The Queen's Rise to the Top

Chapter 325

Nan XiangWan simply lowered her head to play with her hat while waiting for the results to be announced.

Guan Liangzhe tried every trick in the book to liven up the atmosphere in addition to establishing cordial relationships with several singers, but the reactions from the others were neither enthusiastic nor cold, and the real-time vote tally also seemed to take longer than usual this time.

Guan Liangzhe's lips were almost chapped from all that talking!

Such anxiety! Why hasn't it come out yet?

What was the backstage doing? Hurry up!

The live audience and the on-site audience were also beginning to stir; the vote counting for the fourth round this time was very slow.

At this time backstage, the general director Zhang Rui was shouldering the pressure while making a phone call to Yan Qin.

Zhang Rui: "Teacher Yan, we've done this show for so many seasons, and have never rigged the votes."

Yan Qin: "I know, and I also understand your difficulties, but I really cannot accept today's vote tally this time. Can you recount it?"

Zhang Rui: "Our staff has recounted it more than five times already, Wu Sisi was indeed the last place..."

Yan Qin: "Director Zhang Rui, you have to understand, Wu Sisi has won two Golden Melody Awards, both her skills and popularity are obvious for all to see. For her to be eliminated in the fourth round, that would be unacceptable!"

Zhang Rui: "Teacher Yan Qin, I really have no way, just because she won the Golden Melody Awards, I can't eliminate other innocent contestants to keep her on stage, right?"

Yan Qin: "How about this, everyone performed poorly this round, can we suspend eliminations for a round? Let no one leave?"

Zhang Rui: "......"

Yan Qin: "And I feel that the song Nan XiangWan sang didn't seem to be related to the theme of loneliness at all. She was almost jumping around on stage, how can you call that lonely?"

Zhang Rui: "Uh, the name of that song was called 'Lonely'."

Yan Qin: "Alright, let's not talk about Nan XiangWan. How about you and I meet halfway, you don't eliminate Wu Sisi, and I won't ask you to eliminate anyone else. No one gets eliminated this round, how about it?"

Zhang Rui: "......" Damn old hag is so annoying!

Yan Qin: "Director Zhang, this is my final bottom line!"

Zhang Rui: "Fine, but just this once."

Yan Qin: "Of course, Wu Sisi made a mistake today, she will surely perform normally next round. As long as she sings well, her ranking will naturally be near the top."

Zhang Rui: "Let's not chat anymore Teacher Yan, my audience here is still waiting!"

After hanging up the call, Zhang Rui cursed and grumbled as he pulled over the roster and casually scratched out and rearranged things, before handing off to the announcer.

On stage.

Guan Liangzhe was already out of tricks, if the rankings weren't announced soon he'd just have to stand there blankly with the 8 singers.

Fortunately just as he was about to lose it, he finally got the cue and the big screen subtitle lit up!

Guan Liangzhe excitedly: "Here it comes! Let's take a look at today's... huh? Unbelievably, there are no guest eliminations today! Wow! Let's congratulate all eight contestants for advancing!"

Clap clap clap!

The on-site crowd reacted expressionlessly with some half-hearted applause accompanied by yawns.

The livestream viewers commented emotionlessly - hurry up.

Amidst the rather unenthusiastic atmosphere, Guan Liangzhe announced that Wu Sisi and Wei Sha were ranked 7th place together, so neither had to be eliminated.

Wu Sisi was not very satisfied and glared at Wei Sha.

Wei Sha remained expressionless. She knew her own performance today wasn’t that good, and her performance order near the end, following so many slow songs, did not help either.

The rankings continued, with Yang Rongjun and Zhong Lingfei maintaining the top three places.

Nan XiangWan still had that drastic first place!

With the episode ending, Guan Liangzhe rushed over to follow Nan XiangWan off stage.

Off stage, Gu Beihuai and Jie Chou both got up to follow them as well.

And so, the three big men followed curiously behind the little girl - no matter how you looked at it, it seemed odd.

Nan XiangWan looked back:"What are you three doing?"

Guan Liangzhe: "I'm following you, heh, I'm not afraid, I just wanna grab a late night snack with you."

Jie Chou: "I want to take pictures, group photo."

Gu Beihuai didn't say anything but he wasn't leaving either.

Nan XiangWan: "You guys gonna follow me while I change too?"

Guan Liangzhe: "......"

Jie Chou: "Oh, I'll give you some privacy then."

Gu Beihuai got a little angry and dragged Guan Liangzhe and Jie Chou away by an arm each. How embarrassing!

Nan XiangWan returned to the dressing room and changed out of the performance outfit, returning that expensive hat along with the rest of the clothes to Monica's team.

Today’s clothing was all couture pieces Monica had brought over specially, expensive from head to toe, so she had to return them after wearing them.

Monica herself had already left, but her new assistant was very capable and packed up the clothes neatly in just moments.

Xiao Dong: “Ms. Nan it’s gotten late, we won’t have time for hotpot or Japanese food, we’ll have to just eat some quick things.”

Because the vote tallying segment had dragged on, it was already past 10pm. They still needed time to head to the “Horror Escape Room” so there was no chance to properly sit down for a meal.

Nan XiangWan: “We’ll just grab some snacks to fill our stomachs.”

The two walked out from the dressing room and bumped into other guests and teams in the hallway also packed up and getting ready to leave.

Everyone greeted each other amicably.

However, as they walked past Wu Sisi’s dressing room, Nan XiangWan’s gaze inadvertently swept in through the door left slightly ajar and saw Yan Qin inside.

Damn!

This lady still here so late?

Beside Yan Qin sat Wu Sisi, looking harshly through the crack in the door over at them.

Nan XiangWan shrugged, and left with Xiao Dong.

What are you looking at? You wanna go!?

Inside the dressing room.

Yan Qin’s expression was extremely ugly. In the afternoon she had urged the entire Singers Association to collectively issue statements to boycott Nan Xiangwan.

But surprisingly, those who had readily agreed earlier, when it came time agreed on, only Yan Qin herself issued a statement. The others who had verbally promised were all missing.

When Yan Qin tried contacting them again, she found everyone had disappeared: no reply to messages and calls wouldn’t go through.

Following that, she watched with her own eyes, at the #1 trending searched terms:

【Nan XiangWan’s Air Force promotional video】

Pulling it down to look, she found this trending search had lasted 2 days already, still going strong.

The fans had already been praising and commenting on it for cycles, coupled with the additional support likes from random passersby having seen it, the current like count already exceeded 100 million!

Underneath this hot search ranking #1, the #2 trending video was Nan XiangWan’s performance that day on “The Singer”.

Video editing and compilation were done quickly; no sooner had she finished singing than it was uploaded and trending.

The video subtitles were also perfectly done, no mistakes: the variety of comments below were endless.

And so, taking up the #1 and #2 trending searches were all Nan XiangWan but different content, basking her in the limelight this weekend.

Yan Qin, upon seeing all this, only felt a sudden buzzing in her head!

Especially that Air Force promo video, it had been on the news!

Yan Qin’s hands shook as she quickly deleted the statement she had released earlier.

But unfortunately she had been much too confident earlier, and that post had only been up for over 2 hours but was already seen by many people who also took screenshots, and some media had promptly reported on it as well.

【LOL! Nan XiangWan had just been praised by CCTV, only to be immediately boycotted and suppressed by Singers Association’s Yan Qin!】

【Can the older generation of artists openly oppose CCTV?】

【Yan Qin goes all out to support goddaughter Wu Sisi and takes a stand against Nan XiangWan!】