Chapter 173: Meeting an Old Friend

"Your strength is the strongest among the trainees who have appeared so far." After the performance, Jin Zihao gave Kang Yoon-ah a very high evaluation.

"Thank you, teacher." Kang Yoon-ah bowed.

"Wen Xia, you talk about it. You know better than me what the situation is with female trainees." Jin Zihao handed the conversation to Wen Xia.

Wen Xia pondered for a while and said to Kang Yoon-ah: "To be honest, the company I was a trainee at before, SM, is one of the largest idol entertainment companies in South Korea, encompassing almost the most powerful batch of trainees in South Korea.

Before, when I was a trainee, I saw many trainees with extraordinary strength. Most of them could form a group in the end. Whether they are popular or not is a matter of luck, but their strength is definitely the best among trainees of the same period.

However, after watching your performance, I can responsibly say that these people are basically not as good as you. With your strength, I don't even dare to use the identity of a mentor to give you any guidance.

The gap between me and you is at most a gap in fame. Excluding fans, if we were both put on stage to compete, I might not necessarily be able to beat you."

Kang Yoon-ah bowed to thank her, and then said: "Teacher Wen Xia is too modest. There is an idiom in Chinese called 'the one who knows is first.' As long as I am still on this stage, I am a trainee, so I have to call you teacher."

Wen Xia smiled and said: "Your Chinese is better than I thought. Work hard during this time. If you have the day you form a group, I hope your Chinese accent can improve."

"Thank you, teacher." Kang Yoon-ah thanked her for the third time.

Regarding her grading, everyone's opinion was very consistent: A-group!

The result of the competition with the A-group member who was replaced was also not beyond everyone's expectations. She successfully promoted to the A-group.

The only flaw was that the golden throne was sat on by Lin Yuxiao. According to strength, this position was even more suitable for Kang Yoon-ah or Junko.

However, it was only the first assessment, and it hadn't been completely settled. The true ownership of the throne hadn't been decided.

As all the trainees obtained their positions on the stairs, the recording of the first episode of the show ended here.

Taking advantage of the staff cleaning up, the trainees ran down from their seats, scrambling to find the mentors for a group photo.

Among the five mentors, except for Aila and Miss Luo Quan, they were all the most popular teenage idols at the moment. Even if the trainees participating in the show here were not their fans, they must have heard of them.

Now that the idols were right in front of them, such a good opportunity, everyone would definitely not let it go.

Their mobile phones would be "confiscated" in a moment. If they didn't take this opportunity to take a group photo, maybe they wouldn't have a chance in the future.

Although the mentors had been sitting for several hours and were physically and mentally exhausted, seeing the trainees' enthusiastic and excited appearance, they didn't have the heart to refuse.

So everyone lined up to take photos with Jin Zihao, Zhao Yining, and Wen Xia. Aila and Miss Luo Quan were watching them with smiles on the side.

Aila's popular era had passed, and it was normal for her to have no popularity among a group of seventeen or eighteen-year-old trainees. Miss Luo Quan didn't operate much on Weibo, and her fan base was basically on Bilibili, so no one came to ask her for a group photo.

However, it was also leisurely. Miss Luo Quan herself wasn't very good at dealing with such scenes; she had always liked quietness.

However, even a rotten ship has three nails. In any case, Miss Luo Quan still had "a little fame" internationally. A group of Southeast Asian trainees soon surrounded her.

Most of these trainees were from Thailand and Malaysia, and their Chinese level was about the same as Junko's, almost unable to hear the accent.

"Teacher Miss Luo Quan, we are all your fans. Can we take a group photo with you?" Several girls surrounded Miss Luo Quan, holding their mobile phones in their hands.

"Do you all like listening to my songs?"

A girl nodded: "Yes, I like your "Lemon" the most! I bought ten copies of your debut record!"

"Then I really thank you for your support." Miss Luo Quan said, sitting in a pile with the girls and taking a photo.

The mobile phone camera's filter was fully pulled, and the photo taken made Miss Luo Quan's skin look as white as if she had albinism, and even her blonde hair was almost dyed white.

After these few trainees from Southeast Asia left, Junko led Kang Yoon-ah and walked over again.

"Your fans have all left, right?" Junko asked.

Miss Luo Quan shook her head and sighed: "All gone. Ah, not as popular as Wen Xia, no fans."

"Who said that? Isn't there one here?" Junko stepped aside and let Kang Yoon-ah walk up.

Miss Luo Quan showed a smile: "Do you also like listening to my songs?"

Kang Yoon-ah nodded heavily: "I listen to every one of your songs. I also wanted to be a singer-songwriter idol before, but later I found that I didn't seem to have the ability in this area."

Miss Luo Quan nodded and replied: "That's indeed quite a pity, but at least you are still very successful as a trainee. Wen Xia just said that your strength is about the same as hers, it's just that you don't have her opportunities."

Kang Yoon-ah sighed: "If I were really successful, I wouldn't have come here."

Her brows were filled with thick sorrow, and one could see at a glance that she was burdened with worries.

Miss Luo Quan thought she was not confident in her performance and comforted: "You are now the number one recognized by the mentors, and the chance of debuting is very high. Once this episode is broadcast, gaining fans will be easy."

"That's true." Kang Yoon-ah's eyes regained their luster, and her spirit became much better.

"Teacher Miss Luo Quan, I don't know why, but I always feel like I've seen you somewhere." Kang Yoon-ah looked at Miss Luo Quan, carefully recalling in her mind.

Miss Luo Quan chuckled: "Of course you've seen me. In any case, I've been in the news quite a bit before, and I've sung quite a few songs."

"No, not on the internet, but in reality. But I can't remember for a moment." Kang Yoon-ah scratched her head, "I don't know if I remembered wrong."

Miss Luo Quan didn't deny it either, just said: "Whether we've met before is not important. At least I've seen you now. You have to learn Chinese well. In these three months, you don't have to reach Junko's level, but you can't be too much worse."

Kang Yoon-ah clenched her fists, her eyes firm: "I know, I will work hard!"

People left, and only Junko was left beside Miss Luo Quan.

"Quanjian, is it very difficult for Kang Yoon-ah to debut in China?" Junko suddenly asked this sentence.

"Why would you think so?" Miss Luo Quan's words just came out, and her heart trembled. Such an important thing, she actually forgot.

Although the country has never issued any ban related to South Korea, anyone with a brain can see the changes in the entertainment industry over the past half year. Korean stars have disappeared in China since last year.

However, Miss Luo Quan was very confused now. Since the ban on South Korea is a well-known fact, no company dares to play with fire, so how did Kang Yoon-ah pass the audition?

Logically speaking, a big factory like Penguin shouldn't make such a low-level mistake. It must be that there are policies above and countermeasures below. So she said to Junko: "Since the production team dares to let Kang Yoon-ah go on stage, they must have their own considerations. Let's see what happens later."

Junko nodded: "That would be the best. If she were eliminated because of reasons outside the stage, that would be truly too regrettable."

After chatting for a few sentences, it was time to part ways.

The show said it was to let the trainees receive training from the mentors in these three months, but except for recording the show, the time they spent together wasn't long, and most of the time they still had to rely on themselves.

The mentors also had many schedules and couldn't stay here for three months.

When Miss Luo Quan and Wen Xia left, they also bid farewell to Junko. There was nothing to exhort, nothing more than practicing hard, getting along well with roommates, and so on.

After leaving the film center, Wen Xia took a plane back to Beijing to retreat and review for the college entrance examination. Miss Luo Quan found a hotel locally to stay for one night, and then flew to Shanghai.

The exchange student procedures for the University of Tokyo had been handled almost completely. Now she still had to go to Shanghai University of the Arts (the school is completely fictional, please do not substitute into reality) to handle the relevant procedures.

As long as it's a school, especially a university, there are always endless procedures to handle and endless materials to submit.

Ordinary students, even those who don't do anything usually, will be annoyed by the various messages of submitting materials in the class group, not to mention those students who need to handle various procedures.

Miss Luo Quan belonged to the latter. Before entering Shanghai University of the Arts, she first had to submit a study plan of no less than 2000 words, a study appraisal report already in the University of Tokyo, and things like physical examinations and school opinion forms also had to be arranged.

After arriving at Shanghai University of the Arts, after submitting these materials, she still had to take an entrance exam. Because the major Miss Luo Quan studied before and these majors in Shanghai University of the Arts were completely unrelated, if she wanted to enroll, she had to be assessed first.

Originally, she could have submitted the materials a week ago, but because the art exam for high school senior special students was imminent, it was dragged until now.

Art students, in addition to the ordinary college entrance examination, also have to participate in the art exam, which is the so-called interview, mainly to see if you have artistic cells. This level is the link where all art universities eliminate the most candidates.

Because art universities generally have very low requirements for college entrance examination scores, for most students, as long as they didn't play around for three years in high school, it's not difficult to meet the score requirements.

But not everyone is qualified to go to an art university.

First of all, appearance is very important.

The examiners of the art exam are all appearance-conscious. The first impression of the candidate largely determines your score. If you have a face that can topple all living things, it doesn't matter even if you are worse in other aspects.

But if your appearance is a bit sorry for the audience, then you need to have some particularly powerful specialties to make up for it. At least you must have won art awards at the national level or above. If it's lower, you might not be admitted.

Compared with the University of Tokyo, Shanghai University of the Arts highlights a rich artistic atmosphere from the school gate.

At the entrance is a wide square. In the center of the square stands a lotus sculpture more than three meters high. The petals of the lotus are distinct, the edge parts are carved extremely delicately, and the colors are gorgeous. At first glance, it is almost the same as the real one, which can be called lifelike.

After looking at the introduction on the base, I realized that this was the graduation work of a student from Shanghai University of the Arts decades ago. Now this student is already an internationally renowned sculpture master.

Besides that, there are quite a few easels and tables placed on the square, and there are also many students' works on them.

This place is equivalent to a public student work exhibition platform. Many bosses of art galleries and salons usually come here, hoping to find gold in the sand.

Of course, students who are truly capable can already hold their own work exhibitions. Most of those who come to the square are students who are talented but not appreciated. Perhaps there are geniuses who are not understood by secular eyes, but mediocrity is the main theme here.

Of course, this mediocrity is also relative to the entire Shanghai University of the Arts.

As a famous genius in the photography department, Lin Zheyuan didn't come here today to let those bosses discover him. It's just that the sun is shining brightly today, and he thinks it's a good day to collect wind and find materials.

It just so happens that today is the day for Shanghai University of the Arts to conduct the art exam. Many special students from all over the country who are interested have come, and the square at the school gate is also bustling.

At the gate of Shanghai University of the Arts, handsome men and beautiful women have never been lacking.

In addition to those amateur candidates, many already famous stars are also among them.

In recent years, there have been more and more students who debuted as child stars, several every year, and their popularity is higher year by year.

These few this year are even a popular teenage boy group with quite high national popularity. When they debuted, they were probably only fifteen years old. They were the only underage boy group in China. There were none before, and there won't be any in the future.

Come to think of it, two members of this boy group are fellow townsmen with Miss Luo Quan, but they are not very familiar with each other and have no intersection.

But now there is. Miss Luo Quan, wearing sunglasses, was squeezed to the side by a group of nanny-like female fans. Three handsome boys got out of the car amidst ear-splitting screams and walked toward the school gate.

With her previous temper, Miss Luo Quan would definitely have said something. But ever since she was sprayed by those fans before, Miss Luo Quan also learned to endure.

More is better than less. After all, the road is so wide, and it doesn't matter if she changes to another one.

"Miss Luo Quan!"

A surprised shout came from behind her. Miss Luo Quan turned around and saw a face that was completely expected.

"Lin Zheyuan!" Miss Luo Quan shouted the name of the boy who had cooperated once in Japan.

The first set of photos and videos she debuted were taken with his help. Because of this, there was some misunderstanding with Hoshino Sakura.

Lin Zheyuan's tone was very surprised: "I didn't expect to meet you here. How did you come to Shanghai University of the Arts?"

Miss Luo Quan smiled and explained: "I'm here to participate in the art exam. I filled out an exchange student application form. If I do well today, we'll be classmates in the future."

"With your strength, do you still need to worry about these? You will definitely pass. If you have anything you don't understand about Shanghai University of the Arts in the future, just come and ask me!" Lin Zheyuan patted his chest and made a guarantee.

Miss Luo Quan nodded with a smile: "Then thank you first." ===== CHAPTER 174 =====

"With your strength, do you still need to worry about these things? You'll definitely pass. If you have any questions about Shangyi in the future, just come and ask me!" Lin Zheyuan patted his chest, giving his assurance.

Miss Luo Quan nodded with a smile: "Then I'll thank you in advance."