Chapter 137: Real Teammates

Chapter 137

Liu Xin and Yan Jinyu's argument suddenly stopped. Everyone looked towards the door, Youyou had come in.

"Youyou? How did you get here?"

Liu Xin was a bit surprised.

Not only had Youyou come back, but she also seemed to be in a pretty good mood. On top of that, she was dressed up by a stylist like usual.

"Senior Liu Xin?"

Youyou glanced at her, politely addressing her but with a rather cold look in her eyes,

"I had a work obligation this morning which took up practice time, I sincerely apologize to everyone and Senior Liu Xin."

"Work? You haven't terminated your contract yet, you should still be obedient..."

Facing Liu Xin's barrage of questioning, Youyou didn't respond at all, as if she hadn't heard it. She turned around and slightly bowed to Gu Minghua to show her regret, then went back to her seat.

Seeing Liu Xin about to say something else, Gu Minghua quickly spoke up first, his tone much stricter than usual:

"Whether to terminate or renew the contract is between you and the company. For now, we're focused on practice, please resolve your grievances privately."

Liu Xin couldn't say anything more. She turned around and started looking at the music sheet while Youyou had a smile on her face.

Qin Wei glanced over at her. Catching Youyou's eye, they exchanged a smile but didn't say anything. They obediently lowered their heads to look at the sheet music and listen attentively to Teacher Gu's explanation.

Gu Minghua wasn't interested in their grievances. Seeing they had stopped arguing, he began his lecture and demonstration.

"Alright, that's it for the chorus section. Familiarize yourselves with what I just went over, then go eat or rest. When you come back this afternoon, we'll start dividing up the lyrics. Just give me a copy once you've divided them up."

After finishing, Gu Minghua quickly left, as he had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, as soon as he exited, the practice room livened up again.

"Youyou, what's going on with you?"

Youyou got up to leave but was sternly called out by Liu Xin,

"You haven't terminated with the company yet, you should be obedient..."

Qin Wei suddenly stepped forward to shield Youyou behind her.

"This is an internal affair of our company. As the manager of the entertainment department's new artists, she's included. "

Liu Xin didn't have a good attitude towards Qin Wei either. After all, she knew the cameras were on but the director wouldn't be foolish enough to broadcast these clips.

"I think you're mistaken?"

Qin Wei passed her a tissue,

"You should thank yourself. I only introduced you to President Xu. He looked over your information and felt you were worth his effort to poach."

Youyou dabbed the corners of her eyes and softly said:

"But I know this is all thanks to you sis. I'm so touched, thank you for believing in me."

...

Finally everyone had arrived. For the groupings this time, Qin Wei and Sun Tiantian were separated. However, she was grouped with Youyou. Not only that, Li Ruyi, whom she had worked with before, was also placed in their group.

Along with Zhao Yan and Yan Jinyu, the strength of this group was still quite good.

The groups had to self-select a song to perform, which was an issue.

The five of them gathered together during the lunch break to start researching.

"It should be fast-paced."

Zhao Yan suggested first,

"Slow songs might sound nice and be worth examining deeply, but it's hard to excite the audience's emotions live on stage. Scores are given live, if the audience only feels it sounds nice after going home and carefully appreciating it, it'll already be too late for us."

Qin Wei took notes on paper while the others agreed as well.

Youyou thought of something:

"The lyrics need to be very inspiring and able to resonate with the audience. Like Zhao Yan said, there's little time live on stage for the audience to react so the lyrics can't be too profound but they also can't be too shallow."

Yan Jinyu stroked his chin and said after thinking for a bit:

"I'm thinking we need a stylistic breakthrough. There are a lot of groups in this show with various performance styles, constantly putting on the same style leads to aesthetic fatigue for the audience.

Like last time with you Qin Wei, your group's <Red Dress> was very unique, so you got especially high scores. Also your group's Rap live was pretty explosive."

<Red Dress> was indeed very good. Even Qin Wei herself felt satisfied with it after watching the playback. As for that Rap...

Qin Wei bitterly laughed:

"Don't mention it. Later when I went online to watch the replay, most of the comments still scolded me. They said I was the shame of rap and some even kindly advised me to go recite poetry at an elementary school auditorium...

I admit that on first listen it seems decent but listening to it a few more times is pretty unbearable."

Hearing her self-mockery, everyone couldn't help but laugh too. Being in this industry, who hadn't been ridiculed before?

The break was almost over and the others gradually trickled back in. Liu Xin came in with sheet music to distribute to everyone:

"I've already divided up the lyrics. Take a look, let me know if you have any feedback."