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

Debuting as a group, singing, dancing, acting cute, fan meetings, handshake tickets, group photos, fan clubs, pregnancy, miscarriage, online controversy, leaving the industry, and fading into obscurity.

These are the daily experiences of Japanese idols.

The show "Idol Producer" has, of course, made some localized changes to make the idol industry less extreme than in neighboring countries and to add some artistic elements.

However, since this is currently a performance in Japan, and it's a livehouse show, it naturally leans more towards the "idol" format.

This is an underground venue, dark and crowded with people outside the circular stage, and there are private booths further away.

Liu Ruying followed the crowd and squeezed into the throng. Suddenly, she vaguely heard someone calling her name.

She looked in the direction of the sound, and the voice calling her name grew louder. She went over and unexpectedly saw someone she knew.

"Young Master Qin! You're here too?"

The environment was too noisy, so she had to speak very loudly for the other person to hear her.

Qin Yun Chu sat in the private room and pointed to the seat next to her, saying, "You can sit here."

Liu Ruying nodded and was about to turn around to greet the others when she suddenly saw the person sitting next to Qin Yunchu, and her whole body trembled.

"Empress Jiang?!"

Chapter 468 When I find you, I'll test your eyes.

Jiang Xinhai, with a straw in his mouth, greeted Liu Ruying:

"Hi."

Jiang Xinhai's cherry lips were glossy, and her eyes were like a clear spring. When Liu Ruying met her gaze, her heart felt as if it had been hit by a heavy hammer, and it stopped beating for half a second.

"Empress Jiang? What are you doing here?"

Liu Ruying felt her voice trembling. Seeing Jiang Xinhai in person in front of her was more unsettling than she had imagined.

Jiang Xinhai smiled slightly: "Come and have some fun."

Today she was wearing a white dress, exuding a princess-like aura, but she had a friendly personality and could chat with anyone. Her approachability was like a spring breeze melting the winter snow, and Liu Ruying was no longer so nervous.

Qin Yun asked, "Where is your companion?"

Liu Ruying suddenly realized what was happening and quickly turned around to call her friends and gather all the women over.

When everyone saw Jiang Xinhai, they greeted him nervously, and Lu Qianzi was so nervous that she couldn't even speak.

She has the complete albums of Jiang Xinhai and Zhichi at home, and she wishes she could have them all flown over by air so that Jiang Xinhai could sign them.

Liu Ruyan plopped down next to Jiang Xinhai. Jiang Xinhai glanced at her, stuck a new straw into his juice, and pushed the glass towards her, offering her half.

"Ruyan, what brings you here too?"

Liu Ruyan replied, "Yes, I've arrived."

Her glasses were fogged up, like the surface of a frozen lake during frost thawing, and her expression was serious and calm, like a white egret.

Liu Ruying was slightly moved. She hadn't expected that her cousin and Jiang Xinhai actually knew each other.

And they even looked very familiar with each other.

"Does Empress Jiang still recognize my sister?" Liu Ruying asked, blinking her eyes.

"Your sister?" Jiang Xinhai's eyes widened slightly. "This is your sister?"

Liu Ruying nodded: "Yes, this is my cousin."

"What's your name?"

"My name is Liu Ruying."

"Ahem," Qin Yun Chu cleared her throat and pointed at Liu Ru Ying, saying, "This is Liu Ru Ying. Ru Yan's father is her uncle. She is currently working as an assistant in Bei Chen."

"assistant?"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Xinhai perked up, staring intently at Liu Ruying's face for a long time before saying something intriguing:

"That's great. That guy has a good eye for women; he only picks pretty ones."

Liu Ruying crossed her arms, quite indignant at Jiang Xinhai's words. It seemed Jiang Xinhai was implying she got into Beichen because of her looks. So she whispered:

"I joined Beichen through the normal recruitment process, and I ranked first in the internal written test."

Jiang Xinhai only meant to tease Chen Ya, but realizing that Liu Ruying had misunderstood, he quickly said, "No, no, that's not what I meant."

Qin Yunchu then pointed to Lu Qianzi in the crowd and introduced her, "This is Lu Qianzi, Chen Ya's stepsister."

Although she lowered her voice to the second half of her sentence, Lu Qianzi still heard it.

She suddenly had a rather bizarre feeling.

She hadn't expected that Qin Yun Chu would be the second to introduce herself among everyone, and she certainly hadn't expected that she would be introduced as "Chen Ya's stepsister".

In her past life experiences, people introduced her as either "Lu Ruixiang's daughter," "Lu's descendant," or even "Chen Hai's sister."

But she was never introduced as "Chen Ya's stepsister".

Unexpectedly, Jiang Xinhai's eyes lit up instantly upon hearing Qin Yunchu's introduction.

Jiang Xinhai pulled her over and examined her from head to toe, even more carefully than he had examined Liu Ruying earlier. Finally, he chuckled and said:

"He really does resemble Chen Ya quite a bit!"

Lu Qianzi asked weakly, "You...you know my brother too?"

Jiang Xinhai grinned and said, "It's more than just knowing each other."

"?"

Qin Yunchu smiled and said to Lu Qianzi, "Xinhai has known your brother for a long time, maybe even longer than you have."

Lu Qianzi nodded.

She suddenly realized that it was perfectly normal for Chen Ya, the boss of a large company like Beichen, to know a top-tier singer like Jiang Xinhai.

However, she glanced at Jiang Xinhai again and found that he was still staring at her.

Lu Qianzi was startled and quickly looked away, but then secretly glanced back and found that she was still looking at her.

And his eyes looked particularly strange.

Lu Qianzi pondered for a long time but couldn't figure out what Jiang Xinhai's gaze was like, yet it felt very familiar.

After thinking for a long time, she finally remembered: her mother looked at Chen Chi—her aunt—with the same gaze.

It was a look that was neither entirely unfriendly, nor entirely distant, and seemed to suggest a difficulty in managing the relationship between them.

In short... it's very strange.

Qin Yun Chu introduced everyone present, and then they all took their seats around the VIP seating area. The performance on stage had already begun, but it was by another idol group.

Although "Idol Producer" is now a top-rated program, it doesn't give these contestants any preferential treatment. Their performances in the livehouse are all done like those of newly debuted idols.

At first, they could only compete with other newly debuted groups, and how many fans they could attract depended entirely on their abilities.

Qin Yunshang hadn't even appeared yet, and Jiang Xinhai and Liu Ruyan were chatting casually, which sounded increasingly strange to the people around them.

Normally, it's considered a good thing if Liu Ruyan keeps quiet, but I didn't expect her to be so talkative with Jiang Xinhai. She talked to Jiang Xinhai more than she had talked to Liu Ruying and the others in the past ten days.

Moreover, judging from their conversation, the two are quite close.

Jiang Xinhai shifted his legs and asked, "Ruyan, what are you doing in Japan?"

Xiao Qing helped her answer, "The Japanese Ministry of Education organized an event and invited some domestic writers to come and travel."

After saying that, she lowered her voice a little and said, "Actually, they just invited us to come and sing praises, to help extol Japan's scenery and such, to boost the tourism industry's reputation. I found it too troublesome, so I took her out to have some fun."

Jiang Xinhai was somewhat surprised: "So you don't want the money from the Ministry of Education either?"

Xiao Qing said, "I will collect the money, but I won't participate in the event. I'll just write a short piece to get by. I'm not making money for myself; I'm making money to support Yun Shang'er in the rankings."

Qin Yun Chu gave a thumbs up: "Awesome."

Jiang Xinhai said, "I think I now know how those articles that awkwardly praise Japan came about."

Xiao Qing nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, some writers write novels about famine and coal mining in China, but when they come to Japan, they drink sake, eat sushi, and exclaim how wonderful Japan is. If they were truly honest writers, why wouldn't they write about how much money they received? I think it's quite meaningless."

“Ruyan isn’t good at this kind of thing,” Jiang Xinhai said while drinking his juice. “She really knows how much money she received.”

“Yes,” Qin Yunchu nodded in agreement. “Ruyan, why don’t you just stay at our hotel instead of going back? We can go to Hokkaido together after the finals.”

Liu Ruyan shook her head and said, "I want to see the teacher."

"teacher?"

Jiang Xinhai and Qin Yunchu looked at each other in bewilderment.

The teacher Liu Ruyan mentioned was only one person.

Chen Ya.

"Have you seen him?" Liu Ruyan asked.

Jiang Xinhai and Qin Yunchu exchanged a glance and said:

"Xiao Qin has seen him, but I haven't."

Xiao Qing quickly asked, "Is that person also in Japan? What is he doing in Japan? By the way, Mr. Qin, is he still at your company?"

Qin Yunchu smiled but remained silent.

She chuckled inwardly, thinking to herself that she had actually placed the people right under her nose, but she just couldn't believe it.

"Teacher? What teacher?" Lu Qianzi, who knew nothing about Liu Ruyan's past, asked this insightful question.

Liu Ruying, who was standing to the side, knew about her cousin's story and asked:

"Is that the mysterious author who taught my sister to write? Is he also in Japan?"

After a pause, Liu Ruying stared at Qin Yunchu, Jiang Xinhai, and Xiao Qing: "Do you know who he is?"

The three of them fell silent for a moment, their faces displaying intriguing smiles.

Just then, the singing on stage paused, the lights dimmed, and then Qin Yunshang appeared on stage.

Xiao Qing perked up and said, "It's Yun Chang'er's turn to appear!"

Jiang Xinhai smiled slightly, crossed his legs, and said, "Let me see what song she sings this time."

Lu Qingxuan also straightened her body.

Yesterday, she had a heated argument with Qin Yunshang, and she knows that Qin Yunshang will be singing Chen Liang's song today.

She wanted to see just how good the lyricist and composer, whom Qin Yunshang had praised so highly, really was.

Qin Yunshang on stage didn't waste any words. The stage lights were dark, with only a spotlight shining on her.

The guitar began to play.

"I was once the restless river,"

I wandered through the forest and accidentally entered your heart.

There were no plans to set up camp, so the trouble was put aside.

"Gone and never to return..."

The light in Jiang Xinhai's eyes shifted in the darkness:

"Guava? ...It's kind of like pop rock. His style is starting to change again."

Qin Yunchu smiled and said, "The songs he sang on this variety show are all completely different in style."

Lu Qingxuan stared intently at the stage.

Qin Yunshang was gliding with a low note; for a female singer to have such a voice is truly remarkable.

She glanced back at Jiang Xinhai.

There's another talented player sitting here, but this probably doesn't mean much to her.

On stage, Qin Yunshang strummed the guitar while continuing to showcase her bass notes. Then, she plucked the guitar hard, fully opening up the sound, and the song entered its climax.

"Hey! Wait till I find you, then I'll test your eyes."

They embraced each other, completely absorbed in each other.

That's me, and that's the only tenderness I have that's why I love you.