Master Grim Reaper Makes His Debut in Center Position

Chapter 9

Ch9 - Like Hell I’ll Believe You

After the trainees finished the self-evaluation of their ranks, the mentors would then re-evaluate them based on their performances.

The performance order was according to the numbers they drew earlier. Lu Xu was just ahead of the ‘Age of Innocence’ group.

“Student Lu Xu, what kind of performance have you prepared?” It was clear that Xu Lele really quite liked Lu Xu, always unable to help himself from talking to him whenever they met.

Things like this in the  show weren’t a secret or anything, so Lu Xu had nothing to hide. “Singing.”

“Wah, I really want to hear you sing!” Xu Lele’s face was made for smiling, with two shallow dimples on his cheeks that were very cute. He still wanted to ask Lu Xu what song he was going to sing, but he was pulled away by his groupmate saying they had to do a quick run through before they went on stage.

“He already said he hasn’t trained for very long and you still ask, are you a fool?” In the groupmate’s eyes, Lu Xu’s so-called ‘short training period’ was just a way to get himself ahead. It was easy to have expectations when one looked at his face, but the higher those expectations were, the greater the disappointment would be. Rather than waiting to fall from his altar after the performance, was it not better to besmirch his own reputation to mentally prepare the audience?

Even if his performance was bad, he could be in F-rank. If he was lucky, he might get into D or C-rank. Then that would really be a pleasant surprise.

Lu Xu paid no heed to what the trainees behind him were saying. He just kept his eyes fixed on the screen, watching.

Very quickly, the first group finished their performance.

According to the rule of ‘ladies first’, Qin Ruowei was the first mentor to give feedback.

“Your self-evaluation was B-rank, is that right?” Her voice was calm. There didn’t seem to be much emotion on the surface. No one knew whether this was a good or bad thing.

A few of the trainees looked at one another, then nodded their heads after a moment of hesitation.

Qin Ruowei raised her eyebrows, and had a quiet discussion with the other three mentors to confirm the results before continuing. “I saw your profiles and it says you’ve already trained for three years, but I don’t see any trace of that training in your bodies.”

These words were quite heavy. The trainees on stage all flushed red. The atmosphere suddenly became a lot more serious.

According to the results of the mentors’ final discussion, the four of them were all demoted. Other than the leader who was put in C-rank, the other three members were all put into D-rank.

The starting evaluation was already so strict. The trainees that were to follow suddenly became nervous—

“Oh my god! It’s this exciting from the get go?”

“I suddenly feel panicked. I feel like I’m going to sit with Lu Xu in F-rank.”

“You’re thinking too much. You never know, Lu Xu might get promoted!”

…

The next two groups had demotions and promotions.

The standards of the mentors were quite high. They could tell what the strengths and weaknesses of each member were with just one performance.

Those with potential were promoted from C to B-rank, and those without would drop to D or even F-rank.

The rankings changed rapidly. No one knew what their fate would be.