I was exposed for adding my female boss to my group of female friends.

He Su frowned and said, "Is that so?"

Upon hearing this, Yu Xiaoxiao put her hands on her hips, looking like she was going to stand up for Jin Lan, and turned to ask Chen Liang:

"Hey, Chen Liang, is what Jin Lan said true?"

Immediately, all eyes on the field focused on Chen Liang, and the cameras were also pointed at him.

Chen Liang picked up the microphone and addressed Jin Lan on the stage:

"You've misunderstood. I've never spent money to make decisions unilaterally."

Upon hearing this, Jin Lan stopped playing the victim and glared at him, saying:

"You still want to deny it? You didn't spend any money, so where did these three backing vocalists come from? Did they grow out of the ground?"

Chen Liang squinted and said, "What kind of land does it grow in? I advise you to show some respect."

"Don't change the subject!" Jin Lan wiped her eyes again and started sniffling. "You're the one who paid for this, do you think I wanted this? You just dumped me and disappeared somewhere. I can't even speak the language with them. Do you know how difficult the rehearsals were?"

Before Chen Liang could speak, Yu Xiaoxiao chimed in:

"Chen Liang, this is where you're wrong. If you did it, you did it; if you didn't, you didn't. The production team filmed the whole thing, so they'll know whether you were a couple or not. It's not good to lie in front of so many people."

He Su nodded and said, "Our stage is a stage of honesty; lying is not allowed."

Some viewers in the live stream who supported the gold and blue color scheme immediately started spamming:

"How could Chen Liang be like this? I really feel sorry for our Jinlan baby."

"He was just bullying Jin Lan because of his seniority in the entertainment industry. I had already thought that this kind of situation might occur with this show and its format."

"I feel like he did it on purpose, pretending to be confused, and then shifting the blame to Jin Lan on stage."

……

Chen Liang waved his hand and said, "What nonsense about lying and not lying! I'm telling you, I didn't spend any money at all!"

Jin Lan's chest puffed out, and she was about to angrily retort, "You're still denying it?", but Chen Liang choked her back:

"That 10 yuan is still in the account, not a penny has been spent. It's something that you can tell just by looking at each other, why would you lie about it?"

Yu Xiaoxiao slightly opened her mouth and said, "Then what about your harmony..."

"The harmonies are all my friends. I asked them to help out. It was out of personal favors, not money," Chen Liang said, feeling exhausted from explaining.

Jin Lan frowned and said, "Even if we didn't spend any money and invited friends, it's still your one-man show. Tell me, didn't you ask for my opinion?"

Seeing the commotion on stage, the host quietly contacted the director through his earpiece:

"Director, this situation is getting a bit ugly. Should I step in and try to control things?"

The program director stared intently at the screen, while also monitoring the real-time data from the live broadcast.

He could see that all the data in the live stream were skyrocketing.

"The data is very good right now," he said calmly into his headset.

The host, sweating profusely, said, "I know, but if we keep arguing like this, the situation might get out of control, which would damage the show's reputation."

The director thought for a moment and said, "Let's have a short commercial break, keep the camera rolling, let them argue for a bit, and then we can continue the program once they've argued enough."

An employee standing nearby said, "Director, the audience vote hasn't even started yet. Will inserting a commercial break at this hour...?"

“Don’t worry, we’ll insert ads from Youqian Goose,” the director said. “They charge based on the effectiveness of the ads, and this time, the advertising fees will be huge!”

The employee next to him gave him a thumbs up.

You're really ruthless when it comes to making money!

Soon, both the host and He Su received a notification in their earpieces that commercials were coming and the live stream was paused.

The camera remained set up, filming the crowd. This footage would be used to make a video later.

However, Jin Lan and Chen Ya, who were still arguing on and off stage, had no time to pay attention to the live broadcast.

“I don’t even know your friends. You invited them without saying a word, without consulting me at all. I feel like you don’t treat me as a teammate, but as a tool!”

Jin Lan was completely out of control. Now, she no longer cared about copyright revenue and loudly denounced Chen Ya on stage.

Chen Ya rubbed his forehead, frowned, and said to Jin Lan, "Jin Lan, don't forget your promise to me."

Upon hearing Chen Liang say this, Jin Lan immediately recalled the painful experience of being forced to meow like a cat, and became even angrier, saying:

"I haven't even mentioned that you weren't going to rehearsal! Tell me, have you been missing for two days?"

"Jin Lan!" Chen Ya finally couldn't hold back any longer and stood up abruptly.

"After all this time, hasn't a green tree been planted in your heart? I ask for harmony, don't you know why?"

Chen Ya rarely lost his temper like this, and Jin Lan on the stage was so frightened that she trembled.

"I asked for harmonies just to cover up the fact that you're tone-deaf! Your rhythm and pitch are terrible. If it weren't for the harmonies, you would have been eliminated without a doubt!"

He's tone-deaf again.

Jinlan is starting to develop PTSD from this word.

She felt wronged when she first heard that word.

Hearing this now, she felt angry.

What kind of time is this to try and manipulate me?!

Jin Lan gripped the microphone tightly and said:

"First of all, I'm not tone-deaf at all, and I'm not buying that anymore. Also, you said those three harmonies are your friends, fine, let them come out and show themselves. It's obvious that you deliberately hired professionals to try and put me down."

Chen Ya was almost laughing in anger, saying, "They don't have time to play with you. You're already incredibly lucky to be able to perform on the same stage as them."

Chen Ya thought this was the truth, but to others, especially Jin Lan, it sounded almost like an insult.

"Chen Liang, you've gone too far!"

Yu Xiaoxiao also stood up and said, "Chen Liang, you are all teammates, don't go too far with your words."

"Just telling the truth."

At this moment, not only the people present, but also the three Japanese trainees gathered around to watch the excitement.

Because of the language barrier, Osamu Kamota couldn't understand what they were saying at all, but he sensed that the atmosphere was a bit off and that they were arguing.

At that moment, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw three familiar faces peeking out from the edge of the stage.

Osamu Kamota suddenly stood up, pointed in that direction, and let out a gasp like something out of a Japanese drama:

"Ah, ahhh, ahhhhhh!"

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Chapter 424 Who exactly is this person?

Kamoda pointed at the three men, panting heavily, his chest heaving rapidly, as if he were in a state of extreme shock.

The one standing there peeking around, the one with a small mole on her chin and a signature smile, who else could it be but Shiina Apple?

And who else could that woman with short hair and a somewhat androgynous face be but Utada Teru?

And the prettiest one next to her, with those almond-shaped eyes, isn't that Miyuki Nakajima?!

Osamu Kamoda was so excited he almost ate his own tongue.

He thought it sounded very similar when he was listening to the song, but he thought he must have misheard. Unless the world has gone mad, how could these three possibly be on the same stage?

As it turns out, this world has really gone fucking crazy!

Even if any two of them were to appear on stage together as a pair, it would be enough to ignite a major event in the entire Japanese entertainment industry.

As it turns out, today, the three of them were on the same stage, and they were even doing backing vocals for a trainee!

What kind of show is this?

Can these three be invited so easily to perform together on stage?

This is insane!

But no one could understand his excitement.

The trainees nearby looked at him curiously, and the three Japanese trainees also came over.

"Mr. Kamoda, what's wrong? What happened?"

"Teacher, what's wrong?"

The other staff members looked at him curiously.

Someone whispered, "What's wrong with this Japanese guy all of a sudden? Has he gone crazy?"

Kamoda's mouth opened and closed like a fish's, his eyes staring blankly at the expressions of the people around him. He suddenly felt that it was absurd.

The world is absurd, and the people around him are absurd too, seemingly out of place with everything he knows.

He was like someone living in a parallel world made up of absurdity, unable to distinguish north from south, east from west, or up from down.

He couldn't understand why Shiina, Utada, and Nakajima were gathered together at the same time, while the people around them were so calm, as if it were commonplace.

Is this the demeanor of a continental nation? Has China evolved to this point?

After calming down and thinking it over, Kamoda realized that neither the world had gone mad, nor the show had broken into another dimension.

Instead, I was wrong.

Judging from the reactions of those around them, it's not that the production team has already looked down on Shiina Apple and the others.

They seemed not to know them at all!

Or perhaps, like themselves, they were unaware that these three had come to the show, so they didn't even consider that possibility.

Therefore, he became the only person present who realized this.

The most urgent task is to get this information out as soon as possible.

Kamoda called over three Japanese trainees and stammered, incoherently telling them about his discovery.

The three Japanese trainees do know a little Japanese, although they don't speak it very well.

After listening to Kamoda's words, the three people's expressions went through three stages: from confusion to trying to understand, and then to sudden realization.

Finally, the three of them each received their own share of shock.

"What did he say?" The local staff member in charge of communication jogged over and asked.

Guo Lichuan said blankly, "He said that the three people on stage are Shiina Apple and Nakajima Miyuki."

“And Utada Teru,” Qin Weili added from the side.

"Oh?" The staff member's reaction was indifferent.

He still thought it was just a rhetorical device, an expression of his appreciation for the beautiful harmony of the singing voice.

After a while, noticing the strange expressions on their faces, he frowned and said:

"What did you say? Were you talking about real people? The three of them? Right now? On stage?"

The three Japanese trainees nodded repeatedly.

“Yes, that’s what Professor Kamoda said,” Guo Lichuan said.

The staff member stared wide-eyed: "Aren't those three Japanese celebrities?"

Guo Lichuan shook his head and said, "No, you're wrong, he's not a celebrity."

He paused, then continued with the remaining half of the sentence:

"He's a top star."

The director overheard the conversation on the call channel and asked in detail, "What's going on?"

The staff member spoke blankly into the earpiece:

"They said the three people who sang harmonies for Jinlan just now were Shiina Apple, and who else was there? Oh, Utada Teru and Nakajima Miyuki."

"Huh?" The director frowned after hearing this. "What nonsense are you spouting?"

"That's what Kamoda said," the staff member emphasized.