Sleepless Nights

Who did Qin Lu choose?

He didn’t choose any of the seven teammates present but chose someone no one expected.

Even the assistant director had no idea who this person was when he saw the photo. The assistant director who recorded the whole process had an impression of most of the trainees who performed well, but the boy in the photo looked ordinary. After searching his memory for a long time, he could not recall this person.

Qin Lu said: “Choose him for both options.”

When the assistant director asked him why, Qin Lu didn’t tell the camera why, he just smiled.

The night before, when Qin Lu was the last to leave the practice room, he accidentally saw a boy wearing Class F training uniform running laps in the square through the window. It seemed that he was tired. He held his knees and took a few breaths, but did not move for a long time.

After a while, he slowly squatted down.

The pressure is too great, and the trainees are emotionally broken but they don’t dare to expose themselves in front of the camera. They can only vent outside for a while in the middle of the night. But when everything was silent, it didn’t seem any better.

Qin Lu looked at him from a distance for a while and did not go over to disturb him. The other party did not know that he happened to be seen.

The votes are all anonymous. When the votes are announced, he will only know that someone voted for him, but not who.

Although it doesn’t seem to make any sense, it might make him feel better.

Qin Lu looked at his teammates who were looking at him curiously, winked, smiled, tilted his head, and said, “I voted for myself, that should be okay, right?”

Han Suyan’s stiff expression suddenly relaxed as usual. He nodded matter-of-factly: “Of course.”

“It’s okay, it’s fine!” Su Qinglan was resurrected with full health and instantly became happy. He looked at Han Suyan, who had returned to his normal expression and made a face.

“Ji Yan.”

When producer Cui Zhihao read out the last trainee with votes, the F Class student whose name was called raised his head blankly, and the light gradually lit up in his originally dim eyes.

Someone choose him?

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On the fourth day of practice, everyone tacitly understood that the next day would be the day when the first overall ranking would be announced, which also meant that someone would be eliminated.

Therefore, it is inevitable that the trainees will be a little affected during the daytime practice and cannot fully concentrate. The people in Class A and Class B were okay. The trainees ranked lower in strength were all wondering if tonight would be their last night on the show.

In fact, it doesn’t seem to be a long time since we stayed at the training base and trained together, but it feels like it has been a long time since everyone became familiar with each other from complete strangers.

Probably, practicing together is the easiest way to develop a relationship. When you don’t practice well, you help each other. Everyone always has something they are better at or less good at. After some time, I was not only worried about being eliminated but also reluctant to leave my friends who got up early and went to bed late to practice together.

Perhaps even if we leave here, these days of dancing and singing together, encouraging each other and supporting each other, will still be remembered for a long time because of their preciousness and beauty.

After the training ended that night, people from each dormitory gathered in the now-empty assembly hall where it all started to play games and chat.

No one said this was a farewell party. Everyone looked relaxed and happy, and there was no mention that they would be saying goodbye to many people tomorrow.

Life is short, and we have to experience countless partings in our lifetime. No one can stay with you all the time, your parents will grow old, and your best classmates will gradually go their separate ways. As long as it is a precious thing, it often cannot last long.

But all regrets are experiences that growth must embrace.

As long as you look forward, the sentimentality will gradually dissipate with another new encounter, but every time you are experiencing is still worth cherishing. Life is a constant rush forward, with sacrifices and gains, one journey after another.

There are a lot of trainees, and those who play well will be divided into several groups. If you want to change to other groups, you can rotate freely.

Originally, if there were a lot of people, we could play card games like UNO, but now that all the luggage that is not related to the recording of the program has been temporarily taken away, we can only use the limited resources to make temporary use of it.

There are not many creative games. Without props, one group of people is playing Werewolf, another group is playing Truth or Dare, and Qin Lu’s group is telling ghost stories.

Feeling his clothes being tightened, Qin Lu lowered his head slightly, with a slight smile in his eyes.

The little curly head is as big as a bucket. There are several big words written all over his face: “Are you messing with me?” and he muttered in a low voice: “God bless me, I will never have nightmares tonight.”

On the left-hand side, Han Suyan glanced at him coldly and made a very unsympathetic comment: “You are overthinking this. This is not within the scope of God’s business.”

He paused, staring at Su Qinglan’s hand holding Qin Lu, and said lightly “Besides, Qin Lu is not a god, so what’s the point of holding him back?”

Su Qinglan was too lazy to pay attention to him, waving her hands casually and saying, “You don’t understand… Qin Lu is very reliable, and he is different from you anyway!”

Han Suyan’s arm He leaned his head on his knees, lowered his beautiful eyes, and cast a faint shadow on his long eyelashes.

Now it’s Fan Xi’s turn. The rich second-generation hot pot is well-deserved. To tell a ghost story, it must be a ghost who likes hot pots.

Fan Xi’s eyebrows are full of excitement and passion: “If there is a place called Shilipuzi, someone can always eat hot pot.” When I simmered the spicy pot, I felt that the rolling red soup was like a sea of red fire in the endless hell. The beef turned from red to white, and the bloody meat slices gave off a strange meaty aroma after being scalded. Sometimes someone picked it up and took a bite…”

“Stop!” Nan Xiao interrupted him with a paralyzed face, but continued to complain despite Fan Xi’s dissatisfied expression, “Are you talking about hell on the tip of your tongue, or are you just hungry? Damn Food Diary?

I can’t tell whether you love hot pot or hate it. If you finish telling the story, will I be able to have a good hot pot meal in the future? After making two noises, he curled his lips and said, “Qin Lu said, you can’t do it in the first place.”

Nan Xiao looked at him doubtfully: “…?”

Qin Lu lowered his head and smiled. He probably knew what Fan Xi was going to say.

I saw Fan Xi saying seriously but gloatingly: “You can still have the freedom of a lunch box. If you want to make a career, don’t think about the freedom of hot pot. If you don’t want to recite the calorie list when you want to eat, just listen to me tell this story. Finished!”

Nan Xiao: “…Okay.”

Damn it, he remembered the days when he ate boiled chicken breast and boiled broccoli every day before this show.

Let Fan Xi do the talking. A little psychological shadow seems to be helpful.

For other people, this night was still unfinished, and wished the time would be extended, but for Su Qinglan, seconds seemed like years.

Fortunately, Qin Lu is there.

When everyone ended with happiness and sadness, one side of Qin Lu’s training uniform was already wrinkled.

Facing Little Curly’s pale face, Qin Lu thought for a while and said, “I don’t know if God will bless you.”

Su Qinglan looked nervous and saw the black-haired trainee’s eyes bright, and she said extremely reassuring words. : “But if you have nightmares, you can come to me.”

Little Curly was so moved that he swooped down and wanted to give Qin Lu a bear hug, but was slapped on the forehead by a hand from Hengli, stopping his progress.

Liao Junchen looked at him calmly: “You can also come to me.”

Su Qinglan: “…Uh, no, thank you, captain.”

The happy night passed quickly, and when the sky lit up again, it was the first general meeting. The day the rankings are announced.

When the trainees came to the studio where the initial rating stage of the first period was recorded for the second time, their mood was completely different from the confusion, excitement, and anticipation at the beginning.

Some people were so nervous that they couldn’t breathe, some were silently praying for God’s blessing, and some had a calm mind and fully accepted the results.

Trainees who are strong and confident in themselves have even been looking forward to this day so that they can know their popularity most instantly.

The last time they came, they sat on the pyramid-shaped stepped seats, stepping into the palace of dreams for the first time with fantasy and expectation.

But this time, the number of ladder seats has been reduced visibly. Each seat of different levels has been labeled with numbers in advance. The trainees are sitting on the opposite side of the pyramid, waiting for the first time to decide whether to stay or die. The votes are announced.

Either leave here, or survive by chance, or step to the top step by step, sitting at the top of the pyramid.

The trainees, who were just nervous at first, suddenly became a little excited when they entered the studio again and saw the shrunken step seats.

You can even hear your heart beating faster and stronger.

Bang, bang, bang.

There is only one purpose for everyone coming here – to make

their debut!

Breaking out from the ninety-nine trainees, walking up the golden steps step by step, he became one of the last nine people to form the group. Keep the stage that everyone dreams of having, with the brightest and most dazzling lights, allowing thousands of fans to shout their names in the audience.

You need to raise your head from the bleak practice room and move towards the bright place.

After the theme song, the trainees, who once again put on their white uniforms, were guided by the staff and took their seats according to the company’s distribution. Producer Cui Zhihao arrived late, and the students who were chatting nervously to distract themselves suddenly became quiet.

“Long time no see, everyone.” It hasn’t been that long, but producer Cui Zhihao is busy with work, so he feels a little unfamiliar when he sees these trainees again.

The trainees bowed and smiled after hearing this: “Teacher Cui, we miss you

very much.” Cui Zhihao pretended to be satisfied and nodded: “Yes, you are very discerning.”

The atmosphere at the scene became a little more relaxed.

But then, producer Cui Zhihao suddenly cut to the chase and said seriously: “Everyone knows what process we are going to go through when we come here again today, right?”

Several small “I know” sounds came from the boys who were seated.

Producer Cui Zhihao smiled and nodded: “Yes, the results of the first audience producer vote will be announced soon.”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Qin Lu was an individual trainee, so he didn’t sit with his teammates. He sat in the corner of the first row, flanked by two relatively unfamiliar trainees. They only greeted each other politely and didn’t interact much with each other.

At this point, no one was in the mood to chat.

All the trainees’ eyes fell on producer Cui Zhihao. Since entering the training base, everyone has cut off contact with the outside world. Without the Internet, there is no way to know how popular each one will be.

It can only be a guess. Counting the days, the first episode should have been aired.

Instructor Yao Chen mentioned yesterday that tomorrow the program team will arrange for everyone to watch the first episode together as a reward event and to give everyone who stays a thorough understanding.

How many shots are there, and how good is the performance?

And when the time comes, those who leave can only go home and watch it back on their computers as viewers.

Now is the first and most important node, the result of which can change the fate of every trainee.

Producer Cui Zhihao smiled slightly: “Then the first ones to be announced will be the 63rd to the 54th.”