Chapter 17: Talent Defeats Capital, Me?
“Little Deer, the landlord is here to collect rent. Go open the door.”
“Rent collection time again…”
Tong Yulu was fastening her hair tie while washing up, with water stains still on her face not wiped dry yet. She couldn’t free her hands at the moment, but the person calling was upstairs, the other roommates hadn’t gotten up, and she couldn’t really leave Teacher Zhong Qing outside.
Hearing the steady knocking, she didn’t care much anymore and hurriedly wiped her face while jogging over to open the door.
Morning light just dawning, the door gently opening, but standing outside was not the landlord Teacher Zhong Qing, but a handsome and refined youth carrying a suitcase, facing the breeze, with an atmosphere like “the thatched gate now opens for you.”
Tong Yulu was first stunned, then belatedly realized this was today’s new guest performer.
She had been with the other guests for a long time, usually bare-faced was fine, but hurriedly opening the door and suddenly running into a smiling handsome guy, she actually felt a bit shy for a moment…
He looked a bit familiar, but she couldn’t quite remember where she had seen him.
“Hello, I’m Yu Wei.”
The visitor was Yu Wei, who came early in the morning to record the program. He originally planned to enter with the landlord, but Teacher Zhong Qing was delayed by something.
“I’m Tong Yulu, call me Little Deer.”
Hearing the name Tong Yulu instantly remembered, wasn’t this the Yu Wei who had just been on trending search a few days ago.
In the performance video, the stage lights were too flashy and she didn’t remember his face, but the song was really good.
“HELLO Roommates” as a lifestyle observation variety show, the cameras work 24 hours non-stop, and from the moment Yu Wei knocked, today’s recording had already begun.
Hearing the earlier loud call for rent collection, the others also slowly woke up, rubbing their blurry sleepy eyes as they went out, then saw this new guest.
“A new friend has come.”
The group was quite warm and welcoming, coming downstairs without washing faces or brushing teeth to greet Yu Wei one after another. No one knew what they really thought, but in front of the camera, they still had to put on a show.
“Teacher Yu, I’m your fan!”
Su Jian, with hair messy like a chicken coop, was the most enthusiastic upon seeing him. Saying she’s a fan as politeness was fine, but calling him teacher directly stumped everyone.
This carefree “sunny big boy” was actually the second oldest among all the guests, two years older than Yu Wei…
What teacher, at work he should be called a plant!
Yu Wei didn’t like socializing, but he recognized people quickly. The flat-headed guy was Fei Hong, child star debut with good acting skills, unfortunately grew uglier and didn’t become popular.
The short-haired girl was Zhou Mumu, also acting since young, regular in campus dramas, but forced out of her comfort zone as she grew older.
These two were young in age but not shallow in seniority, could well be considered his seniors.
Compared to the others, Chi Leying was the only one properly groomed, her ink-black long hair smooth and flowing, forming a stark contrast with everyone else’s messy hairstyles, clearly tended to early in the morning.
She was probably the one who called to open the door earlier…
Chi Leying, and the earlier Tong Yulu and Su Jian, all debuted from talent shows and had their own groups, so they were fellow kind with Yu Wei.
The last one yawning nonstop was the star second generation Meng Lei, clearly not fully awake, but with a good attitude.
The six took Yu Wei’s arrival quite seriously, with chit-chat topics basically revolving around the song “Heart Wall.”
Not quite to please, “interrogating” new guests was always the program’s convention, plus his song was hot right now, not expanding on it would seem deliberate.
No matter what, a singer-songwriter in his early twenties was too eye-catching, even if hard to befriend, they couldn’t make enemies.
“Honestly, I didn’t recognize you when I first opened the door, couldn’t see what you looked like in the video either.”
Though Tong Yulu had no makeup, bare-faced she was still refreshingly elegant, skin fine and fair, eyes clear and bright, a slight smile still lively and otherworldly.
Had to say, stars were much stronger than internet celebrities and the like, even without refined beauty filters, they could still eat by their faces.
No one knew what Tong Yulu meant by this, everyone was praising Yu Wei’s new song, yet she suddenly said she didn’t recognize him.
Not flattery, but they all wanted to leave a good impression on Yu Wei, yet she seemed to be going against the grain…
“Just remember the song was really good, didn’t expect the person to be so handsome too.”
Tong Yulu’s playful remark was very pleasing, similarly pretty words, but her turn made it more agreeable than straightforward.
A thousand piercings, ten thousand piercings, but flattery always gets through. Yu Wei didn’t know if she was sincere or not, just smiled along, not taking it too much to heart.
Sure enough, none were pushovers, they seemed all gentle breezes…
“I saw your RUIKO1 at the Blueberry Channel New Year’s Eve gala before.”
Chi Leying nearby followed up, casually chatting as if getting close, but her next half-sentence had great depth.
“But Yu Wei, you weren’t there at the time.”
Group performance but this member Yu Wei wasn’t there, why, not valued of course.
Her words touched too much, no one knew what the person involved Yu Wei thought, momentarily unsure how to respond…
Yu Wei hadn’t expected her to bring this up, couldn’t help being a bit curious what she wanted to say.
“But now it seems, you’ve let talent conquer capital?”
She smiled radiantly with one sentence, lightly brushing past that obscure past, indirectly elevating Yu Wei to another height.
There are masters?
The earlier suck up was drawing bones, this one aimed at the heart, starting from the bumpy path, to the sudden enlightenment ending, not forgetting to affirm his ability.
If others gave thumbs up, this one patted the shoulder saying you’ve worked hard…
Rather than saying the talking points were brilliantly clever, better to say they were tailor-made. Those who truly endured the lows would definitely prefer the latter.
If Yu Wei really came all this way, his heart would surely warm, unfortunately he didn’t.
One by one all sharp cookies, compared to them, the Su Jian who called him teacher at the start was instead the most immature.
“Can’t claim that, who am I to claim?”
Talent conquering capital was a huge statement, and theoretically almost impossible.
Mu Mu, always discussed on this point, couldn’t count as conquering capital either, just that capital finally chose talent…
Though he was never favored by the company and finally turned it around on his own, he still couldn’t claim this statement.
They dared to praise but he didn’t dare to accept.
The only ones who can truly conquer capital are the great proletariat.
Seeing Yu Wei indifferently push back, Chi Leying furrowed her brows, then smiled again: “Looks like the songwriter has a thicker heart wall than in the song…”
She had no malice toward Yu Wei, just wanted to say some nice words to leave an impression, even if not well said it was no big deal.
As fellow idol group members, Chi Leying’s team had infighting tearing everything apart, but the two factions always reached consensus facing her, not just because she was good at handling people, but because she was good at talking.
Many when praised act humble, but can’t hold back the smile at their lips, but Yu Wei since arriving today, when praised basically showed no smile.
Was he really proper or truly humble?
Though saying so was somewhat biased, most male and female group artists actually had no brains, became trainees early detached from society, old but still childish at heart.
She and teammates, even other guests in this program, were approached this way, yet today ran into an impenetrable one…
This Yu Wei was no simpleton, no wonder he could write such a deep song, truly incomparable to young people his age.
Yu Wei was neither fake proper nor truly humble, the song wasn’t even written by him, what was there to be arrogant about?
If someone praised his novel as good, his mouth could grin to the sky.
While talking, the landlord Teacher Zhong Qing came to collect rent, holding a dozen colorful task cards in hand…
These were all prepared for Yu Wei.
