AITAAFYMIBP Chapter 5.2

Merry Christmas 🎄 this chapter is the longest one so far with 4k plus words!!!

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Gu Siye picked up the microphone again. Began to read out the following rules “But please note that each mentor’s team can only exceed 15 people.”

After listening to this, many trainees couldn’t laugh. Until this moment they haven’t thought that the rules behind the next section would be cruller.

“Tutors and trainees implement a mutual selection process. In the first stage, the trainees are the first to choose. Each person can only choose one tutor. Once selected, it cannot be changed. At this stage, each tutor’s name is not counted.”

“The second stage is for tutors’ Inverse selection. The trainee can only enter the mentor team if the mentor approves it. If the mentor refuses, the trainee will enter the selection process. If there are more than 15 trainees under the mentor’s name, the excess trainees must be eliminated from the team. Eliminated people will enter the same Stream selection.” 

The atmosphere of the stage gradually solidified, leaving only Gu Siye’s voice echoing in the hall.

“The selected trainees have a second chance to choose, and the mentor’s approval rules are as above. If there are not enough trainees in the said mentor then they will automatically enter that team.”

After listening to Gu Siye’s information about the rules of the game, many of them who were overjoyed were now no longer happy.  

Everyone began to worry. If it was only them who had to choose a mentor, then it’s fine, but the key is that other mentors will also vote against them, which means that when they make a decision, they must be sure that their favorite mentor will vote for them. Just because they want to be with their mentor doesn’t mean that they will be given first priority. 

After Gu Siye’s announcement, the trainees couldn’t help but start discussing. Some little fools were still confused by the rules, and were asking around to find out what was going on. Those with fast brains have already begun to analyze the current situation and started curating a plan for which mentor they should choose to be safe. As the discussion deepened, all the trainees became nervous.

The other thing that every trainee was worried about is that they aren’t worried about if they manage to choose a mentor who suits their style, instead, they all were anxious and also afraid that they would end up being selected out of nowhere and be forced to fall into Lin Yanran’s group.

Though all trainees admit the fact that Lin Yanran is good-looking. But they are also as clear in their hearts, that he was just an empty vase without any flowers to admire. Anyone who knows Lin Yanran a little knows that he has been in the acting industry for six years and only managed to come dar because of his face. His business ability is almost the same as he was six years ago, without any improvement, his strength is unspeakable. 

So if such a wasteful mentor leads the team, it means that if someone is unfortunate enough to be assigned to his group, not only will he not be able to help the players, but also because of his negative reputation, the audience may not love the whole team he leads. As simple as that, no players will surely want to go to him. But the competition rule stipulates that the four mentors team must be full, which means that there will always be 15 unlucky people who will be assigned to his group. Going to such a group means all wait for them is elimination and endless black material for the rest of their lives, and none of the trainees dares to joke about their debut and acting career. Therefore, they are very clear about the choice this time, and they must be done or die!!!! 

Xuan Yihan’s roommates, who realized that the situation was very dangerous, also surrounded him. The roommates all agreed that Xuan Yihan was kind-hearted and smart, so they all came to him to discuss strategies.

One of the roommates, Fu Bohao, summed up the information he had collected for everyone, “I just checked it, and everyone in Class A is quite relaxed. They have almost made their decisions.”

Another roommate, Tan Zixuan said. “After all, the strength of Class A is unbeatable, so they aren’t afraid that any mentor will not want them.”

Fu Bohao nodded and sighed, “I envy them, I was rated C, and I don’t know how I will choose.”

Xuan Yihan, who had been listening to the roommates, took over the topic promptly and suggested, “Your vocals are very strong, maybe you can try Mr Han Zhe’s team.”

Fu Bohao was puzzled, “Why?”

“Because he is the only rap leader! Those trainees who have rap quality, their first choice would be Han Zhe.” Xuan Yihan said and looked at Fu Bohao, “think about it, if a team is all dancers how can Teacher Han Zhe compete with other teams?”

After all, the protagonist is the protagonist, and Xuan Yihan’s brain and IQ are much higher than other people’s cannon fodder. While everyone was still struggling with how to choose a mentor, he figured out what the mentor would think.

After giving a reality check to Fu Bohao, Xuan Yihan continued: “Similarly, you don’t need to think that Class A is very secure. Each mentor would consider the overall balance of their team when selecting people, and they would try to select vocal, dancers and rappers to balance their team as much as possible. If the positions are randomly full without thinking and the styles don’t match, the A class will also be kicked out of the team.”

“So, they only have a slight advantage over us, but as long as we make a good choice,  we can guarantee not to go. … there.” Xuan Yihan paused deliberately, although he didn’t mention Yanran’s name, everyone already knew who he was talking about.

Xuan Yihan spoke again, half as if comforting and half cheering for his roommate, “We won’t have that bad luck.”

Tan Zixuan heard this and his eyes lit up and quickly asked Xuan Yihan to help him analyze how he should choose.

Xuan Yihan supported his chin and looked like thinking, and after a while, he said, “Go to the Tang Tang teacher group, their group should lack dancers.”

Fang Su on the side didn’t care which group he went to, he only cared about Xuan Yihan. What choice will he make?

“Hanhan, which mentor are you going to choose? I’ll follow you.”

Xuan Yihan glanced at Pei Luo across the crowd inadvertently. The other party is also looking at him at this time and is telling him through his eyes that he will openly accept him in his group.

Xuan Yihan, who could feel that Pei Luo was interested in him. But he had a bottom line in his heart, he shook his head at his roommates, “I haven’t made up my mind yet, after all, I don’t have any experience as a trainee, and I’m learning everything now. I am not like you all. And I don’t have things that you are good at, so I’m not sure if the mentors will want me.” 

The roommates saw Xuan Yihan so worried, and couldn’t help hugging him, “It’s okay, you are excellent. learn things quickly, except for someone, other tutors should like you very much.” 

The discussion among the trainees was in full swing and tangled. The few people who are mentors looked very calm on the surface, but they are just as nervous as trainees in their hearts. At first, it was nothing but to grade the trainees but now they have become the objects selected by the trainees in turn.

It doesn’t matter if their popularity is high or not, if their strength is strong or not. What matters now is whether or not they can save face in front of everyone all at once.

After all, there are four mentors, so in the end. If there are no trainees on their side at that time, while the opposite mentor has a lot of trainees, such a comparison will simply be a public execution. Having it under the lens of the national level is too embarrassing.

Even Han Zhe, who was thought by everyone to be the most real and the least concerned about these things, was thinking about whether he had offended too many trainees before with his mouth too poisonous.

While on the other hand Tang Tang who is more honest than Han Zhe, she made no secret of hiding her nervousness, she patted her chest and cried her heart out to Lin Yanran.”Oh, what should I do, I’m so nervous, my style doesn’t seem to match with everyone, and I feel like I will be publicly executed.”     

Lin Yanran comforted her, “No, I will give you the benefit of doubt”

During the rules, he was very happy, laughing at the simplicity of the trainees. Unexpectedly, the face-slap came so quickly, and now the clown has become himself. The original host didn’t have a good reputation among trainees, and nor did he expect everyone to be their choice. 

So Lin Yanran, who had already anticipated what was waiting for him to come, smiled and said, “You are so cute, let the audience execute me at that time.” 

In the camera, Lin Yanran said this in a relaxed tone, It doesn’t seem to really care.

After the rules were announced, the exciting first round of selection began. Probably because if all the mentors stayed together, there would be an embarrassing scene where the number of trainees would be too different from each other, so the program team made a decision, and asked the four tutors to go to a room assigned to each one of them. From there they would wait for the players to knock on the door.

After a brief handover with the staff, Lin Yanran was brought to the recording site. The four rooms are adjacent to each other, and his name tag is pasted in Room 4.

The nameplate of room 3 next to it says Pei Luo, and the names of rooms 1 and 2 opposite are Han Zhe and Tang Tang.

Lin Yanran pushed open the door of room 4 and found that it was empty, except for a few cameras, and there was not even a shadow of a staff member. He was the only one alive in the whole room.

Before the recording started, Lin Yanran glanced at the room and found that besides the water and the tablet with the trainee’s materials on the table on the tutor’s seat, the rest was some writing pens and white paper. He picked up the pen and turned it around in his hand a few times before putting it down. This is for the tutor to take notes, and he estimates that he will not need it later.

After walking around, Lin Yanran felt that the room was boring, so he walked towards the camera in front. He crouched down and asked the camera, “I’ll be here alone next?” The cameraman nodded obediently.

 After learning that no staff member would come, Lin Yanran sighed and said leisurely, “Then am I going to be imprisoned here for at least three hours?” He had already made a rough estimate. It took enough time to select all the 60 trainees. In addition to creating the effect of the program and communicating with the tutors, it took almost three minutes for each trainee to finally select the tutor.

Three hours and one hundred and eighty minutes, during which time you have to be filmed by cameras, what is the difference between being in jail?

In the studio behind the camera, the director who was in charge of filming Lin Yanran’s scene immediately died of laughter when he heard this description. Three hours in jail? Yanran really dared to say anything.

Lin Yanran got up and went back to his seat when a notification from the director’s team came from the headset.

After that, the host’s familiar voice sounded in all the rooms of the audience. “The four tutors have all arrived in the room, and the grouping session has officially started. Please choose the trainees in turn.”

The trainees have already been arranged in order, starting from Class A first.

There are nine students in Class A. As soon as the host finished the notification, someone immediately raised their hands and wanted to be the first to appear.

The person who raised his hand was Jia Wan Jiaxin. He walked to the front and back of the tutor’s door and looked at all four doors. After hesitating for a while in front of the camera, he chose to open the second door.

Tang Tang, who was unprepared, suddenly saw someone pushing the door in and was overjoyed. She held her face and kept asking the camera, unable to hide her excitement. “The first one chose me? Is this true? Is this true? It’s not a dream, hahaha?”

The sound insulation of the four rooms is very poor, and the laughter from Tang Tang’s opener spread immediately. In all rooms. Then, after the second trainee was selected, Tang Tang’s penetrating laughter spread to the ears of several mentors.

Two consecutive Class A trainees chose Tang Tang, and Pei Luo and Han Zhe, who were originally confident and relaxed, instantly felt the pressure. This two-way choice does not seem to be as simple as they thought.

After the first two trainees were selected, the third, fourth and fifth trainees followed. This time they did not choose Tang Tang but walked directly into Han Zhe’s room as if they had made an appointment. Most of the nine players in Class A had already passed, but none of them had opened the Pei Luo room door. 

Pei Luo, who was originally full of confidence, couldn’t sit still. Sitting on the jury’s seat, he loosened his crossed fingers, changed his posture frequently, and looked towards the door involuntarily. Born as an idol, he is quite versatile in singing, dancing, rap, and singing among the four tutors. Although the other teachers are very strong in their professional fields, of all of them, he was the strongest in all subjects. So he thought that the trainees would prefer him, and when he announced the rules, he even thought about whether it would be too difficult for him to choose because there were too many people. But who would have known that reality would be so slapped in the face?

In the broadcast, the host read out the name of the sixth contestant. Pei Luo took a deep breath and prayed silently in his heart that this person would choose him. Fortunately, his wish came true, and the other party really chose him. Not only that, but the three class A trainees in the back also chose his team, which allowed Pei Luo to save face.

Due to the poor sound insulation, all the instructors could hear each other’s movements, so each person was probably assigned a few class A players, and everyone knew it.

Pei Luo pointed at the camera and then pointed at his four class A students and smiled, “Are there so many here? Would a teacher with few people be able to beat me?” 

It seemed like a joke, but in fact, it was a bright irony that even Zhang Duo was next door could detect.

However, Pei Luo didn’t know that when he was chatting, Lu Yanran, who was already mentally prepared, had leisurely read the information of all the trainees, and was now showing them a sketch according to the ability of each trainee. 

Lin Yanran’s grandmother is a famous painter, and he painted with her grandmother for a while when he was a child. He is usually not that interested in painting, but the gene of painting is so powerful, even if he only studied half-heartedly for a while when he was a child, his current painting skills still beat the vast majority of people.

The camera tactfully captured Lin Yanran’s movements. It quietly lowered its head and shot down, recording the whole process of Lin Yanran’s painting.

One sheet, two sheets, three sheets…

There were more and more stacks of A4 paper cut into small sheets on Lin Yanran’s right hand.

When Lin Yanran drew the tenth person, Xuan Yihan, who was the last to appear in Group B, finally came to the door of the tutor. He hesitated for a long time at the camera, walked to Tang Tang’s door for a while, and tangled at Pei Luo’s door for a while.

“The one I want to choose the most is Mr Pei Luo…”

Xuan Yihan looked at Pei Luo’s name in front of the door eagerly, and then looked like he wanted to cry without tears, “but everyone likes him very much, and he is popular there. He must be very prosperous. If I choose him, I will be under a lot of pressure. I always feel that I will become cannon fodder and then be cast out…”

Xuan Yihan folded his hands and closed his eyes reverently. After adding the scene to himself, Xuan Yihan slowly pushed open Pei Luo’s door.

Everyone in the room cheered loudly, and Pei Luo also gave him a hug with open arms.

“Welcome Hanhan.” 

The instructor greeted the newcomer like this, and the others immediately followed and said loudly, “Welcome Hanhan!”

Xuan Yihan was flattered and thanked, glanced at the people in the room and immediately shrank his neck, ” Wow, Mr Pei, your popularity is high! Almost all the students in Class A and Class B are here.”

Pei Luo raised his eyebrows proudly. But after seeing Xuan Yihan’s seemingly unconfident expression, he immediately reassured him, “Don’t worry, your strength is not inferior to Class A.”

The sound insulation of the program team is really poor, only a wall has separated the eyes and ears. Lin Yanran, who was present, heard everything Xuan Yihan said clearly and he felt goosebumps all over the place.

The more lively the next door was, the more deserted Lin Yanran’s room became.

Even the director in charge of filming Lin Yanran felt that he was a little pitiful.

However, at this moment, Lin Yanran’s door No. 4 was knocked on three times.

Lin Yanran looked at the door curiously, and quickly put down the pen in his hand.

“Please come in.”

Lin Yanran originally thought that a trainee had chosen him, but he didn’t expect it to be Gu Siye.

Gu Siye swaggered in, glanced at the empty room, and walked directly to Lin Yanran’s side. He lowered his head and glanced at the stick figures drawn by Lin Yanran, and then casually flipped through them, “How do you feel?”

“It’s okay, to be honest.”

Lin Yanran got up and smiled, “I’ve done a good job of picking up the treasure. And psychological preparation.”

Gu Siye stopped the movement in his hand and stared into Lin Yanran’s eyes.– Picking up a treasure? Talking nonsense with your eyes open?

 Lin Yanran also looked back. –if not? Even I need many shots.

After the two exchanged tacit glances, they smiled meaningfully at each other without breaking it.

Lin Yanran suddenly discovered a very miraculous thing. He and Gu Siye had only known each other for less than a day, but the other party gave him the feeling that they had known each other for many years. What they want to express to each other is always understood with just one look.

Gu Siye chuckled and lowered his head, and went through Lin Yanran’s paintings one by one.“Your painting skills are good, and  are very expressive.”

“Thank you for your compliment, I learned a little bit when I was a child.” 

“Then can you help me draw a picture?”

“Now?”

Gu Siye nodded, “Yes, Isn’t it inconvenient?”

Lin Yanran picked up the pen and shook his head, “That would be a shame.”

Lin Yanran lowered his head and sketched on the paper as soon as he finished speaking. First, there was an outline, followed by facial features…

After a few minutes, Lin Yanran drew the simple strokes. But compared to the previous painting of trainees, it took him a lot longer, and this painting was naturally much finer.

Gu Siye took the piece of paper in his hand, glanced at it, and then asked the other party, “Don’t you sign a note?”

Lin Yanran was surprised, and then made a joke, “Mr Gu, you want my signature by telling me so straightly.”

The corner of Gu Siye’s mouth curved, but he did not deny Lin Yanran’s statement.

Lin Yanran picked up the pen again and signed his name at the bottom of the portrait. He didn’t know how the original owner’s cursive characters were written, so he wrote the word “Yanran” on it according to his habit of writing names.

The iron is painted with silver hooks, the pen is drawn with dragons and snakes, and the writing is very beautiful. Gu Siye carefully put the signature and portrait in his pocket, then turned around and walked out.

“I have to go to other tutors to see, you can play slowly by yourself.”

After Lin Yanran sent Gu Siye away, he did not go back to draw the trainee but wandered around the empty room.

The director of the studio who was in charge of filming Lin Yanran chatted with his colleagues while watching him wandering around.

“It looks like Yanran is really bored.”

“That’s right, he’s been forced to paint all the time.”

“I’d be crazy there alone.”

“No wonder he said he would sit for three hours in prison…”

Everyone chatted and couldn’t help laughing again, and someone suddenly said, “Although there is no one here, it’s actually quite interesting.”

“Yes, yes, can you believe in looking at his paintings? Haven’t we watched him painting for more than an hour? Hey, where is Yanran?”

A few people didn’t pay attention to the camera while chatting, but when they regained their senses, they found that Lin Yanran was completely gone.

Just when everyone thought that Lin Yanran was going to the toilet, he came out of a blind spot in the camera. He had a copy of the document in my hand…

Five-year college entrance examination and three-year simulation (English version)!

After reading the words clearly, the directors were stunned.

 “Damn, Wusan?? How can there be such a thing in the room!!”

“Where did he find it??”

“He, what is he doing???”

Lin Yanran walked back to his position, Put away the other things. Then slowly with the use of his white hand, he picked up the signature pen on the table. Then he buried his head and began to seriously brush the questions!

In the director’s room, several staff members looked at each other and then turned their attention to Lin Yanran who was writing the title of the exam sheet. Everyone in the room was left speechless. 

When Lin Yanran was just brushing the first set of test papers in the camera –

The director sighed: “I’m forcing the child…” 

The staff worried: “Will he do these questions?”

Half an hour later, they all watched Lin Yanran helplessly. He has already written three sets of books, and was about to start the fourth set of questions–

The director was terrified: “Is Yanran the devil!!!”

“It turns out that this is the correct way to solve an English paper? ? ? ? ?”

Lin Yanran, who was originally a top student, brushed the questions very quickly. After finishing a few test papers, he estimated that he was about to get off work, so he put away the five-three.

After getting up and moving his muscles, he found a fourth-order Rubik’s cube behind the sofa cushion.

After looking down for a while, he played again. In less than a minute, the messy Rubik’s Cube was restored.

Lin Yanran disrupted the Rubik’s Cube, and then quickly restored it again.

Once again everyone watching Lin Yanran was left baffled.

 

? ? ? ??

“Are you here to play magic! ! !”

“Is he a dog? How can you find anything easily!”

After looking for various things to pass the time, the part of the trainee selection has finally come to an end, and only a few students from Class F are left without making a choice.

Lin Yanran, who almost sat in prison, just wanted to get off work, leaned on the chair at will and counted down the clock. But he never expected that the No. 4 door of his room would be knocked again.

The visitor looked carefully, and when he saw Lin Yan, he said hello to him, “Hello, teacher~”

Lin Yanran asked the other person with special concern, “Are you sure you didn’t go to the wrong room?”

Xia Xingxing shook his head, closed the door and walked In front of Lin Yanran, “No, I’m here for you, Teacher Yanran.”

Lin Yanran, who was sitting on the cold bench by himself from beginning to end, was a little shocked.

 

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