Dreams come true - Idol Producer Fan Chengcheng FF (RESQ SAGA PART 1)

102.

The next morning, the announcement of the mentor evaluations was going to be held, so we were waiting for PD to arrive.

I sat down between Shengen and Chengcheng. Shengen and I barely spoke to each other prior to our performance together but, since then, we had become quite close.

"What happened to you two yesterday?" He asked me. "I thought we went to the cinema all together."

"Chengcheng and I had already watched it and we were kind of tired, so we left early." I lied to him. "Right, Cheng?"

"What? Oh, yes, very tired." He said and quickly turned to talk with Wenjun.

PD then came in with a box in his hand and we all stood up to bow to him.

"Okay, my dear trainees, please sit." He told us and we sat back down. "Some time earlier, I gave a trainee whose lips were dry a lip balm. Because I know that usually, when people are nervous, their lips dry out easily. Not sure what to do, today, for every trainee, I prepared a lip balm."

After that everyone began cheering from excitement, some of them even asked for them all to be used previously by PD, which made him ambarrased.

"Every one is new. I hope you guys can use this lip balm; put it on your lips, bright and shiny." He told us and we thanked him. "Today, it seems like everyone's specially excited. Is it because of the collaboration stages or is it because of the lip balms? Which mentor do you guys want to collaborate with?"

Obviously everyone said PD after that while I just laughed. They were all a bunch of teacher pets.

"Don't flatter me just because I'm here because a lot of teachers are watching you through these cameras." PD informed us.

Everyone then panicked and began naming all the mentors.

"Thank God I didn't say any names." I said leaning on Chengcheng from the laughter. "Now if any of you end up on other mentors rooms, you are screwed!"

"Let's first listen to the performance songs of this collaboration stage." PD said before the songs began playing one by one.

<Mask> was the first one. It was one of my favourite one's by PD and performing it with him would be truly amazing.

The second one was Li Ronghao's <Quit Smoking>. I really like the song, but I honestly wanted to try out rap, so this one wasn't my first option. I wouldn't have minded if I had to sing that one, though.

<零(Zero)> was the third. This was obviously MC Jin's one, so I instantly thought of it as an option. It was practically all rap except for a small part during the bridge.

"This is The Foreigner's theme song." Told us Shengen.

"Oh, that's right!" I said while bobbing my head along to the music.

Next up, was a remix between <24K Magic> by Bruno Mars and <Havana> by Camila Cabello which I guessed belonged to either Jieqiong or Cheng Xiao. I really liked it, but it wasn't the style I was going to try to go for.

Last but not least was <Agent J> by Jolin. Chengcheng was super excited with this song and moved up and down on his seat. It was obvious he was going to choose this one, he was loving it. I personally loved the song too but, as it would belong to either Jieqiong or Cheng Xiao, two girls in the same song would be a little weird, so I would try to go to another one.

"I'll choose this!" Chengcheng told me like a little kid.

"I'd be surprised if you didn't!"

"Then, the fourth song is a collaboration with Bruno Mars, right? And the last a collaboration with senior Jolin?" PD joked. "Just now, the songs that everyone heard, were the original songs. They are not necessarily the versions shown on the final stage. There are only five songs for the collaboration stages. Can all 36 trainees select the songs they want? And, can they collaborate with the mentor they want? "

"Do we choose by ourselves?" Zhengting interrupted him.

"I'll tell you now." Said PD with a sassy tone due to Zhengting's impatience making me chuckle. "Then, according to trainees' results from the second ranking announcement, the top 9 trainees can, according to the rankings, choose the songs they like in order from high to low."

The ones from the top nine were cheering after the announcement. They were all really excited to have that privilege.

"This is the first time I've thought rankings were so important." I hear Justin say.

"I really hate you all right now, you know that?" I told Chengcheng.

"Shall we kill them?" Joked Shengen. "I don't think they will really notice it if nine go missing."

"Tenth place through thirty sixth place need to use the method of drawing lots to determine the order of song selection." Continued PD. "But, each song's respective room can only receive seven trainees. Once the room is full of members, the following trainees can no longer choose that song. The selection of songs for the collaboration stages officially starts."

We then all applauded and, after that, one by one the trainees from tenth place through thirty sixth went up to pick their number from the box. I was the last one so I had plenty of time.

The first one was Bu Fan so, of course, we all began cheering for him to get the thirty sixth spot. He really had to have bad luck to get that.

When he took the number out, he looked at it and sighed making us all laugh. He then approached me and, making sure no one else saw it, showed me the number. He had gotten the tenth place again. His luck was unbelieveable.

When Yue Yue's turn came, he got thirty six we had us all laughing at his disgrace. There was no way someone could be so unlucky.

"Last but not least, Zhu Lin." PD called me.

"Don't worry, Lin. You literally have nothing to lose!" Xiao Gui yelled from his seat.

"Thank you, Old Yue!" I said jokingly and bowed ninety degrees making the boys and PD laugh.

"Take a lip balm first." Said PD handing me one and I thanked him before taking the last ball out of the box.

Opening it, I saw I got the 11th place. I tried to remain stoic.

"Can I?" PD asked me and I showed it to him. "You truly had nothing to lose!"

After that, I went to my seat. Everyone asked me what number I got, but I told them it was a secret.

"Okay, then I'll bounce first." Said PD.

"Where are you going?" Asked Linong.

"Into your heart!" Answered PD in the cheesiest way possible.

"Really, PD?" I said face palming while most of the boys blushed or laughed it off. "Of all the things to say...?"

"Now, the song selection will officially start."