Chapter 174: Starting Anew

South Korea, in a convenience store.

Zhou Qi was standing behind the cash register with a smile on his face.

"Wow! (Welcome!)"

A drunken middle-aged man held up a soju bottle and said with squinted eyes: "Are you a spy from the Northern Dynasty? Your accent smells weird!"

Zhou Qi's smile did not change: "Does the guest need anything? There are kimchi on sale today."

"Answer my question! Boy! Don't think there's anything important about being handsome. Are you a spy?"

Zhou Qi's smile faded a little: "There are seats over there. Guests can sit there for a while."

The middle-aged man reached out to grab Zhou Qi's collar, but Zhou Qi dodged him. He stumbled and the soju bottle fell to the ground.

What followed was a series of curses with a high level of "西八" in them.

"I understand, did you come here smuggled in? China? Thailand? How dare you give me a hard time!"

"Xiba!"

After the other party left, Zhou Qi cleaned up the mess alone with his head down.

He practiced dancing during the day and worked night shifts to earn money. He only slept four hours a day, but he still lived a hungry life. There were cameras in the convenience store and he couldn't sit down. Even though his feet were swollen, he could only stand up straight. Stay up until dawn.

Suddenly, he felt disgusted when he saw the broken wine bottles with Korean labels on the ground.

"Hold!"

Playing with mobile phones is not allowed in convenience stores. Even if there are no customers, you have to stand in a daze all night. But after saying "fuck", Zhou Qi didn't care anymore. He turned his back and took out his mobile phone.

"Song Ting, that domestic company that you mentioned is recruiting people here, are they still there?"

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"During the assessment, the teacher said that I was the best singer, so why did I get the lowest rating in the end?!"

In the dim dormitory, Xu Na was lying on the wooden bed. The turbid air was full of the smell of her roommate's ramen and kimchi.

The company intentionally places foreign trainees in different dormitories to prevent them from getting together, so even complaints have to be made secretly.

Last week, a friend came to see me, and the next day she was sent to the company. Then the company asked her not to have contact with Chinese people, but to have more contact with Koreans.

On the other side of the phone, a tired voice said: "What do you think?"

Xu Na was silent.

In fact, when she asked the question, she already had the answer.

South Korean law stipulates that foreign artists cannot appear on two TV stations at the same time. For the sake of profit, all debut opportunities are biased towards locals and Americans.

But even so, they still recruit trainees from all over the world every year because they don't care how many young people waste their lives because of this.

The other person on the phone said: "You haven't debuted yet, and you haven't been tied down by a slave contract. Find a way to return to China. Here, trainees have been sentenced to death at the age of 20, so stop struggling."

Xu Na's hands were shaking a little

She is only 20 years old, the age of a flower, but here, she is already worthless.

I think of my parents in a small 18th-tier city, waiting for me to support my family.

Xu Na's eyes were a little red.

How could I be so stupid back then! Convinced by a few words, dreaming of a star

On the other side of the phone was a senior, one of the very few Koreans who had successfully debuted in South Korea. However, he did not receive flowers or applause after his debut, only rejection and injuries.

"I heard that there is a domestic company that is contacting Chinese trainees and teachers here. You can try to contact them."

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"Sister, I can't hold on any longer. I really want to go home."

Han Lulu sat dejectedly in the park on the side of the road:

"I had a broken arm and no money for medical treatment. It was only after I healed that the company thought about it."

"Another time I had a fever. I borrowed money to get an intravenous drip at the hospital. They actually adjusted my infusion speed to the fastest. They said I was wasting my time. I finished two hours' worth of infusion in half an hour, and I lost all feeling in my hands."

She was really broken.

Song Ting's voice came from the other side: "I have shown your resume to Mr. Li, including the video and makeup. Don't worry, I will help you explain. You are good enough."

"Thank you sister, thank you"

Song Ting said: "And after suffering so many crimes, there is no reason to swallow my anger and fix all the evidence. It may be used in the future."

Most people were minors when they came here. They didn't understand the rules when they first arrived in a foreign country. They only focused on practicing, practicing, practicing, and they could only endure silently when they were bullied.

Unlike later generations where children from rich families gathered together, most of those who came here in this era had poor family conditions, and gritting their teeth and enduring was one of the few options they had.

After meeting Li Yuehua, Song Ting realized that the rules in the adult world did not work like this.

It's almost ironic that the age here where you are sentenced to death is just an adult in China.

With Song Ting's matchmaking.

A piece of news, an opportunity, gradually spread among the Chinese circles of trainees.

At this time when the "Korean Wave" is just beginning to emerge, ambitious and ready to reach a new peak.

A small group of people in a foreign country were brought back to their motherland.

A completely different life began.

Some people just want to eat and drink.

Some people still have dreams of becoming stars.

But many years later, this group of people never thought

The cause of the matter was that someone was worried about his little white rabbit entering the entertainment industry, and wanted to create a viable entertainment company to protect the little white rabbit.

It's kind of an affiliate program.

And they are just the subsidiary plans that Zhou Rui made in order to let Li Yuehua work for him

Zhou Rui has never put too much energy into this field, and he does not plan to do it himself in the future, but he has indeed changed the trajectory of many people. Some people who were once buried, swallowed, and even chewed to pieces have received new opportunities.

And some "problematic stars" in their previous lives have been cut off from the way to make money. They can only honestly be "commodity artists" in South Korea, being squeezed to death, and facing a group of competitors who should not have been cut off.

I won't say who they are.

Li Yuehua is very cautious and did not take too big a step. She did not contact those who have already debuted or have a little fame, but selected some people with good character from those who are frustrated and have excellent appearance and business level.

Yes, character must pass the test, which almost no one in the entertainment industry cares about, but Zhou Rui has emphasized it several times.

After all, if there is a problem, all the work will be in vain! He doesn't want to step on the thunder.

The circle of Chinese trainees is so small. With Song Ting as an informant, those who are not clean are cleverly avoided, and a group of future backbone forces of "Chinese Media" are carefully selected.

Zhou Rui: "In ten years, this model will be full of competitiveness. We will get rid of the dross and keep the essence. We will pick a group of people with high level and good character and start a new business."

Given the current domestic situation, they will be the first to try it out, which is equivalent to a brand new system.

The effect of a casual move has not yet appeared.

But it is foreseeable that with Zhou Rui as a butterfly in the entertainment industry, the future direction may change greatly.

After so many years of brainwashing by Japan and South Korea, so many children have been led astray. It is time to try reverse output.