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Chapter 130 Leadership: Let me add two more points

When Lin Yu arrived at the auditorium, it was already full.

Lin Yu entered through the side door and went straight to the third row, near the edge.

"Senior! Here! Here!"

Ruan Yunxian waved to Lin Yu from her seat. She occupied three seats beside her: two on her left and one on her right.

"Senior, please sit here. It will be more convenient for Sister Wanqing to come back later." Ruan Yunxian pointed to the seat on his right, closer to the center of the venue, leaving the seat on the outside for Su Wanqing and the others.

"Is the senior going to do Wanqing's makeup?"

"Ah, yes."

Lin Yu responded, bent over to avoid obstructing the view of the students behind him, stepped over the gap between Ruan Yunxian's knee and the seat in front of her, and sat down next to Ruan Yunxian.

Lin Yu sat down and glanced at the stage.

The competition hadn't officially started yet; the host was up there with a microphone, conducting a simple sound check.

"Sister Wanqing is the third one," Ruan Yunxian whispered to Lin Yu. "She's already gone backstage to prepare."

"So soon? Isn't the competition still quite a while away?"

"It's getting late, isn't it?" Ruan Yunxian glanced at her phone. "It starts in five minutes. Sister Wanqing said there's still a lot to prepare over there."

"Too."

Lin Yu nodded, leaned back comfortably in his chair, and relaxed his tense back.

Ruan Yunxian placed her phone on her lap, took out a box of mints from her small bag, opened the lid, and popped one into her mouth.

"Senior, do you want some?"

"Need not."

Lin Yu took out his phone and glanced at the message. It was a frontline battle report sent by Su Wanqing from the waiting area.

"Is that Sister Wanqing?" Ruan Yunxian leaned closer.

"Yes."

Lin Yu turned his phone screen to the side so she could see it.

Su Wanqing: The other contestants are all so amazing. I was terrified when they auditioned.

It was followed by a crying face emoji.

Lin Yu also typed a reply.

Lin Yu: It's alright, you're not bad either.

Seeing Lin Yu's affirmation of her, Su Wanqing felt a little calmer.

After sending Lin Yu a cheering emoji, she put away her phone and prepared to do some simple warm-up exercises.

Ruan Yunxian swirled and played with the mint in her mouth with her tongue. The mint rolled from her left cheek to her right, making her speech muffled: "Senior, what place do you think Sister Wanqing will get this time?"

"It's hard to say, it depends on how well they perform."

"You're avoiding the important points." Ruan Yunxian was very dissatisfied with Lin Yu's answer. "Last time you made a very confident prediction."

"Last time, we made predictions based on their performance after the competition," Lin Yu patiently explained to Ruan Yunxian. "These things mainly depend on that one moment on stage. No matter how well you prepare, it all comes down to your performance on stage, doesn't it?"

One minute on stage, ten years off the stage.

Often, it's just that one minute that determines whether your ten years of hard work have been worthwhile.

As the two were talking, the lights in the room suddenly dimmed, and then the stage lights came on.

As the spotlight shone on the host, he went on stage and began his opening remarks.

"Welcome, leaders and everyone—"

Lin Yu had a question: why was the estimated time for the final round exactly the same as the estimated time for the preliminary round, even though so many participants had been eliminated?

After a lengthy opening speech and several leaders' remarks, Lin Yu finally understood why.

Lin Yu leaned back in his chair, listening to the leader on stage, whose department he couldn't quite make out, talk about "the importance of campus culture construction," and his mind began to go blank.

Ruan Yunxian, standing to the side, also looked dejected. She had already swallowed the mint and was huddled in her chair, idly drawing circles on the back of the chair in front of her with her fingers.

"Senior," she whispered, "how much longer is this going to take?"

Lin Yu glanced at his phone: "We'll have to wait. It's only been five minutes; it's barely the beginning."

"Only five minutes?" Ruan Yunxian sighed. "It feels like almost an hour has passed."

Ten minutes later, the leaders finally finished speaking, and a few scattered applause broke out from the audience.

"—I now declare the selection competition for this school year's Top Ten Singers officially open!"

The host quickly went on stage, said a few words, and then announced the official start of the competition.

The two hosts took turns introducing the first contestant before inviting him to the stage.

The lights dimmed and then brightened again. A boy sat on a high stool, holding a guitar, with the spotlight shining on him alone.

"Ah! Isn't this a singing competition? Isn't what he did a foul?" Ruan Yunxian whispered in her ear.

"Singing and playing an instrument, that shouldn't be a problem, right?"

Lin Yu didn't think there was any problem; it was just a live performance, not lip-syncing.

After listening to the first contestant's performance, Ruan Yunxian quickly approached Lin Yu and asked, "Senior, what did you think of his singing?"

"It's alright. If we assess the performance of the other people last time, we should have a chance of making it into the top ten."

Based on his previous impression, Lin Yu gave a vague judgment.

Next, it wasn't the second contestant who took the microphone, but rather a guest leader from the audience.

They began with a brief review.

"See, I told you Su Wanqing went too early." Although Lin Yu hadn't anticipated this, he still stumbled upon the correct conclusion.

After one leader finished giving his comments, the microphone was passed to the next leader, who then added two more points.

Ruan Yunxian glanced at the stage and lowered her voice to Lin Yu, saying, "In that case, won't Sister Wanqing have to wait backstage for a long time?"

"really."

Lin Yu was a little worried about Su Wanqing. She had been very nervous these past few days, and the longer she waited in the waiting area, the more it affected her.

"Hopefully she can adjust her mindset."

Meanwhile, in the waiting area.

The atmosphere in the waiting area was much more relaxed.

Su Wanqing recognized some of the faces because she had participated in the event last year, and they've already started chatting.

"This leader is really good at talking," Su Wanqing complained to the contestants around her. "He said so much, but everyone else still managed to add a couple more points."

Su Wanqing had experienced this situation once before last year, and had already accumulated some experience, so she was naturally quite adept at it now.

They are familiar with the process and can handle it with ease.

Since entering the waiting area, she has become increasingly relaxed. She stopped thinking about anything unnecessary, and stopped considering how to sing.

I feel very relaxed.

Su Wanqing now even doubts whether all her pressure comes from Lin Yu.

It's all that stress monster's fault!

Su Wanqing's only thought now is to wait for the leaders to finish speaking so that she can go on stage and perform.

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