Chapter 151
In their eyes, the domestic entertainment industry is divided into Random Entertainment and other entertainment companies. In the idol industry, this is indeed the case.
Random Entertainment holds a monopoly, and when people think of idols, they can only recall the few groups from Random Entertainment.
Today, the Midsummer Music Festival went live, and those idol groups took turns performing, becoming a hot topic on forums.
The competition between the four groups had already begun before the live broadcast ended.
Yang Siyu sat in her office, scrolling through her phone and reading the forum content. This was her first time visiting the forum since leaving Random Entertainment.
"Xiao Yu, what do you plan to eat?" Li Yao leaned over from the opposite desk, handing her phone over.
Yang Siyu shook her head, "I'm not hungry." After saying that, she remembered something and looked up to ask, "Did those downstairs eat yet?"
Li Yao checked the time, "It's this late, of course they did."
The office was small, with only seven or eight workstations, but it was fully occupied. Everyone sat at their desks, wearing neck pillows, their fingers tapping rapidly on the keyboards, busy with their work.
Most of the people present had come from Random Entertainment. Instead of moving elsewhere, they started their own entertainment company, even recruiting a few trainees who had been eliminated by Random Entertainment.
This setup quickly attracted investment, but the reality was that the road ahead was not easy.
They imitated Random Entertainment's early operational strategies, creating their own variety shows to broaden their artists' paths. The videos had already been posted on several social platforms, but apart from some initial fan support, they quickly faded into obscurity.
Currently, only Random Entertainment and a few major companies in the domestic entertainment industry can successfully operate idol groups.
Zhao Xu, who had been on an errand, finally returned, carrying her bag. As soon as she entered, she said, "I had lunch with a few people from the platform today. They're planning their own music show, and I spent the whole afternoon with them to secure a spot. I'm exhausted."
Zhao Xu collapsed onto a small sofa next to her, exhausted from her day of running around, almost ready to fall asleep on the spot. But because of this good news, she forced herself to stay awake.
But as soon as she sat down, she felt something was off, "What's going on here?" Zhao Xu sat up and looked around, "Why does everyone look so down?"
Li Yao sitting there shook her head, "No, we're fine."
Everyone knew the reason for their lack of spirit today, but no one wanted to say it out loud.
Random Entertainment's Back to Midsummer Night was hotly discussed online, and it was hard to avoid seeing it when you opened your phone.
Back then, they were also part of Random Entertainment.
Yang Siyu put away her phone and glanced at Zhao Xu, "Didn't you say you secured a spot? Let's go downstairs and tell them to practice well... Hey! Didn't you say when the recording starts?" She got up and walked towards Zhao Xu, pulling her out.
When it came to the recording time, Zhao Xu paused for a moment, "...They said it would have to wait until summer vacation."
It wasn't clear if she was upset that summer vacation was still months away or if she remembered that Random Entertainment's group activities were always scheduled during the winter and summer breaks.
Seeing the two of them leave, the people at the workstations turned their attention back to their work.
There are many small companies like theirs in the country. The more rational ones have shifted to the acting industry or directly transformed into short video companies to survive.
Companies like theirs, which form idol groups, either have a passion for it or harbor the beautiful hope of becoming the next Random Entertainment.
Random Entertainment almost monopolizes the fan culture circle. Judging from tonight's hot search and forum topics, there's hardly any room for other artists to appear.
Equals3 performed on the main stage, and although the number of audience members in front of the stage wasn't as large as the other two groups, they still had the advantage of location, with about four to five thousand people in front of the stage.
In contrast, NiGHT didn't fare as well.
As the warm-up act, they performed after Equals3 on the main stage. For some reason, the number of people in front of their stage was far less than that of the just-departed Equals3.
But the performance was unexpectedly good.
NiGHT's nine members, free from the program's audio editing environment, delivered a raw and unfiltered performance that wasn't bad, and those who had debuted based on their looks didn't falter with off-key singing or forgotten dance moves, surprising even their own fans.
They had prepared themselves for criticism after the performance, but the nine girls had earned their fans' respect.
This gave them the confidence to stand up to other fans.
"Come on, it's seven o'clock, dinner time, let people eat, the audience also needs to eat and drink."
"What's with the 'raw voice'? Tell me, which idol isn't raw?"
"Who are you pretending to be a passerby for? Which passerby can name them?"
With AIcho and Timetrain as comparisons, NiGHT was ridiculed to the extreme, with only their fans pretending to be passersby in the forum.
This time, Jiang Juyou didn't attend the music festival in person but was having dinner with several platform executives, discussing how to expand the idol showcase platform and make the idol industry thrive domestically.
The private room was filled with laughter, and the round table, besides Jiang Juyou, also had several heads of Random Entertainment's operations team, the head of Random iWatch, and a few people from the platform.
The dinner lasted almost four hours, with not much deep conversation but a lot of industry gossip.
Jiang Juyou had initially accompanied Cheng Yuan to such dinners, but now she led her team, transitioning from initial nervousness to now being able to engage in banter with ease.
"He Zhiguo said he's done with his work, I'll call him over!" the executive sitting across from Jiang Juyou announced.
The others immediately showed dissatisfaction, "Sister Luo! We agreed not to talk about work today!"
"That's right, Sister Luo, you said that yourself when you came in!" another person chimed in.
"Oh, Xiao He said he's nearby, so I'll just call him over for dinner, meet some people. He's been wanting to meet Jiang Juyou for a while, and it's not a big deal to have him come over. Our program is set anyway," Sister Luo said, sending a voice message to He Zhiguo in front of everyone, "…Come over, I'll send you the location."
Jiang Juyou across the table smiled helplessly, "Come on, everyone, let's call Wu PD and Zhang PD too. Let's just settle everything today. I can't keep up with these endless dinners. I've gained a few pounds recently."
"Stop it, where have you gained weight!" Sister Luo said, giving her a look that showed genuine concern.
The others echoed, "Exactly, if you've gained weight, what are we?"
"Hey, don't drag me into this, I'm in normal shape!" Sister Luo defended herself.
They always arrange these dinners for a few reasons: to have Random Entertainment's artists exclusively participate in their platform's programs, to sign an exclusive agreement.
The music show is secondary; what they really want is Random Entertainment's group IPs. Once the agreement is settled, they can use the program as an excuse to produce merchandise and reap profits from fans.
Jiang Juyou doesn't want to sign exclusivity and doesn't want to alienate these platforms, so she has to navigate this delicate balance.
Ever since Jiang Juyou hinted at wanting to collaborate with other platforms to produce a music show, media companies and production teams have been eagerly anticipating.
In these two months, the production teams of various platforms have been assembled, waiting for the program to start recording.
The four-hour dinner wasn't enough, and after the others arrived, Jiang Juyou and her team sat for another two hours. The evening rush hour had passed, and their dinner finally ended.
After seeing off the guests, Random Entertainment's team finally relaxed.
"The world is finally quiet." Someone said this, causing others to laugh and nod in agreement.
Jiang Juyou, with her hands in her pockets, also relaxed and called out to them, "You all worked hard today. Take a taxi back, the company will reimburse you."
A few of them shouted "Long live Jiang Juyou!" and Jiang Juyou was amused by their childish behavior.
Her assistant stepped forward and whispered, "Should I send you home or to the company?"
"Home, I'm really tired. I've been sitting all afternoon, my butt hurts," Jiang Juyou replied, which resonated with the girls, some of whom even rubbed their buttocks and said, "I just went to the bathroom to rest for a long time, my butt is really getting stiff from sitting."
"I didn't expect a dinner without alcohol to be so hard to endure."
"I ate all afternoon, I'm about to throw up."
"The car's here! I'm leaving first, bye everyone! Bye Jiang Juyou!"
"Bye—"
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Ling Cheng used her annual leave to go to Zhuhai for a music festival and also took a trip to Macau with her friends.
Although she only took five days off, returning to the company felt like she had fallen out of sync.
"What?"
"What's going on?"
"What's the situation?"
She arrived in the afternoon and missed the morning's excitement, unable to join in the conversation once she sat down.
A colleague next to her handed her a box of yogurt and said, "Didn't you check Weibo?"
Ling Cheng looked into her colleague's eyes, took out her phone from her pocket, and before even looking at the content, just hearing the word "Weibo" gave her a bad feeling.
The person at the opposite desk, with bright eyes and a straw in her mouth, leaned over and said, "We're the main push for the first issue!"
Between Weibo and the main push, Ling Cheng felt even more flustered. She had been away for just a week and felt completely out of touch with the company's business.
"No, I didn't see it!" Ling Cheng checked the Weibo hot search and didn't find any related terms about Equals3.
"It's dropped off," the person next to her turned her chair around and used her own phone to search for it, "Look, it's this one."
Ling Cheng leaned over to look, "Idol New Museum Recruiting Performance Groups..." Her eyes lit up, "A comeback stage?!"
It was only then that she understood what her colleagues meant by "main push."
The person opposite her excitedly nodded, "Yes, we're the first from the company to be on a comeback stage, and it's not just on Random iWatch, it's on other platforms too!"
She exaggeratedly hugged herself, "Jiang Juyou has finally favored our Equals3."
The person sitting next to Ling Cheng was more rational and said, "Our company is in charge of peripheral operations. I heard from the product department that they plan to use new technology cards for the show, and all the artists present will get their own self-shot cards."
"Who else is there? Are we relying on Equals3 to carry the stage?" Colleagues from other desks were also attracted over.
It was the afternoon, just after waking up, and there wasn't much work to do, so everyone was drawn over, with someone even bringing snacks and placing them on Ling Cheng's desk for everyone to take.
The most well-informed person shook her head, "There are also several groups from other big companies. Although their groups aren't very famous, individually they're quite strong."
"There are about ten spots, some for groups and some for solo artists. Our company also reserved a few spots for artists from smaller companies." The girl clasped her hands together and said, "My company is merciful."
After saying that, she waved to the people around her to come closer. The girl across from Ling Cheng, seeing this, even dropped the melon seeds in her hand and climbed onto her desk.
"The artists from Yang Siyu's company are also going to be on." She quietly dropped this explosive piece of news.
"Really?" Someone immediately reacted.
"Which Yang Siyu?" Someone else looked around, unsure who was being referred to.
Ling Cheng watched them chatter away.
"I heard that after Yang Siyu and the others left, they started their own company and even sought investment."
"A lot of our eliminated trainees went there."
"Damn! Where did you get all this information?"
"Did they already form a group?"
"That's interesting. Although I'm from Random Entertainment, I still want to say, please fight."
"My company is so generous!"
"To fight with our company... it'll take some time."
They could get this information, and the resourceful fans outside had already gotten hold of it too.
Random Entertainment hadn't released new tech cards for a long time, and those unique tech cards were only available in idol peripherals, while actor peripherals only had very ordinary temperature-sensitive cards.
The move to release new tech cards directly stirred up a wave, turning the previously combative forum groups back into marketplaces.
Everyone prepared to clean up and get rid of the cards they didn't want, enriching their wallets to welcome the new expensive cards.
Ling Cheng browsed the forum and felt that long-lost sense of fandom rushing back at her.
Even when she went to the music festival this time, it was to hang out with friends. Ling Cheng, who had been out of the fandom for a long time, suddenly felt like she was back at her first pop-up store event when she saw the various card stalls.
Her first pop-up store event was also in winter. She had pulled a suitcase, taken the subway, a shuttle bus, and even a high-speed train to reach Shanghai.
Ling Cheng still remembered standing in the cold wind for a long time, and the excitement when she first drew Pei Luming's SSS card.
Although she had been inspired by Pei Luming to join Random Entertainment, after working for a while, she lost interest in fandom and focused more on herself.
Although she sometimes participated in fandom activities with friends, it was more for the joy of being with friends.
"Your coffee is ready." The delivery robot spoke up.
The voice brought Ling Cheng back to reality. She blinked, withdrew her attention, took the coffee, and thanked it, "Thank you."
On the fifth floor of the company, there was a glass corridor connecting to the Galaxy peripheral building, where employees often came for a stroll and to buy coffee.
Today, there wasn't much to do, so Ling Cheng wandered around the company and ended up here.
Just as she was about to turn and leave, the customers in the coffee shop suddenly let out a small scream.
She turned to look and saw Pei Luming. He had dyed his hair, a head of platinum blonde loose curls pressed down by a hoodie, a loose hoodie on his body, jeans dragging at the hem of his shoes, exuding a casual and rebellious vibe.
He was wearing makeup, probably for a shoot in the company today, and had some free time to come up.
Ling Cheng quickly moved aside, afraid of being caught on camera by the fans holding their phones.
Pei Luming, walking towards her, suddenly made eye contact with her, as if recognizing Ling Cheng, his eyes lit up, but he only nodded politely and didn't speak.
Some fans who couldn't contain themselves had already left their seats and gathered at the counter. With the table in between, Pei Luming wasn't worried about being touched by the fans.
"Hello, I'd like a takeout of white tea, no sugar, extra ice," Pei Luming ordered and then looked at the fans, asking what they wanted to drink, "What would you like?"
Some fans modestly said they had already ordered, while others directly shouted out what they wanted.
Pei Luming was afraid they would shout too fast and the ordering machine wouldn't catch it, so he manually operated it, acting as a temporary waiter to help the fans place their orders.
After placing the orders, he went through them with the fans to make sure everyone had theirs before saying, "Then remember to pick them up later, I'm leaving first."
In just a short while, the news of Pei Luming's appearance at the fifth-floor coffee shop of the Galaxy peripheral building spread among his fan circle.
Some fans even dug up photos from a few years ago when he was still a trainee, helping his brothers buy coffee, and compared them to now, when he was just a kid.
"Why do people have to grow up [crying]"
"My little baby, how did you suddenly grow up so much!!!"
"I feel like the little baby has become much more mature and steady... Please, don't grow up."
"The only thing that hasn't changed is that our elementary school student Pei Luming still drinks white tea with no sugar and extra ice."
"Laughing out loud, he can't handle any coffee."
"He's wearing makeup, is there a shoot today?"
Pei Luming, still wearing his hat, kept his head down as he returned to the downstairs practice room.
Once inside the practice room, he finally took off his hat.
Only a few spotlights were on in the room, and the other four were sitting on the floor, panting, obviously having just finished a round of dancing.
Today, they had a practice room dance version recording. They had already recorded it more than a dozen times, and the recording was finished. The staff had left, leaving just the five of them.
Gao Xiayu, sitting on the floor, looked at Pei Luming who had just come in, "We just got notified that we're scheduled for the third episode."
"When is the recording?" Pei Luming didn't drink the iced beverage in his hand but instead went over to the side, took a towel they usually used to wipe sweat, wrapped the drink, and handed it to Ye Xing.
Ye Xing took it and said, "Thanks." He placed it by his feet to soothe a previous sprain.
Gao Xiayu flipped through the chat records, "Next Wednesday... This week we recruit the audience, and next week we start recording."
"Didn't say when it will air?" Yao Shuo also asked.
"It starts airing at the end of the month, one episode per week."
Today's hot topic was the platform's newly announced song program, "Idol New Museum," which publicly stated it was just starting to recruit artists for the show, but in reality, the list had already been finalized.
There had been rumors circulating for some time about a song program being launched, and at that time, the list of participants was already being confirmed.
It was certain that big companies like Random Entertainment would have their groups on the show, as the program relied on them to boost viewership. What was urgent were those from smaller companies and groups with low recognition.
AIcho was scheduled for the second episode, as the closing act.
"Idol New Museum" fully emulated the foreign song program model, using live broadcasts, with voting and trophies involved. The winner would have a behind-the-scenes video and a splash screen advertisement on the platform.
The audience could receive a small card of their idol. Ordinary cards were fine, but these were Random Entertainment's new tech cards. Even before the program started, fans could already anticipate how high the price of these cards would be.
Because it was the first shoot and a live broadcast, the entire team rehearsed countless times and even had the participating artists pre-rehearse for a day.
Both recorded and live broadcasts were mixed, with small groups and companies with limited funds for stage decorations only participating in live stages, while big companies paid to participate in recorded stages.
Equals3 was the main act for the first episode, they were the closing act and had the most fans in attendance.
The recording location was at the Galaxy venue in Beijing, the smaller one next to Random Entertainment's company.
It was bitterly cold, and fans who had won the recording slots came early to queue. Equals3 fans were queuing when they saw fans coming out from inside, who said they had started recording at 2 AM and only just finished.
Hearing this, they couldn't help but sigh, "It's better to be a bigger name, then fans don't have to suffer."
"Equals3 fans with recording slots, please open the Galaxy APP, staff will check the selected page and distribute the cards. Please raise your right hand if you are selected, and you can lower it after the check."
Ling Cheng shouted in front, taking a deep breath after each sentence to make sure everyone heard her, then she started checking the selected pages one by one with a box in her arms.
Thinking back, she was once a part of the queuing crowd, but now she was just a working-class person who wanted to get off work.
"Sister, is it a choice of three or do we get cards of all three members?" As soon as she walked over, the girl at the front wearing a rabbit ear hat asked.
"All three, you get three cards," Ling Cheng took another deep breath.
The winter in Beijing was too dry, every breath felt like her respiratory tract was being cut by a knife, making her not want to say much.
The girls in the queue were all excited, obviously looking forward to the tech cards rumored online.
After getting the cards, they couldn't wait to open the bags, afraid of scratching the surface, they didn't dare to look closely, but after looking around, they couldn't see anything special, not even a selfie card, and it was much thicker than the usual cards.
Ling Cheng finished distributing the cards and was about to head back when she was stopped.
"Sister, this card..." The girl said, looking at the card in her hand again, unable to find any adjectives.
Ling Cheng looked apologetic, "Sorry, I haven't opened it either, so I don't know what's special about it... Wait, I'll go ask, okay?"
The few girls in front nodded obediently, and before Ling Cheng could leave, they heard a series of exclamations from the back of the queue.
"Wow――"
"Ahhhh Random Entertainment you!"
Those in front also turned back to look, and Ling Cheng also stood on tiptoe to look back.
That area had already been surrounded, and they couldn't see anything inside.
"What happened?" Ling Cheng carried the box over, and the people around made way for her.
As soon as she entered the circle, Ling Cheng cursed, "Holy shit!"
The girl had originally intended to use a flashlight to check the surface of the card for scratches, but after the flashlight shone on the card, it reflected a beam of light.
The image of the character on the card was projected onto the ground, and that projection――was 3D.
A miniature Sang Mo, about ten centimeters tall, sat on the ground holding a snowboard, with snow reflected under his buttocks, wearing a ski goggle on his head, smiling brightly.
Ling Cheng's heart pounded loudly, so loud she felt everyone around could hear it.
A single card drove all the fans around crazy, Ling Cheng was still in shock and hadn't come back to her senses.
She didn't know if she was hit by the card's technology or Sang Mo's smile, Ling Cheng stood there covering her mouth, not speaking for a long time.
"Random Entertainment, are you crazy? Such a good thing, you put it here?!"
"I can't even imagine if this thing was put into our album, our sales wouldn't break a record?"
"I'm getting goosebumps, what is the principle behind this? What is the principle?!"
All of Random Entertainment's tech cards would elicit such exclamations.
Even Ling Cheng, a Random Entertainment staff member, was shocked. She had thought this card would be extraordinary, but she had never thought of this.
A mini figure was projected in holographic form, proportionally restored, and the color tone remained unchanged. If not for the fact that the projected person was really small, it could almost be said that a real person was standing in front of them.
Some fans tried to raise the card a bit to make the figure larger. The figure did get larger, but it became distorted, looking unclear.
Only when the projected figure was about ten centimeters tall was it most authentic.
Before they arrived, there was no news online about this, probably because no one had discovered the special feature of this card.
Now that they had discovered it.
Well, no one would sleep tonight.
At six in the morning, the fan circle was stirred up by Equals3 fans, not only posting online but also sending to their fellow fans on WeChat.
"Crazy, you don't know how crazy we were for this card on site."
"Wake up! Ahhhh!"
"Someone behind me is selling Jiang Wangran's card, wake up!"
"Forget it, you don't have tens of thousands, go back to sleep."
The chaos caused by the cards didn't subside until they entered the venue. Equals3's three members went on stage early, but the fans below were still whispering, their attention not on the three of them.
Sang Mo and Chen Wu were a bit flustered, thinking the fans who came in weren't theirs, while Jiang Wangran adjusted his microphone and directly asked, "What are you talking about?"
The fans below were like baby birds fighting for food, babbling for a long time, but the three on stage didn't understand a word.
Chen Wu even took off his earpiece and took a few steps forward, the other two also took off their earpieces, looking serious, wanting to hear clearly.
The fans in the audience waved their small cards and continued to chatter noisily. Seeing that the three of them were still bewildered, a fan shouted at the top of her lungs, "The small card can project in 3D!"
Those words were heard, but none of them understood what it meant.
The three of them tilted their heads, "Huh?" Their actions and expressions were identical.
The fans in the front row continued to explain, but since they couldn't take out their phones, they could only gesture with their hands.
Jiang Wangran, understanding the fans' meaning, said to the staff beside the stage, "Could you please get my phone for me, thank you."
The on-site staff were also curious, with some asking the soon-to-be-off-duty Group A if the fans had shown them anything during the shoot.
"No, we didn't," Group A's staff replied, equally puzzled.
Everyone became curious, and their drowsiness was dispelled. Random Entertainment's small cards were famous even among industry insiders, but they only knew that these cards were expensive and special, not exactly sure what made them so special.
After Jiang Wangran got his phone, he followed the fans' instructions to turn on the flashlight and handed the phone to the fans in the front row.
The other two also squeezed over, and the three of them squatted in front of the stage, with the surrounding staff also leaning in to take a look.
Under the gaze of so many people, the fan used the flashlight to project a 3D figure onto the ground from the small card.
"Wow————"
Both the on-site staff and the three on stage exclaimed, and even the fans who had already seen it couldn't help but marvel again at the sight.
Jiang Wangran's reaction was the most intense, as the projected figure was himself.
In the small card, Jiang Wangran was leaning against a streetlight pole, wearing a smoke-gray tracksuit, a dark gray scarf, and Martin boots, standing in the snow with a bunch of pink roses in his arms.
Jiang Wangran picked up the microphone and recalled, "No wonder they asked for a full-body photo. I sent several and none were approved. This one was taken downstairs on the spot, and the flowers were borrowed from our staff's desk."
"Indeed, our company entered the entertainment industry just because of our passion," Sang Mo joked beside him.
Chen Wu chimed in, "Thanks to the company's generosity."
"If we were to sell these directly, we'd have made a fortune long ago," Jiang Wangran said, glancing at the three of them and laughing as they covered their faces.
The stagnant second-hand market was once again heated up. While they were recording the show, people who had just woken up had already seen the video posted online.
Just as the fans in line had shouted, no one could sleep now.
Seeing the scenes displayed in the video, everyone's drowsiness was gone in an instant.
"A walking fortune of tens of thousands."
"Global limited to three hundred... Each of the three's small cards is worth tens of thousands. I can't even imagine how terrifying the price of the five androids' cards would be."
"It's time for the lucky ones to change their fate. Unlike me, both poor and unlucky."
"I remember seeing this principle in a physics experiment, but the carrier was much thicker, not as thin as this, and the projection was more greenish."
"Without this small card, some of my good virtues... will be destroyed!"
"I won, nothing more to say, just waiting for Pei Luming's small card next week, hehe!"
Jiang Liuxing, who didn't get the recording slot, woke up at noon. She lay in bed, scrolling through Weibo, and soon realized something was off.
She clicked on the video that had been forwarded on her homepage and was immediately met with the projection of Sang Mo's eyes.
"Ahhhhhhhh——"
Jiang Liuxing sat up abruptly, holding her phone to confirm for a long time before she dared to believe it was a 3D figure projected from the small card.
She had so many things she wanted to say, to share the news with Liu Yue and Zhou Keke, and to beg her sister for a backdoor card. Just five minutes after waking up, she had exhausted all her energy for the day.
It was also around noon when Random Entertainment's small cards officially hit the trending list.
It was the first time netizens had seen small cards trending, with the tag marked as "explosive."
Just how powerful were these small cards to spark such discussions?
Those who entered with this thought were the same people who later knelt down and begged Random Entertainment to send them one.
Even though the entertainment industry had been quite lively recently, with Random Entertainment's continuous production and planning, it was the appearance of the small cards that truly made them feel the fan circle come alive.
"Random Entertainment is indeed here to harvest the crop. Without it, the fan circle would be boring."
Aliali: 67567d42bd5e46c308c70fee"These small cards, they give them away! They give them away for free!"
"Actually, it's not entirely free. You have to spend a certain amount at Galaxy to have a chance to win."
"Are you guys in the fan circle doing research?"
"Thanks to Random Entertainment, let us say thanks to Random Entertainment. Starting this month, most of the fan-made products in the domestic entertainment industry will be produced by Random Entertainment. Finally, I get to enjoy it too!"
"First time entering Random Entertainment's second-hand circle... Is your circle this terrifying? How can any random card be worth a few thousand?"
"Does that mean all the artists appearing in this show will get one? My bias is an actor but has also released songs. Can they get one?"
"Can my bias, who was an idol a few years ago, get on this show?"
"If I ask my bias to release a song now, can they get on this show?"
"A collector's hell, a card flipper's paradise—Random Entertainment."
Other fans: Can they get on? If so, I'll immediately ask my bias to brave the CPOP world.