we are not friends anymore

"Mingxi, hold it for me!"

Qiao Mingxi huddled in the first row of the auditorium and dozed off boredly, when suddenly a black shadow flew from above and covered his face.He opened his eyes with a dazed expression, pulled off the jacket that flew over his head, and when he looked up, he saw that Shen Jiaen had changed into a costume and was standing by the stage looking over.

"To start?" Qiao Mingxi asked.

"Well, I'm in the third place!" Shen Jiaen hopped twice on the spot and exhaled, "I'm going backstage."

Turning around and walking two steps was not enough, so he jumped off the stage and stepped in front of Shen Jiaen, raised his hands and said, "No, I'm still a little nervous, please give me a high five."

"Oh." Qiao Mingxi stretched out his hand obediently, and Shen Jiaen patted him vigorously, showing him a toothless smile, turned around, stepped onto the stage, and ran backstage.

Before Qiao Mingxi could say "Come on", Shen Jiaen had already disappeared.He silently put down his hands, and put Shen Jiaen's coat and Ji Yan's backpack next to him.

Two months passed in the blink of an eye, and Dongxing scheduled the final and most critical assessment for these candidates. The location was in the company's own studio. In addition to the company's training teachers, Luna and Alian Both gold brokers will come.The entire assessment is not open to the public, but the company's artists can come and watch.

Ji Yan had already gone backstage, Qiao Mingxi guarded his backpack and Shen Jiaen's coat, looked up at the busy staff around him, and yawned boredly.

The dressing room of the studio is in the basement below the stage. Yi Huan walks through the entire corridor and goes down the stairs. When he opens the door, he sees Ji Yan in the corner wearing earphones and closing his eyes to meditate among the noisy crowd.

"You move very fast." He patted Ji Yan on the shoulder, and the other party opened his eyes, took off his earphones and looked at him.

"I just passed by the auditorium and saw that kid." Yi Huan paused here, as if recalling the name, "Qiao Mingxi? He came to watch the show?"

"Yeah." Ji Yan nodded.

Yi Huan took the pomade from his bag, went to the mirror and wiped the bangs that covered his eyes: "I found that he always follows you, and you two knew each other before? He doesn't seem to like talking to us very much either. "

"I don't know." Ji Yan raised his eyes to look at the wall clock on the wall, stood up and began to put the extra things in the locker.

Yi Huan scratched his hair in front of the mirror, and said, "Then you are pretty good, and I won't be too good at dealing with this kind of kid."

Ji Yan didn't speak immediately after hearing the words, put the earphones and mobile phone in the locker, closed the door casually, and then smiled casually: "Do you know the Qiao family?"

"That An Ziqi is a bit strange."

Before Yi Huan could answer, Zhong Rui, who pushed the door in, walked over and interrupted their conversation.

"What's wrong?" Yi Huan asked.

"I saw him talking to Lin Zining upstairs just now." Zhong Rui frowned, "He's been making trouble for Lin Zining a lot lately. I think it's a bit abnormal. We'll start right away, so don't let anything happen."

"It's all over, why don't they go to the backstage?" Yi Huan pondered for a while, "Just in case, let's go and have a look."

Qiao Mingxi waited drowsily again, and suddenly heard some commotion in the studio. He raised his head in a daze, and saw staff members rushing in one direction one after another, and many people came in and out after a while. As he watched, he only heard some sporadic words of "sent to the hospital" and "delayed by one hour".

Feeling strange in his heart, he took out his mobile phone and called Ji Yan, but there was no answer.He held his phone in a daze for a while, then dialed Shen Jiaen again.

The other side quickly picked up, but did not speak immediately, as if changing from a noisy environment to a relatively quiet place: "Mingxi? I ​​was looking for you, where are you?"

"The auditorium." Qiao Mingxi said, "What's wrong?"

"Something happened, and Ji Yan was sent to the hospital." Shen Jiaen over there exhaled, "The few of us can't leave, do you want to go and see?"

Qiao Mingxi was taken aback, and asked blankly, "Which hospital?"

The address was quickly reported over there. Qiao Mingxi hung up the phone and was stunned for a while, as if a switch had been pressed. He didn't care about the things that the two people asked him to take care of. He left the studio with his mobile phone and took a taxi to the hospital. .

There were a lot of people in the hospital. When Qiao Mingxi found the emergency room, he immediately saw a familiar person standing at the door, who was being dragged out by another person. The one who was being pulled was struggling hard and looked very angry.

"Lin Zining?" Qiao Mingxi called out, but the other party turned her head when she heard the words, but she was not in the mood to care about him.

"Don't pull me, I won't go back." Lin Zining said, his voice hoarse.

The person pulling him aside was obviously a staff member of the company, who persuaded him in a friendly voice: "You also saw that the bandage is already being done, Xiao Ding and the others will stay here to accompany you, there is no point in wasting your time here .”

"Can I go back with Ji Yan later?" Lin Zining insisted.

The staff hesitated a little: "You are relatively high in order, so let's go first, I can't afford to delay things."

Lin Zining fell silent, obviously insisting on not wanting to leave. Qiao Mingxi was not interested in listening to them, so she walked sideways by the two of them, entered the consulting room, and frowned when she saw the scene inside.

There were a lot of people in the consulting room, Ji Yan took off his shirt, and a nurse was sitting in front of him and going to put something on his shoulder.Qiao Mingxi just glanced at his shoulder and was stunned. The two deep wounds on it hurt even just looking at them, but Ji Yan didn't show any expression on his face. He only frowned slightly and listened carefully to what the nurse said. .

In another corner, An Ziqi was also injured. The injured leg was almost healed.His face was extremely pale, and his lips trembled violently, not in pain, but in fear.

"What's wrong with you?" Qiao Mingxi walked up to Ji Yan in a few steps.

Ji Yan looked up and saw him a little surprised: "It's okay, I was smashed."

"Oh, you didn't hit it." The young nurse interjected, "Others fight with knives and sticks, but you use steel frames, right? Oh...how do you deal with this?"

Qiao Mingxi was taken aback when he heard the words, the nurse was busy, put down the tool and turned around and shouted: "Dr. Zhang! I think this needs stitches!"

The doctor over there came over after hearing the words, lowered his head and checked: "Go and get stitches when it's done."

"So serious?" The staff guarding Ji Yan asked quickly, "Doctor, how long will it take?"

"Hurry up?" The doctor glanced at a few people, turned around and left, the nurse went to help Ji Yan up, and said: "The wound must be treated properly, don't worry."

"Go back first." Ji Yan said to the staff, "I can do it alone."

The staff frowned, and walked back and forth helplessly. When they saw An Ziqi not far away, they walked over to the colleague next to him and said, "I think Ji Yan is too late, have you contacted him?"

"Sister Ling said it will be delayed by one hour." His colleague said, "No more. Sister Na and the others have come down."

The two were silent for a while, and both of them went to look at the pale An Ziqi: "What's the matter with you? If you don't grasp the opportunity, you will fight! It will cause trouble for us."

An Ziqi remained silent, Lin Zining, who was pulled by the staff at the door, came over and snorted coldly: "There was no fight, he was the one who troubled us."

"Forget it, let's not talk about this." One of the staff waved, "Everyone go back first, and leave two people here to watch."

"I can go back." An Ziqi raised his head suddenly and said, "I won't delay."

"An Ziqi!" Lin Zining roared angrily, the whole consultation room fell silent, and the staff rushed to hold him back.

"Don't make noise in the hospital!" the staff shouted, "Go back if you have nothing to do!"

The noise here was left behind by Qiao Mingxi. He sat outside the curtain, waiting for the doctor inside to give Ji Yan stitches.Just now he saw the wound on Ji Yan's shoulder, almost visible to the bone, how did he do it?How could Ji Yan fight An Ziqi?

He sat in the chair in a daze for a long time, Ji Yan's wound was healed, but the anesthesia on his shoulder hadn't passed yet, and the doctor asked him to stay in the hospital to wait.

Qiao Mingxi took out his mobile phone and checked the time. More than two hours had passed, and he guessed that the assessment over there had also started.After thinking about it, he called Shen Jiaen, but it took a long time to get through.

"How is Ji Yan?" Shen Jiaen asked as soon as he picked up the phone, "An Ziqi is back, is Ji Yan worse than him?"

"Yeah." Qiao Mingxi glanced at Ji Yan, who was leaning on the bed with his eyes closed, and said in a low voice, "I can't move the right half of my upper body. What's going on with you?"

"An Ziqi is really insane." Shen Jiaen scolded, and heard him whisper again, "But he also got his retribution, he was injured on his leg, he must not be unable to dance—hey, let me tell you, it's interesting gone."

Without waiting for Qiao Mingxi to interrupt, he said vividly there: "He rushed back and insisted on playing, so he jumped--I think about it, it's only four or eight beats--Sister Luna asked the sound control master Cut off the music, and just say that An Ziqi was hacked."

"Of course An Ziqi refused to do it. He cried and said that he could persevere and asked Sister Luna to give him a chance. Guess what Sister Luna said? I think she sneered—yes, she must have sneered, she said "Do you think you can move us when you come on stage with injuries? Do you think you are particularly difficult and have a good spirit? I just ask you, as an artist, you don't know how to protect yourself. If you are injured every time before the performance, the company will lose you. How do you pay? If you are injured, you still insist on being brave. In the future, you will fall into the root cause of the disease and become useless. How can the company recover the cost of training you?' You can’t even speak what An Ziqi said!"

"Besides, sister Luna also said that An Ziqi was fighting and causing trouble. This is simply not paying attention to the company's system."

Hearing what he said, Qiao Mingxi asked, "They knew it was a fight? What about Lin Zining?"

"Him? I don't think he played very well." Shen Jiaen said, "He even lost his temper before going on stage, but I heard from Ah Huan that Ji Yan was injured because he pulled him back then. I guess he felt guilty. This kid is quite loyal. Maybe Miss Luna wants to treat him equally, but I guess Alian will protect him."

"Oh." Qiao Mingxi nodded, "Are you okay?"

"Me? I'm fine, let's perform normally, I'm confident!" Shen Jiaen laughed twice over there, "But did you ask Ji Yan? What should he do?"

Qiao Mingxi went to see Ji Yan after hearing this, but she didn't know how to answer. Shen Jiaen didn't ask any questions there, and was called away by the staff after saying a few more words.

Hearing Qiao Mingxi hang up the phone, Ji Yan opened his eyes to look at him, Qiao Mingxi slowly repeated Shen Jiaen's words to him, Ji Yan just listened without much expression on his face.After Qiao Mingxi finished speaking, he looked at him and asked, "What are you going to do?"

Hearing this, Ji Yan just smiled lightly, raised his stiff arm to signal him to look, and said lightly: "It doesn't matter, it's just a selection."

"If you don't go, you won't be able to debut." Qiao Mingxi said, "Don't you cherish this opportunity?"

"There will always be opportunities." Ji Yan closed his eyes leisurely, "You have heard what Luna said, there is no point in me insisting on going back, and those who know the current affairs are just brilliant."

Qiao Mingxi opened his mouth to say something, but stopped in the end with some doubts.

He felt that Ji Yan's reaction was a bit different from what he thought. In his perception, Ji Yan worked very hard, and it seemed that insisting on taking the stage with injuries should be his proper reaction.

Besides, looking at Shen Jiaen's nervousness, An Ziqi's persistence, and Lin Zining's choice to take the stage in the end, one can understand the importance of this final exam. Otherwise, why would everyone be facing an enemy?And although it is said that there is more than one opportunity to debut, Dongxing does not push newcomers every day, nor does it all attach as much importance as this boy group.

Ji Yan is the oldest among this group of trainees, does he really think it doesn't matter?

Looking at Ji Yan's calm face, Qiao Mingxi couldn't figure it out, and somehow remembered the words Ji Yan said to him when he went downstairs in the stairwell that day.

"I'm not like you."