Climb To the Top

After the drawing of lots by the instructors, the four groups of couples officially entered the stage of performance.

Lin Xinxiang and Liu Zhongming were the trainee couple who performed as the first group in the first round. Before the stage, one of them was nervous and the other was excited. Lin Xinxiang was nervous about whether she would make any mistakes when she performed on stage later. While Liu Zhongming was excited that he could reach the finals in the end, he felt that it was incredible.

When the two of them were about to appear, the on-site public judges and fans of the two of them cheered loudly. This group has worked together before and performed well, so their performance is highly anticipated by the public.

Soon, a pre-match VCR was played on the video, which was a heartfelt special filmed and produced by the program team. The content was the experiences of Lin Xinxiang and Liu Zhongming along the way.

After editing and rendering by the program team, fans were moved to tears when they saw Lin Xinxiang’s tenacity step by step and Liu Zhongming’s perseverance.

Finally, when the program team interviewed the two of them in the little black room about whether they missed their parents, Lin Xinxiang’s family and Liu Zhongming’s family also appeared in their respective parts, cheering and encouraging the two of them, which made a wave of tears from the audience at the scene and in front of the video screen.

Immediately afterward, the stage lit up again and the two of them began to perform.

Their performance song is a romantic-style sweet song, ‘Missing You’. Since the success of Jiang Ting’s two romantic-style songs, the contestants have discovered that the songs do not necessarily have to be dance or lyrical-type songs. Some other types of music can also be performed, such as rock, hip-hop, R&B, blues, etc. All songs can be performed on stage. Compared with the dance and lyrical styles of the previous stages, various styles of stages appeared one after another in subsequent PK qualification rounds.

Soon, the performance of the two ended, and the fans were very excited.

Host Wang Xifeng quickly came on stage and took control of the stage again. After the fans’ shouts calmed down, the two of them stood on the stage and exchanged greetings with the host. Afterward, the host asked four instructors to comment on the two people.

The instructors of the previous two-player PK competitions sat in the instructor area to make comments. Although they also appear on the screen, they are all interspersed into the officially broadcast programs through parallel editing; in the actual competition stage, there is no instructor comment stage because they are afraid that the instructor’s evaluation will affect the on-site public judges’ scoring.

However, the finals are live broadcast. In order to have the same broadcast mode as the previous episodes, the instructors’ comments will naturally be made in real-time, and the on-site public judges can also hear the instructors’ comments.

Soon, the two of them received comments from four instructors. The first was the Dance Instructor Lin Ershu. He smiled and said.

“This song is very well done. It has a very sweet feeling between lovers. I think you guys have made a lot of progress…” He praised a lot and then added: “Actually, I was expecting you to change to a more intense song for the final, but this one is not bad either.”

In the second round of the PK competition, Lin Xinxiang and Liu Zhongming collaborated and performed an R&B-style song. So when he saw the song performed by the two of them in the final, it was still not a high-explosive song, Lin Ershu was still a little disappointed. After all, both of them are vocal-oriented trainees, so people will naturally look forward to their performance to the next level.

After Lin Ershu’s review of the two of them was finished, it was the Chief Instructor Zhang Ning’s turn to review.

When it comes to the finals, the instructors seem to have made an agreement on it. As long as it’s not particularly bad, they will all praise it.

The Chief Instructor Zhang Ning said that the two of them had made great progress and emphatically praised Lin Xinxiang for not missing a beat in her first appearance this time, which immediately made Lin Xinxiang shy.

The same goes for Vocal Instructor He Xi, who just gave a casual compliment and passed it by. Although the Arranger Instructor Wen Ya’s face was not very good, she still managed to squeeze a smile and praised the two of them in a very professional manner.

After all, there were no major problems with their performances. The instructors would not have trouble thinking about it and would cause trouble for the trainees in the finals.

Soon, the two received the first round of on-site public judges scores, 403 points.