Chapter 31
There was silence in the air.
The audience at the performance is unaware of the voting results within the group. At this moment, there are still cheers from the audience outside. It's like two worlds separated.
It wasn't until the staff in charge of arranging the scenes pushed the door open and said, "Next group, get ready!" that everyone came to their senses.
The camera was still on, and although everyone had different thoughts, they all came forward to congratulate Xichao.
Amidst the bustle, someone suddenly stood up and went out.
Ji Yan has already rubbed against Xi Chao's side.
Because Ai Qingyuan was right next to him, he had been very restrained in his words and tone, but now he opened his mouth in surprise.
The camera was still pointed at him, and he mouthed silently to Jie Xichao:
"what to do?"
Xie Xichao glanced at the lens, his expression indifferent, and said directly:
"fine."
Didn't chase him out either.
On the screen, the scoring area has jumped to Group B of "Stand by".
Guan Heng walked in from outside at this time. He obviously bumped into Ai Qingyuan. The first thing he did when he approached was to pat Jie Xichao on the shoulder with a smile and said "Congratulations".
Then, he naturally sat down in Ai Qingyuan's original seat and looked at the scores with Jie Xichao.
The first place in this group was not so unexpected.
The highest scorer in Group B of "Stand By" was Guan Heng.
His score was 235 votes.
So far, Xie Xichao and Guan Heng both ranked first in the group in terms of votes. But none of them were first in the game. As of now, the first place in the venue is Xia Ruiyan, who is currently ranked third in the online voting, with a total of 352 votes.
This involves the strategy of selecting a team.
The song "Stand By" is the most likely to create a hit boy group style song, therefore, it is the most popular and those who chose this song are all top-ranked trainees.
In this case, it is easy for votes to be split within the group.
But Xia Ruiyan chose an extremely unpopular song.
He was the main dancer and the song he chose was a fast-paced dance piece with very fragmented movements. On the one hand, it is difficult to dance, and on the other hand, the vocals also consist of long sections of rap. Therefore, after he took the C position of this song, almost no trainees in the front row continued to choose this song.
The results are also obvious.
The stage for this song is like a dance of demons in Jie Xichao's place.
However, because the votes were not divided and the other trainees were not strong enough, the entire group only picked out Xia Ruiyan, who won 3/5 of the votes in the group.
Xie Xichao had no opinion on this strategy.
The first place in the whole venue sounds good, and there are also additional individual votes. These are all real benefits. In this kind of survival program, every bit of benefit means one step closer to debut.
But Ji Yan felt a little sorry for them: "What a pity."
"You two's votes," he said, "If you were a different group, you would probably be first in the whole show."
He spoke evasively, but he was mainly referring to Jie Xichao.
Although Xie Xichao's votes were not as high as Guan Heng's, the person who shared the votes with him was Ai Qingyuan, so he obviously suffered more from the mechanism.
Xie Xichao smiled and said nothing. Then I watched the next stage with them.
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Although it was nearing the end, there were unexpectedly some very good performances left.
For example, the cute style that is disliked by everyone.
There are two songs in the cute style stage, which adds up to four stages.
Three of the stages were basically performed by the F-class trainees who were squeezed in at the end and had nowhere else to go. The stage effects were a mess and had nothing to do with the word cute at all.
But there is one that Xie Xichao thinks is really cute.
The name of this song is "Rubber Duck at 5:32 PM", which probably talks about the strange thoughts of adolescent boys and girls when they are alone.
The stage was beautifully decorated, with pillows and dolls in light colors like pink, yellow and blue everywhere.
The trainees were also dressed very cutely in light yellow with graffiti versions of little ducks painted on their clothes. Strength...Xie Xichao doesn't want to comment, except for the C position.
The C position is a very young boy who looks a little familiar. Jie Xichao estimated that he was only about sixteen or seventeen.
She's really cute, like a doll. He is also very good at singing and dancing, and he does it with ease. This song is simple. Based on Jie Xichao's experience in judging people, this song is far from the boy's upper limit.
The most important thing is that the other person's voice is seriously inconsistent with his appearance, and his voice is actually low and hoarse.
Not very obvious. Jie Xichao didn't notice that there was no accompaniment when the song was being sung. He only noticed it when the other person was speaking.
He looked at the other person's name tag:
Cloud hope.
Apart from that, there are a few other stages that are not so amazing, but at least not that bad either. It was not until after midnight that all the performances were finally recorded.
On the way back to the dormitory, Jie Xichao asked about Yun Pan.
"Yun Pan, I know this brother, he's super cute." Ji Yan said, "Well... uh, let me think, I forgot the name of the company, but there are quite a lot of people in their company. He should be the youngest in their company."
"Oh, right." He said, "Xia Ruiyan is in the same company as him. In their company, only he and Yun Pan are ranked higher. They seem to have a good relationship, and I remember they were a popular couple."
Jie Xichao suddenly realized.
"He has a nice voice." He explained why he suddenly became concerned about the child.
"That's not true." Ji Yan said, "He used to be the lead singer of a band."
Jie Xichao was slightly surprised.
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As they talked, they had unknowingly reached the dormitory door. Xie Xichao asked, "Is he an adult?"
"Eighteen." Ji Yan said, "But he is really cute. I want to pinch his face."
He thought for a moment and said, "Come to think of it, I've hardly ever met him. Does he only hang out with people from his company?"
This is normal.
However, they have been on the show for quite some time, and most of them have made new friends to some extent.
There are very few introverted people among artists. Ji Yan said he had never seen one, so that might be because he really doesn't go out much.
"Understood." Xie Xichao snapped his fingers.
Just now, he finally remembered why he felt Yun Pan looked familiar.
He also had an impression of the other party's first stage performance. He followed the team, or more precisely, their core member Xia Ruiyan's sexy and dark style. The child was wearing heavy makeup and he didn't recognize him. He had met the other person once before.
The boy who had watched him eat chocolate during rehearsal.
Quite...
Resolve evening and morning thoughts.
Changeable.
He memorized the name Yun Pan in his mind and prepared to return to the dormitory. Ji Yan called him.
"By the way, brother." He stammered.
Xie Xichao turned around to look at him. After a while, Ji Yan said, "Is Ai Qingyuan okay?"
Xie Xichao paused.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
Ji Yan hesitated.
People were coming and going at the entrance of the dormitory building, and many of them looked back at Jie Xichao when passing by.
This was not a good place to talk, so Ji Yan and Jie Xi walked towards the safety passage nearby.
It wasn't until there were no more people around that Ji Yan said, "I just feel that... Brother, you seemed to have a pretty good relationship with him some time ago. With the way he was today, I'm afraid he might have some grudges in his heart."
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In fact, Ji Yan originally wanted to ask Jie Xichao why he didn't comfort him at that time.
He is a very simple-minded person. Although Xie Xichao looks casual on the surface, he is actually very meticulous. Apart from anything else, he was under a lot of pressure for a while because of some comments from his fans, and Jie Xichao noticed it and came over to comfort him.
What’s amazing is that the problems that originally troubled Ji Yan were easily resolved by Xie Xichao with just a few words. When he woke up the next morning, he felt like a complete idiot for almost crying while talking to his brother the night before.
It also caused his brother to stay up late for the first time.
Jie Xichao was such a gentle and considerate person. Ai Qingyuan did not return to the recording location all night, and he did not go to her to comfort her.
But then he changed his mind and decided that it was a competition, so it should be fair. Calling him the little prince doesn't mean he is the real prince, so why should we assume that everyone should be coaxed? So as soon as the words came out, he changed direction.
After hearing this, Xie Xichao was stunned for a moment, then said, "He won't."
The tone is very firm.
Ji Yan was inexplicably sour: "Brother, you trust him so much."
Jie Xichao started laughing.
He hadn't taken off his makeup yet, still looking like a refreshing tenor, but when he got off the stage, his face became calm.
When Ji Yan first saw the stage, he felt that Ai Qingyuan, who always had a cool style, was a little out of place on that stage.
Now it seems that the person with the biggest contrast between his on-stage and private personalities might be Jie Xichao.
Xie Xichao said: "It's not trust."
He paused, "Just think of me as half a psychoanalyst."
He has met too many people.
Good and bad. Powerful and arrogant, indecisive and weak.
These people will eventually become just a few lines of text in his mission report. These lines of text, of varying lengths, summarize their lives.
It also summarizes themselves.
To play an NPC, you must first understand people.
That's their job.
Among the people he had met, Ai Qingyuan was not a complicated one at all.
"He feels very uncomfortable right now, and he can't even tell why." Xie Xichao said, "If I go to comfort him, he'll feel even more uncomfortable. It's not because he feels that I'm mocking him, but because he feels embarrassed."
He is already very familiar with Ai Qingyuan.
Ai Qingyuan is arrogant and has a rebellious temperament. But you can tell good from bad. He didn't feel that Jie Xichao was comforting him as a winner, but he couldn't accept this comfort, and he didn't know how to face Jie Xichao.
Because fundamentally, he can't accept his own failure.
This is a slightly extreme personality trait, but some people are just like that. Therefore, Xie Xichao would not go to make him unhappy again at this time.
Xie Xichao briefly explained to Ji Yan, and then said, "So it's not that serious. At most, you will just walk around me for two days."
Ji Yan seemed to understand but not quite.
But Jie Xichao said that there would be no conflict between them, so he felt relieved.
Ai Qingyuan's family background was there, and he was afraid that Jie Xichao would suffer a loss.
"What happens after you go around?" Ji Yan asked, "Will he still pester you to decide the winner? This has already been decided, right?"
Jie Xichao lowered his eyes.
Then he smiled and said, "Yes."
Ji Yan's mouth twitched.
"It's just that this time." Xie Xichao said, "He won't say it out loud."
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As it turned out, Xie Xichao's guess was quite accurate.
In the next few days, he hardly ever met Ai Qingyuan in the dormitory or practice room.
Their schedules weren't too different, which could only mean that the other party was intentionally avoiding him.
He didn't care and still went to the practice room to practice as usual every day and lived a regular life.
This kind of life continued until the fourth day.
In fact, this day was quite ordinary. Fu Wen Ze had something to do that day, so Guan Heng and Jie Xichao had dinner together. Before the two of them sat down, another plate appeared next to Jie Xichao's plate.
There is only one person in this dormitory whose plate is filled with meat.
Chicken breast, chicken sausage, and luncheon meat on the side.
Guan Heng sighed: "Xiaoyuan, your diet should be balanced with meat and vegetables."
Xie Xichao silently took a bite of the sweet and sour pork ribs.
Ai Qingyuan said in a stern tone: "We'll eat it tomorrow."
He paused, "There's a spin-off show shooting this afternoon, are you both going?"
Guan Heng glanced at Jie Xichao.
The daily notice will be sent to the group and tagged to everyone. Everyone can see it.
This was the last shoot for the spin-off show before the first elimination, and he had already been there.
Xie Xichao swallowed the sweetness in his mouth, and then said, "It should be only me who goes, and Brother Heng won't go."
"Then I'll join you later." Ai Qingyuan dug his chopsticks into the luncheon meat fiercely, paused, and then said nonchalantly, "I'll be there this time, too."
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