The voting channel officially closed at midnight that day.

But because it took some time to count the votes, the trainees were only notified at the last minute the next afternoon that they were to gather in the hall at six o'clock that evening.

Since the ranking release was also a relatively important recording, for some trainees, it was even their last chance to be seen by the public.

So, it was definitely different from recording practice sessions or games, where they could just put on some light makeup and do their daily routine.

But because the program team gave them so little time, if sixty girls were to find makeup artists, there wouldn't be enough time, and the makeup artists wouldn't be able to handle it.

So, many of the trainees who were skilled with their hands decided to do their own makeup.

Just as Jiang Ye was taking out her simple makeup kit, Cheng Zhen curiously leaned over, "You're going to do your own makeup?"

Jiang Ye nodded, then asked, "Do you need me to help you?"

"No."

Cheng Zhen paused, then volunteered, "Why don't I do your makeup?"

"I learned a really good way to apply eyeshadow from a beauty blogger I follow."

She said, as she rummaged through her suitcase for a bunch of makeup supplies, "I haven't tried it yet, let me try it on you."

Jiang Ye felt a bit uneasy, "... You're going to use my face for your first experiment?"

Cheng Zhen nodded, then said in a very confident tone, "You're beautiful, I'm sure I can do a good job!"

Jiang Ye: "..."

If she said it like that, it didn't seem so bad.

And she looked at the brand of Cheng Zhen's makeup, gritted her teeth, and chose to submit to the power of money.

Half an hour later, Cheng Zhen gently blew on her breath, handed her the mirror.

Jiang Ye opened her eyes and looked at herself in the mirror.

Cheng Zhen asked expectantly, "What do you think? Are you impressed by my divine touch?"

"..."

Jiang Ye thought for a long time about how to say the next sentence tactfully, without shattering her confidence, "... Where's the makeup remover?"

Cheng Zhen: "..."

When Lin Zui came to find Jiang Ye, she saw Cheng Zhen, whose face was full of confusion, grievance, and unwillingness, pressing Jiang Ye down in her seat and doing her makeup.

Lin Zui let out a "whoa", and said, "I didn't expect you to be doing this in your spare time?"

Jiang Ye: "..."

Actually, as a qualified idol, makeup was a basic skill for her.

But for her, the more important reason was that she was quite poor in both her lives, and the company didn't provide her with a dedicated makeup artist, so she had to do it herself.

She asked Lin Zui, "Do you need it too? Just pay, I can give you a 20% discount since we're friends."

"..."

"I just came to let you know, the program manager just said that the ranking release recording has been moved back two hours."

Jiang Ye paused, her brush for contouring stopped, she calculated the time, "Then won't we be recording very late?"

"Probably, get ready for an all-nighter."

Lin Zui crossed her arms and leaned against the wall, raising her chin, "Are we betting again this time?"

"Do you want to buy milk?"

Cheng Zhen closed her eyes, her ears perked up, she raised her right hand and said, "I can be your notary!"

"No bet."

Jiang Ye directly refused, "You're definitely going to be first."

Lin Zui was a bit surprised, "You're admitting defeat so quickly this time?"

"You have the advantage of the early voting pool, but I don't."

Jiang Ye's tone was relaxed, but her analysis was accurate, "I was already under pressure when my initial ranking came out, plus I have a lot of white-picking fans, I definitely won't be able to beat you this time."

Although she had deliberately teased her fans a bit during the performance.

But it probably wouldn't have much effect in such a short time.

Because she had been pretty smooth sailing.

First place in seat selection, theme song C-position, winning the performance stage PK, although she wasn't first in the voting, the whole group won the best stage of the night.

So, fans would also have a tendency to be passive fans.

-Anyway, she's so good, she'll definitely make it, I don't need to worry.

-There are so many people who like her, I'm not the only one, right?

There would probably be a lot of people who thought this way.

Lin Zui was different.

The two setbacks in seat selection and theme song C-position had already had a certain impact on her fan group.

So, their fans would definitely be working even harder to vote for her.

Because of this, Jiang Ye didn't have high hopes of getting first place in this ranking release.

"It doesn't matter if I'm first."

"When it comes to elimination, there will still be a bunch of trainees coming to you."

Lin Zui tilted her head in frustration, "I just don't understand, you said that I was also a bit of a popular idol before I came to the show, no one reacted when I came in, saying, wow, it's Lin Zui, I love her so much, forget it, now more trainees like you than me, is there any justice in this world?"

Jiang Ye said in a very Versailles tone, "I don't know either. Maybe this is the legendary fan-attracting aura, there's nothing I can do about it."

She put away her makeup brush, moved the mirror for Cheng Zhen, "Okay, take a look."

Cheng Zhen cooperated with a "wow", and exclaimed, "Jiang Ye is the best, I love Jiang Ye!"

Jiang Ye shrugged, giving Lin Zui a look that said, "See, I told you, I'm just too lovable, it's impossible for anyone not to love me.".

Lin Zui: "..."

Eight o'clock that night.

All the trainees and their original company teammates entered together.

When entering, they needed their original company teammates to strike a pose in front of the camera.

Jiang Ye and Tan Meng designed a cute interaction where they stood back-to-back, ignoring each other one second, then turned their heads to steal a glance at each other the next second.

"... To be honest, I really didn't want to talk to you for a while."

After sitting down, Tan Meng suddenly said to Jiang Ye.

Jiang Ye was very calm, she nodded, "I could tell."

That's why she designed this move before going on stage, she wanted to tell Tan Meng that she didn't mind that subtle period of estrangement, and she hoped that she wouldn't mind either.

"But I have to make it clear, it's not because I think you're bad."

Tan Meng's voice got quieter and quieter, "It's because I feel like I'm not good enough... so I didn't want to talk to you."

Jiang Ye really didn't hear that, "... What?"

"... Forget it if you didn't hear it!"

"Anyway, I've figured it out now."

Tan Meng said, "No matter what the result is today, what the ranking is, I think I can face it."

The words Jiang Ye said while eating hot pot actually had a big impact on her.

She was always afraid that others would see her light because of Jiang Ye.

But now she knew, chasing dreams is a shining process in itself.

After all the trainees were gathered, Mu Xingchi entered and began to announce the trainees' rankings.

Jiang Ye paid attention.

Several of the trainees who made it into the top thirty were from the winning group of the performance.

Luo Xian and Yu Chenchen, who were in the same group as Jiang Ye for the performance, also benefited from their stage performance, and their rankings improved a lot from their initial rankings, one was twenty-second, the other was fifteenth.

It was clear that the performance was still very important.

"Next, I'm going to announce the eleventh place."

"Her initial performance during the initial evaluation wasn't very good."

"But she proved herself with her hard work during the re-evaluation, and she showed everyone her true strength."

"Congratulations, Sheng Rui Entertainment-Tan Meng."

The camera focused on Tan Meng.

Tan Meng was much more composed this time than during the seat selection.

She straightened her skirt, stood up from her seat, walked onto the stage, and gave her acceptance speech.

"Hello everyone, I'm Tan Meng, who failed the challenge during the initial evaluation, dropped from sixth place in the seat selection to fifty-first place as determined by the mentors."

"I'm also Tan Meng who later entered Class A."

"And I'm also Tan Meng who got eleventh place today."

"I used to be very anxious, afraid that I wouldn't do well, afraid that I wouldn't be seen."

"But then someone told me that I was doing great."

"Thank you for seeing me, for being willing to accompany me from fifty-first place to Class A."

Tan Meng smiled, the pressure that had been on her shoulders seemed to lighten.

She bowed to the camera and to the trainees in the audience, "Thank you."

...

Cheng Zhen unexpectedly got fifth place.

Actually, she was in ninth place last time, she should have had a small jump in ranking because of her performance.

She had always come with a bit of a playful attitude, and fifth place seemed like a bonus, her acceptance speech was full of surprise and excitement.

Third place was Xue Zhihan.

When Mu Xingchi announced her name, she seemed very calm, and she didn't seem to have any regrets.

After finishing her acceptance speech, she started cueing her performance teammate.

"Actually, I feel guilty. If I had performed better during the performance, maybe we wouldn't have lost, and you could have gotten more votes and moved up."

Xue Zhihan looked genuinely sad, she wiped her tears and said with a sob.

Jiang Ye: "..."

Such a familiar move.

A good image.

But if you had another chance, I think you still wouldn't be able to beat us.

She rolled her eyes silently in her heart, and then she heard Mu Xingchi say, "Next, let's invite the two contestants who are competing for the C-position."

The camera focused on Lin Zui and Jiang Ye.

The big screen also showed their shots.

The audience cheered.

"Lin Zui, go for it!"

"Jiang Ye, I knew you could do it!"

Amidst the cheers of the trainees, Lin Zui and Jiang Ye walked onto the stage from two different directions.

Mu Xingchi held his cue card and looked at the two trainees, "Before we announce the final result, do you two want to say anything?"

Lin Zui glanced at Jiang Ye, "Who goes first, you or me?"

Jiang Ye gestured for her to go first.

"Then I'll go first."

"Well, actually, I don't really have anything to say."

Lin Zui smiled, then said, "I know that I came to this show, some people like me, some people don't."

"Those who like me can continue to watch my performance, those who don't like me, it's okay."

Lin Zui raised her eyebrows arrogantly, "You think I'm going to say something like I'll work hard to make you like me? No."

"I'm going to say, those who don't like me, don't like me, I just need to live up to those who like me. Thank you everyone."

All the trainees in the audience laughed.

After Lin Zui finished speaking, she gestured for Jiang Ye to speak.

Jiang Ye smiled, "Lin Zui, your words are pretty bold."

Lin Zui disagreed, "What?"

Jiang Ye smiled, "Then I want to say, those who don't like Lin Zui can come and like me, I don't mind having more fans, thank you."

The trainees laughed even louder.

Mu Xingchi also raised an eyebrow.

"Actually, I wanted to write a speech yesterday."

"But halfway through writing, I felt like it was too pretentious, so I'll just speak off the cuff."

Jiang Ye paused, then said seriously, "I like it here more than I thought I would."

"At first, I thought I would just be happy to be on stage, to be seen by everyone."

"But now I think, I'm also happy to meet you all."

"Maybe there are many of you that I don't know well, many of you that I haven't worked with yet, but I really think that participating in 'Chasing Light Girls' with you all is truly the best decision I've ever made."

"So, no matter what the result is, I'm very happy, at least I'm standing here now, and that's already a success."

The two finished their speeches.

Mu Xingchi: "Okay, now let's see the vote count."

Lin Zui extended her hand to Jiang Ye.

Jiang Ye tilted her head and blinked.

Lin Zui returned her a look that said, "I'm willing to hold your hand, it's your lucky day, don't push it."

Jiang Ye laughed and took Lin Zui's hand.

At the same time, she heard Mu Xingchi say, "Then, let's congratulate Lin Zui."

Jiang Ye thought, as expected.

"With 26,310,007 support votes."

"She takes the second place in the first ranking release."

Jiang Ye: "Hmm."

Jiang Ye: "Hmm???"