Xu Lin shared his work account, and immediately Zhao Liangchen's friend request came through. Xu Lin accepted it.

Zhao Liangchen: "Lord Xu, my name is Zhao Liangchen. I really admire your talent! Bow down and worship.jpg"

Zhao Liangchen: "Lord Xu, don't laugh at me, but I want to become an outstanding rapper!"

Xu Lin: "How do you define 'outstanding'?"

Zhao Liangchen: "An outstanding rapper with a certain level of recognition in the industry, when people talk about rap, they can mention my name. So, my dream is to become an outstanding rapper!"

Xu Lin: "Why not strive to be the strongest rapper in Huaxia? Or even the strongest rapper in the world?"

Zhao Liangchen: "Lord Xu, can I really do that?"

Xu Lin: "People need to have dreams."

Zhao Liangchen was filled with enthusiasm: "Lord Xu, I believe I can do it!"

Eighteen-year-old guys are easy to fool; talk to them about dreams, and they're all fired up.

Xu Lin copied and sent over the model for collaboration in songwriting.

Xu Lin: "The details of the collaboration model are all here. Take a good look at it."

Zhao Liangchen: "Lord Xu, I can accept it! How do I transfer the money to you?"

Xu Lin: "Let's talk about money transfer tomorrow."

Xu Lin there, slowly filtered through the more than sixty people, including Zhao Liangchen. In the end, only six were kept.

Adding four people from yesterday, including Xie Ting, makes a total of ten people.

"Managing too many people at once is overwhelming; let's keep it this way for now. At the end of December or early January, we can start the second round of recruitment."

Thinking about it, Xu Lin realized there's no need to be so rushed—managing ten people is more than enough.

In the future, it will be done like this, round by round.

Thus, Xu Lin posted a new update on Little Red Book.

Content: Cooperation with ten people has been established, and collaboration will be temporarily halted. The next cooperation is expected to start at the end of December; more details will follow.

Notification released.

Xu Lin returned to the work account, uniformly replied to the six: "Sing half a song for me, in the format of a video selfie, so I can check your skills."

The reason for video is that Xu Lin wants to see what they look like.

As the saying goes, singing requires showing your face; otherwise, even if the work is good, if the image doesn't pass, it's really lacking. The entertainment industry heavily relies on looks—it's very realistic. Like some singers in the ancient style genre, some songs are quite popular, but none can show their face—almost none are good-looking in the ancient style circle."

Moreover, although Zhao Liangchen was already known, Xu Lin sent a message symbolically.

For this kind of rap, looks don't need to be particularly handsome. Xu Lin has seen those domestic rap shows, and really, there aren't many rap contestants who look super handsome. There are even those with buck teeth, and some deafen themselves with dreadlocks styled like a mop head, or even styled like the Buddha. Xu Lin thought it looked ugly, but rap works because of this style. Fans like it, and there's no way around it. That's one aspect. Another is the styling and attire, which are very specific. Zhao Liangchen excels in the styling and attire department, allowing him to brush aside minor concerns about looks.

Zhao Liangchen looks a bit better than average, and his skin is relatively fair.

As a rapper, that's already sufficient.

Besides, being handsome is a feeling; rap is all about the feeling.

Shortly after Xu Lin sent the message, Zhao Liangchen's rap echoed loudly through the corridor, quite intense and passionate.

Liu Longsheng couldn't help but yell: "Zhao Liangchen, aren't you bored?"

Three minutes later.

Xu Lin received the video sent by Zhao Liangchen, and just then, Zhao Liangchen opened the door, poking his head in with a grin at Liu Longsheng: "Brother Long, I'm preparing to debut!"

Liu Longsheng bluntly said: "Zhao Liangchen, stop dreaming; you lack both the looks and talent. What kind of debut? My singing sounds better than yours!"

Zhao Liangchen simply continued to smile cheekily, "Brother Long, let's not chat now; I'm heading back!"

And Xu Lin?

He's busy watching videos from the other five people.

Among these five, in terms of appearance, three look quite ordinary, while the other two look quite good—one male and one female.

Regarding singing skills, among the ordinary-looking ones, one girl sings very well, and Xu Lin thinks it's a pity she doesn't look better. Concerning the two good-looking individuals, the guy is talented, while the girl sings just averagely, another pity since she's attractive. Her vocalization is all there, but her singing is like that of a school's top ten singers activity, not quite professional.

"That's a little unfortunate!"

Still, having reached this point, Xu Lin will keep going. He's lacking personnel now, ten people a term, so Xu Lin doesn't mind promoting these people in the next month or so, treating it as a first experiment to see how the effects pan out.

He doesn't even need to watch Zhao Liangchen's video and simply replies: "Feels pretty good, worth developing a bit."

Zhao Liangchen: "Thank you, Lord Xu, I'm about to cry with gratitude!"

Xu Lin ignored him.

This batch of six doesn't have anyone with the level of skill that Xie Ting had yesterday.

But Xie Ting is a rare talent, hard to encounter; Xu Lin knows he has to carry on recruiting to possibly find one.

Let's first garner fame with this initial batch, then when fame is established, there will be plenty of skilled candidates finding him, which will also lower recruitment costs.

Bang!

Right at this moment.

Zhao Liangchen pushed the door open again, looking very excited.

"Bro, do you remember the Mr. Xu I told you about last time?"

"I remember that."

Xu Lin closed his computer's WeChat.

Zhao Liangchen excitedly said: "I just added Mr. Xu's account; he said one song costs a hundred thousand yuan. I gritted my teeth and accepted, thinking about my preparation for debut as a rapper—it got me so excited I can't help myself!"

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