Chapter 41: Straight Shot Preview, Royal Family, Reversal, and Straight Shot
[Main post: Ahhhhhh, Sister Tianguang posted a preview! [Images][Images]]
[1L: Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap, holy crap, it's actually a preview!]
[2L: Oh my god, those legs, that waist, that gaze... and this is just a preview? I'm slowly kneeling down...]
[3L: Does anyone understand how my heart almost stops racing when I see thumbnails of images outside?]
[4L: Sister Tianguang is really...you're the only sister!]
[5L: So why is Tianguang Jie able to have pictures? Wasn't security supposed to be super tight today? All the other fan site admins who are posting are saying they got arrested, how did Tianguang Jie manage to get away with it??]
[6L: Does this woman have connections? Everyone else can't take pictures but she can, this is a bit suspicious]
[7L: What's so subtle about that? The people upstairs are just jealous. Is it some kind of niche thing that Sister Tianguang is good at her job? Didn't everyone already know she was a great photographer?]
[8L: Who got carried away again? It turns out to be our Yingsi! The idol is awesome and the fan site admin is reliable. This is how steadily and happily we support our top idol!]
[9L: Sister Tianguang, you are my master, I will cling to you like a ghost]
[10: I finally understand why all the posters in the reviews say that Ekpe is crazy. I was already speechless with shock just from seeing the preview images. Ekpe… a god on stage…]
[11L: This makeup, this outfit, is something Syad could actually own? Oh my god, has the production team changed their ways? Have they finally given up on the Yiwu small business?]
[12L: After seeing this picture, I finally understand why I've lived until now. It turns out it was all to wait for the promised stage of the third public performance.]
[13L: What should I do? I was so anxious when I didn't see the pictures, and now I'm even more anxious! Can we please broadcast the third public performance stage right away? I really don't want to wait another day!]
[14L: My sister said there are still more pictures to be posted, so let's keep waiting patiently, hehe...so happy...]
[15L: So handsome... I'm illiterate, all I can think of after seeing this is "so handsome"]
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After seeing Tianguangjie's post, Xiao Ai stayed on Weibo and waited anxiously with her group members during the live stream, refreshing her homepage every five seconds.
Fortunately, Shi Yao didn't keep them waiting too long; just ten minutes later, she released the first set of preview images.
There are two photos in total. It's obvious that they haven't been edited at all. They were just taken with a phone, showing the camera screen, with the fan site's watermark added, and then posted directly.
The moment the preview image appeared, Xiao Ai almost stopped breathing. Ever since she saw the report, she had been constantly imagining what the costume would look like. Every report said that his look was very good, very elegant, and very suitable for him and the theme of the stage.
She had even used keywords from the reviews to search for similar performance costumes on Taobao out of boredom, and she was very satisfied with the results. However, she did not expect that the actual product would be several times more beautiful than she had imagined.
The overall color scheme is black and light gray, a very structured European-style uniform, paired with Martin boots, and complete with various accessories such as leg rings, belts, chains, and brooches. Actually, the color scheme is a bit similar to the first set, as that set is also black, but the innermost lining of this set is a dark blue shirt, with the top button slightly unbuttoned. Under the layers of uniform, it appears both ascetic and alluring. Yingxu wears a single leather glove on his right hand, which, combined with his gaze, is full of tension.
The first picture shows a dance pose, with his right hand raised to his chest, chin slightly raised, and a look of disdain with a hint of coldness. The second picture is a profile shot, with half of his face illuminated by the light, half bright and half dark. His right hand is lightly clasped over his right eye, and his eyelashes are lowered.
Xiao Ai finally understood why the first poster in the review said that the performance today was very divine. It couldn't be more appropriate. Although she didn't understand why a boy band's hit song could have such a divine feel, seeing these two preview photos completely put her mind at ease.
With this level of makeup, costumes, and stage design, even if the third performance isn't a huge hit, the final result won't be bad.
Xiao Ai happily saved the two photos, went on a rant in the comments section, and then chose to repost them. When she checked back, she found that the post had already been reposted over 10,000 times, and she was secretly amazed.
Is it because Yingxu is too popular, or because the fans have been holding back for too long, or because there are too many fans from other groups joining in the fun?
Xiao Ai patrolled the reposting area and found all three situations.
In the past, after a performance, the competition was based on which fan site admin was the first to post a picture, which fan site got the first 10,000 reposts, and which fan site had better overall data.
But today there's no comparison. Apart from Yingxu, no one else has any pictures. Fans from other groups are drooling with envy while going crazy with their fellow fans. Even fans of trainees in the same group as Yingxu are directly forwarding the photos, praying that Shiyao can also capture their favorites while filming Yingxu.
Five minutes later, the two preview images had been forwarded over 20,000 times. Xiao Ai would check Shi Yao's homepage every few minutes, partly to admire the impressive data, and partly to see if Shi Yao would post any new images.
Persistence pays off. Xiao Ai finally saw Shi Yao's new reply in the comments section. She said that everyone could stay up late, as there was more good stuff to come.
Xiao Ai immediately forwarded the screenshot to the small group and went crazy with her fellow fans.
Xiao Ai only opened Green Petal after scrolling through Weibo to the point of exhaustion. In less than half an hour after she left, the group had already added more than 500 new posts. Tian Guang Jie's influence is truly remarkable.
Upon opening the homepage, a long list of posts was filled with people admiring the two performance photos of Xu. Xiao Ai scrolled down with a smile on her face, when she suddenly came across a rather discordant headline.
[Main Post: If you don't understand, ask Sister Tianguang. Is this self-disclosure? The timing of this post feels very strange...]
[1L: You're so bold! They'll be coming to report this in a big way soon.]
[2L: What do you mean? I don't quite understand.]
[3L: I thought I was the only one who felt weird... Seeing everyone in the group celebrating and praising, I thought I was just out of place.]
[4L: The fact that there are so many red posts in this group means your group is a fan-controlled group. I thought this was common knowledge. Look at this group, who can avoid being attacked? Isn't it just Yingxu?]
[5L: Hmm... To be honest, it feels pretty uncomfortable. Everyone waited all day, only to receive news of strict security and a complete wipeout, which was already upsetting enough. And then this privileged individual showed up... Ugh.]
[6L: Seriously, I understand you're happy, but please keep a low profile. Don't you know the saying "make a fortune quietly"? Being the first to stick your neck out at a time like this, aren't you worried about being reported?]
[7L: Newbie here, sorry everyone, what are you guys talking about? I don't understand at all. What's wrong with the fan site admin posting pictures?]
[8L replies to 7L: Kid, if you really don't understand, then I can tell you why; if you're just a fan pretending to be a fan, then I can only say don't get too close.]
[9L: What's so hard to understand? Since they're all fan site admins, why are others arrested but she's unaffected? Did she take pictures with her eyes instead of a camera? If other people had also posted pictures, that would be one thing, but only she did. Doesn't this reveal that she has connections within the organization? So this is what royal family is all about, truly an eye-opener.]
[10L: Why does she still dare to post pictures...aren't she afraid of getting flamed?]
[11L: Today, all the other fan site admins were arrested, and they were almost all complaining on Weibo. She's still posting it so blatantly. What's wrong with her?]
[12L: Maybe Jie Jie is showing off her abilities and ruthlessness. If you can't get the shots, it's because you're useless; if she can, it's because she's capable.]
[13L: I'm disgusted. Ying's fans still had the nerve to attack the "royal family" before, but it turns out their idol is the biggest "royal family" in the first place. Not to mention that only his fan site admins could sneak in, his performance outfits, accessories, and makeup—is that really something you'd see in a talent show? Could the third performance have been a setup where four people were favoring one person? What a great script!]
[14L: I've said it before, Ying Xu isn't that bad off at all. It's Ying Xu's fans who are so good at twisting the truth and playing the victim that they've convinced everyone. There are so many trainees on the show, and there are tons of people who are worse off than him. Does anyone remember those people?]
[15L: I've always thought he was a favorite. Putting everything else aside, just look at that turning point in his rise to power. His comment was deleted, immediately noticed, and then posted in our group, which led to him trending on Weibo. Then, inexplicably, he became a viral sensation. I'd like to ask, he wasn't the only one whose scenes were cut; why didn't others receive the same treatment? Trending topics kept popping up, and the production team immediately cooperated by re-editing the footage. Then they poured resources into advertising and spin-off variety shows. I'm really curious, was the whole incident of his deleted scenes being noticed a pre-arranged script by the production team to torment his fans?]
[16L replies to 15L: Oh my god, this is terrifying to think about. Now that you mention it, there are just too many coincidences. If this is really a script prepared for him by the production team, then the script is too perfect. He tortured the fans to death in the early stages so that he could soar to great heights later. He really reaped the benefits of this...]
[17L: And his biggest fan site admin, Tianguangjie, is also very problematic. In the first video she posted, the one that made Yingxu go viral, there was a clip of Yingxu dancing to the theme song at the end. The video was filmed from a window, which is obviously a hidden camera. Only internal staff could enter that location, right? Isn't this solid evidence of a script?]
[18L: I can add another piece of solid evidence. Tianguangjie updates her Weibo with pictures of her commute every day, but anyone who has been to her offline events knows she has never shown her face. Even those who regularly work offline don't know what she looks like. Moreover, she doesn't buy the pictures; she hasn't bought any of the picture packs from the picture distribution groups. She doesn't go offline events, yet she still has pictures that she keeps updating. So, where do these pictures come from?]
[19L replies to 15L: No, it's one thing for you guys to say that Tianguang has inside connections, but how come some people are saying that Yingxu is a member of the royal family? Isn't that outrageous? I mean, I'm really impressed that Yingxu can be associated with the royal family. Have you forgotten that his total screen time in the first four episodes was less than two minutes? Are the people who say he's a member of the royal family brainless or blind? This comment has over a hundred likes, so does that mean the people who liked it will receive the same treatment as Yingxu in the first four episodes?]
[20L: Even haters should follow basic principles. You can say whatever you want about Yingxu, but calling him a "royal family" is a joke. He received an A in both evaluations, but his initial stage performance was cut, and the second evaluation was also cut. When choosing C, he was the only one without a battle scene, and in the ending, all the A-class members got one except him. Anyone who has followed a talent show knows that the first few episodes and the theme song are the most crucial time to build popularity, basically determining 80% of the debut group. If someone with two A grades were truly a "royal family," would the show choose this kind of sacrificial method to promote him? Does anyone really think this is promotion? If it weren't for Tianguang's video, Yingxu would have been eliminated in the second round long ago. A "royal family" indeed?]
[21L: Everyone knows how much screen time Xu had before. There were quite a few posts in the group at the time defending him. We can't completely dismiss someone just because of one incident. Tao should stick to the facts.]
[22L: Oh, Sister Yingsi finally barged in! I was wondering why you guys were so slow today. As soon as we talked about the "royal family," everyone popped out. Yeah, no one denies he had less screen time in the early episodes, but didn't he get even less later? Isn't it a fact that the production team re-edited the footage for him? These are all facts, so why are you blaming everyone for spreading rumors?]
[23L replies to 22L: Don't you know why the production team re-edited the video? Back then, the vote-rigging scandal and all sorts of negative comments dominated the trending topics, and you don't know how many bystanders helped report it? If the production team hadn't re-edited it, they would have been invited for questioning. I'm truly amazed that you can blame it all on Ying Xu.]
[24L: I know there are many people who dislike Yingxu, and now even rumors about Yingxu being a member of the royal family are circulating. They even call her a "Yingxu fan control group." Well, let's just call her a control group so you can spread rumors everywhere.]
[25L: Why keep bringing up the past? Let's just talk about today. The fan site admin is the only one who broke the rules and wasn't punished by security. The security team went crazy, arresting fan site admins and checking their cameras just to protect her. We can't compare to that kind of connections.]
[26L: No, where did this rumor come from that Tianguang got the photos because security deliberately let her through? Has she never been to an offline performance? The performance venue is small, crowded, and dark. If someone is agile, fast, and good at maneuvering, they could have easily avoided security.]
[27L: Yeah, yeah, all the other fan site admins are no good except her. Okay, let's immediately crown her the world's number one fan site admin, okay, fellow fans?]
[28L: Um... another fan site admin posted pictures, it's Xu Su's fan site admin]
Xiao Ai got angrier and angrier as she read the post. She wanted to personally go and argue with the people in the thread. She was excited when she first saw the picture, but after calming down, she couldn't help but think that since no one else had a picture but Yingxu did, she would definitely be targeted.
But she didn't expect that the direction this group of people were aiming at would be so outrageous, even mentioning that they were from the royal family.
Damn it, if everyone who gets permission is royalty, then there's no one on this show who isn't royalty.
Anyone could see that Yingxu's early performance was clearly a sacrificial lamb; the production team never intended for him to advance. If it weren't for the video unexpectedly going viral and changing his fate, he wouldn't even have had a chance to seek justice for himself.
Being too obsessed with celebrities can indeed blind you to their true nature.
Xiao Ai was angrily scrolling through the post, about to reply to the comment that promised royal family, when she suddenly saw that the latest reply had been posted by another fan site admin. She was stunned and immediately rushed to Weibo.
Xu Su is a trainee in the middle ranks. He used to be an internet celebrity. He has a pretty face and a small group of fans. Although he didn't gain many new fans after entering the talent show, he can't be eliminated for a while. Based on the size of his fan base, he can stay until the end of the third round at least.
Xu Su used to post her dance videos on the Yinfu platform, and her skills were decent, but she was completely bad at singing. The only two fans who managed her were former internet celebrities who had followed her to the platform. Although she didn't post many pictures and the quality was average, she still far surpassed those who didn't have a single fan.
Xu Su has a very famous fan site admin who started posting photos of Xu Su during her interview period. The characteristic of her photos is that she only posts raw, extremely raw photos without even adjusting the lighting.
Even the most stunning beauty might be photographed poorly by this method of taking pictures, since there's always a chance of being photographed from an unflattering angle. Xu Su isn't exactly a handsome guy, at most he's just a young and handsome man, so this fan site admin took countless unflattering photos of him.
At first, Xu Su only had this one fan site admin posting pictures, so most of his fans dared not speak out against it. This fan site admin would sometimes take pictures of other trainees and would kindly post them together, only to be persuaded to delete them by the other trainees' fans.
But she is very willful and ignores all well-intentioned advice and even when people are angry and yell at her. Every time she goes online, she posts a set of bad pictures to attract fans and then goes offline at lightning speed.
Moreover, she doesn't have her own watermark; every time she posts a picture, she just randomly draws a very ugly lewd person on it, which is a double psychological attack.
This girl's unique way of posting pictures made her familiar to all the fans of "Shining Idol". Since her ID is painting, everyone nicknamed her "Painter Sister".
Hearing that the artist had kindly taken photos of other artists offline, everyone felt a chill run down their spines, hoping she wouldn't end up with photos of someone she herself was responsible for.
For some reason, although Xu Su had two fan site admins, Xiao Ai just inexplicably felt that the person who posted the picture was the painter sister. She searched for the painter sister's ID, opened her homepage, and found that it was indeed her who posted the picture.
Just like every time she posted pictures before, this time the artist posted a raw photo, and it wasn't a framed shot, but a directly exported image that was uploaded.
Fortunately, although her photos are still quite raw, they don't look bad. Xu Su's expression is normal, her movements are smooth, and the snapshot should be of her part. You can even see the sense of movement in the photo. The overall color tone is also very harmonious, and under the soft stage lights, it even looks a bit dreamy.
[@Painting | Xu Su: "The Cauldron" [Image][Image]]
[Top comment 1: Aaaaaaahh ...
[Top comment 2: Seriously, could a painter like you take such a picture? Sister, are you possessed? (Comment 1)]
[Top Comment 3: Who says upsets can't produce miracles... Painter Sister proved herself with today's performance!]
[Top comment 4: Sis, do you know how amazing you are? A bunch of trending topics didn't have any pictures, but our Suzai did! Oh my god, sis, I'll never criticize you again.]
[Top comment 5: This is the blessing I get from staying up late. Sister, Xu Su is truly blessed to have you.]
Xu Su's popularity ranks only in the middle among all the trainees. Usually, the pictures posted by the fansite admins only get a few hundred reposts, and the better ones can get over a thousand. But for artists like Hua Jie, even a few hundred reposts are rare. Most of the people who follow her are just there for the fun of it, as well as Xu Su's fans who are exhausted but still haven't given up trying to persuade her.
However, this post received 5,000 reposts within ten minutes of being published. Although this number is normal for popular trainees, it is the best fan-taken video of Xu Su since the show started, and it is still growing rapidly.
Xiao Ai was tempted to share both pictures, but then remembered that she was a solo fan account and quietly withdrew her hand. To be fair, although the artist's previous pictures were often bizarre, this one was actually quite good.
This woman is a good person, easy to get along with, and didn't let me down when I needed to step up the most. Originally, it was quite uncertain whether Xu Su could make it to the finals, but after seeing this picture, she can probably secure her position.
A good fan site administrator can greatly help a trainee gain popularity.
Xiao Ai was still quite angry about those negative posts and comments in the group, and before she could even refute them, those people were proven wrong.
She strolled back to Green Petal in a good mood, and as soon as she opened it, she saw that the negative post was at the top, with more than two hundred replies, the latest hundred or so of which were from Ying's fans mocking her.
After Xu Su's fan site released the photos, the absurd rumors that only the "Yingxu" fan site could release photos were completely debunked.
Security for the performance was indeed tight, but some people did manage to take pictures, and there was more than one. Being able to take pictures wasn't due to special treatment, but rather because they were genuinely capable.
Xiao Ai had barely settled down when another trainee fan posted pictures. That trainee ranked twelfth in the previous round and was in the vocal group this time.
Now those who were disagreeing in the group finally realized that it wasn't an isolated case that the fan site admin was allowed to post pictures, and their conspiracy theories were untenable.
Not long after, several more fan site admins posted pictures. One of them was in the debut position, while the others were in the teens or twenties. In the end, including the first fan site admin who posted pictures, there were a total of six fan site admins who posted pictures, and people from all five groups posted pictures.
However, the top few in the popularity rankings remained as quiet as chickens. Their fans had been eagerly waiting for a long time, but still hadn't received any pictures from the fan site admins.
In the end, everyone concluded that the security for the third public performance was indeed very strict, and they took great care of the well-known fan site admins of the popular contestants, because the staff were already familiar with them since they often went to offline events.
Of the six fan site admins who managed to escape capture by staff and have their photos taken, four are of average popularity, one is on the verge of debuting, and another is a candidate for center position.
Xiao Ai breathed a sigh of relief when she realized that none of the other popular trainees had released any photos. Of course, she didn't want them to release any photos, since they were competitors. As a fan of Ying Xu, she only hoped that Ying Xu would be the one to take the center position in the end.
It's clear that the show's producers are intentionally targeting popular fan site admins. Having a top-tier fan site like Tianguangjie is truly reassuring.
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After returning to the hotel, Shi Yao first randomly picked two good-looking pictures from her camera and posted them on Weibo. Then she plunged into the acting classroom and spent five hours editing them on her computer.
Before setting off today, she only wanted to take some nice performance photos, but after using the buff, she felt that it would be a waste not to take a direct shot.
Since she had the buff, nobody paid any attention to her. Shi Yao took pictures of all the stages in one go, planning to see if she could resell the pictures later.
Yingxu's stage was the last one, which was expected, but she was still a bit tired after standing for seven or eight hours straight without drinking any water. Especially since the buff only lasted for three hours, and the first buff had already expired before Yingxu went on stage, so she had to extend it for another six hours.
Fortunately, she got a perfect shot with her straight shot. When the event ended, Yao took advantage of the buff effect and was the first to rush out of the venue, immediately taking a taxi back to the hotel.
I checked Weibo and found that no one had posted any pictures, so I picked two to send and then went to my QQ space to edit the video.
Actually, it's not difficult to edit individual videos; the difficulty lies in choosing the music. The full set of songs for the show hasn't been released yet, and if she posts them directly, she might be held accountable. So she spent almost an hour picking out songs from her library, hoping to edit a video that's perfectly timed.
No matter which option I chose, I wasn't satisfied. In the end, I reluctantly settled on a popular background music track and started editing the video. Editing videos with beat syncing is not easy, especially those with dense drum beats. Just inserting keyframes can be exhausting. Even though Shi Yao is very experienced, it took her almost four hours to edit.
After editing and exporting, she logged out of her social media account and checked her phone. She discovered that Weibo and Green Petal were arguing because she was the only one who posted the picture. So she immediately opened her work WeChat account and contacted the fan site admins she had just added that morning, sold them the picture, and instructed them not to reveal the source.
After confirming that the storm had subsided and the video had finished rendering, Shi Yao reviewed it once, but suddenly felt dissatisfied. She watched the live stage performance, and the original music and dance were such a perfect match that no matter what music was used, it wouldn't be able to fully showcase the charm of the dance.
After hesitating for a few minutes, Shi Yao finally decided not to release the version that was supposed to be in sync with the beat. Instead, she took a 30-second clip from the original video, slightly brightened the lighting, and then released it directly.
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After Shi Yao left that "Don't sleep" comment, Xiao Ai stayed glued to her homepage, refreshing it every now and then. After a long wait of more than an hour, she finally saw the new Weibo post.
She was stunned for a moment when it appeared; it wasn't a picture, but a video?
With trembling hands, she opened the video and gasped in shock after confirming its contents.
Help! Tianguang-jie actually released a fancam!!
Author's Note: Shi Yao: If you're not good at it, don't blame the road for being uneven. (Sunglasses)
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