Chapter 76: One Step Away

This is Sheng Mingzhi's first public performance outside of acting, and it's a newly revealed violin skill.

The most important thing is that they are working with Kang Xing, who is currently the strongest candidate to debut in the trainee debut.

With more than a thousand replies, and the final night of the tournament just around the corner, the replies are going up at a rate of ten each.

"???"

"? Make something up that's reliable?"

"Everyone knows that dogs can only be skipped twice a day, so I don't suppose you're skimming us?"

"What a b, so Sheng Mingzhi's support act is not a titular guest?"

"There are twenty insider revelations a day in a debut battle, and yours is one of the most outrageous."

"Woc? Sheng Mingzhi's violin? Is he any good??"

"Am I the only one who cares that the boss's wife is running with Kang Xing at this point, is this a built-in winner?"

" Kang Xing can dance and I look forward to his collaboration with Sheng Mingzhi."

"No, no, no, no. I'm the only one on the internet who's thinking that Sheng Mingzhi's stage is really OK? Isn't he an actor? Haven't seen any stage solos from him?"

......

In an instant, the topic of discussion became two.

One is whether or not the winner of the trainee debut is already predetermined to be Kang Xing, otherwise why would the boss lady be running with her?

The other is much more discussed - can Sheng Mingzhi really perform anything that doesn't pull down the stage of the show?

Two topics and fights going in different directions.

Instead of Kang Xing fans and Sheng Mingzhi fans, it was Kang Xing fans and other trainee fans who fought first.

As the hottest reality talent show of the year, "Trainee Battle" has continued the success of its first season with HeMu's hype, and has become a top 10 hit as soon as the show starts.

The fans of the thirty practitioners who made it to the final round of the final round of the group, their ability to tear up and buy rose with the ranking of the main master, leaving a fan base that has not been torn apart by the fans of several other practitioners, which shows how strong their fighting power is.

Sheng Mingzhi's suspected performance with Kang Xing was immediately carried to major groups as soon as the melon festered on DouBan.

The first people who are not happy are the fans of the other trainees.

Sheng Mingzhi is a supporting actor, but I haven't seen him supporting anyone in as many issues.

Everyone knows that the boss's wife is just here to rub it in.

It's good that the water is even, no trainee can rub off on Sheng Mingzhi.

But after so many issues of silence, Sheng Mingzhi suddenly announced that the support act was on stage.

Not just any stage, but the stage for the final group night.

It is directly related to the ranking of the group on the night, as well as to the camera and position after the group, and the fans know exactly how important it is.

--What's the difference between that and just deciding Kang Xing is the C-suite?

To other fans of the trainee, it looked like HeMu was trying to build momentum for Kang Xing ahead of time, even enlisting Sheng Mingzhi to accompany them.

Anyone would have to make a scene, right?

The DouBan show has been tearing up the DouBan show for a morning, and the battle has gradually spread to Weibo.

And the stifling thing is that fans of the various practitioners who want to defend their rights can't find a reason to do so, after all, Sheng Mingzhi is just an ordinary support act aside from her status as the boss lady.

There seems to be nothing wrong with working with Kang Xing on stage.

If you want to take this loss, you can do so, but there is no place to vent your anger.

As a result, an outrageous scene emerged during the afternoon.

Kang Xing's fans have actually started defending their rights!

That's right, while all the trainee fans are holding back and holding their anger, Kang Xing's fans have started to defend their rights, arguing that Sheng Mingzhi's stage collaboration with Kang Xing was more than a little inappropriate.

Around two o'clock, an unofficial but influential fan of Kang Xing's suddenly opened the mic.

@MasterKang's Noodles: I understand that everyone is looking forward to the collaboration between Kang Xing and Mr. Sheng, and to be honest I would love to see them work together, but does this collaboration have to be on the final night? We all know how important the stage performance on the final night is, it's about us promoting Kang Xing to the passers-by, and it's about whether or not we can attract fans, and we respect Mr. Sheng as a performer, but Mr. Sheng doesn't seem to have much experience when it comes to the stage. If HeMu simply wanted to give Mr. Sheng a shot, they could have chosen another stage, why did they have to use Kang Xing's final stage to give him a chance?

The whole piece seems to be making sense, but in reality it is eerie.

The core of the argument, as I read it from beginning to end, is that it's your business to kiss the boss's ass, but why should your best contestant and most important stage be used to carry Sheng Mingzhi's sedan chair? Who will be responsible if Kang Xing's ranking in the group is delayed?

As soon as the big fans led the rhythm, the smaller fans who had still felt honoured to work with the boss's wife instantly fell in line as well.

I think Big Fan is right. Although working with Sheng Mingzhi is hot, what if the stage pulls a crotch and affects the ranking?

They all retweeted their approval, hoping that HeMu would reconsider the arrangement of the support act.

Even Sheng Mingzhi's Weibo comments have been overrun by Kang Xing's fans.

All of them are polite, but in fact very disrespectful messages.

Swipe General, requesting that Sheng Mingzhi can cancel the collaborative stage.

The front row of comments were all from Kang Xing fans.

Sheng Mingzhi has just finished writing his latest score and opened up Twitter to see what his Deep Cabinet fans are up to.

As soon as I opened the comments it all changed.

When he saw the screen full of accounts with Kang Xing's avatar, a "?" slowly popped up in Sheng Mingzhi's head.

As a tenth-ranked surfer on the Internet and a perennial hacker of the 18th tier of inner entertainment, Sheng Mingzhi knew when he saw this kind of pomp in his comment section that he was in trouble again.

Skillfully open DouBan and search for your big name.

Scratch a few random posts and you've got the whole story.

Oh.

It turned out to be a riff with Kang Xing fans.

To be honest, Sheng Mingzhi's heart didn't flutter when he saw Kang Xing fans jumping to their feet and saying they were pulling their brother's leg on stage.

There is no intention of even using the privilege to delete the posts.

It's not like he doesn't know internet users, the more he gags them the more they bounce around.

The more you are downright unconcerned, the more they may still be a little bit attracted to you as a star.

Add to that the fact that Sheng Mingzhi has had even more eyes on him since the revelation of his identity as Sheng Jia's boss's wife.

Not that the young ancestor will curb anything, the black material affecting his own reputation is withdrawn as it is, but this kind of petty tearing is a gift of heat.

A surefire way to abuse your fans and fix them - if Sheng Mingzhi has any fans.

He looked twice and it happened to be a long time since he had been on the line with his netminder.

Sheng Mingzhi is still a bit of a loner, and after scratching the comments twice, he's ready to pick a few unlucky people to review.

As a result, he hadn't even started the lineup -

Some of Sheng Mingzhi's daily comes to clock in and reads as anti-fans writing for the deep cabinet of netizens to come.

As soon as I saw that the comment section had changed, the words I had prepared for my daily dissing of Sheng Mingzhi instantly turned into question marks.

Then spent ten minutes learning the antecedents and raging.

What the hell?

Since when did Sheng Mingzhi's comment section get to be the domain of these retarded fans?

Don't you know that this is their anti-fans base? Ask around in the comment section of the small waste who is the father OK?

Never in my life have I fallen out of the top three of Sheng Mingzhi's hot reviews!

The two waves of fans crashed together and immediately tore it up.

It's just that Sheng Mingzhi's anti-fans usually fight against the real owner - Sheng Mingzhi himself - and are obviously not as tough as ordinary fans.

Kang Xing Fan 1: "Mr. Sheng, it's great to have Kang Xing working with you, but can you change the stage? Not on the final night?"

-- [Yes, just jump on top of the new coffin board I bought you (soybean thanx)]

Kang Xing Fan 2: "We believe Mr. Sheng would not want to see a promising Purple Star fall."

-- [5 seconds before Kang Xing Fan 2 posted this comment, the 2023 Zweiwei Xing persona was still a small waste of time (pity the yellow beans)]

Kang Xing Fan 3: "We hope Mr. Sheng can propose a different stage, after all, Kang Xing is too small to respond even if HeMu says so, but you are Sheng Jia's boss lady, so HeMu will definitely do what you say."

--【 What Sheng Mingzhi said is what he said? Sheng Mingzhi says I'm your father, am I your father? (Soybean question mark)]

Kang Xing Fan 4: "We have no intention of clashing with Mr. Sheng's fans, we just want to find a common solution."

--[Don't curse when you talk nicely, why did you come up and call me a Sheng Mingzhi fan?

In later years, the tearing became more and more intense.

Kang Xing fans were outraged by these anti-fans' comments, which were so overwhelming that they broke down their defences.

"Who doesn't know that HeMu is arranging this to please Sheng Mingzhi and to carry Sheng Mingzhi's palanquin? What kind of stage can he have as an actor? He doesn't think he's a good violinist just because he has a violin persona, does he?"

--What kind of palanquin is your brother carrying for Sheng Mingzhi? What kind of sedan chair did your brother carry for Sheng Mingzhi? Do you need me to print out the introduction of his Baidu encyclopedia and paste it on your head? Do you not know the word MingChen or Sheng Jia? Sheng Mingzhi is a good violin player, why do you need to bark here?

Sheng Mingzhi was a little upset to see this.

The anti-fan himself came down and replied to the anti-fan, defiantly saying.

"Why didn't Lu Jiayan marry me in a palanquin?"

This response was an explosion of sorts.

All of his anti-fans have stopped fighting Kang Xing fans and are instead building a building within a building under his comment.

"Children don't interfere when adults are talking, understand?"

"You're going to reply to this after half a day's thought??? What else can you have in your head but a relationship?"

"Who cares, all I care about is that other people are actually calling you out for having higher likes than I do?"

"I usually see you arguing with us with sharp teeth, why are you standing around and letting Xiu Fan beat you up (Soybean wonders)"

"Just made a bet with Kang Xing fan that your violin is absolutely stunning to his brother, and if you lose, you will give them 10 million, when the time comes, you remember to transfer the money yourself."

"Do you need support on the night of the group? Push you some reliable support shops, let's not be too embarrassed if we lose (light a cigarette)"

"If you lose, block Kang Xing, block it fast enough and we won't lose.jpg"

Sheng Mingzhi: ......?

Who's with you?

You are you.

I am me.

OK?

And I don't need the support either.

Thank you.

Sheng Mingzhi has acted in more than a dozen TV series, large and small.

But due to his black paste physique, the legendary thing of fan support was something he had never seen before, let alone like Kang Xing, where banners and posters were all over the place.

Sheng Mingzhi has forgotten all about his group of deep cabinet anti-fans tearing into Kang Xing fans.

Not to mention the support banners that followed along and forgot all about it.

By mid-afternoon, DouBan and Weibo had been tearing it up all day, and then it stopped a little.

Mostly, Kang Xing himself came out and tweeted an apology, which was expected, since it was his fans who were looking for trouble.

Fans have offended Sheng Mingzhi, and when the internet connection is unplugged the feud goes to hell.

But what good would it do Kang Xing to offend his boss's wife if he didn't think about how he could make it through the trainee debut?

He regretted it when he found out that his big fan had fought with a Sheng Mingzhi fan.

I should have known better than to spill the beans to my girlfriend about this, and after pulling the plug on her, I took it upon myself to explain the matter to my agent.

The agent was so frightened that he almost blacked out and arranged for emergency PR to take down all relevant posts.

In the end, an apology was prepared and Kang Xing was asked to tweet it out in the evening.

In case Sheng Mingzhi was still angry, Kang Xing took the initiative to apologise to Sheng Mingzhi early the next morning.

He was sincere, first saying that he hadn't restrained his fans and then promising that it wouldn't happen again.

After apologising, Kang Xing looked up cautiously and glanced at Sheng Mingzhi.

Sheng Mingzhi did not speak.

Kang Xing tried, "...... Mr. Sheng ?"

Sheng Mingzhi: "Finished?"

Kang Xing thought, "This is not right, he has apologized, and this is Sheng Mingzhi's response?

"I mean, I apologise."

The next second, Sheng Mingzhi said coldly, "Oh. It's your business to apologize, I have no intention of accepting it."

The most important thing that he Sheng Mingzhi can do is to hold a grudge.

How do you want to work with him on stage after offending him?

What about dreaming?

Kang Xing's face turned white with a swish.

Sheng Mingzhi did not accept the apology, and HeMu's side instantly knew which way the wind was blowing.

Kang Xing was replaced by Ji Jiao, who is currently the second most popular trainee in the debut battle, and is also a dance performer who specializes in a similar style to Kang Xing.

It didn't take long for the collaboration to change before the inner circle began to explode at DouBan.

When the news came out, Ji Jiao fans were overjoyed, Kang Xing fans were begging for a hammer and now they have a new stage, so are you happy?

Kang Xing Fan didn't expect the stage to really change.

But seeing how excited Ji Jiao fans were, I suddenly felt that it wouldn't be a good idea to change.

So they began to connote each other on Twitter.

"Seasonal fans don't really think they've hugged the boss lady's thighs, idol are all speaking with stage prowess, beware that the downfall of a fawning boss is a crotch-pulling stage in return, good luck to your brother in the gutter."

"Laugh it up. Anyway, a stage with crotch pulling is better than no stage at all, so after your brother offends Sheng Mingzhi, think about how to make it in the inner entertainment first, hehehe."

Compared to Sheng Mingzhi's insignificant fan base.

Kang Xing and Ji Jiao are old rivals, with a similar number of fans, and they both want to kill each other.

So the stage for the final night was racked with anticipation as both fans frantically broke heads.

Passers-by who were not very interested were attracted to the event and began to wonder what Sheng Mingzhi and Ji Jiao could come up with for a stage.

In the practice room, Sheng Mingzhi has finished the final compositions and is ready for his first synchronisation with Ji Jiao.

The song chosen is 'Por Una Cabeza' by Argentinian singer Carlos Gardel, which is titled 'One Step Away' in Chinese translation.

Ji Jiao's background as a tango dancer was an important reason for Sheng Mingzhi's choice of music, as the entire stage is completed by Ji Jiao's dance and violin.

Sheng Mingzhi has adapted the style of this classical piece from its original gentle elegance to a powerful and infectious one. The light piano solo is followed by a violin solo in a similar style to the original, like that of a young man in love with a woman he loves, who is unable to express his feelings and is therefore in pain. The violin solo then turns into a concerto, with the piano alternately leading the movement, the tempo gradually accelerating and the scene transforming from a quiet hall to a frantic and noisy racecourse, where the woman's teasing completely destroys the teenager's nerves and he begins to be seduced by her, to go crazy for her, to let him dominate everything he does, but no matter how frantically he struggles and runs, he cannot catch up with the woman's back.

The teenager's desperation burns almost everything as the piano and orchestra work together to bring the piece to a climactic section, and just as it is about to reach its climax, all the music comes to an abrupt end.

When Ji Jiao heard this, there was no longer any sound in the practice room.

There were obviously five or six people standing, but all were immersed in the music, no, to be precise, in the desperation of this chase of unrequited love.

The moment the music came to a screeching halt, his breath froze with it.

Only two seconds have passed.

Then, without warning, the violin explodes, creating a polar yet bold contrast with the rock, even overpowering the synth accompaniment, the short notes mimicking a heartbeat and intensifying the feeling of empathy, as everything in the teenager explodes in desperation, a passionate love raging like a mountain torrent.

For a moment, he even felt his heart beat faster and he wanted to cry because of the resonance of the music.

One step away, one step away from catching her, one step away from holding her in my arms, having had such a desperate and intense love that I would have died even at this moment!

After the song, the crowd didn't react.

Sheng Mingzhi coughed dryly and asked, "Well?"

It was only then that Ji Jiao, as if coming back to her senses, snapped out, "That's great! It's great! Really! Mr. Sheng, this is amazing!"

After Ji Jiao heard it, all he could think of was the word "awesome".

It's a gift, right?

He has also been exposed to arranging as an idol, so he knows what a horrible talent it is to arrange a song to this level.

When he looks at Sheng Mingzhi, his eyes change.

Sheng Mingzhi enjoys the adoring glances of children.

After a moment of narcissism, the little flowered peacock spoke, "Do you have any ideas for the dance?"

Ji Jiao hurriedly said, "Just now!"

After hearing the story expressed by Sheng Mingzhi, Ji Jiao had a bold idea.

He paused and raised his hand in reply, saying seriously, " Mr. Sheng, I want to play both a teenager and a woman all by myself."

The degree of choreography for the two roles is even more difficult and tests both empathy and performance as well as dance skills.

Ji Jiao's face, while not overly British, has a softer profile, even when dancing the female part, without feeling out of place.

Sheng Mingzhi's adaptations are bold in style, as are his dances.

You can imagine how explosive the complete stage will be when the time comes.

Ji Jiao's manager was standing by, so excited that he could hardly stand up.

I'd like to go back and burn incense to my ancestors for making Kang Xing give up the Sheng Mingzhi deal!

Otherwise, if the stage goes to Kang Xing, they won't really have any chance of competing for the C-suite!

Having synchronised the progress, the next thing to do was to rehearse it over and over again.

Sheng Mingzhi originally wanted Ji Jiao to see if she could play the part of a woman, but to his surprise, Ji Jiao did it very well.

Both the eyes and the form are very natural and the control of the body is very precise.

Sheng Mingzhi gave a rare compliment, "You've got a talent for being a girl."

Ji Jiao, an extrovert, said, "Yeah, right. I'm always a victim when I'm being corrupt!"

Sheng Mingzhi: ......

Once he became acquainted with Sheng Mingzhi, he was less inhibited at first.

Sitting and chatting together during the break, he continued, "And I was confessed to as a girl online when I was in junior high school."

Sheng Mingzhi took a sip of water and thought to himself, "Wow, there are people in the world who identify with the wrong gender on the internet, except for my brother, the idiot.

In the twinkling of an eye, twilight is falling.

The arrival of Lu Jiayan announced the end of the day's rehearsals.

Ji Jiao is the first time I've seen the big boss up close, and it seems the legend that the boss is a wife slave is actually true, actually picking up the boss's wife from work himself.

When Sheng Mingzhi saw Lu Jiayan coming, he said hello to Ji Jiao and left first.

In terms of temperament, it is very noble and cold, very much in that unearthly, highbrow way.

As a result, Sheng Mingzhi pulled his crotch throughout the entire section just as he walked out the door and got on the special bus.

Before the door could be closed, he was already hanging on to Lu Jiayan.

Both hands were also justifiably outstretched, gesturing for Lu Jiayan to give him a massage.

Lu Jiayan gave him a smiling look, and Sheng Mingzhi, who was so cheeky and capricious that he almost rolled in his arms, said, "My hand hurts! It hurts like hell! It's because you bought that violin that doesn't work! You did it on purpose!"