SWNOVELXO Chapter 224: Trainee Selection Competition
After Tengying Entertainment went public,
they launched their second season of the trainee selection competition online.
Initially, they selected fifty trainees from across the internet.
They then gathered at a trainee camp in Magic City for a year of training and elimination.
Throughout the process, people were continuously eliminated.
The final three who successfully remained would be invested with five hundred million by Tengying Investment to launch their debut as newcomers.
Instantly, it caused a huge sensation.
However, in late December, when Tengying finally released the promotional video for the trainee competition, the entire internet was shocked.
The first to arrive was Shen Wanning.
Her label was the beauty queen of the arts school.
Being a beauty queen wasn't everything; crucially, she was also recognized as the beauty queen of the arts school by everyone in Capital City.
Her traditional Chinese dance was exceptionally good.
She took a high-speed train to Magic City with friends and, upon arrival,
was picked up personally by Tengying Entertainment with a Rolls-Royce Phantom to take her to the trainee camp.
And Tengying's trainee camp was simply a castle in Magic City.
It covered seven acres, six and a half of which were gardens.
The central swimming pool was unimaginably large.
Would they spend the next year here?
Shen Wanning found it quite overwhelming.
The castle in Magic City had two floors, with over twenty rooms, housing two trainees each.
The second to appear was Yang Xiaoxiao, who drove herself in a Ferrari.
A girl in red, the typical rich second generation.
The kind of relaxed demeanor that comes with being rich was fully embodied by her.
Compared to others, she was evidently more relaxed.
As for those who appeared later, only a few were highlighted.
One was a third-tier actress with some recognition, who had played numerous impressive supporting roles.
She was willing to lower her status to participate in the trainee competition, clearly aiming to secure a lead role with Tengying.
The talent competition was definitely brutal, starting with various group performances to showcase skills.
And then the continuous eliminations.
There would absolutely be no fraud during the process.
Who was eliminated and who remained was decided entirely by online voting from the audience.
As for the trainers for the trainees,
they included Yang Mi, and also Bai Lu, Shen Teng, and a well-known veteran actress from the industry.
They were to select their own trainees,
and conduct group battles.
The trainee competition aired every Saturday, each episode lasting sixty minutes.
This was also Tengying's first true venture into producing their own variety show.
Mainly because Chen Pingsheng felt that the number of brands under his company was increasing.
All these brands needed continuous exposure.
Rather than spending money on advertising for others, he preferred to do it himself.
After all, the trainees were incredibly cheap.
They cost only three thousand a month.
Moreover, the three trainers were all from his company, invited to support their own show.
It wasn't just cost-effective; it also guaranteed good results.
There would at least be no issues with lack of cooperation.
Just look at how popular variety shows are nowadays, like "I Am a Singer," "The Voice," "Running Man," etc.
Securing long-term sponsorship for these shows would definitely meet his minimum targets,
and they would be in rolling broadcasts.
Why not create his own show? The first batch of long-term sponsors were all his companies,
Antler Coffee, Bobo Milk Tea, Tenghui Department Store, Tengsheng Fresh, Tengsheng Fruit, Fei Yangyang, Water Cloud Space, etc.
All needed continuous exposure.
This trainee competition was a variety show tailor-made for his brands.
To make this show a success, he had specifically poached Mango Channel's top variety show editor,
as well as the directorial team, training team, etc.
It was indeed a huge investment.
After the pilot promo aired, the initial shock throughout the internet was over Tengying's wealth.
They could actually buy such a castle in Magic City to set up the trainee competition.
If you say they weren't rich, who would believe that?
Chen Pingsheng surreptitiously posted online that it wasn't expensive — just about five to six hundred million.
Still, he had checked the list of trainees, and truly, it included all kinds of people.
The most interesting was a factory girl.
She candidly said that she came because they provided meals and accommodation, plus three thousand a month.
That's quite interesting.
Such a girl, wherever she goes, would be considered the belle of the factory.
Tengying had indeed checked her background; she was just a factory worker born in 1998.
Her background was nothing fancy.
She had no special talents, wasn't good at singing, and danced like a water duck.
Her family conditions were very ordinary, and being there was entirely due to luck.
Her name was interesting though, Phoenix,
Her parents hoped that she would soar out of her mountains like a phoenix.
It remained to be seen if she could stay at the end.
Other girls were pretty and had some real skills, unlike her, who just seemed clueless and looked around in confusion.
It's worth mentioning that Jiang Peiyao also went; she applied on her own,
saying that she wanted to see if she could stand out among the trainees based on her own abilities.
She was only twenty-one and had played a few minor supporting roles.
Apart from her high beauty value, there wasn't much else memorable about her.
Zhao Liying had been an extra for five or six years before becoming famous; Peiyao was barely starting.
Now willing to put aside her powerful background to start over as a trainee,
even his wife, Song Yanxi, supported her, so how could he object.
The show not only released its own promotional videos but also gave a brief introduction to these trainees,
setting up their personas.
It allowed them to quickly have memorable traits and also made it easy for the audience to remember them.
Shen Wanning's label was the traditional beauty girl.
Yang Xiaoxiao was labeled as the defiant rich girl.
As for Phoenix, her label was probably the most unique: a female factory worker with a monthly salary of two thousand.