47 Xiaoka Market
"Ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen... eighteen." Yuan Xiao counted the number of resumes finally selected and was quite satisfied with his harvest in the afternoon.
Shanghai Theatre Academy is worthy of being Shanghai Theatre Academy. The clubs in the school can directly form a girl group. The quality of the interviewees Yuan Xiao saw in the afternoon was very high. He looked at beautiful girls for the whole afternoon, which was longer than the previous time, but Yuan Xiao did not feel very tired.
Beauty is indeed refreshing.
These newly selected trainee reserve members will still go through three months of trial training like the first batch of trainees, and then be selected to enter the second season of debut variety show recording next year.
Yuan Xiao and Assistant Liu sorted out the information and expressed their gratitude to the school teachers for their support: "After we confirm the candidates later, we will go through the leave application procedures with the school."
According to the company's plan for female trainees, a new batch of trainees will be brought to Yuanxin's headquarters around November.
In addition to the colleges and universities with which he had established good cooperative relations last time, Yuan Xiao also visited several music and media colleges in Hangzhou on the second and third days of his trip. He met batch after batch of beautiful girls and seemed to be reluctant to leave.
In addition to Xia Wentao, another girl from the composition department also left a deep impression on Yuan Xiao. In most girl group dance and vocal talent shows, this girl's original electronic dance music really amazed her. She used several instruments and synthesizers just right. When Yuan Xiao listened to the demo, she almost danced along.
Before the Beijing auditions even started, Yuan Xiao already felt that the quality of the girls was much higher than that of the male trainees.
Maybe it's because some boys are always too confident. During the previous auditions, I often saw boys who knew nothing but thought they looked very suitable to debut as idols. Yuan Xiao was quite helpless about this.
Teacher Gu worked tirelessly with Yuan Xiao for three days. On the afternoon of the third day, he finally returned to Shanghai. He asked his friends for restaurant recommendations in advance. As the sun was about to set, he asked Yuan Xiao in the car, "Let's go to a nearby restaurant for dinner tonight?"
Brother Liu, who was driving in front, looked at his nose and mouth, pretending that he didn't exist.
But Yuan Xiao looked up, thought for a moment, and said, "We have to eat dinner, but let's not go to this place."
She manually changed the destination of the navigation. Gu Yuchen came over from the back seat to take a look. "Mall? Have you been to the restaurant here before?"
"No." Yuan Xiao shook his head honestly. "I found out that there will be random dance activities and a small card market in the atrium of this mall today and tomorrow. I want to go and check it out."
She switched to a red app and handed the phone to Gu Yuchen. As Shanghai is the Magic City, similar activities fill almost all holidays of the year and are held in various places.
Random dance is the best place to encounter trainees, and Xiaoka Market is a good place for Yuanxin market research.
In fact, taking advantage of the popularity of "I Am Not Here", there have been a lot of similar activities recently. Yuan Xiao chose a shopping mall with the largest flow of people in the city center. Before entering the mall, he gave Gu Yuchen and himself a hat and a black mask, and then took out peripheral pendants produced by Yuan Xin from his bag to disguise himself as a fan.
There's no way around it. "I Love You" is really popular, and their faces are almost household names among star-chasing groups. Some of the funny or touching clips of them interacting with the trainees in the daily segments of the variety show have been widely circulated on short video platforms, and their recognition is no less than that of some celebrities.
If this caused a crowd of onlookers in the shopping mall, Yuan Xiao would be a little scared.
Well, Gu Yuchen was fully armed, and as he walked into the mall gate with Yuan Xiao, he sighed softly: "I haven't dressed like this for six or seven years since I retired from the entertainment industry."
The amount of people visiting the large shopping malls in downtown Shanghai during holidays is terrifying in itself. With the events going on today, the crowds at the mall entrances and exits were so crowded that it was almost impossible to get through.
Gu Yuchen half-protected Yuan Xiao, slightly separating her from the crowd coming from the opposite direction.
Yuan Xiao looked at Teacher Gu with gratitude. He stood in the crowd, half a head taller than the average person, with broad shoulders and long legs. He easily led her out of the crowded area without even wrinkling the corner of her skirt.
The atrium of the shopping mall has been completely transformed into a paradise for star-chasing girls. There are also many people at the Xiaoka Market. Beautifully dressed girls with markers representing their attributes hanging on their bodies are walking between the stalls. People are constantly communicating in jargon and then reaching deals.
As the dance has not yet started, the lonely sound system stands in the middle of the open space, and a small group of people are sitting nearby to rest so that they can grab the most suitable position to be on stage when the activity starts.
Gu Yuchen had never seen such a large-scale fan-only event, and his eyes revealed curiosity. Yuan Xiao was like a fish taking to water in such an occasion. He walked to the stall very skillfully and looked through the card album displayed by the stall owner.
"Domestic and foreign entertainment? Is there any domestic entertainment?"
"Domestic entertainment is over here." The stall owner is also a young girl. Although the stall is simple, the card album is definitely hardcover. It is several thick volumes. Each small card is properly placed inside, and the name of each group is also pasted on the side with a colorful label. "Which one do you want to see?"
"Are there any of Stary's? Shuo's." Yuan Xiao flipped through the tabs marked with Yuan Xin for a while and saw the small cards of several of its trainees, but didn't find the five of Stary.
"Oh, I can't tell." The stall owner was a little shy. "I'll keep it for myself, but I have some original heart cards, you can take a look."
Yuan Xiao raised his eyebrows. Oh, I didn’t expect that the first person I met today would be a fan.
"Can I take a look at these two?" After getting permission, Yuan Xiao took a Jiang Tong card and an Avery card and looked up under the light of the mall's lights to check for flaws.
After all, the small card is a fragile piece of paper. Not to mention violent folding, even a light scratch with a fingernail will leave creases on the card surface. Some of these marks are not obvious under ordinary light, but they can be easily seen by holding it under a light and looking at the reflection.
It would be okay if the flaws are only on some corners, but if they appear on the most important part of a small card, the face, it will greatly affect the beauty and the appreciation value will be greatly reduced. Generally, small cards with flaws can only be sold at a discount, and it may even be difficult to sell them.
"What are the prices for these two cards?" Yuan Xiao's main purpose was to find out whether the prices of the trainees' cards would plummet after the debut battle. Although she was confident about the out-of-print Original Heart cards, she also had to consider the impact of the trainees' failure to debut on the card circles.
There are so many small cards, and the price of each card varies depending on the popularity and selfie skills of the card owner, the original selling price, whether it is limited edition or not, and the craftsmanship. "Avery's card is 45, and Jiang Tong's is 55."
Huh? Yuan Xiao turned back in surprise: "These two have increased in value?"
The price is eight dollars more expensive per ticket than the previous online transaction.
“Yeah.” The stall girl obviously didn’t recognize the two “culprits” in front of her, and sighed: “Although I’m not worried about them, it’s a pity that Jiang Jiang and AA didn’t debut. I feel that Yuanxin will not release their cards very often in the future. Everyone is collecting them as a souvenir. Many people came to ask today. Yuanxin trainee cards are very easy to get now.”
"If I didn't need to urgently save up some money to buy the first album later, I would have wanted to wait for a while before releasing it."
It was hard for Yuan Xiao not to support her for this reason. Even though she was a manufacturer and had a mountain of small cards in the company, she still paid for these two cards.
From this perspective, the original heart card circle can still run smoothly in the short term. Of course, it is also because her program is good, and the peripherals continue to provide emotional value after the program ends. In this way, when Stary's first album is ready, there will be new peripheral cards to maintain the vitality of the entire original heart card circle.
Looking at the entire market, basically, Original Heart Cards and Foreign Entertainment Cards each account for half of the market. Most of the Original Heart Cards are previously issued collector's cards, and most of them are the card faces of trainees who have not yet debuted. Most of the card faces of the Shuotuan members are not put in the card album and released in large quantities. Occasionally, a few of them will be bought up by people at the first time.
Even in such a large market, Yuan Xiao only saw one limited edition photo of Su Chen from beginning to end. It was not for sale and was posted on the stall by the stall owner in the middle to show off. It was a priceless treasure.
Yuan Xiao went over to ask the stall owner how much this weekly pass, of which there are only 200 in the world, could cost to make her interested. The girl said that the market price of Su Chen's limited weekly pass was between 600 and 1,000 yuan, and there was still a shortage of buyers. As for her card, she probably wouldn't be interested unless the price reached five figures.
This girl didn't really come to the market to sell cards, she just came to collect the cards to show off.
There is no obvious distinction between the top and bottom in terms of popularity among the five members of the Shuo Group. Each of them has a different style, catering to different audiences. No matter which one you eat, there is always a choice that suits your appetite in Stary.
Yuan Xiao's market research yielded a very satisfactory conclusion. However, when she was about to leave for dinner, she was recognized by the stall owner who had been staring at her and asked in a low voice, "Yuan Xiao?"
Yuan Xiao: ...I’ve wrapped it like this.
It took someone else's ability to recognize her. She winked at the girl, clasped her hands together in front of her chest and prayed, begging her not to call out her name here.
The girl nodded to show that she understood, and then excitedly moved closer to her, and asked in a low voice as if they were making a connection: "Boss Yuan, Boss Yuan, is Shuo going to have an event in Shanghai? Foreign Affairs?"
"No, I'm the only one here on a business trip. I just stopped by to take a look while passing by." Don't say no. Any information about the group should not be spread through such gossip. Even if Stary really came to Shanghai, Yuan Xiao would have to apologize and say no at this time.
"Then you should treat Su Chen well." The girl's first reaction was still to fight for herself. She stared at Yuan Xiao sincerely and said, "Take good care of them! Let Su Chen sing on the stage more often!"
Yuan Xiao nodded. This is what she has always been doing, bringing people who love the stage to the stage.
"Let him gain some weight! Chenchen worked too hard before and was too thin. Being too thin doesn't look good. He can eat more!"
This can also be agreed, Yuan Xiao nodded, little Su Chen is already gaining muscle every day, Yuan Xin has never pursued white, young and thin.
"Then can you reproduce the weekly pass?" Seeing that Yuan Xiao agreed readily, the girl took the opportunity to make one last request.
Yuan Xiao: ...This won’t work.
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