Hiding phones is a technical skill.

For Jiang Ye, she only needed to hide her own phone, so the difficulty level was relatively low.

But Cheng Zhen's ten or so phones were a real hassle.

"You should be grateful that it's winter now, the clothes are thick, and the blankets are thick too."

Jiang Ye finally came up with a solution, helping Cheng Zhen stuff her phones into her duvet cover, zipped it up, and folded it, "If it were summer, there would really be nowhere to hide them."

Otherwise, she would have advised Cheng Zhen to simply saw her cello in half and stuff the phones inside.

Who carries ten phones?

If she didn't know, she’d think she had come to the talent show to sell second-hand phones at a high price to the trainees who had all their phones confiscated.

Jiang Ye actually thought about it seriously.

It seemed like a path to wealth.

"... Ugh, I only heard before that it's best to have a few spare phones, I didn't hear that they would check so strictly."

Cheng Zhen sighed dejectedly, "I've never been so nervous about hiding my phone in school."

Jiang Ye patted her head, "Then welcome to the cruel entertainment industry."

When they had finished packing their luggage, the dormitory manager happened to come by for a surprise inspection.

Fortunately, Jiang Ye and Cheng Zhen had prepared in advance, so the dormitory manager didn't find anything, and only gave them a brief briefing on the rules.

When she left, the dormitory manager also taught them how to use the camera and told them that they could choose when to turn it on and off.

The program team would come to collect the master recordings once a week, and then they would be edited into corresponding material videos at the same time as the show aired.

After all, some trainees who value privacy prefer to keep the camera off for a long time.

Anyway, they wouldn't get much screen time, so it's better to be comfortable.

Cheng Zhen didn't care much about the camera, and after the dormitory manager left, she went out to visit other rooms.

Jiang Ye went to study the camera.

After confirming that the camera was on, Jiang Ye stood in front of it and spoke seriously, "Today is my first day living here."

So far, everything has been smooth.

She avoided several risky options from her previous life and made the most profitable choices with limited information.

The rest of the show will shuffle and restructure the entire landscape.

So, she didn't know what would happen next, or what unexpected variables would arise.

"Although I don't know how far I can go."

Jiang Ye's pupils were bright, her expression firm and confident, "But I will keep working hard."

Chasing Light Girls had just finished recording the initial evaluation.

Shining 101 next door had already seized the broadcasting advantage and released the first episode.

Jiang Ye took a break to watch it.

The names on the hot searches seemed different from those in her memory from her previous life.

She watched it with the mindset that this show wouldn't explode because of her rebirth's butterfly effect.

Fortunately, fortunately.

This damn show was still the same formula.

Except that the trainees sent by Haishang Entertainment... weren't the ones she knew from her previous life?

Sure enough, everything might be different after the timeline changed.

Lin Zui's participation was something she hadn't anticipated.

This kind of thing might happen often in the future.

However, although Shining 101 would eventually start high and end low, the program team's usual tactic was to use malicious editing and sacrifice trainees to maintain a certain level of buzz.

In short, it would still be able to make waves for a long time.

Because of the premiere of Shining 101, the Chasing Light Girls forum discussion group was also very nervous.

After all, the show next door was airing in full swing.

This one didn't even have a whisper of news.

As the saying goes, small temples have strong winds, and shallow ponds have many turtles.

This forum discussion group, which originally had 2,000 members, had gained a few thousand more since Lin Zui's participation was announced, and now it had a total of 5,000 or 6,000 members, but they would argue about different things every day.

Until a staff member came to drop some gossip.

Title: 【Late Night Release of Episode One Recording Repo】

Main Post Content: 【Just finished recording, it dragged on until 1 am, the trainees have all left, any questions?】

Although it was in the middle of the night, many people were still squatting on the repo post, knowing that today was the initial evaluation recording.

Sure enough, someone popped up just a few dozen seconds after the post was posted.

【Finally, you're here!】

【Can you tell us what the initial evaluation format is now? The program team has been hiding it until now, it's so frustrating.】

Poster: 【This... I can't reveal too much, but it's basically an individual battle.】

【Is it all individual battles?】

【? What about the trainees who only prepared group stages?!】

【How is that possible? No matter how self-aware the trainees are, they would have prepared their own performances, you don't really think they're all innocent, do you?】

【Mentor fans are here! Squatting for my little Mu's performance!!】

Poster: 【MXC? He performed better than I thought! His comments were also very insightful, but he was really harsh on the girls, he almost made several of them cry.】

【Overall, I think the trainees performed quite well, there were some unexpected stage performances, it depends on how the program team edits it in the end.】

【You can ask about individual performances too, but I recorded late so I might not remember everyone.】

【Lin Zui's mom is here! I want to ask how our Lin Zui performed! Did she make it into the A class? Is there a chance to fight for the initial C-position?】

Poster: 【This time, it's not graded by ABCD. But her stage performance was very good! It's just a pity that her battle opponent was too strong, sigh.】

This sentence immediately caused a stir.

【? Did I see wrong? Does this mean Lin Zui lost the battle?】

【No way, her previous group was a flop, but she was the recognized ACE in the whole group.】

【！！！Who beat her? Is it one of the pre-show popular contestants?】

【Then I'll bet on Xue Zhihan!】

【I'll bet on Yu Chenchen!】

At first, because it was late.

Although Lin Zui's fans questioned whether the program team had deliberately arranged this, most people's attitude was relatively fair.

【Can Lin Zui's fans spare us? Does your sister have to be first?】

【I'm just squatting for an amateur purple star! It's always the same recycled meat as the C-position, I'm really tired of it.】

【Stop arguing, stop arguing, just wait and see their performance when the show airs.】

But the next day, this gossip spread.

Lin Zui's fans immediately felt something was wrong, so they rushed to enforce the control and comments.

【Can't you see such an obvious script?】

【Lin Zui is so miserable, the sacrificial script, is it a sacrificial script?】

【How much buzz did our Lin Zui bring to the program team, and they did this to their buzzworthy contestant?】

【So, can you tell us who beat her?】

The original poster didn't reply.

But another insider released information.

Saying that Lin Zui had failed to challenge the first place seat.

And the one who competed with her was an amateur trainee named Jiang Ye.

Everyone was stunned.

They thought it was one of the pre-show popular contestants, or at least a trainee from a big company.

Unexpectedly, it was someone they had never heard of.

This trainee had almost no information before the show, and no information about her could be found online, not even her Weibo, which was only opened a month ago, and even her profile picture was the company's logo, clearly created by a staff member.

Some curious people went to dig through all the trainees' photos taken before they entered the studio.

They barely found a photo of a person wearing a white down jacket and a mask, who seemed to be the legendary Jiang Ye.

In the photo, she was looking down, most of her face was covered by the mask, and you couldn't see anything special about her.

Show fans these days are all seasoned foxes.

They smelled something fishy.

One group rushed to dig into Jiang Ye's identity.

Another group was busy guessing whether the company behind Jiang Ye had signed a contract with the platform, and whether she was the program team's main focus this year.

The original poster couldn't stand it anymore and clarified for her.

【I watched Jiang Ye's performance too, it was really good, and it was all the mentors' results. Anyway, you'll know when the show airs.】

However, her words actually made many people react negatively.

【? You're defending the royal family, are you a fan planted by the program team?】

【Wow, no wonder the poster is so obviously defending her, did you hit a nerve?】

The poster knew that the more she said, the more mistakes she would make, so she simply stopped replying.

While the dedicated forum was in an uproar over this unknown trainee with no information or photos, a three-nothing trainee.

The program team released the thirty-second self-introductions of all the trainees.

Jiang Ye instantly became the focus of everyone's attention.

Those who had suspected she was a royal family member immediately jumped up after watching the video.

【? Saying you want to be first right away is too exaggerated.】

【It's hard not to suspect that she got the script beforehand.】

But to be fair, Jiang Ye was very beautiful in the video.

Unlike other trainees, she didn't use any strange or exaggerated funny ways to introduce herself.

Even when she said she wanted to be first, her tone was calm and gentle, without any sharp edges.

Originally, everyone only had a blurry photo of her lost in the crowd, and they didn't know what she looked like, so the doubts about her were rampant.

But these thirty seconds, however, allowed everyone to see her face clearly.

Many principle-less face-chasers were instantly conquered by her face, and seeing these bad comments, coupled with the fact that she was only eighteen years old, their hearts melted, and they started to speak for her.

【Lin Zui's fans, will you ever stop? Lin Zui said she wants to be first, there's no problem, but this little sister says she wants to fight for first place, there's a problem?】

【This Jiang Ye little sister is so beautiful, even I, a girl, am smitten, little sister, come on!】

Both sides thought the other was an idiot, so they started arguing directly in the video comments section.

In a short time, Jiang Ye's self-introduction video jumped ahead of several popular trainees, becoming the most popular self-introduction video in just a few hours.

As long as you click into the platform's self-introduction broadcast section, the first one you see is Jiang Ye's video.

When Jiang Ye saw it herself, her video's popularity had already surpassed everyone else.

Jiang Ye: "?"

She thought that with her pre-show fame, she wouldn't be noticed until after the seat selection.

But she had already overtaken everyone else?

Jiang Ye curiously opened the video comments section and took a look, then fell silent.

She guessed that her words would definitely cause some discussion.

But she didn't expect the discussion to be a bit beyond her expectations.

She scrolled down.

The top ten comments in the comments section, seven were negative, and three were positive.

... It was very different from what she expected.

And this was the first situation she had encountered since her rebirth that was beyond her plan.