Chapter 104 Voting Groups?
Xia Linxing pinched Xie Tinglan's sleeve, her fingers gently, as if twisting a fragile petal.
System 999 continued to instruct Xia Linxing in his mind: "Kid, now pull Xie Tinglan's sleeve and shake it left and right!"
Shake left and right?
Xia Linxing looked at the narrow cuffs of Xie Tinglan. He could only pinch a small piece of Xie Tinglan's sleeves. How... could he shake it left to right?
Xia Linxing pondered seriously for two seconds, then flexibly changed to pulling Xie Tinglan's sleeves up and down.
The fabric at the cuffs rustled.
Xie Tinglan glanced down at Xia Linxing's actions and raised his eyebrows.
He did not comment on Xia Linxing's actions, and looked calm and composed, as if waiting to say, "I want to see what you are doing."
"you……"
Xia Linxing repeated word for word what System 999 told him to say: "Are you... angry?"
At the request of System 999, Xia Linxing dragged out the ending tone for a long time. The soft and sticky ending tone was as sweet as melted honey.
He followed System 999's instructions, tilting his head back, blinking at Xie Tinglan, and reciting word for word: "I know I was wrong..."
"I promise, I won't do it again next time..."
As he spoke, his hand once again cooperated by tugging at Xie Tinglan's sleeve.
But after pulling up the sleeves, Xia Linxing suddenly found that Xie Tinglan's originally smooth sleeves were wrinkled by him, and he secretly smoothed them out with his fingers without making a sound, trying to cover up his "criminal traces".
"Really?" Xie Tinglan didn't notice Xia Linxing's little movements. He just lowered his eyes and looked at Xia Linxing, then let out a soft chuckle.
If he hadn't seen Xia Linxing's gradually flushing cheeks and his gently trembling eyelashes revealing his uneasy heart, at first glance, he would have thought that Xia Linxing was very at ease.
"But you just promised me that you wouldn't eat anything else..."
"But now..." Xie Tinglan also stretched out his tone: "Right under my nose, you ate the wrong thing again and almost ended up in the hospital again."
Xia Linxing tried to argue: "But, I didn't eat anything randomly this time..."
He looked at Xie Tinglan sincerely: "The food I ate this time was bought by you, Teacher Xie..." He did not break his oath~
Xie Tinglan deliberately misinterpreted his meaning: "Oh? So what Xingxing meant...is this my fault?"
"Not really..." Xia Linxing laughed dryly, "I just thought... I thought it wouldn't matter if I only ate a little bit (of mango)..."
"I won't be greedy next time! I swear!"
As he spoke, Xia Linxing raised four fingers.
Xie Tinglan glanced at the four fingers Xia Linxing held to her ears, the corners of his mouth curled up. He glanced at the sky outside again and said with a reluctant look, "Okay..."
Anyway, he had roughly achieved the result he wanted, so he generously let go of the anxious Xia Linxing: "Since you didn't make a fuss to the point of going to the hospital this time, I'll let you go this time..."
"But if there's a next time, I won't let you go so easily..."
Xia Linxing breathed a sigh of relief and nodded repeatedly: "Don't worry, I won't do it again!"
I didn't expect that the method System 999 said would actually work! Xia Linxing was extremely surprised, but he also knew that this method would only work once, and it would probably not work the next time.
After returning to the base, he must find a chance to get his cell phone back and call his original body's family to find out all the information about his original body!
We must never make the same mistake as today again!
…
The allergy issue was safely overcome by Xia Linxing's "cute way of getting away with it".
Xia Linxing also devoted herself to the preparations for the third performance.
It's just that the grouping for this performance...is a little different from what Xia Linxing expected——
"Decided by audience vote?"
Xia Linxing tilted his head, a little confused as to why such an important matter as grouping was left entirely to the audience.
Shen Sibai nodded and explained, “On the surface, it’s voted by the audience, but in reality it depends on the strength of each fan base.”
As long as the trainees secretly reveal the name of the song they want to perform in, the agency will arrange professional fans to call on fans to buy tickets together.
At this point, the trainee's fan loyalty is crucial. If the fan loyalty is strong, then professional fans will rally behind the scenes, with all the votes going towards a single song. However, if the fan loyalty is weak, then the votes will likely be scattered, with each fan having their own opinions.
After all, in order to encourage fans to actively vote, the program team not only released the song demo on the website, but also released the dance teacher's practice studio choreography version. Although only a part of the choreography is available, it is enough for fans to choose the song for their favorite brother.
To put it simply, fans vote for songs, which means fans want to vote for the songs they most want to see the trainees they pick perform for them.
This choice is actually very personal - maybe one fan wants to see the brother perform song A, but another fan wants to see song B... and what song the trainee will be assigned in the end depends only on the trainee's ranking in the song.
Even if he received 100,000 votes (an exaggeration) for the 6-member group's song A, as long as his ranking was 7th, he would not be able to sing the song and would have to wait for a vacant spot in another group.
Another trainee may have only received a few thousand votes, but he ranked first in his group, so he was sure to be included in the group.
So at this time, the presence of professional fans is very important.
"So that's how it is..."
Xia Linxing finally understood what this competition system meant. However, what did it have to do with him as a trainee?
Xia Linxing thought to himself.
He has already watched the demos of the three public performance songs given by the program team, but he has no particular song he wants to perform (he thinks they are all too difficult), and he has no agency, let alone professional fans, to help him organize fan voting.
So when he finished listening to Shen Sibai's explanation of friendship, Xia Linxing was already prepared to go to the group that other trainees didn't want to go to.
However, Xia Linxing is the only one with such a good mentality.
The other trainees are different——
After watching the demo shown to them by the program crew, Cheng Xuezhou immediately picked out the song that best suited him, secretly contacted his agency on his mobile phone, and asked them to help contact his professional fans so that they could make a unified bid for tickets.
He even rejected the agency's proposal of "go for one and guarantee one (split the tickets to guarantee one for the first song, and use the remaining tickets for the song selected by Cheng Xuezhou)" and asked fans to cast all their votes for the song he selected.
Cheng Xuezhou, with his years of experience as a trainee, guaranteed that the song he had chosen would be the most outstanding and perform the best on stage. Therefore, the competition would be fiercest. He knew he couldn't split the votes. If he fell short of winning by just a few votes, Cheng Xuezhou knew he would regret it to death.
After all, it was already the third public performance, and only half of the original hundred or so trainees remained. Because Cheng Xuezhou didn't get the song he wanted in the last performance, his votes during the second public performance were only average, so overall, his ranking after the second public performance actually dropped several places compared to before.
This was unbearable for Cheng Xuezhou. Therefore, in his eyes, the Three Dukes became a perfect opportunity to turn things around.
——As long as he can be successfully selected into the group he wants to join!
Therefore, as soon as the program team released the news, Cheng Xuezhou began to contact the agency intensively and asked them to keep an eye on the online voting situation at all times.
"Don't worry..."
When Cheng Xuezhou asked for who knows how many times, the people at the company were a little annoyed: "We have been keeping an eye on it..."
"Don't worry, you'll definitely be in the group you want this time..."
"Based on the votes that have been cast, you're already in fourth place. Not to mention we still have some votes that haven't been cast yet..."
"What about the others?" Cheng Xuezhou was still worried that other trainees would compete with him for the spot.
He was really frightened by the fact that during the second public performance, Xia Linxing suddenly appeared in front of him and "snatched" the song he wanted to choose. Even now, he has some paranoid feelings, fearing that the group he likes will be snatched away by someone else.
The agency felt that Cheng Xuezhou was being overly concerned: "The voting deadline is almost here..."
"It's clear by now which trainee is going to submit which song. Those popular trainees you're worried about all have their own considerations and choices..."
"In the group you chose, only Shen Sibai and Zhao Jian are popular trainees. The other trainees are not as popular as you... You said you worry about nothing all day long."
"Is that so..." Cheng Xuezhou felt a little relieved, but once bitten, one becomes afraid of the rope for ten years. After hesitating again and again, Cheng Xuezhou finally asked the question he wanted to know the most: "Then...where is Xia Linxing?"
"Huh?" The person on the other end of the phone didn't know why Cheng Xuezhou suddenly asked about Xia Linxing. His tone was full of confusion and puzzlement: "Xia Linxing?"
In their opinion, although Xia Linxing has become popular, he has always been inferior to Cheng Xuezhou, whether in the last ranking or the current voting. Some of them don’t quite understand why Cheng Xuezhou suddenly and solemnly mentioned Xia Linxing alone.
But to be honest, Xia Linxing is indeed quite different, because -
"Xia Linxing is the only trainee among all the trainees who has fans voting for all his songs."
The ticket types are so scattered!
The people at the agency were shocked when they noticed it!
They know that there are individual trainees in the program team, but to put it bluntly, they all know that the so-called "individual trainees" are actually part of some character settings or scripts. They are all trainees who have agencies but have not officially signed contracts.
If you look at this point, you will know it by looking at Shen Sibai, who is also a "personal trainee" -
As a trainee, Chen Sibai's fans are very organized and disciplined. When they received the news from Cheng Xuezhou and others, Chen Sibai's fans also started to call on fans to unify their votes - who would believe this if there was no agency or agent behind it!
But there really is such a person, whose fan base is a mess. The news has been released for so long, but no big fan has come out to call on everyone to unify the voting method and vote for only one song.
It seemed that they really just voted for Xia Linxing based on which song they liked, regardless of whether Xia Linxing was suitable or not, or whether Xia Linxing could be selected.
——Just make yourself happy.
As a result, Xia Linxing's name appeared on the candidate list for each song. And each one was at the end (after all, the tickets were too scattered).
It's... quite difficult to comment.
Whenever the people at Cheng Xuezhou's agency thought of Xia Linxing's fans running around under each group, their expressions became indescribable.
So they completely couldn't understand why Cheng Xuezhou's tone was normal when he asked about other popular trainees, but when he asked about Xia Linxing, even though Cheng Xuezhou tried his best to appear as calm as possible, the people at the agency still read his nervous attitude as if he was facing a great enemy from his "calm" words.
"Xia Linxing... Which group he will join depends on which group has a vacancy at the end..."
With these words, Cheng Xuezhou finally felt relieved.
The popularity and fame surrounding Xia Linxing... were indeed fake.
What "out-of-circle direct shots", what "white nights by the stars" and "listening to the waves and looking at the stars", what professional hot search... Xia Linxing just happened to take advantage of the popularity during the online voting and happened to attract a certain number of votes.
When it came time to verify the fans' true strength, Xia Linxing's side was full of bubbles after a false prosperity - in the end, even the songs for the third public performance... could only be picked up from those that others didn't want.
Since the second public performance, the unhappiness of having his favorite song "stolen" by Xia Linxing, the frustration of failing to report Xia Linxing for violating the program team's regulations... all disappeared completely at this moment.
Cheng Xuezhou hung up the phone with a satisfied smile and carefully put away the phone.
Anyway, the final deadline for voting is not far away, so he just needs to wait patiently for the program team to announce the grouping.
Since he has already determined which group he will join, he might as well take advantage of this time to secretly start preparing.
Cheng Xuezhou began his private practice with full confidence.
And time soon arrived when the third result would be announced.
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