Climb To the Top

After Jiang Ting set the tone, she hurriedly started practicing, but the boys’ group was different.

The eliminated trainee, Shi Yi, made it clear that he was unwilling to return to the stage. After the program group wanted to persuade him a second time, Shi Yi’s counterpart had already hung up the phone. As for the address left behind at the beginning, it was also unclear. It was obvious that Shi Yi did not want to be disturbed by the program group.

The program group could only take the other three eliminated trainees to the boys’ group’s practice room. After the nine boys met, they began to discuss the team competition.

However, a problem arose, what song and what style of performance should the boys’ group choose? This series of questions made people feel embarrassed.

Xu Jiayin, the top trainee in the boys’ group, suggested that everyone make a cool dance music stage, but Chen Yi rejected it because Chen Yi felt that most people could not do it well.

Compared to the girls’ group, most of the trainees prefer to dance, and the boys’ group has more vocal-oriented trainees, such as Liu Zhongming, Xu Zhengxuan, Lin Yu, Luo Tianning, and Yin Ziyu, all prefer vocals. Even Xu Jiayin is the same, his vocal ability is stronger than his dance ability.

Probably learning from Jiang Ting a kind of ability to show the advantages and charm of trainees in the competition, Chen Yi weighed the pros and cons and rejected Xu Jiayin’s proposal for the first time.

And Chen Yi’s refusal, in Xu Jiayin’s eyes, is not right. He began to think, Chen Yi voted higher than him on the stage in the last issue, is this Chen Yi’s provocation to him?

Unlike Jiang Ting, no one in the girls’ group threatened Jiang Ting’s status. Even if they opposed Jiang Ting, Jiang Ting had reasons to refute them, but Xu Jiayin was different.

Xu Jiayin himself is an extremely proud person and he is unwilling to believe in other people’s judgments. Even when he cooperated with Jiang Ting in the beginning, it was Xu Jiayin who took the initiative first. Later, Jiang Ting kept analyzing their interests for him, and finally, changed his mind and successfully made Xu Jiayin back down.

But at this moment, in the boys’ group, Chen Yi rejected Xu Jiayin’s proposal for no reason, which made Xu Jiayin a little dissatisfied.

Fortunately, when Xu Jiayin realized that this was a competition and not his willfulness, he calmed down and asked Chen Yi.

“Can you tell me why? I need to know the reason for your rejection.” Xu Jiayin said.

Chen Yi frowned and asked the other party, “Do you think this song can be performed by each of us?”

Xu Jiayin subconsciously replied: “Why is the performance not good? This song is not difficult.”

After hearing his answer, Chen Yi only felt a headache. Now he really wants to know how Jiang Ting persuaded the other party so that Xu Jiayin could obediently listen to her.

Chen Yi understands Xu Jiayin because Xu Jiayin is similar to the top student in the school. He can’t understand how the scumbags have such poor academic performance.

For him, doing a Mathematical Olympiad question is very simple, but for a scumbag, just reading the question is as confusing as reading a book from heaven, let alone doing the question. This is the difference between a top student and a bad student!

In the same way, the songs in Xu Jiayin’s eyes are not difficult for him, but they are very difficult for other trainees.

Jiang Ting and Xu Jiayin are actually the same kinds of people, but Jiang Ting can realize the gap between other female trainees and her. She will take the overall situation into consideration, accommodate others, and take the initiative to reduce the difficulty of the stage. It stems from the habit she has developed in her life from childhood to adulthood.

The life of the orphanage has created Jiang Ting’s character who is willing to fight, win, and calculate, but at the same time, it also shapes her overall view. The dean did not cultivate her into a petty and selfish character.

But how could Xu Jiayin, the proud son of Heaven, who was completely opposed to Jiang Ting and was a happy man, consider someone who was inferior to him?

From childhood to adulthood, the words Xu Jiayin has heard the most are praise and admiration. It can even be said that there are very few people who are willing to reject him and refute his opinions. But there are two people in this show, one is Jiang Ting, and now Chen Yi is the other.

For the former, Jiang Ting reversed Xu Jiayin’s thoughts by abolishing his strength, but what about the latter?

The latter, Chen Yi, was not as eloquent as Jiang Ting and can calculate Xu Jiayin step by step into her vision. But he knew that at this time he had to show his cards directly, otherwise, Xu Jiayin would not know where his misunderstanding was.

He said aloud and said earnestly: “Jiayin, think about it carefully. This song is too difficult. We only have three minutes to perform and we have to perform a complete stage. Don’t you think, for some members, is it too difficult? If you don’t understand what I mean, then you just need to understand that the stage is not difficult in your mouth, but it is very difficult in the eyes of some of our trainees. This is a group competition, not your solo show. You should consider the other members.”

His sharp words made Xu Jiayin’s face uneasy and the expressions of the others froze and they did not dare to speak.

But Chen Yi’s words made everyone listen again and they began to think of the last team competition. In the beginning, when everyone listened to Xu Jiayin’s song selection, the stage effect of the final performance was not good.

Gradually, someone could not help but say, “Actually, what Chen Yi said is right, why don’t we change the song?”

His words opened up other people’s chatterbox and then they all spoke.

“I also think what Chen Yi said is right. This song is indeed a bit difficult to perform.”

“How about we look at other songs?”

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The trainees’ ‘betrayal’ made Xu Jiayin silent. He began to ponder whether it was really his problem.

He thought about it for a long time and could not help but whisper, “Is the song really that difficult?”

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This round of entries: “Love Shot”

Original vocals: EXO