how the girl performed on stage. Moreover, his forbidden factions were illusion and enchantment, which meant that Fang Zheng could not use illusion or group spells to guide the audience's emotions... Well, in the final analysis, the girl could only rely on herself.
At the end of the song, the audience's emotions had been aroused, but this was just the beginning. Soon, with the end of Haruka and Chihaya, Miki remained on the stage alone and began her performance.
"You've worked hard. Take a rest."
Looking at Chihaya and Haruka walking to the backstage, Fang Zheng took out two bottles of water and handed them to them.
"Thank you, producer."
Haruka thanked him and took the water bottle with Chihaya.
"The audience is in a good mood right now. It's up to you now. Chihaya, remember, you should take over after Miki's two songs. Don't give the audience time to react. Haruka, be prepared to take Yukiho and Takane with you to perform a cameo in the middle."
"OK!"
They both nodded, and then Haruka quickly ran towards the lounge with the bottle of water, while Chihaya stood not far away and closed her eyes.
At this time, Qiong came over and looked at Fang Zheng with a smile.
"I feel like you're a little nervous, brother?"
"I don't like things that are out of my control, so it's normal to be nervous."
Fang Zheng frowned slightly. This was why he liked to do almost everything by himself. Just like this time when he sent Dong Ma back to the love world, Fang Zheng only needed to send a few people and a fleet. But after thinking about it, he decided to go himself because he hated situations that were out of control.
Fang Zheng was confident about the free world because those worlds were no longer secrets to him. Therefore, even if something happened, Fang Zheng was confident that his children could handle it. Just like when the Chinese Federation in the mecha world was attacked by unidentified aliens, Fang Zheng only made a rough decision after listening to Anya's report and did not think of intervening.
But Fang Zheng would not be so relaxed about the exploration and adventure of unknown areas. The starry sky is endless, and who knows what will happen in which world.
"Brother, do you still have a few warships in this world?"
“It’s no use.”
Fang Zheng spread his hands helplessly.
"Even if I pull them all over here, can I guarantee that this concert will be a success? That's why I don't like this kind of mission. It's so easy to just fight and kill..."
Fang Zheng hated those annoying tasks when he played games. Killing was the easiest. For him, it was just a matter of where to go, who to kill, and how many to kill. But the tasks that required thinking were the most troublesome. Often, in order to show off their cleverness or cleverness to the players, designers would deliberately design some very disgusting tasks. For example, if you were asked to take something from a certain place, and you forgot to read the task prompt and didn't take it, or didn't find the place at all, you would probably be confused.
Or you can just look up guides online.
Fang Zheng doesn't like tasks like this that require more than just one's own efforts.
As a producer, what he can do is really very limited. Of course, Fang Zheng can help the girls arrange work, arrange concerts, and write songs for them, but that's all he can do.
It was impossible for Fang Zheng to copy classic songs for them. Classic songs are not only about good songs, but also good singers. And the girls are only artists who have not debuted yet. Their skills are far from reaching that level. If they copy them, it will only benefit others.
Just like the song "All You Gave Me" copied by Fang Zheng back then, it is naturally a good song. After it was sung at School Days, it was really popular in the surrounding area for a while.
But that’s the extent of it. Although some scouts or agencies came to us, they were not particularly large agencies.
However, after this song was taken by Yuki Morikawa, it became a household name as soon as it was sung and became popular throughout Japan.
Why? Because the difference in level between Setsuna and Morikawa Yuki is too big.
After all, Setsuna is just a music lover. She likes to sing, but that's all. Without professional training and fame, her singing skills are certainly not comparable to Yuki Morikawa's. The latter has been a national idol singer for several years. If she didn't have some talent, she wouldn't be so popular.
The current Setsuna Ogiso is a bit like a combination of Haruka + Chihaya + Miki. She has Haruka's friendliness, Chihaya's singing skills and Miki's presence, which is why she became an instant hit and topped the weekly chart.
Of course, the support given to her by Ogata Office cannot be ignored.
But if Setsuna is Lu Bu, then Haruka, Chihaya and Miki are the three heroes. If one can't beat him, the three together should be no problem.
As the saying goes, three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang.
At this time, Miki had finished singing a song.
Although she still looked cheerful and lively, Fang Zheng could tell from her rapid breathing and movements that Meixi was a little tired at the moment.
This is not surprising. At the beginning, Miki danced with STARS, and then she sang and danced solo, and then there was another song, which was also sung and danced. Because these songs have intense and fast rhythms, Miki's movements are also larger.
Frankly speaking, right now Mixi is a bit like running a marathon at the speed of a 100-meter race, and she is already a little exhausted.
But Fang Zheng could only watch here.
For the third song, Youzhen and Xiang were responsible for dancing with Miki, but they were just dancing, and Miki's song was also very difficult. Only she and Guiyin in the entire agency could sing it, and no one else could sing it. So Fang Zheng could only watch Miki running and jumping on the stage, singing and swaying, while below her, the audience excitedly raised their light sticks and kept waving them.
The atmosphere has become completely heated up.
The song ended, cheers rang out, and Meixi smiled and waved to the audience, then walked off the stage. But a few steps after walking backstage, Meixi's legs went limp, and then she was quickly grabbed by Fang Zheng.
"Producer..."
Mixi gasped and raised her head. Although her expression looked a little ugly, she still smiled.
"Misaki did it. You can see it on the stage. Everyone below is sparkling... Producer, is Misaki also sparkling?"
"Of course, you did a great job, it was perfect, you are the brightest one tonight."
Fang Zheng touched Mei Xi's head and gave his answer. Fang Zheng was not lying. As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning. If Mei Xi failed to warm up the crowd, it would mean that the subsequent plans would be completely scrapped. So Fang Zheng said that Mei Xi was the most shining one tonight, and it was well deserved.
"ha……!"
Hearing Fang Zheng's answer, Miki smiled happily. At this time, Chihaya also patted her shoulder.
"Thank you for your hard work, Miki. Leave the rest to me."
As she spoke, Chihaya stepped onto the stage.
The rain outside is getting heavier.
“Thank you for your hard work.”
Setsuna bowed respectfully to the assistants outside, then walked into the lounge, where Touma, Sekai and Setsuna were waiting for her.
"How are you, Setsuna? Are you okay?"
"Well, everything went well..."
Looking at the three friends in front of her, Setsuna relaxed a little. Sekai, Setsuna, and Touma were currently accompanying her as trainees, which was also the motivation for Setsuna to persevere. To be honest, Setsuna herself had completely regretted it by now. She had never thought of becoming an idol. The reason she accepted Morikawa Yuki's invitation was more like an act of anger after being provoked by Fang Zheng.
But it brought her unimaginable consequences.
As one of the most popular new idol stars, Setsuna naturally has a lot of work to do, including filming commercials, appearing on TV and radio, releasing CDs and holding concerts.
For someone who aspires to be an idol, he or she may feel that he or she is busy and fulfilled.
But for Xuecai, she felt a little annoyed. She now missed her days in school very much, instead of running around every day and dealing with these things.
She had considered not doing it, but when she signed the contract, Ogata Agency had listed a high penalty for breach of contract, which was something a girl from an ordinary family could not afford...
"What are you looking at?"
After taking a breath and putting her inner anxiety behind her, Xuecai looked at the TV in the lounge and found that a concert was being broadcast on TV.
"It's 765's concert. We thought it was quite interesting, so we watched the live broadcast."
"Really..."
Looking at the blonde girl singing and dancing on the stage, Xue Cai suddenly felt a little dazzling.
"What's her name?"
"Hoshii Miki...what's wrong?"
"I……"
Hearing Touma's question, Setsuna hesitated for a moment, but still spoke out.
"I've seen her on TV before. She was with Kasugano-kun...cuddling."
Although it was Miki who rushed over at that time, and Fang Zheng held her head and pushed her away, but Xuecai obviously didn't see it that way.
"She is indeed lively and lovely."
Hearing this, Shijie also stared at the TV and gave his opinion after a moment. Everyone looked at each other, somewhat depressed. Then Shijie seemed to have thought of something and looked at Touma.
"By the way, Touma, are there girls like this in that place called Tendou Palace?"
"Yes, although I'm not very old."
When it comes to being lively and cute, Yanzhu and Tina are definitely not behind others.
Not to mention Xiao Hei, the troublemaker.
“…”
Soon, the lounge fell into silence until Miki left the stage and then another girl walked onto the stage.
But at this moment, Setsuna suddenly spoke.
"Yukina, this isn't a good choice."
"I know...but what can I do now?"
Xuecai was helpless, if she had to choose, she would actually prefer to be with Fang Zheng. But at that time, she was really confused by the scene of Fang Zheng and a group of girls. Later, when Morikawa Yuki invited her to join Ogata Office, Xuecai suddenly remembered that scene in her mind for some reason, and then she agreed.
Then when Setsuna calmed down...she had already signed the contract.
"If I quit, I'll have to pay liquidated damages!"
"Perhaps Kasugano can help?"
"The penalty for breach of contract is tens of millions."
Xuecai remembered this number very clearly. In fact, she had had this idea for a long time. However, every time Xuecai had this idea, the sky-high amount of liquidated damages would discourage her.
As a child from a middle-class family, Xuecai knew that she definitely could not afford such money.
“…”
Hearing this, the other three also fell silent. Although they were also very familiar with Fang Zheng, they did not think that Fang Zheng would spend tens of millions for Xue Cai...even Touma was no exception.
After all, strictly speaking, this incident was caused by Xuecai herself.
But how to solve this problem?
No one has figured out a solution yet.