Chapter 79 Dilemma
The program team allowed the guests to choose any of the five training rooms to enter, so why did so many people come to the fourth training room?
Ren Limeng silently counted the heads in the room: one, two, three... nine! Including her, there were ten people in total!
Excluding the four captains, there are only sixteen guests in total!
Meishi... How did her obscure hometown suddenly become a favorite to form a team?
For this stop, among the five locations given by the program team, at first glance, Meishi doesn’t seem to have the influence to become a hit?
Ren Limeng quickly went through the other four guessed destinations in her mind. There were famous scenic spots, the province's GDP leader, and almost all of them were mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas. No matter from which aspect, there was something wrong with Mei City's quiet surprise this time.
Ren Limeng was not criticizing her hometown. Her hometown was certainly a good place, but it was so good yet so unfamiliar. Could it be that she had been away for so long that she could no longer keep up with the pace of her hometown?
Before they knew it, Ren Limeng and Guan He had been squeezed to the two sides of the sofa by the new guests. Chen Xi seemed particularly enthusiastic and kept asking questions and "chatting" with Ren Limeng. Ren Limeng nodded slightly and softly talked about her experiences hosting the agricultural channel. She didn't expect that Chen Xi was quite interested in these things.
Finally, Chen Xi's attention turned elsewhere. As the broadcast sounded, "Captain Shen Xingzhi, please enter the training room to select keywords now," the training room suddenly became quiet, followed by more intense whispers. Everyone looked at the door of the training room with anticipation, waiting for Shen Xingzhi to appear.
As the first place winner in the first public performance, it was within Ren Limeng's expectations that Chen Xingzhi would be the first to choose the training room, but... were everyone's eyes a little too eager?
There was a one in five chance that if Chen Xingzhi chose another room, such as an empty training room, this shot would be interesting.
While Ren Limeng was thinking about all sorts of things, her eyes suddenly focused as she scanned the surroundings. She found that Li Qingzi was also in the training room.
The number of people who had just entered gradually increased, one after another, like dumplings being dropped into the air. Ren Limeng sat on the side of the sofa, her main focus being on communicating with Chen Xi. She had unconsciously ignored some of the new guests. At this moment, across the crowd, she suddenly saw Li Qingzi from the same agency as Chen Xingzhi, and Ren Limeng already had a bad premonition.
The next second, the entire training room suddenly became quiet. Ren Limeng looked forward and saw Shen Xingzhi's tall and straight figure quietly opening the door of the training room.
"Hello, Brother Xingzhi!"
"Brother Xingzhi, what a coincidence! I didn't expect everyone to choose room number four!"
What on earth could possibly be in Training Room 4 that could draw so many people in? What a coincidence!
Ren Limeng took a deep breath secretly. At this moment, she seemed to have found the answer in her heart.
The captain chose keywords and the team members chose rooms at the same time. No wonder so many people were chatting downstairs when she was making her choice, without any hurry. Those entanglements, hesitations, and wanderings...how many expressions on the guests' faces were real!
Even though she had expected it, looking at the extremely bustling training room and listening to the guests enthusiastically greeting Shen Xingzhi, Ren Limeng still couldn't help but sigh inwardly.
Chen Xingzhi is amazing, and his influence as a top star is undeniable. He also led the pack in the first episode, and his own popularity was a distant first, but his team was third, second to last! Their team also struggled in the first public performance, so why are so many people still flocking to it?
Well, as expected, in competition variety shows, what the guests actually care least about is the competition ranking.
But if it was Mei City, she wanted to work hard with Guan He to complete a wonderful opera stage and get a very high ranking, preferably to get the first place on the stage, just like Guan He Yigong.
Ren Limeng felt that this was very meaningful.
In addition to pursuing her own fame, she also has more selfish motives.
But now, Shen Xingzhi chose the fourth training room, he is going to Mei City, so what about her?
Should she team up with him again and go to Meishi, with whom she had just broken off ties, or give up her hometown of Meishi?
Ren Limeng secretly clenched her hands. Last night, she and Shen Xingzhi clearly stated that their cooperation was over. She thought that with his pride, he would definitely not even look at her again today.
Indeed, after Shen Xingzhi entered the room, he didn't even look at her, nor did he look in her direction, as if he didn't care about her in the room at all, but he directly chose this training room representing Mei City!
Although several guests said that they entered this place blindly during the "blind audition", and even after entering, they seemed to know that the second stop represented by this training room was Mei City after being reminded by people next to them, but Ren Limeng did not believe that Shen Xingzhi did not know the significance of this room.
He definitely chose Meishi on purpose!
He...just wanted to make things difficult for her!
Ren Limeng was in a dilemma.
She clearly said last night that they would "go their separate ways on the road ahead", so she can't just be so shameless as to pretend nothing happened today, right?
Although, when facing her boss at work, she often curses him secretly and then keeps a calm face, but it is different after all!
When it comes to forming a team, once the program group announced the rules today, she actually didn't need to think so much about the captain's issues. Ren Limeng sighed secretly. No matter who entered the training room, as long as she wanted to go to Mei City, she would have to find ways to get the captain who came in to choose her.
Although this may encounter some difficulties, it is not that difficult. She is confident in her work ability if the object is not Shen Xingzhi.
For more than a week, whether facing the tense atmosphere of the argument between Shen Xingzhi and Yan Baiwei during the journey, or the countless hard training sessions that she had to stay up late into the night, Ren Limeng had never felt as embarrassed as she did at this moment.
So annoying!
For a moment, Ren Limeng really didn't want to record anymore, but looking at the cold cameras around her and the enthusiastic guests, she still tried hard to keep a smile on her lips.
Smile, she must smile!
Her professionalism cannot collapse at this moment!
What's there to worry about!!!
...Let it be!
Ren Limeng took a deep breath, stood up suddenly, went against the crowd surrounding Shen Xingzhi, quietly walked around, and prepared to leave the training room.
"Li Meng, you..."
Hearing Guan He's voice, Ren Limeng paused slightly, tilted her head and explained softly, "I'm going to the bathroom."
She decided to give up recording this part.
By the time she comes back, the first round of selection for the fourth training room should be finalized.
Ren Limeng had already started thinking about which of the other four rooms was closer to Mei City. Except for mountainous areas like Lin City in the province, high-speed rail direct access was generally very fast. It was not impossible for her to sneak back during the break in the recording at night to celebrate her mother's birthday.
After all, she was not good enough in cultivation, and Ren Limeng did not want to bow to Shen Xingzhi.
Forced to make a living, worker Ren Limeng has bowed to many people, but at this moment, she just doesn't want to.
At least go to the bathroom first to relieve yourself.
"Brother Guan He, Brother Xing Zhi actually came to our room. It looks like we're going to lose the first round."
Guan He looked at the guests surrounding Shen Xingzhi and nodded in agreement involuntarily.
Now that almost all the guests are in this training room, Shen Xingzhi will definitely be able to pick his favorite team members immediately. Compared with the many first- and second-tier stars surrounding Shen Xingzhi, he and Ren Limeng are too small in status, and Shen Xingzhi probably won't even look at them.
It would be fine to take the opportunity to go to the bathroom like Ren Limeng did. There is no need to join in the fun and waste your feelings.
They have to think about forming a team for the second round.
Guan He was a little undecided about choosing the captain from the other three captains after weighing the captains and sites and choosing the captain that both of them liked and was willing to invite both of them at the same time. What's more, the remaining four sites had nothing to do with opera, and they could not be as competitive as Mei City.
Ren Limeng was also thinking about this question. After leaving the noisy and lively recording site, she was still thinking seriously in the bathroom. She wondered which room Fan Xinran had chosen. Could she and Guan He join the team at the same time?
No matter what, the second public performance is a new beginning.
"The first round of team formation for Shen Xingzhi is over."
In the corridor, listening to the program team's report, Ren Limeng paused as she returned to her room. Time seemed to freeze. At the end of the silent and empty corridor was the fourth training room. Ren Limeng could hear laughter coming from the room.
She slowed down her pace slightly, and the next second, the door of the training room opened, and Ren Limeng's eyes met Shen Xingzhi who took the lead in opening the door.
Chen Xingzhi's gaze passed through Ren Limeng indifferently. His cold and deep eyes were completely free of the ups and downs of emotions from last night, as if all of Ren Limeng's tangled thoughts in the past two days were just unnecessary worries, and he...didn't take her seriously at all.
"Brother Xingzhi."
Looking at the camera positions and photographers around her, Ren Limeng smiled and greeted Chen Xingzhi who was coming towards her. Chen Xingzhi just said "hmm" lightly and walked straight past Ren Limeng towards the stairs.
Obviously, this was the encounter she had hoped for, but the smile on Ren Limeng's lips froze for half a second unconsciously, and her heartbeat seemed to slow down quietly with the leisurely pace of Shen Xingzhi. It was not until she saw the team members following behind Shen Xingzhi that she suddenly focused her attention.
Chen Xi and... Guan He?
Ren Limeng's pupils suddenly shrank and her eyes widened slightly. Why did the partner she had agreed to cooperate with abandon her?
She just went to the toilet!
Didn’t they agree on this?
"Sister Chen Xi, Brother Guan He."
Ren Limeng greeted the two people behind Chen Xingzhi in a calm tone, not revealing the shock and panic in her heart at the moment, but she frowned slightly, and the silent look she gave Guan He expressed a question and condemnation that only the two of them could understand.
Facing Ren Limeng's clear black and white eyes, Guan He's face was a little anxious. He looked at Shen Xingzhi who was not stopping in front of him, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes, but he quickly looked back at Ren Limeng beside him and quickly pointed to the waiting hall downstairs.
Due to the rules of the program, Guan He, as a member of the first round of team joining, cannot communicate with other guests who are still in the selection process. He hopes that Ren Limeng can understand his hint at this moment.
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