Forcefully Doting on You

As Mu Cai sat on his plane seat, he took advantage of the time before take off to scroll through his phone, that he had finally gotten back two days ago.

The “Rookie Stars” program had just finished recording, and all episodes had been broadcasted already. Mu Cai and Liang Yunxi, Li Yuzhe, Alan, Lin Jiayi, and two other trainees he wasn’t familiar with, formed the group Seven Stars and officially debuted.

In the Sweet Orange Video live stream of the first performance with the seven of them together, Mu Cai stood on the brightly lit stage singing and dancing, with the music booming in his ears and the sweat on his forehead dripping down like a flowing stream.

As he looked at the audience below cheering for him, he felt his mood swell up high, a rush of happiness coursing through him.

No wonder so many people wanted to become idols, Mu Cai thought. To be under the spotlight and under the gaze of thousands, millions, mobilizing their emotions; to be able to both infect and be infected by the feelings of others –it really was an exceedingly happy thing.

Now that the seven members of Seven Stars had officially debuted, according to their previous promise, Sweet Orange Video prepared for them an official concert in Beijing. Sweet Orange Video would then exclusively live stream and broadcast the recording of the entire concert.

Before the concert date, Mu Cai and the others would need to stay at the show’s filming venue for “closed doors” private training. But since “Rookie Star” had just recently finished broadcasting, now was the time when the group’s members were at the peak of their popularity. As such their talent agencies must strike fast while the iron is hot, and find ways to increase the exposure of the artists under their management to ride the wave of their current fame and maintain it.

Although the songs for the concert had been prepared in advance, and were almost completed, and the concert location had already been arranged, Sweet Orange Video still needed the members to be comfortable working as a group. For this purpose, they allotted two months ime for them to learn the new songs and choreography.

However, it wouldn’t be good for Sweet Orange Video, the host, if the popularity of any of the members declined, so if any of the talent agencies arranged individual work for their artists, the concert team would grant “vacations” to those members, under discretion.

Now, Mu Cai was sitting on a flight back to Beijing. As soon as he finished the competition, Su Xingyun sent him a message saying that Chun Lian wanted him to shoot a promotional video for their new summer products.

Chun Lian was an established and well-known global makeup brand. They had a very complete selection of makeup products under their label and of those, their lip gloss was the most exceptional. For the different types of new products they launch each year during different seasons, they always find distinct celebrities to endorse the products and different teams to shoot the promotional videos.

According to Su Xingyun, the brand hoped Mu Cai could shoot a promotional video for their new summer lip gloss with them.

It just so happened that the recording for “Rookie Star” had ended two days prior. The training schedule for the upcoming concert was not too tight yet, and the members of the group were still at the song-learning stage. Thus, Mu Cai took this opportunity to return to the capital city and shoot the commercial.

He was not a big-name celebrity, and he didn’t even have an assistant, so he declined Su Ge’s offer to pick him up. Mu Cai put on a mask, packed some necessities in a backpack, got in the car he’d contacted in advance, and arrived at the airport himself.

Mu Cai scrolled through the Weibo homepage, but there was no news. He scrolled through Wechat, but there was only a message from Su Xingyun sent an hour ago, that said for him to take the VIP passageway when he got off the plane and that he would be there waiting to pick up Mu Cai.

Because “Rookie Star” just finished broadcasting, Mu Cai’s popularity at the moment wasn’t low —his company even granted him permission to book a first-class ticket. Even though he didn’t think he was so famous that he would get recognized on a plane, he’d still get reimbursed for his ticket by the company anyways, and first-class was definitely not bad —at the very least he’d have some leg room to stretch.

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