Rebirth after the college entrance examination

Chapter 244 Little Yuzu's First Stage (1)

In 2007, both of these big names were at the peak of their careers.

Although the official announcement of their arrival was not made in advance, Xia An knew about it.

He notified the school, police, and fire department in advance.

At 8:30 a.m. sharp, the school will be locked down, and the campus walls will be heavily guarded.

What if I still want to register in person?
There's nothing I can do, I'll just come back tomorrow. The big shot will be gone by tomorrow, and the school gates will be wide open.

In just half an hour, the only ones who had time to break in were the students from the foreign language college across the street.

In just half an hour, the stadium at Binhai University was almost full.

Apart from a small number of senior students who left for internships, almost all of the more than 30,000 faculty and students on campus came.

Most people will never meet their idol in their lifetime. Idol is a very interesting label. It often represents not only liking but also youth.

I don't care if you give me leave or not, I'm not going, I'm taking control of my youth!

With no one in class, the young teachers strolled over to the stadium to watch the excitement.

Xia An's group and Tang Wan's group entered the backstage area through the staff entrance; it wasn't crowded.

But a few people were missing.

Xia An noticed that Tang Wan was only accompanied by two security guards, who were Huang Yingying's men.

He frowned and asked, "Where are Zhou Zhou? Where is Su Yi? Where is Huang Yingying?"

Tang Wan shrugged and said she had diarrhea from eating hot pot in the dorm last night.

Xia An: "..."

The Binhai University venue was of paramount importance, and the organizers tacitly filled it with the most professional behind-the-scenes personnel.

Reporters from more than ten media outlets arrived at the school as early as 7 a.m. to prepare, and were scattered around interviewing contestants, mentors, onlookers, and school leaders.

A male reporter from a provincial daily newspaper spotted Xia An from afar and stared at him for a long time.

In his mind, this suddenly famous young nobleman looked familiar, but he just couldn't remember where he had seen him before.

He squeezed closer and asked Xia An with a smile if she could be interviewed.

Xia An smiled and shrugged, pointing to her pajama pants and slippers.

"Look at what I'm wearing, it's probably not very convenient, and besides, I'm not the main character today, I'm just an ordinary audience member."

The male reporter showed no displeasure and extended the microphone to Tang Wan again.

"Miss Tang, may I ask...?"

"Who are you calling 'Miss'? This is a school, please call me Dr. Tang."

After saying that, she raised her little neck and walked away.

Male reporter: "..."

Xia An smiled and advised him, "President Tang has been working hard on his dissertation lately, you know, a doctoral dissertation, tsk tsk..."

"understand."

Jay Chou and Charlene Choi (Ah Sa) walked over after finishing their interviews at the same time.

Charlene Choi (Ah Sa) saw Tang Wan on the way and greeted her politely.

Her Mandarin was poor, very poor. She said that she and He Zhenzhen had just become friends and that He Zhenzhen had mentioned Tang Wan.

"Oh! Really! I asked her to come play with me, but she wouldn't come..."

The two of them started chatting away.

Xia An sighed and nodded to Jay Chou as he walked up to her.

Jay Chou calls him President Xia.

Mr. Xia said there was no need to be polite, pulled a stack of photos out of his back pocket, and smiled somewhat embarrassedly.

"I told a few close classmates in advance that you would be coming, and here you are..."

Jay Chou laughed heartily, took the papers, signed them one by one, and chatted with Xia An in the process.

The implication was clear: this was Xia An's home turf, a harmless preliminary round, and the question was whether Xia An needed anyone else, besides that other person, to get a promotion. "Sigh."

Xia An waved his hands repeatedly: "Fair and just..."

Jay Chou is very experienced; he just chuckled.

Seeing this, Xia An looked around, rolled her eyes, and lowered her voice to say, "Here's what we'll do: I'll stand in front of the stage in a bit, and you can watch who I cheer for. As for the rest, it'll be fair and impartial."

Jay Chou understood and smiled, "Don't worry, it's fair and just."

"By the way, Jay Chou, I had a dream a few days ago about a wheat field, which reminded me of my childhood. I also came across a melody in the dream, and I'd like to share it with you sometime. Maybe we can make a song called 'Rice Fragrance' for fun."

"Oh? Great, I didn't know that President Xia was also knowledgeable about music."

"Not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning."

Seeing him and Jay Chou acting like brothers, with Jay Chou seemingly being more humble, and seeing Tang Wan and Ah Sa laughing and joking, with Tang Wan seemingly taking the initiative in the conversation, the other contestants backstage couldn't quite describe how they felt.

As the host's warm-up remarks reached backstage, everyone tensed up.

The production team urged those who needed to leave to leave and those who needed to go on stage to go on stage.

Xia An and Tang Wan, accompanied by two female security guards, circled around to the playground in front of the stage. Police tape was set up on the lawn, surrounding the stage and the judges' seats.

Apart from reporters, cameramen, and other staff, only Tang Wan and Xia An stood to the side of the cordon.

The offices of Sugar Persimmon Group and Fruit Basket Technology had informed the attending media in advance that they were not allowed to secretly film the two bosses' daily life on campus.

The talent show production crew was strictly instructed by the director not to film from the side, especially with the camera crane, and to be extremely careful not to capture the sugar daddy and his girlfriend in the footage.

Because this is a live broadcast.

Of the 21 competition venues nationwide, this is the fourth live broadcast location, in addition to Beijing Haidian University Town, Shanghai Pudong University Town, and Changsha Hexi University Town.

The live broadcast was simultaneously aired on Hunan TV and Pilipala video website.

The entire TV and website broadcast will be updated promptly at 8 PM every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday.

Xia An has created something new again: TV programs are being broadcast and updated on online platforms.

April 25th, 9:00 AM.

As contestant number 00001 from the Binhai competition area took the stage, Guolan's Weibo account updated its homepage at the same time.

Keen observers noticed that after refreshing the page, a large banner appeared on the homepage.

[<Nebula Ranking> - Support your favorite contestants! Like and add the hashtag #contestantname to increase the topic's popularity. Note: The ranking only includes the top 1,000 contestants during the preliminary rounds.]

……

The first contestant from Binhai University was Lin Yi, a third-year student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He was a cool and slightly rebellious guy who looked somewhat similar to Xia An.

He performed "Serious Snow," a hit song released by Xue Zhiqian last year.

She sang with great emotion, and her appearance was also a plus.

Jay Chou: "Hey, not bad."

Ah Sa: "It sounds great."

Judge A: "Very promising."

Judge B: "Passed."

The school's contestants got off to a flying start.

The Nebula Rankings are updated in real time.

No. 1: Lu Hu, Xingcheng Division 0003
No. 2: Lin Yi, Binhai Division 0001
……

Xingcheng, the venue for the Hexi University Town competition.

After the previous female contestant who sang children's songs was eliminated, judge Pan Weibai picked up the resume of the next contestant and his eyes lit up.

He then turned his head to look at the aloof female judge beside him, holding the microphone.

"The next contestant is actually from Binhai University, and he's singing an original song! Teacher Jing Yun, original songs are one of your specialties."

Host Li Xiang called out, "Please welcome the next contestant, number 0006, Zuo You."

(End of this chapter)