VSROWDC Chapter 5 Part 1

It was obvious that Lu Nanyun didn’t believe Wan Long.

In the way he saw it, Ji Zeyu had never taken this competition seriously and had been carefree all this time. How could he have possibly gained the ability to teach others?

Yet, when curfew came, Bai Shengjie who was in the same dorm as Lu Nanyun also mentioned this: “I found out that you really can’t judge a book by its cover. My group’s captain looked like he knew nothing on ordinary days, but he really saved our entire team during an important moment.

Another boy in the dorm, Gu Weicheng, said: “Your group’s captain? Isn’t that Ji Zeyu? You’re joking. What did he do to save your team, love?” Gu Weicheng was a very blunt person and blurted out whatever he thought.

Wei Yichen had just finished taking a shower, he sat by the bed, drying his hair, he didn’t seem interested in their conversation.

Lu Nanyun was reading on the bed, his fingers stopped a little while turning the pages.

“How can you say that? He’s just hiding his talents.” Bai Shengjie said while drinking milk, “Even though his skills are questionable, he’s still pretty awesome.”

“Listen to yourself, aren’t you contradicting yourself right now?” Gu Weicheng obviously didn’t believe him. He was in the same company as Wei Yichen, so he knew all about Ji Zeyu’s bad history. He wouldn’t just accept Bai Shengjie’s attempt to redeem Ji Zeyu.

Bai Shengjie was getting a little impatient: “Oh my god, you don’t understand. But he isn’t as bad as you think.”

“Did Ji Zeyu buy milk for you? Why are you helping him now?” Gu Weichen rolled his eyes, “He’s just trying to coax you because you are very young. Don’t fall for his trap.”

Bai Shengjie was the youngest contestant in the show, though he was very tall, his appearance looked very young and easy to deceive.

Bai Shengjie could not beat Gu Chenwei’s reasoning and decided to straight-up ignore him.

“If I recall correctly, your group is against another pretty strong group. Their center role is Tang Zhen, he’s also in Class A.” Gu Weicheng continued, “Tang Zhen is way stronger than Ji Zeyu, it’s nearly impossible for your group to win.”

After hearing Gu Weicheng’s words, the remaining hope in Bai Shengjie’s heart was demolished. He said bitterly: “Shut up dude, I try not to even think about the PK, and here you are mentioning it.”

In Bai Shengjie’s eyes, even though Ji Zeyu showed extraordinary leadership skills, he could never beat Tang Zhen on the stage. The thought of his own team winning was indeed almost impossible.

Gu Weicheng shook his head and said: “It’s not my fault that you’re in Ji Zeyu’s group. It’s your problem now.”

“Look At Me Now” was separated into groups A and B. Tang Zhen’s in A and Ji Zeyu’s in B. Nearly everyone thought that group B was the cannonfodders, though they didn’t have terrible members. As long as Ji Zeyu was in their group, group B will never win.

But Ji Zeyu didn’t think so.

He picked a specific time and checked out group A’s status, and he found out that their group’s skill average was nearly the same as his own group. The only thing he worried about was if his terrible reputation online would affect the votes.

Tang Zhen saw that Ji Zeyu was “peeking around” and thought that it was very funny since there was no way anyone would see Ji Zeyu as an actual threat. If he could not even do the simple theme song correctly, then how could one expect him to perform an extremely hard song?

But out of politeness, Tang Zhen said to Ji Zeyu: “How’s the practice in your group going?” After he spoke, everyone turned around to look; their eyes were full of fake empathy. 

“Pretty good,” Ji Zeyu said, “Almost the same as you guys.”

Tang Zhen almost laughed out loud, but he held it back since there were cameras everywhere. He told Ji Zeyu, “Oh really? Then it looks like my group has to work extra hard now.”

“You got this,” Ji Zeyu gave them an encouraging gesture.

After Ji Zeyu left, Tang Zhen curled his lips. The look of ridicule flashed through his eyes, and his teammates also started to chuckle. If their microphone were not open, they really wanted to say: Ji Zeyu really is shameless.

Before the live performance, Ji Zeyu put all of his time and energy into practicing.

The “Shining Future” production crew prepared many practice rooms for the contestants, and they were open all day, every day.

Every night, Ji Zeyu would find a practice room with not many people, wear his cap, lower the rim of the cap, immerse in the beat of the music, and practice the live performance song over and over again.

He liked to wear a hat while dancing. It was a habit he had from his past life during the trainee period. Because at the time, he didn’t have any friends in the company and didn’t really know how to socialize. A lowered cap rim could block his face, avoid eye contact with others, and provide him with confidence and safety.

Even though Ji Zeyu said that he was the “aircraft”, his ability to learn dance moves was faster than anyone else in his group. Wan Long and the others needed three days to be familiar with these hard moves, but he only needed to practice twenty times before they became engraved in his mind.

Ji Zeyu had participated in many larger and harder TV shows compared to “Shining Future.” His abilities in this area were developed in unseen corners of TV shows, and he never took any shortcuts.

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Sorry everyone, the chapter was supposed to be posted yesterday!

Translated by: Puppxteer/Yutong

Edited by: Michael and Sydney