OO Group has poured money into relaunching the notorious fourth season of the 101 audition show, sending shockwaves through the industry.
From the very start of its publicity campaign, the show has boasted that it is "absolutely free of rigging." It has opened registration to the public and gone looking for promising amateurs and trainees, all in pursuit of fame and buzz.
Everyone expects a chaotic competition, with all kinds of people thrown together. Standing out on the show will be an uphill battle.
Someone is bound to pull out every trick in the book and stop at nothing.
...And that someone is you, Feng Fengzi!
Everyone: Who names themselves Feng Fengzi? Are they crazy?!
At the initial evaluation, Feng Fengzi performed a bizarre routine combining broadcast calisthenics, hand dancing, and hype-man shouting, successfully earning himself an F rating.
When the dorms were assigned, he asked all 100 contestants whether they wanted to room with him or needed help. No matter whether they said yes or no, he would turn around without hesitation and ask the next person.
While practicing the theme song, he complained that his singing was still off-key even though he'd clearly put points into that stat.
He filled in his schedule and clicked the start button in midair, then wondered why he couldn't skip practice and why time wouldn't whizz by.
Everyone: Help! Can someone do something about him?!
Midway through the show, he scrambled over walls, wandered everywhere, and crawled through ventilation ducts, where he discovered a PD plotting to sell debut-group spots.
After the rankings were announced, he claimed he was trying to win people over and kept sending roses, cassette tapes, crutches, wheelchairs, and underwear, all to comfort one particular eliminated contestant.
He exposed a contestant's abuse. Later, viewers examined the evidence footage and realized it had been filmed from the ceiling of a public restroom, outside a window across the street, and inside a chimney on a rooftop.
Everyone: ...This is way beyond the kind of mess a simple scandal can fix.
Oh, right. There was also footage from underneath a car.
Everyone: ...Wait, is this actually a beaver?!
Though his actions were impossible to make sense of, Feng Fengzi still managed to gain a certain following. His fans thought that, weird as he was, he had a kind heart. On his way home after work, he'd give waiting fans the banknotes he'd earned from selling scrap, folded into flowers. Sometimes he would also bring homemade culinary disasters and ice cream feasts cooked over a fire he'd secretly lit.
As his reputation gradually improved amid all the strangeness, the trainees began to see him as a true friend and a teammate they could rely on. Even after leaving the show, they were still willing to trust and support him.
That is, until the moment he debuted.
Fireworks bloomed, the crowd roared, and NO. 1 shone on the screen. In front of everyone, amid countless cameras, he suddenly... vanished from the stage.
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Tong Feng was a gaming enthusiast. One day, he tried a newly released full-dive audition game and soon became completely hooked.
After countless days and nights of raising affection, improving stats, and boosting his reputation, he finally debuted in first place. Holding a microphone onstage to give his speech, Tong Feng was so moved he couldn't speak.
But all good things must come to an end. The moment he successfully debuted and finished his speech, the game played its ending music and began its finale. The original login screen appeared before him. Tong Feng exited the game, held his headset, wiped away his tears, and slept like a log.
The next day, he planned to play again and unlock New Game Plus.
But when he logged in, he found... the surroundings completely unfamiliar. Two years had passed.
The 101 audition show had reached its fifth season. His former group had scattered, each member shining in their own way.
His VB followers had grown from one million to ten million, and a missing-person notice for him was still posted online.
Everyone missed him.
Tong Feng: ?
Then the game System told him that he had to register for the sixth season in an hour and take part in a new audition.
Tong Feng: ??
Wait, what is going on? Is this right?
1. HE. The guys will promote together as a group; they won't disband.
2. No real-life inspirations.
3. The focus is on careers. The romance comes much, much later, and there is no romance while they're in the group.
Theme: When the false is taken for true, the true becomes false; when the true is taken for false, the false becomes true.
