Tearing Up the Script to Claim the Center Spot

Idol Training Camp, a trashy talent show.

They throw money at recruiting contestants, leave debut spots to a lottery, let the favored ones dominate half the show, and rely on fan wars for buzz. Not a single serious contestant gets to do anything but play second fiddle.

And yet this year, the shabby show managed to recruit a real gem.

Shen Xinglan: trained overseas for seven years, world champion in modern dance, vocals second to none, an all-round ace, and an absolute hot commodity who makes a killer first impression and gets compared unfavorably with anyone he appears alongside.

Onlookers: "Poor baby. He must have joined the show because he's broke. Another heavenly little cutie is about to become the one that got away!"

Who could have guessed...

On the first day of filming, he crushed the favored contestant with a total mismatch in their opening-stage battle.

After a week of filming, though the production team edited him out of the main episodes so completely that he might as well not exist, his fan-cam clips took over the trending charts.

After a month of filming, the chief director offered him a fortune to debut in first place.

Shen Xinglan: "Heh, that's all the money you've got? It's only one percent of my family's assets."

In the huge production crew, the person Shen Xinglan couldn't stand most was pretty boy Yan Xizhou.

Hopeless at both singing and dancing, he played up the rich young master persona and took over the screen with his looks and figure... Yet somehow his popularity was even higher than Shen Xinglan's!

Shen Xinglan decided to teach him a lesson. He led a group of buddies into Yan Xizhou's dorm, only to find the "rich young master" sitting on his bed, calmly sewing an old sock while looking at him.

"Want to fake a couple? Two thousand per interaction. For five hundred thousand, I'll fake it with you all the way to your debut."

Damn! Turns out you're a fraud too!

[Little Bonus Scene]

After they debut as a group...

Fan: "Yan Xizhou, Shen Xinglan says you're wild in private. Is that true?"

Yan Xizhou: "It is."

"If Xinglan ever dares to sneak off and practice dancing with someone else in the middle of the night, I'll make sure he can't walk straight for three days."

Fan: !!!

All-round ace and true heir to a wealthy family, Shen Xinglan, x poor fake rich young master and faux-aloof top, Yan Xizhou. Both are each other's first love. Happy ending.

Reader's Guide: 1. The competition format is based on Produce 101.

2. All characters are fictional. Please don't associate them with real people.

3. Romance within the group, so please check the tags before reading.

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