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"I see."

“I will be cautious in my interactions with her. Actually, I’m thinking that I should focus on building my career first. I’ve finally found some direction and made some progress. I’ll think about romance later.”

Upon hearing what Le Jing said, Song Wenchen relaxed her expression. Seeing this, Luo Xi changed the subject and talked about some of her more obscure experiences during her time in Mo Ri.

"Sexual harassment? Such a thing actually happens? And it's involving Baozhi Group..."

"Mo Ri is actually going bankrupt? Tsk tsk tsk, I've never heard of that before. The president even jumped off a building during the recording of the show... They really kept the real news under wraps."

“No wonder I said your public opinion is so bad. Every time you post a new update, there’s a whole bunch of drama. Are Shengshi and Fang Jing determined to crush you?” Song Wenchen analyzed. “I was wondering why it was so strange that Shengshi would launch such a hasty group. I thought it was just to counter you, but I didn’t expect it to be a joint effort to suppress Mo Ri.”

"Even debuting is so troublesome," Wang Xiao remarked, taking a sip of his cola.

“Sometimes I find those comments online laughable. They even brought up Eun-hee’s real royal background in Mexico! My god, they don’t see how humble we were on the show at all.” Ning Xiangqi said, holding Luo Xi’s hand. “It’s okay! Eun-hee, just prove yourself like before! We support you!”

Everyone echoed Ning Xiangqi's words, and Luo Xi felt her eyes welling up with tears. She tightly grasped his hands in return.

……

The dinner party passed quickly, and Luo Xi had to say goodbye to her friends again. She handed out her ILitter merchandise and the six matching scarves she had bought with Lu Yun when they went shopping for clothes to each of her friends.

Ning Xiangqi said he would definitely post an update to show off. Tian Jizhang shared the local specialties he brought with them. Wang Xiao joked that he came empty-handed but returned with a full load. Song Wenchen and Le Jing were too busy to buy gifts and argued over who would pay the bill.

By the time Luo Xi returned to his dormitory in Mexico, it was nearly midnight.

The living room lights were still on, and Gu Minxing was actually waiting for her to come back. He asked her how the dinner party went, what she ate, whether she was full, or if she was stuffed. He said he had medicine to help her digest if she was stuffed. He was so considerate that he almost carried Luo Xi to bed and coaxed her to sleep.

Luo Xi found it hard to resist such tenderness. Despite not being able to hold her food, she still took her digestive medicine with the water in Gu Minxing's hand. After listening to his clear, deep voice speak for several sentences and having her cheek touched, Luo Xi finally managed to look up at the clock with difficulty, pulled away from this tenderness.

"It's getting late, Minxing, you should go to sleep early too."

"OK, good night."

The light in Luo Xi's room was still on. He pushed the door open and saw Song Chuchu sleeping on his bed with a pillow in her arms, while Lu Yun was sleeping on Luo Xi's bed.

It was a rare moment for the two of them to be alone in a room, so quiet and cozy. Luo Xi couldn't resist taking another picture.

She didn't linger, quickly finished filming, washed up, and went to bed to prepare for her early morning "Sing Out Loud Tonight" schedule the next day.

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The recording venue for "Sing Out Loud Tonight" is an open, large stage, much like a theater.

Each episode of "Sing Out Loud Tonight" has a theme.

The theme of this episode is "Old Dreams," and ILitter will be performing "The Dream of the Azalea," a song that is very relevant to the theme.

A total of fifteen songs comprised the theme "Old Dreams." Luo Xi and his group's performance was eighth in the middle, essentially just a formality, as there were so many well-known and heavyweight singers performing. These included Xiang Ciyu, who would open with her new album songs "Look," "Old City Dreams," and "Childhood"; Zhu Chunfeng, who would perform the phenomenal online hit "Like Smoke"; Chang Zhouting, who would perform her highly-rated self-composed song "Not in Flowering Season"; and Hu Jue, whose song "Fragile," which was nominated for the Jingyan Music Chart upon its release…

There were only two idol groups that came to be featured: one was the band idol group Rain Talk, and the other was ILitter. The show was a serious professional singing competition, and the audience was already biased and even more critical of idols. For Luo Xi and his group, it was a nerve-wracking challenge—if they performed poorly, it would be difficult to get on such a professional stage again, but if they performed well, they might be able to earn the label of a powerful idol group.

Luo Xi felt even more nervous than on her debut stage.