Su Zhan Entertainment.

Su Zhan is currently recording a new song in the recording studio, preparing for his first original album.

Led by the staff, Su Jinli arrived at the recording studio and peeked inside through a small window, seeing her father intently recording.

She told the staff, "I'd better not bother you any longer, I'll go look around somewhere else."

"Okay, Miss Su."

Su Jinli hadn't been to her father's company for a while. The driver followed behind her, passing by the recording studios, music classrooms, and dance studios.

A staff member explained, "We recently recruited a group of trainees who passed the auditions; they all have excellent individual qualities."

Su Jinli stopped outside a dance studio. The studio was large, with floor-to-ceiling mirrors on all four sides. Inside, a group of beautiful young girls were practicing basic skills, with a professional teacher guiding them.

Looking at the two girls chatting and laughing in front of the large mirror, Su Jinli recalled the scene of her learning to dance with Lu Yao when she was a child.

I was very naive back then, before she became the villainous supporting character.

Looking at the innocent girls, I wondered what Lu Yao would say if she were alive and standing next to Su Jinli right now.

Lu Yao would say: Su Jinli, this book is almost over, and you still haven't become the female lead. It's really pathetic. You'll always be the villainous supporting character.

Su Jinli took a deep breath. "The one who lives is the winner, and the one who dies first loses. This is true in all stories and anecdotes, both ancient and modern, in China and abroad."

Why is it said that being alive is the mark of a winner?

A soft, girlish voice sounded beside Su Jinli. Turning her head, she saw that the Lu Yao she had imagined had transformed into a girl carrying a guitar.

The girl wore a baseball cap, her profile was delicate and pretty, and the collar of her windbreaker was turned up, obscuring her chin. Hearing Su Jinli's words, she couldn't help but ask, "If living is painful, should you still continue living?"

Su Jinli, judging from the girl's appearance, thought she was only fifteen or sixteen years old. She paused for a moment and said, "That depends on where your pain comes from. If it comes from someone else, you must fight on and kill the other party first."

The girl's eyes lit up, and she looked at Su Jinli with a hint of admiration in her eyes—why is this older sister's way of speaking different from others?

When asked about life and death, they all unanimously said to live actively for their families. Only this older sister told her to fight her opponent to the death first.

Su Jinli keenly sensed the girl's thoughts and guessed that there was a 70-80% chance that she was either ostracized by her family or had experienced school violence.

"What are you doing here?" Su Jinli asked her.

“Interviewing trainees,” the girl looked around, “They said the boss was busy and asked me to wait a while, and that I could walk around and look around.”

Just as the girl was speaking, a few lines of dialogue popped into Su Jinli's mind.

"You think you can play guitar and become a singer? Do you even have the potential?"

"Who gave you permission to play guitar on the school rooftop? You know you're disturbing our smoking!"

"Her? She wants to sign with an entertainment company? Even my dad couldn't get me into an entertainment company through connections."

The conversations were between the stepmother, classmate, and cousin.

The girl then asked, "I heard that if you pass the interview and become a trainee, you can live in the dormitory here and also attend tutoring classes to learn academic subjects. Is that true?"

The staff member replied, "Previously, passing the interview was enough, but now you need to practice for a period of time first. Only after passing the assessment and entering the A team can you live in the company and receive more professional training."

The little light in the girl's eyes dimmed even further.

“You can be an exception,” Su Jinli said.

The staff and the girl all looked at Su Jinli.

The staff member said, "Ms. Su has made an exception for you, so hurry up and thank her."

Su Jinli: "It's too early to thank me now. I want to hear your singing first."

Su Zhan hurried over, "Lili, have you been waiting long?"

"Dad, I want to hear this girl sing first."

The group arrived at the large classroom for the interview. Su Zhan and Su Jinli sat in the interviewer's seat, while the girl sat in a chair with a guitar in her arms, taking off her baseball cap to reveal a pure and beautiful face.

The young girl strummed her guitar and sang, starting with "Dong Feng Po". Her voice was delicate and pure, like the first rain in spring, with an indescribable sweetness. Her playing was not very professional, and her singing was not very steady, but her voice was very sincere.

Watching the young girl perform, another passage came to Su Jinli's mind: Years later, she made a glamorous comeback from an ordinary girl, transforming herself into a superstar in the music industry. She is a miracle of Chinese pop music.

As the song ended, Su Jinli heard her father snoring...

"dad?"

"Huh?" Su Zhan suddenly looked up. "Sorry, I had a meeting until late last night and got up at six this morning to practice singing... This... the girl's name is Song Nuan, continue singing your original song."

The girl continued to sing and play the guitar, this time performing her own original song. As soon as she started singing, Su Zhan was wide awake and instantly became energetic!

The girl's original compositions are very catchy, and her musicality and talent are truly impressive.

"It sounds great, it sounds great," Su Zhan whispered to his daughter. "She's a gifted singer-songwriter."

After the song ended, Su Zhan asked Song Nuan, "Is this your first time writing a song? Do you still have the copyright?"

“Hmm,” Song Nuan nodded, “I haven’t been to any other companies because I heard that this company provides accommodation and tutoring for trainees. I don’t want to go to school, and I don’t want to go home.”

"So that's how it is," Su Zhan immediately instructed his assistant to prepare the contract. Once the contract was signed, he immediately arranged for Song Nuan to move into the dormitory and attend tutoring classes.

"Really? Can I do it?!" Song Nuan stood up excitedly, her eyes filled with tears.

Su Jinli said, "By the way, when you go back to school to pack your things and apply for withdrawal, don't forget to slap those female classmates who bullied you a few times before you leave."

Huh? Where did this come from? Su Zhan and the staff were all confused.

Song Nuan was stunned—how did she know that she was being bullied by her classmates?

“She definitely can’t beat those delinquent girls,” Su Jinli said to Su Zhan. “Dad, send two male bodyguards to our company’s artists to go back to school to pack their things, and also send them a nice car.”

"Ok."

"..." Song Nuan was both surprised and delighted, looking like Cinderella seeing the pumpkin carriage that would take her to the ball.

Finally, overjoyed, he burst into tears and sobbed uncontrollably.

Su Jinli got up, and Su Zhan asked his assistant to bring tissues to the girl. He also comforted her, telling her not to cry too soon, that being a trainee here was tough, and that the days of crying were yet to come.

The little girl just kept crying and wouldn't stop.

Su Jinli walked to Song Nuan's side and said, "How about it? It's better to be alive, isn't it? Because as long as you're alive, there's hope of winning."

After saying that, Su Zhan and Su Jinli left the classroom together.

"Dad, let's start a star school to provide a more comprehensive teaching system for our trainees, with professional and academic courses taught simultaneously."

"Okay, how about we call it Imari Star Academy?"

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