Chapter 64: Hiccups

Chapter 64

One hour later.

All ten groups have finished performing!

The host Guan Liangzhe goes on stage: We've reached the most exciting moment again! Our online voting channel is now closed, and the backstage is tallying votes in real time!

The audience below erupts in cheers.

Guan Liangzhe: Wow, that cheer was loud enough. The editing team won't need to add any sound effects for the final video.

The audience laughs.

Guan Liangzhe clears his throat: Alright! Now let's announce the vote counts for the ten groups!

Immediately, ten columns with numbers appear on the big screen.

The vote counts for each group start climbing rapidly.

Soon, two groups' counts stop moving.

The rest continue rising.

Gradually, more and more groups' counts stagnate, until only the first group is still increasing.

It climbs far higher than the second place, several times over.

The audience bellows, screaming Nan Xiangwan's name.

Finally, the first group's count stops.

1.3 million!

A real-name online vote of a full 1.3 million!

An absurd number.

The second place has only 300,000 votes, barely a fraction of first place.

Seeing this, Executive Director Hua Yuanwu's face fills with joy.

It means their show's popularity is skyrocketing!

He grabs the headset: Attention all departments, attention all departments, announce Nan Xiangwan's individual vote count.

As soon as he finishes speaking.

Guan Liangzhe on stage receives the prompt.

He smiles at the audience, pointing at the big screen again: Want to know Nan Xiangwan's individual vote count?

We want to know!!!

The thousand-strong audience yells in unison.

So the screen changes.

Nan Xiangwan: 1.08 million votes!

She alone has over a million votes!

Incredible!

Next, the on-site vote.

Most of the 5,000 on-site votes go to the first place team, but they're barely noticeable among the millions of online votes.

Then, the mentors' votes.

The five junior mentors and three senior mentors give their votes to other groups, to avoid drowning out the talented trainees.

Nan Xiangwan's eyes are glazed over, clearly still fast asleep.

She can barely stand, propped up entirely by her teammates.

Let her speak?

She'll just burp again!

The teammates panic, scrambling to muffle Nan Xiangwan's mouth, hold her upright, stop her from falling, freaking out.

It's over!

This is livestream!

Nan Xiangwan's drunken burp was broadcasted!!!

The stage descends into chaos.

After the initial shocked silence.

The audience recovers and erupts into raucous laughter.

Comments:

OMG she f***ing BURPED hahaha!

I was so pumped and attentive waiting for Nan Xiangwan to speak, then???

That burp, my god! Earth-shattering! Hahaha!!

Ground-shaking massive burp!

Nothing less expected from you, Nan Xiangwan!

I'm f***ing dying with laughter, can you believe it?

Hahahahahahahahaha

Looks like Nan Xiangwan is drunk, right?

Here it comes [burp emoji]

Brothers out there been single how many years? Making memes this fast!

On stage.

The four mentors exchange bewildered looks.

Zhao Tiancheng wipes sweat from his brow. F**k, what now?

Seeing the flustered Guan Liangzhe at a total loss, even the host doesn't know what to do!

Raucous laughter continues from below, the thousand-strong audience laughing uncontrollably.

Hilarious hahaha!

At this time, Bian ZhiMing grabs the mic: What happened to Nan Xiangwan? Is she drunk?

Zhao Lan glares at him. Better to not have asked that question.

Sure enough, the laughter grows even louder!

Li Banyan takes the mic and honestly recounts everything that happened, apologizing profusely after finishing.

As Nan Xiangwan's roommate, she feels she failed in her duties.

But her apologies are useless.

The audience just laughs even harder!