After singing a song "Shoulder", Jin Siqi ignored the subsequent schedule and went back to the dormitory to pack her luggage.

"Siqi, are you going to leave now? The game is not over yet." At some point, a soft voice came from the door. Jin Siqi turned her head and saw Tao Keyi leaning against the door frame, looking at her in an unknown way.

Maybe she made a special trip to see a loser’s downfall, but this time she was going to be disappointed.

"Don't wait. Anyway, I will definitely be eliminated. Instead of waiting for others to drive me away, I'll just roll the bed and leave myself earlier." Jin Siqi's tone was light, completely different from the situation he was worried about the promotion a while ago. "Keyi, the previous agreement is still counted? When you receive the female number 1 drama, I will go to you to play supporting roles!"

Tao Keyi frowned, as if the situation failed to unfold as she wished, and she felt a little surprised and dissatisfied. After a while, she asked tentatively: "Don't you really stay for a few more days? It will take some time for the mentors to settle the scores, and maybe a miracle will happen?"

Jin Siqi shook her head and smiled: "I have already planned to do it. After participating in this competition, I will give an explanation for the training during this period, and then no matter what the result is, I will apply to the program team to withdraw from the competition. This position should not have belonged to me, but I was in exchange for it by hurting others. I should return it to someone who is more qualified to own it."

"It's you," she temporarily stopped tidying up her clothes and looked straight at Tao Keyi, "With your strength, if you play well, you can still get a good ranking. Why do you have to use a way to hurt so many people to raise yourself?"

Tao Keyi blurted out: "Because there is only one winner! In a large-scale competition, only the first place is the only successful person. In addition, the second place and third place are all losers! Are they not strong enough? Are they not working hard enough? None! Just because they failed to win the first place, they can only be eliminated! You will understand this one day!"

"No, with your IQ... it's not surprising that even if you can't understand it all the time." Her expression suddenly became a little strange. A faint mist rose in her eyes, which had always been covered with a false smile. Hate and unwillingness were all intertwined. "Because you don't have the strength, you naively think that with strength everything will be different... This is the sorrow of the frog in the well, no, it's also a kind of luck..."

After a moment of distracted smile, she turned around and closed the door, took out the jade slip and pressed it a few times, called out an encyclopedia interface, and pushed the screen in front of Jin Siqi.

"Before participating in this competition, I spent several years in this 100-person girl group. But, whether you or others, have you heard of my name in this girl group? Even if I tell you specifically, let you look at this photo again, can you find where I am?"

Jin Siqi looked at the encyclopedia introduction in front of her. It was indeed one of the most popular women's teams in the contemporary era. Anyone who pays a little attention to entertainment information will hear about it. But if you want to talk about who is who in the team... except for a few more famous and best-developed, she has never even heard of other people's names.

Looking at the group photo in the entries, a group of girls of similar age and figure were mixed together, wearing the same team uniform, which made their appearance lose their original recognition. Not to mention finding Tao Keyi, she could hardly see any difference in these people’s appearance! Face blindness is about to be accustomed to being deficient!

"Sure enough..." Tao Keyi observed her expression and finally sneered for a while, "Can't find it, right? Yes, don't say it's you, sometimes I can't even find it myself..."

"You think I'm going well in this competition, everything is easy, but you won't know that my starting point is more difficult than you all! My family has always opposed me from taking this path. They feel that those who show up in public are inferior people after all. They want me to find a decent job, ordinary but down-to-earth, so that they can introduce me to the neighbors with their heads raised and their chests... But that's not what I want!"

"For this, I don't know how many conflicts have occurred with them! In the end, they finally agreed to give in and let me participate in a trainee activity in a large company... But they said that unless I can get the first place in the competition and prove that I have the ability to go this path, I must give up my dream and do the job they arranged for me honestly!"

"At that time, I was naive and really thought this would be an opportunity to seize my destiny... So, even if there were tens of thousands of competitors in the same period, I had never been timid because I believed that I had the strength!"

"Do you think I have never tried hard? During that time, all of us were crowded in dormitories that were much simpler than we are now. No one recorded a show for you, and no Internet hyped it for you. Only we could see the sweat we had through!"

"In order to get the first place, I get up early and work late every day, practice hard, and work hard, and I have all kinds of problems at a young age! Fortunately, every time I practice in teams, I can confirm that I am very good in the team, which makes me feel that my efforts are valuable. In the current words, it is 'the future is promising'."

"After one game after another, I finally succeeded in debuting as a trainee, being selected as a member of the girl group, and signing a contract with the company... I remember that Feng Yin took this path at the beginning, but she never had the chance to sign a contract and debut, so she was delayed for so many years as a trainee. So, it seems that my luck is better than her. However, they all have their own sadness."

"At the beginning, although several key promotion matches made me realize that there was a shady scene... the few people who got good rankings were not as good as me in dancing! But at that time I didn't think much about it. I thought that since I successfully became a member of the girl group, I could sooner or later make everyone remember me!"

"And what is the result? Except for those girls who have won the ranking, they can be supported by the company... the rest of us have become tools created on the same assembly line! We wear the same training suit, have similar hairstyles, and have no personal characteristics. Even if we go out to perform in groups, we only have the meaning of the background board!"

"Just because everyone knows that it is unfair... there are rumors in the team. It is said that those girls are either relatives of the organizer, or there is a financial backer behind them, or there is a mine at home, and they all have a backstage without exception. The rankings of all competitions have long been decided, and the rest of us are just responsible for running! Responsible for handing over the winner's crown!"

"For the sake of superficial fairness, the girl group still holds some competitions from time to time, saying that it is to encourage everyone to train well, to work hard and to slack down... Only by climbing to the top can you have the chance to show your face in front of the public! I am stupid and I still don't give up and participate in the competition, and I was slapped in the face by reality again!"

"What kind of trainee model and promotion competition are just in the form... The decision-making power is completely in the hands of the organizer. Whoever they want to advance can advance. They stuff the people they want to promote into this competition, and then let them take a good ranking to plaster. With initial fame, they can make money rightfully... Haha, then I realized that the class in this world has been fixed long ago, and those who want to turn over through "work" are the biggest fools!"

"The company just wants to build a brand that is loud enough to bring us all together to form a brand, so that our strengths can be used by him... But what about the personal development of our members? What about our way out? They have never considered it!"

"I went to the program team...I went to protest. The staff actually told me that they only cultivate people with commercial value... If I can make myself popular, they can tilt the company's resources towards me... But if they don't promote me, how can I hype myself up? Isn't this a joke?"

"What's worse is that we signed a long-term contract with the company at the beginning... During the contract period, we cannot participate in other competitions at will, nor can we withdraw from the team, otherwise we will breach the contract and need to compensate a large amount of liquidated damages. How can we pay this money? So we can only obey the team's arrangements honestly... Even if our treatment at that time is no different from being hidden!"

"Can you imagine how desperate I was at that time? According to the contract, I would have to stay in the girl group until I was thirty... At the age of thirty, the best age for a girl is over! What future can I have if I go solo? When we just signed the contract, we thought we had obtained a long-term guarantee, but who knew it was to sign a contract for sale! The name we signed by ourselves was enough to completely destroy our dreams!"

Listening to her almost crazy narrative, Jin Siqi was also secretly surprised. Unexpectedly, Tao Keyi, who was regarded as the "winner of life", had such a dark past.

"Then... what did you do later?" Although he knew that Tao Keyi would definitely terminate the contract with the original company successfully, listening to her narration and empathizing with Jin Siqi, it made Jin Siqi anxious about her fate.

"Later..." Tao Keyi repeated the word with a wry smile, and her body trembled out of control. "Later... I recognized a godfather at a business banquet, and everything that should have happened happened. Then, he helped me solve the penalty for liquidated damages, so that I could finally restore my freedom..."

"That was the first time I knew that money could come so easily. It turned out that the problem that seemed extremely difficult to me in the past could be solved in this way... It turned out that this is the feeling of a financial owner..."

Speaking of this, her eyes were already vaguely red. She took a deep breath and moved her gaze away, trying her best to hold back her tears.

"When I was a child, I didn't like my face. Some people always say that I looked so beautiful, but I was not the type that could endure hardships... I also hate that sometimes I would always be looked at by people with obscene eyes when I walked on the street... But that day, I suddenly felt fortunate that I had this face. It could help me get what I wanted..."

"When I finally went solo, I knew that those friends who worked hard with me and complained with me in the past did not have a beautiful face, so they could only continue to stay in the girl group, continue to be bound by contracts, and delay their youth... However, I have no contact with them anymore, and I also know how they talk about me behind them. I have also become a person with a financial backer, and the kind of person we once hated the most."

For a moment, Jin Siqi was speechless.

When she was visiting the forum, she did see Tao Keyi's post, which mentioned this "godfather joke". She didn't take it seriously at the time. Now it seems... it's true that nothing is wrong in the circle, it's completely stolen. I'm afraid this secret is anonymously revealed by the members of the girl group who were jealous of her in the past.

"You look down on me, are you?" Tao Keyi noticed the change in Jin Siqi's eyes sensitively, "Then I want to ask you, what would you do if you were in my original position? Will you accept your fate? Are you willing to be a pawn for the girl group, or will you still work hard and make progress, pretending to work hard and be useful?"

"After experiencing the lessons before, I have learned to be smart. I know that these entertainment companies are only the popularity of artists, which can help them make enough money! So this time I participated in the competition, I seized every opportunity to sing my fame for myself. After dancing that dance with you, I asked my godfather to buy a hot search for me so that I could directly enter the public eye. There was also the subsequent MV guest appearance, all the... You think I got the popularity by luck, but in fact, I have never left the capital promotion behind it!"

"You actually bought the hot searches in the early stage by yourself?" Jin Siqi was very surprised, "I don't know! I... thought you were just relying on your own hype...?"

"You don't know! There are so many things you don't know!" Tao Keyi sneered, "Do you think the hot search is so easy to go on? There are thousands of people hype, why is it just me on the hot search? At the beginning of the show, everyone was a little transparent. Do you think the audience is so interested and will care about it one by one? So I said you are really stupid!"

"The dance, comments, forwarding, and hot searches were all bought! It just created the illusion of "just becoming popular"! Do you still believe that you can completely break away from the operation of capital and be able to make a comeback by just strength or luck? You see every person who "just become popular" is all made by someone behind the scenes!"
Chapter completed!