Chapter 381: Clearing Votes

Translator: Henyee Translations

Editor: Henyee Translations

The voting for the Prynne Prize would end five minutes before the award ceremony.

At this moment, the c.o.c.ktail party was still ongoing. Murong Qiao glanced at An Nuo, who was talking to Yu Lan beside her, and casually took out her phone to look at the votes online.

However, the outcome surprised her.

In the voting for the Best Actor Award, the first person she saw was actually not Xian Yu’s name.

Murong Qiao blinked and confirmed repeatedly that she was not mistaken.

Then, she scrolled down to the comments and realized that an hour before the voting deadline, the votes of the second male actor, Xu Yi, suddenly increased rapidly, but Xian Yu’s votes increased slowly. As a result, the first place position had changed.

I don’t believe there’s anyone with better acting skills than Xian Yu this year. The votes have already been pulled up to such an extent. The votes of the other guy has increased by hundreds of thousands. Xian Yu even pulled his relatives and friends to vote but to no avail. If this isn’t shady business, what is it?”

“Me too, me too. It’s so slow that I’m about to doubt myself.

“Ask, ask. There must be someone behind this. Otherwise, based on the number of fans Xian Yu has, I don’t believe there are only so few votes. He must have been tricked!”

“Complain together, complain together…

The voices in the comments section were almost uniform. Everyone said that there was a problem with the number of votes this time.

“Fearless” was publicly recognized as a good drama. Everyone had seen Xian Yu’s acting skills. It could be said that many people were paying attention to the Prynne Prize at this moment.

In the end, when it was about to end, they saw Xian Yu being overtaken. It was not because they were blindly confident in Xian Yu, but because they were feeling unfair for him.

For a moment, many fans went to the officials to complain, causing a huge reaction. They even asked the officials to issue an announcement to explain in detail.

[In response to everyone’s strong reaction just now, we will record the votes truthfully. If there are any fake vote counts or other forms of cheating, the results of this vote will not be recorded. Everything will be based on the most realistic vote results.]

In short, if there were complaints, they would investigate strictly. The award ceremony was about to start, so the officials naturally didn’t want anything to happen at this juncture.

This caused the cheating behavior of many people to be investigated.

This included Xu Yi, who was originally ranked second.

As for Xian Yu’s votes, after the officials said that they wanted to clear the votes, he returned to first place. Moreover, he left the compet.i.tors behind in the dust and pulled away from Xu Yi by millions.

I knew it! I knew it! This is the real vote count!

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“Xian Yu is first!

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It’s a few million votes difference. If not for the fact that I didn’t have enough time, we could have pulled so many more votes over…”

Similar comments appeared under the vote.

Murong Qiao hurriedly took a few glances and suddenly heard a notification sound in the venue, telling everyone to take their seats as soon as possible. The award ceremony was about to begin.

Hmph, I can’t be bothered to argue with you.” Yu Lan felt as if she had been pardoned.

She was still in a deadlock with An Nuo just now and was thinking about how to shut An Nuo up when she heard the notification.

In this way, Yu Lan had a way out. After snorting coldly, she disappeared in front of Murong Qiao and An Nuo.

She’s too weak,” An Nuo muttered secretly.

She stared at Yu Lan’s back as she left. She could vaguely sense a little panic in her footsteps.

Fortunately, An Nuo didn’t waste any time after that. She pulled Murong Qiao to the corresponding seat and watched as the platform in the middle of the venue slowly rose from the ground.

The originally flat ground suddenly split into a circular platform from the middle. Then, the spiral stairs on both sides rose. Only then did the lights in the venue point at the center of the venue, reflecting the figure of an emcee.

h.e.l.lo, everyone. I’m Xiang Yuanbai.” The opening introduction was fixed.

Xiang Yuanbai was considered the most respected emcee. He had already been the emcee of the Prynne Prize for 10 consecutive years.

“Welcome to this award ceremony. I didn’t expect to see so many new faces this year…”

Xiang Yuanbai smiled and read the opening statement. His gaze seemed to sweep across Murong Qiao below the stage.

The awards given at the opening ceremony were mainly for the newcomers, and then divided into singers and actors.

Among them, Xu Xiuzhu and Shi Yang were nominated, and Shi Yang even won the Best New Singer Award.

He had become popular on the Internet some time ago, and then he had used his “strange” characteristic to retain many fans. Coupled with Jiang Chi’s painstaking efforts, he deserved the award of Best New Singer.

“There are quite a lot of people to thank. Boss will definitely be the first…” Shi Yang expressed his thoughts.

This time, he was not dressed as casually as usual. His suit was good-looking and straight, mixed with the brightness of a young man. He could catch people’s attention just by standing there.

Murong Qiao’s gaze was dark. At this moment, the person sitting below the stage was coincidentally the director of “Fearless”, Liu Cheng.

Seeing that most of the small awards had pa.s.sed and the Best Male and Female Actors Award was about to be announced, Liu Cheng’s palms were sweating.

On the other hand, Murong Qiao, who was sitting beside him, looked calm and was not afraid at all.

“Aren’t you nervous?” Liu Cheng couldn’t help but ask.

At this moment, he still didn’t know that the votes on the Internet had already been cleared out. He was still a little uneasy and intuitively felt that Xian Yu would only have a 50-50 chance of winning the award this time.

Murong Qiao raised her eyebrows. “What’s there to be nervous about?

Murong Qiao naturally wouldn’t panic. She had just looked at her phone and the gap between Xian Yu’s votes was so wide that even if the other party cheated again, he wouldn’t be able to catch up.

However, Liu Cheng didn’t know how to answer.

Indeed, both “Fearless” and Xian Yu were so outstanding that they were even better than many capable actors. Even Liu Cheng couldn’t find any fault with them.

As the two of them chatted, the stage began to talk about the award for the Best Actor.

Next is the Best Actor award. Let’s look at the votes online—” Xiang Yuanbai said and turned to look at the screen behind him.

As soon as he finished speaking, the relevant information from the online statistics appeared on the screen.

In order to show fairness, every award would be voted by the netizens to decide who really deserved it.

To highlight the point, only the votes for the top three were displayed on the screen.

Xian Yu’s name was much higher than the other two.

This outcome made Xu Yi, who was sitting below the stage and had even secretly tidied up his image, frown. He was preparing to go on stage to receive the award and couldn’t help but look stunned.

‘How?’

He looked at Xian Yu’s votes that were much higher than his and secretly scolded his manager for not working. Little did he know that his cheating had already been discovered by the officials.

Looks like the outcome is already very clear.” Xiang Yuanbai’s tone was filled with a smile.

The light followed his gesture and shone on Xian Yu’s position, illuminating his tall figure.

Under everyone’s gazes, Xian Yu stood up and walked up the stage.

Murong Qiao was also one of those people. Today, it was even rarer to see her Fifth Brother wearing a suit and looking serious.

The golden light carried a holy feeling. When it landed on the podium, Xian Yu stepped on it. His entire body seemed to be covered in a layer of golden light, and even the hair on his head was illuminated clearly.

I didn’t expect the Best Actor this time to be a famous singer who’d won many awards previously.. From this, it can be seen how much effort Xian Yu has put into his acting skills to be worthy of this glory…”

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