Chapter 79 Chapter 79 I Want to Win
The hot search lasted for two days, and the real passers-by who paid attention to Go and not the entertainment industry finally figured out what was going on.
It turned out that there was a professional chess player who had become a trainee in the training system a few months ago, and now that trainee was playing in the promotion tournament.
This is quite strange.
Not only the Go audience finds it strange, but the training audience finds it even stranger.
After watching so many trainees singing and dancing on stage and scratching their heads over test papers in school, now a professional chess player, who is generally considered to be smart, suddenly appears. The feeling is suddenly very different.
Lu Yao's opening test paper and the self-introduction he wrote on his public Weibo were also dug out. Everyone took these two things and started to analyze them.
"No wonder his grades are so good, he's a professional chess player, so smart." "No wonder his handwriting is so beautiful, it turns out he plays chess! Lu Yao must have learned all the arts, right?" "No wonder he practices martial arts, it turns out..."
In short, whether it is related or not, you can find the reason here.
Although there were many more strange remarks, the professional chess player's move diverted a lot of people's attention, and the negative articles that had been circulating for a week or two finally died down.
Fans also had time to research Lu Yao's identity as a professional chess player.
It doesn't matter if you don't dig it out, but once you do, you can find a lot of things.
The first is the childhood photos that fans love to see.
From a Go newspaper from four years ago.
"Young Go prodigy Lu Yao passed the qualifying tournament with a perfect record. Let's look forward to his upcoming matches!"
[photo]"
Lu Yao in the photo looks much younger than he is now. Judging from his age, he should be ten years old.
Ten-year-old Lu Yao had a pair of round eyes that could not be covered even by thick bangs. His long black hair hung down, and the hair on both sides of his cheeks was cut off, revealing his slender neck.
He stared straight at the camera, showing neither the immaturity of a child nor the joy of successfully qualifying. Instead, he had a kind of detached and free-spirited air.
The fans in the comment section were almost melted by this cuteness.
"Woo woo woo baby is so cute"
"The baby is so small at this time, and his face is still round and chubby."
"Wow, he passed the Dan Tournament at the age of ten, that's amazing!"
"Good, good, good, good"
Continuing to dig deeper, fans also found Lu Yao's past game records.
Unlike other new chess players who successfully achieved professional dan status, Lu Yao disappeared from the chess world after participating in the rookie tournament. He did not participate in any competitions for the next two years. Two years later, he participated in the promotion tournament and became a professional second-dan. Then he disappeared again until now.
The overall competition experience is not much, but every game has been won.
Seeing this, fans took out some photos of the game they found and started praising the team.
"So amazing! I've never lost! Baby is so strong!"
"As a trainee, I'm number one. As a chess player, I'm definitely number one too! I'm looking forward to my baby's competition!"
"Come on, Xiaolu, you're the best!"
"Keep winning!"
It's okay to praise him within the fan circle, but when he praises him in the competition, he immediately attracts other people's attention.
It was the period of the promotion tournament, and the Go circle was quite lively. Everyone was paying close attention to the performance of the players. This time, there was an additional player who was a trainee, and many people who knew nothing came into their circle, leaving some inexplicable remarks everywhere. It would have been fine if they couldn't understand those remarks, but when it came to the competition, they couldn't sit still as soon as they understood them.
"I've seen this chess player named Lu Yao. He hasn't competed in two years and is still in high school. What kind of trainee is he?... I kindly advise you fans, if you want your brother to avoid being criticized, stop saying he's a chess player. He hasn't played chess in so long, I don't know how much his chess skills have declined. The possibility of him winning is very low. He should just continue to be a star."
When fans saw someone saying that Lu Yao was not good, some of them immediately became restless.
"Lu Yao has been winning the competitions these days, so why can't we praise him?"
The following reply: "Lu Yao has never competed, and his rating is so low, so the opponents he is matched with are naturally low-rated as well. Everyone's level is average, so winning doesn't mean anything."
The expansion of personnel is bound to be accompanied by the complexity of the composition. Lu Yao has attracted a lot of fans in the past few months, and young fans are naturally indispensable. The sequelae of the anti-black comment control battle every day in the past two weeks are immediately apparent. When they see someone saying bad things about Lu Yao, they subconsciously start to refute, report and block them.
Only after completing a series of processes very smoothly did I realize that something was wrong.
It was a good circle of chess players, but I don’t know when it started to be filled with condemnation of Lu Yao.
But the audience's condemnation could not affect Lu Yao in the competition.
Lu Yao won one game after another every day. Despite the pessimistic eyes of the crowd, he kept winning beyond everyone's expectations.
So when the quadrant assessment was over, all the trainees were on vacation and focused on their studies at school, and the entire fifth generation was calm, Lu Yao was on the hot search every day.
Every day you can see the battle between trainee fans and chess player fans.
It is quite novel for people in any circle.
The entertainment circle and the Go circle, two circles that have nothing in common, now meet each other and quarrel every day. It's lively, too lively.
You say yours, I say mine, neither side understands each other, but they still argue endlessly.
Marketing accounts can get a lot of reposts, likes and comments by just randomly clipping some speeches from both sides every day, and their KPI is completed instantly. They are so happy that they are willing to continue posting about it. So, magically, Lu Yao became popular again.
When Ding Ling received the report, she never imagined that things would develop in this direction.
Lu Yao went to a competition and still remained on the hot search list for a week and gained 100,000 followers?
God knows, their company really doesn’t have any water army.
What is this? A bloody constitution?
This went on for more than a week, and Lu Yao won for more than a week. Seeing that Lu Yao was indeed capable, this inexplicable quarrel came to an end.
Just as Lu Yao disappeared, Yin Hongxue became a hot topic again.
A fan released Yin Hongxue's medical records.
So it’s no wonder that the outside world has all kinds of stereotypes about Gray Girl being extremely powerful. If she can even dig out medical records, what else can’t she do?
There is a lot of information written in the case, but fans only read the key points.
One was 'respiratory alkaloid poisoning' and the other was 'no other symptoms'.
In other words, Yin Hongxue was indeed sick, but he recovered.
Faced with this situation, fans who have been defending their rights don’t know what to do.
It was a fact that Yin Hongxue was ill. Although it felt not good to not go on stage just like that, it would be even worse if other things happened after she went on stage.
Neither side is good.
Then it’s all Minghui Entertainment’s fault!
No longer concerned about the concert, fans focused their rights protection efforts on voting.
Everyone knows that although voting is nominally about the stage, in reality, it is a complete reflection of popularity.
In that case, why can’t Yin Hongxue vote?
Minghui Entertainment played dead as usual and did not respond to the rights protection. But after a few days, they could no longer sit still.
A few days after Yin Hongxue's case appeared, Lu Yao's case also appeared.
It instantly became a hot topic.
#Lu Yao's Twenty-Seven Needles#
It was a strange entry, but many people clicked on it because they were familiar with the name Lu Yao, and were surprised to find that Lu Yao had twenty-seven stitches.
What's going on?
When fans saw this entry, they panicked, thinking that Lu Yao was injured, but when they clicked on the hot search, they found that the matter was more serious than they thought.
Lu Yao was indeed injured and had stitches, but the date was not now, but July 22nd.
The day before the first Quadrant Assessment Concert.
Lu Yao’s fans were immediately furious.
What happened? What on earth was going on? How could Lu Yao get injured the day before the concert? And even so severely injured! He needed twenty-seven stitches! What a huge wound!
Lu Yao even attended the concert the next day as usual!
Chen Sisi and her sisters immediately went to ask Minghui Entertainment, but received no response. They then issued a rights protection statement, and fans immediately forwarded and liked the statement, frantically @Minghui Entertainment, demanding an explanation.
Passersby who saw the entry and clicked on it to become a hot search also found it very unreasonable after learning what happened.
A fourteen-year-old trainee was injured the day before a concert. Let's not even talk about how he got injured. Just the fact that he was injured, and it was a serious injury that required twenty-seven stitches, was kept secret for so long. And even with this serious injury, they still allowed him to participate in the concert the next day!
Fans captured Lu Yao’s stage video from the concert the next day and posted it on Weibo. After seeing it, people who clicked on the trending search found it even more difficult to accept.
Before I knew that Lu Yao was injured, when I watched these performances, I saw the lively and cute appearance of the young boy on the stage. But after I knew that Lu Yao was injured, when I watched these performances again, I thought of the pain hidden behind his smile.
He suffered such a serious injury and went on stage directly without any rest!
Does Minghui Entertainment treat its trainees as human beings?
They already employ child laborers, and now they let them go on stage with injuries. Is Minghui Entertainment crazy about making money?
In an instant, concern for Lu Yao's injury turned into condemnation of Minghui Entertainment.
From the actions of Minghui Entertainment's capitalists, to their disregard for fans' rights, to their exploitation of trainees, every single incident is a thorn in the fans' hearts, too numerous to list.
Soon, this matter spread and caused a sensation in the entire cultivation fan circle.
The company treated Lu Yao like this today, but has it ever treated other people like this before?
When everyone thinks back, they remember a series of times when they thought they were not in good condition but still appeared on camera.
This isn't the first time Minghui Entertainment has done this! For the sake of recording and effects, has it ever cared about the feelings of the trainees or artists?
Old grudges resurfaced, and fans quickly took action.
So not only the fans of the fifth generation, but also the fans of the fourth, third, second and even first generations were affected.
What fan doesn’t hate the company?
My brother has dedicated his childhood, youth and young adulthood to the company, and has paid so much sweat and tears. He always deserves the best, but in Minghui Entertainment, what he can get will never be half of what they have paid.
Fans of the fourth generation came out to list the few recent schedules of the fourth generation group, and asked the company to come up with a reasonable plan and not waste the artists' youth and time. If they do not have the ability to run a boy group, then let the group members go solo!
Fans of the third generation came out and pulled out the schedule of the third generation group for the past six months. The deadly red-eye flight schedule, do they still care about human life?
I go to bed at one or two in the morning every day, and then get up at four or five. After three or four hours of sleep, I start working intensively all day. There was even a time when I rushed to the airport right after finishing a concert to catch a midnight flight, landed in a new city at three in the morning, and started recording again at eight in the morning.
This level of intensity is enough to torture people to death.
Fans of the second-generation group were reminded of an incident from their early years.
The same thing happened at a concert. During a song performance, the members were caught in mid-air, and one member's safety belt broke in full view of the crowd! If there weren't two safety belts, and one broke while the other still functioned, there would have been bloodshed! The thought of this incident fills the fans with fear.
This is an important matter that is directly related to personal safety. The fact that Minghui Entertainment could make such a big mistake shows that the makeshift team of Minghui Entertainment is completely overestimating it. It has never taken the safety of the trainees seriously!
The first generation of fans came out, recalling the company's immature practices in the early days. Offline activities were chaotic, management was unclear, and communication was poor. Fans were informed that an artist wouldn't be attending, only to have the artist take the stage the very next moment. Artists spent two weeks preparing for the stage, only to have equipment problems during the concert, leading to performance accidents. These incidents were so common that if they were to talk about them, they would go on for three days and three nights without stopping.
How could such an unprofessional, poorly managed company that doesn't care about its artists have managed to stay in the entertainment industry for so long, even producing three popular groups?
The fans don't understand.
In an instant, the entry #Minghui Entertainment Garbage# quickly became a hot search.
Then Minghui Entertainment responded quickly.
On the one hand, they issued a statement that "due to the strong request of the trainees and after consulting the doctor, the trainees were allowed to perform on stage", while on the other hand, they withdrew the trending searches, bought trending searches, and issued press releases. Within an hour, the trending searches were clear, leaving only the entry #Minghui Entertainment Statement# and countless marketing accounts that reposted Minghui Entertainment's statement.
That's it? That's it?
Seeing the trending searches disappear without a trace and Minghui Entertainment’s light-hearted statement, fans were even more furious.
Not only Lu Yao's fans, but also the fourth, third, second and first generation fans, all the fans who saw Minghui Entertainment's statement were amused by Minghui Entertainment's attitude.
This is not just a matter of one trainee from the fifth generation. Their idols are all from Minghui Entertainment. If the company can treat Lu Yao like this today, it can treat other artists with the same attitude tomorrow. Everyone knows the principle of "lips and teeth are cold when one is gone". Some things should be nipped in the bud from the very beginning.
They have been calling Minghui Entertainment a makeshift team for so many years, but as a company that has been operating for more than 20 years and has cultivated three popular boy groups, its various immature practices cannot be easily dismissed with the word "makeshift team".
Must be dealt with!
Without hesitation, the fan clubs of the three-generation group spontaneously stood up, contacted the fan clubs of each generation, and jointly issued a joint statement, demanding that Minghui Entertainment make immediate rectifications and guarantee that the health of the artists will be the first priority, and that they will never accept any schedule that would harm the artists' bodies.
As soon as this statement came out, it immediately set off an uproar in the entertainment industry.
Different from the family atmosphere that Minghui Entertainment has always wanted to create, in the entire entertainment industry, any fan who knows a little about the training system knows one thing, that is, every generation of Minghui Entertainment fans, note that every generation, is incompatible.
The fans aren't fighting each other to the bone, but it's definitely an either-or situation.
Casual fans can secretly have their own loyalties among different generations, but the big fans of each company that are openly visible must be real fans of a certain generation.
Because the training system is different from other groups in the entertainment industry, the model, positioning, and age of the training system are too similar. If family affection is marketed again, it will inevitably cause the loss of fans from the previous generation to the next generation. No fans of any company are willing to accept such a situation.
At the same time, after the next generation debuts, there will inevitably be direct competition for resources between the two adjacent generations.
The age difference between the two groups is only four or five years, they have similar models and overlapping fan bases. So will the resource providers choose a new boy group that has just debuted and has a low price, or an old boy group that has debuted for many years and has a higher price?
If the old boy groups do not have an absolute advantage, then naturally the cheaper new boy groups are more cost-effective.
In the eyes of fans, their brother is naturally perfect, but the market only looks at profits.
You don't give me any reason to choose you, which means I don't need to choose you.
Therefore, family affection means losing fans, taking away resources, and making competitors stronger.
So when this joint statement from five generations of fans of Minghui Entertainment came out, all the fan girls came to watch the fun.
What made the former rivals shake hands and make peace with each other and face the outside world in a unified way?
What makes mutually taboo names appear in the same picture?
What made so many fan clubs post the same Weibo at the same time?
Is it love, is it responsibility?
The star-chasing girls ate the melon and shouted that it was exciting.
But after reading the statement and understanding the full picture of the matter, they were also shocked.
No, what is Minghui Entertainment doing? Are they really treating human lives as a joke?
Twenty-seven stitches! And he's still allowed to go on stage?
Is Minghui Entertainment crazy, or is the world crazy?
Is this human work?
For a while, the name Lu Yao resounded throughout the entertainment industry.
Minghui Entertainment’s statement was like a drop of water splashing into a frying pan. It not only failed to calm the situation, but made the fire burn even more fiercely.
Fans from various companies have been asking Minghui Entertainment to give an explanation, and Lu Yao's fans are extremely heartbroken.
Lu Yao performed at his first concert despite being injured.
In the first concert without any fans, the young trainee who had just joined the company was unwilling to miss any opportunity to show himself. He endured the pain, swallowed his groans, showed his perfect side on the stage, and brought the brightest smiles to all the audience.
He was so young and had suffered such serious injuries, so why could he still smile so happily on the stage?
Someone found the video of the first concert and was surprised to find that Lu Yao never showed any expression of pain throughout the whole concert. Whenever the camera swept over him, his face was filled with a bright smile.
The little child doesn’t understand what it means to be a trainee, but he has already learned to bring happiness to everyone and keep the pain to himself.
"Wow, wow, wow, I want to cry"
In the barrage, there are tears shed by countless fans who came to review the event.
At a time when the rights protection movement was becoming increasingly intense, Minghui Entertainment did not make any response, but instead quietly uploaded a video.
【I——Lu Yao】
A short video introducing Lu Yao.
As usual, Minghui Entertainment will publicly announce each trainee. In addition to posting the trainee's official photos and information on Weibo, it will also upload a short video of the trainee online, usually in the form of quick questions and answers, and then insert a display of the trainee's specialties.
Lu Yao made a surprise appearance and released a public Weibo post, but he did not introduce the short film online for a long time. Fans thought that there would be no short film for the surprise appearance. Who would have thought that during this special period, Minghui Entertainment released Lu Yao's short film?
Is this an attempt to divert the attention of their fans from defending their rights by using these small favors?
Fans sneered in disdain as they clicked on the five-minute short video.
The video begins with a young man in tight clothes practicing martial arts in a training ground.
He was agile and his movements were quick and decisive. He wielded a spear that was taller than him with great vigor.
The camera zoomed in, revealing the boy's resolute face.
He thrust his pistol out and pointed it directly at the camera. Just before stabbing, he stopped firmly, leaving behind a pair of calm eyes.
"What's the matter?" the young man asked. Compared with his imposing aura, his voice was surprisingly gentle.
"General! The enemy is launching a surprise attack!" The man's voice was hurried and very nervous.
It turns out that such a young boy is actually a general.
Upon hearing this, the young man's face changed and he immediately turned around and rushed to the stable.
He grabbed the reins, jumped onto the horse, squeezed his legs, and rushed forward with his horse like an arrow. The scene changed, and the young man who was dressed in tight clothes just now was now fully armed and on the battlefield.
Drums beat, smoke filled the air, and the cloak behind the young general fluttered in the wind. He waved his hand forward, and the soldiers rushed out in an instant, and the sound of fighting resounded through heaven and earth.
The young general rode his horse at the front. Under his spear, the enemy troops were coming like a tide, but there was no fear in his eyes, only the courage to keep moving forward.
But everyone will eventually run out of strength.
An arrow flying from a distance pierced the young general's chest.
The cloak fell off and the young general fell off his horse.
At the back of the battlefield, the military doctor unbuttoned the young general's clothes, exposing his chest.
In addition to the arrow wounds, there were also many old wounds piled up.
After hastily bandaging him, the young general opened his eyes again. He tied the bandage tightly, put on his clothes, and the armor on his body was already in tatters.
He took the spear and jumped on the horse.
The guards hurriedly stopped in front of the horse.
"General, you are injured!" - You can't go to the battlefield anymore!
The young general pointed his spear in front of each other, blocking the other party from speaking.
He lowered his eyes, his gaze filled with indifference that disregarded life and death.
"I want to win."
Accompanied by the neighing of horses, the guard looked up and saw only the dust raised by the horses' hooves.
The screen goes dark and the video ends.
There is a sentence written in the video introduction:
The boy said that even if the road ahead was covered with blood and thorns, he would never stop.
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