Chapter 336: Little Idols of the Seine

The number of celebrities participating in "Super Nova Games" is so large that introducing them one by one could easily pad out several hundred, even over a thousand words.

But to sum it up, it's much more convenient: a bunch of has-beens, plus members of the Rocket Girls group who will get a lot of camera time.

As for the Rocket Girls, who only debuted this year from another Tencent show, this program is essentially a group variety show for them.

Speaking of which, another group called Seine River—full name something SNH48—came over and immediately paid their respects.

Compared to the Rocket Girls, they're far less popular; from fame to recognition, they're a completely different tier of girl group.

But these little Seine River idols are pretty savvy—they grouped up to "worship the lucky carp."

They grabbed camera time while also making their presence felt.

Too bad Yang Chaoyue flubbed it a bit; right now she hasn't yet evolved into that variety show veteran who handles everything with ease, and she actually missed the joke~

Unlike the Rocket Girls, the Seine River little idols group follows a different girl group model.

Commonly known as the "let-loose self-cultivation" type.

They recruit every month, give the newbies a few months of casual training, then put them on stage—as long as they can do a broadcast gymnastics routine, they're good to go.

Looking at it that way, it actually seems pretty suitable for Yang Chaoyue.

Bai Liang isn't very familiar with the Seine River little idols; he only knows one called Ju Jingyi, who seems to have come from the Seine River group.

He'd seen reports about her before—something about a "four-thousand-year beauty."

Although she got mocked for it, people actually did remember her.

He just didn't expect that these Seine River little idols would somehow have a connection to him too.

When Bai Liang arrived at the stadium recording site with Zhao Jinmai, it naturally caused a sensation on set.

Mainly from the girls' screaming! It looked like they were about to blow the roof off.

It scared Zhao Jinmai into quickly ducking behind Bai Liang, grabbing his clothes and peeking out.

Some young male celebrities wore bitter expressions, thinking: we're done for! Why is this guy here?

It's not that they're afraid of Bai Liang jumping up and dunking on their heads, nor of him solo-killing them online.

Because "Super Nova Games" doesn't have basketball or League of Legends competitions.

Bai Liang's two "specialties" have been banned.

They're purely worried about the camera time issue.

A hundred and fifty celebrities!

The Rocket Girls were already going to take a lot of camera time, and now here comes the "Big Boss"—how much screen time is left for the rest of them?

Especially the male celebrities—they can't exactly squeeze in front of Bai Liang like the girls can, chattering away saying "I'm your fan"~

They're all the same age; doing that would be too embarrassing.

Especially with so many people watching.

Fortunately, just as Bai Liang told Zhao Jinmai before—in competitive sports, strength rules.

As long as you win, you'll definitely get camera time.

If they won Bai Liang—just thinking about it already gets them excited!

Sure enough, Bai Liang immediately noticed that quite a few "little brats" seemed eager to try their luck right now!

Wanting to climb up by stepping on him?

Actually, before coming, the Tencent Video side had discussed whether to arrange an event that was more "suitable" for Bai Liang.

Competitive sports are indeed relatively fair—strength speaks.

But they couldn't resist offering "private customization."

With Bai Liang's star status coming over, just one sentence of "I can't lose" and the show's planners would have to work through the night to figure something out, insisting on finding an event he was guaranteed to win and slotting it in.

Actually, League of Legends would have been pretty good—Bai Liang's performance on the pro circuit would absolutely dominate.

But the thing is, one match takes too long and the player count requirement is too, well, demanding—five on each side.

Basketball is the same logic.

This year's "Super Nova Games" is the first season, and the production team also wanted to keep things relatively stable, not get too aggressive.

Fortunately, Bai Liang didn't make any special requests, which let them breathe a sigh of relief.

And at this moment, after entering the venue, Bai Liang encountered the first wave of "trouble" of the day.

Those Seine River little idols had surrounded him!

A burst of chattering voices... they seemed quite worked up.

These girls moved so fast that even the Rocket Girls, who also wanted to rush over as a group, couldn't beat them to it.

They could only stamp their feet helplessly on the outer ring.

The scene was jaw-dropping; the production team was even afraid these two girl groups' girls would start fighting the next second.

"Tsk tsk tsk, your little fox is at it again!" Jin Cheng, standing not far away watching the show, clicked her tongue while complaining to Li Yitong.

But Li Yitong's attention didn't seem to be on that—she was sizing up those Seine River little idols, her expression looking a bit strange, as if she was holding back laughter, even covering her own mouth at one point.

But those crescent-moon eyes that smile gave her away.

Within two seconds she couldn't hold it in anymore: "Do you know this group? They're wild!"

"Huh? This group is only so-so famous in the industry... I only know one Ju Jingyi." Jin Cheng said quietly.

"Not that."

Li Yitong began sharing with Jin Cheng the little gossip she knew.

The funniest thing about the Seine River group is the way they "collapse."

Because their company basically doesn't invest in training most of them, letting them grow completely freely, so even the way they collapse is bizarrely varied.

Take girl groups in Korea—at most it's a female idol dating a male idol, or at worst a female idol dating a male fan.

But the Seine River little idols are amazing!

They often feature female idols dating female idols, female idols dating female fans!

Dating aside, there have even been cases of two girls eloping together and leaving the group, and during the relationship they'd pull each other's hair and slap each other, then run to the fans to complain afterward.

More than once, in-group fights have broken out, and the cause was usually both sides dating each other until they quarreled.

So the Seine Mode is very likely the development model best suited for Chinese girl groups.

This thing was established back in 2013. Although it's not particularly famous or breakout-popular, it's been around a long time! And it makes money!

What the Seine audience watches isn't the girls singing and dancing — essentially they're watching teenage girls in their teens and twenties pulling each other's hair, a 24/7 reality show.

"That exciting?!" Jin Cheng was a bit dumbfounded, and also a little curious. "Then why are they so enthusiastic toward that fox, Immortal Bai? Riding the hype?"

"Go over and eavesdrop." Li Yitong egged her on.

Jin Cheng suddenly got coy at this moment, without a trace of her usual brash manner. "I'm not going — at our age, stealing the spotlight and the hype from little girls, it just feels a bit too… you know."

Li Yitong: Is that you, Jin Cheng? Got your body snatched?

She eyed Jin Cheng up and down suspiciously, feeling like she had some little secret.

Jin Cheng: …I still owe Bai Liang a belt, what if he comes to "collect the debt"~

"I'm the same age as you, and now I'm an old maid too — if you're too embarrassed to go, I'm embarrassed too." Li Yitong played dead as well.

And Jin Cheng immediately started fanning the flames: "Did you see that little girl Immortal Bai brought today? Not even eighteen yet — he's getting more and more beastly! I thought his bottom line was Meng Jie's age."

"For real? Not even of age?"

Li Yitong had just muttered that, when the next second Jin Cheng's phone was shoved over, displaying Zhao Jinmai's Baidu Baike page.

Taking a look — good lord!

Balala the Fairies?!

"Beast!" Li Yitong couldn't help cursing along.

At this moment, Bai Liang felt his nose tickle a bit… seemed like someone was cursing him behind his back~

But the little Seine idols were too enthusiastic, and he couldn't spare the attention to look around.

Three women are a thousand ducks — with at least ten girls talking at once in front of him, everything he heard was wah-wah-wah. "Take your time, one at a time," Bai Liang said, slightly helpless.

At this moment, like a little kitten, Zhao Jinmai, who had been clinging to Bai Liang's back the whole time, actually helped him "translate."

"There's a girl in their group who's your die-hard fan, Brother. Because of the civil-service-exam and judicial-exam materials you posted on Weibo, she actually passed and landed the job."

"Huh? Really?" Bai Liang paused, asking in confusion.

"Really!"

The little Seine idols nodded repeatedly, even chiming in to share the basic info of that little sister who, after passing the civil-service exam, ran off without even paying the breach-of-contract penalty.

From every angle, they made clear: they weren't lying.

That former little Seine idol had joined the group right around the time Bai Liang started getting famous.

And it was exactly the time period when he broke out by passing the civil-service and judicial exams.

So the young lady followed suit, and thoroughly digested the materials and insights Bai Liang had shared.

In the end, she successfully passed into a High People's Court in Shanghai.

Bai Liang gave a thumbs-up. Badass!

The production team felt the same way!

Wow, wow — the sports meet hasn't even started yet, and Bai Liang has already contributed such a huge highlight~

A girl group taking the civil-service exam? Tsk~ hidden pretty deep! It never got exposed before.

!

No matter — this wave of traffic, their show is gobbling up.

Feels like the hot-search headline is already written.

And the Rocket Girls, who finally understood what was going on, now wore bewildered expressions.

Huh? You can do that too?

Looking at the little Seine idols, they couldn't shake the feeling that everyone seemed to be living in different dimensions.

Does your group really have this many tricks?

How thoughtful of Bai Liang — he immediately noticed the Rocket Girls' situation and casually asked: "You want to try too? The breach-of-contract penalty is pretty steep, right? Take the civil-service exam and you won't have to pay a cent~"

Production team:???

Buddy, are you being polite? This is our Tencent group!

And no breach-of-contract penalty needed.

But naturally they wouldn't get involved — clearly, how much these girls actually had in them, the Tencent people didn't know?

And the Rocket Girls' popularity is so high, it's not something those little nobodies over at Seine can compare to.

After a bout of commotion, Bai Liang was finally "rescued."

This is the terrifying thing about having 150 artists on site.

Any random moment and a group of girls would swarm him — Bai Liang felt like he'd just been enveloped in the smell of face powder.

The air seemed to carry a cloying sweetness.

Zhao Jinmai, on the other hand — she was young, and the scent on her wasn't so strong… faint and fresh.

And seeing that finally no one was swarming him, her big eyes darted, and she immediately struck a pose: "Brother, you're so popular~ unlike me…"

"Don't you dare imitate Lin Lin Daiyu!" Bai Liang lightly tapped Zhao Jinmai's head, preparing to figure out what event to play.

Because of this wave of girls swarming him, he felt the male compatriots on site seemed even more fired up.

Good, very spirited!

Bai Liang: Capybara is about to log off — next up, logging in is "Black-Skin" Sports-Bro!

"Run? Where to? I spotted you two from way off!"

With one turn, Zhao Jinmai's little hand clutching Bai Liang's clothes couldn't even hold on, making her figure sway before she hurriedly clung to Bai Liang's back again.

At the same time, two "sneaky" figures were also caught red-handed by Bai Liang at this moment.

Li Yitong and Jin Cheng revealed awkward yet polite smiles.

Run? We didn't run~

"What a coincidence!" Jin Cheng said with an innocent smile.

Oops, got caught~

"What's so coincidental? I saw you two on the artist list long ago. What events are you planning to do? Swimming?"

Women's swimming and gymnastics—Bai Liang declared he absolutely had to go watch those later!

As for running, if there were stat-monsters like Yang Mi on site, he figured they probably wouldn't pick running either.

When Bai Liang was in school, he often heard girls share: it really hurts bouncing when you run!

So he boldly judged: there probably wouldn't be much to see.

"I'm just here to tag along—I'm not great at sports. Jin Cheng is pretty good; she's planning to do rhythmic gymnastics and swimming."

While Li Yitong spoke, her eyes were secretly sizing up Zhao Jinmai, who was still hiding behind Bai Liang.

She even smiled at her~

To be fair, those big smiling eyes of hers really were quite useful for getting close to girls.

Zhao Jinmai immediately took a liking to this big sister whose smile was very pretty.

"In that case, help me look after the kid?" Bai Liang said shamelessly.

"Huh?"

A minute later, Li Yitong, holding Zhao Jinmai's hand, wasn't quite sure what to say.

That damned public fox!

What do you mean look after a kid—she's only twenty-eight! She's still a little girl herself!

Still, she really was a full twelve years older than Zhao Jinmai—the other girl was only sixteen.

Zhao Jinmai: I'm seventeen!

"Tongtong, you've got some luck on you~" Jin Cheng suddenly leaned to her ear and said this.

"Huh? What luck?"

"The camera's coming over."

Li Yitong looked up, and sure enough, the on-site camera that had barely paid her any attention before was now really pointing her way.

She couldn't help glancing at Zhao Jinmai. "Little sis, you've got quite the pull—big sis is cashing in on you."

Zhao Jinmai was baffled. "What pull do I have?"

Jin Cheng directly corrected the two dummies: "We're sticking with the great immortal! The camera won't miss us! The little sis is the 'hostage,' got it?"

Li Yitong: Got it!

Under the pretext of "looking after the kid" for Bai Liang, openly tagging along behind him—still worry about no camera time?

How Li Xin freeloaded back then, they could freeload the exact same way now!

But then~ Li Yitong suddenly said: "Hey, Jin Cheng, shouldn't you go change? You need to change for both your events, and you need makeup for rhythmic gymnastics too."

"Are you even human?!" Jin Cheng was dumbfounded—she'd just been wondering why Li Yitong hadn't signed up for any events at all, looking completely unhurried.

That damned evil little kitty.

Li Yitong: Three people together, the camera's too crowded~ Two people, one big one small, is just right.

She held Zhao Jinmai's hand, following Bai Liang—how fitting, like a family of three.

If you threw a Jin Cheng in there too, it'd look out of place.

Zhao Jinmai looked at the two big sisters who had just been holding hands and seemingly getting along great, only to immediately look ready to tear into each other, her head full of question marks.

Still, she was watching carefully and learning.

(End of chapter)