Tan Meng had six years of dance foundation before.

So, for her, this theme song dance shouldn't be too difficult.

As long as she performs normally, she should be able to rise from her current bottom ranking.

But her goal is obviously not that simple.

Jiang Ye guessed that she also wanted to fight for a spot in the A class.

Tan Meng really wanted to be seen.

Even if there was only a tiny chance.

She would fight for it with all her might.

Jiang Ye saw herself in her.

In her previous life, she knew that even if she performed exceptionally well in the initial evaluation, she would just be a supporting role, so she wanted to speak with her skills in the re-evaluation assessment.

She didn't expect that although she rose to the A class.

She was also the only trainee in the A class who didn't have a performance clip released.

As the saying goes, "Man proposes, but God disposes", but it's actually in the hands of the editors.

Jiang Ye sighed softly in her heart.

She didn't go in to disturb Tan Meng, but returned to her own practice room.

The practice room was empty in the middle of the night.

After all, there was still a day and a half left.

So, everyone else chose to rest and recharge for tomorrow's battle.

The reason Jiang Ye chose to come back at night was very simple.

She was used to staying up late when she practiced by herself, so her spirits were actually much better at night than during the day.

Plus, the practice room was exceptionally quiet with no one else around.

She was free from distractions, and she could focus on the rhythm and the beat.

Besides, she glanced at the camera subtly.

Everything in a talent show would be recorded.

Although they didn't know how much of their efforts would be seen before the show aired.

But one thing was certain.

If you don't work hard, you won't even have this opportunity.

•••

There was still a day left before the theme song assessment.

But the first episode of Chasing Light Girls aired.

An hour before the show aired, the discussion thread in the forum had already reached hundreds of pages.

Half of them were looking forward to the trainees they liked.

The other half were discussing the show next door.

【I'm not saying, but our Chasing Light Girls is really lucky. They got the show next door to crash and burn the day before the premiere, isn't this directly sending us traffic?】

【I saw several people on my homepage saying that the show next door isn't human and they're going to run away, but I'm a bit worried that their tactic is a reverse hype.】

【Reverse hype, but they didn't hype their own show to death. I think the show next door is probably done for this time.】

No one expected that Shining 101, the competing show in the same time slot, would suffer a backlash from public opinion after trying to use malicious editing and sacrifice trainees to hype up the show, because the buzz after it aired wasn't enough.

At the same time, the Chasing Light Girls publicity department finally seemed to have gotten their act together and finally started to hype up the show's buzz.

The show next door was self-destructing, and Chasing Light Girls had a grand premiere.

So, they attracted a large number of viewers who had abandoned the show next door to come and watch.

With the broadcast of the self-introductions and the preview.

Jiang Ye, who was originally unknown, was now on the list of popular contestants.

Jiang Ye's real-time searches and buzz were increasing every day.

Although a large part of it was Lin Zui's fans cursing her.

But there were already many dissenting voices.

Even her super topic was being managed in a proper way.

Even though the voices suspecting that she was the program team's main focus this year never stopped.

But since ancient times, there are those who dislike royal family members, and there are those who are ready to lie flat and support the royal family, so this title actually attracted a group of initial fans for her.

Lin Zui's fans didn't realize this until now.

Yes, the program team's tactic was clearly to bundle Jiang Ye and Lin Zui together, using Lin Zui to hype up this newcomer.

Their best tactic was to ignore Jiang Ye from the beginning.

They jumped up and down, and ended up losing big!

Not only did they damage Lin Zui's public image.

They ended up giving the other show so much buzz!

Lin Zui's fans were instantly filled with regret.

But regret is regret.

After all, it was the show their idol participated in, so they still had to watch it.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the first episode of Chasing Light Girls aired on time.

Because they had been hyping it up for a while.

The real-time bullet screens were flying fast.

The forum discussion thread was also growing rapidly.

【I just want to see how strong the legendary Jiang Ye who beat Lin Zui is.】

【I'm also squatting for Jiang Ye! I want to see if her hyped-up initial stage is truly worthy of the hype.】

【Ah, Jiang Ye seems to be about to appear.】

For a while, the bullet screens were all about Jiang Ye, no one was discussing the other trainees.

【She didn't even think twice and directly chose first place? She's so reckless.】

【Wait, did she just greet the camera? She's so cute.】

【This is because she said it in her self-introduction! "When we meet again, I will be sitting in the first place and greeting you." So, it's not that she's reckless, she's here to fulfill her promise with us!!】

【Damn, is she really an amateur trainee? She's so good! I'm really moved!】

【The little sister is looking at the camera again, she's so beautiful, wuu wuu wuu.】

【Wait, is it Lin Zui who personally challenged her?】

【Wow, the program team's royal family that Lin Zui's fans are blowing up about can't stand at all, this is your sister personally handing her a head!】

When the show got to the part where Lin Zui asked Jiang Ye what she had.

The camera focused on Jiang Ye.

She smiled brightly, and really showed her two front teeth, "I have bunny teeth."

【Damn, it's actually the bunny teeth metaphysics, I'm about to laugh to death!】

【Jiang Ye is so cute, I can do this!】

【Jiang Ye, if you're watching the forum, give me a like.】

【We're all veteran show fans, when you see bunny teeth, you should understand. Those who understand will understand, anyway, I'm investing in her first!】

【Help, I'm ashamed, I seem to have gotten into the feel of the double ACE fated rivals.】

The show went on to the part where Jiang Ye and Lin Zui battled.

【Lin Zui is worthy of being Lin Zui, not to mention anything else, her skills are still very stable.】

【How did the little sister win? After watching the beginning, I already thought Lin Zui was too strong.】

Jiang Ye stood on stage.

The program team displayed a subtitle next to her.

《Breaking Free and Becoming a Butterfly》

Composer: Jiang Ye

Lyricist: Jiang Ye

Singer: Jiang Ye

【Is this an original song? The beginning is quite good.】

【My god, she's so stable, switching to fast dance, she doesn't even have a breathy sound?】

【Can the hype stop, this is obviously the program team's audio editing.】

【Audio editing my ass, the program team hyped up the concept of no audio editing from the beginning, how could they edit the trainees' audio.】

【I'm so impressed by this puppet dance's beat! It's amazing!】

【If I'm not mistaken, she's only eighteen? Are eighteen-year-olds this good now?】

【I'm vertically invested! Our little butterfly, come on!】

【New viewers here, are there any materials for me to catch up?】

【No! The little sister is a pure amateur, there was no marketing before the show, and it's the company's first year sending someone to participate in the talent show.】

【No way?! She's still being called a royal family member, the little sister is so miserable!】

An hour after the show aired.

Jiang Ye's initial evaluation stage went viral on Weibo.

It reached tens of thousands of reposts in just a few hours.

The news reached Shengrui Entertainment.

"This is the current situation."

The assistant gave Qin Yue a performance report, "The program team over at Shining 101 probably doesn't have much hope. So, what do you think, should we buy a debut spot, or—"

"No final."

Qin Yue said, "Let them come back directly."

There's a rule in talent shows.

Once a trainee enters the final, they can't participate in the same type of show for two years.

So, many companies would deliberately make their trainees get eliminated at the twenty-first spot so that they would have more opportunities to develop.

Obviously, Qin Yue was thinking the same thing.

Instead of wasting time on a hopeless show.

It's better to seize the time to invest in the upcoming trainee operation.

"Alright, I understand."

"Also, the buzz for Chasing Light Girls has actually gone up."

"Our company's Jiang Ye has been steadily holding the first place spot. And the stage in the first episode is already very popular on Weibo, it even has signs of going viral."

"So, do you think we should follow up with the marketing?"

When Qin Yue heard the name Jiang Ye, he suddenly raised his eyebrows, thought for a moment, and said to the assistant, "Let me see that stage."

The assistant quickly pulled up the video of the stage.

Qin Yue watched the three and a half minute video silently from beginning to end.

He didn't speak for a while, and then nodded confidently, "Buy."

"Hot searches, publicity, marketing accounts, arrange everything that can be arranged."

Seeing that the assistant hadn't come back to his senses yet, Qin Yue raised his eyelids, "Your year-end bonus depends on her, hurry up."

The assistant instantly understood and said, "Yes!"

Qin Yue felt that he hadn't misjudged her.

When he had caught a glimpse of her outside the convenience store, he thought he had found a poor little sparrow who had fallen from the sky.

He didn't expect that she was just a butterfly who had been accumulating strength for a long time.

If she continues on this trend, she will definitely become one of his company's future pillars.

Then he must do everything he can to make this butterfly fly higher and higher.

•••

"He Zhou, what are you doing again?"

"I said, it's a cold winter, why are you taking a cold shower? Aren't you afraid of getting a fever?"

He Zhou wiped his hair expressionlessly, "I just want to get a fever."

"?"

His friend looked at him, "What's wrong with you? You're not sick, are you?"

He Zhou didn't answer.

He couldn't explain what happened to his friend.

Because the last time he had a fever, he dreamed about the future, which seemed like it would happen.

To be precise, it wasn't his future.

It was the future of the girl who had grown up with him in the same orphanage.

He and the girl spent six years together in the orphanage.

Until he was ten years old, he was adopted by a family with the surname He and left, and they lost contact ever since.

He Zhou didn't know why he would suddenly have this dream after so many years of separation.

He only knew that she was still living in the orphanage in the dream, and after she grew up, she went to Korea to be a trainee, and after she returned to China, she signed with a shell company, and then she was cheated out of ten years of her youth.

The strange thing was, it was clearly a dream, but every detail was very real.

He Zhou watched from a third-person perspective, watching her run around and hit a wall again and again, watching her struggle and despair over the contract countless times, watching her become increasingly depressed and down-and-out.

Until finally, watching her die in the dream.

She had no family.

So, when she left in the car accident, there wasn't even anyone to sign her death certificate.

He Zhou woke up with a start.

Everything in the dream was so clear and so real, he couldn't ignore it.

He deliberately went back to the orphanage and asked about the girl's situation.

He didn't expect that she really went to Korea to be a so-called trainee, just like in the dream.

So, He Zhou started to search for her information online, and he also looked for her in reality, following her trajectory from the dream.

But no matter how hard he looked, he couldn't find any trace of her.

Even his friend said that if she really went into the entertainment industry, it was impossible for her to be so completely out of touch.

Now, even he himself was starting to doubt.

Was it really just a dream?

So, he wanted to use this method to confirm it again.

"Are you okay?"

"I said, are you going crazy from doing too many problems? Do you want to change your mood?"

His friend said, "Why don't you watch a variety show with me? I heard that Chasing Light Girls is pretty good this year, especially the first episode, there was a really amazing trainee, everyone on Weibo is hyping up her stage—"

He Zhou was always uninterested in this kind of variety show.

He shook his head and said he wouldn't watch it, then went back to his room and prepared to get a good night's sleep.

"... Fine, don't watch it then."

His friend shook his head, "I said, what's wrong with this He Zhou, really. He's taking a cold shower in the middle of winter, and last time he kept looking for this Jiang Ye."

"But I have to say, it's really a coincidence, this variety show really has someone named Jiang Ye."

"But the characters are different, and the shows they're participating in are also different, it must just be a coincidence..."