Cheng Zhi tilted his head slightly, involuntarily attracted by the fragrance of Song Baiyi, and moved closer.
Seeing that Song Baiyi didn't respond, he asked again, this time with a softer tone.
"Teacher Song, can I share the responsibility with you?"
Song Baiyi looked at the person in front of him and chuckled while leaning against the door. "This is the first time I've seen someone rushing up to cause trouble for me."
Cheng Zhi hummed, silently took two steps back and looked away.
"As long as it's related to Teacher Song, it's not a problem for me."
When Cheng Zhi saw the comment mocking Song Baiyi, two emotions burst out in his heart at the same time.
One emotion is to stand up for Song Baiyi.
It was clearly his own fault that he got sick. Song Baiyi just sent him to the hospital with good intentions, but now netizens are making random speculations.
Another emotion was relief. After holding back the anger for so long, Cheng Zhi finally found a place to vent it.
Fortunately, he found a breakthrough, which gave him sufficient motivation to find Song Baiyi.
The first time Song Baiyi heard Cheng Zhi's straightforward statement, he was stunned for a moment. Just as he was about to speak, he was interrupted by Tang Rong.
"Okay, come in quickly. We have a solution now and we need your cooperation..."
Hearing Tang Rong's words, Cheng Zhi showed joy. Just as he was about to go inside, Song Baiyi stopped him.
The distance that Cheng Zhi had just widened has now been restored to its original state. As long as they take one more step forward, the two of them will be able to get close to each other.
Cheng Zhi was also startled by Song Baiyi's sudden approach. When the familiar fragrance filled his nose, he was a little nervous, "...What's wrong?"
He felt Song Baiyi moving slightly closer to his ear. When Song Baiyi started to speak, the warm air filled his ear tip, which felt a little itchy.
"If you are not satisfied with the plan proposed by Tang Rong, you don't need to care about my opinion, just say it directly."
Cheng Zhi hummed, turned his head and met Song Baiyi's gaze, and his heart suddenly stopped.
"Okay, I understand."
Tang Rong's expression was natural, without any psychological burden on his face.
"Brother Bai Yi and I have discussed it, and the plan we have decided on for now is that the two of you continue to maintain your current relationship, and then you can act more in sync in front of the camera. In short, if you two need to, you can use this as a pretext to hype up a couple."
Cheng Zhi frowned slightly, "Shouldn't we avoid suspicion at this time?"
He knew very well how much impact bundling marketing would have on Song Baiyi, who was currently very popular.
I am just an ordinary trainee now, and it is not worth it for Song Baiyi to spend so much energy to protect me.
In his heart, Cheng Zhi actually didn't want to avoid suspicion with Song Baiyi, but on the way here, he figured it out.
When I was in the hospital, I was indeed a little too proud of myself when Song Baiyi was taking care of me.
It was like a beautiful dream carefully woven by someone. When Cheng Zhi saw the trending searches on Weibo, he was suddenly dragged back to reality without even a chance to breathe.
And now, it's time to wake up from the dream.
Song Baiyi lowered his eyes and looked at Cheng Zhi, with a hint of depression in his tone, "Who said I want to avoid suspicion with you?"
Cheng Zhi exclaimed, raised his head in response, and looked at Song Baiyi with a confused look in his eyes, "But...if you don't avoid suspicion, it will be bad for your future development."
"It's just a CP hype. How can it be bad for my future development?" Song Baiyi continued to make excuses. "You are still in the talent show stage. If I clarify it right now, how do you think those fans of the show will look at you?"
According to Cheng Zhi's previous experience, it is not that serious to hype up a couple with the mentor in a talent show. The most serious thing is to have the mentor clarify that he has nothing to do with the student who was tied up at the beginning.
After all, students are at a disadvantage and do not have as solid a fan base as their mentors. Once this happens, students are likely to be accused of "relying on connections" or "doing whatever it takes to get a ranking" if they are not careful.
If you get scolded too much and it affects the reputation of the show, you might even be asked to withdraw from the competition.
Cheng Zhi didn't say anything, because rather than being disqualified from the competition, he didn't want Song Baiyi's future to be implicated because of himself.
The two of them just remained in a stalemate, and no one spoke.
Tang Rong had seen through the two people's thoughts long ago. He smiled and said, "What you mean is that neither of you wants to implicate each other?"
Song Baiyi and Cheng Zhi looked at each other, then nodded in tacit understanding.
Tang Rong sighed and repeated to Cheng Zhi the process he had just explained to Song Baiyi.
"That's easy. We can just take advantage of the situation. There's no need to worry about things that can be solved by hyping up a couple. Don't they like to find interactions between you two in corners? When you bring your interactions out in the open, no one will be interested in watching. When the show is over, break up peacefully. Cheng Zhi, you can debut as you should, and Song Baiyi, you can be active as you should, without destroying your original relationship."
Cheng Zhi thought about it and still felt that it was inappropriate, "But Teacher Song..."
Tang Rong immediately understood what Cheng Zhi wanted to say, "You mean Brother Bai Yi? He just told me very clearly that he has nothing to do with you, and the main thing is to protect you from any major accidents during the audition."
Tang Rong continued to exaggerate, "Compared to you withdrawing from the competition, Song Baiyi seems to want to be disgraced. Well, that's more or less what he meant."
Cheng Zhi/Song Baiyi:?
Seeing the expressions of these two people, Tang Rong couldn't help but laugh twice, "Cheng Zhi, don't worry, Song Baiyi's fan base is very solid, it's just a short-term CP, it really won't ruin his reputation."
"The director is also negotiating with me. He had this plan from the beginning. As long as you follow the arrangement, you can minimize the harm that netizens may cause to you two..."
After Tang Rong finished speaking, Song Baiyi stood up and walked to the chair next to Cheng Zhi and sat down, his tone revealing a hint of lack of confidence.
"What Tang Rong just said is the solution we have tentatively decided on. If you are dissatisfied with anything, please feel free to tell me."
Cheng Zhi hummed, "No, I think he arranged it very well."
Song Baiyi looked away and asked tentatively: "If this is the solution, are you still willing to share the responsibility with me?"
Hearing Song Baiyi's words, Cheng Zhi looked up, curved his eyes and looked at him.
Cheng Zhi answered his question with a smile in his tone, "Since there is a way that does not require me to separate from you and will not cause you too much harm, why would I be unwilling?"
The next day, the recording of "Summer Miracle" continued.
Today, all the students sat in the largest studio, waiting for the announcement of the first voting rankings.
According to the previous regulations of the program team, all contestants ranked between 62 and 98 will be eliminated. Since the elimination base is too large, many contestants are now very nervous, fearing that they will become the 62nd one.
Shen You supported her head and asked, "I said...if we beat Huo Shuhang's team and everyone got 10,000 votes from the program team, it shouldn't be that easy for everyone to be eliminated."
Le Zhu nodded, "I think so too, and everyone performed very well on the first public stage, so they shouldn't be eliminated. Come on, Lu Yinbai, don't be nervous..."
Lu Yinbai sneered, "Tell me who is nervous?"
Le Zhu glanced at his hands that were shaking like he had Parkinson's disease and said sarcastically, "Then stop shaking."
"Okay, stop messing around and get ready to go on stage." Cheng Zhi looked at his teammates, feeling a little helpless.
Yesterday, after Cheng Zhi returned to the dormitory, Chen You and Le Zhu surrounded him and asked him how to resolve the issue between him and Song Baiyi.
Le Zhu continued to tease him, "Mysterious man, you are finally back. Have you come up with any solution?"
Chen You held her phone and blocked all the people who mocked Song Baiyi on Weibo before slowly looking up at Cheng Zhi.
"There are some negative comments about you guys online right now, so I won't lend you my phone for a while. Just take good pictures and don't let those comments online affect your mentality."
Cheng Zhi turned around and rolled his eyes at Le Zhu, then raised his hand and touched Chen You's head.
"I know you've always cared about me, don't worry this time. Teacher Song and I have already discussed a solution."
"That's good." Chen You nodded, changed the topic and continued to ask Cheng Zhi.
"So what is the relationship between you and Teacher Song now?"
Cheng Zhi was a little caught off guard when he suddenly heard Chen You's question. He thought for a moment before answering Chen You.
"It's nothing, just a normal relationship between a mentor and a student."
And now, Cheng Zhi was sitting among the students, staring at Song Baiyi who was reporting everyone's votes and rankings one by one.
Song Baiyi was standing in the center of the stage, his stern face still attracting everyone's attention. The high-end suit looked good on him, showing off his excellent body proportions to the fullest.
He casually held the microphone in his hand, occasionally looking down at the data given by the program team. His every move was elegant yet casual.
Cheng Zhixiang was such a person who could attract everyone's attention just by standing on the stage.
In yesterday’s meeting room, I quietly asked myself, “Are you still willing to share responsibility with me?”
Cheng Zhi felt his face getting a little hot, and as his fingers curled slightly, he thought about how he answered Shen You's question yesterday.
Tsk, Cheng Zhi suddenly didn’t want their relationship to be limited to this.
The process of announcing the rankings was still going on. Every time Song Baiyi announced the ranking of a student, the director would cut the camera to that student. Then, after he delivered a long essay about how he had not been eliminated, he could sit in the seat behind Song Baiyi arranged according to the ranking.
There were quite a lot of other players in the middle, and after confirming that all of his teammates were in the top 40, Cheng Zhi gradually relaxed.
In addition, he hadn't heard Song Baiyi calling his name for a long time, so Cheng Zhi began to review the tasks assigned to him by the director and Tang Rong yesterday.
After discussion yesterday, the original plan remained unchanged and Cheng Zhi and Song Baiyi needed to cooperate with each other in front of the camera.
The first task assigned was that when Song Baiyi announced Cheng Zhi's first ranking, the two of them needed to look up at each other and smile slightly. Coupled with the subsequent editing and processing, it was simply a standard template for hyping up a couple.
When Song Baiyi thought of the fourth place, Cheng Zhi inexplicably started to get nervous. He didn't know his final ranking, and the tension in his heart was hanging, not knowing when he would be able to let go.
After a while, Song Baiyi raised his eyelids, his tone emotionless.
"Third place, 1.79 million votes, Ning Meng."
Cheng Zhi hissed, figuring in his mind that he would either be first or second.
After Ning Meng finished the process, Song Baiyi looked up and glanced at Cheng Zhi, then quickly looked away.
Just when Cheng Zhi thought he was going to be called and had just prepared himself mentally, he heard Song Baiyi speak indifferently.
"Second place, 2.13 million votes, Huo Shuhang."
Cheng Zhi hissed, thinking that he was not as nervous as he was now on the night of his own group formation.
The excessive tension made him feel a little stomachache. He took a deep breath and suppressed the familiar stomachache.
Before Cheng Zhi could recover, he suddenly heard Song Baiyi pick up the microphone.
This time, Song Baiyi's tone finally had a hint of smile, "First place, 2.97 million votes, Cheng Zhi, congratulations."
Song Baiyi curved his eyebrows, and unlike the coldness before, his eyes now showed a tenderness that no one else had seen. And that tenderness was now unreservedly directed towards Cheng Zhi.
Cheng Zhi stood up in response to the voice and happened to look into the eyes of the person standing in the middle of the stage, the center of everyone's attention.
Song Baiyi stood in the spotlight, making his facial features more clear and profound.
His face, which was cold just now, finally showed some other emotions when he saw Cheng Zhi. When his eyebrows bent and he smiled, his coldness was softened.
Cheng Zhi suddenly realized that this gentleness now belonged to him alone, and he stood there in a daze.
He could not hear the applause and blessings coming from all around him. All he could hear in his mind was the sound of the taut string breaking.
Oh no! I didn’t expect that the first task the director assigned to me would fail.
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The author has something to say:
You two are already like this, why are you still hyping up your relationship? Just hold your wedding on stage (dog head)
The voting data is not real and has no reference. I just made it up (lie down)
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