Chapter 23: The tiger1 arrives~ (1)
Lai You was startled at first and her brain went blank. But when she understood the meaning behind her agent’s words, panic spread all over and she tried to explain herself in a hurry: “Sister Wu, I know I didn’t do a good job, but if you give me another chance…”
She paused slightly, trying to think quickly about what to say. She finally gritted her teeth and promised: “First public performance! If you let me perform, I will definitely make a comeback! And if my stage is not satisfactory, I will voluntarily quit!”
Sister Wu had no intention of letting Lai You quit the show right now, she just wanted to knock her off her high horse. After all, the show had not even officially aired and Galaxy had not absorbed enough heat just yet; she would just have been breaking her own arm if she were to pull Lai You back, even if she wasn’t very optimistic about her. She would at least have to wait until the show started. And the first performance would happen one week after it had; calculating the time, this was not a bad compromise.
“Okay, I will give you a chance. I will see the results during the first stage.” Sister Wu’s tone was a little more polite than before, but she still sounded cold. Before she hung up the phone, she added: “Don’t go find trouble with Qiao Dai anymore. The agency will help you solve the lawn sprinkler matter, but you should know better.”
Lai You was almost plucking her hair and did not dare to say anything else. She could only listen to her agent, her mind in turmoil.
When the call ended, she was already drenched in cold sweat; her face was as white as paper, her body was shaking and it took her a while to finally calm down. What on earth was going on?
Lai You frowned and took her phone out to search for related news. She quickly found out netizens had stated they wanted to find out what had really happened; people were carefully studying all the shooting highlights the program had already uploaded. Added to that the photos taken by some players and posted on social platforms, they had successfully determined the girls’ shooting order and localized all of them when the accident had happened.
[Lu Ying was in the group after Daidai. From her pictures, we know that she was still in the dressing room when the water went on with eight other little sisters. They can all be ruled out.]
[When the device went on, there was a group of players that had already been done and they were captured on camera by Daidai’s PD in the background. They were all walking from the opposite direction of the lawn sprinkler, they can also all be ruled out.]
Qiao Dai’s fans were like Sherlock Holmes. They were carefully watching every piece of evidence one by one, and, at the end, they were certain that the only person that could not be localized during the accident had been Lai You; she directly became the number one suspect.
By this point, the vast majority already believed that the incident was definitely related to Lai You, but they didn’t want to make a big deal out of it; there had been no loss in the end. But when a video from a staff member went online, they changed their minds.
The video had recorded the exact scene the device had been turned on. Right after the water was sprayed everywhere, everybody on site had been shouting and surprised. The staff had rushed to check the situation, while the girls had been frozen in place; only Lai You, who was filmed for a short second, was standing next to the switch. She turned her head to look around and went in the opposite direction without saying a word.
With this recording, Qiao Dai’s fans exploded.
[Does this count as being caught in the act?]
[I don’t believe it’s a coincidence the lawn sprinkler went on just after Lai You walked to it.]
[She didn’t say anything to the other girls that got wet, vaguely looked around, and left. Even with no guilty conscience, that’s a bit too indifferent, isn’t it?]
The negative opinion exploded in an instant. At first, Lai You’s fans tried to defend her, saying there was no evidence, but when the short video was released and shared all around, they could no longer control the comments. Now, even fans of other Galaxy members expressed they wanted their sisters to stay away from Lai You. After all, they were all watching the women team’s draft, no one wanted indifferent and selfish members in the team, no?
Lai You didn’t know how she managed to read it to the end and she was stunned for a long time. She stood alone in the corridor, her mind blank, and only the light of her phone brightened her face in the dark. It looked a bit horrified.
At this moment, a girl from the next room opened the door and walked out. She was caught off guard when she saw a shadow standing on one side.
“Lai You, is that you?”
When she saw it was Lai You, the girl’s heartbeat faster and her gaze instinctively glanced at the phone in her hand. Lai You panicked, turned the screen off, and as she was about to say something, the girl smiled and said: “I know, you don’t have to say anything.”
She smiled gently, closed the food, and walked out of the corridor as she had not seen anything.
Know? Know what?
Lai You’s mood did not increase. On the contrary, she felt even more irritated and wished to go directly on the Internet to chat with those netizens. What did these people know? It had been an accident, why were they portraying her as a scheming villain?
But now, she didn’t even have the strength anymore. She did not expect she would be so unlucky and fall out of favor. Since the first recording, she had been going downhill; others were getting fans and only she was getting haters.
Both regret and anger invaded her heart. She just could not figure out why a trainee like her, from Galaxy, would lose to a newcomer like Qiao Dai. Her expression changed and she bit her lip before finally returned to her room without saying a word. Her ugly complexion caught her roommates’ glances but no one spoke and the atmosphere became very tense.
But wait, she would turn around during the first public performance! Lai You took a deep breath and crumpled all of the bad emotions into a ball and forced it down her heart. As soon as she could show her strength, her fans would still choose her as they always had.
All of her losses so far were just because she had failed to show off her true abilities.
Thinking of this, Lai You could not help but complain about Ruan Tao in her heart. Had she known what would happen, she would not have agreed to Ruan Tao’s proposal.
If it hadn’t for letting Ruan Tao steal the spotlight, the rest of the Galaxy trainees would not have become like this; they had given up the opportunity to shine during the first performance and cut their own way of survival. Next time, Lai You would not give any chance to make herself stand out, otherwise she would end up being eliminated.
Chapter 23: The tiger1 arrives~ (1)
Lai You was startled at first and her brain went blank. But when she understood the meaning behind her agent’s words, panic spread all over and she tried to explain herself in a hurry: “Sister Wu, I know I didn’t do a good job, but if you give me another chance…”
She paused slightly, trying to think quickly about what to say. She finally gritted her teeth and promised: “First public performance! If you let me perform, I will definitely make a comeback! And if my stage is not satisfactory, I will voluntarily quit!”
Sister Wu had no intention of letting Lai You quit the show right now, she just wanted to knock her off her high horse. After all, the show had not even officially aired and Galaxy had not absorbed enough heat just yet; she would just have been breaking her own arm if she were to pull Lai You back, even if she wasn’t very optimistic about her. She would at least have to wait until the show started. And the first performance would happen one week after it had; calculating the time, this was not a bad compromise.
“Okay, I will give you a chance. I will see the results during the first stage.” Sister Wu’s tone was a little more polite than before, but she still sounded cold. Before she hung up the phone, she added: “Don’t go find trouble with Qiao Dai anymore. The agency will help you solve the lawn sprinkler matter, but you should know better.”
Lai You was almost plucking her hair and did not dare to say anything else. She could only listen to her agent, her mind in turmoil.
When the call ended, she was already drenched in cold sweat; her face was as white as paper, her body was shaking and it took her a while to finally calm down. What on earth was going on?
Lai You frowned and took her phone out to search for related news. She quickly found out netizens had stated they wanted to find out what had really happened; people were carefully studying all the shooting highlights the program had already uploaded. Added to that the photos taken by some players and posted on social platforms, they had successfully determined the girls’ shooting order and localized all of them when the accident had happened.
[Lu Ying was in the group after Daidai. From her pictures, we know that she was still in the dressing room when the water went on with eight other little sisters. They can all be ruled out.]
[When the device went on, there was a group of players that had already been done and they were captured on camera by Daidai’s PD in the background. They were all walking from the opposite direction of the lawn sprinkler, they can also all be ruled out.]
Qiao Dai’s fans were like Sherlock Holmes. They were carefully watching every piece of evidence one by one, and, at the end, they were certain that the only person that could not be localized during the accident had been Lai You; she directly became the number one suspect.
By this point, the vast majority already believed that the incident was definitely related to Lai You, but they didn’t want to make a big deal out of it; there had been no loss in the end. But when a video from a staff member went online, they changed their minds.
The video had recorded the exact scene the device had been turned on. Right after the water was sprayed everywhere, everybody on site had been shouting and surprised. The staff had rushed to check the situation, while the girls had been frozen in place; only Lai You, who was filmed for a short second, was standing next to the switch. She turned her head to look around and went in the opposite direction without saying a word.
With this recording, Qiao Dai’s fans exploded.
[Does this count as being caught in the act?]
[I don’t believe it’s a coincidence the lawn sprinkler went on just after Lai You walked to it.]
[She didn’t say anything to the other girls that got wet, vaguely looked around, and left. Even with no guilty conscience, that’s a bit too indifferent, isn’t it?]
The negative opinion exploded in an instant. At first, Lai You’s fans tried to defend her, saying there was no evidence, but when the short video was released and shared all around, they could no longer control the comments. Now, even fans of other Galaxy members expressed they wanted their sisters to stay away from Lai You. After all, they were all watching the women team’s draft, no one wanted indifferent and selfish members in the team, no?
Lai You didn’t know how she managed to read it to the end and she was stunned for a long time. She stood alone in the corridor, her mind blank, and only the light of her phone brightened her face in the dark. It looked a bit horrified.
At this moment, a girl from the next room opened the door and walked out. She was caught off guard when she saw a shadow standing on one side.
“Lai You, is that you?”
When she saw it was Lai You, the girl’s heartbeat faster and her gaze instinctively glanced at the phone in her hand. Lai You panicked, turned the screen off, and as she was about to say something, the girl smiled and said: “I know, you don’t have to say anything.”
She smiled gently, closed the food, and walked out of the corridor as she had not seen anything.
Know? Know what?
Lai You’s mood did not increase. On the contrary, she felt even more irritated and wished to go directly on the Internet to chat with those netizens. What did these people know? It had been an accident, why were they portraying her as a scheming villain?
But now, she didn’t even have the strength anymore. She did not expect she would be so unlucky and fall out of favor. Since the first recording, she had been going downhill; others were getting fans and only she was getting haters.
Both regret and anger invaded her heart. She just could not figure out why a trainee like her, from Galaxy, would lose to a newcomer like Qiao Dai. Her expression changed and she bit her lip before finally returned to her room without saying a word. Her ugly complexion caught her roommates’ glances but no one spoke and the atmosphere became very tense.
But wait, she would turn around during the first public performance! Lai You took a deep breath and crumpled all of the bad emotions into a ball and forced it down her heart. As soon as she could show her strength, her fans would still choose her as they always had.
All of her losses so far were just because she had failed to show off her true abilities.
Thinking of this, Lai You could not help but complain about Ruan Tao in her heart. Had she known what would happen, she would not have agreed to Ruan Tao’s proposal.
If it hadn’t for letting Ruan Tao steal the spotlight, the rest of the Galaxy trainees would not have become like this; they had given up the opportunity to shine during the first performance and cut their own way of survival. Next time, Lai You would not give any chance to make herself stand out, otherwise she would end up being eliminated.
