Day 46
The fifth day of practice, the third to last day of the second public performance.
Fu Xunyan started his day of practice as usual. He helped Zhou Qi copy dance until one o'clock in the morning yesterday. After returning to the dormitory and taking a shower, he took his own materials to the empty room to study.
At three o'clock, he lay down on the bed on time. Chen Chi was already snoring loudly, but no one in the dormitory could be disturbed by him because everyone was too tired.
Fu Xunyan has a very good sleeping quality. He falls asleep as soon as he touches the pillow and opens his eyes on time at seven in the morning.
He fought off sleepiness in bed for a while before getting up and heading out. After a quick workout, he brought breakfast to the dormitory, packed it in a thermos and placed it on the table, then woke them up one by one.
Nine o'clock was the gathering time. Fu Xunyan was worried that the toilet in the practice building was too crowded, so he turned a corner and went to the first floor of the recording building to use the toilet.
As soon as he stepped in, the thick smell of smoke enveloped him, making Fu Xunyan frown.
He actually didn't like to associate with people who loved smoking. He could understand that Min Hai did it to relieve stress, but with this concentration, it was obvious that this person had lit more than one cigarette.
Fu Xunyan pursed his lips. Laziness took over and he planned to hold his breath and go out quickly.
But unexpectedly, the person in the cubicle suddenly started talking.
He spoke in H Mandarin, which Fu Xunyan was not very proficient in but could barely understand.
"Do you want to do it again?" The man made a "tsk" sound, seeming very impatient.
"Didn't we try and fail last time? Are you sure this piece of dirty laundry can crush him this time?"
"What? Can't? ... Sorry, I'm not arguing with you, I'm just worried that this might not be a good idea. Last time, it was the company's unilateral decision, and this time is the same. But if the paparazzi find out it was the company's doing, they'll definitely drag me into it, right?"
“…I know, but…”
"I! I... forget it." At the end of the call, the man's voice was hoarse and forbearing, and after hanging up the phone, he shouted "Shiba" several times to vent his anger.
Fu Xunyan knew exactly who it was.
Kenny, besides, it’s obvious who the unlucky guy in this topic is, it’s obviously me.
Even the instigator of the last "bullying incident" was exposed.
Pennyline... Fu Xunyan dodged and hid in another single room. He listened to the sound of running water outside the door and the dull footsteps of the man as he left before he slowly walked out.
The last incident was obviously a conspiracy, so Fu Xunyan commissioned Li Pengcheng to find someone to investigate, but the relationships in the entertainment industry are complicated, and a small favor may involve more than a dozen people.
So we couldn't dig Pennyline out immediately.
But now it's different.
**
Liu Yu woke up at nine o'clock when the alarm clock rang in the room. She logged into the platform to refresh the news as usual. Since she got into idol again, she has developed the habit of paying attention to the latest developments in the entertainment industry.
She had never been so attentive to her work before. It turns out that the motivation for a beauty-obsessed person comes from her own face.
But... huh?
Seeing Fu Xunyan's name appear on the trending searches again, Liu Yu was a little puzzled. Although Fu Xunyan had been on the trending searches frequently recently, today was not a special day, and it was two days before the second public performance live broadcast. Why did it suddenly appear again?
Before she could click on it, she found that the avatar of the chat software was flashing wildly. When she clicked on it, she saw that several group messages had accumulated more than 99 messages.
I have a bad feeling in my heart.
She took a deep breath and first looked at the hot search posts. After browsing the content, her eyes went dark.
The joy of a holiday faded instantly, a chill creeping up from the soles of her feet, freezing her entire body on the steaming bed. Liu Yu sat up, tossing the cat aside, then reached out to grab the computer and dragged it over.
My phone is too slow to send messages.
Her fingertips were trembling.
Calm down, Liu Yu. This happened too suddenly, without any warning. I'm afraid it's fake news again.
But Liu Yu could not deceive herself. In the photo dug out by the so-called "netizens", the young man had his head lowered and his front face was missing, but that extremely superior side profile undoubtedly belonged to Fu Xunyan.
In the snowy season, on the streets of a foreign country, a young man in a thin convenience store uniform leans against the door, his long legs slightly curled up, and his thin body is so bleak that even a winter fairy tale cannot fill it.
The high-definition photo is full of artistic conception. If there wasn't a long-legged beauty snuggled up to him, it could be used as a screensaver for fans.
The relationship between the two cannot be explained as friends, passers-by, or sisters who met by chance. The girl was wearing a white mink coat and a short skirt that is very popular among H people. The brands were all revealed by the resourceful netizens and are worth a lot of money.
Big waves, bangs, and slightly heavy makeup cannot hide her delicate beauty.
She hooked one hand around the young man's arm, and the diamond rings between the two fingers of her other hand shone brightly.
[Sour and sweet Guo Lizhen: #Fu Xunyan's foreign photos# This is hilarious. If you keep praising your brother as pure and innocent, he'd have hooked up with a rich woman behind your backs. Just saying, how can a poor boy like him have so many trending topics? It must be all bought by his sister-in-law, right?]
[Paipai Sweetheart: #Fu Xunyan's foreign photos#? ? Are you crazy? What's wrong with dating when you were an amateur before the competition?]
[Sour and sweet Guo Lizhen: What's wrong with #FuXunYan's overseas photos#? He boasts about being poor and having to work hard to study, but then he has time to flirt with rich women abroad, right?]
[When will my son succeed? #FuXunYan's photos from other countries# Well, it's hard to say. Our teacher used FuXunYan as a motivation to encourage us to keep working hard, but now it seems...]
[Nighttime Dream Talk: Didn't the timeline for #FuXunYan'sExoticPhotos# get dug up? That means about half a year ago, so FuXunYan was already a trainee at that time, right? It seems like it was winter break, so he wasn't hanging out in the practice room, but was hanging out with rich and beautiful women, right?]
[Senior Kobayashi: #FuXunYan's photos from foreign countries# Wow, I just became a fan, and now it's collapsed again. Are you kidding me? Didn't they say this is endorsed by the government? What the hell is this endorsement?]
[Gummy Bears Are Not German: #FuXunYan's Exotic Photos# Can everyone calm down a bit? It's just a photo, and the time the paparazzi released it can't be verified. Haters, please stop jumping up and down.]
[Stars shine: #FuXunYan's exotic photos# Those who don't follow male ethics, die! Speechless, you don't care how much money I invest, right? Ah, yes, yes, you have a rich woman to help you buy the bottom]
[Paipai Sweetheart: #Fu Xunyan's Exotic Photos#... Hehe, you're paying me for treasure hunting? Does Zhou Hengyu know?]
Such a sudden incident early in the morning was not expected by fans like Liu Yu. The group was instantly in a panic. Even though the rules set in the early stage made them perform much better than other fans, many fans still began to curse and quit being their fans.
If it were a month ago, Liu Yu would probably rush to find Chen Lianqing again in a panic, but now she has made progress and starts assigning tasks to Xiaoqun directly.
[Meeting him during the rain: Honey, are you working today? If you have time, can you help me find the source of this news? Posting this at 5am is really unusual.]
[Paipai Sweetheart: Good morning, Sister Yu! Got it! I'm off today, I'll start checking right away! I want to see which little bitch is spreading rumors!]
[Meeting Him During the Rainy Season: Gummy, Xiaoxia, and Zhuzhu, you should organize the order in the group and don't let them rush to the platform to gain popularity. Everyone, please keep your comments to yourself until we have a thorough investigation.]
[I met him during the rain: Mint, your company is close to Orui now. Does anyone know anyone there? See if you can get an appointment with an agent. I called him several times but he didn't answer.]
Everyone in the group responded one by one, but Chen Lianqing remained silent, which made Liu Yu a little worried.
[“Meeting Him During the Rainy Season” patted “Love to Eat My Lotus Pod”]
[Meeting him in the rain: Sister Chen, are you there?]
In the dim apartment, the girl with dark circles almost reaching her cheeks sitting at the desk pushed her glasses, ignored her father's message asking her to meet her "childhood sweetheart" whom she hadn't seen for eight hundred years, and checked Fu Xunyan's recent business over and over again.
The only suspicious itinerary was the "business meeting" the night before.
"Gu Tingchuan?" Chen Lianqing repeated the name in his mouth, and suddenly remembered something. He quickly searched for the chat history between Li Pengcheng and himself.
Li Pengcheng had told her yesterday morning to tell his fans to be vigilant about the possibility of rumors circulating in the coming days. At the time, Chen Lianqing didn't think much of it, believing it was simply a fallout from the first qualifying match. Now, that seemed unlikely.
The fight between "Sturgeon" and "Leaf" happened on the day the rankings were announced. Although it was intense, the fanbases of both teams were relatively well-mannered and quickly calmed down under the supervision of the big fans. Aside from occasional taunts and minor bickering, there were no signs of digging up dirt on each other...
It’s still the same Gu Tingchuan!
**
Just when the fans were getting excited and the public was busy gossiping, Fu Xunyan was called to the program team's meeting room again.
The election officials joked that they didn’t know how many times he had been in office.
The atmosphere in the conference room was very calm, without the panic that the outside world imagined. Li Pengcheng sat on one side, the program crew sat on the other side, and the "scandal photo" was projected on the big screen.
Li Pengcheng explained: "More than half a year ago, Fu Xunyan had an overseas trip, and I helped him get an exchange program to go to Country H for two months of intensive training. Because Fu Xunyan was studying in high school in China and still owed money, he would go to work after the training."
Seeing Fu Xunyan come in, he paused and said, "He has reported all these things to me, but this girl..."
Everyone looked at Fu Xunyan.
Fu Xunyan noticed the photo as soon as he entered the door. His first reaction was, "It's a pretty good photo," and then he saw the so-called love story on it.
"That's not the case. That girl has nothing to do with me."
"But your actions, and the diamond ring in her hand..." Shen Ziqing frowned.
She noticed that Fu Xunyan raised his eyebrows slightly, and the muscles on his cheeks were slightly pulled, as if he was trying to hold back his laughter but couldn't, which was really inconsistent with his usual image.
She was a little anxious. It was already this late, didn't he realize the urgency of the situation? Even if that Gu Tingchuan was trying to do something behind his back, the photos were real and appeared here. It was a big taboo for trainees to fall in love!
"Why don't you explain!" Shen Ziqing was slightly angry, his neck flushed red. "Fu Xunyan! Although everyone knows that this matter must have been manipulated by someone behind the scenes, if you can't handle it well, the production team will not be able to continue to protect you."
"I won't be forced to withdraw from the competition, but I'm very likely to fall out of the debut position!"
Shen Ziqing accused Fu Xunyan of speaking righteously but lacking confidence. The current popularity of the program was brought by Fu Xunyan, and if he had problems, at best, it would just take away all the popularity.
But Shen Ziqing doesn't care, and the investors and leaders behind her won't care either.
But they didn't expect that the young man was still as calm as ever. He pursed his lips.
"I want to explain, but I think you'll have to call someone over so I can explain."
ha?
The practice room of "Moonlight" was bustling with activity. Except for Ye Lai, the rest of the group were trainees ranked in the teens and twenties. Those who could make it to this ranking had some skills, so it was impossible for them to have a dull moment in the camera.
They played small games in groups of three or four, wrestled with their arms, and showed off during the ten-minute break.
As the top student, Ye Lai is a little different. Although he looks like a handsome junior in a campus novel, his private personality is a bit cold.
Unlike Bai Wenji's attitude of keeping strangers away, it was a very polite and tactful, but more heartbreaking, and smooth indifference.
After several unsuccessful attempts to invite him to play together, the trainees stopped paying attention to him and left him standing alone at the edge of the practice room, adjusting his breathing and closing his eyes to rest.
"Ye Lai! The director is looking for you!"
Suddenly someone opened the door, and in full view of everyone, Ye Lai followed the election officer out the door alone.
"Why is Ye Lai also being looked for?" The blond boy named Chen Yujie scratched his head.
Peng Siyuan shrugged beside him: "I don't know."
Another trainee carefully moved over and gestured for everyone to move away from the practice room's microphone. "Could it be related to the rankings? I feel like... whisper it, that straight ranking is obviously off."
"I'm also confused. How could Ye Lai surpass Fu Xunyan? I have a rumor that it was vote manipulation. After the rankings were announced on the live broadcast that day, I heard that Fu Xunyan's fans rushed to subscribe to memberships, and the platform increased the number of VIPs by more than 100,000."
"Oh my god, what an amazing appeal!"
Ye Lai stood at the door, calmed himself down, and raised his hand to knock on the door.
"Enter."
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