Tokyo: The evil god doesn't want to be the top star

Chapter 382 The Secret of the Immortal

"All, all cooperation, will you recommend other members?"

"But Xia Fan's schedule is clearly open. If Company B knew about this, they might exercise their right to unfair defense and cancel Xia Fan's agency contract in advance..."

Upon hearing this "large quantity and sufficient" work arrangement, the staff member immediately looked embarrassed.

Whether in terms of appearance, talent or popularity, Xia Fan is not only the face of the group, but also the member with the highest overall commercial value.

If they blatantly "poach" dozens of other team members to collaborate, the news will sooner or later leak to Company B from the side of the collaboration invitation.

"Idiot, the schedule isn't full...can't you fill it up for him?"

Iijima Yozo bit his lips impatiently.

Considering Xia Fan's terrifying debut data of 390 million popularity votes and the current popularity of public opinion, these uninvited invitations for cooperation are very normal...

For Xia Fan, this is also an opportunity to monetize his popularity and increase his brand awareness for the second time.

Unfortunately, the task she received was to "hide" Xia Fan instead of making him famous.

"Among these cooperation invitations, find a program for Xia Fan that has a lot of work but little money and no one will watch it..."

"Let me see... Hey, this crappy program that's good at getting free stuff actually sent me an invitation?"

Scanning the densely packed list of cooperation invitations, Iijima Yozo saw a familiar name.

"That's it, let Xia Fan go on this variety show!"

She pointed to a project and made the decision without hesitation!

The title of that project was "The Secret of Immortals - Variety Show Guest Invitation".

The show "The Secret of Immortals" is a regular variety show at 11 o'clock on TBS TV station.

This variety show is scheduled during the awkward transition period between prime time and late night time slot. Its main purpose is to help viewers kill time before bed and help them fall asleep, while also satisfying advertisers' orders, with its main focus being low cost.

Therefore, this variety show often invites newly debuted idols and comedians to be guests, but the price they offer is only a meager announcement fee.

For a boy band idol like Xia Fan, after the company's share of the profits, it is estimated that he only gets an hourly wage similar to that of working in a convenience store, and almost no exposure.

However, TBS is one of the five major private TV stations in the eleventh district. Iijima Yozo's arrangement for Xia Fan to participate in the variety show of such an old TV station can be regarded as a "star matching" decision. Even if Bethesda comes to supervise, it will not be able to find any fault.

"Now, Xia Fan's schedule is full, don't say I don't give him resources!"

Very satisfied with his wise decision, Iijima Yozo elegantly tucked his bangs behind his ears and began to arrange other tasks.

"In addition to basic singing and dancing training and team activities, just give Xia Fan this variety show..."

"Martin and Basong have a commercial shoot..."

"As for other people's schedules...what, no job offers?"

"Variety shows, commercials, print shoots, not even one?!"

"These useless guys should apply for some resources from the company, even if it's just to let them go to the company's roadshow and get some shots..."

……

Three hours later, in the rehearsal room.

"How about that? Was that okay?"

With a little sweat on his forehead, Xia Fan struck a handsome ending pose and looked expectantly at the dance and vocal teachers in front of him.

"OK...dance...passed the assessment..." The dance teacher nodded in disbelief.

"Both singing and dancing have this effect, I have no objection, pass..."

On the other side, the vocal teacher wearing headphones also shrugged speechlessly.

"This...I passed the test already? I haven't even memorized the dance steps yet..."

"Xia Fan, you are too perverted!"

Not far away, Basong and Martin, who were still practicing hard, let out an unwilling cry.

"Xia Fan, did you pass the first test?"

"Although his part was relatively simple, it was too fast, wasn't it?"

In the distance, other trainees from the same group who were practicing hard in front of the mirror also looked over with complicated eyes.

After the meeting, the nine of them went to the practice room and were taught their debut song "The Birth of an Idol" by a professional teacher arranged by the company.

On the first day of rehearsal, everyone had to master the singing and dancing of their own position in order to prepare for the subsequent joint practice...

The vocal and dance teachers directly set a rule that everyone could leave only after individual assessments, and asked everyone to be prepared to make the practice room their home.

This is to ensure the rehearsal progress so as not to delay the performance at the "Kanda Festival", and also to give this group of "new idols" a warning.

For debuting idols, spending long hours in the rehearsal room is a common occurrence.

But they encountered this monster Xia Fan. After the teacher demonstrated and explained it to everyone several times, he actually applied to start the assessment directly...

What’s even more frightening is that not only is his dance moves “100% synchronized” with the teacher’s, his breath is as steady as an old dog while singing and dancing, and his singing is even more expressive than the vocal teacher’s…

"Ahem, come on everyone!"

"If everyone can pass the test as quickly as Xia Jun, we can both leave work early today."

Although they were stunned by Xia Fan's terrifying learning speed, the two teachers, out of professionalism, highly recognized his level of completion. When they gave him a judgment of passing the assessment, they did not forget to use this to stimulate others.

"Xia Jun, you 'big devil', why do I have to be in the same group with you!"

Jack, who was not good at dancing, was imitating the stiff dance steps in front of the mirror with a look of agony on his face.

"The pace is too slow here... raise your hands a little higher..."

"My part is simpler than yours, and contains more repetitive content. It's normal for me to be the first to pass the test."

After guiding Jack on his movements, Xia Fan also did not forget to reassure him.

If the people in the practice room knew that he had memorized not only his own part but also the movements and songs of other people's parts, they would be scared to death.

"Xia-kun, the placement of this debut song is quite unfair."

"That's right. You're the most popular and most important debut song, but you only got the most marginal position..."

Martin and Basong, who had just finished practicing, came over and protested in a low voice.

The song "The Birth of an Idol" was prepared by J-Company more than half a year in advance. Although the difficulty is relatively simple compared to the performance songs, the overall dance effect and song quality are above average.

Although the talent show rules do not state that the position will be determined by popularity ranking after debut, according to convention, Xia Fan, who debuted with the highest popularity, should be the center position...

But in terms of the position allocation for this opening song, Xia Fan was placed at the side at the beginning and end of the show, with the fewest lyrics and the most monotonous and repetitive dance moves.

(End of this chapter)