How to become an ACE of a top boy group

"...Brother Xi! Wake up! We're here!"

"Ah."

Luo Xi was awakened by the sound and groggily answered. When she opened her eyes, she saw Lu Yun leaning on the car seat calling her. Luo Xi rubbed her eyes and then heard Song Chuchu's voice, "I want to get off the car, don't block the way!"

"Tsk, couldn't you have gotten off from the other side?"

"Didn't you see they're packing up over there? Besides, I can go whichever way I want!"

"Sorry, I'm all set..."

"Minxing, don't listen to him! Come on (sound of car door opening), let's go this way. Sorry for blocking your way, next time we'll lay out a red carpet for you!"

Within a short time, Luo Xi heard such a noisy conversation and became completely awake. She saw that the familiar practice building was outside the car window again. Her manager was talking to a lady in formal attire outside the car. Song Chuchu and Lu Yun, who had just gotten out of the car, were also noisily walking towards the manager.

Luo Xi opened the car door, folded the blanket on her body, and hugged it to her arms along with the pillow. She found Gu Minxing at the back of the car. He was opening his suitcase and putting the borrowed pillow and blanket back in their original places.

The driver was also unloading their luggage. After returning the pillow to Gu Minxing, Luo Xi also unloaded their luggage.

"Didn't you get enough rest after you got back last night?" Gu Minxing said casually. "You were sleeping very soundly just now. I called you once but couldn't wake you up. Lu Yun had to call you several times before he finally woke you up."

“Something happened after we parted last night, and I didn’t fall asleep until almost 2 a.m. But thanks to Minxing’s gear, I slept really well just now, and I’m completely refreshed.” Luo Xi finished moving the suitcase and looked at Gu Minxing, who was still carefully packing his luggage.

In his open suitcase, blankets were neatly folded on one side, and pillows were on the other. He would put the used blankets in plastic bags before putting them back, and he would do the same with the pillowcases after taking them off.

"Minsung, you didn't bring pillows and blankets for each of us, did you?"

“Not everyone…” Gu Minxing paused slightly. “I originally thought you might be sleepy if you get up early, and that you could catch up on sleep in the car if you have a pillow and blanket. But then I realized that there’s more than one person, so I brought this much.”

If Luo Xi had analyzed the situation carefully, she would have noticed Gu Minxing's deliberate concern. However, as Luo Xi spoke, she unconsciously glanced up at the car and saw that Li Longxuan was still asleep and hadn't been woken up.

"Yongxuan is still not awake."

Gu Minxing was about to tell him not to pay attention to him when she saw Luo Xi walking towards the other side of the car door.

"..."

=

Lee Yong-hyun felt like he was in a dream.

He walked back to a road that kept breaking apart, a road he was meant to walk forward on, but the road kept cracking open, so he could only retreat.

Even though he had been so eager to move forward, the broken road seemed to be relentlessly pursuing him. He shouted that he was going to surrender and give up, but the broken road continued to chase him, as if it would only stop when he lost his footing and fell into an endless abyss.

"It's time to wake up, Yong-hyun."

That's what the familiar, refreshing voice said to him.

He was back in a familiar place. Lee Yong-hyun opened his eyes slightly and saw the small black mole under the familiar boy's lips. He covered his eyes with his hand again, turned over, and continued to sleep peacefully.

“Brother Longxuan…”

"Ten minutes, ten minutes later..."

This was Lee Yong-hyun's usual excuse for staying in bed. When Luo Xi called him to get up on the show, he would always wriggle around in bed and say in a coquettish way that he wanted to sleep for another ten minutes.

Fortunately, Lee Yong-hyun doesn't have a bad temper when he wakes up. In addition, the top handsome guy's sleepy and coquettish voice and appearance are really addictive. Luo Xi always agrees to be his alarm clock and wake him up after ten minutes.

"Yongxuan hyung, we're no longer on the show! We've debuted!"

"Um……"

"Everyone's watching! Are you sure you want to make that sound?"

Lee Yong-hyun, who was very concerned about his image, felt a sudden jolt of fear and immediately came to his senses. He sat up straight and found that the car was empty.

Luo Xi, leaning against the open car door, laughed as if her prank had succeeded.

"Haha, so Yonghyun hyung, you also think it's embarrassing to be seen like that?"

Lee Yong-hyun looked speechlessly at the person in front of him who was smiling as brightly as a sunflower. He really didn't have any temper in his heart, but he still pinched Luo Xi's thin cheek without letting up.

"Do not laugh."

Luo Xi wasn't about to let go of this rare opportunity to make fun of Lee Yong-hyun: "Why, bro? Wouldn't it be better if no one was around? You're still sober, you should thank me."

He didn't dare to squeeze too hard, afraid of extinguishing that warm smile.

=

"I'm also your agent. You can just call me Lily."

Standing next to Yuan Yu, the young and capable woman with short hair said to Luo Xi and the other four,

"I've been in charge of many idol groups at Shengshi Entertainment. This year, I joined Mori Entertainment along with CEO Yi Jin, and currently, Yuan Yu and I are responsible for everyone's schedules. I'm very happy to work with everyone, and I hope you can rely on me a lot..."

After Luo Xi and the others greeted Lily, Lily said that their group's chief representative and producer, Yi Jin, were already upstairs waiting for them, and that they were going to hold a planning meeting next.

As they walked up into the practice building, Luo Xi and his four companions followed their agents to the conference room on the fifteenth floor.

The meeting room was decorated casually and simply.

Under the bright lights, there were several brown sofas, with stacks of documents on the tables among them, and the projector on the wall was ready to go.

Yijing sat on a single sofa, smiling as she greeted them, "The children are here, please sit down."

The two agents sat down on the other two single sofas, and Gu Minxing, Luo Xi, Lu Yun, Li Longxuan, and Song Chuchu sat on the long sofa in turn.

"I should have met you last night, but something came up and I was delayed, so we decided to meet here instead."

Yi Jin said gently,

"I am Yi Jin, currently serving as the visual art director of Mo Ri, the representative in charge of ILitter, and also the producer for your debut as ILitter. I will be responsible for all production of ILitter, including MV design, costumes, song selection, promotion, etc., all of which will be supervised and planned by me."

"Hello, Representative Yi Jin!"

Yi Jin nodded, turned on the projector, and the blank projector displayed the designed font, ILitterer.

"First of all, let me introduce you to ILitter. This is the idol group that the five of you will be joining after signing with Mo Ri Company."