Chapter 65: Meeting Miaoxiang
With the addition of abuse from Zhou Shiqing’s fans, plus small-scale skirmishes among fans of other artists, “Our Summer Romance” directly topped the weekend popularity list right after airing, far surpassing other variety shows and dramas.
With the program’s premiere popularity being so high, Xuan Xia also got a sip of the soup.
By Monday morning, Xuan Xia had gained over 300,000 fans.
When Yang Wanxiu told her this news, Xuan Xia just nodded reservedly.
Over 300,000 fans was a very good start for a newcomer like her who had just made her debut.
But in the entire entertainment industry, it was just an insignificant little trickle.
Besides, the number of new fans was just a superficial figure; how many would truly convert to loyal fans was still unknown.
Xuan Xia had seen through the essence, so she remained calm and wasn’t dazzled by the number.
“Brother Ji said to have you properly manage your account too.” Yang Wanxiu remembered Ji Ziyao’s instructions and hurriedly said to Xuan Xia, “Look, since you got verified, you haven’t posted a few posts.”
Xuan Xia had a different opinion.
Hadn’t she actively forwarded the program group’s content?
The official announcement, the live broadcast, the broadcast preview, the official launch. At least four posts.
As if knowing what Xuan Xia was thinking, Yang Wanxiu said, “Brother Ji also said that your current fans are mostly looks fans, and they want to see your beautiful selfies rather than a ruthless forwarding machine.”
Xuan Xia: “…”
Ruthless forwarding machine? Indeed something Ji Ziyao would say.
Yang Wanxiu also agreed with Ji Ziyao’s words, but thinking of Xuan Xia’s previous reluctance to hand over the account, she asked tactfully, “Xiaxia, do you have any suitable selfies to post? You could post one as fan welfare.”
Xuan Xia didn’t even think and directly replied, “No.”
No joking, she really didn’t.
Not every beauty is enthusiastic about taking photos.
Yang Wanxiu wasn’t discouraged and promised boldly, “No problem, this time going to Miaoxiang, I’ll take photos for you. Trust my skills.”
The previous two she managed both liked taking photos, so Yang Wanxiu had honed her skills; though not as good as professional photography, it was qualified and usable.
Xuan Xia didn’t refuse.
But she added, “Don’t take now, okay.”
Yang Wanxiu couldn’t help laughing, then sincerely praised with a straight face, “You’re beautiful now too.”
Xuan Xia shook her head.
She had slept less than five hours! How beautiful could she be?
Thinking about having slept so little, she couldn’t help wanting to yawn.
The inhumane program group had booked her a flight to Miaoxiang at six forty-five in the morning.
Then told her that the program group’s car would stop at the hotel entrance at five in the morning to pick her up to the airport.
This way, she had to get up at four-something.
For contemporary young people who love staying up late, what a painful experience that was!
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Miaoxiang was over nine hours by car from Jiangshi, and over three hours by flight.
As soon as the program group’s plan came out, Xuan Xia had Yang Wanxiu inquire, and Zhou Shiqing wasn’t departing from Jiangshi; he was flying directly from Yanjing to Miaoxiang.
Xuan Xia had thought at the time, since they weren’t departing together, why couldn’t they depart a day early, arrive in Miaoxiang first, and wait for everyone to meet up?
But the program group heartlessly rejected her suggestion and insisted on tormenting her this way.
The reason given was just that they needed to do pre-interviews on the way to departure.
And the staff responsible for the pre-interviews weren’t on the team list for this Miaoxiang trip.
Anyway, Xuan Xia was quite speechless.
So at this moment, before five in the morning, she was already waiting in the hotel lobby with Yang Wanxiu for the program group’s car.
Just after five past three minutes, the program group’s car to pick her up finally stopped at the hotel entrance.
Once on the car, the staff responsible for pre-interview questions said in a very surprised tone, “Oh, Teacher Xuan is bare-faced.”
Xuan Xia: “…” What’s the problem?
She didn’t have the status of a big star to have a accompanying makeup artist.
Moreover, having a makeup artist specially come to Jiangshi, start work in the early morning, and then travel with her to Miaoxiang would be expensive travel costs, which she’d have to pay out of pocket.
Was all that hassle worth it? Of course not!
The staff probably noticed her tone was a bit too excited, quickly toned it down, and asked, “Teacher Xuan, we’ll do the pre-interview in another five minutes, okay?”
Xuan Xia nodded and said yes.
The staff thought that after saying this, Xuan Xia would quickly put on some makeup or something, but Xuan Xia did nothing, just leaned on the seatback and yawned twice.
This made the staff a little excited again; she really wanted to remind Xuan Xia of something, but ultimately held back.
When the five minutes were almost up, the cameraman sitting in the front seat aimed the machine at Xuan Xia. After confirming the camera shot was fine, the cameraman gave an OK hand gesture to the staff.
The staff began asking Xuan Xia questions.
The questions were all based on the pre-provided outline. First, they asked what Xuan Xia was looking forward to about this trip, then what special things she wanted to do during this itinerary.
Xuan Xia gave answers one by one according to the standard responses.
After answering, just as she was waiting for the staff to call an end, Xuan Xia wanted to catch some sleep during the ride, but the staff suddenly added an extra question.
“This is the first trip for both teachers, but now only Teacher Xuan is catching the plane. How is Teacher Xuan feeling? Is there anything she wants to say to Teacher Zhou?”
Xuan Xia: ???
Is the program group playing like this now?
If she weren’t sure she was participating in a dating show, Xuan Xia would have thought the program group had temporarily changed the content to make a prank program.
Besides, what could she have to say to Zhou Shiqing. She just wanted to protest to the program group for not letting her show up a day earlier, comfortably waiting for Zhou Shiqing in Miaoxiang. Her mood was exactly like that.
“Do these two questions have to be answered?” Xuan Xia asked the staff sitting beside her. Anyway, they would definitely edit it later, so she wasn’t afraid to confirm once more.
The staff nodded with a smile and said yes.
“If I answer poorly, can it be cut out later?” Xuan Xia asked again.
The staff immediately shook her head, “No, we will broadcast it all as is.”
Fine then.
Actually, she already knew the answers before they even asked.
Xuan Xia had no choice but to think seriously about how to answer, trying not to break the immersion and not deviate from the feeling that this was a dating show program.
“Of course I feel a bit lonely. As for what I want to say to Teacher Zhou, um, wish him a smooth journey, see you in Miaoxiang.”
After saying that, Xuan Xia gave the staff a look, signaling that she was done.
The staff quickly followed up: “Okay, okay, then our pre-interview ends here.”
The cameraman in the front seat turned off the machine.
With no camera shot anymore, Xuan Xia immediately relaxed.
Yang Wanxiu also poked her head from the back, “Xia Xia, it’ll take half an hour to get to the airport, you rest first, I’ll call you later.”
Say something emo: I was supposed to go on shelves on the 1st. But the shelving on the 1st failed. Then my body didn’t feel well either. Sigh. What bad luck.
Finished eating, rested well, continue to work hard.
