Perfection

For the next round of the challenge, the TV station said in the propaganda: choose an opponent, choose a judge, challenge the opponent, and defeat yourself.

       The director explained the rules in detail to ten contestants, that is, one player will choose an opponent from the remaining players in the order, and then the player will also choose a judge as the referee for this two-person match.

       One of these two people will be eliminated, and the elimination decision is made entirely by the judges selected by the players.

       Because there are a total of ten players, it means that only five people have the right to choose, and the other five can only accept the challenge if they are selected. Therefore, the player who chooses first has the advantage, the key to this game is the order of challenge.

       How is the order of the challenges determined? It’s very simple. They just have to look at the popularity of the contestants among the audience. After announcing the challenge rules, the TV station will open the SMS voting channel and count the popularity of contestants through paid SMS. One phone number can only vote once, and it will refuse to count more than one vote from the same number. The one with the highest popularity will get the first turn to choose in the challenge round.

       Judging from the current popularity of this program in the country, it must cost them so much money to buy votes for oneself, so this rule is relatively fair.

       After hearing the competition rules announcement, Wen Jianing subconsciously took a look at Yi Nan, who happened to be looking at him.

       Although Wen Jianing has never registered a Weibo account for Ke Xinhang, he also searched the Internet for related news about him from time to time. He knows that Ke Xinhang’s popularity is also quite high now, perhaps only slightly less than Yi Nan.

       If Yi Nan comes first in the voting, he doesn’t know if Yi Nan will challenge himself immediately. It will be troublesome if that happens, because he knows Yi Nan won’t be eliminated.

       Yi Nan didn’t know that he would be reprimanded by the top management of Lei Xing after the last ballot drawing incident was broadcasted. Now he has begun to learn to control his expression in front of the camera. He just looked at Wen Jianing and turned his head without expressing any thoughts.

       In addition to Wen Jianing and Yi Nan, there are two other popular contestants, Wen Lin and a girl named Lin Qingyu. That is to say, these people will probably occupy the top four in the voting rankings.

       But Wen Jianing didn’t expect that on the day after the rules were announced, the people of Lei Xing company talked to him in private and proposed not to challenge Yi Nan, Wen Lin and Lin Qingyu in this challenge.

       Wen Jianing immediately understood what they meant. The TV station wanted to fight for ratings and create conflicts in the program to attract viewers, but he was reluctant to really eliminate popular players, because there are still two games in the future. If several popular players are eliminated and Yi Nan is left alone, the program will have little to watch.

       However, this free challenge model is doomed to have risks. In order to avoid risks, the program group and the talent agent company have to take this approach. The other party’s negotiation skill is very exceptional. What they told Wen Jianing was that they didn’t want him to challenge Yi Nan and several of their popular players. The reason is because Lei Xing values ​​Wen Jianing very much, and hopes that he will be able to advance until the end, so the company can invest more in him in the future. Although they believe that he has the ability to compete with other players, they still hope that he can choose a more secure way.

       Wen Jianing has worked hard in the entertainment industry for so many years and he fully understands Lei Xing’s plan. He is not surprised. Fighting Yi Nan is the same as fighting to his own death. To tell the truth, he is more worried that Yi Nan deliberately comes to him for trouble.

       So Wen Jianing agreed to the company’s request without hesitation.

       But even so, when facing the other six players, Wen Jianing felt that he had no confidence at all, because if he talked about singing skills alone, probably no one would lose to him.

       He can only look forward to God’s blessing.

       In the conversation with the talent agent company today, Wen Jianing believes that the same will happen to Yi Nan and the others. But it is not clear whether everyone is as obedient as he is.

       During the period before the official competition, the program group repeatedly broadcast the voting status on the Internet and TV every day, with the purpose of urging fans who have not yet voted to vote as soon as possible.

       Wen Jianing also pays close attention to it every day and finds that he always stays in second place. The first place is Yi Nan, the third place is Lin Qingyu, and the fourth place is Wen Lin.

       Although in the later stage, his votes were getting closer to Yi Nan’s votes, in the end he failed to reverse the situation.

       On the day of the official competition, Wen Jianing sat in front of the makeup mirror. The makeup artist of the TV station was applying makeup to him. Yi Nan suddenly walked behind him and looked at him with his arms crossed.

       There are fewer and fewer players left in the dressing room. Compared with the excitement of the previous period, it looks a bit deserted. Almost everyone else will notice when someone walks around or talks.

       Just like now, while Yi Nan is staring at Wen Jianing, others are secretly staring at Yi Nan.

       Wen Jianing glanced at Yi Nan. The makeup artist that was drawing his eyeliner said unhappily, “Don’t move.” So Wen Jianing stopped moving.

       Yi Nan looked at him for a moment, came forward, put a hand on his shoulder and said, “Be prepared later.”

       The whole dressing room was quiet for a moment, and the only sound that could be heard was the buzzing of the hair dryer in the hands of a stylist who was blowing the contestants’ hair.

       Wen Jianing, of course, ignored him.

       Sitting next to Wen Jianing is a male player named You Hao. He usually walks very close to Yi Nan. At this time, he smiled and raised his thumb to Yi Nan.

      Yi Nan smiled and hi fived him.

       Wen Jianing looked at Yi Nan’s childish behavior, and suddenly felt that if Yi Nan went on the stage and challenged him, he didn’t know if he would probably admire him or not.

       Today’s competition is broadcasted live, and so are the next few rounds. Two hours before the start of the competition, the SMS voting channel was closed.

       After the opening performance is over, the first thing the host does is to announce the result of the vote.

       In fact, there is actually nothing suspenseful, because one hour before the end of the voting, Yi Nan is still the first and Ke Xinhang is the second.

       Yi Nan was the first to be invited to the stage. The host asked him to say the name of the opponent who wanted to challenge.

       The atmosphere was very tense for a while. This tension mainly comes from the contestants on the stage, because no one wants to be Yi Nan’s opponent.

       Wen Jianing felt that Wen Lin who is next to him was glancing at him.

       He turned his head and smiled at Wen Lin.

       Then Yi Nan announced his opponent for the challenge. Instead of choosing Ke Xinhang, he chose You Hao.

       The camera zoomed onto You Hao’s face. He was smiling before, but at this moment, he couldn’t even maintain a reluctant smile, and his expression turned desolated all of a sudden.

       The expression was so wonderful that it was even replayed on the big screen.

       The host invited You Hao to the middle of the stage and asked him what he had to say.

       You Hao felt a little emotional, he said, “Brother, there’s nothing I can say.”

       The host smiled and started the round.

       Actually, the reason Yi Nan chose You Hao is for the simplest reason, because You Hao is relatively weak among the remaining people. He is a friend when they laugh and joke together. Once the key interests are involved, a friend means nothing.

       Wen Jianing suddenly sighed, he has worked hard in the entertainment industry for so many years and has many friends, but there are not many of them who are real friends.

       Then Yi Nan chose Wang Mei, who has always liked him, as the referee of the match, and so the two-person match officially began. However, the results of the game will not be announced immediately. The program team must keep the suspense until the end of the game, and it is said that even several rounds of advertisements will not be broadcasted in between.

       The game between Yi Nan and You Hao ended, and it was Wen Jianing’s turn to choose.

       Wen Jianing’s choice is very ordinary, he chose a male player named Shen Youzong as his opponent. The selected Shen Youzong took a deep breath and even showed some relaxed expressions for a moment. Perhaps compared to Yi Nan and Wen Lin, he feels that he has a better chance of winning against Wen Jianing.

       He thought that as long as you do your best, nothing is impossible!

       Shen Youzong clenched his fist and stepped onto the stage.

       After a brief interview with the host, Wen Jianing was asked to choose his judges.

       Wen Jianing chose Lu jinlang to live up to everyone’s expectations.

       Of course, at this time, there will be some viewers who don’t like him and are booing in front of the TV.

       The host thought it was a topic worthy to speculate. He asked Wen Jianing, “Xinhang, can you ask why you chose Mr. Lu jinlang as your referee?”

       Wen Jianing replied: “Should I not choose a judge who knows how to appreciate me?”

       The host smiled and said, “So it’s to guarantee your success?”

       Wen Jianing said: “There is no guarantee, but only to go all out.”

       The host again asked them to express their determination, and then the official competition began.

       The lights of the jury went out. Only one light hit Lu jinlang, and at the same time, a light hit Wen Jianing on the stage.

       The lights of the judges went out, only a beam of light shone at Lu Jinlang’s spot, and at the same time a beam of lights shone to Wen Jianing’s body on the stage.

       This is a game that is completely determined by the judges, so the only purpose is to impress the judge you choose.

       Wen Jianing chose a lyrical slow song. As the music played, his body shook lightly, but his eyes were firmly locked on Lu Jinlang.

       That song is for lovers to tell their hearts. The melody is a little monotonous, that is, to express their love over and over again, telling it over and over again, which makes the people who listen drunk in the words.

       Wen Jianing also had no choice. He couldn’t fight other people with his singing skills, so he simply returned to the basics and impressed the judges with the most primitive emotions.

       Lu Jinlang propped his face with one hand. His posture seemed a little idle, but his eyes didn’t move away from Wen Jianing’s face.

       The director looked at the expressions of the two people looking at each other, and simply let the two scenes be broadcast at the same time, showing close-ups of the two people respectively.

       The last line of Wen Jianing’s song is “I still love you, do you love me?” He finished singing in a very soft tone, slowly moved the microphone away from his lips,while still watching Lu Jinlang.

       Lu Jinlang turned away at this time, picked up his pen and wrote something on the notebook in front of him.

       Xu Rujing glanced sideways and saw that Lu Jinlang had just drawn a circle on a blank notebook and then blacked out the middle of the circle.

The author has something to say:

I’m here to explain again! The “insult” I spoke before means that one is shamelessly playing around, and the other is blushing and eager to refuse but welcoming the act!*