Nicky Thompson didn't tell Xiao Yao to go to the casino to find him, but after entering the casino, he walked around the casino and found Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis sitting at a 21 o'clock table.

"Won or lost?" Nicky Thompson walked over quietly, suddenly sat down next to Xiao Yao, turned his head and asked him.

Xiao Yao didn't expect Nicky Thompson to suddenly appear, but after all, he had told the other party his location on the phone before, and he was not too surprised by her appearance. Xiao Yao's surprised expression flashed, and he replied directly with a smile: "Won a little." ”

"You're going to play too, I'm borrowing you a little?" Xiao Yao continued with a smile as he played with the stack of chips in front of him.

"No!" Xiao Yao's surprised expression appeared too short, recovered too quickly, and didn't even ask, "Why are you here", Nicky Thompson turned his head a little unpleasantly, took out a stack of cash and threw it in front of the dealer and said, "Change chips!"

"Two thousand!" the dealer picked up the cash and counted it, counted it, put it away, took out two thousand chips and pushed it to Nicky Thompson.

Two thousand yuan is not a lot for Nicky Thompson, but Nicky Thompson is not here to gamble, she came to see Xiao Yao to gamble, and it looks too obvious to sit next to her, so she changed some chips, placed a small bet casually, and watched while playing.

Nicky Thompson's attention was mostly on Xiao Yao, but after watching it for a while, she found that she couldn't see the reason why Xiao Yao liked the casino so much.

First of all, judging from the results of winning and losing, Xiao Yao has won and lost. Although she won more times overall, she thought that she was just a little luckier, and she couldn't see the fun in this result at all.

Secondly, although Xiao Yao loses less and wins more, the amount of Xiao Yao's bet is not large. Xiao Yao's bet amount is only a few thousand yuan, and there are almost no tens of thousands. Of course, a bet of a few thousand yuan is already a big one for ordinary people, but compared to the net worth of a star of Xiao Yao's level, it is not much anyway.

Nicky Thompson knows that this is not the first time Xiao Yao has been to the casino, he has been going to the casino almost every day for the past half month. In this situation, she didn't feel much excitement after watching it for a long time, and she really couldn't figure out how Xiao Yao maintained this enthusiasm for more than half a month.

Almost two hours later, Xiao Yao's cell phone rang. Xiao Yao took out his mobile phone, glanced at it, and pressed it. After the game, Xiao Yao said to Tim Haggis, "It's time for me to go." Are you going to keep playing?"

Xiao Yao wants to attend the awards ceremony and walk the red carpet, so he needs to prepare in advance. The phone that rang just now was the alarm clock set by Xiao Yao for fear of delay. The alarm clock on his phone went off, which also meant that it was almost time for him to change his clothes and get ready for the red carpet show.

Tim Haggis was a friend to help Xiao Yao, not a real hired bodyguard. Last night was actually not a formal work occasion, Tim Haggis said to be a bodyguard, but he actually went as Xiao Yao's friend, otherwise it would be impossible to leave early at will. Today's awards ceremony is an official public occasion, and Xiao Yao has no intention of letting Tim Haggis continue to be a bodyguard. Tim Haggis is a regular spectator tonight, so he doesn't have to leave now.

"I'm gone, too. "Yesterday I asked a friend for help, I went to ask about the situation, and it was almost time for the audience to enter the awards ceremony, and I went straight to the audience." ”

With Nicky Thompson by his side, Tim Haggis didn't explicitly investigate Hopson's food poisoning, and he believed that Xiao Yao should understand.

"Okay!" Sure enough, Xiao Yao nodded, "Then after the award ceremony is over, let's go back to Caesars Palace Hotel and see you again!"

"What about you?" Xiao Yao turned to Nicky Thompson and asked, "Are you leaving now?"

"Let's go!" Nicky Thompson said as he tossed the remaining 1,000 chips to the dealer at the table, "I've got you!"

"Thank you!" the dealer smiled and thanked him, putting away his chips.

"Excuse me, give me a chip box!" Xiao Yao pointed to the chips in front of him and said to the dealer.

There are more than 400,000 chips in front of him, not to mention that the dealer at this table may not have enough cash, and Xiao Yao himself doesn't need so much cash, he needs to transfer money, and if he transfers money, he needs to go to a special chip exchange office. There are dozens of more than 400,000 chips in front of Xiao Yao, and both hands may not be enough, so he asks the dealer for a box with chips, and the dealer will also provide it to gamblers who need it.

Nicky Thompson and Tim Haggis waited for Xiao Yao for a while, and after Xiao Yao had loaded all the chips, they followed him to the chip exchange.

"How much did you win?" Nicky Thompson asked Xiao Yao with some curiosity on the way to the chip exchange.

"More than 200,000!" Xiao Yao said.

"Huh, so much?" said Nicky Thompson, a little surprised, "I don't think you always win!"

"Heh!" Xiao Yao smiled.

"I don't look like a gambler when I see you, why do you go to the casino every day after coming to LV?" said Nicky Thompson, "Is it that your luck is so good every day, and you can win so much every day?"

"I said, I'll tell you why, it's just not now!" Xiao Yao smiled.

"Cut~" Nicky Thompson pouted. Although she had just made a guess, she didn't believe that Xiao Yao's luck was so good every day, and she could win money in the casino every day.

After redeeming the chips, Tim Haggis separated from the two and left the hotel alone. Xiao Yao and Nicky Thompson continued to walk together for a while, and only separated after going to the area rented by Billboard for the awards ceremony, and went to their respective dressing rooms under the guidance of the staff.

For the rest of the day, it's all about changing clothes, makeup, and styling, and then waiting for the red carpet show to begin.

Since Xiao Yao joined temporarily, the organizer of the award ceremony, Billboard magazine, did not even have time to publicize Xiao Yao's participation in the award ceremony. At the beginning of the red carpet show, when Xiao Yao walked on the red carpet, there was a burst of discussion among the reporters and onlookers who reported on the outfield.

Even if the organizers don't have time to update the lineup of celebrity guests to the media and the public, the script of the host who revises the process will definitely still do it. Under the introduction of the host outside, media reporters and viewers will not know who Xiao Yao is, and they are discussing why Xiao Yao, a Chinese star who has not been active in the United States for more than a year and has not been nominated for this year's awards, suddenly appeared in the guest list of this year's awards ceremony.

The Billboard awards ceremony red carpet show also has an interview session with the host of the field. In the interview session, Xiao Yao explained his identity as a guest performer under the guidance of the host's questions, and revealed that he would perform an original new song at the awards ceremony. As a result, many people thought that Xiao Yao wanted to use the award ceremony as the stage for the premiere of the upcoming new song, and he was taking this opportunity to promote the new song. Since Xiao Yao had never done this before, some people even speculated whether Xiao Yao was ready to seriously develop his music market in North America.

Of course, the host didn't ask these two questions, and Xiao Yao didn't say anything, and those people were just guessing and couldn't be sure for the time being.

After the red carpet show, Xiao Yao entered the venue and went to his seat under the guidance of the staff. Since he was not the nominee, Xiao Yao's seat was in the guest area. Including Cordy Scott and Nicky Thompson, the stars Xiao Yao knew last night who came to the rehearsal were all nominated, and the seats were in different areas from him, probably because the organizers took into account the events of last night, and the seats of the group BTBS who were the guests of the ceremony were arranged far away from him. Xiao Yao looked at it, and the stars around him didn't even know anyone.

At the award ceremony of music awards, the nominees are naturally stars in the music world, but in the area of guests, they are not necessarily music stars. At this awards ceremony, the Korean BTBS group among the guests was actually a minority, but most of them were stars from other industries.

The so-called other industry stars are mainly actors and sports stars. And Xiao Yao's popularity in the United States does not entirely come from his musical works. He has made several sensational cases in the United States, has film works released in the United States, and participated in the All-Star Celebrity Tournament in the United States. In addition to the music and fashion circles, there are also many people in the film and television circles and sports circles who know Xiao Yao and are interested in him.

Xiao Yao is not the last star to walk the red carpet. At this time, the red carpet show was still going on, the awards ceremony had not yet begun, and the venue was a relatively free time. It's not good for everyone to move around at will, but it's okay to talk and chat with the next door. Several guests sitting next to Xiao Yao took the initiative to greet Xiao Yao and talk.

Although Xiao Yao doesn't like to participate in the award ceremony very much, he has actually participated in a lot. At the age of seventeen, he participated in the Oscars in the United States as a guest performer, and now Xiao Yao, who is about to be twenty-four years old, came to the Billboard Music Awards ceremony, of course, he was not afraid. Xiao Yao's language is not problematic, and he is not psychologically frightened, so he naturally responds politely and decently, and has a humorous and humorous attitude, which left a very good impression on the few people next to him.

Several BTBS members of the red carpet walking in front of Xiao Yao have also entered at this time. Although they were separated from Xiao Yao's seat for some distance, they still unconsciously paid attention to Xiao Yao's side. Seeing Xiao Yao talking happily with those American stars next to him, several people were of course even more unhappy in their hearts.

After some time, the red carpet show ended, and the awards ceremony in the venue began.

Generally speaking, Xiao Yao does not necessarily go to the award ceremony where he is nominated, and he will definitely not go to the award ceremony where he is not nominated. But since he is here this time, even if he is not expected to win the award, Xiao Yao will still devote himself to it with a better attitude. Regardless of whether the camera lens at the scene is panned or not, the performance can be said to be blameless when laughing when sitting in the seat, applauding and congratulating when others win an award, and even when others stand up from their seats like the people next to them to cheer and scream for the performance on stage.

Almost halfway through the awards ceremony, the staff quietly ran over to inform Xiao Yao to prepare for the performance, and Xiao Yao immediately got up and quickly went backstage with the staff to prepare.

Preparations were made halfway through the award ceremony, which means that Xiao Yao's performance was arranged by the organizer in the second half of the award ceremony. Relatively speaking, it shows that the organizers still attach more importance to Xiao Yao's performance. And Xiao Yao's performance did not disappoint the organizers.

After handing out an award for the best alternative song of the year, the host introduced the next guest performer on stage. When the host finally said Jan Shaw's name, Cordy Scott and Nicky Thompson of the nominee area took the lead from their seats and stood up and applauded. With these two people taking the lead, there was a lot of applause at the scene.

An electronic curtain wall in front of the stage slowly rose, and the audience and celebrity guests saw Xiao Yao, who was dressed casually in a dark T-shirt and jeans, and Xiao Yao, who was carrying a log-colored acoustic guitar, standing behind the microphone stand, and the applause at the scene was a little bigger.

Next, the scene swept down the camera lens on the stage, and the big screen on the scene showed that there was a square carpet on the stage behind the microphone stand in front of him, Xiao Yao was not wearing shoes and socks, so he stepped on the carpet with a pair of white feet.

"Ha~ This guy is actually barefoot!" someone laughed.

"This guy still has tricks?" said Cordy Scott in surprise, "He didn't have this design for last night's performance, could it be that he came up with a new idea during today's rehearsal?"

"No," Nicky Thompson shook his head, "as far as I know, he's been in the casino this afternoon, and he didn't have a rehearsal at all, probably improvised before he went on stage!"

This picture did not last long on the big screen, and soon the camera was given to Xiao Yao's upper body, but that was enough for the audience and celebrity guests to see Xiao Yao's bare feet clearly, and it also made the applause and cheers at the scene a little bigger.

"Unconventional, grandstanding?" Although the applause and cheers were a little louder, it was not that no one commented on Xiao Yao's bare feet in their hearts, but most of the people who thought so were only before Xiao Yao's performance began. When Xiao Yao's performance began, many people who thought so changed their minds.

Although Xiao Yao is singing a new song that has not yet been released, judging from the melody and rhythm of the whole song and Xiao Yao's state during the performance, Xiao Yao, who is dressed casually and barefoot, is very compatible with this performance.

The seemingly random change of the rhythm of the song, the casual tongue, the meaningless humming of the chorus, coupled with Xiao Yao's shaking of his head during the performance, and the occasional cute and cheap smile, all show Xiao Yao's freedom and casualness when performing this song. In the eyes of many people, Xiao Yao's performance of this song gives them a sense of unrestrained casualness, and it is the same feeling that he does not wear shoes and socks on stage and performs barefoot, which is right.

Overall, Xiao Yao's performance is a relatively alternative and exciting performance, and the song sounds very good. Since the previous award was the Best Alternative Song of the Year award, some people even think that Xiao Yao's song can directly lock in the nomination for the Best Alternative Song of the Year award next year.

Therefore, when Xiao Yao's performance ended and bowed to the audience, many celebrity guests and the audience stood up from their seats with cheers, and there was huge applause and cheers at the scene, which is not surprising.