Perfection

Wen Jianing received a call from Director Chen two days later, informing him to participate in the TV program recording a week later.

       He calmly replied: “Okay.”

       At the moment when he hung up, Wen Jianing also made up his mind to face this game seriously. He prefers to see this as a game rather than an audition. He is not showing it to others, but he is looking for a way out for his future.

       After making this decision, Wen Jianing began to look for the contact information of Ke Xinhang’s family. Ke Xinhang’s physical deformity can’t be known to others. He doesn’t want his parents to see him on TV.

       However, Ke Xinhang’s existing contact information does not contain his parents’ contact number, nor even his brother’s.

       Wen Jianing found the phone number of Ke Xinhang’s uncle, called him and asked around. Only then did he know that Ke Xinhang’s parents had passed away, and his brother had a bad relationship with him. The two people are now not in contact.

       In fact, this is also a good thing, otherwise Wen Jianing really doesn’t know how to deal with Ke Xinhang’s family. The fact that Ke Xinhang has a bad brother, which is an unstable factor, makes Wen Jianing feel a little uneasy.

       In the evening, Wen Jianing told Su Shan about him passing the interview.

       Su Shan was surprised, “Huh? Did he really like you?”

       Wen Jianing couldn’t help laughing, “You aren’t so optimistic about me?”

       “To be honest,” Su Shan said, “I was really not optimistic about you before.”

       Just Ke Xinhang singing those niche songs with his guitar will not give enough entertainment effects no matter how beautiful his face is. Su Shan thought with such a face, if Ke Xinhang was willing to go on stage to sing Phoenix Legend’s* song, maybe he could still hit the audience.

       Wen Jianing didn’t mind Su Shan saying so. He asked the bartender who was cleaning the bar for a beer and walked to the back lounge with it. Su Shan asked him what he was doing, but he didn’t say.

       He walked to the rest area of the bar band, knocked on the door, put the beer on the table, and said, “Today I invite my brothers to drink.”

       Wen Jianing is a kind person with a good personality and is also good at dealing with people. In the past, on the set, even the cleaning lady could say hello with a smile, so he has always been popular in the circle and has a good reputation.

       The purpose of inviting several members of the band to drink is to ease the relationship with them and hope to get some help in music. Now, he has no conditions to find a professional music team. He can only rely on the strength of others around him to lay some foundation for his competition.

       His singing skills are weak, so he needs to work hard on music selection. He needs to choose a song suitable for his voice characteristics and modify it appropriately to ensure that he will not be eliminated in the first game.

       Singing is neither his ideal nor his interest. He can’t and doesn’t have the ability to realize this dream for Ke Xinhang. He wants this competition to be a starting point. As for his ultimate goal, he may still want to surpass Lu Jinlang and really stand at the peak of his career.

       The official program recording is one week later. For the program’s effect, all singers participating in the competition will go to the rehearsal one day in advance to go through the process.

       Although there is no audition, there are nearly 70 participants in the preliminary round. The rehearsal process is very fast, and the official recording can not be completed in a day.

       On the day of the official recording, the backstage was even more lively. There is no makeup artist for the contestants. What needs to be recorded for the first time is their true appearance. In a sense, this talent show is a reality show in which these young people become famous overnight.

       Wen Jianing is wearing headphones in the corner to listen to the song he is going to sing on stage. It is a female love song. Because he has a neutral voice, only a few male songs are suitable for him. On the contrary, the female singer’s songs can give some flavor.

       There is a large makeup mirror in front of him. A young girl is standing in front of the mirror, applying makeup on herself. She tossed over and over again, seemingly dissatisfied, but Wen Jianing could see that she was probably nervous.

       Not far from him, a very delicate young man was playing the guitar, his eyes drifting away from time to time.

       They are a group of young people chasing their dreams. They seem impractical and may not succeed, but they all have the courage to chase their dreams.

       Except for Lu jinlang, the judges of this competition are three famous figures in the singing world, one man and two women. The competition system is not complicated. In addition to the elimination of many people in the first game, it will focus on performance and light competition, with an appropriate number of eliminated people in each game.

       The elimination system in the first game is very simple. If more than three judges of the four judges give a pass, they will pass. If only two people pass, they will be put on hold. If less than two people pass, they will be eliminated.

       In fact, the overall quality of the singers is very good. Although the number of eliminated singers will not be small, the number of people who pass the test is believed to be quite large.

       As for the ones that are put on hold, it will become the highlight of the first game, because each judge has a quota that can directly give a pass to an undetermined player, so among the undetermined people, only four people in total who can enter the next round.

       From the beginning of the competition, Wen Jianing has been quietly listening to songs in the corner of the backstage dressing room.

       A director instructed the cameraman to film the waiting contestants, perhaps because he found that Wen Jianing was good-looking, and so the camera was aimed directly at his face.

       Wen Jianing noticed that the camera was shooting him, so he smiled gently at the camera and waved his hand.

       When he came out, the program had been recorded until the evening. After waiting for most of the day, people were very tired and there was no quiet environment to rest. But fortunately, he used to act and get used to this life.

       As soon as he walked into the competition venue, Wen Jianing saw Lu Jinlang sitting on the judges’ table.

       In fact, Wen Jianing doesn’t quite understand why Lu Jinlang participated in this type of program. Lu Jinlang has never been very involved in variety and entertainment programs. Even for the movie promotions, he has been absent a lot.

       Sitting here today, although Lu Jinlang doesn’t appear impatient, his expression is somewhat indifferent. He just glanced down at the player roster programmatically, and then raised his head to look at Wen Jianing.

       Sitting next to Lu jinlang is Xu Rujing, the first sister in the singing world. She saw Wen Jianing coming out to the stage and whispered something in Lu Jinlang’s ear.

       Lu Jinlang nodded, but did not speak.

       Wen Jianing adjusted the height of the microphone, turned his head and nodded to the band, and then the band began to play. The song he chose to sing was written for her by her ex-boyfriend who was dating the female singer at the time. It was originally a light love song. Later, at the female singer’s concert, she re-written the lyrics, rearranged the music, modified the song and sang it. Turning a happy song into a sad love song. The day after her concert, the media revealed that it was her ex-boyfriend’s wedding day.

       What Wen Jianing sings is the sad version of the female singer’s changed lyrics and songs.

       His voice is very soft, the purpose is to cover up his lack of breath and deliberately to create an ethereal feeling. The re-arrangement to modify the high-pitched part is also to prevent the high-pitched voice from appearing too weak.

       However, if only seen from the surface, he sings passionately. It is originally a song full of emotion. Wen Jianing uses his clear voice to express the pain and helplessness separated from his lover concisely and vividly.

       At the end of the song, with a little deliberate crying, he closed his eyes at the last lyrics.

       When the song ended, the whole studio was quiet for a moment, as if everyone had been brought into that painful mood.

       The first person to speak was Xu Rujing. She asked, “Did you cry?”

       Everyone thought the young person on the stage were singing and crying.

       Wen Jianing opened his eyes, his eyes were clear, but there was no sign of tears in his eyes.

       Xu Rujing was a little surprised. She didn’t speak, but looked at two people on her left and the right.

       Lu Jinlang was the first to comment. His tone was incomprehensible, and he said, “Good acting.”

       For a while, the atmosphere of the scene was a little frozen. When a singer is rated as good at acting, of course, no one thinks it is praise. Lu Jinlang was so merciless, the audience couldn’t help but feel a little embarrassed for this young man named Ke Xinhang.

       Wen Jianing then responded with a slightly awkward smile.

       Xu Rujing also recovered her indifference at this time. She said, “The voice is good and the feelings are in place. However, as far as singing is concerned, there is still room for improvement.”

       The third judge is a female singer who returned from overseas. Her name is Wang Mei. She looked down at Ke Xinhang’s information, then looked up and said in non-standard Mandarin: “Ke Xinhang, right?”

       Wen Jianing nodded.

       Wang Mei smiled, raised her hand and said, “Maybe your singing skills can be improved, but I like the emotion you express in this song. Anyway, very handsome!”

       A burst of applause broke out at the scene.

       Wen Jianing also smiled and nodded his thanks.

       The last judge is An Yongkang, a well-known male creative singer in China. He objectively analyzed the problems in Wen Jianing’s singing process, analyzed the deficiencies one by one and convey it to Wen Jianing.

       Wen Jianing nodded and said thank you.

       Among these people, except Lu Jinlang, the other three are full-time singers and don’t act, so they have less interaction with Wen Jianing, but they are not completely unknown.

       In contrast, Wen Jianing is actually more familiar with Xu Rujing than with Lu jinlang.

       But now this familiarity has become his one-sided.

       The results of who passed will be announced on the spot, but the scoring results of each judge will not be specifically announced.

       Wen Jianing was mentally prepared to be eliminated, but he didn’t expect his luck to be this good. Two judges gave him the green light and let him pass temporarily.

       Before stepping down, Wen Jianing glanced at Lu Jinlang and felt that there was probably no hope for him. He is not expecting to take one of the remaining four precious places. Even Wang Mei, who loudly praised him for being handsome, just thought he was handsome. No one really thought he could sing well.

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