Chapter 1294: The Miracle of Life

"Not bad, Luo Bao. Those long legs are twisting like noodles; you've clearly practiced this."

"You said you wouldn't dance, but now that you're actually doing it, you're dancing better than anyone."

"That's just how Miss Luo Quan is—always saying one thing while her body does another."

"Truth be told, even though Luo Bao and Gao Liang are dancing well, I still think it's tacky."

"That's just how the dance moves are; there's no helping it."

"Who cares? As long as it looks good and is fun, isn't that enough? No need to have so many requirements."

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Amidst the teasing from the fans, Miss Luo Quan and Gao Liang finished dancing this "Subject Three."

To be honest, at the very beginning, Miss Luo Quan actually felt quite embarrassed, as if her dignity had shattered all over the floor.

But as she kept dancing, she just gave up on caring. After breaking through that layer of shame, all that remained was enjoyment.

"Haha, I have a premonition that our 'Subject Three' will set off an even bigger trend of imitation abroad."

After finishing the dance, Gao Liang looked like he still wanted more, wishing he could drag his older sister into dancing the "Northeast Social Shake" as well.

Seeing Gao Liang so enthusiastic, Miss Luo Quan was scared straight into fleeing the scene.

"Subject Three" was one thing; although the moves were a bit awkward, if done cleanly and neatly, it still had some aesthetic appeal.

The "Social Shake," however, was like "awkwardness opening the door for awkwardness"—it was awkward to the core. Back and forth, it was just those one or two moves, completely lacking in originality.

If she were really forced to dance the "Social Shake," her slippers would probably be worn through.

Returning to her room to open the livestream, Miss Luo Quan was immediately met with teasing from her fans.

Everyone was saying her taste was getting lower and lower. Before, she only watched tacky videos, but now she had actually started dancing tacky dances. Wouldn't she eventually evolve into filming tacky videos?

At the thought of Miss Luo Quan potentially coming up with heaven-defying, abstract stunts like *Northeast Past*, the fans were caught in a tug-of-war between wanting to vomit blood from anger and being immensely expectant.

They wanted to see it, but they also felt it would ruin her persona.

This feeling was quite conflicting.

In fact, Miss Luo Quan herself had always been subtracting from her persona. She had told her fans countless times that, aside from the "World's Most Beautiful" persona, she didn't acknowledge any other labels.

Only in this way could she avoid the situation of her persona collapsing.

However, some labels existed whether she acknowledged them or not. At least until today, "High-Mountain Flower," "Dazzling Top-Tier Star," and "Virtuous Old Artist" were all her personas.

But after dancing "Subject Three" today, the name "Miss Luo Quan" fell straight into the dust, becoming so tacky it was as if she were rolling in mud.

Whether the previous high-end personas could continue to exist was a massive question mark.

On Bilibili, everyone was very tolerant, treating Miss Luo Quan's dance entirely as a joke and an act for fun, so the barrage comments were mainly teasing.

But on Weibo, the malice Miss Luo Quan faced was much greater.

A group of people took the opportunity to make a fuss, saying Miss Luo Quan's taste had gone wrong, that she would actually dance such a dance—it was simply "low to the core."

Coupled with the fact that "Subject Three" was being criticized on the trending topics at the time, Miss Luo Quan and Gao Liang encountered quite a bit of mockery.

However, the reasons for the criticism were actually quite absurd.

The reason was that many customers at Haidilao would ask employees to dance "Subject Three" to liven up the atmosphere.

And Haidilao's service tenet was to satisfy the vast majority of customer needs.

So the employees danced "Subject Three."

But perhaps the tacky dance disturbed surrounding guests, who filmed videos and posted them online to rebuke it, saying people who danced this kind of dance were simply unreasonable.

Subsequently, the media began to exert pressure, calling "Subject Three" vulgar, disruptive to public order, unbearable, and so on.

And this incident happened almost at the same time as Gao Liang and Miss Luo Quan dancing "Subject Three."

Both hit the trending topics together, and of course, they were scolded together.

If it were just that, it would be fine; it was nothing more than grassroots entertainment being criticized and mocked by the upper class once again.

Just like a certain worker who said they felt very happy after eating a KFC meal in a big city, only to be mocked by the masses, asking what was so happy about KFC—wasn't it something you could eat whenever you wanted?

Those with a more superior tone simply said, "Even dogs don't eat KFC."

Of course, the people who said these things might indeed have dogs at home that ate very well; after all, there were many videos on Bilibili showing off wealth, where the dogs of those content creators ate Wagyu beef, so they truly couldn't look at KFC.

However, the people who said these things might not know that for some, the junk food they wouldn't even glance at might be something they only dared to eat once during holidays.

Behind this sense of superiority lay a massive wealth gap.

Some people enjoyed steak, red wine, and caviar, wondering how in the world someone could be so happy just eating a KFC meal.

While others felt satisfied just being able to eat a lunch with some meat in it.

This difference, if not personally experienced, could never be imagined by those in the clouds.

And in China, the people rooted in the soil accounted for over ninety percent of the population.

This many people might never know what Starbucks is in their entire lives.

Their greatest form of entertainment was those cheap smartphones costing around 2,000 yuan, scrolling through Douyin and Constable, laughing happily as they watched people with similar social status to them dancing the funny and tacky "Subject Three."

And then, driven by the immense exhaustion of a busy day, they would turn off their phones and enter dreamland.

"Subject Three" was actually just a representative. If this tacky dance became popular today, they would mock it; if that tacky song became popular tomorrow, they would criticize it; if tacky videos became popular the day after, they would still boycott them.

The reason for this was to emphasize their own uniqueness and distinguish the class gap between them and the general public.

In fact, as long as these tacky contents didn't affect others while being filmed and the content wasn't vulgar, even if it was a bit tacky, it shouldn't be treated this way.

But there was no helping it—who let the power of discourse fall into the hands of others?

If this were a novel, then this situation would definitely not see any turning point, and Miss Luo Quan and Gao Liang would definitely not go against public opinion.

But reality is often much more magical than a novel.

Less than five hours later, "Subject Three" became popular again.

But this time, the location wasn't domestic, but abroad.

At an annual international dance competition, a group of master-level international dancers danced the tacky dance from China—"Subject Three"—in front of all the audience and judges.

This was a stunt they pulled after completing their competition performance; one could say the dance competition was work, while "Subject Three" was life.

When that brainwashing DJ ancient-style song started playing, and these dancers struck one tacky pose after another, the scene immediately became incredibly magical.

This thing was being mocked by more than half the people in China, yet it actually became popular abroad, and everyone from dancers to ordinary folks was dancing it, quite like a nationwide "Subject Three" challenge.

After this news hit the trending topics, it was a bit hard to comment on.

They had just scolded this thing in the morning, and in the afternoon, others had delivered a wave of cultural export—should one praise it or continue scolding it?

To praise it seemed like slapping one's own face.

To scold it—the culture that various academies, funded by massive investments, couldn't export was exported by "Subject Three." If it was still scolded, then what were those academies?

So this matter was truly hard to judge.

More than half of those who were still complaining about Miss Luo Quan in the morning were silenced in the afternoon. The remaining stubborn ones said, "They're just following local customs by dancing a dance; look how happy you all are."

And Miss Luo Quan, after being complained about all morning, finally spoke up:

"This is inherently a dance for fun, and my dancing it is also an act for fun. There's no need to assign any extra value to it or to my actions.

Just like these dance champions, everyone saw them dancing 'Subject Three' and thought it was interesting and fun—that's enough.

After all, it's just for fun.

If one has to get to the bottom of everything and insist on assigning value to it, then living is too tiring. I'd rather be relaxed and not ponder anything too carefully.

Scrolling through short videos on Douyin, Constable, and Bilibili—isn't that just for fun?"

To summarize the whole thing, she was telling everyone not to take things too seriously; if you take it seriously, you lose.

Social pressure is so high, and many people seem to have nothing go right; there's no need to add trouble to each other. Isn't it better to be happy and have some fun?

At this point, the storm surrounding her was completely over.

However, the explosion of "Subject Three" had only just begun.

Those foreign dance champions danced "Subject Three" with quite standard moves, clearly having come prepared.

This showed that before the celebrity effect of Miss Luo Quan and Gao Liang kicked in, "Subject Three" was already very popular abroad; even these dance champions were willing to pull a related stunt on such a stage.

And this point could also be seen from the trending video list on TikTok: content related to "Subject Three" was skyrocketing. It was believed that before long, it would become a phenomenal dance like "Gangnam Style" or the "Shuffle Dance."

As for Gao Liang and Miss Luo Quan, who had hitched a ride on the trend, their video also gained quite a lot of views abroad.

Two big stars had already taken the lead; it was believed that more foreign stars would soon join the ranks of the dance.

Compared to domestic stars who liked to put on airs, many foreign stars were actually quite down-to-earth, usually posting whatever they had to say on Twitter or Instagram.

They would even personally step in if they had beef with someone, never letting their fans get involved.

This behavior also made them seem more human.

Of course, none of this had anything to do with Miss Luo Quan anymore.

She was currently preparing for the filming of *The Wolf of Huaerjie*, and it was being filmed in Shanghai.

Filming an American-background movie in China—wasn't that very bold?

But there was no other way.

Didn't Hollywood screenwriters go on strike a while ago, proposing to increase wages?

Then the two sides haggled for a long time before finally formulating a new labor contract. Although it wasn't as much as initially proposed, the screenwriters finally got their wage increase as they wished.

And the actors, seeing that the screenwriters got a raise, immediately felt: why can others get a raise, but not us?

So, just as the screenwriters settled down, the actors started striking and making a fuss.

In the United States, there was no such thing as "if you don't do it, plenty of others will." They had an actors' union to organize strikes, and all actors would respond to the union's call. Once it started, the entire industry would shut down. If they said they wouldn't film for Hollywood, then not a single scene would be filmed.

So, Hollywood had only been working for a few days before falling into a standstill again, and the two sides had to start another protracted haggling process.

If nothing unexpected happened, it was estimated that work wouldn't start until next spring.

But it wasn't without a solution. Didn't Miss Luo Quan propose one? She directly let the actors come to China to film the movie.

Anyway, the script had already been changed by her, the director had been replaced, and the actors' contracts had been re-signed. It was equivalent to having nothing to do with Hollywood anymore, at most the investors were American companies.

Moreover, the filming location was in China; the mountains were high and the emperor was far away, so no matter how long the actors' union's reach was, it couldn't reach here.

This proposal was agreed upon by a group of investors.

This movie had already been dragged out for more than half a year; continuing to drag it out was really not the way. The method Miss Luo Quan proposed was almost the perfect solution at the moment.

Currently, the main actors were all starting to apply for visas to come to China to film the movie, and the extras whose parts weren't too heavy could just be found locally in China.

In addition, there weren't many outdoor scenes in this movie; the main locations were offices and villas. Once these two scenes were set up, the atmosphere problem could be solved.

As for the original director of *The Wolf of Huaerjie*, although he was currently out of danger, looking at the situation, by the time he recovered, the new version of *The Wolf of Huaerjie* would probably have been out of theaters for several months.

About to start filming the movie, Miss Luo Quan also explained the situation to her fans in the livestream and asked for about a month of leave.

Then, she entered the fantasy world again, harvested the vegetables she had planted during this time, and started a new round of planting.

Currently, although she had obtained the identity of the Succubus Queen, there was no particularly obvious improvement for Miss Luo Quan for the time being.

It was just that the players had provided her with quite a few attribute points.

However, it was worth mentioning that the divine position of the Mother Goddess of Life had grown quite a bit during the time she was away.

The strength of this divine position depended entirely on the number of believers.

Once the number of believers went up, the divine power grew rapidly.

After the divine power grew, the rewards it could provide became more and more numerous.

Miss Luo Quan took this opportunity to also grow her cultivation by a significant amount.

She felt that if she continued like this, she might very well advance to the next realm within three years.

By then, she would be a true expert in the real sense.

In this way, she was one step closer to taking the dominant position with Ye Zhining.

At the thought of this, Miss Luo Quan couldn't help but reveal a joyful smile.

But after she left the fantasy world, a change that occurred in her body made her mentality almost shatter on the spot.

The cause of the matter was that the Golden Core in her dantian had cracked.

It had been mentioned before that after she ate a Golden Core, her dantian directly condensed a perfect Golden Core, and she also became a Golden Core stage cultivator.

Recently, her cultivation had surged, so advancing became a matter of course.

The next level after Golden Core was Nascent Soul.

However, this Nascent Soul was a bit different from what Miss Luo Quan had imagined. ===== CHAPTER 1295 =====