Xi Zirui holds out hope that maybe Han Yu will be called as well, but Ji Limei never says his name.
In the end, he's one of only two people leaving Jade team while 7 others join it.
The show wants to have a dramatic stand off, so the two teams face each other on opposite ends of the stages as the selected trainees change sides.
Xi Zirui can almost feel the cameras zooming in on him and Cao Fei as they cross paths.
He would bet his left arm this whole "switching" sides thing was done for the benefit of increasing online speculation only. He can imagine how long NNI has spent in the top trending in the past few days.
The speculation must be even fiercer since his and Han Yu's live disappearance. The cameras might not have been focused on them, but nothing escapes the eagle-eye of people online with nothing better to do.