Chapter 1 Transmigrating into a Book
Chapter Summary: Underworld Dance Practice Time
Practice room.
Mu Zhi looked down and scrolled through her phone.
The top comments section of the latest Weibo post from the official account of "Chasing the Light" is filled with criticism and insults:
"Do you know how hard Mu Zhi works? Others sing high notes melodiously, but she cracks; others dance and carry the whole show, but she makes mistakes; the stage is empty, and Mu Zhi is just a useless piece of trash!"
"This year there are only 5 debut spots, and everyone else is scrambling for them, while she's just coasting along! Can't Zhi Muzhi, who's just a pretty face and relies on selling her looks to get to her high position, just get out of 'Chasing the Light Girl'?!"
"In the first performance and the recently concluded theme song dance, Mu Zhi was completely outclassed by the other contestants. Her skill level was several levels below theirs, yet she was ranked in the top 5? Her favoritism is too obvious. Useless Mu Zhi, just withdraw from the competition!!"
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The accounts that received the most comments had profile pictures of several pretty girls and were fans of other trainees.
One tear, then two, fell onto the phone screen.
Mu Zhi was taken aback, then realized that the original owner's emotions had been affected by the comments and she was saddened and shed tears. She raised her hand to wipe them away.
She hated letting tears reveal her vulnerability, so she closed her eyes and rubbed her furrowed brows.
"Little girl, are you alright?"
"Sigh, don't take online comments to heart. You'll have other opportunities to prove yourself later."
My thoughts were pulled back to reality by the cameraman's kind words of comfort.
Mu Zhi opened her eyes again, her gaze clear. She looked up and smiled, thanking them, "You're right! Thank you for your phone!"
He handed the phone back to the cameraman with both hands.
Mu Zhi roused herself and walked to a corner of the practice room.
A laptop was propped up on a high chair there.
Each practice room is equipped with a computer, which is not connected to the internet, and the desktop contains copies of each group's performance video.
I went to the computer and turned it on.
It's 5 a.m.
It has been a long time since Mu Zhi came into this world.
Three hours have passed.
Three hours earlier, Mu Zhi and her team were on their way to a major film awards ceremony. She had debuted as an actress at the age of 22 and had been acting for five years. She had been nominated for "Best Actress" twice and was a strong contender to win the award that night.
In fact, the trophy was already in their grasp.
A week before the awards ceremony, Muzhi's team received a notification from the organizers that she was the Best Actress winner this year, and that her acceptance speech was ready. Tonight would be the highlight of her acting career!
Unexpectedly, on the way to the awards ceremony, a sudden downpour occurred.
The large truck in front suddenly stopped, causing the two vehicles to collide, and her vision went black.
I woke up to find myself lying on the floor of an unfamiliar bathroom, with a bump on my head.
He stood up and looked in the mirror, his face filled with astonishment.
The person in the mirror looked seven parts like her, but was three parts younger and more beautiful. She was wearing a pink short-sleeved shirt with the words "Muzhi" in large print on the hem and "Trainee" in smaller print on the side.
Upon entering the outer room, under the dim light emanating from the bathroom, Mu Zhi surveyed the four-person bedroom with bunk beds. One bed was empty, while the other three were occupied by sleeping people.
Then her gaze paused, drawn to a matching pink dress hanging on the bed next to hers.
The clothes had three large characters on them: Xia Xinyan.
The next second, it felt like a tornado suddenly swept through her head, causing a splitting headache, as the original owner's memories flooded into her mind like a tidal wave...
The article connects keywords such as trainee Mu Zhi, Xia Xinyan, and talent show.
A car accident during a heavy rainstorm unexpectedly led her to transmigrate into an entertainment industry novel called "The Boss Spends Money to Spoil Her Debut," which tells the story of the female protagonist, Xia Xinyan, who becomes a sensation after participating in the girl group talent show "Chasing the Light Girl" and debuts as the center.
This novel was written by a hater of Mu Zhi, who deliberately created a cannon fodder character with the same name for Mu Zhi. A pretty but talentless woman participates in a talent show, performs half-heartedly, and is plagued by controversy from the very first performance, eventually being forced to withdraw from the competition due to online bullying. In the end, she marries into a "wealthy family" for money, only to find her husband is a fake tycoon, leaving her with enormous debts and ultimately leading her to commit suicide.
This hater turned into a fan when Mu Zhi was nominated for "Best Actress" for the second time.
Unexpectedly, Mu Zhi transmigrated into this book, or perhaps a time and space similar to the novel.
After sitting quietly on my bed in the dormitory for two hours.
Mu Zhi came to the practice room alone, having borrowed a phone from the cameraman on duty.
After checking the information online, she further confirmed the fact that she had transmigrated into the book, as well as the current situation of the trainee "Mu Zhi".
In recent years, reality shows featuring boy groups and girl groups have sprung up one after another, and with multiple platforms competing against each other, viewers have become visually fatigued.
The talent shows of the past two years haven't made much of a splash.
It was even suspended for one season last year.
This year, talent shows are making a comeback. This time, the Owl platform has invested heavily in creating a brand new season of a large-scale girl group talent show called "Chasing the Light Girls". It has gathered 101 trainees, and the final 5 trainees will be selected to debut as a group based on popularity votes.
That's right, there are only 5 debut spots this year.
This is also the main reason why the original owner "aroused public outrage" and was scolded so badly. There were too few spots available, leading to fierce competition.
Furthermore, their strength is also insufficient.
The show "Chasing the Light" has aired four episodes so far.
In the first episode, "Mu Zhi" amazed the mentors, trainees, and audience with her beautiful face and perfect body proportions, stunning them from head to toe. Her solo dance was the result of two months of practice, and her performance was also remarkable.
In addition, she looks flawless from every angle in the interview, as if she had a filter applied. Her beauty is unparalleled, attracting a large number of fans who admire her looks, and she ranks second in popularity.
Who knew the accident would happen so quickly?
In the third episode, on the stage of the first performance, "Mu Zhi," who was standing in the center position, sang off-key and made a mistake in her dance. She lost the live PK with another group and was demoted from Class A to Class D. From then on, she was labeled as #VaseZhi#.
Even more disastrous was the theme song assessment for the fourth episode.
With 101 contestants and the same two days of practice, "Mu Zhi" suffered from #lack of coordination#, #using the same hand and foot#, and #only jumping one-third of the way#. After the mentors re-evaluated her performance, she was directly demoted to Class F.
Its popularity ranking dropped from 2nd to 5th.
After the theme song assessment, half of the 101 contestants were eliminated based on their ranking, leaving only 48 people.
Several talented contestants were eliminated, but "Muzhi" remained despite a poor performance, leading to a surge in netizens criticizing her as a "pretty face" and "useless."
After being criticized during her first performance, "Mu Zhi" lost her self-confidence and has been under tremendous psychological pressure. She suffers from insomnia every night, and once she gets out of bed in the middle of the night, she goes to the bathroom in a daze and accidentally falls.
And so, after waking up, trainee "Mu Zhi" became actress Mu Zhi.
As the story unfolds in the book, the original owner makes another blunder on the upcoming second performance stage, which leads to a group of fans of other contestants attacking her and uniting to prevent her from debuting. In addition, negative online opinions are once again fermenting and putting pressure on the program team.
By the eighth episode, although "Mu Zhi" was still ranked within the top 12 in popularity votes, securing a spot on the debut night, the production team forced "Mu Zhi" to withdraw from the competition before the final night in order to quell the anger and protests of the other contestants...
After two hours of quiet contemplation in her dormitory, Mu Zhi had to accept the reality that she had transmigrated into a book and become a trainee for a girl group.
In her current situation, she faces two paths:
Withdraw or continue competing?
As an actress, Mu Zhi's first thought wasn't to debut in a talent show or as part of a girl group. However, she still wanted to develop her career in the entertainment industry, and the label of "#withdrawing without talent" would stick with her for a long time, negatively impacting her future development. She also didn't have any other resources to immediately switch to acting.
After weighing the pros and cons, coupled with Mu Zhi's competitive nature, the decision was made.
They chose "continue the game," determined to turn the tide and reverse the current unfavorable public opinion situation.
There are currently 48 trainees.
They were divided into 8 groups, with 6 people in each group.
There are three performance categories: dance, vocal, and rap.
The original owner was assigned to the dance group.
They will perform "Beautiful Skin" in the second show.
Mu Zhi did not blindly challenge herself in areas she was not good at.
She acted in a play for a year, playing the role of a dancer.
She has some dance background.
After watching the dance video of "Beautiful Skin" twice, Mu Zhi did some simple warm-up exercises. On the third viewing, she stood in front of the computer and started dancing along with the professional dancers in the video...
The practice room is equipped with live streaming equipment, providing 24-hour online streaming.
At 5 a.m. in the practice room, there were only a few night owls online at first, but after Mu Zhi appeared, the number of viewers in the live stream kept increasing, and now the number of viewers has exceeded 100.
Netizens were initially confused: ? ? ? ? ? ? How did the vase branch get here?
I saw Mu Zhi asking the cameraman to borrow his phone to go online, and she was wiping away tears as she watched.
The screen is filled with disdain:
"Ugh, she's crying again. I'm fucking fed up!"
"Oh ho, instead of sleeping at night, you're up early to play the victim?"
"I zoomed in and saw that she was reading negative comments and was probably crying from being scolded."
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Read on to see what happens next.
Seeing that Mu Zhi had returned the phone, he went to the computer and started practicing dancing while watching dance videos.
You came to practice dancing at 4 a.m.?
What kind of hellish dance practice time is this?!
New viewers entering the live stream were all surprised to see Mu Zhi practicing dance.
At 7 a.m., the door to the practice room was pushed open.
Five trainees walked in chatting and laughing. When they saw Mu Zhi practicing her dance inside, they had the same surprised look on their faces and immediately went silent. Some of them even hesitated and went outside to check if they had come to the right place, confirming that the door had the hashtag #BeautifulSkin# on it.
"Zhizhi, good morning! Have you had breakfast yet?"
Hearing the door open behind her, Mu Zhi stopped what she was doing and was wiping the sweat from her forehead when she heard someone talking to her. Looking up, she saw a girl with purple-streaked hair, a fishtail braid, single eyelids, and a high-fashion face typical of models.
The name on the clothes is #Zhou Jingzhu#.
Mu Zhi had an impression of this person. She was the daughter of a certain home appliance industry group, and she had established a well-deserved and unique persona as a #rich and beautiful woman#. In addition, she had good singing and dancing skills and was one of the five members who debuted as a group.
She smiled at him and said, "Not yet, thanks for reminding me. I'll go have breakfast now."
After practicing for almost two hours, she was exhausted and starving. She nodded slightly to the other four trainees as she passed by.
The trainee with her hair tied in a high ponytail watched Mu Zhi's departing figure.
He scoffed, "What kind of hardworking persona is this?"
The thought of the live broadcast cameras immediately changed her expression.
Zhou Jingzhu overheard Lü E's quiet complaint: Was Mu Zhi faking it? Probably not.
When I greeted her up close just now, I noticed that Mu Zhi was not wearing any makeup. She had long, smooth golden hair, light brown eyebrows, and naturally red lips. Her skin was like cream, with a pinkish tinge. Her bangs were damp, and she was breathing slightly, clearly indicating that she had just finished exercising, and for quite some time.
Zhou Jingzhu sighed inwardly once again, Mu Zhi truly deserves the title of #Chasing the Light Girl's Number One Beauty#, even without makeup she looks like she's wearing a level 10 beauty filter, plus her perfect body proportions, she's a veritable #vase#.
I remember being asked by the production team during an interview yesterday after the groups were divided:
Why was Mu Zhi chosen to join (this group)?
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