Coming out of the club, the moon was bright, the stars were sparse, cicadas were chirping, and the July heat wave hit me in the face.
"It's really hot these days, Dad." Jake Wang put down his hand on Alex's shoulder, complained, and pressed the car key to unlock it.
Alex looked over and saw a yellow Ferrari, which was gorgeous and frivolous, and completely matched the temperament of the King of Big Thing.
King Bibi asked him: "Didn't you drive here? Did you ask someone to pick you up?"
Alex said: "I'll take the subway."
Jake was surprised: "That's awesome! I've never seen a man take the subway to a party."
Alex threw her bag over her shoulder and said, "I'm not here to play, I'm here to perform, just like the performance before the party starts, I'm a dancer."
Jake touched the back of his head and looked him up and down.
Alex thought to himself, it’s time for you to recognize your father.
Jake looked at her from head to toe and said, "The legs are long enough, the proportions are good, and... the but.t is pretty nice too."
Alex: "...I thank you on behalf of my but.t."
Jake laughed: "Why are you being polite? Are you a dancer?"
Alex said: "I'm from Beijing Dance Academy."
Jake laughed: "Well, after all this time, we are neighbors. I am from the Conservatory of Music of Minzu University, class of 2009. We seem to be... about the same age. What year were you born?"
Alex looked at him suspiciously and said, "Class of 2008, born in 1992."
Jake was even happier: "I was born in 1992, and I had several girlfriends from your school. I haven't kept in touch with them for a long time, but I remember the braised lamb in the Muslim canteen of your school. I never had that taste again. I often went to your place to play, maybe we met each other."
Alex didn't remember whether he had seen her before, but he believed that this guy was from Minzu University next door. There were more girls than boys in their school, and boys from several neighboring colleges came here all day to eat grass.
Jake asked again: "Then you must have no problem dancing, can you sing?"
He obviously didn't remember Alex, and Alex didn't want to mention it either, so he pretended to be stupid and asked, "What?"
Jake said with a smile: "I'm introducing a job to you. Just tell me if you can sing or not. You don't have to sing very well, just be tune-deaf."
Alex thought that it was probably for the talent show, and said, "I guess I know it. I've studied vocal music."
"That's great," Jake fished out his wallet, took out a business card from the card holder, and said, "Call this guy tomorrow and tell him that Jake asked you to find him. He's just in need of someone who can sing and dance and is also handsome."
Alex took a look at the business card. It was very simple, with a dark gold background, and only a phone number and a name on it - Ryan Duan.
Jake patted his chest and said with a grin: "Jake is me, hehe."
Alex said, "Thank you. My name is Alex, the bamboo in plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum."
But Jake didn't care what his name was. He nodded perfunctorily and said, "Okay, remember to tell me my name when you call. I'm leaving now."
After saying goodbye, Alex went to take the subway, casually stuffed the business card into her bag, and forgot about it.
It's not that he is ungrateful. He is more or less grateful for Jake's unconventional "favor", but he will not make this call.
He has not had a chance to debut yet, but he is not completely unknown in the industry, otherwise he would not have been able to be the backup dancer at the King of Pop's concert. It is one thing for the program team to invite him, but it is another thing for him to take the initiative to contact the director and say that he wants to participate in the talent show. He doesn't want to do something that is too cheap.
On Monday, the wages for the weekend performance were settled, and Alex sent a text message to Emily, asking her when she would be back.
Just after the message was sent, Director Yang called him up again. As soon as he entered the room, the director patted him on the shoulder cheerfully and said, "Xiao Xie, you will have a bright future, but don't forget me, your mentor."
Alex didn't know what he wanted to say, and said, "Brother Yang, please don't make fun of me."
The director said, "You are kidding me. Do you remember the two people I met in my office last week?"
Alex's heart moved, and he said, "I have an impression. Who are those two people?"
The director said, "I don't know who that young man is either. The one wearing glasses is DK, NEX's manager."
Alex's surprise this time was not fake.
The dance studio is registered under Huixing Entertainment. NEX is an idol group under Huixing. They debuted for five or six years, but are now on the decline. When they first debuted, they performed on the Spring Festival Gala for two consecutive years. There are several classic dance songs in their albums that have not been eliminated by the market. Dancers like Alex who go out to perform often copy the group's dances to dance.
"NEX will announce its disbandment at the latest next year, and DK plans to launch a new idol group before then," the director said, "I came here last time to see if there are any suitable backup members."
Alex was a little annoyed. He had misjudged the other party's intentions that day, so he didn't seize the opportunity at all and showed nothing in front of DK.
The director said happily: "Xiao Xie, you passed the preliminary selection! Go back and prepare, there will be a reselection the day after tomorrow. If you pass the reselection, you can debut as a member of an idol group!"
Alex felt his heart beating violently. He suppressed his joy in silence and said calmly, "Okay, I will prepare seriously. What will the re-selection test be about?"
"What are the questions in the re-examination?" Jake asked the person on the other end of the phone while lying on the sofa at home enjoying the air conditioning. "You won't let me dance, will you? I can't even do radio gymnastics."
The other side smiled and said: "How can it really be difficult for you? You just come to walk through the scene, play the piano, sing a few lines, each group has its own division of labor, you don't need to know how to dance."
Jake said: "Okay, how many people will enter the re-election?"
"Ten, all in good condition, you can help to check them out when the time comes."
Jake started to brag: "Then I have to play well. You will all be my teammates in the future. You can't ignore me... Oh, by the way, has anyone called you these days and said that I asked them to find you?"
"I have never received such a call. Who do you want to contact me?"
Jake was a little confused. Why didn't the makeup remover oil guy call? He said, "No one. Maybe he lost your business card. Let's talk later."
The person on the other end agreed and asked him, "Is your elder brother busy recently? I haven't seen him for a while. I'll treat you two brothers to a meal one day."
Jake looked up and saw his elder brother Ben Wang standing in front of the fish tank at the other end of the living room, preparing to feed the fish. He said, "He's here. Let me ask him. Big brother!"
Ben didn't even look at him and asked, "What are you doing?"
Jake said: "My agent asked when you are free. He wants to treat you to a meal."
Ben said: "Thank him for me. I don't have time recently."
Ryan heard this on the other end of the phone and said, "Then let's wait until Director Wang is free."
Jake repeated the original words, and Ben came over to answer the phone and said, "Xiao Duan."
Not knowing what Ryan said, Ben continued, "I've been too busy lately. I'll treat you to a meal when I have time. My brother hasn't made any progress, so I'll have to trouble you to teach him well."
Jake was grimacing and making faces at the side, but when Ben glanced at him, he immediately straightened his facial features.
Ben hung up after saying a few words, threw the phone back to him, and went back to serve the fish.
Jake sprawled on the sofa and said, "Will our mother be home at noon? I want to eat fish."
Ben paused while feeding the fish and said, "Eat sh!t."
Jake said aggrievedly: "What's wrong with me? Why are you scolding me again?"
Ben said, "What's wrong with you? It's been a year since you graduated, and you just play all day long. You don't want to endure any hardship. If you want to be a singer, go and participate in Super Boy. You want me to lose face and help you sign a management company. What's the point of raising you up?"
Jake was not convinced and said, "What do you mean you raised me? It was obviously my parents who raised me. If you want to have a child so much, why don't you give birth to one quickly? Let my mother nag you all the time."
Ben: ...
Jake became more and more excited: "You have been married for eight years! What does eight years mean? It's enough time to fight the Japanese again, and you can't even give birth to a child."
Ben dropped what he was holding and came over.
Jake: "...Brother, don't hit me in the face. I'm going to debut."
At noon, Harbin Cecilia Cheung came back from outside. When she entered the door, she saw her little son lying on the sofa with his but.t sticking out and crying. She asked curiously: "What are you doing?"
Jake burst into tears and said, "Haji! Ben beat me again! The day before yesterday I said I didn't take drugs but he didn't believe me. He beat me up for nothing and today he beat me again! Look at my but.t, it's all swollen!"
Unfortunately, his mother didn't stand by him at all and even scolded him: "What immoral thing have you done again?"
Jake took his own advantage and said, "I helped you urge him to have a baby quickly, and he beat me."
Mother Wang looked around and asked, "Where are the others?"
Jake said nonsense: "After the fight, I probably had enough fun and left."
Mother Wang didn't bother to pay attention to him and went into the kitchen with her things.
Jake followed him in and saw that his mother was going to cook fish. He was so happy that he forgot about the pain in his but.t and said, "How did you know I wanted to eat fish?"
Mother Wang said, "Your second brother said he would come back for lunch at noon and wanted to eat fish."
Jake: ...
He has two older brothers. When he was a child, he admired them very much. He felt very happy to be able to follow them and wave a flag. He would show off to all the children of the same age, "Do you have an older brother? No! I have two!" He could just make a V sign.
Later, when he grew up, he could no longer show off. He thought it was good not to have a brother. At least he didn't have to be beaten all day long.
If I didn't do my homework, my eldest brother would beat me. If I didn't practice the piano well, my second brother would beat me again. If I got 200 points in the college entrance examination, my eldest brother would beat me. If I skipped classes to go to the Internet cafe for repeating a grade, my second brother would beat me again. If I got into a fight with boys from the neighboring school, my eldest brother would beat me again. If I got kidney stones due to excessive indulgence, I would go to the hospital and my second brother would beat me again...My second brother is a doctor.
Seeing that he looked unhappy, his mother wanted to comfort him but didn't want him to get ahead of her, so she asked him, "How is your group going? How many people are there?"
Jake has a very bad memory. He forgot that the fish was not made for him in one sentence. He boasted happily: "Including me, there are six of us. We are almost ready. We plan to release the album in September."
Mother Wang asked, "Are all the children handsome? Show me their photos."
Where did Jake get the photo? Hu said, "Of course he is handsome, he is almost as good as me."
Mother Wang looked at him and said, "Oh, then this combination is over."
Jake howled: "I said I'm not his biological child. How could Cecilia Cheung give birth to Takeshi Kaneshiro? Where on earth is my biological mother?"
Mother Wang: "Hahahahahaha, get lost."
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