0713: You who shine in the parallel world

The so-called "red card mini-test" seems fine at first glance.

The program team requires the four tribes to submit the final training results of their two stage performances in video format between 9:30 am tomorrow and 9:30 am the day after tomorrow.

Afterwards, the production team will review the videos and select the relatively weaker performances from each tribe to enter the on-site assessment stage. Two members who perform poorly on-site will be given a red card, and the tribe to which that member belongs will become the red card tribe. Red card tribes will not be repeated.

The Red Card Tribe will face greater competition risks in the second public performance, but the production team has not yet revealed the specifics of what those risks are.

However, Yu Yu didn't need to guess to know that this risk must be related to the chances of elimination. The production team suddenly came up with a new trick in the third season that hadn't been seen in the previous two seasons, and it just so happened at the critical moment when Su Xiaoding was unexpectedly injured. It's hard to guess why.

This isn't Yu Yu's conspiracy theory; he just "happened" to know who the main figures in the show were at the beginning of this season. Having a big financial backer can be so convenient sometimes.

These individuals have absolutely no connection to the brothers from 0713, and Yu Yu can also see what the production team's intended role is for them.

As a result, Zhang Yuan has become the unexpected captain, and Chen Chusheng's team is currently showing a dominant presence on both stages.

This is only the second round. The show has only been filmed for a little over half, and it's already so different from what the production team expected. What will happen to the subsequent rounds and even the finale?

The production team has been trying to "correct" the script recently, but unfortunately it hasn't been very effective.

Team leader Chen Chusheng is very opinionated about the stage, while Yu Yu, the person in charge of the other stage, doesn't even need the production team to interfere with rehearsals.

As for Zhang Yuan's side, their song "X-Song" was arranged by Xu Liang, choreographed by Ma Xiaolong, and Zhang Yuan himself is a pillar of the show who can sing and dance. The production team had no idea how to approach him on stage.

They can certainly get involved in the stage design, but none of the four people on the "The Love You Left Behind" stage—Cai Guoqin, Luo Jiefu, TANK, and E.SO—have weak vocals. Don't assume that rappers have weak vocals; these two rappers sing love songs better than the other.

Since they couldn't do anything on stage, they had to look for other solutions.

Su Xiaoding's injury was a pleasant surprise—though it's not a very kind way to put it—it just happened when the production team wanted to adjust the formation, like someone handing you a pillow when you're about to fall asleep.

For the red card assessment, Su Xiaoding "reserved" one card, and the other was given directly to any one member of Zhang Yuan's team.

Then just have the two teams start with a red card duel to determine the dangerous team. Brothers fighting each other will generate a lot of buzz and attention, won't it?

After gaining attention, regardless of which team wins the red card duel, they will have an extra stage to generate buzz and viewership, making them highly likely to be labeled as emperors by the audience. This serves as a shield.

More importantly, the losing team was broken up, and the pre-selected three captains could keep their positions in the next round, which was killing three birds with one stone.

To be fair, the production team didn't intentionally target the five members of 0705. They have a deep history with Hunan TV, with many love-hate relationships. However, they don't have any deep-seated hatred for the production team of "Pigeon" (a popular music variety show), so why would an S-level music variety show specifically target them?

It just so happens that they are the ones who are blocking the path of the show's script development.

The same result was obtained with another group of people.

Yu Yu understood this, otherwise he wouldn't have glanced at Su Xiaoding and then casually looked away without much reaction the very next second after the rules were announced.

He was just a casual member of his own tribe, not the captain, so these issues were for the tribe captain to worry about. He wasn't sure if the others understood the intricacies of the situation, but he was certain that Captains Chen Chusheng and Zhang Yuan wouldn't obediently follow the script.

As expected, after seeing the red card assessment rules, Chen Chusheng calmly comforted his teammates, saying that although the red card assessment was important, they should not let the rules affect their mentality. As long as each of them performed to their normal level in rehearsals and did their best, the rest was beyond their control.

Zhang Yuan was more direct. After methodically arranging his teammates' stage rehearsals and training, showcasing his former glory as the team leader, he immediately turned around and approached Yu Yu with a troubled and worried expression, pestering him to help him catch up on lessons.

He actually asked this little foreigner to give him a lesson in the Chinese opera style.

Their song "X-Song" ultimately chose a song with a Chinese porcelain theme called "Lingren," which features a long section of traditional Chinese opera singing style, all of which was handled by Zhang Yuan.

"Where did the calm and collected Captain Zhang who was reassuring his teammates and preparing for the red card test go? Why is he so flustered in front of me now?"

Yu Yu, who was having dinner with his teammates, saw Zhang Yuan come in from outside and rush over to hug his arm without eating, asking him to cook for him. He couldn't help but tease him.

“I’m the captain, the pillar of our tribe, so I have to hold it up, right?” Zhang Yuan puffed out his chest. “But even the pillar needs someone to tighten the screws.”

"This guy's treating you like a screwdriver, Little Fish," Wang Yuexin said mischievously from the side.

Yu Yu was both amused and exasperated: "Didn't you already find a professional opera teacher to teach you singing? You're already doing very well, Yuan Yuan."

"No, I don't think I'm that good. I don't feel comfortable or at ease being the class's student counselor. The techniques the teacher taught me are more suitable for long-term practice. I've only learned the basics. The video is due tomorrow, so you have to help me cram..."

"Cyrus, are you free tonight? I need you, Professor Cyrus, please give me some extra lessons!"

Before Zhang Yuan could finish speaking, Guan Zhibin rushed over in a hurry, asking Yu Yu to give him a crash course.

"No way, I was here first!" Zhang Yuan immediately put his arm around Yu Yu's shoulder as if protecting his own, while staring intently at Guan Zhibin.

Upon seeing this, Li Jiuzhe, who was sitting next to Yu Yu, immediately moved his chair to make room for the three of them to watch the show.

“But Cyrus has been giving me private lessons on and off for the past week.” Guan Zhibin grabbed Yu Yu’s other arm without saying a word.

They shared a dormitory with eight people, and their relationship had become quite good over time. That's why Zhang Yuan said without backing down, "You said it was on and off, so you should have stopped and not started again."

"We should continue, I want to keep continuing, we'll never break up!"

Wang Yuexin, who was originally gloating over Zhang Yuan's "clingy" behavior towards Yu Yu, suddenly felt uneasy seeing the two of them arguing. A sense of crisis made him reach out his hand: "You two wait a minute. If you're going to give me special treatment, it's for me. Xiaoyu is my teammate and has nothing to do with you two from other tribes."

Zhang Yuan: "We're all brothers, what's with all this talk about tribes? It's too formal."

Guan Zhibin: "Cyrus was my former captain, and I am also one of his people. We are all family."

"Then you can ask yourselves whether Xiaoyu will tutor you or not."

Yu Yu: "No way..."

Zhang Yuan was both shocked and furious: "No (voice cracks)?! Why not? You can't not! Why didn't you say you couldn't when we slept together last night? Now you're pretending you don't know me? You, Yu Yu, you'll have to do it today whether you want to or not!"

The uncle looked terrified: Captain Zhang Yuan, do you know what you're saying?!

Chen Chusheng was already used to it and continued to eat his meal and watch the show at a leisurely pace. Yu Haoming even had the mind to tease Zhang Yuan, saying, "Yuanyuan, Yu Yu didn't sleep with you tonight. Yuexin and I are between you two."

Wang Yuexin gasped: "Yuanyuan, you can't blame it on President Su for not being able to find a girlfriend this time, can you?"

Guan Zhibin couldn't believe that Yu Yu had actually refused outright. He looked somewhat helpless and pitiful, saying, "Is it not possible? Is it because you don't have time to prepare your stage? Actually, I only have a few minor questions. If it really can't be done..."

"This soup is a bit salty." Yu Yu put down the soup spoon.

Zhang Yuan & Guan Zhibin: ?

The seven people watching the show: Hahahahahahaha!

"I'll teach you to breathe too loudly!" Zhang Yuan angrily grabbed Yu Yu's neck, shaking it as he did so, trying to get the brain matter of that rubber fish mixed up.

Yu Yu's voice trembled as she was shaken by the Angry Bird: "Don't listen to my excuses. This isn't something I can decide. You have to ask my captain. I have to do whatever he tells me to do."

Yu Yu tossed the pot to Chen Chusheng, but Chen Chusheng hurriedly waved his hand to refuse the pot and decided to use it to stir-fry a plate of braised fish: "Yuanyuan, you don't need to shake me, I agree, I agree. Kenny, you can do whatever you want. Xiaoding can go if she's free."

Since our own captain has said so, what else is there to say? Those who are just slacking off should just stick to being teachers.

The next day, Yu Cyrus, a well-known travel blogger and photography expert, was naturally drafted to be the cameraman for the assessment video. The video required a single take, which was not difficult for him. He could even show the three members of "Walking Fish" what fancy camerawork is, not the kind of gimmick.

So much so that after the final cut was released, the uncle joked that the production team should have hired Yu Yu as the director of photography, since they didn't know how to use the available talent.

That would require them to be able to command Yu Yu, but the key is that Yu Yu won't listen to them.

As for the footage in "Under Investigation", it was given to team leader Chen Chusheng, who had been practicing taking selfies but hadn't made much progress (on Douyu: he was even being teased by his own wife).

No one expected to get extra points from Chen Chusheng's shots. Any slight idea that Sha had for camera movement was quickly suppressed by Yu Tu Hu and the other two, who told him to just shoot from the points marked by Yu Yu.

After filming, they were quite satisfied with the performance of both videos. Li Jiuzhe even believed that this time, the red card would never be theirs.

If the production team truly only compares video footage and on-site performance to determine who receives the red card, then Yu Yu can confidently say that is indeed the case.

Unfortunately, the production team is never innocent.

Unsurprisingly, the investigation moved into the second round of the red card mini-test, and the program team issued a red card to Su Xiaoding and Chen Chusheng's tribe for "Su Xiaoding's acting mistakes in the performance".

In a music variety show, when people criticize an actor's acting skills, Yu Yu sometimes laughs because she genuinely couldn't help but laugh.