Chasing Tides

Chapter 14

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On the day I came back from S City, AOW experienced an unprecedented pick-up by fans.

It's only been two months since his debut, and the previous pick-up was up to 70 or 80 fans, and he could chat while walking. There were more than 300 people who came this time. The newly established support club only sent two staff to manage the order. The unexpected situation caused the scene to be chaotic. There was no way to get through. The seven people were washed away before they took a few steps. Ning Lan was at the end, and was so crowded that she couldn't tell the difference between the south, east and north. She could only walk forward involuntarily with the crowd.

"Captain, wait for Fang Yu!" a girl in the crowd shouted.

Sui Yi was also dizzy. Hearing this, he turned around to look for it, but Fang Yu couldn't find it. At a glance, he saw Ning Lan, who was not wearing glasses and a mask. The two girls around him were holding his arm and holding a mobile phone to take a selfie. .

"Ning Lan!" Sui Yi shouted, reaching out to him.

Ning Lan raised her head, then looked away as if she didn't see it, and moved her head forward.

In the end, Lu Xiaochuan, who was closer to him, dragged him out and brought Fang Yu over, and the seven talents were barely able to gather together.

After getting on the bus, everyone took a deep breath as if they had survived the disaster. Everyone was stuffed with gifts from fans. Sui Yi and Lu Xiaochuan were the most, followed by Fang Yu and Gu Chenkai. .

Ning Lan only had a small fruit basket with strawberries in his hand, and a letter was stuffed on the side. He opened it and saw that the fan girl said he was too thin and begged him to eat more.

He went back and washed the strawberries. In this weather, the fruit won't last long, so he gave Wang Bingyang half of it, and there was still a lot left. Today, Lu Xiaochuan came to the dormitory with them very rarely. He sat on the sofa with a sullen face and played with his mobile phone. Maybe it was because he got up in the morning and his anger had not gone away.

"Do you want to eat strawberries?" Ning Lan asked him as he passed by.

Lu Xiaochuan stuck his face out from behind the screen, and lazily opened his mouth to ask for feeding: "Ah—"

Ning Lan has never been able to do anything to Young Master Lu, so at least he has not been excluded. He used a toothpick to fork a strawberry and sent it to Lu Xiaochuan's mouth. Lu Xiaochuan slyly grabbed his hand, held it and sent it to his mouth. After eating it, he said with a smile, "Sweet, as sweet as you."

Ning Lan retracted her hand speechlessly, turned around, and saw Sui Yi standing at the door of the room, staring at him.

The two looked at each other for two seconds, and Ning Lan retracted her gaze and went into the house with the fruit bowl.

Before lunch, AOW received a new task. The company will organize their first ShowCase after their debut. The venue is set in an indoor stadium that can accommodate a thousand people in the capital, which is rounded up to be a small concert.

The members who received this announcement were happy and sad. Gao Ming, Gu Chenkai and Wang Bingyang, who couldn't wait to get the chance to show, went to the company after lunch. Lu Xiaochuan lamented for a long time, shouting that he would have made his debut if he knew that being an artist would be so hard and he would not have time to rest.

Then it hung sticky on Ning Lan, insisting that Ning Lan carry him to the company.

Ning Lan treats him as a child, a big and playful child, and he accepts it with a smile as he makes trouble. Only Sui Yi, who went out after them, had dark eyes.

In the afternoon, Zhang Fan took the time to come and said that ShowCase was an hour and a half, and AOW would definitely not be able to hold the scene with only two songs, so he had to rehearse other shows, both groups and solos. She made a list and selected a few more suitable repertoires. In addition to each one performing alone, she also put the members into a group in pairs and added three more programs.

The company is well versed in the routine of CP hype, and naturally the three pairs of official CPs of AOW are organized into groups.

"Gao Ming, Wang Bingyang, the two of you dance in a dance. I told Xu Rui, you can discuss with her later... Lu Xiaochuan, Gu Chenkai, you two should sing."

Lu Xiaochuan cried out, "Sister, I'm Rapper..."

Zhang Fan glared at him: "You can add RAP to the song, go back and find Teacher Zhao to arrange it."

Lu Xiaochuan wailed again: "Mr. Zhao hates me the most, I won't go."

Zhang Fan put one hand on his hip: "You dare to skip class again!"

Lu Xiaochuan's mouth was flat, and he stopped talking.

"Sui Yi and Fang Yu, both of you are dancing. The repertoire has already been selected. It's not too difficult. Just follow the video to learn." Zhang Fan continued to assign tasks, "Ning Lan... Except for SOLO, there is no other project for now, you can follow everyone. Learn to learn and adapt when the time comes.”

Ning Lan nodded in agreement. He knew that adapting to the situation meant letting him stay by the side without causing any trouble.

Unexpectedly, Fang Yu raised his hand to object: "I want to sing, let Ning Lan dance with the captain."

Ning Lan was instantly tense.

Zhang Fan rolled up the document and tapped it in the palm of his hand: "This is an arrangement from above and cannot be refuted."

Fang Yu acted coquettishly: "Sister Zhang Fan, aren't you the 'upper'?"

Zhang Fan laughed: "I'm not, don't talk nonsense. In short, this is an arrangement made by the planning department based on the current situation of the group. You must understand that how to make this ShowCase more exciting and more fans, they know more than You are many."

Fang Yu hesitantly put his hand down.

Taking advantage of everyone's discussion, Sui Yi tilted his head to look at Ning Lan, only to see Ning Lan patted his chest, and heaved a sigh of relief. I don't know if it's because I don't have to dance, or because I don't have to dance with him.

After Zhang Fan left, the members dispersed to different practice rooms for rehearsal.

After watching the dance video, Sui Yi realized why he was arranged with Fang Yu.

This was originally a male and female dance, but it was adapted to remove some of the too intimate physical contact parts. Sui Yi's part is not bad, he dances the boy part, and his movements tend to show the fortitude side of men full of hormones, while Fang Yu's part is very feminine, with a lot of kicks, twists, waist and hips, and the two of them have a lot of hugs and hugs. The body movements of the whole dance still contain strong sexual hints.

The company obviously wants to make the CP of the two of them solid, which is the "official candy" in the mouths of fans.

Sui Yi immediately called Zhang Fan and asked if he could change a dance, Zhang Fan said calmly on the phone: "Just dance this one, now it's not that you can dance what you want, but the fans want to dance. Dance what you see. If you want to be popular, you have to go out and don't treat yourself as an idol. Which boy group next door didn't dance this kind of dance?"

Sui Yi hung up the phone and pursed his lips.

Fang Yu actually does not reject this dance. He was born beautiful, and he also dressed up as a woman at the school art show before his debut. Fans picked it up and posted it on Weibo, including the matter of group CP. , just pretending to be able to achieve the effect of 1 1 greater than 2, why not do it

But Sui Yi doesn't seem to be able to accept it.

"Captain, do you have a girlfriend, afraid of being seen by her?" Fang Yu made a bold guess.

Sui Yi was stunned: "No." Then, as if to prove what he said, he stood up and walked to the center of the practice room, "Let's try dancing with the video first."

The dance moves are not difficult. When Teacher Xu Rui came to check, they were almost able to jump down completely, and there was no problem with the movement of picking people up and turning them around and placing them on the ground.

Xu Rui looked at them and shook her head, saying that they were in a wrong state, especially Sui Yi, they were too stiff. It wasn't the movements that were stiff, but the expressions.

"You have to imagine that you are holding your sweetheart in your arms." Xu Rui said for example.

Sui Yi's face became even stiffer.

Fang Yu laughed until he collapsed: "I don't have any flesh on my chest, and the captain looks at me and is afraid that I won't be able to enter the show."

After practicing for more than an hour, Fang Yu went downstairs to buy food, and Sui Yi took his mobile phone and went out to make a call.

The last time I called my aunt, it was transferred to my uncle's mobile phone. The uncle said that she went abroad and came back in about a week. At that time, Sui Yi was a little impatient, and a dead horse became a living horse doctor. He even called the teacher's phone. After the call, he remembered that the card he had saved was given to him by his mother before he died. How could his father know

The teacher was very happy to receive his call, his voice raised a few degrees, and asked him if he was doing well recently and when he would come back for dinner. Sui Yi was impatient, politely responded with a few words, and hung up the phone.

He can't go home. Giving up the opportunity to go to a foreign music academy for further studies and joining the group despite everyone's dissuasion is the only way for him to show his stance and determination. He broke the boat and cut off all retreats long ago.

Besides, what are you going to do back? See him respecting and loving the teacher and his father for more than ten years at home, loving me and me, living like a husband and wife

Disgusting.

Sui Yi walked to the stairwell, took a deep breath, and called her aunt.

As expected, the aunt had already returned to China. After the greeting, Sui Yi asked her straight to the point if she could monitor the income and expenditure records on the card her mother left him. The aunt was silent for a moment and then admitted.

"Please ask me to take good care of you when my sister is gone. You are still young and don't understand the sinister nature of people. I can't take care of you if you are far away, so let Xiao Chen help me to see if you have made any friends recently."

it is as expected.

Sui Yi closed his eyes helplessly. He knew that what my aunt told Gu Chenkai was not just that, she must have at least found out the surname of the payee, otherwise Gu Chenkai would not have taken the number and insisted that the 200,000 yuan was transferred to Ning Lan.

Sui Yi directly asked his aunt to stop supervising his normal life on the phone.

"I am an adult. Although I still have to rely on my mother's inheritance to maintain my life, I am confident that I will be independent soon. I hope you will give me the right to manage my own money. I also know what kind of friends I want to make, and I hope you don't. put one's oar in."

Polite but not polite remarks made the aunt on the other end of the phone silent for a long time.

In the end, she answered and told him and Xiao Chen to take care of each other, and hung up the phone.

Sui Yi stood in the stairwell for a while, the long, narrow and dim stairway in front of him reminded him of the scene where he and Ning Lan sat here and shared a mango the night before their debut.

Now Ning Lan will no longer gag with him, or even avoid him and not talk to him. Just because of such a misunderstanding.

On the one hand, Sui Yi felt regretful, but on the other hand, he felt that it was not worth it for someone like Ning Lan. If he hadn't betrayed his promise and abandoned the group, it would not have caused such a result.

What if you stopped smiling at him? Ning Lan didn't even have the qualifications to make him feel a gap in his heart.

Just an irrelevant person, sooner or later he will be wiped out of his life without a trace.

Sui Yi persuaded himself, turned around and pulled the door of the stairwell, preparing to go back to the practice room to continue dancing.

The stairwell is close to the corner of the floor, with wide and quiet sightlines. It is a holy place for smoking and whispering. Before Sui Yi's hand on the doorknob could be pulled, he heard two people talking outside.

"As an agent, I'm only responsible for passing messages, not for helping you make decisions. As for this kind of thing, some people think it is unacceptable to sell one's dignity, and some people think that if you want to get something, you must make sacrifices, so you have to measure it yourself."

It was Zhang Fan's voice.

If Sui Yi didn't understand this sentence, then the answer from the other party made him fully understand the main point of their conversation.

"Just to accompany you?" Ning Lan said.

"Well, it's a game made by a well-known producer. Not only you, but also a few young people under me will also go. You don't want to think too much about this. You can get ahead without a background in this circle. Yes, how many of them are innocent? Everyone takes what they need. Today's game is full of powerful people. If you are not used to it, you can come back after drinking and chatting, and no one will stop you."

"Oh, I see."

"Then I'll go first, go or not, send me a text message before 6 o'clock." Zhang Fan was about to leave when he stepped on the ground and made two crisp sounds.

"I'm going." Ning Lan stopped her, and her voice came through a thin door panel, sounding very calm, "What's the address, what time do you go?"

Zhang Fan stopped: "At eight o'clock, Bihai Chaosheng Hotel."