Chapter 182 National Group Battle
The next morning, it was raining heavily.

Aoki Entertainment, Artist Director's Office.

Xu Chen pushed open the door, leisurely placed the coffee in his hand on the desk, and turned on the computer.

He has been very successful recently. The artists he has worked with either have their albums selling well or the TV series and movies they starred in have become huge hits, and their popularity has skyrocketed.

Moreover, the GoldenCold group has recently returned to the right track and successfully entered the most popular variety show "The Voice of China 2024".

If GoldenCold can stay in "The Voice 2024" for a few more episodes, Xu Chen will have a way to make them a first-line group.

“I wonder if their performance on stage at the show last night caused some stir.”

Xu Chen raised his eyebrows, opened the browser and started reading Weibo.

As he watched, his brows suddenly frowned.

"What's going on? Didn't we discuss this with Li Xiao and the others? Why did GoldenCold still get eliminated in the first round?"

Xu Chen's face was full of question marks, and he immediately took out his cell phone and called Li Xiao.

The call was answered quickly, and Xu Chen shouted angrily at the phone: "Li Xiao, what's the situation with your show? Didn't GoldenCold say that he would definitely be selected as an online singer? How come he was eliminated by Fenghuang Yufei?"

Li Xiao on the other end of the phone was quiet for a few seconds, then he sighed and said, "GoldenCold's performance last night wasn't that good either. It would be too fake if we forced them into the online singer camp. There's already enough criticism online, and I don't want to add fuel to the fire for GoldenCold."

Hearing this, Xu Chen almost laughed out of anger: "Are you still afraid of the online criticism? We agreed before that GoldenCold would defeat Fenghuang Yufei!"

The other end of the phone fell silent again. After a moment, Li Xiao spoke up and said, "To be honest, Lao Xu, GoldenCold's current value is completely inferior to Fenghuang Yufei, and I don't need to offend Fenghuang Yufei just for your favor. Let's just leave it at that. I'll repay your favor next time."

After speaking, Li Xiao hung up the phone.

Xu Chen slammed the desk hard, making a loud "bang" sound, which even knocked over the cup of coffee that had just been placed on the desk.

"Fuck, Li Xiao, I *****"

After speaking a few sweet words, Xu Chen stood up from his seat to avoid being stained by the spilled coffee.

"GoldenCold, Phoenix in Flight, Bai Xingjian..."

Coming to the floor-to-ceiling window and looking at the heavy rain pouring down from the sky outside, Xu Chen's good mood disappeared completely with the phone call just now.

The fact that GoldenCold did not enter the online singer camp of "The Voice of China 2024" shows that the gap between them and Fenghuang Yufei will only get wider and wider, and there is basically no possibility of catching up.

This also shows how stupid Xu Chen was when he agreed to let Zhao Jiao let Bai Xingjian go.

"Boom boom boom——"

At this time, there was a knock on the door.

Xu Chen, who was slightly absent-minded, was disturbed by the staff who came in to clean the room.

After the staff left, he picked up his phone and made another call.

……

A luxurious large flat in Beijing.

"Who's calling?"

Qiao Xi, who was only wearing a suspender top, sat cross-legged on the sofa and asked Su Ning who had returned from the balcony.

"Xu Chen, the artist director of Qingmu Entertainment." Su Ning smiled playfully.

"he?"

Qiao Xi blinked in confusion, "Why did he call us? Is there any cooperation? But if there is any cooperation, shouldn't he also contact our agent?"

“There is a collaboration.”

Su Ning came to sit next to Qiao Xi and crossed his legs: "It's just that this cooperation is a bit shady. He contacted us directly."

"Huh? What kind of shady cooperation?" Qiao Xi became more and more confused as she listened. She pouted and said, "Can you explain it clearly in one breath?"

Suning sighed: "Nothing, it's just that Xu Chen asked us to target Fenghuang Yufei more when we are on the show "The Voice of China 2024"."

"Targeting Fenghuang Yufei?!"

Qiao Xi had a face full of question marks, "Is there something wrong with him or us? Why should we target Fenghuang Yufei?"

"because……"

Suning took out his mobile phone, opened the Weibo hot search, and clicked on the third entry on the hot search list.

[Phoenix in flight, bird and fish, the battle of national combination (hot)]

A music critic with the Weibo ID [Zhao Bo] posted a video comparing Phoenix Flying with Birds and Fish, and expressed some opinions, which aroused heated discussions among many netizens and debates among fans of both sides.

[No way, no way, there is really no way a group that debuted less than half a year ago is going to copy the national group "Birds and Fish" that everyone recognizes?]
[You don’t get any prizes, but you have to touch the porcelain.]
[You want to become a national group just because you won a championship and won first place for two weeks? When Birds and Fish won these awards, you Phoenix Yufei were not even born yet!]
[No, can you guys, the fans of Birds and Fish, stop jumping into this so quickly? When did Fenghuang Yufei start to touch upon you Birds and Fish? You just open your mouth and say it, right?]
[Isn’t this music critic named Zhao Bo a fan of Birds and Fish? Why did he post a video that was aimed at Phoenix in reverse?]
[Who said this guy is a fan of Birds and Fish? This guy reposted Birds and Fish’s song today, GoldenCold’s song yesterday, and Phoenix Flying’s song the day before yesterday. His main theme is a complex composition.]
Looking at these contents, Qiao Xi frowned, "Someone must be leading the trend, right? Otherwise, who would be so bored as to do this?"

"It's hard to say. It feels like it could go either way."

Su Ning smiled: "Yehua Entertainment, Qingmu Entertainment, the "Singing 2024" program team, and our Juedai Records may all be trying to build momentum or gain traffic for our two groups."

"It's the same routine again? Aren't these people annoying?" Qiao Xi said helplessly.

The group Birds and Fish have been in the industry for nearly seventeen years, so they are naturally very familiar with these routines.

However, this routine was actually used between them and Fenghuang Yufei, which made Qiao Xi very disgusted.

Because in Bai Xingjian and Feng Shiqi, she seemed to see the shadow of her and Su Ning in the past.

Before becoming a recognized national group, she and Suning also started as champions of a certain program and worked their way to where they are today.

What Fenghuang Yufei is experiencing now is what she and Suning experienced in the past.

Therefore, Qiao Xi has always been very friendly towards Bai Xingjian and Feng Shiqi. Just now, when she saw those comments on Weibo saying that Fenghuang Yufei was trying to extort money from Feiniao and Yu, she felt inexplicably angry.

How can these people say that?
Qiao Xi was quite annoyed. Looking at Su Ning who didn't respond, he asked, "What do you think?"

"I am quite worried about our current situation."

Su Ning flipped through the comments on Weibo and said to Qiao Xi in surprise, "Fenghuang Yufei is growing too fast right now, especially since Bai Xingjian is still so good at writing songs and Feng Shiqi is still so good at singing. Putting the two of them in a group of the same age is simply a dimensionality reduction attack."

"So, those people on the Internet would compare Fenghuang Yufei with us."

Su Ning looked into Qiao Xi's eyes and continued, "Think about it, Bai Xingjian and Feng Shiqi have only been together for less than half a year, and they are already like this. If this continues, we, the birds and fish, will probably just have to follow behind them and eat their exhaust."

"GoldenCold may be a precedent."

In the phone call with Xu Chen just now, Suning learned that Fenghuang Yufei’s current announcement fee is much lower than that of Feiniao and Yu.

Judging from the current situation, Fenghuang Yufei is more popular than Feiniao and Yu. If they are still outshined by Fenghuang Yufei on the show "The Voice of China 2024", how many shows and organizers will look for Feiniao and Yu in the future? Isn't Fenghuang Yufei, which is better and cheaper, more attractive?
"It's not as exaggerated as you say, right?"

Qiao Xi stared with disbelief on his face: "I think you have been bewitched by your senior again."

That’s right, Xu Chen was Suning’s senior during his university days. Although their relationship wasn’t very good, they would occasionally keep in touch and have gatherings.

After thinking for a while, Qiao Xi said to Su Ning in a rather teasing tone: "Are you not confident about our stage?"

Suning smiled and said, "What if? What if our stage is not better than Phoenix Flying?"

Hearing this, Qiao Xi's expression slowly froze.

Although she and Suning did not attend the "Singing 2024" event last night, they went there last week.

The song "As Wish" sung by Bai Xingjian and Feng Shiqi really gave her goose bumps all over her body.

If Bai Xingjian and Feng Shiqi can perform songs like this on the next stage, she and Suning might not be able to cope with it.

Qiao Xi rubbed her hair irritably.

In the face of interests, her heart inevitably wavered.

Su Ning's mouth curled up: "What do you think now?"

Silence is Cambridge tonight.

It was not until a long while later that Qiao Xi spoke up, "Let's see if Bai Xingjian and Feng Shiqi will contact us because of today's hot search. If they contact us, it means they have no such idea at all. If they don't contact us, maybe they will..."

Suning smiled lightly, "Then let's wait for their good news today."

……

Linjiang City, a luxury hotel.

Today is Saturday, and Bai Xingjian and Feng Shiqi have no activities, which is equivalent to a day off.

Feng Shiqi was wearing a printed vest and a pair of jeans, lying sideways on the sofa.

Her shoulder-length hair was casually spread, softly covering one side of her face, while on the other side, her skin was delicate and smooth, with a slight healthy glow.

The clear and bright eyes widened slightly, and the pink ones were also slightly pouting.

As for why this happened, it was because she was holding a mobile phone in her hand. Feng Shiqi was naturally browsing the Weibo posts related to their Fenghuang Yufei and Fei Niao Yuyu.

The more she scrolled through the comments, the more her anger accumulated, until her cheeks were almost flushed with anger.

"Don't these people have anything to do after eating? They're competing with each other all day long."

Although she only got third place on "The Voice of China 2024" last night, Feng Shiqi was actually in a good mood. After all, Golden Cold did not make it to the list, and she didn't have to see annoying people on the show.

However, she never expected that after the annoying person left, many annoying comments appeared on Weibo, which made her extremely annoyed.

Bai Xingjian, who was on the other side of the sofa, was also looking at Weibo.

He had never thought that someone would use their flying phoenix and flying birds and fish to create effects.

"This is probably something the production team of 'The Voice of China 2024' came up with to boost ratings for the next live show. Let them argue about it."

After flipping through the comments, Bai Xingjian also left the relevant entry.

It's not a big deal, there's no need to read on.

"But will this Weibo post give Sister Qiao Xi and the others a bad impression of us?"

Feng Shiqi lifted her hair, looked up at Bai Xingjian and asked.

Judging from the current comment section alone, comments in support of their "Phoenix Flying" are dominating.

The reason is simple: having a large number of fans has huge advantages in this regard.

Although Bai Xingjian and Feng Shiqi’s current Weibo fans combined are less than half of Feiniao and Yu’s, they both have many active fans.

The number of fans that Fenghuang Yufei has accumulated in less than half a year is another level of dimensionality reduction compared to the number of fans that Feiniao Yuyu has accumulated over more than ten years.

"This...shouldn't be possible, right?"

Although Bai Xingjian was not quite sure about this, in the entertainment industry, if this would create a bad impression on the other person, then there would be countless people who have very bad relationships with each other, right?

Therefore, this situation should not exist, unless the person is a very petty and sensitive person in the circle.

But Qiao Xi and Suning can probably be ruled out. After all, through the program "New Era of Heavenly Group", Bai Xingjian can feel the goodwill that they are radiating to them.

Seeing that he was not sure about his thoughts, Feng Shiqi continued, "How about I go and explain it to Sister Qiao Xi?"

After saying that, she exited Weibo and opened WeChat.

But just when she was about to find Qiao Xi in the contact list, Bai Xingjian's words stopped Feng Shiqi in her tracks:

"There's no need for that. Sister Qiao Xi and the others should understand this better than us. If you explain, they will think we think they are petty and need to explain even such trivial matters."

"So, let's just pretend nothing happened, eat what we should eat, and play what we should play."

Bai Xingjian said with a smile, put down his phone, picked up the remote control and changed the channel to watch TV.

"Makes sense."

Feng Shiqi nodded, looking thoughtful, and then smiled at Bai Xingjian, "Ajian is really thoughtful!"

Bai Xingjian was naturally very happy to be praised, but then he heard: "Ah Jian, can you give me the remote control? I want to watch a movie."

"alright."

Bai Xingjian handed over the remote control reluctantly.

The reason why he was so resistant was that when it came to film and television dramas, he and Feng Shiqi were completely on different wavelengths.

Like most girls, Feng Shiqi likes to watch Korean dramas.

Like most boys, Bai Xingjian likes to watch action movies.

"Watch 'Legend of Jianghu'. This movie is now available on streaming media."

Feng Shiqi smiled brightly, woke up the TV's voice assistant, and said, "Xiao A, Xiao A, play "Legends of Jianghu"."

The TV reacted quickly. As soon as Feng Shiqi finished speaking, Xiao A's prompt sounded, and then "Legends of Jianghu" started playing.

A familiar melody sounded, and Bai Xingjian suddenly understood.

"Legend of Jianghu", isn't this the movie he dubbed for "A Laugh in the Ocean"?
(End of this chapter)