Chapter 5: Taking the Stage

Not only did the cameraman notice the change in Heavenly Queen Xu Chujing's eyes, but the General Director Ning Dan noticed it too.

Even the other four Music Mentors noticed it.

After all, when the four Music Mentors spoke, they would habitually look toward Xu Chujing; they were also wondering if Xu Chujing was uninterested in everyone, or if there would be some change in her attitude.

Among them, Jiang Ningxi was the most surprised and also the most sensitive.

As his first love, she never expected that the only time Heavenly Queen Xu Chujing would show interest was toward Luo Mo!

This made her completely unable to understand why.

Today, Jiang Ningxi was dressed in a very girl-group style.

She sat up straight, her posture slender.

In addition to possessing a pair of long legs with amazing proportions, her shoulder and neck lines were also exceptionally superior.

Coupled with her cold and aloof temperament, she was like a proud white swan.

The girl group she belonged to, Aurora Girls, had only debuted two years ago.

Although these two years could be said to have been smooth sailing, and she was now considered a somewhat famous traffic star, she definitely could not compare to Xu Chujing; they were simply not on the same level of status.

Therefore, her attention was very focused, wanting to see if Xu Chujing would say anything.

But apart from the initial change in her eyes, Xu Chujing did not look at Luo Mo's profile or express any opinions.

In reality, if she were to say a single sentence offhandedly, and it wasn't cut during editing but successfully broadcast for the audience to see, then at the very beginning of the show, many eyes would be focused on Luo Mo!

Yet, Heavenly Queen Xu still maintained her initial silence.

The four Music Mentors were actually not familiar with her yet, and coupled with the fact that her aura was truly too strong, they did not strike up a conversation.

Xu Chujing recalled that very realistic dream again, and thought of a large hand constantly stroking a white Cat.

She could even vaguely hear a man's deep voice in her ear: "Baibaibai, does Brother Mo need to stroke you more? If you want more, then lick me with your tongue."

Xu Chujing's brows furrowed instantly; this feeling was very complicated.

The most fatal part was that her sense of immersion was extremely strong!

I am the Cat, and the Cat is me!

And then... the Cat licked him...

Regarding this, she felt slightly uncomfortable and said, "Let's look at the next one."

Music Mentor Wei Ran said, "Jing, there are no more; this was already the last contestant's profile."

Xu Chujing nodded; she had even forgotten that this Luo Mo was the final number.

On the other side, General Director Ning Dan watched the live broadcast feed and frowned slightly.

She was currently struggling with whether or not to edit the previous footage in.

Xu Chujing's eyes had only changed that one time.

If she discarded this footage, she could just maintain her strict and cold image, treating all contestants equally, which would actually be beneficial for her persona.

Mind you, actually, if it were the other four whose eyes had changed, Ning Dan would dare to edit it recklessly.

For example, editing that look onto other seeded contestants.

But Xu Chujing's would not do.

Her strength was from the inside out, not a fake persona; this woman had extremely strong opinions.

Traffic stars were easier to manipulate because they knew very well that the production team wanted traffic, and all they could sell was traffic, so they could do whatever they wanted—it was all for the sake of heat.

But someone like Xu Chujing, who had both traffic, strength, and status, was a massive Buddha.

Therefore, either this footage would not be used, or it could only be used on Luo Mo.

Unless Xu Chujing herself nodded and was willing to let you edit it however you wanted.

This point was also realized by the female assistant who had followed Ning Dan for many years.

She glanced at Ning Dan, only to find her smiling.

This left the assistant unable to figure out for a moment what exactly the General Director had in her Gourd?

"That's fine, that's all for this segment of recording. The five Music Mentors can watch the live broadcast here, and the contestants over there can also prepare to enter," Ning Dan said.

………

………

In the waiting room, the little angel Tong Shu only felt that the air conditioning might be set a bit too low.

He actually hadn't noticed much, just instinctively feeling that the atmosphere was a bit strange.

Meng Yangguang and Luo Mo exchanged a look, then shrugged his shoulders.

He did not stay by Luo Mo's side for long; after rubbing his nose, he turned around and walked back to his original spot.

Luo Mo also turned slightly, no longer intentionally keeping his back to the camera.

Having nothing to do, Luo Mo chatted with Tong Shu for a few sentences, and in a few words, he teased out the general situation of this young man.

Rather than calling this youth an Individual Trainee, it would be better to call him a small internet celebrity.

He had recorded videos of himself Singing and had a certain level of popularity on some platforms; for instance, he had over two hundred thousand followers on Weibo.

In this day and age, it wasn't that easy to become an internet celebrity; the former trend had already passed.

Nowadays, if you want to be an internet celebrity, you often very much need company operations and promotion.

For this kid to be able to gain over two hundred thousand followers on his own without marketing or promotion could be considered impressive.

This type of trainee was equivalent to the production team searching for a needle in the ocean, selecting them personally, and then contacting them.

"He's still purely just a student," Luo Mo thought to himself.

Some people are just this interesting; when recording videos of himself Singing on the internet, he is confident.

But when in contact with people, he is very shy.

He has almost no social experience.

Just at this moment, staff members began to organize everyone to enter the venue in the order arranged by the production team.

First, the trainees would enter one by one, and only after all the trainees had entered and taken their seats would the celebrity mentors appear amidst the anticipation of the masses.

In this segment, the production team arranged 100 seats for the trainees beside the stage, with the seats laid out in a pyramid shape.

"Creating Idols" has a total of 9 spots for forming a group and debuting; in the end, the trainees ranked 1st to 9th will form a group together, composing a 9-member boy band, and then possess immense entertainment industry resources, which can be described as having a boundless future.

Therefore, these 9 seats will be extremely prominent.

The seat marked "1" is the tip of the pyramid, looking down from a high position, unique and singular!

Then, 2 and 3 are in the row below, side by side.

And then, 4-9 are in the third row.

When all the trainees enter the venue, they can choose their own seats, which counts as another type of Self-evaluation segment.

Those with ambition and confidence can sit further up.

The number one position is the so-called C-Position after the group is formed, towering above all other seats!

This is actually already the biggest highlight at the very beginning of the first episode of "Creating Idols".

The audience just wants to see what kind of trainee would choose to sit in these nine shining positions themselves, especially the number 1 seat at the top of the pyramid!

Sitting here means you consider yourself the strongest among the 100 people!

Luo Mo was naturally well-versed in these rules.

He had seen many similar talent show routines on Earth.

And in this world, this type of idol-training group-formation program is still in the trial stage.

He could even say completely: "Ning Dan is just a Godmother of Talent Shows; what the hell does she know about boy band talent shows!"

At the same time, don't forget that he was still a staff member of the production team a few days ago; he definitely understands the situation, and now he is just changing his identity to continue working.

He knows very clearly that before entering the hall to take their seats, there are stickers outside the door for the contestants to stick onto their own name tags.

The stickers are marked with the five grades of "ABCD" and "F"; there is no "E" grade.

"F" represents that one could be subject to Elimination at any time.

The contestants choose stickers to conduct a 【Self-evaluation】, which is giving themselves a grade.

Then, after going on stage and performing their initial stage in front of the five mentors, the mentors will give a new grade and conduct class assignments.

This is the second biggest highlight of the first episode of the program.

Some people might have a high Self-evaluation, giving themselves an A or B, but the mentors end up giving a D or even an F—how interesting!

When choosing his Self-evaluation grade, Luo Mo casually took an 【F】 sticker and then stuck it onto the name tag printed with the two characters 【Luo Mo】.

It wasn't out of modesty; it was just for good luck.

In his view, even the standard of 【A】 could only be used to judge those trainees; it couldn't be used to judge him.

On Earth, he had a training duration of 4 years, and then debuted for 10 years, never wasting a moment!

It is just that now that the two souls have merged, he might still need some time to absorb and adapt.

The girl with Glasses who gave Luo Mo two candies in the morning happened to be the staff member in charge of this area. Seeing that the person who arrived was Luo Mo, she immediately interviewed him in the capacity of a voice-over: "Luo Mo, why did you choose F?"

"F stands for Free; I hope to achieve freedom soon!" Luo Mo smiled and said.

As it turned out, the girl with Glasses misunderstood, thinking that Luo Mo was forced to participate in the program and wanted to regain his freedom early.

Such a slacker, so lacking in ambition; I really like such a soft man.

After Luo Mo nodded at her, he walked toward the inside of the hall.

According to the process, the trainees who walk onto the stage must perform a self-introduction toward the camera and the trainees who have already taken their seats.

And when Luo Mo walked to the center of the stage, he lowered his head and glanced at his hands.

They were trembling.

They were trembling with a subtle vibration that was hard to detect in front of the camera and under the eyes of everyone.

The lights shone on him, machine after machine was filming him, and below the stage were audience members one after another.

His body had an instinctive reaction.

He was not afraid; he was excited!

Just like every time he went on stage on Earth, he had an intense sense of exhilaration.

He worked harder than anyone else in his company from the same batch; everything he gave was for the stage.

When he was a trainee at the company, he already understood that he craved the stage and loved the stage.

It was just that he wasn't that attractive, and he also lacked opportunities.

—Look at me, please look at me!

In an instant, he was a bit dazed, as if he had returned to the sluggish time on Earth before he participated in "Masked Dance King" and gained a certain amount of popularity.

Obscure, a marginal character, a minion in the circle.

At this very moment, Luo Mo just stood there like that, and his basic information appeared on the big screen behind him. This information was for the trainees present to see, and the camera would film their reactions after seeing the information.

Sure enough, there were trainee contestants on the scene who exclaimed out loud.

"Name: Luo Mo."

"Company: None."

"Total training duration: 0 days!"

(End of this chapter)