The poor and downtrodden Yan Yue, who had been struck by capitalists, returned to the restaurant feeling dispirited.
Seeing Yan Yue’s return, Su Man Man and the others immediately gathered around. However, when they saw Yan Yue’s bewildered expression, they assumed that Wei Chenxi had caused her some trouble. After all, someone of Wei Chenxi’s status had unpredictable motives. They worried that he might not appreciate Yan Yue’s help and instead threaten her.
This concern had crossed their minds while Yan Yue was away meeting people, and now, seeing her demeanor, they felt their suspicions confirmed.
Just as An Xiaoyu was about to launch into a tirade against Wei Chenxi, she heard Yan Yue let out a long sigh.
The three of them exchanged puzzled glances.
Su Man Man, sensing something amiss, asked, “Yue Yue, what’s wrong? Did Wei Chenxi say something to you?”
Yan Yue sighed once more. “It’s nothing. I’m just feeling a bit emotional.”
The three exchanged confused looks.
Yan Yue continued, “I’m just marveling at how there are so many wealthy women in this world. Why can’t I be one too?”
In a thousand worlds, at least two-thirds of the time the story starts with a poor protagonist. Could it be that she hadn’t prayed to the God of Wealth enough in her past lives?
Seeing that Yan Yue was genuinely pondering this issue, the three exchanged baffled looks.
As for the matter concerning Anna, Yan Yue hadn’t told Su Man Man and the others. It wasn’t because she didn’t trust them, but because so far, whether it was Chen Linshan or Wang Yi, they were doing their best to keep Anna from being implicated in any way. Anna also seemed to want no further connection with the Ye family. Perhaps from now on, her identity and even her face would disappear from this world completely.
Given this situation, it was a good point to end the story. As for the “Real-life Ice Queen,” let everyone guess as they pleased. Stories always needed some room for imagination to be more interesting.
Regarding Wei Chenxi, aside from bringing his wife, who the other person he had with him was, Yan Yue had only said that the person was likely brought by Wei Chenxi to take care of his wife. This wasn’t exactly a lie, as Anna was indeed taking care of her sister.
The four of them chatted about Wei Chenxi and his wife’s loving history for a while. At noon, their gossip session was interrupted by the show’s crew.
Seeing the theme of this competition, Su Man Man and the others seemed relatively calm. Compared to the previous “Family Glory” theme, this one seemed much more conventional.
After receiving the topic, each of them had their own ideas.
This competition also followed the format of creating two works, one for the upper round and one for the lower round, all within 48 hours.
After deciding on what type of work they wanted to create, the three of them looked expectantly at Yan Yue.
“Yue Yue, any ideas?”
“What are you planning to write this time? Another revenge story?”
“This theme seems suitable for a revenge story, right?”
Yan Yue glanced at the theme. It did indeed seem suitable for a revenge story, but so far, her protagonists were either seeking revenge or were on the path of revenge. She had seen so much of it that it was starting to get monotonous. This theme, on the other hand, was quite broad, allowing for various interpretations. Why not try something different?
However, she hadn’t figured out the specifics of her unique take yet, so she couldn’t spoil it for Su Man Man and the others.
In the afternoon, instead of idling around and chatting like in the morning, everyone was focused on their works. The competition officially began the moment the theme was announced. When they returned to the rest area at noon, they had each brought a few bottles of nutrient solution, ready to stay up all night working on their creations.
While others were preparing new works, Yan Yue was still busy working on a secondary creation for “Return to Star Temptation.”
She hadn’t figured out the new work yet, so she decided to earn some extra money on her alternate account.
Holding a bag of nutrient solution, Yan Yue uploaded all the edited secondary creation videos.
There were so many memorable scenes to edit from “Return to Star Temptation.” The only problem was the background music (BGM). The Star Era didn’t have songs like “Unforgivable” or “The Lone Brave,” so she had to create them using editing software.
As soon as the secondary creation videos were uploaded, over ten thousand viewers were already watching online!
Since the completion of “Return of Temptation: The Substitute for the White Moonlight,” viewers had been eagerly awaiting the “Chu Mo’s Wife” secondary creations. After the first part aired last week, viewers had been camping under Chu Mo’s Wife’s account, but they hadn’t seen any activity. Now, several days after the second part was aired, Chu Mo’s Wife finally provided content! She edited five videos all at once!
【[Unforgivable/Parody] Gu Chen X Ice Queen X Gu Ze | “How can you be in my room, wearing my pajamas, holding my wife…”]
【[Brave Warrior/High-Octane/Beat Sync] Ice Revenge Personal Parody】
【[Fox Spirit] Ice Heart X Ice Revenge X He Linfeng | No CP Can Escape the Fox Spirit!】
【[Meme] Ice Revenge X Gu Chen | Ice Revenge’s Dog Training Diary】
【[Return to Star Temptation/All Villains/Crazy Commentary/Character Darkening/High-Energy High-Octane] All Villains! This time, I will crush you under my feet!】
Just reading the titles of these five videos filled everyone with excitement and curiosity!
For some videos, like the “Fox Spirit” one, it seemed to have the style of “wife,” but the title didn’t seem particularly surprising. However, when they opened the video, they realized they were wrong! They had misunderstood “Madame Wife”!
Before opening the video, everyone: Ah! Are we going to see the clichéd story of sisters fighting over the same man? Madame Wife, so cliché, really cliché!
After opening the video: Whoa! It’s actually the sister-in-law and sister fighting over the brother-in-law, and the fox spirit is the brother-in-law, hahaha! Madame Wife, you really know how to play!
Then there’s “Unforgivable.” Surprisingly, there’s also Gu Dog in there? Does Gu Dog even deserve to appear in edited videos? Get lost!
After watching: Gu Ze married Ice Revenge? And Ice Revenge is pregnant with Gu Ze’s child? And the child was miscarried by Ice Revenge’s mother (Gu Ze’s evil mother-in-law)? Gu Ze even went to the hospital for the miscarriage, and at this point, Ice Revenge is cheating on Gu Chen? Damn! There’s even a three-person showdown, hahaha.
Everyone: First, Gu Ze and Gu Chen have a fierce fight because of Ice Revenge. Then, Ice Revenge clearly reveals her disgust with Gu Ze and asks for a divorce to marry Gu Chen. But later on, Ice Revenge cheats on Gu Chen, and the returning Gu Ze (with a tear at the corner of his eye) becomes involved again. Seeing this, Gu Chen is in crisis and willingly puts on a dog collar and muzzle to appease Ice Revenge, just to win her back. In the end, Ice Revenge cheats on Gu Chen again, with Gu Chen standing guard outside the room.
Everyone: Haha, what is this! Is it a gender-swapped version of “Return to Star Temptation”? This is so interesting! Madame Wife, quickly give us another hundred episodes, or else I’ll have to kneel down and beg you, wuwuwu.
And “Brave Warrior” and “All Villains,” these two videos have the highest quality in this batch! Especially the background music in the “Brave Warrior” video, it gave everyone goosebumps!
Everyone: What is this! It’s so exhilarating!!
Combined with Ice Revenge’s step-by-step revenge, every change in her expression, every step she takes, hits the beats of the background music perfectly!
As for “All Villains,” it’s even more remarkable. The dark color scheme of the scenes, combined with the dark lines from the drama, including Ice Heart, Ice Revenge, He Linfeng, and even He Zi Tong, all of them turning evil, attempting to destroy the world! It’s spine-tingling and blood-pumping!
But what intrigued StarNet users the most was the meme video.
When the StarNet users were first exposed to this type of video, their first reaction was: What is this, Madame made this video half-heartedly. No way, it’s too messy, can’t make sense of it.
Watching it a second time: Hahaha, training the dog is indeed the most exciting and hilarious part of the entire drama.
By the twentieth viewing: Huh? How did I end up watching it twenty times? Damn, this is too addictive!
All five videos, both in terms of visuals and the content itself, were flawless!
In half an hour, the “All Villains” and “Ice Revenge Revenge Parody” videos replaced the “Tyrannical Son-in-law” secondary creations and took the top spots in the editing chart.
After another hour, the “Ice Revenge Revenge Parody” video rose to the top of the rewards chart, and a user named “Bloodleaf Qianmeng · An Jielina · Ice Revenge” rewarded it with a staggering ten million!
Last time when Little You rewarded a million, it was already shocking enough, but this time, someone using the title “Ice Revenge” came forward as a big sponsor and donated ten million in one go!
【What the heck!!!】
【Shocking my whole family!】
【I’ve counted at least ten times to make sure, and it’s indeed seven digits! Who is this boss with so much money! This is too amazing! Not to mention, just the rewards for Madame’s videos combined are probably more than the prize money for “The Strongest Screenwriter”…】
【Wuwuwu, I’m not jealous. I’m really not jealous at all. Darn it, I said I’m not jealous, why are tears of envy still falling?】
【Start a class! Madame, please start teaching secondary creation editing right away!! I’m the first one to sign up!】
【Don’t even need to say it, these rewards are well-earned by Madame. With the quality of these videos, she could join “The Strongest Screenwriter” with no problem, right?】
【Am I the only one suspecting that this big boss is the real-life Ice Revenge??】
As soon as this comment appeared, it garnered countless likes!
Now the entire internet is searching for the real-life Ice Revenge, and some are guessing whether the real-life Ice Revenge could be Anna. However, someone will likely come forward to deny it soon. Anna’s online persona as an angel is too strong, and after the Ye Tianming incident, she posted a lengthy message saying she will move on and find her own life. She also announced her decision to leave the online world and won’t update her “Anna” account anymore. While everyone felt sorry for her, they mostly hoped that Anna could quickly recover from the shadow of Ye Tianming.
With Anna’s self-directed drama, no one naturally suspected her. However, suddenly there’s a person who’s using the name “Ice Revenge” to reward the Ice Revenge-themed secondary creation video, and they generously donated ten million. It’s hard not to make people doubt the person’s identity. Some also believe that maybe a wealthy individual just liked the video editing and the character Ice Revenge so much that they used this name…
In any case, the comments section was filled with different opinions.
As for the benefactor who donated ten million, only Yan Yue knew for sure.
Just three minutes ago, this benefactor privately messaged her, asking if the account of Chu Mo’s wife was her alias.
Yan Yue didn’t deny it and replied with a simple “yes.”
Anna’s contact information was given to Yan Yue by herself before leaving the base.
Just like how Anna confided her years of revenge plans to Yan Yue, she also didn’t intend to mention these things to anyone else. However, if she kept everything buried inside her heart for too long, it might lead to trouble. Sharing it with someone would at least make it easier. In this world, there would be someone who knew about her efforts over the years.
As for why that person was Yan Yue, Anna herself couldn’t say for sure. Perhaps it was because Yan Yue had created “Return to Star Temptation.” Or maybe Yan Yue’s interesting way of speaking resonated with her. In any case, the connections between people are quite mysterious. Even if two people are strangers, after just chatting for less than an hour, they might already hold a special place in each other’s hearts.
After receiving a positive response from Anna, Yan Yue’s alternate account immediately received a reward of ten million. It was clear that this was Anna’s and Wei Chenxi’s “thank-you gift.”
Moreover, the next day, the official account of the Wei Group even tagged Yan Yue and posted a video. It was personally recorded by Wei Chenxi. He first expressed his love for Yan Yue’s work “Return to Star Temptation: White Moonlight Substitute’s Counterattack,” and then sincerely thanked Yan Yue in the video. It was a very solemn gesture.
Although Wei Chenxi had already thanked Yan Yue in person, he still recorded a thank-you video after returning to the company. The implication behind this was self-evident.
Just like before with Little You, she could have just posted a thread without showing her face. It was likely to prevent potential trouble from finding Yan Yue in the future that she went out of her way to make a video.
Seeing this, those who had tried to flatter Yoyo Group and the Wei Group were increasingly frustrated! They had been trying to curry favor for so long, but they might never get a chance to meet the CEOs of these two corporations in their entire lives. Yet, here was Yan Yue, a small screenwriter without any background, getting heartfelt gratitude from both CEOs!
Who wouldn’t be frustrated, who wouldn’t be envious!
But even if they were envious, it wouldn’t help. Could you possibly sabotage Yan Yue? Unless you wanted to offend both the Wei Group and Yoyo Group…
This way, Wei Chenxi’s public thank-you video for Yan Yue once again stirred up the commotion on Emperor Entertainment’s website for an entire day. However, this commotion was soon replaced by the upcoming Saturday!
Saturday had arrived! The new episode of the show was about to be released!
As of now, the official program hadn’t revealed any hint about the theme of the competition. Despite being bombarded with private messages from netizens, the official program remained tight-lipped.
After enduring until Saturday, everyone started refreshing the official page of the program group at 7:59 PM. However, the doggedly punctual program updated just a second later than expected. The moment the time changed to 8:00 PM, the program page finally showed a change!
Seeing the specially designed fiery red competition channel on the official website, everyone’s eyes lit up!
It seemed that this time the theme was related to fiery red!
But what did this color represent?
The audience couldn’t wait to click in. Upon entering, they saw the prominent headline, which was also the theme of this competition—
【Passion and Youth】
This theme might seem ordinary, similar to themes like “War,” “Revenge,” or “Struggle and Endeavor” that had appeared before. Those who didn’t know might think it was a high school essay topic.
However, this kind of theme had a lot of creative space. Writers with big imaginations could come up with many fresh ideas.
At present, when the audience’s eyes scanned over, they found that everyone’s creations this time seemed quite interesting. Even Su Manman had changed her usual style. Looking at the title, it seemed she planned to write about a group of boys and girls in a competitive sports setting.
Competitive sports, that was truly passionate!
An Xiao Yu and Fang Ji were no different!
Then, the work “After Escaping Marriage 99 Times, I Married the Starry Sky’s Richest Man’s Dad” that was mixed among the three passionate and youthful works seemed quite out of place…
Audience members who saw this title: ??????
Tell me again, how many times did she escape marriage?
Tell me again, who did she marry in the end??
You call this passion, you call this youth, but did you call this escaping marriage?!
Ninety-nine times? This isn’t escaping marriage, it’s a fitness regimen!
Wait a minute… Escaping marriage?? Fitness?? Actually, it does sound pretty passionate…?
Audience: Great, it’s already filled with passion from the title. Yan Yue, you truly know how to choose titles…
Author’s Note:
Actually, in the beginning, it was called “After Escaping Marriage 9999 Times,….” But then I opened a calculator and realized that if she escaped once a day on average, it would take 27 years…
Female lead’s best friend gets married: Honey, what are you doing?
Female lead: Escaping marriage.
Female lead’s best friend gives birth: Honey, what are you doing?
Female lead: Escaping marriage.
Female lead’s best friend’s child gets engaged: Honey, what are you doing?
Female lead: Escaping marriage.
Female lead’s best friend takes her grandson shopping: Honey, let’s go shopping.
Female lead: I’m sorry, the user you are trying to reach is currently escaping marriage. She has escaped 8888 times and has 1111 times left. Please call again in three years…
Female lead’s best friend: …