Elder brother's garrison

In an instant, hundreds of eyes were fixed on Director Chen.

"Where are the production assistants?!" Director Chen shouted at the crowd again, straining his neck.

The staff looked at each other.

A series of light, scattered footsteps sounded, and a male staff member, his face pale, rushed over from behind the stage.

"Director Chen!" The production assistant ran up to Director Chen, his face covered in sweat from nervousness. "You, you wanted to see me..."

"You son of a bitch!!!" Before the stagehand could even get her footing, Director Chen unleashed a barrage of insults, furiously ripping the program from the female staff member's hand and slamming it down on her. "Where are you?! Where were you five minutes ago???"

"I, I..." The stagehand hurriedly took the program schedule that Director Chen tossed to him. "I'm so sorry, Director Chen, I, I went to the restroom to smoke a cigarette..."

"If you're so great, why don't you go to the bathroom and conjure up a nuclear bomb!" Director Chen strode forward, angrily poking the production assistant's shoulder. "Do you know what the person who replaced you just did?! Do you know how much trouble she caused?! Do you know how much that cigarette of yours is worth, how many lives it's worth?! Dereliction of duty! Fine! Dereliction of duty!!! I don't care how much money you took in bribes, I don't care what your relationship with this woman is, I don't care how long you've worked here, three seconds, I'm only giving you three seconds! You two pack your things and get out of here right now!! Wait for my lawyer's letter at home in three days!"

"Get out of here!!!"

As Director Chen finished cursing, he jabbed the stagehand's shoulder hard with every word he uttered.

The stagehand was completely stunned, staring blankly at the female staff member beside him.

The female staff member also looked dazed at this moment.

Inside the studio, Director Chen's furious shouts and curses, like thunderous roars, still echoed.

……

"Having so much power is really great," Xiaobai exclaimed, following behind Lu Ming.

"Hmm?" Lu Ming looked back at Xiao Bai as he walked.

"That lady wasn't going to let me in behind the scenes. She kept saying it was the rule, but Miss Luming, you just said it casually, and she let me in," Xiaobai said to Luming with a sigh.

"..." Lu Ming blinked.

"I guess I'm just basking in Miss Luming's glory," Xiaobai said with a smile.

“…She probably doesn’t know you.” Lu Ming smiled. “You’re more capable than me.”

"No, I'm just an unknown agent for a small group right now."

"You are the admiral."

"I'm the agent."

Xiao Bai and Lu Ming chatted back and forth as they walked down the corridor behind the scenes.

Behind the scenes and in front of the stage were separated by a heavy curtain. The curtain was made of an unknown material and had excellent soundproofing. After Xiaobai and Luming went behind the scenes, they could barely hear any sounds from outside.

On both sides of the corridor behind the scenes were dressing rooms. When Xiaobai and Luming walked to the end of the corridor, they saw the largest dressing room.

There was a sign on the door of the dressing room that read "Dressing Room No. 1".

Lu Ming pushed open the door, and bright light shone in from inside.

Inside the dressing room stood several young and beautiful human girls, chatting idly while holding makeup boxes. As soon as they saw Lu Ming open the door, they quickly smiled and rushed over.

"Miss Luming! You've finally arrived!"

"Come on, come on, time is short, we need to start fixing our makeup!"

"The style we received from the company today is a trendy, youthful look that suits you..."

Before Xiaobai and Luming could react, the human girls swarmed Luming to the dressing table, skillfully pressed her into a chair, and draped scarves around her to protect her from the stains on her clothes. Then, they smiled and began to style her hair and apply her makeup.

Xiao Bai stood at the door of the dressing room, staring blankly at Lu Ming.

That's really impressive; they're very skilled.

So this is what celebrities do when they put on makeup.

A human girl walked up to Xiaobai with a smile and put her hands together next to her face.

"Huh? This is a new face I've never seen before. Whose little sister is this?" the human girl said with a smile.

"Hello, I'm the manager of another group participating in this program," Xiaobai said shyly to the human girl.

"Huh? You're an agent from another company?" The human girl was taken aback. "You're... someone who poached talent?"

"Ah? No, no, no..." Xiaobai quickly waved his hand, then didn't know what expression to use to answer, he just smiled helplessly, "This is a long story... but I only started dating Miss Luming with your company's permission."

"Oh, so that's our partner." The human girl smiled and extended her hand to Xiaobai. "Hello, little sister. We are Luming's exclusive styling team. Nice to meet you."

"Hello..." Xiaobai extended her hand and shook hands with the human girl.

After the human girl held Xiaobai's hand, she reached over Xiaobai's shoulder and gently lifted the hair by Xiaobai's ear, letting the strands of hair slide through her fingertips.

"Little sister, your hair is in great condition!" The human girl's eyes gleamed. "Just like Lu Ming's, it's so neat and silky. How do you usually take care of your hair?"

"Wash your hair frequently..."

"These hands are so beautiful, with slender fingers and a delicate feel." The human girl leaned forward, pinched Xiaobai's hand, and gently squeezed Xiaobai's palm and fingers with her thumb. "Your nails are so pretty too, so neatly trimmed. Would you like me to do your nails? It's free!"

"No, thank you..." Xiaobai awkwardly withdrew her hand and took a few steps back.

"..." The human girl blinked, watching Xiaobai's actions, and then realized that her behavior just now seemed a bit too intimate. She smiled embarrassedly, "Ah, sorry, it was my occupational hazard. I just wanted to embellish pretty hands and hair."

Professional stylists are terrifying!

Looking at the human girl behind her, and how Lu Ming was being surrounded by a group of women like a doll, Xiao Bai couldn't help but tremble.

"Um, I... I'll wait for you outside..."

"Hmm? You're leaving already? Our dressing room is quite big, isn't it?"

"My group is in another dressing room, I'll go check it out..."

"Oh... I see. That makes sense, after all, she's someone else's manager." The human girl sighed regretfully, then waved slightly to Xiaobai, a warm smile spreading across her face. "Little sister, remember to come over and play later."

Chapter 2290 The Tense Deep-Sea Girl Group

After saying goodbye to the stylist, Xiaobai walked out of the room and carefully closed the door of dressing room number one.

"What a warm-hearted person..." Xiaobai sighed to herself, then looked away.

The No. 1 dressing room is located at the end of the corridor. On the walls on the left and right sides are "No. 2 dressing room" and "No. 3 dressing room" respectively. Looking straight ahead, the room numbers are arranged in order.

Just as Xiaobai was pondering which dressing room her family's deep-sea deans could stay in, suddenly, a familiar cursing voice came from dressing room number two next door.

"I'm not saying this, but do TV production teams these days really act this thoughtlessly?"

"Can't you even properly allocate a dressing room?"

"A mere upstart girl like her can go to the number one dressing room, while all of us who are a generation older than her have to wait behind her?"

"..."

The pleasant yet sharp voice sounded very familiar to Xiaobai; it seemed to be the red-clad singer who had previously been criticizing Luming at the backstage entrance.

Upon hearing the message, Xiao Bai showed a hint of curiosity and tiptoed towards dressing room number two, peering inside from outside the door.

The door to dressing room number two was not closed.

Xiao Bai can see inside the door at a glance from the outside.

In the center of dressing room number two sat a woman in red, her legs crossed, her still charming face covered with frost, as she kept berating the bowing and scraping staff beside her.

The woman's red lips parted repeatedly, her words revealing her harshness.

"She's immature, but aren't you all immature?"

"Are they trying to take advantage of the fact that we're not as famous as her right now?!"

"Sister Xie, I'm so sorry, I'm really sorry, but it's not what you think. The dressing room numbers in our production team are just for easy calling out, but there is no difference in the configuration of the dressing rooms. I hope you don't misunderstand..." The staff member next to the woman in red listened humbly to the woman in red's scolding. When the woman in red finally found a gap in her barrage of words, she quickly explained.

However, the staff's explanation only made the woman in red even more indignant.

"You think I'm just after the dressing room's amenities??" The woman in red seemed to have been hit where it hurt, her chest heaving. She slammed her hand on the table and shouted at the staff, "I debuted at seventeen! Someone who's been in the industry for two or three decades, would I care about the dressing room's amenities??? What I care about is rules! It's about face!! Even if you're clueless, you can at least count! Dressing room number one, repeat after me, dressing room number one! Number one comes before number two, before number three, four, five, six, seven, and eight! I'm asking you, isn't that right?! You let a little girl who's only been in the industry for a few months move into dressing room number one, didn't you?! Putting us seniors above them, didn't you?!"

The woman in red was aggressive.

"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry!" The staff member quickly bowed and apologized.

"What's the use of an apology! Will it bring back any face?!" The woman in red stood up and said angrily to the staff, "If it weren't for Director Chen, I would have turned around and left by now! You're just causing trouble for everyone every day. I came here to participate in the show, not to be bullied!"

"Yes, yes, yes..." The staff kept bowing.

"The staff, and that little brat too, I've had the dressing room door open for so long. She didn't even come in to say hello." The woman in red muttered, pacing around the chair twice with her hands on her hips, her breath coming in gasps of anger.

Xiao Bai, standing outside the door, covered her mouth as she looked at the woman in red inside the room.

Perhaps because she was too focused on her gaze, the woman who was venting her anger in the dressing room felt the gaze behind her. She stopped and looked towards the door.

"Who's out there?!"

"!" Little White quickly pulled his head back before the woman could turn around.

This person is so sensitive!

Xiao Bai stuck to the back of the door and quickly looked to the left and right.

Embarrassingly, the backstage corridor was spotless, with not even a trash can near Xiaobai, and all the dressing rooms next door were closed, leaving him nowhere to hide.

Just now.

Approaching footsteps sounded from dressing room number two.

……

The woman in red walked coldly to the door, peeked into the hallway outside the dressing room, and looked to both sides.

The corridor was deserted, and the dressing rooms on both sides were tightly closed.

The woman in red shifted her gaze to the door of dressing room number one, lingered on the glaring number one sign for a moment, then her brow twitched slightly, she gave a cold snort, and slipped back into the dressing room.

With a bang, the door to dressing room number two was slammed shut.

After the door closed, the faint sound of a woman cursing could be heard again from dressing room number two.

"call."

On the corridor ceiling, Xiaobai lightly jumped down from the wall like Spider-Man and dusted off his hands.

“Loki’s wall-climbing method is really useful…” Xiaobai looked at her palm with complicated eyes, then glanced at the second dressing room that had been closed, and couldn’t help but sigh, “…The human world also has many difficult things…Miss Luming’s life doesn’t seem to be so easy usually.”

Xiao Bai scratched her head. Instead of continuing to eavesdrop on the woman in red's cursing, she walked straight past dressing room number two and continued towards the back.

Xiaobai released the Admiral Network, scanned the backstage area, and finally found the location of the dressing room where Shenhai Yamato and the others were staying.

Xiao Bai walked all the way to the dressing room of the Dean of the Deep Sea Academy and glanced at the number on the doorplate.

Dressing Room No. 7.

Xiao Bai stood at the door, thinking it over and over again, but still didn't push the door open. Instead, he used the Admiral's Network to infiltrate inside.

Soon, familiar voices filled his ears, and familiar figures appeared in Xiaobai's mind.

In Xiaobai's network perception, Deepsea Yamato, Loki, and Barbarossa were standing in the middle of the dressing room. The other Deepsea Deans were scattered on the sofas in the dressing room, eating snacks and sleeping. The Deepsea Deans on the sofas were huddled together in twos and threes, snoring, their faces full of relaxed expressions.

"What do I do?! I'm so nervous!" Yamato Akagi said anxiously to his two companions, cupping his face in his hands.

“You’re not even afraid of fighting, so why would you be afraid of this?”

"It's different, it's different! I have absolutely no experience with this kind of thing!" Yamato Shinkai shook his head hurriedly, his face full of lingering fear. "What if I didn't perform well and embarrassed Shiro!"

“Master shouldn’t mind if the performance fails…” Loki paused for a few seconds, looking at Deepsea’s panicked expression, before taking out a piece of candy from her clothes, peeling off the coating, and offering it to Deepsea’s mouth. “If you’re nervous, just eat a piece of candy.”

Yamato opened her mouth and bit the candy Loki offered.

Chapter 2291 Lu Ming's Sister

Yamato ate Loki's candy, and a touching expression appeared on her face.

"Waaaaah, Loki, you're such a kind person..." Yamato said gratefully, chewing on a candy. "Does eating candy relieve tension?"

"It probably won't work, but if you keep your mouth shut, it might prevent you from overthinking."

“How could this be—” Yamato Fukami slumped his head.

“Yamato is different from us. Besides being the lead dancer, she is also our lead singer.” Barbarossa calmly explained to Loki, “The greater the responsibility, the greater the pressure. In addition, the Admiral has high hopes for her, so it’s understandable that she behaves this way.”

"Barbarossa—Waaaa, you're such a good person!" Deep Sea Yamato hugged Barbarossa, rubbing against her softly. "That's right, if Shiro had told me we were just here to have some fun, I wouldn't be so nervous. But Shiro seems to really believe in us, she even told me we'll definitely become famous. What if we mess up and become a laughingstock? Wouldn't that be letting Shiro down? Blah blah blah..."

"..." Barbarossa patted Yamato's back with his eyes closed.

“Master says this because he believes in your abilities,” Loki said to Yamato. “You will become our lead dancer and lead singer, not just because of your status, but because you are indeed the most talented performer among us.”

"Wow! Even Loki!" Deep Sea Yamato immediately covered his ears and squatted on the ground. "I don't want to hear it! I don't want to hear it! I don't want to hear it!"