Chapter 29: I’ll jump C position for you (2)
Ruan Mingyi avoided Qiao Dai’s eyes and asked in a cold voice: “Where are Taotao’s teammates? I need to ask you something.”
Everyone sneered in their hearts, secretly saying this situation had developed in the worst possible way.
Lin Xiaoxiao, who was standing behind Qiao Dai, stiffened suddenly and her fingertips became cold. As a member of Galaxy, she was aware of Director Ruan’s personality. He was stubborn and rigid; as long as he decided something, so one could persuade him anymore.
“Dad!”
Ruan Tao exclaimed. After all, she was the main protagonist of this incident and she knew how she had hurt herself. It had nothing to do with her teammates, it was only because she had insisted on over-exerting herself.
But Ruan Mingyi wasn’t listening to Ruan Tao. In his eyes, his daughter was too pure and kind and was easily deceived by others. As a person who had seen a lot of the darker side of people, he knew Ruan Tao couldn’t understand it.
“Mr. Ruan, is that very appropriate right now?”
At this time, the mentors had received the news and returned backstage. Jiang Fengchi was unhappy and said: “Whether it was an accident or not, right now is not the time for you to investigate.”
Ruan Mingyi glanced at Jiang Fengchi and dismissed him quickly. In a somewhat contemptuous tone, he ordered: “Have your director come and talk to me.”
The mood on the scene became even more tense, making people sweat. Jiang Fengchi and Ruan Mingyi continued to stare at each other, neither of them taking a step back. Time passed slowly and people became more and more anxious. How was it possible to mess things up that much in only one public performance?
Ruan Mingyi wanted to argue but at this moment, an impatient voice interrupted the stalemate.
“Enough.”
There was no emotion on Cheng Su’s face and people could not guess whether he was happy or angry. Yet, looking at him, people instantly felt they were facing a predator, lurking in the dark and ready to attack. Whoever looked at his eyes felt sharp claws tightening around their throats.
Cheng Su did not bother to walk in the room and simply stared at Ruan Mingyi. He did not need to say anything, Ruan Mingyi was already shaking; he was in trouble. Recalling the warning that had been issued to him last night, Ruan Mingyi shivered.
“President Cheng.” He looked like he wanted to explain himself but Cheng Su had already turned around and left the room, not giving him a chance to talk.
How big was Ruan Mingyi, to go look for trouble with a group of little girls? Ah, what an admirable person.
Cheng Su had originally been invited to take a look backstage. Who knew he would see a senior of the company making trouble there without any reason? It was enough to make him annoyed and he didn’t care about listening to his defense. The opportunity he had given, if he didn’t take it, what did that have to do with him?
After that, Ruan Mingyi went after Cheng Su and forgot all about Ruan Tao’s injury. The director hurried everyone to send Ruan Tao to the hospital, clean up the scene and go back on stage.
“It’s okay.”
In the corner of the room, Qiao Dai and Lu Ying were helping Lin Xiaoxiao with her wound, disinfecting it with alcohol. The rest of Ruan Tao’s teammates had also gathered around and everyone looked very depressed.
“She has so many fans and now she went to the hospital. Even if she can’t perform, her fans will feel sorry for her. What can we do? This dance is so difficult, who can take her C position?”
There was no camera around and the girls did not hide their negative emotions anymore. The one who had just spoken was a Class C player. She did not have a large fanbase and could only hope to perform better each stage to attract people. Right now, the most important thing for her was this public performance but such an accident had happened.
“Don’t say it, don’t say it.”
Lin Xiaoxiao’s voice was broken. She knew her teammate was not ranked high and really needed this performance to have a chance to stay in the game. Without it, she was really on the edge of being eliminated.
The girl lowered her head and heavy tears fell one by one.
“Xiaoxiao, you tried to have her rest but did she listen? She wanted us to work so hard but in the end, all of our efforts were in vain. How is it fair to us?”
Today’s incident had not been without any sign. Ruan Tao was originally quite weak with a petite body. She seldom participated in performances that required a lot of strength and her teammates had a vague guess about her stamina.
During practice, Ruan Tao had shown amazing efforts. But while she had been happy, her teammates had been worrying a little. They had been afraid Ruan Tao’s body would not have been able to hold the pressure but had not been able to stop her. Should they have prevented her from training? In any case, today’s accident had occurred.
Another short-haired Galaxy member sobbed. She looked defeated and complained: “What can we do? She can do whatever she wants, preserve her strength if she wants to. But what about us? Did she ask us? She wanted to train too hard but did she care about us?”
With a cold and sad smile, she continued: “I know, it’s also our fault. We tried to persuade her too late, why couldn’t we be more careful? We can’t just blame her, it would be very petty of us…”
“But I am petty! I’m selfish! I guess my relationship with her was not as good as I thought because I cannot accept her tantrums over and over again… I’m done.”
Contradictions within Galaxy members had always existed. Because it had gone rather smoothly before the draft, these contradictions had not been violent nor obvious to all. But after joining the show together, they had messed things up right from the start during the initial rating and it had caused more internal friction. After a while, they had finally realized that their relationship was far from good enough to forgive each other for the damage they had done.
No one was willing to be cannon fodder. They could tolerate their friend’s mistakes or even choose to give up for them but it was all based on feelings rather than the forced interest of others. Although they were still a team now, some things within Galaxy had quietly changed.
Listening to them talking, Qiao Dai suddenly asked with a serious expression: “Do you have a video? I want to see it.”
Lin Xiaoxiao was startled but instantly understood Qiao Dai’s intentions. For a while, she was a little baffled. Her heart was moved and she wanted to start crying again. But in the end, she waved her hand and said in a low voice: “It’s too late. The intermission will be over in a second, it’s useless to watch it now.”
She was aware the mentors praised Qiao Dai for being talented and she had also seen it with her own eyes. But even for a genius, they did not have enough time, and miracles were impossible.
“You should go. There is still the theme song at the end, you should go rest.”
Lin Xiaoxiao squeezed out a smile and wiped her tears away. Pretending to be strong, she looked at her three teammates.
“Sisters, cheer up! You are the best.”
But without their central position, the effect of the performance would be a disaster. Ruan Tao had gone to the hospital and did not have to face this humiliation but her teammates were not so lucky. Even if they knew their stage would be a failure, they had a hard time digesting it.
Even if they were all opponents, when they saw the four girls hug each other, the other contestants from other teams could not help but feel sympathetic and a little sad.
“Cheer up!”
“It will be okay!”
“You are all amazing!”
The other girls stood beside Lin Xiaoxiao and her teammates, just like Qiao Dai, and encouraged them. Their performance was indeed doomed but those four girls who were about to dance bravely… each of them were worthy to shine on the stage!
As the players embraced each other, hoping to comfort them and ease their current nervousness, a figure slowly walked to them.
“Teacher Jiang?”
Lin Xiaoxiao looked up at Jiang Fengchi. He nodded gently at them and said: “It will be okay.”
His eyes fell on every girl present until he stopped on Lin Xiaoxiao who was standing in the center.
“I will dance the C position for you.”
Chapter 29: I’ll jump C position for you (2)
Ruan Mingyi avoided Qiao Dai’s eyes and asked in a cold voice: “Where are Taotao’s teammates? I need to ask you something.”
Everyone sneered in their hearts, secretly saying this situation had developed in the worst possible way.
Lin Xiaoxiao, who was standing behind Qiao Dai, stiffened suddenly and her fingertips became cold. As a member of Galaxy, she was aware of Director Ruan’s personality. He was stubborn and rigid; as long as he decided something, so one could persuade him anymore.
“Dad!”
Ruan Tao exclaimed. After all, she was the main protagonist of this incident and she knew how she had hurt herself. It had nothing to do with her teammates, it was only because she had insisted on over-exerting herself.
But Ruan Mingyi wasn’t listening to Ruan Tao. In his eyes, his daughter was too pure and kind and was easily deceived by others. As a person who had seen a lot of the darker side of people, he knew Ruan Tao couldn’t understand it.
“Mr. Ruan, is that very appropriate right now?”
At this time, the mentors had received the news and returned backstage. Jiang Fengchi was unhappy and said: “Whether it was an accident or not, right now is not the time for you to investigate.”
Ruan Mingyi glanced at Jiang Fengchi and dismissed him quickly. In a somewhat contemptuous tone, he ordered: “Have your director come and talk to me.”
The mood on the scene became even more tense, making people sweat. Jiang Fengchi and Ruan Mingyi continued to stare at each other, neither of them taking a step back. Time passed slowly and people became more and more anxious. How was it possible to mess things up that much in only one public performance?
Ruan Mingyi wanted to argue but at this moment, an impatient voice interrupted the stalemate.
“Enough.”
There was no emotion on Cheng Su’s face and people could not guess whether he was happy or angry. Yet, looking at him, people instantly felt they were facing a predator, lurking in the dark and ready to attack. Whoever looked at his eyes felt sharp claws tightening around their throats.
Cheng Su did not bother to walk in the room and simply stared at Ruan Mingyi. He did not need to say anything, Ruan Mingyi was already shaking; he was in trouble. Recalling the warning that had been issued to him last night, Ruan Mingyi shivered.
“President Cheng.” He looked like he wanted to explain himself but Cheng Su had already turned around and left the room, not giving him a chance to talk.
How big was Ruan Mingyi, to go look for trouble with a group of little girls? Ah, what an admirable person.
Cheng Su had originally been invited to take a look backstage. Who knew he would see a senior of the company making trouble there without any reason? It was enough to make him annoyed and he didn’t care about listening to his defense. The opportunity he had given, if he didn’t take it, what did that have to do with him?
After that, Ruan Mingyi went after Cheng Su and forgot all about Ruan Tao’s injury. The director hurried everyone to send Ruan Tao to the hospital, clean up the scene and go back on stage.
“It’s okay.”
In the corner of the room, Qiao Dai and Lu Ying were helping Lin Xiaoxiao with her wound, disinfecting it with alcohol. The rest of Ruan Tao’s teammates had also gathered around and everyone looked very depressed.
“She has so many fans and now she went to the hospital. Even if she can’t perform, her fans will feel sorry for her. What can we do? This dance is so difficult, who can take her C position?”
There was no camera around and the girls did not hide their negative emotions anymore. The one who had just spoken was a Class C player. She did not have a large fanbase and could only hope to perform better each stage to attract people. Right now, the most important thing for her was this public performance but such an accident had happened.
“Don’t say it, don’t say it.”
Lin Xiaoxiao’s voice was broken. She knew her teammate was not ranked high and really needed this performance to have a chance to stay in the game. Without it, she was really on the edge of being eliminated.
The girl lowered her head and heavy tears fell one by one.
“Xiaoxiao, you tried to have her rest but did she listen? She wanted us to work so hard but in the end, all of our efforts were in vain. How is it fair to us?”
Today’s incident had not been without any sign. Ruan Tao was originally quite weak with a petite body. She seldom participated in performances that required a lot of strength and her teammates had a vague guess about her stamina.
During practice, Ruan Tao had shown amazing efforts. But while she had been happy, her teammates had been worrying a little. They had been afraid Ruan Tao’s body would not have been able to hold the pressure but had not been able to stop her. Should they have prevented her from training? In any case, today’s accident had occurred.
Another short-haired Galaxy member sobbed. She looked defeated and complained: “What can we do? She can do whatever she wants, preserve her strength if she wants to. But what about us? Did she ask us? She wanted to train too hard but did she care about us?”
With a cold and sad smile, she continued: “I know, it’s also our fault. We tried to persuade her too late, why couldn’t we be more careful? We can’t just blame her, it would be very petty of us…”
“But I am petty! I’m selfish! I guess my relationship with her was not as good as I thought because I cannot accept her tantrums over and over again… I’m done.”
Contradictions within Galaxy members had always existed. Because it had gone rather smoothly before the draft, these contradictions had not been violent nor obvious to all. But after joining the show together, they had messed things up right from the start during the initial rating and it had caused more internal friction. After a while, they had finally realized that their relationship was far from good enough to forgive each other for the damage they had done.
No one was willing to be cannon fodder. They could tolerate their friend’s mistakes or even choose to give up for them but it was all based on feelings rather than the forced interest of others. Although they were still a team now, some things within Galaxy had quietly changed.
Listening to them talking, Qiao Dai suddenly asked with a serious expression: “Do you have a video? I want to see it.”
Lin Xiaoxiao was startled but instantly understood Qiao Dai’s intentions. For a while, she was a little baffled. Her heart was moved and she wanted to start crying again. But in the end, she waved her hand and said in a low voice: “It’s too late. The intermission will be over in a second, it’s useless to watch it now.”
She was aware the mentors praised Qiao Dai for being talented and she had also seen it with her own eyes. But even for a genius, they did not have enough time, and miracles were impossible.
“You should go. There is still the theme song at the end, you should go rest.”
Lin Xiaoxiao squeezed out a smile and wiped her tears away. Pretending to be strong, she looked at her three teammates.
“Sisters, cheer up! You are the best.”
But without their central position, the effect of the performance would be a disaster. Ruan Tao had gone to the hospital and did not have to face this humiliation but her teammates were not so lucky. Even if they knew their stage would be a failure, they had a hard time digesting it.
Even if they were all opponents, when they saw the four girls hug each other, the other contestants from other teams could not help but feel sympathetic and a little sad.
“Cheer up!”
“It will be okay!”
“You are all amazing!”
The other girls stood beside Lin Xiaoxiao and her teammates, just like Qiao Dai, and encouraged them. Their performance was indeed doomed but those four girls who were about to dance bravely… each of them were worthy to shine on the stage!
As the players embraced each other, hoping to comfort them and ease their current nervousness, a figure slowly walked to them.
“Teacher Jiang?”
Lin Xiaoxiao looked up at Jiang Fengchi. He nodded gently at them and said: “It will be okay.”
His eyes fell on every girl present until he stopped on Lin Xiaoxiao who was standing in the center.
“I will dance the C position for you.”
