Superstar Aspirations Chapter 10

Translator: Vian

Editor: Shem

Tang nglan had been one of the reddest flower within the country in recent years. She did not only has a large number of male fans because she once acted in a royal elder sister type role, but also inhaled a bunch of wife powder fans.

Zhuang Xiaoliu was one of them.

"Vie for Supremacy" was officially announced four months ago, so everyone knew that the male lead was Dong Zheng and the female lead was Tang nglan. With these two popular 'peanuts' performing on the sa film, one could easily imagine that it would attract tens of thousands of fans all at once. The drama's official Weibo account altogether had 370,000 fans, with that vast majority still being an active fans.

On this certain day, Zhuang Xiaoliu was randomly scrolling through the Weibo and forums as usual, when she suddenly got a particularly special notification.

【'Vie for Supremacy' crew: Heroes weep of blood, forcibly snatching the world under the Heavens; the sword points towards the blue do of Heavens, attempting to seize the throne!】

Zhuang Xiaoliu hurriedly opened it to look, and suddenly…..saw her family's goddess!

【One small willow tree: Ao ao ao ao!!! Goddess' character poster is out! Forwarding forwarding~ everyone quickly co over! @Tang nglan National Fan club @Tang nglan Goddess Platoon @Love Tang nglan Association】

However, within five minutes, this Weibo's character posters post had already been forwarded more than three thousand tis. The more and more people had seen this Weibo , the more and more people were forwarding it. In just a short half an hour, the Weibo's number of forwards surpassed ten thousand, while the number of likes directly broke through twenty thousand!

For an official Weibo with only 370,000 fans, these numbers were already quite gratifying.

Zhuang Xiaoliu opened up Weibo and started reading carefully.

Although "Vie for Supremacy" wasn't considered as a male-centric drama or even a female-centric drama, however, on the coffee seat, Tang nglan was still above Dong Zheng by a head. This Weibo post had a total of nine posters, the first one was a valiant and heroic, with an awe-inspiring bearing female general.

The female general had an overbearing and heroic spirit as she wore a military uniform, the completely white armor lining her skin. Beautiful, gorgeous, and dazzling to the eyes. Long brows adorned on the temple; a severe and sharp gaze, holding a seven foot-three inches long spear. Her gaze was cutting and formidable, her expression was calm and composed. The tip of her spear was stabbing outwards, just looking at it would make one feel like there was a murderous aura attacking at you.

On the right side of the picture were a row of words:

『Xiao Family has a daughter nad Xiang, removing her female clothing, coiling waves of thousands layers with a strike of her spear!』

『Tang nglan as Xiao Xiang』

Zhuang Xiaoliu excitedly read it over and over again, and only after she counted the number of lines on Tang nglan's armor several tis did she reluctantly turned to the next picture.

"Oh, Dong Zheng is also quite handso like this ah, but still not as handso as my family's Tang ge…… Eh! Ye Qiao can actually also be so handso? This feeling's not bad… Oh, what was this guy called again…… called… Oh right, he's called Song Mingfei. Still okay, sounds like he's a Confucian scholar?"

As she looked and looked, Zhuang Xiaoliu slowly realized: "Ah! Could it be that the only female actor in this drama is my family's Tang ge!?"

When it was the official announcent, they only announced the director and who were the male and female lead. So no one ever thought that in such an age where ancient-style, romance, and idol dramas were currently popular, there would be a drama series that would decide to take an alternate route. They deliberately didn't take an emotional romance drama route but instead found a bunch of n to act out a power struggle!

Zhuang Xiaoliu was now even more excited: "Song Mingfei is already very handso ah, if even the third male lead is so handso, this film is definitely……."

Her voice suddenly stopped short. The little lady's originally big eyes widened, becoming even rounder and bigger, unwaveringly staring at her phone screen. She stared at that person inside the photo, looking once then again, and again and again. She first looked at this man's distinctly handso appearance that seed to have no ti for amusent, then looked at this person's lip that brought in a cold and indifferent smile.

This man was dressed in a pale blue changpao. He was standing at the riverside while facing the wind, and his sleeves were dancing in the wind. Even through the cold electronic screen, it seed as if you could hear the howling of the wind. As she kept on looking at his eminent and handso face, this person's gaze seed to be aid at the cara. So when Zhuang Xiaoliu looked at him, she felt that the other had passed through the screen and was earnestly staring at her!

Appearing to had penetrated through space and ti, that man faintly raised his lips and smiled; the slender and cunningly pretty phoenix eyes flicked with a bright intelligent radiance. His smile brought about a peaceful and calm hint, not seeking any fa or wealth, rely living a simple life. Simply looking at him like this would make one's mood and mind feel at ease and tranquil, calming down a myriads of agitated restlessness; steadily listening to the sound of the great waves of the river water rhythmically beating against the shore.

It was obviously just a young and handso youth. But he had a kind of extrely powerful aura that could shock people's hearts, making one unable to bear his gaze and instead settle on his unperturbed and placid smile, letting one could not help but trust him.

After looking for full of five minutes, Zhuang Xiaoliu swallowed a mouthful of saliva and shifted her line of sight to see the text next to it.

『Alone on Yun ng Lake stands Wan Qiu Pavilion, asking heroes, who ever gets Wanqi, gets the world! 』

『Rong Xu as Wanqi Yao』

After a mont: 【Ah ah ah ah ah this newbie is so handso ah! The na is also suppeerrr nice to hear, Rong Xu is nice to hear, Wanqi Yao is also nice to hear! Exactly who is he, is he really just a newcor? So handso ah! This poster is reallllyyyy niccceee to look at licklicklicklicklick. Is there anyone who knows him!!!】

Zhuang Xiaoli quickly opened up the Weibo comnts and found out that at least one-thirds of the popular Weibo accounts there were actually talking about this newbie.

Don't think that one-thirds was a very small portion, first off, Tang nglan and Dong Zheng, these two people's fans occupied more than half of the forwarding and comnts. And as for the other second male lead, Ye Qiao and third male lead, Song Mingfei, although they were a bit famous, they were still far off from Tang nglan's level. There was simply no possibility of them being equals.

And right now, inside the popular comnts, countless people were going crazy asking questions and licking the screen.

【So handso! Simply a stunning beauty! This drama's attractive value is so high! Tang nglan iz handso, Dong Zhuang is handso, Ye Qiao is handso, Song Mingfei is also very handso and that Rong Xu is even more of a beauty!!! I feel that the drama's handso role is taken by Tang nglan but the beauty of the drama is absolutely Rong Xu ah ah ah ah!!!!】

【When is it going to broadcast?! When is it going to broadcast?! When is it going to broadcast?! I also want to look look look at these beauties! 】

【Who ever gets Wanqi, gets the world…could this little beauty be acting as whatever Emperor and the like? Feudal prince under the Emperor?】

【 I think he should be the sa as Teacher Kongming, don't you think that this little beauty is clean and free from the mortal world and it's vulgarity? How can he be whatever Emperor or Emperor ah? He's definitely a high person from the outside! I bet a cucumber that he's a super super powerful behind the scenes BOSS!】

【Speaking of which… that character's surna is Wan?】

Zhuang Xiaoliu quickly replied: 【Surna's Wanqi! W-a-n-q-i! Wan (million) Qi (wait)! Ao ao ao ao I originally just ca for Tang ge, now I decided to be little beauty's passerby powder. The character poster is just too beautiful!】

【*Bows down to the beauty's power* typing with feet to prove it _(:3」∠)_ 】

【*Bows down to the beauty's power* 1!!! So beautiful ah ah ah ah!!!!! I can't endure under this kind of immortal aura! The aura's too much!】

【*Bows down to the beauty's power* 10086! Directing to the beauty's Weibo, it seems like he's really a newcor ah. His Weibo fans are only a few hundreds! Everyone, hurry and co and follow~ I decided to switch to being little beauty's fan! Sitting tight to wait for "Vie for Supremacy" broadcasting! @Rong Xu】

……

Luo Zhentao once said before that "Vie for Supremacy" was Huaxia Entertainnt's biggest TV drama series production investnt this year, and could be said to be a trump card for the end of the year's rating. For this kind of TV drama to release their character posters, it soon set off waves in Weibo, Baidu forums, discussion forums and plus many others where everyone were discussing their character posters.

And the new actor that nobody had ever heard of was especially discussed.

When Rong Xu returned ho at night, #VieforSupremacy, #Tangnglan, #DongZheng, and #Wanqi, these four tags have already beca Weibo's most popular searches that very sa day. The first three were in the top ten hottest searches, while the last one, #Wanqi, was ranked 41st. However, even if it was 41st, it still let Rong Xu be rather surprised.

He clicked up the popular searches only to see that one-thirds of the netizens were discussing 「Exactly what is this role for」,「Who is Rong Xu?」, another one-third of the netizens were discussing 「iii」, 「licklicklicklick」, and there was still that last one-thirds of the netizens……

【Eh, China still had the surna Wanqi?】

【When you pass by an illiterate person, my nine years of compulsory education just taught to lick the beauty, I'm proud to lick23333】

Rong Xu: "……"

In a way, the position of these popular searches, uhhh… En, it's really positive and formidable.

Rong Xu soon found that his own Weibo fans were already close to becoming 100,000. Just within a few hours, there were more than 90,000 fans who followed him. Looking at it like that, it really did look amazing. However, it was still the fact that Rong Xu's total fans so far was 100,000. After all in the end, he was still soone who started from zero, to have such a breakthrough was already considered very good. Just as when Rong Xu began making a congee, he received so information from Luo Zhentao.

【Luo Zhentao: It's estimated that your number of fans can exceed 200,000 tonight. I will slightly control the public opinion, you don't have to be too concerned about borrowing the heat from "Vie for Supremacy".】

Rong Xu dropped his gaze to look at this line, and quickly replied: 【Okay, I understand, Luo ge.】

'Wanqi' this hot search tag was sothing Luo Zhentao and Rong Xu never thought about. Rong Xu wasn't an ordinary newcor, he always knew that this circle was not simple. If an artist wanted to beco famous on his debut like Qin Cheng—with that kind of starting point that was too high for an ordinary people—most artists would need to have their own marketing team.

Do you really think that just be relying on Tang nglan's fans, each and every Weibo post's forwards and comnts could reach hundreds of thousands, with even a few reaching the millions?

When an artist needed so heat, the marketing team would take the stage. For example, this ti, according to Rong Xu's speculations, Dong Zheng shouldn't have been able to just rely on "Vie for Supremacy" eastern wind to enter the top ten hottest searches list. At most, he would be in the top twenty, but in the end he still went up.

Before an artist reached a certain status and position, he needed to first learn on how to put himself before the audience.

Luo Zhentao originally didn't think of carrying out any PR promotion for Rong Xu during the character poster releases, he wanted to move when the first trailer ca out. However, since the netizens were spontaneously making Rong Xu a hot topic, then Luo Zhentao would naturally borrow that and take the opportunity to contact Huaxia Entertainnt's PR departnt to use all ans to maintain Rong Xu's hottest search ranking around the forty to fifty list, maintaining it overnight.

So once the night was over, as expected, Rong Xu's Weibo fans really did broke through 200,000, and even reached 300,000!

Luo Zhentao excitedly sent over a ssage: 【This is a very good beginning, that first-tier star I used to have didn't even have such a good montum. Xiao Xu, I think that you can advance a huge step this ti with "Vie for Supremacy"! Third-tier or even second-tier would be possible!】

Rong Xu thought for a second, then calmly sent over a reply: 【Okay, Luo ge, we shall make persistent efforts! [fist][fist][fist]】

……Then expressionlessly place down the phone.

You couldn't bla our family's Rong Xu for not being excited at getting over 300,000 fans. When it was in his last life, his Weibo fans broke through 240 million and was the first artist with the most fans in the country. And on the foreign social platforms, his fans also nearly had 150 million people. Even if that both sides were to overlap, presumably the number of fans definitely would've exceeded 300 million.

300 million vs. 300,000……

Even if he wanted to be excited, there was really no way for him to be excited.

Did not know what his heart was thinking, but Rong Xu silently searched up a certain na on the Weibo and opened this certain person's hopage.

The profile picture used was a good quality photo. After he opened up the photo, he only saw an extrely handso man who was slightly leaning against a wall, with his head and gaze lowered. The black and white photo style didn't let people clearly make out his face, but the strong and indifferent aura that still passed through the photo ruthlessly pressured down on everyone, so that even if one couldn't clearly see the face, there would be no one who would mistaken him.

Because he was Qin Cheng.

Rong Xu looked at this profile picture, and after a while, then went to look at the number of fans the other had.

342,000,000. Three hundred and forty-two million.

This world's China didn't set up a wall against foreign social platforms, the local celebrities basically would not play with any foreign social platforms either, and would only use their own China's Weibo. So many foreign fans would especially register in a Chinese account to pay attention to their favorite stars.

This person was currently China's number one ah……

Rong Xu's heart inexplicably flashed this sentence. Just as he was narrowing his eyes, staring at the other's Weibo profile picture without focus, when he suddenly heard the crisp sound of a key opening the lock! Rong Xu was imdiately startled, and turned around to look in surprise.

He only saw the mahogany door was gently pushed open, first revealing a slender hand.

When that person raised his head and saw Rong Xu, probably because he didn't think that the teen would actually be here, a gleam of light quickly flashed through the obsidian and abstruse eyes, before it was well hidden once again. With his lips slightly pursed, Qin Cheng concealed his surprise expression and calmly closed the door as he entered the house.

Almost unconsciously, Rong Xu quickly turned over his phone on the table.

Qin Cheng walked over to the dining table in a stable and calm pace. When he was close enough, Rong Xu already had his lip hooked up in a smile and said: "I had already let my manager find a good place. Mister Qin, I have to go filming tomorrow, but the next ti I return to B-City, I will move out of here. Thank you for your hospitality these past few days. I didn't touch anything in the house, but I still borrowed the kitchen for a bit. I've already cleaned it for you."

Qin Cheng who had been filming until now and was finally able to make a trip back to his apartnt: "……"

As if he didn't see the man's shocked expression or sensed the other's silence, Rong Xu continued on: "I know that you only gave the key to here because of Auntie Qin. I also feel sorry for the inconvenience of living here for three days."

Qin Cheng: "……"

After half a day, he snapped out of his silence and opened his mouth to only say this one sentence: "You can still continue to live here."

Rong Xu thought for a mont there that he didn't hear clearly. He sightly widened his eyes and asked: "What?"

Qin Cheng lowered his gaze, looking at the teen's confused appearance. He saw the pair of slender and bright eyes clearly reflecting a glistening light like waves under the sunlight. It was obviously just a pure and simple smile of goodwill, but don’t know why, Qin Cheng's gaze suddenly darkened slightly, as if he saw from those eyes a hint of… flirting.

Gently sighing, Qin Cheng raised the corner of his lip in a smile and finally got rid of his involuntarily "suddenly saw the other and was unable to react at once" kind of impolite reaction. He walked to the side of the table, pulled out the chair and then sat down across from the teen.

When he lifted up his head, the man focused his pair of phoenix eyes to watch the boy who was still at a loss, quietly revealing a touch of a small smile and said in a low voice: "There's no better apartnt than this one around Huaxia Entertainnt. Since you want to rent soone's apartnt, why not… rent mine? For the sake of giving mother so face, I can give you a bit of preferential treatnt."

Rong Xu's gaze quivered, and stared at this man in front of him in a daze.

Qin Cheng had, since the beginning, been holding on to that cool, calm and unhurried appearance. He raised his left hand and gently tapped the table, making a 'da da' sound. If Auntie Qin was here, she would have definitely exclaid aloud: "Son, you're tapping your fingers again, what are you so nervous about ah!"

……So to say, there were so people who were obviously begging soone to live with them, En. They would even say a "For the sake of giving mother so face."

Reddest Flower – In China, they say soone is popular by saying they are ‘red’ So “They are the reddest.” , “How red are they?” like that. Flower is referring to a famous female actress (usually a young one) I could’ve just put most popular female actress, but reddest flower sounded prettier 😛

Royal Elder Sister type role – Those who are more familiar with Japanese, sothing like an oneesama chara type

It cos from the JP term [御姊 – Yù zǐ] (sa aning, different pronunciation [御姐 – Yù jiě]) The original aning was a term of respect to an elder sister, but in the ACGN (animation, comic, ga, novel) term, it refers to females with the appearance, body, personality, and temperant of a mature young won (usually 16-34 yrs.old) They usually are a calm, cool-headed, strong personality, mature mind, noble temperant, and has a height of 160cm and C cups (Why? =_=)

There are also sub-types like the gentle healing type, cold & mysterious type, bold & carefree type, black-bellied/sado type, mature & reliable type, and intimate wife type.

Wife powder fans – The word fans is an extended aning from [粉丝 – fěnsī] which original aning was glass noodles or cellophane noodles (a traditional Chinese noodle)

It can be shortened to just [粉 – fěn ] which ans powder. In the original raws, it was [老婆粉 – Lǎopó fěn] so it’s just wife fans or female fans that treats themselves as your wife, which is why Zhuang Xiaoliu called nglan, Tang ge instead of Tang jie