Chapter 49: The Myth of Being Undefeated

The commotion in the audience made all five celebrity mentors turn their heads to look.

They were no strangers to this kind of phenomenon.

Nowadays, some companies even deliberately guide a star's fans to stir up conflict, in order to stimulate cohesion, hype up popularity, or make it easier to play the victim.

In fact, Xu Chujing and the others also wanted to see if, with so many people shouting "Luo Mo" and "Anonymous", Shen Mingliu and the others could still deliver a stable stage performance under these circumstances.

The result undoubtedly disappointed them.

Shen Mingliu's performance was actually quite stable, it was just that a few dance moves were not precisely on the beat, which was slightly lacking compared to the rehearsal.

But Ji Kangdong and Meng Yangguang were even worse, especially Meng Yangguang.

He had a line of lyrics where he jumped the gun and came in too early.

Fortunately, the trainee who sang after him was experienced enough to force an adjustment for him.

As for those whose strength was not even as good as Xingshi Entertainment, their poor performance was quite obvious.

"Red Actor" was too explosive, and the turmoil in the audience was too distracting.

At the same time, with a bet on the line, the pressure was always going to be higher.

After the performance ended, the five mentors' evaluations were all quite average.

This so-called high-popularity team did not meet their expectations.

Backstage, Director Ning Dan could not help but frown slightly.

Every trainee in this team was considered to be in the upper echelon on the Popularity Support Ranking.

Their performance could actually, to a certain extent, represent the level of the show "Creating Idols".

If the top-tier contestants were all trash, one could imagine the overall level of the show.

Fortunately, "Red Actor" was truly top-notch; otherwise, Director Ning Dan might have been in a terrible mood, and these trainees would likely have suffered for it.

The one who could make the auntie most comfortable was, as expected, Luo Mo.

At this point, all 9 teams had finished performing, and the 100 trainees took the stage together.

Director Ning Dan came on stage personally to announce the votes and rankings for the second public performance.

Many trainees were nervous to death, keeping their heads down and not daring to look at the director.

Luo Mo, however, had a calm mindset and was not nervous.

Director Ning Dan started reporting from ninth place all the way up, and stopped when she reached second place.

At this moment, the only ones whose rankings had not been announced were Shen Mingliu's team and Luo Mo's Anonymous Team.

It must be said that it is very effective for popular contestants to band together; even if there were frequent mistakes on stage this time, the vote count was still very high.

This is the cruelty of this industry.

Being highly capable in your craft is sometimes useless.

Like that group that performed the synchronized dance earlier, in Luo Mo's view, they danced very in-sync and he felt they had put in hard work, yet they only ended up in fourth place.

Ning Dan held the microphone, her red lips pressed slightly, and after a few seconds, she said: "The team that won first place in this public performance is—Anonymous Team! It is 'Red Actor'!"

In an instant, applause thundered.

Shen Mingliu and the others revealed a dejected look, each of them acting as if they were broken.

These youths from big companies had had it too easy all the way.

Some of them might even have wealthy family backgrounds, possessing from childhood things that many people would never dare to dream of in their entire lives.

In their eyes, sweating a bit more while dancing or practicing until their voices went hoarse was already the greatest suffering in the world.

Most importantly, everyone at Xingshi Entertainment remembered very clearly that before they entered the competition, the company's top management had explicitly told them to strive to win all the way.

You already possess a foundation of popularity, so you can be far ahead on the ranking list from the very beginning.

You must win all the way so that the company can continuously market you and keep pouring money in.

When that time comes, your popularity will create a massive gap.

Xingshi Entertainment's requirement was: not only to debut, but to debut with an overwhelming number of votes, creating a massive gap!

Having banded together and still suffering a total defeat, how was the company supposed to spend money on marketing?

And Luo Mo's Myth of being undefeated was still continuing.

Since entering the competition, he had never lost.

There really wasn't a single one who could fight.

At this point, the second public performance concluded successfully.

Luo Mo stood in the crowd, casting a glance at the various expressions of the trainees.

He saw that in the synchronized dance team that won fourth place, the short trainee responsible for the Main Dancer and choreography was already teary-eyed.

Even though they had delivered a stage performance second only to "Red Actor", and even though they only took fourth place, he was already so excited that he couldn't hold it in, feeling that his hard work had been rewarded, and he kept bowing to the audience in all directions off the stage.

Perhaps he had long since realized, or rather, understood the rules and cruelty of this industry.

He didn't ask for much; it was enough to be seen.

It was very, very good that everything he paid was not ignored.

Even if only a portion of people applauded for me, that would be enough.

For some reason, Luo Mo thought of a certain time on Earth.

He was also very grateful for that time when he never gave up on himself.

Singing, dancing, and the Opera of this life, these all had to be practiced, practiced constantly.

Even if you have talent, if you neglect it for too long, the foundation will be gone.

The reason the members of the Anonymous Team could endure Instructor Luo's training was because they knew very well that Instructor Luo worked even harder than them.

This person was simply a heartless stage machine!

This trainee seemed to have sensed Luo Mo's gaze upon him, and after making eye contact with Luo Mo, he wiped his snot and tears with a bit of embarrassment.

Luo Mo smiled, said nothing, and simply raised his hand to applaud him.

Or rather, he wasn't just applauding for him.

……..

……..

The program recording ended, and the five celebrity mentors left the stage together.

Before leaving, Xu Chujing's assistant ran over to communicate with Ning Dan for a while, seemingly to ask about the upcoming work schedule. Her gaze, however, would drift toward Luo Mo from time to time.

There was no more recording content for today, so the trainees could go back to rest well and get a good night's sleep.

Tomorrow would be normal classes, with professional teachers coming to provide guidance and review everyone's mistakes and shortcomings from this public performance.

As for the day after tomorrow, the team formation for the third public performance would take place, and there might even be test questions.

At the same time, a group of trainees would face Elimination in a few days, and the remaining trainees would be re-sorted into classes.

The next day, Tong Shu spent a relaxing day.

Because starting from today, for a full 7 days, he didn't need to wash dishes for Luo Mo.

This made him feel a bit unaccustomed for a moment.

At the same time, he also had yogurt to drink.

Luo Mo looked at the dazed Tong Shu and felt he really had no ambition, saying, "What? Not used to it because there are no dishes to wash? Does that mean after the show ends, you're going to come to my house to be a nanny?"

"Huh?" Tong Shu looked at Luo Mo and said with a look of Surprise, "Can I?"

Luo Mo: "Can... wait, what kind of nonsense are you talking about?"

Tong Shu said a bit embarrassedly, "Brother Mo, after the show ends, or rather, after I get Eliminated, can I still follow you?"

Luo Mo finally understood what this kid meant.

Tong Shu had been on "Creating Idols" for so long, and at the beginning, he was assigned to C Class, living in a dormitory with several other people.

Naturally, there would be chats between roommates.

This gave Tong Shu, a novice in the entertainment industry, some rough understanding of the circle.

Both he and Luo Mo were Individual Trainees with no company behind them.

But he didn't know how to choose a company, so he thought it would be better to just keep being a tag-along behind Brother Mo.

If the company Brother Mo signed with in the future was also willing to take him, that would be great.

Luo Mo glanced at the slightly nervous Tong Shu and didn't rush to give an answer.

He just smiled and said, "We'll talk about it later."

Tong Shu obediently acknowledged, and seeing Luo Mo licking the yogurt lid, he followed suit and licked it a few times as well.

Luo Mo glanced at a short trainee in the distance and said, "Tong Shu, this Li Junyi is in the same dorm as you, right?"

Tong Shu nodded.

Li Junyi was the Main Dancer and choreographer of that group dance team.

"What is he like?" Luo Mo asked.

Sleeping in the same dorm every day, he surely knew something about him.

Tong Shu replied, "He's quite good. When I was practicing my Basic Skills in the dorm, he even taught me. Brother Mo, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, just thinking that these two public performances have had too few dance elements, and for the third public performance, there needs to be some kind of breakthrough." Luo Mo smiled and didn't say much more.

And at eight o'clock in the evening, the second half of the second episode of "Creating Idols" was finally set to air on Pineapple TV and Penguin Video.

"Big Fish" was coming.

(End of this chapter)