"This is out of our respect for our opponents and for this competition. No matter what our capabilities are, we need to give our best to ensure that the competition is a fair one. Of course, it's also to avoid the possibility that they would shift the responsibility to us and think that we were purposely causing trouble before the competition if they ended up not performing as well.
"I also made it very clear that we gave them a very good pre-competition environment, hoping that they too can respect us. At such a critical moment when we are just about to go up on stage, they shouldn't come and pester us over these things."
Lu Man acted as if she was laughing in anger and said, "But not only did my words not manage to dissuade Albertine, they seemed to have reminded him that he can seize this chance to disrupt the emotions that we finally managed to prepare and bring out, all in order to make us lose focus on stage, unable to get into character at the first instance.
