Before closing his eyes, Huaiyu was caught amid a change of dynasties, surrounded by blood.
When he opened them again, the sword thrusting toward him had become a dazzling light, and a voice rang in his ear from nowhere: "Trainee Huaiyu, grade E."
Huaiyu: ???
What is a trainee?
Huaiyu, the youngest young prince of the Tianheng Dynasty, has become Huaiyu, a trainee in the 21st century who can't sing or dance.
Huaiyu: ...And what are singing and dancing?!
The young prince couldn't quite figure it out. Fortunately, before this prison called "All-Star Trainees" required them to perform, they hired people to teach them. After half a month of muddled "training," the show aired, and Huaiyu became a sensation.
[Which mountain did the production team dig this talent out of? He doesn't even know how to use a phone.]
[Our baby is from ancient times.]
[He spent the whole episode speaking in classical Chinese. I think it's starting to rub off on me...]
[Wait, why do I find it so funny every time he doesn't realize he's being funny...?]
The night before the public rankings, Huaiyu set up an offering table in the southwest corner of the dorm and solemnly chanted:
"Ancestors, hear me!"
Staff member: "?"
"My father, my mother, my great-grandmother, my great-great-grandfather... Please bless Huaiyu to win his first battle. I'm not asking for much. I'd like to be a D... Little Huaiyu wants an omelet rice from the D cafeteria..."
He had no idea there were cameras everywhere. Every day, he wandered around in a daze, caught between the modern world and ancient times.
When his roommate changed clothes in front of him, he sighed and lamented the decline of public morals.
When the production team asked if he had an English name, he thought they meant a childhood nickname and said his was A Man.
After he unfortunately developed an internet addiction, he had no phone, so every day he eagerly hovered around the staff, borrowing their phones to watch things.
When the full episode aired, viewers said his style was both modern and classical, a blend they dubbed "modern-classical."
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Later on:
At the third performance, Huaiyu drew on his twenty years of living in ancient times to rework "The King of Lanling Breaks the Enemy Formation," and shot to fame.
He auditioned for a period drama, impressed the director with his beautiful sword flourishes, and officially entered the entertainment industry.
On a show about intangible cultural heritage, he dazzled viewers with a guqin and xiao duet alongside an inheritor of the tradition.
Netizens: Who turned my wonderfully bizarre baby into a respectable person?
Theme: Look ahead.