Chapter 461: Chapter 459: Journey to the West Aftereffects

When Liu Junxi took the stage, he sang a heavy metal-style rock song.

To be honest, the song was pretty good.

He wasn’t bad himself, so even though he lost, he still got a lot of votes.

The gap between the two of them wasn’t that big.

You could only say that if he had challenged someone else, he might have succeeded this time. But that was all just "what ifs."

Despite being quite good, he was still eliminated.

But Jiang Qin thought, ’He’ll definitely be able to sign with a company and debut.’

This week’s live broadcast was more or less over at this point. Next, the five mentors would sing a song together to close out the show.

The song was commissioned by the production team—a cheerful, upbeat number.

The screams from the audience were louder than when any of the individual contestants had taken the stage!

The song ended, bringing the show to a close.

...

The next round was the quarterfinals, where eight contestants would be narrowed down to five. They had five days to prepare, so Jiang Qin gave her three trainees the next day off again.

As for herself, she paid a visit to the set of *Meteor Garden*.

Lan Yiran was currently leading the team, filming at a nearby school.

When she got there, she saw the members of the female F4.

One was a sporty girl wearing a headband, wristbands, and a tank top.

Another was a refined-looking girl with glasses and casual clothes.

Another had the air of a young noble lady.

And the last one had the gentle vibe of an upperclassman.

Four females of different styles, each with a very distinct personality, perfectly fitting their character descriptions.

The male playing the protagonist likewise fit the character profile of being poor but proud and stubborn.

They were currently filming scenes for the first episode.

The ridiculously Mary Sue-like entrance of the F4 stunned the extras.

The students watching from nearby also saw this scene being filmed, and they were all dumbfounded.

’Isn’t... this... a little too flashy?’

"It’s actually kind of understandable. We don’t have anyone like that at our school, but I heard the Mecha Academy does."

"How so?"

"I heard that whenever those students with high rankings in the mecha arena show up, everyone acts just like this, with that star-struck, adoring look.

And then you’ll have underclassmen on the side explaining all their achievements."

"Oh, and then people will be all, ’Wow~ It’s so-and-so!’ Like that?"

"Exactly!"

"That sounds so interesting. I shouldn’t have applied to the arts academy. Everyone here is so good-looking that no one really stands out."

"Heh, is it possible it’s not that you didn’t *want* to apply, but that you couldn’t get in?"

This person twisted the knife, adding, "And even if we did go, so what? We’d just be one of the people in the crowd going ’Wow~’.

Just like us here, we couldn’t even land a role as an extra responsible for the ’Wow~’s."

The students who had gathered to watch were all so devastated by this that they could have coughed up blood.

That’s right. They were the ones who couldn’t even land a role as an extra, both in real life and in the TV show.

This type of drama was pretty easy to film. The actors performed their roles effortlessly, and they quickly wrapped up the morning’s scenes.

Seeing that there were no problems, Jiang Qin left with her partners.

She was holding Zhaozhao in her arms and took the opportunity to let her experience the scenery of the academy.

After looking around for a while, she returned to the production team in the afternoon.

The three trainees who were given the day off didn’t go out to have fun at all; they stayed in the practice room dancing the whole time.

All three of them had a solid foundation, and their dancing was quite good. After offering a few words of satisfied praise, Jiang Qin began their lesson.

***

Recently on the Star Network, besides the show *Searching for Lost Sounds*, everyone was also fervently discussing the plot of *Journey to the West*.

This TV series, which they rewatched repeatedly, had too many unsolved mysteries.

The question everyone was most focused on was: are Beastmen considered a type of demon?

Is it possible for them to cultivate and become Immortals?

Although Jiang Qin had said it was all purely fictional, the Interstellar People didn’t believe her.

After all, some of the abilities of the Immortals in the show had been mentioned in fragmentary historical records, so they still wanted to find out where the Heavenly Court was.

Expedition teams had even gone down into the Deep Sea, hoping to find the ruins of the Dragon Palace.

Some people also said that the Imperial Royal Family might be the Dragon Clan that once ruled the seas.

That was why, even now, they were still the dominant power of the Empire!

With so many people saying it, even the Empress began to wonder if she had the blood of the gods in her veins.

Because of this, she called Long Hao every day for a casual chat, trying to maintain their precarious parent-child relationship.

However, after getting a very firm answer—confirming, re-confirming, and absolutely affirming that *Journey to the West* was fictional—she gave up.

But the Empress hadn’t given up on searching for the mother planet; she wanted to conduct another archaeological excavation of the ruins.

Jiang Qin couldn’t stop her from doing any of this. ’It’s fine for her to search,’ she thought. ’Who knows, maybe she’ll actually find something.’

...

But more people were focused on the new movie.

More and more people were tagging her online.

Everyone wanted to know when a movie with a similar effect to *Rebirth Night* would be released.

Jiang Qin could only reply with "as soon as possible."

She felt that her current progress was still too slow.

So, she used her free time to have Xie Lili register an entertainment company and told her to hire more people.

’It seems I need to get the short dramas ready as soon as possible,’ she thought. ’Otherwise, I’ll just waste more time preparing them when I need them.’

As for Tianwen, she redeemed two horror movies from the system: *Mountain Village Old Corpse* and *Yin Yang Road*.

"Lan Yuyan, find some people and film these two first."

"Okay."

Jiang Qin was a little worried and reminded him, "When they’re released, remember to set them as restricted for minors."

She wasn’t sure if Interstellar children could handle this kind of Chinese-style horror. She didn’t want to scare someone to death.

In any case, underage males didn’t have such an urgent need to lower their Riot Value.

...

Busy times always passed by in a flash.

Five days went by in the blink of an eye.

The third live broadcast officially began.

Of the eight people still left on the stage, three more would be leaving tonight.

The one in the most danger was Ophina, as she only had one trainee left. If her last one was eliminated, she would completely lose face.

Even now, many people on the Star Network were saying that the contestants in her group were too unlucky.

Even the bullet comments in the live broadcast chat were questioning her.

[Does Ophina only know how to write girl group songs?]

[Probably. Basically all the songs she’s composed so far have been girl group style.]

[It’s fine for being an idol, but for a competition, it’s pretty easy to be outshined. No wonder two of her three trainees have been eliminated.]

[They’ve really had it rough, ending up in a mentor group with such a fixed style.]

[Doesn’t a fixed style prove that she writes her own songs? The ones with varied styles are pretty suspicious of cheating, right?]

[There are plenty of geniuses in this world. Just because you can’t do it doesn’t mean others can’t.]

[Don’t Josh’s and Sili’s teams only have one person left too?]

[It’s different. The songs Josh composes are decent, and so are Sili’s. They’re not as one-dimensional as Ophina’s.]

... 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

However, bullet comments like these were quickly drowned out by staff from the production team who were managing the comments.

All that remained were the bullet comments cheering on and encouraging everyone’s favorite mentors and singers.