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Pei Zijin was overwhelmed by his younger brother as soon as he entered the room.
He struggled to push Yu Le away from him, and took a stack of papers assigned by the teacher from his hand. He looked at them helplessly and said, "Why did you get this question wrong again?"
Yu Le pursed his lips, looking quite aggrieved: "How can this be called again? It has never seen me and I have never seen it. It is not normal for us to be unfamiliar with each other."
"Really?" Pei Zijin sneered, flipped the paper forward three pages, pointed at the red cross on it and asked, "Who is this? Isn't it just changing two numbers?"
Yu Le argued, "Two numbers! How can they be the same?"
He didn't argue with Xiao Yule, acting like an older brother. He tapped the table with a pen and said, "Where's your wrong answer book? Show it to me."
While Pei Zijin was explaining the question to Yu Le, the program Huazi also considerately attached the original question for dear audience friends to challenge, but the barrage did not seem to buy it.
"Ahhhhhh, take this dirty thing away!"
"My mom just came in, took a look at what I was doing, and then left again. Is that right?"
"I can't do it, luckily I'm already in college hehehe."
"I actually think that the method I'm talking about can be counted two steps less than the one the teacher taught in class before?"
Due to the length of the program, the process of Pei Zijin explaining the questions to each person was not released in full, but a version of the program highlights was quietly released online for fans in need to check.
It's the kind of pure enjoyment with only the title and Pei Zijin's voice, and even his face can't be seen, but this one clip actually became the most popular clip of the time, even slightly inferior to the pure enjoyment of the first public stage.
This behind-the-scenes footage also became a hot topic and was reposted by many marketing accounts. Some curious passers-by clicked on the main film and couldn't leave after watching it.
After the theme song of the knife group in the first episode, the second episode ushered in the first group performance stage. The program plot was divided into five different groups. There was no controversy or calculation, only concerted efforts to share the joys and sorrows.
This group of people! Even! Between groups! They are helping each other!
Before the first public rehearsal, the trainees actually organized a small test on their own in private, which was something Yuan Xiao had not expected at first.
They opened the practice room at night stealthily but familiarly, and slipped in one after another like little squirrels returning to their nests. All twenty-five people were present, and the light from the flashlights simulated the stage lighting. The accompaniment was provided by Brother Pei and Brother Jin, who took turns playing the guitar manually.
Yan Fan was the first to stand up and call for his team members to move to the middle, while the others tacitly tapped the drums on the floor to accompany the music. Yan Fan had participated in too many street dance competitions, and in informal occasions, he always had a bit of a ruffian vibe, not strictly following the designed movements, but swaying freely with the music, and leading the whole team to step out in unison when the main song came on.
From extreme freedom to extreme strictness, the movements were frozen in time, with five people in five directions, just like flowers blooming, and it was a different feeling from the formal stage.
In order to reduce the difficulty for the audience to understand, the songs selected by each group in the first public performance were all well-known classic songs that have been popular for many years. When it came to the chorus, Su Chen and Yu Le would also help with the harmony, and the few of them acted like a band.
Only Su Chen and Jin Zeyu's group did not choose the exciting group dance, but the only slow song group.
Originally, there were no regulations on the form of the performance. Yuan Xiao's only hard requirement was that the stage design should not overshadow the performance itself. As for whether it was a group dance, composition, vocal or even a band, it all depended on what the trainees in the group were good at and what they wanted to do.
Anyway, their teacher Gu is a hexagonal all-round warrior in the field of producers. You can just order any adaptation you want.
Yuan Xiao also hopes to try out the best team combination through these performances. Appropriate radicalism and breakthroughs are necessary. It is impossible for them to maintain the same style after their debut. Idols also have to be as changeable as actors to be fresh.
What's more, Jin Zeyu is in their group.
While Su Chen was singing with a long breath, Jin Zeyu moved to the middle. Among the five groups, only their group had a rap instead of a dance in the middle of the song. He wrote lyrics for everyone and taught them to sing word by word before the performance.
"Hey, the dance teacher said you're always a step behind.
At three in the morning, I was still fighting with the mirror and refused to change.
The corners of the lyrics book are rolled into a boat
The ranking on the assessment form is like a time bomb—"
This kind of rap lyrics with a sense of life and slight melancholy is simply Jin Zeyu's comfort zone. Several months of trainee life have provided him with new material. The calm and gentle lyrics and flow match the interlude perfectly.
Even if there is no music in the practice room, his skillful technique does not make it sound like poetry recitation. When matched with Su Chen's clear voice, it sounds like the sound of flowing mountain water, soy milk and fried dough sticks.
"In the standard answer they gave
You are a variation of 'Run Away'
When everyone is stuck in the traffic game
I just listen to my heart—"
But he did not take up the entire interlude highlight. He only sang two sentences before switching positions to the next person. Each of them held a water bottle as a hand microphone. The moment their positions crossed, the young man and the other boy quickly high-fived.
The four of them took turns, and did not forget to move Su Chen, who was singing the harmony next to them and was about to die, to the C position in the end.
After the physical training, he is now much stronger than before. Even now he can steadily sing and dance to the second part of the main song. The sound effect in the practice room is very good, and the slightest unstable breath is almost inaudible.
In this way, there were simulated comments after each group finished dancing. The trainees who temporarily acted as judges and audiences did not hesitate to point out the parts that they felt could be better. They also worked together for any suggestions and ideas. When they clapped together in groups of three or five, they were like some united gregarious animals, which made people feel soft-hearted.
After dancing until midnight, they were still reluctant to leave. Before slipping back to the dormitory, Avery suddenly suggested singing the last theme song. Then everyone responded. Su Chen was the first to knock on the door and speak with a smile. His voice was like summer soda and popping candy: "We will gather in the practice room in the early morning. The stubborn figure reflected in the mirror refuses to stop."
He changed the lyrics casually, Jin Zeyu and Avery imitated the beat of B-Box with their mouths, Pei Zijin and Jiang Tong joined in, their voices providing a steady support.
Gu Yuchen taught them a cappella and also taught them how to enjoy music.
“The calluses on my fingertips are the marks of medals. Even if I fall ten thousand times, I will run towards the light—” Yan Fan’s baritone voice is clear. He leans against the door with his arms folded. The mirror reflects his delicate jawline.
Yu Le immediately took over the next line, and the young man sang in a high and loud voice:
“We were born to be legends”
Outside the window, thousands of lights are holding up the power of dreams and friendship.
Zheng Xiyan took off her glasses and started looking for tissues.
It’s terrible. How come she cried again while watching a variety show?
She wasn't like this before, but since she followed Yuan Xin, why is she always easily moved? She's dropping little pearls again.
Perhaps because such simple and sincere feelings are so beautiful, another talent show produced by the platform was also launched during the summer vacation. Zheng Xiyan also went to taste the theme song stage of one episode, and it was inevitable to compare it with "I Have Not Seen You".
Here, there are lively and enthusiastic young people, while the usual suffering, quarreling and crying there suddenly pale in comparison. Zheng Xiyan watched half of the episode and was not only not moved, but even a little annoyed.
The comments clearly shared her thoughts. They were broadcast at the same time, so no matter how the production team controlled it, some people would compare the two and be disappointed. In the end, even fewer people compared them.
"Ouwei" has only aired two episodes, but it has achieved something that no other program has ever done in previous years, almost draining the talent show market.
In addition, fans who went to the scene for the first public performance posted pictures one after another, and the enthusiasm of fans discussing the program was unprecedentedly high. To passers-by, it was as if a new popular boy band had appeared in the domestic entertainment industry overnight.
Yuan Xiao is very satisfied with the popularity and even more satisfied with the revenue. The small cards and pre-sale dolls are selling very well, and he finally doesn't have to live a tight life anymore.
After the first season of "I'm Not Going Away" is over, the recruitment of trainees for the next season of the girl group can be put on the schedule.
Yuanxin is such a big company, it is not advisable to pre-sell for too long. Taking advantage of the break in the program recording, Yuan Xiao went to the factory that day. She sat in the factory director's office. In addition to the dolls to be shipped this time, the desk was piled with dozens of other samples of categories produced during this period, all of which were available on the market.
The factory director is a desperate middle-aged man who can only ask his 14-year-old daughter to help him communicate with Yuan Xiao, the super financial sponsor.
She came to check the quality control of the batch of 40mm dolls to be shipped, and to confirm the next batch of peripherals to be put on the shelves for sale.
In front of Yuan Xiao is a Q-version big-head image of Yu Le. Even with his current round head and short legs, their youngest member is still smiling so hard that his teeth are showing. The artist captured the character's features very accurately, and even without obvious differences in hair and eye color, people still won't be confused about which of the twenty-five people this is.
And Yuan Xiao was ruthlessly torturing Yu Le, squeezing it here and there.
Although she believed that this poor baby would definitely not suffer such cruel treatment after being taken back to its new home, she was always responsible for the quality of the peripheral products produced by Yuanxin. While ensuring beauty first, the quality had to be excellent as well.
It's only right that she uses the best ingredients for everything.
She also had a skeleton-mounted Su Chen at her hand. The creature had big eyes, was well-behaved, and sat very steadily.
Yuan Xiao didn't want to drag out the pre-sale period to infinity like some pre-sale peripherals she had seen before, which would have required several rounds of interest on the collected payments. What she chose was to prepare a batch of goods first, and then start production at the same time as the factory during the pre-sale period, so that the preparation speed could be several times faster.
She thought she had overestimated the purchasing power of fans for idol-related merchandise, but it might be because her show was too good. She originally prepared 150,000 small cards and 50,000 dolls, which she already felt was exaggerated. After all, these were trainees who had never appeared and had not even officially debuted. Yuan Xiao was already prepared to hold lucky draws later if they couldn't sell all of them, but in the end the statistics showed that both had doubled. The factory had to add more than a week of overtime and postponed the original delivery date again and again.
Yuan Xiao: It’s me as expected.
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