The performance ended at ten o'clock in the evening, and the fans left the venue reluctantly. They watched all the trainees get on the bus and go back to the recording base before going back to the hotel together.
The staff announced on the bus that the next day would be a holiday, and the trainees cheered happily, excited and sleepy, and after getting off the bus, they went to the cafeteria for supper to celebrate the successful end of the performance.
The drowsy master who sat with his head propped up at the supper window immediately became energized, busily yelling for entertainment and delivering barbecue and beer to everyone.
The cameraman and assistants of the program group also followed.
A hundred trainees filled most of the cafeteria to the brim. Qiu Yi, a trainee with a strong capacity for alcohol, took off his shoes and stepped on the stool, holding the bottle and shouting, "We won't return tonight until we get drunk. We won't leave until dawn."
The trainees stood up one after another, clinking glasses endlessly.
The trainees at the same table clinked glasses with each other, and Qiu Yi, who shouted that he would not return drunk, said again: "I have to finish drinking, not a single drop is left. Whoever doesn't finish drinking will just look down on the remaining ninety-nine buddies. "
The trainees who had already sat down sighed: "You drink first! We drink after you finish. If you can't finish this bottle, you just look down on us ninety-nine."
The corner of Qiu Yi's mouth twitched lightly, and he pulled himself out of the topic, "How can I be the first to drink? No matter what the first one is, the quasi-C should drink first."
The trainees turned their heads to look around excitedly, and they all went to find Jiang Lian's figure in the crowd, and urged, "You're right, brother, drink first!"
Jiang Lian stood up calmly, raised his wine glass facing the crowd, and drank the wine in the glass with his head raised.
The trainees applauded vigorously, and Rainbow boasted without any effort: "Big Brother is Big Brother!"
Jiang Lian smiled slightly, wanting to bend down and sit down.
Qiu Yi said abruptly again: "It's rare that there are so many people together, why don't we all take a group photo now."
The trainees responded in unison.
Qiu Yi turned around and shouted to the staff sitting in the corner: "Teacher, can I trouble you to take a group photo for us, thank you teacher!"
A staff member walks over with a camera.
The trainees stood up and gathered together. There are ten people sitting at each dining table, and everyone is crowded together shoulder to shoulder. Some sit on the lap of others, and some sit on the stool with half of their buttocks, and the other half hangs outside the stool.
Jiang Lian stood alone in the middle of the open space and held up his wine glass, while the remaining ninety-nine trainees sitting at the table held their wine glasses and clinked glasses in Jiang Lian's direction.
All faces turned to the lens in the hands of the staff in unison.
While focusing, the staff shouted at them: "Is the PD beautiful?"
The sight of the strong earth-flavored sightseeing group rushed to the face, and the trainees leaned on their teammates and laughed all over, but they still shouted in unison: "Beautiful!"
The picture was frozen at that moment forever.
I don't know who said it: "The day after tomorrow, it will be released sequentially. Such a group photo of the century will never be available again."
Someone answered: "Tonight is our only and last dinner for hundreds of people."
Some people said: "Two days later, we will no longer be able to gather a hundred people."
Some people even confessed sincerely: "I will be twenty-nine next year. I know, I am not good-looking, I am not young, and I don't have as many fans as you. But I still come here. This is the last thing I leave for myself. One chance. But no matter what, I’ve been on stage with you. Even if I’m eliminated the day after tomorrow, it’s not in vain, and I have no regrets.”
The celebration meeting after the performance turned into a farewell meeting before the first round of elimination. "Don't get drunk and don't return" that was blurted out like a joke ten minutes ago has really become a sympathetic one now.
Even Lin Ye, who has a relatively small social circle among the trainees, was hugged by many trainees with familiar faces but whose names they couldn't name, saying "I don't know if there will be a chance to drink together in the future", Advised to drink several glasses of wine.
The six people in Group A of "Eye of the Typhoon" just sat down at a table, Lin Ye swallowed the beer in his mouth, rested his head on one hand, and listened to Wen Fang and Cheng Chi absent-mindedly.
What came to mind was the scene of him blocking Jiang Lian in the bathroom a few hours ago.
Jiang Lian didn't give him any clear answer, and Lin Ye didn't expect that the cleaning staff would come to do the cleaning at that time. The two backed away from the door when they heard the movement, saw the cleaning staff pushing the door in with the cleaning bucket, and blurted out in a confused tone: "Why is it so dark? Is the light broken?"
Lin Ye remained silent.
Two minutes later, he and Jiang Lian went back to the waiting room one after the other, saw Qi Huan raised his head and asked, "Is there a lot of people in the bathroom?"
Lin Ye shook her head and said, "There are two restrooms, you can go a little farther, no one goes there."
Qi Huan thanked him, pulled Cheng Chi up and briskly walked out of the hall.
From then until now, Lin Ye has never been able to find a chance to talk to Jiang Lian alone.
He subconsciously turned his face away and glanced at Jiang Lian beside him.
The latter cast his gaze as if aware of it, but flitted across his face lightly, and landed on Ming Rang at the table next to Lin Ye.
Lin Ye lowered her eyelids and stopped looking at him.
Jiang Lian called Ming Rang across his name, Ming Rang turned his head when he heard the sound, and asked lazily, "What's wrong?"
Jiang Lian asked, "Are there any extra chopsticks on the table?"
Ming Rang casually picked up a pair of unopened chopsticks and waved at him, "Do you want it?"
Jiang Lian said, "I want it."
Ming Rang leaned over to hand it to him, but Lin Ye stood between them impartially. Wen Mian, who was watching the whole process, laughed at him and said, "Lin Ye, do you suddenly feel that sitting there is a bit redundant?"
Lin Ye raised her eyes and smiled, and replied cooperatively: "It seems a bit redundant."
Wen Mian moved to the side, patted the vacant seat and winked at him, "Come on, come and sit with me."
Lin Ye said: "Okay."
Get up after speaking.
Jiang Lian, however, seemed to have never heard of the confrontation between him and Wen Mian. One second before he stood up, he naturally raised a hand and pressed it on his shoulder, using his shoulder as a support point. , the other hand went over him, and precisely grasped the other end of the chopsticks that Ming Rang handed over.
Lin Ye turned her head to look at him, but didn't move, letting Jiang Lian put her left hand on her shoulder.
The other party took the chopsticks from Ming Rang's hand, and pressed Lin Ye's shoulder and sat up slowly. The moment the two of them crossed each other, Lin Ye heard Jiang Lian whisper, "Come and find me in the dormitory tomorrow night."
At three or four o'clock in the morning, some trainees on the supper table finally couldn't bear it, and left one after another to go back to the dormitory.
Lin Ye got up to look for Xia Dongchan, "When are you going back?"
Dazzlingly, Xia Dongchan climbed onto Lin Ye and stood up, saying to him, "Let's go now."
Lin Ye reached out to help him, and couldn't help frowning, "How much did you drink?"
Xia Dongchan leaned on his shoulder and chuckled, "I'm happy to win the opponent group."
Lin Ye nodded knowingly, let go of Xia Dongchan who was already standing firmly, and glanced at the other two roommates from the same company who were sitting diagonally behind, "Do you want to call them together?"
On weekdays, Xia Dongchan would probably have taken the initiative to talk to him at this time, but now he just followed his gaze and replied casually: "It's up to you."
Lin Ye paused, but still raised her foot and walked towards the two of them. After getting closer, he discovered that the trainees drinking at the same table as the two were also Zhao Yisheng and Yang Xu. Lin Ye remembered clearly that those two were not in the same group as Zhao Yisheng and Yang Xu in the group duel. But I don't know when the four of them started to get so close.
Suppressing the surprise in his heart, he called out the name of his roommate from the same company: "Xia Dongchan and I have returned to the dormitory, do you want to go together?"
The person who was called turned his head when he heard the sound, and waved his hands perfunctorily when he saw Lin Ye, "You go back first, we will go back with Zhao and them."
The attitude of the other party is also very different from the lunch at the same table a few days ago, and it is obvious that they want to alienate them. The thoughts in Lin Ye's mind gradually became clear, but he didn't take it seriously, nodded at the other party, turned and left.
Among the three people who came with the company, Lin Ye and Xia Dongchan have known each other for the longest time, and they have the best relationship with Xia Dongchan. As for the other two, they used to be ordinary colleagues who met and nodded when they were in the company.
Although he didn't know why the attitudes of those two people changed drastically, he didn't intend to waste time to investigate the reason. But they didn't expect the two to quarrel with Xia Dongchan in the dormitory first.
The reason was that the two made too much noise when they returned to the dormitory early in the morning. Lin Ye came back to take a shower and fell asleep for two or three hours, when he was woken up by the two people who turned on the ceiling lights and their voices. He rolled over to face the wall and pulled the quilt over his head.
Drowsy and drowsy, I heard Xia Dongchan say: "You don't sleep, there are still people in the dormitory who want to sleep, can you be quiet."
The two people below did not know what to say.
Even Xia Dongchan, who carried through to the end the principle of "establishing one's own personality well and never breaking face with anyone unless absolutely necessary", cursed in a low voice.
The voice of one of the two people below suddenly raised his voice: "Look at his face, he was able to appear in Jiang Lian's one-person interview by hugging Jiang Lian's thigh by himself, and climbed onto the bed of a company executive behind his back. With the entire company backing him, I'm afraid he can't wait to make his C-position debut tomorrow."
Another person echoed: "He is the prince of the company, and we are just accompanying the prince to study with him all the way."
Xia Dongchan sneered and said, "Accompanying you to run and read together? Is this how Zhao Yisheng brainwashed you?"
One of the two said: "You have so many lenses, how dare you say that the company didn't spend money to buy them for you?"
Xia Dongchan nodded, "You're right. The company just wants to praise me and buy me a lens, and Jiang Lian is willing to stretch out her thigh to hug me. You don't have a lens, and you don't have Jiang Lian's thigh to hug. You will be used as a spear by Zhao Yisheng, and come to me as a sour chicken."
The faces of the two of them darkened for a moment, and they stepped forward to tear Xia Dongchan off the bed.
Lin Ye lifted the quilt and sat up, with an impatient face, "Do you want to be kicked out of the show by fighting in the dormitory?"
Those two backed away and looked up at him who was sitting on the upper bunk, with anger on their brows, "The company wants to support Xia Dongchan, and you, like us, will only end up being eliminated by running with you all the way."
Lin Ye lay on the bedside railing and smiled indifferently, "Isn't that just what I want?"
The two were so blocked that they had nothing to say, their faces were full of anger and they had nowhere to vent. Finally, they grabbed their down jackets and slammed the door out one after the other.
Xia Dongchan stood up from the bed and stared at him intently, "Is elimination really in line with your wishes?"
"Fake." Lin Ye held back her smile and looked back at him, "I lied to them."
Xia Dongchan laughed, "The contract that the company gave me to sign is indeed different from yours. However, it is also fake if you hug Jiang to hold your thigh."
"I know." Lin Ye answered succinctly, and added in his heart that the fact that he hugged the river to hold his thigh was true.
Xia Dongchan asked him, "Have you gone to Jiang Lian?"
He didn't expect the other party to remember this incident. When the ranking was announced, he thought Xia Dongchan just mentioned it casually. Lin Ye paused slightly, "No."
Xia Dongchan showed regret, "If you don't talk to him, the spot in Jiang Lian's hand probably won't be reserved for you."
"If he doesn't give it to me, who else can I give it to?" Lin Ye leaned on the railing and thought for a while, "I remember that on the day the ranking was announced, most of the teammates in our group were ranked in the middle or upper middle."
Xia Dongchan looked up at him, "You don't know?"
Lin Ye said: "What should I know?"
"Yan Changfei's ranking," he paused, "didn't you see it?"
Lin Ye was startled, and involuntarily straightened up while supporting the railing, "I didn't see it."
"He's not bad, but his appearance and personality are not easy to attract fans. With almost zero shots, his ranking is a few places lower than yours. If you plan to compete fairly with Yan Changfei for the spot in Jiang Lian's hand, I think your The odds are slim." Xia Dongchan squinted her eyes and thought, "If I had to choose between you and Yan Changfei, I would choose to keep Yan Changfei."
Lin Ye remained silent.
What he thought in his heart was not that he might be eliminated, but Yan Changfei's ranking in Xia Dongchan's mouth.
He didn't expect that Yan Changfei's ranking would be lower than himself. Among all the trainees, no one is more diligent and hardworking than Yan Changfei. The difference between myself and Yan Changfei is too far.
Lin Ye looked up at the program language posted on the wall.
It turns out that the harder you work, the better you will not necessarily be.
He didn't know whether he should go to Jiang Lian or not. Xia Dongchan's words were straightforward, but they hit the nail on the head. The other party was right, if he and Yan Changfei were fighting for the spot, he would have almost no chance of winning. But Yan Changfei's strength and hard work are obvious to all, and he is not willing to use the deal with Jiang Lian to eliminate Yan Changfei.
Often when he feels that the choices in front of him are enough to embarrass him, he is always unprepared and does not expect that there will be an even more difficult choice waiting for him not far behind.
Lin Ye felt that she was caught in a dilemma.