Regarding the manager BKL assigned to Aurora, Zhang Fu could conclude without any hesitation that not a single one of the seven members in their group liked him.
After a year of fermentation, this dislike had risen to the level of disgust, or in other words, it could also be called fed-up-with-stupidity.
For example, this time, what kind of idiot would think of having a female group guest performer like Zhang Fu create a CP with a popular contestant from a male group survival show? Was the idiot afraid she won’t get cursed to death by the fans of those trainees?
Zhang Fu didn’t have that much confidence in her own little fans, thinking they could outdo the hardcore fighting fans of those massively popular contestants.
Besides, her own fans wouldn’t be happy about their idol voluntarily forming a CP with a male idol either. If the fan structure of male idols mostly consisted of girlfriend fans, then the majority of female idol fans were generally career-oriented fans.
Of course, specific events require specific analysis. Some female idols attract a lot of boyfriend fans, while others attract a lot of girlfriend fans.
As luck would have it, Zhang Fu was the former.
Therefore, being able to come up with such a crazy marketing strategy as having her form a CP with a male idol from a survival show really means that some idiot manager should hire a master to pray for his family.
Regardless of whether it was out of subjective intention, it never ends well for an idol to go against their fans.
Unfortunately, even though she understood this perfectly in her heart, limited by various factors, she still couldn’t openly resist the manager’s arrangements, and her own passive resistance couldn’t stop the marketing bots arranged by the manager after the subsequent episodes aired.
“I’m still going to get cursed out…” Zhang Fu gloomily prayed in her heart, “Getting cursed is one thing, I just hope my fans can see that I’m not doing this willingly.”
Over on her side, she was absentmindedly spacing out, her gaze wandering around the practice room, finally and naturally landing on the person lying against the wall across from her with a blanket covering their face.
She didn’t even know who this was… none of the previous episodes of NS showed any trainee having this kind of sleeping habit…
The trainee of unknown identity lay under the window near the corridor, while Zhang Fu sat hugging her knees by the window on the outer side.
She could hear the interweaving calls of sparrows and cicadas, and also the rustling sound of wind blowing through leaves.
The sound of wind was gradually getting stronger, whooshing in from the window, causing the curtains on her side to billow up.
Before Zhang Fu could do something like close the window, this gust of wind spread to where the person on the other side was lying.
The thin blanket covering his head was inadvertently blown open at one corner.
The messy, upward-sticking blonde hair, swaying under the wind’s touch, like the tips of wheat ears bathed in sunlight, shook and suddenly came into Zhang Fu’s field of vision.
She instinctively widened her eyes, and before she could think about who would suddenly dye their hair, the wind pushed the thin blanket halfway off.
A full forehead, closed eyes, a straight nose bridge, a handsome young mixed-race face appeared under the midday sun.
Perhaps the wind was too strong, or perhaps the feeling of direct sunlight was unpleasant, the young man who had been lying sideways on the floor taking a nap subconsciously frowned, his eyes cracking open slightly, a hint of green flowing out from under his eyelids.
Zhang Fu happened to be sitting in the shadow of the curtain, backlit, her presence not very strong.
She could clearly see this scene, but the young man lying under the light might not necessarily notice her.
Obviously, as she had expected, the young man only opened his eyes briefly, then quickly reached out to pull the blanket, turned over to face the wall, covered his head, and went back to sleep.
A few seconds later, Zhang Fu, sitting in the corner, finally found her breathing rhythm again.
She silently took out her phone from her bag, quickly entered the Aurora group chat with lightning speed, and then started typing rapidly.
[Fat Butterfly]: @All members, how’s it going, have you all seen your people?
[Don’t want to work]: Mmm, met two, the others went to the cafeteria to eat
[Don’t want to work]: These two guys have somewhat introverted personalities, too shy, making me a bit awkward. Right now, I’m holding my phone pretending to be busy…
[Amazed Frog]: I’ve met them all. One group is full of roll kings. They had one person go to the cafeteria to get takeout for everyone. They ate long ago, and now they’re all very busy.
[Don’t want to work]: Then you’re not busy? You still have time to play on your phone? Tsk tsk, slacking off, right?
[Amazing Frog]: Who said I’m not busy? As soon as I arrived, I was arranged clearly and plainly. Tasks have already been assigned to me.
[Amazed Frog]: This group plans to do a male-female duet double rap. They gave me the beat. I need to finish writing my part of the lyrics this afternoon, and right now, I’m frantically looking for inspiration.
[Fat Butterfly]: Rap? Wait, Xiao Wa, you were assigned to the opponent group of my team, right? Both of us are doing Senior Sister, No?
[Amazed Frog]: Damn it, I just remembered there’s a PK. Did I just leak the questions? No, this should be called aiding the enemy, right?
[Fat Butterfly]: What’s the problem? You’re a rapper, remember your team also has Bi Xiao, that other rapper.
[Amazed Frog]: Then tell me, aren’t you going to do double rap again like in that song, Fire Seed?
Zhang Fu read this sentence and couldn’t help but look up again at the person lying over there. His posture was unchanged, quiet and silent.
If he were sleeping in a corner, she wouldn’t have noticed such a person existed when she entered.
She sighed, lowering her head to continue typing.
[Fat Butterfly]: I don’t know, maybe. I’ve only met one person so far, and they’re still sleeping. I haven’t said a single word to them. [Helpless]
[Fat Butterfly]: But this person, how should I put it, I bet that when you see him, you will definitely be very surprised!
[Amazed Frog]: You wouldn’t be talking about Quentin, would you? hhh
[Don’t want to work]: The only person in your team who would surprise us just by meeting him is Quentin.
[Don’t want to work]: I heard he looks better in reality than on the show. With a face like that, this junior’s future is already shining brightly to the point of being blinding… I’m envious…
[Wind]: Come on, a beautiful girl has no right to envy someone else’s face. Look in the mirror before saying things like that!
[Fat Butterfly]: The main point of the big surprise isn’t just about his face… Guess what, Quentin went back to blonde hair…
[Amazed Frog]: Wow, I almost forgot he originally had blonde hair. The photo on his student ID is indeed quite cute.
[Don’t want to work]: Huh? Wouldn’t that clash with my hair color? That’s a bit awkward. I won’t get overshadowed, will I? [Tears]
[Fat Butterfly]: Being on the same team as him, I’m the truly tragic one. I’ll definitely get overshadowed. [Trembling with fear]
[Wind]: So why are you guys comparing faces with a man?!
[Wind]: Hey Fu, is that idiot still trying to make you do a CP with them? What are you thinking?
[Fat Butterfly]: What else can I think? Just pretend it never happened. Anyway, the production team will definitely edit it towards a CP.
[Wind]: Ah, poor kid.
While Zhang Fu was chatting here, Quentin, lying on the other side, wasn’t really sleeping.
He was finishing up the arrangement in the system space and also went online to learn about the Aurora girl group’s history.
Before, he only roughly knew that this girl group, which also came from a survival show, wasn’t in a good situation at BKL, but he knew nothing about the specific members within the group.
Since he was going to collaborate with a certain idol from Aurora this time, as the leader, Quentin naturally wanted to do some preliminary research. Some things always need to be understood early, for example, the positioning of the girl group members.
Although they were here as guest performers, on a boy group survival show stage, guests just add icing on the cake at most, not overshadow the main contestants, but Quentin also couldn’t make the guests have no presence. The parts arranged for the guest performers should still try to showcase their strengths.
Actually, based on Quentin’s team’s composition, they lacked nothing: vocal, dancer, rapper.
The only one who might be a bit lacking was Qi Yang. But after their contact following yesterday’s grouping, Quentin felt the situation wasn’t that bad. Although Qi Yang’s foundation was poor, he could endure hardship.
At least for this public performance, Quentin was confident he could personally guide Qi Yang to not hold them back.
So, on the basis of the team members’ sufficient skills, Quentin didn’t have many requirements for the guest performer.
If a “flower vase” came, then she could openly be a flower vase. If her acting was good, maybe she could even do a short skit with Qi Yang. In short, she would just be responsible for being pretty.
If a skilled ace came, that would also be good. The highlight segments might be even more exciting with the addition of a female idol.
Besides that, if she was good at dancing, she could do a duet with Yan Qiao. If she was good at singing, she could do a duet with Wen Xinyi. If she was good at rapping, she could pair up with Xue Mingzhu.
This was the advantage of having capable teammates. No matter how you arranged things, there was a selling point.
Quentin roughly outlined plan B in the system space, ready to make detailed plans after the Aurora senior arrived.
He opened his eyes, lifted the blanket and slowly sat up while lying on the floor, stretching.
Quentin first looked up at the clock on the wall. His other teammates had all gone to the cafeteria to eat. He stayed in the practice room to finish the arrangement quickly. His teammates would bring him takeout later.
Calculating the time now, they should be back soon.
Mmm, first go upload the finished arrangement to the computer. No, first close the window. This wind is really blowing stronger and stron…
“…”
Quentin paused in his motion of getting up, completely mentally unprepared as he met the gaze of a certain senior, who smiled with her lips pressed together, her expression slightly reserved.
This… is Aurora’s visual, Zhang Fu?
Where did she pop up from? She didn’t make a sound. How long has she been here?
The blonde young man calmly and naturally nodded in response: “Hello, Senior.”
His voice and expression were quite natural, not showing what he was thinking inside at all.
And it was precisely this kind of calm and composed attitude, combined with this particularly lethal face, that could easily put psychological pressure on people.
To put it bluntly, Quentin was not approachable; he had no trace of affability, only the full sense of aloofness brought by “good looks + no expression.”
This look was actually quite intimidating. Even Zhang Fu was startled. She thought Quentin had morning grumpiness, and only subconsciously responded with “Hello, Junior,” and then didn’t know how to react.
Fortunately, Quentin had just woken up, his hair was still messy, and one side of his cheek had a red mark. These details caused a crack in his cold and aloof appearance. Coupled with the fact that he had only just become an adult not long ago…
Zhang Fu suddenly thought of a phrase… cold faced cuteness.
Ahem, just like the photo on Quentin’s high school student ID, a cool and arrogant boy with fluffy hair, like a lion cub. Even with a cold face, he was quite cute.
If she had to create a CP with a kid like this, it would really make her feel too guilty.
She and Quentin standing together looked completely like siblings!
With this thought, looking again at Quentin’s faintly expressionless appearance, Zhang Fu found that the more she looked, the more cute it seemed.
Not in a silly way, but the kind where you know he’s very capable and very smart, but because he’s young and likes to act mature, with a cold little adult look, it’s very adorably cute.
After all, no matter how cold a younger brother is, he’s still a younger brother.
