The mentors chatted for a few minutes, Fu Yunyi said, "The results will be announced at ten o'clock tomorrow morning. The director's idea is that we should get the results sorted out tonight, get a good night's sleep, and avoid having to get up early tomorrow morning to deal with it."
Xia Zhiyi nodded. "Okay."
Then, they compiled all the mentors' scores for each person. There were one or two points of disagreement, so they had to go through the recorded videos, discuss them briefly, and recalculate the scores. The mentors and the production team were busy until 2 a. m. before they finally finished.
As Fu Yunyi closed the pen, he took a breath. "I definitely won't do any more variety shows like this in the future. It's only the first day, and I already feel exhausted."
Xie Linyue smiled. This wasn't her first time being a mentor, so she had plenty of experience and felt it was alright. At least everyone was working seriously and wasn't trying to impress the camera or gain attention.
This will save you a lot of trouble.
Xia Zhiyi asked, "So, is there anything else? Shall we go back and rest?"
Fu Yunyi: "Take a rest."
The group exchanged glances, smiled, handed the tallied scores to Fu Yunyi for safekeeping, and went back to rest.
Xia Zhiyi returned to the dormitory arranged for her by the production team. The mentors all had single rooms with a living room and a bathroom. The environment was simple, and the mentors could ask the production assistants for anything they needed at any time. The conditions were quite good.
He had just closed the door to wash up and rest when he heard a knock on the door from the outside. He was slightly startled, but still opened the door and saw a boy who looked to be about 1.7 meters tall standing in the doorway, looking up at him shyly.
Xia Zhiyi: "... Yang Linlin? It's so late, why aren't you resting? Is something the matter?"
The mentors and contestants aren't in the same building, so Yang Linlin's arrival at this time can't be considered just passing by.
As for using any tricks, like reading scripts in the dark or something... that's unlikely. Public security cameras are on 24/7. Although no one may be watching, they definitely record information.
Anyone with common sense wouldn't resort to such tactics on this show.
Yang Linlin smiled shyly and said, "Um, Teacher Xia, I heard you get up early every day to do your morning exercise. I... I just wanted to ask if you're doing your morning exercise today too? Can I join you?"
Xia Zhiyi surprised. "That's it? If you want to do morning exercise, you don't need to ask me specifically. I won't interfere with other people's actions."
Seeing that Xia Zhiyi seemed not to understand, Yang Linlin quickly explained, "No, well, it's just that I think, Teacher Xia, you're so amazing, I'd like to... I'd like to learn from you."
Xia Zhiyi blinked.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Yang Linlin trembled her lips. The young man was very well-behaved, completely different from his previous stage performances. At this moment, he seemed very conflicted. " Teacher Xia, I want to... I want to try and see if I have a chance to become your apprentice?"
Xia Zhiyi: "Oh."
I understand.
I still want to become an apprentice.
Xia Zhiyi to herself, "Why be so secretive about something so small? Just ask directly."
He said, "Well... I only take on apprentices when I feel like it, but if you want to do morning exercises with me, feel free to join me. Which dorm do you live in? I'll come and get you."
By the way, look at the contestants on this show. How many of them actually exercise in the morning? It's the same whether you bring one or two along, so why not bring them all together?
Yang Linlin hadn't expected this, and her eyes lit up immediately. She quickly gave her dormitory number, but then felt that it might not be appropriate and wanted to say something more.
Xia Zhiyi waved her hand, "Alright, it's getting late. You just said you'd be waiting for me at the door, right? If you want to exercise, you need to rest. Don't waste time here. Go back and rest."
I need to rest too.
Yang Linlin swallowed back the words that were on the tip of her tongue and quickly nodded to indicate that she understood.
After Yang Linlin left, Xia Zhiyi looked around the door again to make sure no one else was hiding in any corner waiting to knock on her door before closing and locking it. Finally, she could rest.
This scene was witnessed by a very small number of night owls.
[I was terrified! I thought some contestant was going to pull some dirty tricks on the very first day of the show.]
[No, it's just morning exercise, why did they have to bring it up now? Doesn't it seem a bit like they're putting on a show?]
[Not necessarily. Maybe Yang Linlin is just sincere and wants to become an apprentice.]
[Don't worry about it. With so many cameras around, only a lunatic would resort to dirty tricks.]
[Oh dear, it's so late, Teacher Xia is already asleep, I should go to sleep too, otherwise I'll miss seeing Teacher Xia get up for morning exercises tomorrow.]
[Going to sleep now, will do morning exercises with Teacher Xia tomorrow morning.]
Yang Linlin followed the streetlights back to the dormitory building. As soon as she entered the gate, she saw several people squatting by the stairs, seemingly chatting.
Seeing him return, the others stood up and crowded around him, asking curiously, "You really went to see Teacher Xia? How did it go? What did Teacher Xia say? Is he angry?"
Yang Linlin smiled and said, " Teacher Xia has a very good temper. She wasn't angry and even told me that she would come to call me for morning exercise tomorrow."
Wow! Teacher Xia is such a nice person!
"I heard that Teacher Xia gets up before dawn every day to do morning exercises. It's almost three o'clock now. If she really gets up that early to do morning exercises, won't she only get two hours of sleep? Can you handle it?"
"It should be fine, right? Tomorrow morning they'll announce the results and assign classes. The afternoon should be for arranging the theme song and choreography, so the first day shouldn't be too tiring."
Yang Linlin remembered what had happened before. After hesitating for a moment, she said, "Didn't we say we were going to memorize the Eight Honors and Eight Shames? When are we going to do that?"
Everyone was taken aback upon hearing this.
Then, we looked at each other, and for some reason, we had a bad feeling.
"I thought they were joking because they didn't make us recite it today."
"It can't be true, can it?"
"You didn't memorize it?"
"No, not at all. I was afraid it might be for real, so I memorized it anyway, and I know it very well."
"I'm not good at memorizing, and I always forget song lyrics. If I'm chosen to recite, and I haven't had a proper rest yet, I'm sure I'll make a mistake."
Yang Linlin: "Let's get some rest. If we get back cramps tomorrow, and we don't sleep well, we might accidentally recite the wrong thing..."
Upon hearing this, everyone realized it made sense and, not wanting to ask any more questions, quickly went back to their dormitories to sleep.
Morning exercise?
We'll see when the time comes!
Yang Linlin was finally able to escape and return to his dormitory. In order not to disturb his roommates, he did not turn on the lights and tiptoed around.
After tidying up, just as she was about to return to her own bed, she heard Song Qi, who was sleeping opposite her, say, "You're back?"
Yang Linlin quickly replied in a low voice, "Yeah, did I disturb you?"
Song Qi's voice was somewhat muffled. "Hmm, it's okay, go to sleep."
Yang Linlin: "Okay."