My agency went bankrupt before I even got on stage.

The trainees were somewhat unhappy.

Yes! You, Lin Fan, are popular and have a lot of buzz. You even trend on social media more often than others. Even the trending topics that the "royal family" buys don't outnumber yours, which is just a single trending topic about not wanting to debut! But you haven't even debuted yet! Just because you're popular, you start causing trouble, acting as the director, and arbitrarily gathering everyone here?

What's even more infuriating is that the production team was so cooperative!

It's incredibly sour!

Li Yingqi gave Tu Jingyi a wink, and Tu Jingyi asked loudly, "Brother Fan! Why did you suddenly call us here from the training room? Is something wrong?"

As soon as Tu Jingyi spoke, other trainees chimed in, continuing to lead the charge: "Yeah, we're learning the dance right now! Ugh, this dance for the third performance is so difficult! I still can't even get the first section right! Hey, your team is all the dance leaders, have you all learned it already?"

"It's not that easy! You said it yourself, our team is all about dance, so the dances aren't hard to learn, but our vocals are terrible! It's been days and we're still wailing like ghosts. Luckily, that part of the sound is muted, otherwise we really wouldn't have the face to see our fans!"

The more people complain and vent, the more energetic it becomes. Once one person starts complaining, another person can't help but join in. Of the 29 trainees in the audience, only the 5 people in Lin Fan's team remained quiet and wanted to listen to Lin Fan speak. The other 24 were talking to themselves, making it quite a lively scene.

They showed Lin Fan absolutely no respect.

Lin Fan could also see that these trainees were just jealous. They were so envious and jealous that they were practically green with envy for him being able to participate in the recording of the show "Ace vs Ace", but they didn't dare to be too blatant because the live cameras were always on them.

Now that we finally have a chance to give Lin Fan a hard time, we're taking advantage of our numbers and the fact that the law doesn't punish everyone. We're deliberately trying to embarrass Lin Fan by making him refuse to cooperate properly. Plus, it's happening through the live stream, so it won't offend our fans. Why not do it?

The audience was making a ruckus, but Lin Fan on stage didn't care. Even though the students weren't quiet, he still spoke into the microphone: "Originally, I gathered everyone here today to give you a perk, but there's only one perk. My idea is to just keep this spot internally and sell it directly to Li Xiaodong. Anyway, he's my VIP client, so he should get VIP treatment."

Most importantly, Lin Fan felt that among all the trainees present, Li Xiaodong was probably the richest. This "rich" specifically refers to the amount of money a trainee can independently dispose of, excluding the trainee's management company and personal family background.

"But the production team felt that my direct sale of the spot to an individual was too negative, so they decided to hold an auction to ensure fair competition and that the highest bidder wins!"

Although the students were all talking about other things, they were all actually listening intently to Lin Fan. Not to mention Zhuo Yuanquan and the others who had been quietly listening to Lin Fan the whole time.

Upon hearing his own name mentioned, Li Xiaodong exclaimed, "A spot? What spot? Brother Fan, what are you selling me? Let's discuss this privately! Auctions are meaningless! In my world, there's no such thing as an auction! How much? One price, no bargaining! Even if I still don't know what spot you're auctioning!"

Zhuo Yuanquan added, "That's right, Brother Fan! Trainees usually have limited budgets they can decide on themselves. They might have to go back and ask their management company, and we don't know when they'll get a response!"

Lu Bingyang added, "Brother Fan, don't you know? Dongdong is incredibly wealthy. Not just the current 30 students, but even 100 students combined aren't as rich as him! Whatever it is, just go to Dongdong, you can't go wrong!"

That's true! Li Xiaodong's family owns a chain of department stores; for details on their scale, please refer to leading companies in the hypermarket industry such as Earth China and Da XX. The other trainees are simply no match for Li Xiaodong.

Unfortunately, Li Xiaodong's family didn't support his dream of becoming an idol, otherwise he wouldn't have had to come to a talent show to debut in such a shabby way. Even so, Li Xiaodong was still the richest one, not referring to all the contestants of the 6th season of "Morning Star," but to all the contestants in the entire talent show industry—the richest, without a doubt!

Lin Fan was so stunned by Li Xiaodong's ostentatious and extravagant aura that he almost gave her the spot! But thankfully, Lin Fan still had a sliver of rationality left, and he managed to salvage his crumbling integrity: "The procedures still need to be followed..."

Li Xiaodong didn't care: "Then just go through the motions, the result won't make a difference anyway!"

The other trainees felt as if an arrow had pierced their hearts! A bullseye!

The comments section erupted with laughter.

[Winter Melon Candy: Hahaha, what my Dongdong meant was, I wasn't targeting anyone in particular, I was saying everyone here is trash!]

[Forgot to take his medicine today: That's not the point. The point is, that stingy, money-grubbing Fanfan! Surprisingly! He preserved his integrity! He wasn't completely corrupted by money! Is this still the Fanfan I know?]

[Passing Through Your World: Isn't the key point the statement that procedures still need to be followed? With Li Xiaodong as a huge financial backer, who can beat him in this auction? But I'm curious, what is Fanfan going to auction?]

[Born Entertainment Reporter Wang: I have a bad feeling... If it's Fanfan, then I think my premonition might come true...]

……

Lin Fan coughed lightly, and the other trainees involuntarily quieted down. They had a strong intuition that what Lin Fan was about to say would be very important. If they missed important information because they wanted to save face for Lin Fan, they would definitely regret it!

Seeing that the group of mischievous kids had finally quieted down, Lin Fan stopped keeping them in suspense: "It's like this, because of personal health reasons, I'm unable to participate in the recording of 'Big Ace,' so after discussions with the production team, I've decided to put this spot up for auction! Fair competition, the highest bidder wins!"

The entire venue fell silent for a moment, and then erupted in cheers!

"Wow! What did I just hear?"

"Auctioning off spots for recording the 'Big Ace' program?"

"Has Lin Fan gone mad? Is the production team going mad with him too?"

……

Li Yingqi and Tu Jingyi almost burst out cursing! Auctioning off resource slots? How could you come up with such a brain-dead idea?

Zhuo Yuanquan and Lu Bingyang exchanged a glance, confirming that this was indeed something Fan Ge would do—to wholeheartedly resist debuting!

Li Xiaodong only hesitated for a second before jumping up from her seat: "Brother Fan! Me! Me! I'll buy it!"

No matter the price, Li Xiaodong is determined to buy this spot! She's currently stuck in 10th place, the closest trainee to a debut spot! Even if she only gets a few seconds of screen time after all the footage is cut from a top-tier variety show like "Ace vs Ace," it would still be a huge benefit!

Only a fool wouldn't grab it!