Huayu: Starting from the top talent show

Chapter 123 Warming up
Cheng Xiao sat alone in the artist lounge in a daze.

[Due to the impact of the winter restrictions, we plan to shift your work focus to China, so this may be your last time to participate in the group's comeback schedule. ]

The message that appeared on her mobile phone screen made her feel drowsy and listless these past few days.

Although her agent has repeatedly emphasized the benefits of returning to China, the work is easy, the income is higher, and it is convenient to go home and spend more time with her family.
But all the achievements and accomplishments she had previously made in South Korea were the result of countless sweat and efforts in the company's practice room, sacrificing her happy campus life and social time. She didn't expect to get such a result in the end, and she was really unwilling to accept it.

What fans said before, "The era of Seolhyun is over, now it's the era of Cheng Xiao", has become an annoying joke when viewed today.

The girl felt very uncomfortable, burying her head in the thick lapel of her down jacket and letting her bangs droop listlessly.

With the dream of becoming an idol, he left his hometown and came to South Korea, where he practiced hard for four years and finally debuted with a group. During this period, he experienced lows when he was tepid and no one cared about him, and he also experienced highs when he shined at the idol sports meeting, but in the end, it was all in vain.

Until now, all the contacts saved in my cell phone are the phone numbers of friends I met during activities in South Korea.

In the domestic entertainment industry, in China, she has no close friends whom she can call out to play and share her thoughts with.

I finally mustered up the courage to go to South Korea and adapt to the local environment. My career was getting on track, but I was forced to develop in an unfamiliar new environment.

Everything needs to be rebuilt.

She had to go through the process again.

The weather is very good today. There is still some stubborn white snow on the eaves outside the window that has not melted yet. But under the sunshine, one day it will melt away and turn into nothingness. This is a law that all things in the world cannot escape.

But she also knows that she can't keep being emo, so in order to make herself feel better, she plans to eat some desserts or drink some sweet drinks.

He put his hands in the warm pockets of his shirt, pushed open the door of the lounge and walked towards the vending machine.

then
"Long time no see, Teacher Cheng."

The boy who had fed him dark chocolate a long time ago now had a familiar smile on his face and handed him the hot drink that he had originally prepared for him.

Cheng Xiao just froze where he was.

She likes small animals very much, especially cats and lizards.

The former is very cute. Although it sometimes doesn't like to talk to people, just watching it from afar is enough to make people feel healed. If you can touch it a few times, you will feel the pleasure of dancing on marshmallows.

The latter is also very cute, although many people don’t get it, and even think that lizards, which are sensitive, alert and highly defensive reptiles, are scary. But she does feel that she can see through their hard shells and see the independent hearts hidden inside.

And he, I can too.

Even though this person didn't look like a cat, let alone a lizard, she just had this feeling, as if she could clearly see into his hidden heart.

Perhaps it's because he has the superior appearance of a cat and the hard shell of a lizard.

Therefore, because Shen Juan's animalized image completely matched his own aesthetic taste, Cheng Xiao, whose mind was extremely active at the moment, suddenly remembered the piece of Dream Girl Literature written by Shen Juan's fans that he had seen while surfing the Weibo super topic some time ago.

Me: "My head is willing to become a small planet for you, and you can drive the moon train around every day."

Shen Juan: "Don't say such harsh words. If you can't live without me, I will be sad."

Me: "But Shen Juan, have you ever chased the moon? You are like the moon to me."

"No, what about you?" Shen Juan bent down and gently pinched my face, looking at me with his gentle eyes, smiling and saying to me: "Have you ever chased a little rabbit like me who would smile at you?"

Although it was a bit laughable at the time.

But this situation and scene really gives me a sense of déjà vu.

I felt inexplicably nervous and flustered, as if I had become his fan, his dream girl.

"Well, long time no see."

Cheng Xiao pursed his lips and looked down at the ground.

"Would you like a drink? Something hot, to warm you up?"

Shen Juan shook the drink he handed to Cheng Xiao.

"Well, thank you." Cheng Xiao quickly reached out to take it.

"You're welcome." Shen Juan replied concisely and forcefully.

Cheng Xiao suddenly felt a little happy. Although it might be difficult to contact the old friends he met in South Korea in the future, he could still make new friends in this strange new environment, right?

The breeze blew gently, blowing her hair. She stood there holding a cup of hot coffee, looking at Shen Juan's gradually receding back, thinking happily, they are already friends, right?

The performance process of the first public performance was not much different from the rehearsals of the previous two days. The biggest difference was that for the first time, in addition to the staff and mentors of the program group, there were audiences watching their performance.

Everyone knows that the atmosphere and performance experience with and without an audience are completely different.

Having a pair of unfamiliar eyes staring at you from the audience may make the trainees performing on the stage more nervous.

After all, every audience member holds a vote that can directly determine their final ranking in this performance.

But on the other hand, the audience's attention can also allow some trainees with big hearts and a strong desire to perform to receive more intuitive feedback from passers-by, which can lift their spirits and present a better stage effect.

Therefore, how to adjust the heartbeat to ensure stable performance has become a difficult problem for the players at this time.

Audience members with invitations were allowed to enter from 1:00 p.m., and the recording continued until 7:00 p.m.

The final ranking results are released:
Wanwan Chen Linong, who went for the "sweet girl" route, ranked 1st; Lehua trainee captain Zhu Zhengting ranked 2nd; Yang Feitong, who Shen Juan had no impression of, ranked 3rd; Luo Zheng, who had a pretty good look, ranked 4th; Fan Chengcheng, who forgot the lyrics on her first stage, made a comeback and ranked 5th; Zhu Xingjie, whom Shen Juan knew on The Rap of China, ranked 6th; and Shen Juan's loyal little fan Justin ranked 7th.

Cai Xukun, who clearly had an advantage in appearance and ability among this group of trainees of varying abilities, fell to eighth place.

Not only Cai Xukun looked confused by the result, even Zhang Yixing and Shen Juan, two mentors who had a good understanding of the strengths of all the trainees, felt quite surprised.

This is because some trainees who they thought performed very well or made great progress did not receive the audience's favor, resulting in low votes and low rankings.

However, several trainees who made obvious mistakes on stage were ranked very high by the audience.

Such a vote is obviously not objective and fair.

Shen Juan had encountered a similar situation before.

But rules are rules.

After all, this is a talent show that tests the ability to attract fans, rather than a competition program that tests professional ability.

So they can only privately encourage those trainees who were "unfairly treated" by the audience to keep calm and keep working hard, and there seems to be nothing else they can do.

After the recording, because Shen Juan had other work arrangements, he declined Zhang Yixing's invitation to a party and packed up to rush to the next destination.

He was approached by a movie from the United States.

At 8 o'clock in the evening in Beijing, the Chinese premiere and press conference of the movie "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" was held.

This movie, which was released in December last year, has now grossed over $3.5 million worldwide.

In order to gain more box office revenue in China, which has been the world's second largest movie theater since 2013, the director brought the two leading actors, Dwayne Johnson and Karen Gillan, who played Nebula in "Guardians of the Galaxy", to China to meet with fans.

As for why Shen Juan, a young singer who seemed to have nothing to do with the movie and didn't even know the leading actors, was invited to attend the premiere?

On the one hand, as an outsider, if the film company wants to open up the Chinese market as much as possible, it must find a popular artist with influence and appeal in China to create marketing topics that can attract traffic for the film, increase public attention, and stimulate box office growth.

On the other hand, at least nowadays, in the eyes of many Americans, when they mention Chinese artists, they will think of the two kung fu superstars Cheng Long and Li Lianjie.

When talking about young Chinese artists, they either say they don't pay attention to the Chinese entertainment industry, or they will answer Alex Shen, who has just emerged in the European and American music scene.

This confirms what many international students studying in the United States have commented on Weibo: the name Alex is not only popular in Asian circles in the United States.

As the first Asian singer to perform well on the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show and have a B-chart hit single, he also left a deep impression on many black and white skinned people.

Therefore, Shen Juan naturally became the first choice and best candidate in the minds of many overseas film and television companies to help them promote their own films in China.

At the same time, his status in the fashion circle has also seen a sharp rise, although his title has not been upgraded yet. It is difficult to upgrade luxury brand titles these days. If it had been pushed back a few years, he would have been directly named a global spokesperson.

However, many fashion magazines and overseas headquarters of luxury brands have noticed that in China, currently the world's second largest luxury consumption market, there is such an artist who is in line with international standards and is gradually building global influence.

He is equivalent to an airborne artist who has received close attention from the headquarters but has not yet received any substantial resources. He is different from the group of local artists in China who mainly rely on building good relationships with the Chinese branches of luxury brands to obtain resource titles.

(This is the case with Wang Jiaer in later generations. Although he can only be considered a third-tier star in Europe and the United States, he has a terrifying influence in Southeast Asia and is favored by the LV headquarters. Therefore, his status in the fashion circle is much higher than that of these top stars in China.)

Therefore, under the joint catalysis of so many factors, the only thing Shen Juan lacks before he can reach the top of the domestic entertainment fashion circle may be time or the emergence of someone who is courageous and willing to change the existing rules for him.

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