Chapter 190: Reduced Her to Tears

Ji Ya frowned after hearing this bizarre requirement.

Just to boost ratings, the director could come up with every imaginable wild idea.

Lin Yu shared the exact same thought.

The crux of the matter was that while coming up with rules only required using brains, the contestants who actually had to execute those rules were practically being driven to their wits' end.

Last time, the national-team-level hidden hand had scared most contestants so badly that they barely performed well throughout the entire show. They had finally managed to get through one peaceful competition, and yet the director simply couldn't resist stirring up trouble again.

And now they were pulling another inexplicable stunt—was the director some kind of chaos-stirring deity?

Lin Yu felt a severe headache coming on.

Seeing the two of them looking so distressed, Su Xiaolin calmly put down the contract, turned around, and headed out the door to find something to eat.

She was going to eat her fill later—eat like there was no tomorrow!

Turn grief and anger into strength!

...

Inside the room.

Ji Ya and Lin Yu stared at each other in blank dismay.

"Although they say we can choose non-celebrities, if we really brought some unknown amateur onto the stage, wouldn't we become a laughingstock?"

Didn't Lin Yu understand the director's true intention?

The condition regarding amateurs was completely a smoke screen!

Who in their right mind would bring an amateur with no fame, no status, and no singing ability onto the stage during a competition?

Were they not afraid that a duet would turn into a vocal disaster area?

He instantly thought of a video he had seen in his previous life.

A young man sang a love song with the utmost devotion, maximizing the romantic atmosphere to the limit, but the moment the girl opened her mouth, she belted out a complete vocal trainwreck, utterly crushing the male singer's future prospects.

Lin Yu had no desire to follow in his footsteps. Having finally gained a modicum of recognition within the industry, if he pulled a stunt like this, all his hard work would go down the drain!

As for getting an established artist to assist with vocals?

How long had he even been in the industry? How many artists did he even know?

Even though there were plenty of popular artists in the company.

If he casually dragged one of them onto the stage, Lin Yu could certainly ride on their coattails for traffic and popularity.

There were plenty of pretty girls with sweet voices in the company. Even if they couldn't sing, he could arrange a full-length duet from start to finish to cover up any flaws.

The real point was that Lin Yu only wanted to win the competition through his own strength.

Neither did he want to constantly trouble Ji Ya to help him.

Otherwise, the gap between the two of them would only grow wider and wider!

If one wanted to stand shoulder to shoulder with the heavens, naturally they could not rely solely on the heavens for help!

So, who could he find?

"Why aren't you saying anything?"

Ji Ya rested her chin on her hand and looked at him. Why was he frowning one second and looking pleased the next? What was he thinking about?

Lin Yu ran through every single artist he could possibly think of in his mind. Either they were singers currently competing just like him, or it was Bai Yichu, who had dropped out midway to take on movie gigs, or it was Xu Mengbai, who had been eliminated and sent packing.

Depressing.

He had only been in the industry for a short while, and these were the only people he actually hung out with!

Sigh.

"Boss, what do you think we should do?" Lin Yu asked with a bitter expression. "How about I bring a doll onto the stage?"

"A life-sized doll?" Ji Ya frowned. "You have that kind of preference? Didn't you say you were still pure and innocent..."

Uh.

Seeing the interface of a rag doll he had searched for on his shopping app, Ji Ya fell silent.

Since when had her thoughts started becoming increasingly tainted?

Why was she jumping to dirty conclusions when he hadn't even made a single suggestive joke?

The two exchanged glances, mutually speechless...

A few seconds later.

Lin Yu feigned astonishment and let out an "Ah."

"Boss, you couldn't possibly have thought I meant bringing a realistic silicone doll onto the stage, right? Right? Right? Right?"

No way, no way.

Surely not?

She was a high-and-mighty, noble and icy beauty president—how on earth would she even know about that kind of thing?

Ji Ya remained silent.

A moment later, realizing that Lin Yu's mischievous smile clearly meant he was teasing her on purpose, she felt a surge of both embarrassment and vexation, reached out, and directly pinched his ear!

"It's all your fault for corrupting my mind!"

Lin Yu:? I've been wronged! Where did I do that?

"It's your fault, entirely your fault!"

A flurry of tiny punches rained down upon him. Lin Yu originally wanted to argue his case, but right now, he only wanted to do one thing.

He reached out, pulled her straight into his embrace, and the very moment she melted into his warmth, an idea struck him.

"How about you accompany me onto the stage?"

"What?"

His embrace always made her mind wander; with her flushed face and sluggish brain, she hadn't heard his words clearly at all!

"Accompany me to win the championship."

Ji Ya was momentarily stunned.

Her?

The crucial point was that she couldn't sing.

Participating in a romance reality show was one thing, but singing on stage? Being tone-deaf, she would only end up causing trouble for him...

After all, she had planned to properly nurture him into a major star.

Many years later, when he stood among the very peaks of the entertainment industry, he would no longer have any burdens and could proudly and openly stand side by side with her!

As the top-tier beauty president, how could Ji Ya possibly fail to guess Lin Yu's little hidden thoughts?

She had already secretly paved his path for him long ago.

As long as he didn't slack off, he would definitely walk a path worthy of matching her own.

She understood a man's pride.

Being with a woman who was far stronger than him would inevitably bring him invisible pressure.

She was willing to be the woman supporting him silently from behind the scenes.

...

"I can't sing."

Supporting him silently was enough.

Going up on stage while being tone-deaf and making a fool of oneself—

She would never consider doing such a thing!

"Since that's the case."

Lin Yu feigned helplessness and let out a long sigh.

"Then since I can't really bring a plush toy onto the stage, I suppose I'll just have to consider finding another female artist."

"I think that girl named Jingjing in the company is pretty good, or maybe that Ayu—pretty with a sweet voice, curvy figure. Boss, does she have an opening in her schedule recently?"

Watching him genuinely and earnestly listing the female artists in the company, Ji Ya's complexion turned from red to white.

Just a moment ago, she had been considering things entirely for his sake!

And yet this brat.

In the blink of an eye, he was already thinking about other women? And not just one or two of them!

Was he really paying her this little regard?

It seemed it was very necessary to teach him a proper lesson and let him know who the boss really was!

She flipped over, pinned him directly beneath her, straddled his abdomen with her legs, pouted her lips slightly, and put on an angry expression!

"The richest and most capable woman in the company is right in front of you, and you actually have the nerve to think about others?"

"I didn't even reject you just now! It's just that I've never sung before, and I'm afraid my tone-deafness will ruin things for you on stage."

"You little brat are truly unappreciative! I was looking out for you, and yet you were busy considering which female artist would suit you best!"

"Confess honestly: when you go to the company, are you actually working, or are you just scoping out the female artists?!"

She puffed out her cheeks, braced her hands on either side of Lin Yu's head, and leaned down to glare at him.

"You have no conscience, you really have no conscience!"

Whether Lin Yu was hallucinating or not, he actually saw faint tears glistening in her eyes.

He instantly began to panic.

Ah.

Wasn't he just joking around to tease her?

How did she end up crying?

He was least equipped to handle crying girls, and for a moment, Lin Yu found himself completely at a loss.

In his past life, when his girlfriend cried, it was purely because she wanted bags, clothes, or money. But the woman before him had lacked nothing since childhood.

How... how was he supposed to coax her?

Should he go online and ask the omniscient netizens?

Help!

I made the beauty president cry, how do I coax her? Online, waiting, urgent!