At the live stream event, indeed a lot of people had already gathered around. Although there was a periter of about ten ters around the stage that people weren’t allowed to cross, such barriers that could be pushed aside at any mont didn’t offer much protection.
Shi Su was the last to get on stage. The host first invited two male actors up to chat a bit to warm up the crowd.
In the backstage, Jun looked at her phone and said, "The livestream already has over three million viewers."
The staff sent by the sponsors ca over to quietly remind them, "There are too many people here today. Just now, before Shi Su ca backstage, the host didn’t have ti to coordinate with her and went up to manage the situation. Now we need to brief you about possible scenarios that might arise later."
"Because Shi Su’s dance issue has been a hot topic recently, the host will definitely bring it up, and both the audience and those watching the live stream will be very interested in it. If possible, Shi Su might use this opportunity to clarify things."
Shi Su had already guessed this might happen. She rely glanced at the staff mber without saying much, her expression calm and unreadable.
Jun, on the side, said coldly with displeasure, "For such an important matter, you want to throw questions at her without coordinating? You guys really know how to exploit hype. You’re not letting any of this go to waste."
The staff mber chuckled sheepishly and responded, "We can’t help it. The boss of the sponsors wants to use this live broadcast reality show to promote better. They want traffic, and we’re just doing our jobs, these are also directives from above."
"Alright, no need to explain, we understand," Jun said coldly while frowning, "Can you guarantee the artists’ safety one hundred percent in this venue today?"
"Yes, definitely!"
Jun said nothing more and glanced at Shi Su, "Are you okay?"
As she finished speaking, the host’s voice ca through from the stage, "Now let’s welco the two actresses from the popular ’Yao Platform’ drama crew to the stage, please give a warm welco to Shi Yunyin and Shi Su!"
Shi Su walked directly out. Jun, still worried, called Chiu Jiu to learn that their own bodyguards and Wen Ke were also in the crowd below, which allowed her to feel slightly at ease. When she turned her gaze back again, Shi Su was already standing before everyone on the stage.
Today, Shi Yunyin was wearing a customized light pink traditional Chinese costu, made of material hundreds of tis better and more expensive than the costus usually worn in dramas. It was a coveted product of a luxury and highly expensive national style fashion brand, and her hairstyle was designed to be elegant and serene. Standing before the cara and the audience, she looked extraordinarily beautiful and pitiful.
In contrast, Shi Su’s ancient costu appeared rather simple on the surface. Its color was similar to the white worn by Tian Yuli before she turned, pure and simple. Her makeup and hairstyle also followed a minimalistic style, not particularly attention-grabbing.
But nowadays, regardless of what Shi Su wore, just standing there was attention-grabbing enough.
The host started by asking several questions about the drama to engage the atmosphere. Both Shi Su and Shi Yunjian held microphones and answered. They stood on either side of the host on stage, their expressions towards each other calm but with no exchange of glances, making it hard to discern their relationship.
In the backstage, Jun continued watching the live broadcast on her phone.
As Shi Su and Shi Yunyin appeared, the viewer count in the live stream soared wildly, jumping to over nine million within just over ten minutes, soon to cross ten million!
On stage, after asking the preliminary questions, the host also glanced at his phone to check the viewer count. As it hit ten million, he put the phone down and smilingly said, "Today, we are filming a reality show variety program, which will later air as a special edition. I wonder if the two of you would like to play a ga with ?"
"Sure."
"Sounds good."
"Our sponsor established this skincare brand with the goal of spreading beauty worldwide, but how should female beauty be expressed? Of course, through dance, whether it’s classical dance or modern dance, each has its own unique charm..."
The viewers continued to rise.
In the Imperial City.
At a conference center.
"Mr. Jing, the eting is about to start, aren’t you going in?"
Jing Jihan glanced at the ti, "There are still five minutes, no rush."
Beside him, Zhou He was seriously searching for sothing on his phone. Monts later, he quietly said, "Found the live stream. It’s this one."
Saying that, Zhou He quickly handed the phone back to Jing Jihan.
...
The audience was in an uproar; the recent dance plagiarism issue involving Shi Su and Shi Yunyin had already caused quite a stir, yet today they could see both on stage, even dancing together?
The host, as if the excitent wasn’t enough, ntioned again, "Everyone guessed correctly, the next round is a dance-off — the winner will get five hundred sets of skincare products from the sponsor to give to the audience for free."
Shi Yunyin suddenly picked up the microphone at this mont and said, "I don’t reject dance-off activities. Being here ans I’m also courageously facing the past. Acting is my lifelong dream, though I’ve also had regrets over the years. Since the movie ’Chi Xiao’ five years ago, I haven’t fild any role requiring dance. Due to a leg injury during shooting later, resulting in a severe fracture in the calf, I can maintain normal walking after recovery but was cautioned by doctors never to make any big moves, including dance and other action scenes. I know ’Chi Xiao’ is irreproducible; no matter the ti or person trying to mimic, it cannot be replicated, and most likely, I will never present such a classic again myself..."
There was a mont of silence in the audience, while the live stream’s barrage was filled with frenzied comnts: [Heartache for Shi Yunyin!]
Shi Yunyin continued, "When filming ’Chi Xiao’, it marked my best years. Although I’m still in the young artists’ ranks now, my legs can no longer dance for the audience. I genuinely regret this. When this show invited , I knew what would happen, but I ca anyway, facing everything now honestly, what I have, and what I’ve lost. Life must look forward; we can’t always look back to chase past achievents that have beco history."
Listening, the host couldn’t help but feel a bit sympathetic, saying, "Then... do you plan to forfeit this dance-off ga, Yunyin?"
"Yes."
The host then turned to Shi Su and asked, "What about you, Shi Su?"
At this mont, everyone was feeling for Shi Yunyin, lanting the lost classic.
The dance-off was just a ga after all. If Shi Su insisted on continuing just to show herself at such a ti, it would certainly seem overly competitive.
Just when everyone thought Shi Su would also choose to forfeit—
Shi Su calmly said, "Although that dance cannot be replicated, since the Best Actress regrets it so much, although the dance is not to be perford, I should do sothing, to express my respect for ’Chi Xiao’, for five years ago, for the Best Actress, and for myself."
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