Chinese Entertainment King: Starting as a Fat Boy and Becoming a Singing King

With the finals approaching, Xu Yao and Zhou Shen finally found an opportunity to secretly get together.

"The boat is deep."

"Um?"

Are you familiar with the format of the finals?

Zhou Shen put down his chopsticks and nodded.

He had already thoroughly studied the rules of the finals—the first round consisted of a mentor showcase plus a solo showcase.

The four team champions first sang a duet with their mentors, and then each performed their first solo song.

The audience votes, and the person with the most votes advances directly to the final showdown, while the person with the fewest votes is eliminated.

The two candidates with the middle number of votes will enter the second round of the "life-or-death competition," where the audience will vote to decide who will advance to the final showdown.

The final two champion candidates will be decided by a vote of 101 members of the public media and the audience.

"Zhou Shen, if you want to get second place, you must get first place in the first round and advance directly to the final showdown."

"Why? As long as you don't finish fourth, you won't face elimination, and you'll still have a chance to climb up." Zhou Shen asked, puzzled.

Xu Yao said calmly, "You can't beat Zhang Bichen. If I were the production team, I would keep Zhang Bichen's votes in second place. Let someone else advance in the first round, and Zhang Bichen would eliminate the third-place finisher in the second round, then enter the final showdown to fight the first-place finisher. That way, her storyline would be complete—fighting her way up from second place to finally win the championship. That's the female lead's script."

Zhou Shen thought about it carefully without saying a word.

"Your voice is the most unique this season, without a doubt. As long as you don't make any mistakes on stage, the audience votes should be quite high."

"Brother Yao, what about you? What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to beat up Zhang Bichen."

"Your stamina isn't up to par." Zhou Shen looked up, his expression changing. "Yao-ge, you're too weak. Singing two songs back-to-back for the mentor's performance and your solo performance, you're already exhausted. If you go on to the second and third rounds, you'll have to sing four songs. Can your body handle it?"

She paused, her tone becoming more cautious: "The audience vote is based on published percentages, and we can intervene slightly in that part. But there's a condition—Zhang Bichen's votes can't fall too far behind. If the media judges overwhelmingly support Xu Yao or Zhou Shen, our room for maneuver will be very limited. Do you understand what I mean?"

"So someone needs to keep an eye on the media," Jin Lei added. "Let them know who the most deserving person to vote for this season is."

No one refuted.

Jin Lei closed the file and glanced at everyone.

They had rehearsed the script for the finals countless times—the hype surrounding the brotherly showdown would build, Zhou Shen and Xu Yao would meet at the top, and then, at the most crucial moment, Zhang Bichen would stage a comeback to win the championship.

This is a female protagonist storyline that is so perfect, so inspiring, and so full of topics and traffic.

After the meeting, Jin Lei stayed alone in the conference room, staring at the finals poster on the wall.

Zhang Bichen stood in the center, flanked by Parhati, Zhou Shen, and Xu Yao.