Two days ago, Zhou Wanqing had already reached an agreement with Jiangrong Satellite TV: Feng Bingbing would serve as a mentor in the national top-100 round of the second season of Pure Voice.
Feng Bingbing had come to Jiangrong Satellite TV today to sign the contract.
It was also a way of showing how seriously she took the program.
After all, following the first season's massive success, Pure Voice had become one of Huaxia's top music competition shows.
The mentors on the show were either first-tier singers or hugely popular stars.
Feng Bingbing's becoming a mentor this season was proof enough of her popularity.
The head director of Pure Voice was Chen Xin. The lineup she had decided on consisted of two veteran first-tier singers, one popular up-and-coming singer, and one top-tier celebrity.
This approach basically catered to viewers of every age group.
Feng Bingbing was naturally aiming for the spot reserved for an "up-and-coming singer," but the competition for that position was fierce.
Seven or eight young singers were vying for the mentor spot.
Among them was Feng Bingbing's longtime rival, Xu Lingyu.
In the end, though, the production team chose Feng Bingbing, who was more popular, sang better, and was prettier.
Now that the contract was signed, the tense atmosphere from the earlier negotiations had vanished. Feng Bingbing smiled as she chatted with several of the program's key staff members.
Seeing how poised, youthful, and radiant Feng Bingbing was, Chen Xin felt even more pleased with her choice.
Zhou Wanqing came over and shook Chen Xin's hand. "Thank you, Director Chen, for believing in our Bingbing."
Chen Xin smiled. "Feng Bingbing is simply talented enough. After all, our show has higher standards than ordinary variety shows. We don't just look at fame—we also consider singing ability, emotional intelligence, and how well someone speaks."
"You're too kind, Director Chen." Zhou Wanqing wore a proud smile.
Zhou Wanqing had been with Feng Bingbing since her debut. She had watched the girl grow from an inexperienced newcomer into the Little Diva of the Music Scene, so she knew just how hard Feng Bingbing had worked behind the scenes.
Of course, it would be even better if she could change her temper and stop snapping at people so much.
And if she couldn't change her temper, at least she could stop acting like a lovesick puppy over that Senior Lin, right?
It was embarrassing!
Just then, Zhou Wanqing glanced to the side and saw Feng Bingbing wander off alone, quietly taking out her phone to look at it.
One look at her expression, and Zhou Wanqing knew exactly what Feng Bingbing was checking.
Zhou Wanqing sighed softly, walked over, and took Feng Bingbing's phone. She greeted Chen Xin and the other members of the production team, then left Jiangrong Satellite TV with Feng Bingbing and Xiao Zhu.
"Sister Wan Qing, give me my phone back!"
Feng Bingbing had behaved herself in front of the others. But as soon as she got into the car, she tried to snatch her phone back from Zhou Wanqing.
"You little princess, you're busy flirting with that senior of yours, but can't you at least pay attention to where you are?"
Zhou Wanqing glanced down at Feng Bingbing's phone, unimpressed. Sure enough, Feng Bingbing had just messaged that Senior Lin, asking him to guess which show she'd signed up for.
"Oh, Sister Wan Qing, give it back already! Senior must have replied by now."
Feng Bingbing lunged toward Zhou Wanqing.
"Heh. He really did reply. Here, take it and see for yourself!"
Zhou Wanqing gave a cold laugh and tossed her the phone.
"Senior replied?"
Feng Bingbing hurriedly caught the phone and looked down at Senior Lin's message.
Xiao Zhu, who was sitting in the driver's seat, stopped getting the car started and turned around to ask, "What did Senior Lin say?"
But when she leaned over to look, all she saw was Lin Mu's reply: "I'm a little tired. I'm going to sleep. Goodnight."
Xiao Zhu glanced at Zhou Wanqing, who was still sneering, then tugged at Feng Bingbing's arm. "Little Bing, your senior's so cold."
"How could you say that?"
Feng Bingbing looked up, her face full of joy and bliss.
"He even said goodnight to me! He never used to say goodnight to me. Don't you think he's starting to be gentler with me?"
"Heh." Zhou Wanqing turned to look out the window. Out of sight, out of mind.
Xiao Zhu smiled helplessly, turned back around, started the car, and focused on driving.
The atmosphere in the car was polite and awkward.
Feng Bingbing pouted. "You two single losers are just jealous of me. Hmph!"
Zhou Wanqing: "..."
Xiao Zhu: "..."
The next day, the sun rose as usual.
Lin Mu arrived at the office and noticed that the atmosphere was strange.
His coworkers were excitedly discussing something, but there was also a hint of gloom on their faces.
When they saw Lin Mu walk in, the considerate married woman Xu Li tugged at the person beside her, and everyone fell silent.
Even Li Xiaoyun, the talkative girl from Sichuan, covered her mouth and quietly went to sit at her desk.
"What's going on?"
Seeing everyone looking at him strangely, Lin Mu's heart skipped a beat. Had word gotten out that he'd earned an S Card in the preliminary round of Pure Voice?
"Everyone's here? Come on, have some snacks!"
Just then, Chi Yuting from the secretarial office upstairs walked in with a bag full of snacks and called everyone over to take some.
Chi Yuting was bundled up from head to toe today, dressed much more conservatively than usual. Although she'd kindly brought everyone snacks, there was a hint of condescension on her face.
Especially when she saw Lin Mu, she gave him a faint smile and walked over to him.
"I heard you also entered the Jiangsu Province preliminary round of Pure Voice. How did you do?"
Lin Mu replied, "Not bad."
"Heh, still so ordinary, yet so confident."
Chi Yuting smiled, took a sausage out of the snack bag, and tossed it to Lin Mu.
Lin Mu caught it, unsure what on earth had gotten into her.
Chi Yuting giggled. "What a coincidence! I also entered the Pure Voice preliminaries, and I made it into the national top 100!"
The office fell silent. It seemed the other coworkers had already known about this.
Lin Mu understood. She had come all this way just to brag to him.
Chi Yuting often flirted with Lin Mu in subtle ways. He knew she was keeping him on the hook.
The truth was, Chi Yuting had ambiguous relationships with several of the company's leaders. But all those leaders had families, so naturally none of them would leave their wives and children for her.
Since she couldn't get anywhere with the leaders, she'd settle for a handsome, honest man to take the fall instead.
It was a standard move for a gold-digging flirt.
Unfortunately for her, Lin Mu had seen through Chi Yuting from the start and had never shown her the slightest interest.
That had left the factory's resident beauty feeling humiliated.
Now that she'd made it into the national top 100 of Pure Voice, she was about to enter the entertainment industry as a star.
Naturally, that put her on a different level from these ordinary coworkers—especially Lin Mu, who had always looked down on her.
You could tell from the way she'd traded her usual sexy outfits for conservative clothes today. She clearly thought you common mortals were no longer worthy of seeing her body.
Her body was now reserved for people of a higher caliber!
As for Lin Mu, he wouldn't even be worthy of her attention from now on.
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