Climb To the Top

Being in the same big dyeing vat of the entertainment industry, although Wen Ya is mixed in the territory of arrangers and composers and has been less oppressed by capital, it doesn’t mean that she doesn’t know the power of capital.

To put it bluntly, capital cannot make arrangers and composers write good songs, but it can use money to corrupt the souls of these people and spend money to buy good songs created by these people. What’s more, even Wen Ya knows how to use capital and money to publicize her canvassing incident that almost caused a scandal, not to mention the program team and Tengfei Entertainment.

However, her little capital is not enough to challenge some celebrities. How can she compare with a behemoth like Tengfei Entertainment?

Behind the program group is Tengfei Entertainment, whose stars in the program group are in a period of emptiness. Tengfei Entertainment has finally ‘cultivated’ them as a hot seed, so they will not let it go no matter what. To put it bluntly, if they can’t get what they want, then they would rather abolish Jiang Ting’s chess piece than let anyone else get it.

Wen Ya got Zhang Ning’s hint and became a little distracted.

Compared to the clueless fans of Jiang Ting, she could only watch helplessly as Jiang Ting was like a butterfly falling into a spider’s poisonous web, unable to turn around no matter how hard she tried, but she was powerless.

In addition, sitting here was like sitting on pins and needles, making her feel suffocated, and it tortured her all the time.

She turned her attention to the stage. When the host Wang Xifeng announced that eight trainees were invited to draw lots for performances, Jiang Ting stood on the colorful stage and smiled brightly.

Wen Ya’s heart sank to the bottom with Jiang Ting’s smile.

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“This program is sponsored by xx, and this program is sponsored by…”

Wang Xifeng stood on the stage, basically without looking at the script, he opened his mouth and read a large serial broadcast, speaking fast and fluently. It was countless times better than Zhang Ning, who was still slow to read from the script before. After he finished promoting the program’s advertisers as usual, he began the first step, drawing lots before the game.

“Have you seen the two boxes in front of me?” Wang Xifeng said, pointing to a box in front of him with ‘1’ written on it and the other with ‘2’ written on it, which was transparent to the audience.

“The finals of “National Couple” are divided into two rounds. The contestants will discuss whether their two songs should be performed in the first round or the second round. First of all, all they have to do is put the two songs they have decided on into these two boxes. The box written with ‘1’ represents the songs that appeared in the first round. The box written with ‘2’ represents the songs that appeared in the second round. Now, please select the representative of the couple and put the song you want to perform in two boxes respectively.”

Jiang Ting had discussed the order of appearance with Chen Yi and Xu Jiayin before. To be precise, it was not called a discussion, but a decision. The order in which the two songs are performed will also affect the votes of the public judges and national judges.

The song ‘Loving You’ is not suitable for a competition in this kind of program but more suitable for a pure competition between singers. Jiang Ting naturally prefers to put ‘No Tomorrow’ in the second round. After all, it is the first song to explode.

Chen Yi doesn’t care, in short, he listens to Jiang Ting in everything. (T/N: What a good boy…)

But Xu Jiayin wanted to convince her, so Jiang Ting still worked hard for a while. Although Xu Jiayin said he wanted to change his stubborn personality, if his personality was so easy to change, why did it take him nearly 20 years to think about changing it? Hasn’t anyone said this before? Someone must have said it, but it was not the case at that moment.

Besides, ‘Loving You’ is also suitable for the finale. The quality, difficulty, and popularity of the song are even greater than those of ‘No Tomorrow’. Xu Jiayin is not convinced by putting this song in the first round.

But, Jiang Ting had other plans. She could not tell Xu Jiayin about her real purpose, and she could not come up with any other reason to refute Xu Jiayin for a while. In the end, Jiang Ting was offended, and Xu Jiayin was suppressed by force directly, and she decided the order of the two songs on her own.

Faced with Jiang Ting’s unreasonable behavior, Xu Jiayin had no choice but to let Jiang Ting go.

On stage—

Jiang Ting took a deep breath, took the title of the two songs released by the program group, rolled it up again, and walked to the two boxes.

She put ‘Loving You’ on her left hand into the box marked ‘1’, and she put ‘No Tomorrow’ in her right hand into the box marked ‘2’, praying silently in her heart.

“I must not lose the last fight.”

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Translator’s Comment:

Come on, Jiang Ting! Fighting!