My agency went bankrupt before I even got on stage.

"Wow! That's so cool!"

"Mom, they cheated! How can they be so handsome!"

"I want to report this! This is a complete disaster!"

"Isn't the director going to do anything about this? These young people have no sportsmanship!"

"So cool! What's there to compare?"

"Even I, a guy, almost got turned gay!"

"They both receive nine years of compulsory education, so why are they so much better off?"

……

Lu Cheng pouted, feeling incredibly jealous: "What's the use of being good-looking..."

Unfortunately, Lu Cheng was standing next to Zhuo Yuanquan, whose eyes lit up as he watched Lin Fan and the others approach: "What's wrong with being good-looking? At least you get more screen time than others! I wonder who did their styling; I have to ask them later and tell me about it!"

Lu Cheng was choked half to death!

Amidst envious and jealous glances, Lin Fan and the others searched for their place.

As luck would have it, Lin Fan was standing right next to Lu Cheng.

Lu Cheng was so angry that his liver ached when he saw Lin Fan's outfit, which was clearly a level above his own.

In the footage, the other trainees took their places one after another.

Ke Xirui, holding the microphone, said, "Dear students, did you sleep well last night?"

"good!"

Facing the camera, 99 out of 100 trainees shouted at the top of their lungs, just like well-behaved kindergarten children when their names are called by the teacher.

Lin Fan, one of the 100 trainees, lazily glanced at the trainees around him and Li Xiaodong, who was as energetic as if she had been injected with chicken blood, and couldn't help but complain: "After filming the scene of fighting for the dormitory, it was already 12 o'clock. By the time I took a shower, dried my hair, and went to bed, it was already 1 o'clock. On top of that, a few night owls kept chatting and joking around, and I was woken up very early in the morning. Aren't you guys hypocritical?"

"Young man, the Ministry of Education has already issued a notice that primary school students need to sleep for at least 10 hours. I'm only 20 years old, I need to sleep for 12 hours!"

……

Before everyone could calm down, Ke Xirui continued, "We're about to choose our performance songs, aren't you excited?"

"Wow, the moment to get serious has finally arrived!"

"My forty-meter-long sword is itching for a fight! My debut performance didn't even begin to showcase my true abilities. This time, I'm going to show everyone my real skills!"

"You said the same thing before your first stage performance, and you still ended up getting an F, didn't you?"

……

The trainees were all a little nervous. After all, the public performance and the first stage were completely different. The first stage performance was the result of their careful training by the agency for several months to several years. To put it bluntly, the songs they sang and danced were songs they had practiced until they were sick of.

The first performance featured 16 new songs, with only a 30-second demo of each song shown. Song selection was based on rankings, and the final choice was entirely out of the player's control. After selection, there were only 7 days for rehearsal, followed immediately by a performance on stage. This level of difficulty was comparable to a professional dancer's performance, as everyone only had 7 days to familiarize themselves with a song and its choreography.

Moreover, this performance requires voting from all viewers in the live stream. At this time, if anyone's performance has even the slightest flaw, it will immediately affect their ranking, which is extremely cruel!

The competition truly entered a cutthroat phase starting from the very first performance.

"Alright, now please welcome the student currently ranked first, Zhuo Yuanquan!"

The students immediately became envious.

"Ah! Zhuo Yuanquan is number one!"

"It has to be him! His performance yesterday was absolutely amazing!"

"I'm so envious. I wonder what place I got."

"Please bless me with a good ranking!"

……

Amidst the noise, Zhuo Yuanquan calmly stepped forward and, without hesitation, walked to the song he had already chosen and stood still.

"The next student ranked second is..."

Ke Xirui signed up one by one, and the students went up one by one to choose songs. Lin Fan believed that his performance yesterday, even if it wasn't the worst, was at least one of the worst.

After all, Lin Fan's performance was incomplete, and he even expressed his desire to be eliminated. Although the mentors gave him a C rating, the fans, especially the fans of other trainees, definitely didn't like him. They felt that Lin Fan didn't respect the stage or the other trainees. It was already good enough if they didn't criticize him; they definitely wouldn't vote for him.

As for casual fans, Lin Fan could conclude from the system that after the performance, he only had about 2000 popularity points, and at most a few thousand votes. If this result wasn't at the bottom, who would be?

Therefore, Lin Fan remained calm.

You guys choose. In the end, the song will definitely choose me, not the other way around.

Since he was bored while waiting, Lin Fan started browsing his system. After a night of preparation, plus an hour of styling Li Xiaodong and the other students, his popularity had unexpectedly seen a major breakthrough.

[Current popularity value: 1088; Task progress: 3088/1000000]

Huh, why is my popularity score increasing?

Can sleeping really increase your popularity?

Is it because my brother's sleeping posture is too cool?

I remember there were indeed streamers on the other side of the world who earned tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of yuan a month by simply streaming themselves sleeping, achieving financial freedom.

Lin Fan fell into deep thought: If you can increase popularity even while sleeping, then the task of reaching 100 million popularity points doesn't seem so difficult. Maybe there's really a chance to complete the task.

"And we've reached 1000 again so quickly, should we try our luck in the prize draw?"

To draw or not to draw is always a difficult question. Lin Fan said that such a difficult question can be answered in just one second.

[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have acquired a mandatory skill: Dancing Must Be a Highlight – Every superstar has countless highlight moments. Although you are still just a rookie, you must get hyped up when you see the spotlight!]

Damn it! System, you're messing with my mind again!

"Dancing will always be a highlight" means that as long as he dances on stage, he will definitely have a highlight moment? Lin Fan fell into deep thought. This system keeps giving him forced skills. Will he be forced to debut later on?

Lin Fan felt a chill suddenly rise up his back—it was the system's ill intent! Does your mother know how willful you are? If I debut, how am I supposed to find a girlfriend? So many girls have no one to take care of them, how pitiful! I can't give up the whole forest for the sake of debuting!

Lin Fansheng reluctantly pulled himself out of the system, only to find that more than a third of the students had already chosen songs, and two of the songs were already full.

Lin Fan looked at the remaining songs, but didn't recognize any of them.

Lin Fan not only didn't recognize them, but he was also busy with the lottery draw and didn't look at any of the demos of these 16 songs carefully, so he had no idea what genres they were.

However, with the system's [Forced Skill: Never Sing Off-Key], Lin Fan felt that he wouldn't at least hold the other trainees back.

Even if I want to slack off, I can't let my teammates down.

Lin Fan asked Li Xiaodong, who was standing next to him, "Which song doesn't require dancing?"

Li Xiaodong shook his head and said, "Each season of 'Morning Star' selects singers and dancers, so these 16 songs basically all have dance moves."

Lu Cheng, who was standing to the side, suddenly turned around and pointed to a group that was almost full, saying, "Look, that song 'Confession' is mainly singing, with very little dancing."

Lin Fan was slightly taken aback, then revealed eight teeth: "Thank you, Streetlight!"

"I'll say it again, my name is Lu Cheng, not street lamp!" Lu Cheng was furious. How could this kid just give people nicknames like that!

"It doesn't matter."

Lin Fan patted Lu Cheng on the shoulder, got up and walked towards the stage; he had been called.

Initial ranking: 51st.

Lu Cheng may have been jealous, but he's actually a good person!

Lin Fan decided that if Lu Cheng ever asked him for help with styling in the future, he would definitely give him a member price.

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