Chapter 92
The moment the group was announced, fireworks were sprayed out, and small white and green pieces of paper were floating in the air with the wind. It was probably the only one in a good mood tonight. They
were clearly a group, but no one at the scene was smiling.
The ribbons were like petals blown off by the wind, lingering around the stage, serving as a backdrop for this grand finale, but the more beautiful the scene was, the more the audience's hearts were stabbed.
The live broadcast had ended, but there was still a greeting session. The falling ribbons disturbed the line of sight, and the seven people hugging each other on the stage were looming. The fans below were crying, and the girl holding Sang Mo's banner looked at Sang Mo who was half-kneeling on the ground and crying until he was powerless, and she also cried breathlessly.
Jiang Liuxing on the stands had cried so hard that she hung on the railings, still sobbing and yelling something, "Sooooooooooooo Jiang Jueyu is mentally ill? Sooooooo I can't accept it. Sooooooooooo ahhhh——"
Liu Yue beside her didn't know how to comfort her. She had never chased after someone who failed in debuting, so she could only silently hand her tissues. Suddenly, Jiang Liuxing turned her face away and looked at her with a wronged look, "Why don't you choose Sang Mo? Sooooooo..."
"..." Liu Yue tapped her nose and couldn't answer.
The scene was in such a commotion, and the reaction on the Internet was even greater. As a popular trainee with both strength and good looks, they thought it would never be Sang Mo's turn, but today's result was beyond everyone's expectations.
Passersby no longer blame them for flooding the screen, and let them open posts and discuss, and even join in to see the excitement.
"Title: Eat melons and reason / Wuwuwuwuwuwu, who understands wuwuwuwuwuwuwu"
"Half an hour... I have been crying for half an hour. I was crying while scrolling through the news about Sang Mo on the Internet. I really don't understand why Sang Mo didn't join. Now when I see Sang Mo's photos, I feel suffocated by the heartache of a broken heart. I didn't cry like this even when I broke up with my boyfriend. I really... cried so hard that I don't have the energy to type."
Comment area:
"I understand wuwuwuwu..."
"I don't even dare to open TikTok and DaYanZai now. I'm already very sad, and then there's the soundtrack. I'm going to cry to death."
"What should I do with the rest? Will I be able to see it later [crying]"
"I've been chasing them with all my heart for almost two years, only to be told that I may not be able to debut, and I don't know if I'll appear again. Maybe today is really the last time we'll see each other..."
"A passerby was stabbed, it was so hurt just by looking at the cut..."
"Fans at the scene said that Xiao Sang was crying..."
There is a video that has gone viral on Weibo at the moment. It was shot from the stands, and the camera gradually zoomed in. In the middle of the stage where streamers were flying, seven people were hugging each other. Sang Mo covered his eyes with his hands, but he couldn't hide his tears. Gao Xiayu hugged Chen Wu and Sang Mo tightly, burying his head between them. Pei Luming leaned on Gao Xiayu's shoulder and cried until his tears wet his clothes. The other three also hugged them and snuggled up to each other.
The other groups had already calmed down and greeted the fans at the scene, comforting the girls who were crying because they didn't debut. It might really be the last time they saw each other, so the staff allowed them to go down and take pictures with the fans, and even followed them with a Polaroid camera to help take pictures, just to record the moment of their love at its peak.
With the background of the other groups, the seven people hugging each other on the stage made people feel more complicated. Just this one posture can interpret a lot of information -
they like each other very much, they love this group very much, they really can't live without each other, and they can't accept that there will be two less people.
As the captain, Gao Xiayu's mood should be the most complicated. The pressure made him unable to control his emotions. The seven-to-five system was like cutting off two arms from his body. It was extremely painful and unacceptable.
The cold wind was whistling, and the ribbons spun in the direction of the wind, and finally fell to the ground gradually. There was no longer any of them in the air. Tonight was really coming to an end.
In the video, the seven people let go of each other after all the ribbons fell. Gao Xiayu was holding on to not fall down. He wiped the tears of the members one by one. He was crying himself, but he told the other party to stop crying.
"Don't cry, it's cold outside." Gao Xiayu said this after wiping Pei Luming's tears, causing Pei Luming to burst into tears again and throw herself into Gao Xiayu's arms.
Gao Xiayu pushed the person out, and then said to the others: "The fans are still waiting for us, let's bow together... say hello."
The audience sat in different areas, and the fans of Group C occupied half of the seats. Fans from other areas were waiting for the trainees to pass by. They held cheering sticks and looked at the stage sadly, with emotions swirling in their eyes. They dared not speak or move.
"Wu ah ah ah——"
Suddenly seeing the seven of them holding hands and turning towards this side, the emotions that had been suppressed burst out again.
The seven people walked to the edge of the stage, and their eyes also turned red as they looked at the fans who were avoiding their gazes with red eyes.
Gao Xiayu, holding Chen Wu and Sang Mo on the left and right, shouted to the fans: "This is the random entertainment trainee group Circlecenter——"
"Thank you for your company for so long, thank you——"
After that, the seven people bowed to the fan area of Group C. This critical blow made the fans start to cry and kept shouting their names.
The on-site broadcast also sounded a notice of the upcoming closure, asking fans to leave as soon as possible. Gao Xiayu and his friends were called back by the staff before they even had time to leave the stage.
The fans in the audience were in a mess, crying and shouting their names. The passers-by who were watching the video were all tortured. After exiting the video, they started searching their names with tears in their eyes.
At this time, the trainees in the backstage also gathered with their families. As a producer, Jiang Juyou must be on the scene. She sorted out her emotions in the waiting room before coming out and meeting them in the big lounge. Before that, a staff member had already told them about the next arrangements for the trainees.
"Yes, uncle, they will be under our care after that. They just need to go back to the practice room to continue practicing and wait for the next opportunity."
"Don't worry about that, auntie. You have seen how they are doing during this period. We have to take care of them morally, intellectually, physically and aesthetically!"
"Yes, that's what I mean. Um... but it's hard to say when the next opportunity will come."
Guan Xiaoxiao and the others were in a mess. If they were caught by the trainee parents, they had to explain the subsequent arrangements to them.
From Jiang Juyu's personal perspective, she definitely hopes that every child will have a good future, but the key is that the company is currently unable to operate so many groups at the same time, and does not want to create competitors for the new group in a short period of time, so the trainees who failed to debut can only return to the basement to continue practicing.
During this period, there will definitely be other companies who will come to persuade the trainees to terminate their contracts, saying that they are willing to pay the penalty fee to help them debut. Jiang Juyou can't do anything about this.
As soon as she entered the lounge, Jiang Juyou was surrounded. She greeted all the parents with a smile on her face, and comforted the trainees with red eyes.
When she walked to Group C, she found that several of them had swollen eyes, and Pei Luming was still crying. When he looked up, Jiang Juyou also sighed, and then patted his shoulder to comfort him.
She walked around the lounge, and after showing her face, she followed the program team to the waiting room to prepare for the interview.
This section is also a new part added after the entire program goes online tomorrow.
"Title: Eat melons and discuss / The last episode is online, with an additional interview with Jiang Juyou..."
"I was about to forget it, but after watching it, I remembered my sadness."
Just like the video of Group C that went viral yesterday, Jiang Juyou's brief interview was also forwarded hundreds of thousands of times.
Jiang Juyou's nose was red on the seat, as if she had cried or was blown by the cold wind. After she sat down, she put on her own microphone, then tidied her hair and said to the camera: "We can start."
The subtitles showed the questions collected by the production team:
"After two years, the show is finally over. Does Jiang have anything to express?"
"Well... It seems that in addition to being able to express my feelings about the rapid passage of time... ah!" Jiang Juyou suddenly remembered something and laughed, "I also want to express my feelings that their growth has exceeded my expectations by a lot, which surprised me."
"There is a huge gap in the domestic idol industry, but the fan chain is very complete, so I want to create a boy group that can support the reputation of the domestic entertainment industry, and I have learned a lot of knowledge for this."
Jiang Juyou summarized her efforts in the past two years in one sentence. The outside world knows how much the trainees have suffered, because there are programs to record them, but only Jiang Juyou knows how much she has suffered.
Before she joined the company, she had no contact with the entertainment industry, let alone idol culture. In order to take this path, Jiang Juyou studied the history of the establishment and operation strategies of several mature idol companies abroad. Now she can say the name of every member of the active idol group there.
This is just the basics. She can call out the names of those working people related to the idol industry, from music producers, MV directors, pictorial photographers, concept planners, makeup artists, stylists, music program staff, and agents around idols. There is no one she doesn't know.
She has also read the financial reports of those brokerage companies one by one, and together with Cong Lixia, she has inquired about information and formulated contracts to distribute income.
These are just the entertainment industry knowledge she needs to master. There is still more training in the fashion industry. Jiang Juyou will participate in the production of the album. She has to control everything from music to visuals. She has to learn music theory and the color matching in the fashion industry. It is true
that she is back to her senior year in high school. Jiang Juyou even feels that she has never worked so hard in her senior year in high school.
The results of her two years of hard work have been gradually revealed to everyone. During this period, she promoted the company's event planning and set the concept of each shoot for the trainees, and each one received high praise.
Therefore, with this feeling,
Jiang Juyou smiled again, "I seem to have grown a lot."
"Who was the first person you decided on among the five trainees who formed the group?"
"The first person you decided on?"
"Gao Xiayu."
Jiang Juyou did not hesitate this time and gave the answer directly.
"So that's not the order."
"Wuwuwuwuwuwu, I knew it! I knew it!"
"At that time, there were still Chen Wu, Sang Mo, and Gao Xiayu left. You don't know how panicked I was."
"It was a bit unexpected, but it made sense."
Everyone said that they hoped that seven people would debut together, but if they really had to choose five people, they could still choose them. The most popular configuration was ACE Pei Luming, rapper Ye Xing, lead singer Yao Shuo, main dancer Sang Mo, and producer Chen Wu.
Gao Xiayu was obviously very popular, but she was not selected. The reason was that they felt that anyone could be the captain, and it didn't have to be Gao Xiayu. Therefore, when the last place was announced, everyone was actually struggling with whether it was Sang Mo or Chen Wu.
Different perspectives lead to different considerations.
Jiang Juyu explained to the camera: "Gao Xiayu is a hexagonal warrior, and even the type who is willing to be a little dimmer in order to set off others. He is also the emotional sustenance and adhesive of other members. His learning ability and adaptability are very limited."
"Here I may need to tell you about the criteria for selecting members. When we concentrate resources to push him in the future, we need people who can take on those resources. Gao Xiayu is the most qualified. Whether he is a singer, actor or producer, he can develop in that direction."
In the next sentence, she mentioned the person who touched everyone's heart.
Jiang Juyu lowered her eyes, looked at the tip of her shoes, and then looked at the camera, "The reason for not choosing Sang Mo and Chen Wu... the biggest reason is the problem of company operation. We want to be more stable, and choose a combination with outstanding members in each direction."
"Gao Xiayu was the first one to be confirmed, and the second and third were Yao Shuo and Chi Qiao. After ensuring the strength, we want to choose some members who are very popular with the audience, or have outstanding personal characteristics and are very memorable." When
it comes to the configuration of Timetrain, there is nothing wrong at all, and this is even more so after listening to Jiang Juyu's explanation. But whether it can operate smoothly in the future is another matter.
She also mentioned, "Because they are still students, their future activities will be concentrated in the winter and summer vacations. We have also prepared many albums in advance with the group concept as the center, so everyone can look forward to it."
At the end of the show, Jiang Juyou was finally asked the question that everyone cares about most.
"Will the remaining trainees be laid off?"
Because after the end of the last season, more than half of the trainees were laid off, and those who did not terminate their contracts with the company are still in the company, but there is no news.
Jiang Juyou was a little distressed after hearing this question, "They will not be laid off... In addition to me, there are many producers in the company. Currently, there is a girl group being produced, and the boy group may take some time to wait for them to grow up."
She didn't say it very decisively, for fear that other companies would come to poach them after the show was broadcast.
Finally, Jiang Juyou thanked everyone for their support and companionship over the past two years, and also expressed the hope that everyone would support Timetrain's upcoming activities.
The fans' uneasy and gloomy mood was also relieved a lot after watching this video, which is——
“Title: Eat melons and discuss / The trainees who have not debuted have returned to the underground practice room, and the 1V1 chat room will also be closed…”
“The traces of our love will be erased.”
“[Crying]”
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Fans: Do you know how sad this is [lighting a cigarette]?
You don’t know how wonderful my plan is after their debut. Really, I hate that I write slowly. I really want to update 30,000 words a day and fast forward to the later plans.