The Whole Entertainment Circle is Waiting For My C Debut

Chapter 1.2: Hit Song

    However, although this girl was a little impatient, she was very confident in her gestures and her aura was extraordinary.

    Shen Yuan exchanged glances with Shen Qi, and pointed to Su Jing silently: Big shot?!

    Shen Qi also nodded in agreement: Visually inspecting the wolf

    Quickly enough Su Jing came on to the stage, introducing herself briefly, not a word of nonsense was spoken, and immediately started her performance, she had a professional character. As soon as Su Jing sang, there was an amazing voice on the stage.

    She sang a Chinese style song, "Acacia Terrace", that had a beautiful artistic conception.

    "The lingering Acacia Terrace, engraving the past life Acacia debt⁽¹⁾, the moon shines on the top of the tree and the shadow of the tree lingers, I dreamt that Lang⁽²⁾ is riding a bamboo horse here."

    This is a Chinese style pop song that has transformed from a folk song, Su Jing was born in an opera family, she grew up constantly listening to it, she at a young age was already a well-known small HuaDan⁽³⁾ actress in the national drama circle, she was confident and was effortlessly able to handle this style of music which combines the rhythm of the opera, the opera part is so extraordinaire, that the judges' eyes even straightened. In addition, her appearance is also very distinctive, red phoenix eyes⁽⁴⁾ that contain a cold, yet romantic feeling, it was especially prominent among the young girls with big eyes and double eyelids-------the so-called "aristocratic face".

    At the request of the judges, she sang a few more serious verses from the XunPai⁽⁵⁾, which drew praise from both vocal mentor Li YiMu and producer mentor Xiao Jin. Although most of the judges are at the top of the pop music industry, in the field of opera, in front of Su Jing, the tutors are also amateur. Only Xie Kai, who is from a family of opera artists but took the road of pop music, can comment from a professional's perspective with 2 sentences.

    Su Jing’s firm stage manner that has been tempered since childhood is really impeccable. The only shortcoming is probably--she emitted a lonely and aloof aura, a bit too unusual, and not a lot of people liked this temperament.

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    But it's really good, the theme of the national (Chinese) style is also good. It shows the diversity of the show's contestants. The director group gave Xie Kai a gesture to tell him to ask more questions. This is to give Su Jing more screen time.

    There was another wave of "Class A" frenzy in the audience, in that timeframe, it wasn’t known if this was deliberate poison-milk⁽⁶⁾ or not. Anyways, it worked very well for the program.

    But the duo backstage had no intention of cheering on their opponents at this time. Shen Yuan's face was as white as paper, and Shen Qi was silent.

    Why so unlucky? Why is it such a coincidence that it is "Acacia Terrace"?

    They... chose this song too!

    Because of Su Jing's unique characteristics, she also spent a little longer on stage. But no matter how long the time is, Shen Qi and Shen Yuan had to perform.

    "What should I do? My Qi (nickname for Shen Qi)." Shen Yuan was about to cry. "Let’s talk to the program team. We can wait to perform after two programs."

    This is even more serious than going on stage behind Sweety. They actually managed to choose the same song as this amazing competitor. The other contestant paid attention to both the popular and opera parts, but they(referring to Shen Qi and Shen Yuan) sang the song together, and they were not as professional as the other person. Wasn't this embarrassing?

    "Don't panic." Shen Qi said calmly, "Actually, don't be afraid, the two performances are the same, and the program group will definitely cut one out."

    Shen Yuan was startled, and it made sense...

    "That isn’t right! If they do cut, they will cut us!" Shen Yuan, who finally reacted, really cried. No screen time, it’s no different from retiring!

    Shen Qi had a serious look on her face for a while, she said: "In fact, there is another way, it depends on whether you are willing to try."

    "What way?"

    "Let's change the performance."

    Shen Yuan thought it was ridiculous, how could they change, they have been a duo for 2 months, only practicing this dance. But if you don't change, wouldn't it be against Su Jing, who came from a noble family?

    On the stage-

    "Inviting the next group of contestants." After Xie Kai's introduction, the "N+A" LOGO appeared on the big display screen.

    "NA Entertainment trainee, the group name is...S&S?"

    "Teacher," Unexpectedly, Shen Qi raised her hand, "Can we introduce ourselves?"

    There are quite a few cases where such trainees came prepared, and Xie Kai is not surprised.

    "Then please."

    Shen Qi and Shen Yuan looked at each other, stepped forward, and said together: "Hello everyone, we are trainees of NA Entertainment, my name is Shen Qi."

    "My name is Shen Yuan."

    Shen Qi: "Our trainee period is two and a half years. I am a year."

    Shen Yuan: "I am a year and a half."

    "Puff——" I

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    It was unknown to which contestant in the back couldn’t hold in their laughter anymore, even the mentor group was amused by these two little girls.

    Xie Kai had a smile on his face: "You are such a “two and a half years”?" 

    The more the audience laughed, Shen Qi's attitude became more solemn: "Yes, the company says we are a whole, so we reported the total."

    Even the most aloof dance instructor Gao Bing laughed. She couldn't help but say: "A lot of group spirit, continue."

    Shen Qi nodded: "We were originally named the S&S girl group..."

    "Originally?" Xie Kai was startled. , "Not named it now?"

    Shen Yuan said hurriedly: "We feel that this name is not sweet enough nor domineering enough, and does not fit our temperament."

    Xie Kai asked very cooperatively: "Then I can ask what your current group name is called?"

    Here comes the highlight.

    Shen Yuan looked at Shen Qi, Shen Qi understood in a second. Steadily big sister carried forward a cheeky spirit and calmly explained: "Because our two surnames are 'Shen' and 'Shen'⁽⁷⁾, the initials are both S, so we are called S&S, but this name is difficult to pronounce and difficult to remember, so we thought of a good way----everyone can call us 'Shen Shen (aunt aunt) group."

    Xie Kai didn't react for a moment: "Wait a moment, you say it again, aunt what?"

    Shen Yuan: "I am Shen⁽⁷⁾ ."

    Shen Qi: "I am Shen⁽⁷⁾."

    Shen Yuan & Shen Qi said in unison: "So we are, Shen Shen (aunt aunt)!"

    "Also can be called 'Second Aunt '."

    After a period of silence, not only the instructor, but also the stage exploded in laughter that shook the studio, the end result was different from the previous rehearsal. This time the girls simply laughed out even revealing their molars.

    Xie Kai thought he had heard it wrong: " Second Aunt?”

    He opened his mouth, and Shen Qi and Shen Yuan looked at each other. Before Xie Kai could react, they answered firmly: "Hey!"

    Xie Kai was startled. When the audience burst into laughter again, he realized that he was taken advantage of, and he couldn't laugh or cry. The instructors around him were already laughing too hard. Xie Kai looked helplessly at the director's team. Is this also what you prepared?

    The director group was also very surprised. What about the agreed-upon NA Entertainment girl group?

    Are they sure these contestants aren’t from "Crosstalk X Newcomer" from next door who went to the wrong booth?

Footnote(s)

⁽¹⁾ Acaia debt: The lovesickness between a man and a woman is as deep as debt

⁽²⁾ Lang: A youth

⁽³⁾ Hua Dan: Dan the general name for female roles in Chinese opera, often referring to leading roles (Wikipedia), Hua Dan is often used in the entertainment industry in China to refer to the most marketable young female actresses (Wikipedia). [I don't know which meaning the author is referring to but I assume its leading role one since the author is mentioning the opera family background]

⁽⁴⁾ Red Phoenix eyes: Phonenix eyes present a noble air and are a symbol of beauty. Mono-lidded with long and narrow tails. Red Phoneix eyes also have the inner corner slanting down and the outer corner slanting up. (Reddit)

⁽⁵⁾ Xun Pai: A division of the performing arts of Chinese opera. Created by Xin Huisheng. Some characteristics of this style are a sweet and graceful voice, clear enunciation, a natural and free-minded character, and a distinctive personality. (Quword) [A Xun Pai Performance]

⁽⁶⁾ Poison Milk: An online E-sports term referring to when your cheerings for a team and it ends up dragging down the team-mates. (Baidu)

⁽⁷⁾ Shen | Shen: Same pinyin but different tones and different meanings. Shen Yuan is '沈' (Shen) and Shen Qi is '申' (Shen). [Read more on Wikipedia and a simpler explanation about pinyin]

Edit: The new group name of Shen Qi and Shen Yuan is named Shen Shen derived from their surname's pinyin, which means aunt aunt. Due to the fact that aunt in Chinese also has the pinyin of shen but just different tones.

Translator's note: Please point out any mistakes!! Constructive criticism is always needed! For the punctuation, I am basing it on the author, if it's really bad I'll fix it but I'm kind of lazy (and my punctuation is kind of bad) so do let me know!

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