Taking a Test During the Audition Show's Opening Performance

[Entertainment industry] Since the internet first took off, it's been an indispensable part of the entertainment industry. Some people gain positive emotional value from it, while others have their reputations ruined. Some analyze its two sides, while others turn a blind eye.

Write an essay based on the above. Choose a suitable angle, establish a clear thesis, and use an appropriate style. Give your essay an original title. Do not imitate or plagiarize. Write at least 800 Chinese characters.

A talent competition show was brought back after years away, and it broke the mold from the very first stage by handing out high school exam papers.

The trainees: ?

That question mark doesn't mean we have a problem. It means you have a problem. Do you think we became trainees because studying was too easy and we wanted a challenge?

Yun Huilan, who joined for the 6,666-yuan salary, a genius who skipped grades at X University: It really isn't much of a challenge. Isn't this question pretty easy?

The viewers in the livestream turned into exam proctors, mercilessly mocking the trainees.

[Why are you sleeping? At your age, you can sleep?]

[You wrote a self-introduction for the essay? Zero points!]

[Who told you to write English in pinyin? Note that this one is illiterate.]

But when viewers clicked into Yun Huilan's livestream, the comments took a sharp turn.

[Isn't this a math question? Why are you writing in English?]

[Wait, how did someone who actually knows the answers get in here?]

[They say beauty makes the scenery look better, so why does this question still look so ugly?]

[That was the last question on the exam? Your cultivation is above mine.]

Viewers opened Yun Huilan's profile card. Only nineteen? A young brain really is something else.

It wasn't until filming began that the trainees realized: I just signed up on a whim, but why does your "All-Round New Star 100%" actually require us to be all-rounders?

We have to arrange our own music and write our own lyrics, and we're even responsible for the stage design, costumes, and makeup!

Fine, those things are related to the stage. But why do we have to cook our own food? Why are the trainees responsible for cleaning the base? And why are we expected to landscape the place, too?

Yun Huilan thrived on the show. Since most contestants started at the same level, her ability to learn made her stand out all the more.

What? Aren't these things all easy to pick up?

If you can't do it, take a look at yourself. Haven't we all learned things this way for years?

When she debuted in the center position, a reporter asked her for a few words.

Yun Huilan smiled modestly. "I wasn't even planning to debut at first. I just signed up on a whim, and I didn't expect to become famous."

1. This is an unconventional talent competition. The format takes some inspiration from the Produce 101 series, but many parts are original.

2. Set ten years in the future, with many fictionalized elements. Please don't map it onto the real world.

3. There is fanservice for male-male pairings and unrequited crushes that aren't confessed. The male lead focuses on his career. (But both the fanservice and unrequited crushes are very limited!)

4. No real-life inspirations.

5. This is the author's first time writing a novel, so I may make all sorts of mistakes. Please bear with me.

6. You can tell from the blurb that the author's mental state is questionable and their brain isn't normal. If that bothers you, don't read.

7. The protagonist has two career storylines, talent competitions and another one, and pursues both. If that bothers you, please don't read.

A BL pre-registration novel

"After Switching Places with My ABO World's Alternate Self"

Chen Xiao, captain of a special operations team, transmigrates.

He lands in his own home in an ABO world.

From the looks of things, his alternate self is living a life as the world's most universally hated person: his husband is cheating, the servants bully him, and his relatives look down on him.

Chen Xiao: How can anyone put up with living like this? What a pushover.

He kicks the scumbag into the hospital and quickly gets everyone in the whole mansion under control.

Not just under control: a five-kilometer run is mandatory every day. Anyone who won't behave gets an extra ten kilometers.

With his own strength, he turns this place from a melodramatic rich-family drama into a passionate action story.

He can't help it. He doesn't have time to act out a rich-family soap opera with these people. He's got a proper mission to carry out.

A romantic game is completely unnecessary.

Xia Zhuo, who's staying over: "Really? Then aren't you curious about how pheromones come out of human bodies? Or why everyone smells different?"

Chen Xiao: "...One thing at a time. Wait, why are you releasing your scent again?"

Xia Zhuo is special to Chen Xiao, mainly because he died in Chen Xiao's original world.

And because, in that world, he was a captain Chen Xiao deeply respected.

And because...

Xia Zhuo: "Who are you trying to act like this time? Whose face are you seeing through my eyes?"

Chen Xiao pins down his gland, trying to block the scent pouring out. "Are you a pervert? You're playing pretend at a time like this?"

He has never thought of him that way. From the very beginning, he could tell them apart. Who knows how Xia Zhuo's brain works?

One day, Xia Zhuo met a man who fascinated him.

He couldn't tell what ABO sex the man was. In the sunlight, everything about him seemed special.

Then, on a mission, Xia Zhuo stayed at his buddy's home and heard him introduce the man as his omega.

Tsk. Xia Zhuo gritted his teeth.

A BGM sprang up in his mind.

If one day I fall in love with your wife, and your wife falls in love with me, brother, please don't cry out loud...

After spending a long time together, he realized he didn't seem to be playing the role of a man stealing someone else's spouse. He was playing the role of a substitute!

His alternate self had also died heroically at a young age, making him the perfect white moonlight.

Chen Xiao listened to his ridiculous reasoning and bit his gland hard. "Can you stop making up a script for yourself?"

Here's another pre-registration novel with a similarly unhinged variety-show male lead:

"The Real Earthling on a Galactic Dating Show"

After pulling an all-nighter during finals week, Ying Xingzhou fainted from exhaustion and transmigrated to the interstellar era.

At the time, he was standing in a long line. A floating screen beside him said this was an audition for a dating show.

Ying Xingzhou: ?

A dating show? Auditions? You have to queue up to audition for a dating show? Is there something wrong with this interstellar society?

There really was something wrong.

Everyone ahead of him, who had prepared their resumes in earnest, got rejected. The people picked by the viewers were all at least a little crazy.

A: "My gender is an armed helicopter. My goal is to explore how many genders a person can have. Ancient books prove that in Earth's era, people had 120 genders..."

B: "Although I'm already 168 years old, I'm still young. I have lots of romantic experience and can offer the contestants an unconventional choice..."

C: "Do you know what kind of love is the most perfect? Imaginary love, of course. Do you know what it's like to have your heart race over a fictional character? Do you know what it's like to sob so hard over a shutdown announcement that you can barely catch your breath? I'm here to persuade everyone on the show to become fictional-character dream girls and dream boys..."

D: "I'm from Earth. You know Earth, right? Humanity's home. Actually, Earth had mastered time-space technology. Just imagine how cool it would be to date an Earthling!"

E: "You know, people who've given birth are caring. Don't let the fact that I'm a man or that I haven't had surgery fool you. I've given birth to a child, you know..."

F: "How can mortals understand the true meaning of emotion? They need a divine messenger to enlighten them. I'm a bishop. Join us..."

D: "The wind came softly, just as I left softly. Only people like me can appreciate nature's beauty. I am human, I am mist, I am dark matter drifting through the universe..."

The genuinely honest, down-to-earth Earthling couldn't have been more out of place.

In the end, Ying Xingzhou decided to tell the truth. "I'm an Earthling, the kind of ancient person who grew up on Earth. You know what I mean..."

Even though he shared a character concept with one of the other popular contestants, the viewers honestly voted for him because they liked his face.

On the show, Ying Xingzhou took a keen interest in everything and diligently played the role of an ignorant Earthling.

Viewers: How can he act so convincingly? Ying Xingzhou is working so hard.

Ying Xingzhou: I'm not acting.

Viewers, contestants, and staff: We get it, we get it. You have to stay in character.

Then, after the show had been running for a while, the Alliance authorities announced that a time-space experiment had gone wrong and that they were searching for the ancestor who had been caught up in their mistake.

A mischievous viewer posted Ying Xingzhou's name.

Viewer: Hahahaha, the official confirmation is here! What are you going to do this time, Zhouzhou?

Then Ying Xingzhou walked out of the government office unharmed, and the officials gave him a warm welcome and generous compensation. The public went wild.

Wait, dude, you're really our ancestor!

1. As the blurb says, this is a crazy, hilarious variety show disguised as a dating show!

2. The protagonist has no romance throughout the story, and no one has an unrequited crush on him. To be precise, no one on the show has a crush on anyone, though the livestream comments will joke about it.

3. I'll say it again: this is completely unhinged!

4. Everyone in this story is immersed in their own art and can't pull themselves away.

Theme: Providing the entertainment industry with highly qualified talent