Chapter 186: Finish this job and head back home

After another award presentation and a guest performance, the host on stage gave a real-time update on the voting rankings for Weibo Queen and Weibo King.

Yes, the biggest awards of the night seemed to be using English terms just to clearly distinguish them from the various other "Annual Best" or "God/Goddess" titles.

When Bai Liang first saw these two titles, he thought they were playing cards.

As for the voting results... for Weibo Queen, the first place was naturally Fan Bingbing with 14. 2 million, and second place was Sister Zhao Liying with 13. 8 million.

The Weibo King side was much more intense; first place was Bai Liang with 62. 5 million, and second place was Lu Han with 61. 5 million.

It looked like the top two on both sides were locked in a fierce battle.

But in reality, Sister Zhao Liying and Lu Han hadn't even shown up.

The outcome had been decided long ago; Weibo wouldn't give a trophy to someone who didn't attend.

Lu Han's fans were truly fierce in their voting! They were worthy of being the peak top-tier idol of the current era.

Bai Liang suspected that Weibo had helped pad the votes; otherwise, he couldn't have beaten the other side. He hadn't even asked Yan Zi to mobilize any vote-gathering efforts.

Before coming, he had only thought about picking up an award casually and putting it in the studio to decorate the place; he hadn't been aiming for these biggest awards.

Then he saw the vote counts surging fiercely.

Actually, Lu Han's fans were also complaining online, feeling that Bai Liang must have cheated.

Then, Weibo announced they would investigate thoroughly. A few hours later, they issued a notice stating that they had used technical means to cancel some abnormal votes.

Before Lu Han's fans could even cheer, they discovered that Lu Han's vote count had dropped by over a million, while Bai Liang's hadn't budged.

Damn it, what kind of nonsense is this!

Anger was useless, though. You couldn't exactly storm Weibo's own headquarters while on Weibo's turf, could you?

There's no such logic in this world.

Look up what "abuse of power" means.

Fortunately, the clever fans decided to develop "new territory" elsewhere, such as a short-video platform that had just emerged called Douyin.

The fans' fussing and fighting didn't really matter to the principals involved.

After Bai Liang had clashed with Wu Mou twice, other top-tier stars in the circle, if not afraid of him, at least held a few more reservations about him.

When there were no conflicts of interest, they wouldn't tear into each other too fiercely.

At most, the fans would bicker on a small scale, but it didn't stir up much of a rhythm.

At a different gala where Lu Han attended and Bai Liang didn't, Lu Han won the online vote.

At another one, Li Yifeng won.

Oh right, there was also the final dance of the three TF boys together this year.

Everyone was a top-tier star, so why bother crowding together?

When the cake really wasn't enough to go around, that would be the time to tear each other to pieces.

"My love is like the tide."

"Love is like the tide, pushing me toward you."

"..."

After Zhang Xinzhe sang "Love is Like the Tide," it was finally time for the two big awards to be presented.

Fan Bingbing didn't even bother to pretend; she smoothed out her skirt, held the hem, and was already prepared to stand up.

Bai Liang, meanwhile, was still rolling in the Shura field~

Like a capybara tossed into a tumble dryer, even though his fur was soaked, he didn't lose his calm demeanor.

After Bai Liang went to the edge of the stage to pick her up, Reba was clearly unable to suppress her mood and started chatting with him in low whispers from time to time.

The whole person was like a flower blooming on the spot.

If not for the venue restrictions, she would have spun around for Bai Liang a few times.

The irrepressible joy in her tone was actually quite pleasant, but to Nazha, it sounded like noise, like metal scraping against metal.

Oh right, Lin Gengxin, who had gone up midway to receive a "God" award and incidentally promote "Journey to the West: Demon Chapter," had gone to the restroom after leaving the stage and hadn't returned yet.

Who knows if he'll even come back; he's learned to be smart.

Unlike the previous conversations on different channels, Nazha and Reba had already started speaking on the same frequency.

The two even started to become... somewhat passive-aggressive.

Li Qin, sitting behind Bai Liang, looked at him with a very pitiful expression, thinking: Being a fickle scumbag really has no good ending; it's better to just be physical and not emotional.

Let's see how he handles tonight!

Although she knew Bai Liang was in good shape, he couldn't clone himself; could he "soothe" everyone?

When the event ended, that would be the truly deadly "Shura field" for this guy.

To put it bluntly, whose bed was he going to sleep in tonight?

Anyway, Li Qin had already sent her room number; nothing else, just for the fun of it.

She felt it was impossible for Bai Liang to come find her... probably.

"Sister, let's add each other on WeChat~"

Li Qin, who had been slightly distracted, turned her head to see Meng Ziyi's bright, smiling face and was stunned. "Sure, you brought your phone too?"

"I knew I couldn't go on stage to receive an award, so I specifically matched a bag when walking the red carpet and put my phone inside to bring it in."

Li Qin glanced at her own matching decorative handbag; ah, they were all things that could only hold a phone.

Sister, great minds think alike!

Looking at the self-amused Meng Ziyi, Li Qin had to sigh, it's good to be young!

She didn't seem to have so many worries; perhaps there really wasn't a deep story with Bai Liang? Just friends?

If that were the case, then Meng Ziyi's behavior was understandable.

At this moment, Bai Liang, whose name had finally been called by the host, was "liberated."

He stood up and walked toward the stage.

He met up with Fan Bingbing at the stairs, nodded to greet her, and prepared to go up to receive the award.

However, an awkward thing happened at this moment.

Fan Bingbing very naturally wanted to reach out and take Bai Liang's arm, or rather, have him offer an arm for her to lean on.

As a result, she accidentally missed.

After performing such a romantic, sugar-coated operation in front of everyone, this guy seemed to have used up all his gentlemanly manners.

What was worse was that this scene was captured by the live director, and everyone saw it directly on the big screen.

"Hey~"

"Eh?"

"Ah, sorry."

Fan Bingbing: You better really be sorry, kid!

Chasing after him in a few steps, Fan Bingbing, who had only intended to lean on him slightly, directly reached out and grabbed him firmly.

She added with a half-smile: "Little brother, are you afraid I'm leeching off your popularity? Don't want to get on the trending list with me?"

"I was just thinking about something else," Bai Liang said earnestly.

"What thing?"

"What to eat tonight."

"Hmph~"

Honestly, at this moment, Bai Liang had a strange feeling that he had encountered an upgraded version of Yang Mi.

Compared to Sister Mi, who had just crossed the threshold of thirty, the big sister beside him was truly ripe; if she were a few years older, Bai Liang could have called her Auntie.

Her style was naturally bolder and wilder.

She walked to the center of the stage almost pressed against Bai Liang.

She had the air of "I'm not letting go today, I'm going to make big news with this fresh meat."

Fortunately, she finally let Bai Liang go, perhaps because "Big Black Bull" was sitting down below.

The Weibo Night director was also quite mischievous; after Fan Bingbing stuck to Bai Liang, he deliberately gave Big Black Bull a close-up.

The other party touched his nose slightly awkwardly, pretending he hadn't seen anything.

Then the camera stayed on him... because after Weibo Chairman and CEO Cao Guowei presented the awards to the two, Fan Bingbing started her acceptance speech.

The big screen at the venue kept showing Big Black Bull, and the audience watching the live stream enjoyed the back-and-forth switching of the cameras.

Naturally, there was a round of jeering.

However, the focus of this award wasn't this "old married couple."

When Fan Bingbing finished, Bai Liang stepped forward to take the microphone...

*Swish*, the camera locked directly onto... five girls.

Nazha and Reba saw it most clearly; the camera locked onto them and suddenly raised much higher.

It gave a top-down perspective.

This was to capture the other three behind them as well.

At this time, Li Qin was still chatting enthusiastically with Meng Ziyi, and Chen Yao was leaning in, listening quite intently.

Being put on the big screen like this scared the three of them into sitting up straight immediately.

Reba: Huh? I only remembered to deal with the little fellow-townsman; I forgot to deal with you few.

Nazha: What are you looking at? One of the ones behind is under my protection; come at me.

The two exchanged glances, and it was as if sparks were rubbing together in the air.

But facing the camera, they didn't show any strange expressions on their faces.

Smile~

The live audience had already gone crazy.

Bai Liang's five CP partners appeared on the same screen, and another big screen even showed their respective CP photos...

This group of people at Weibo Night had a crazy feeling of "finish this job and head back home."

But the audience really loved watching it! Even Bai Liang, who was saying his lines, was slightly stunned; he smiled at the camera, finished the necessary thank-yous, and then waved at the girls.

At this moment, not a single girl would fail to give him face.

Everyone smiled and responded to him.

Even Nazha and Reba were each thinking in their hearts: Don't let the one next to me ruin things!

Fortunately, the girls' tacit understanding was on the same frequency at this moment.

This scene was directly rated by netizens as the best shot of Weibo Night tonight.

The five girls were poised and beautiful, each in their own way, and Bai Liang on stage didn't avoid anything at all.

Right, this is the correct way to open the "after-sales" for a TV drama.

Who knows what the other actors are avoiding; they don't even want to be on the same stage.

Spreading sugar, crazily spreading sugar!

All the CP fans had something to ship!

Of course, there were also some fans gossiping: Bai Liang is a master of balancing water, spreading sugar to five families; why not gather three more and complete the "Eight Great Masters of Tang and Song" achievement?

Once this was said, it was sprayed to pieces by Reba and Bai Liang's CP fans.

What balancing water? What water was balanced?

Blind your dog eyes! Didn't you see the scene where he went to the stairs to pick up Reba? Do the others have this treatment?

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Six of the top ten trending searches were occupied; this was the "empire Bai Liang built" for Weibo Night tonight.

After stepping off the stage, he put the trophy back in its place and said he needed to go to the restroom.

Bai Liang really had to pee~

He had never attended such a gala and didn't know this thing was actually so long and smelly.

The girls either didn't drink much water before coming, after all, they had to show off their figures, and they wished there was nothing in their stomachs.

Or they were experienced and went to the restroom before it started.

Regardless of whether they had to pee or not, they had to find a way to squeeze out a few drops.

If the skirt was too big, at least they could find an assistant to help, but having the urge to pee midway was troublesome.

The moment Bai Liang put the trophy down, Nazha directly snatched it into her hands.

Reba was a step slower... she blamed it on the little crocodile, thinking it was all because that thing bit her.

"I'll hold it for him, no need to trouble you."

"Hmph~"

She didn't want to bicker with the little fellow-townsman, but Reba blamed it on that little crocodile.

So she took that thing into her hand, looking like she was going to take it home.

As a result, Nazha wasn't happy again, "Is it yours just because you take it?"

Reba: "Yours?"

Nazha: "That's not yours either."

Reba: "I'll hold it for him, no need to trouble you."

The enemy used "using their own way to treat them," and clearly Nazha didn't know the Six Meridian Divine Sword, nor did she have Qiao Feng's ability to suppress people with force, so she could only sulk.

After all, she couldn't just reach out and grab it from Dilraba.

*Sob sob*... little crocodile~

After feeling sad for a while, she couldn't help but say: "You aren't planning to smash it when you take it back, are you? Don't be so petty!"

"You think of people so badly?"

Reba didn't say the next sentence, but her eyes clearly meant, "Aren't you that kind of person?"

For the above conversation, the two still used "encrypted communication."

Anyway, the people beside and behind them couldn't understand at all; they just felt these two were bickering, and it seemed quite intense.

"Thank you all for accompanying us to this moment; now the Annual Weibo Night is about to come to an end. Thank you for the miracles you wrote with love over the past year. The power of love is infinite; with 'love,' Weibo can burst forth with energy that can change the world!"

"Thank you all, good night!"

"Ah? It's over, why hasn't he come back yet?"

Nazha muttered, but Reba stood up and left.

She... couldn't wait for Bai Liang here; the announcement schedule was dense, and time was very tight.

Moreover, this occasion today wasn't suitable for the two of them to get together and say anything.

Although she really wanted to hug Dabai and hide in the car to talk and be intimate, there really wasn't an opportunity.

Slip away, slip away.

Holding her trophy and the little crocodile, she still didn't forget to give Nazha a back view that would make her envious.

Nice butt, do you have one? Oh right, my chest is bigger than yours too!

"Padded! It's definitely padded!"

After gossiping, Nazha was a little confused; actually, her schedule was also a bit rushed, but fortunately, although she had to take a plane to leave Yanjing overnight, there was still plenty of time.

Turning her head, of Bai Liang's five CP partners, only she was left.

No choice, she had to take Bai Liang's trophy and walk out, thinking about going out to find her assistant to get her phone and contact him again.

Bai Liang wasn't like Lin Gengxin, who had pulled a "pee escape."

He was blocked at the restroom...

One thing Nazha and Reba didn't notice: Sister Meng had already slipped away.

When Bai Liang put the trophy down and said he was going to the restroom, this little girl quietly followed from another direction.

"Little Hedgehog!"

"Sister Meng, why are you here? This is the men's restroom~"

"Can't care about that much; I couldn't talk to you over there, I really have something I want to tell you."

The grievances suppressed all night seemed to burst out at this moment, showing Bai Liang what it meant for a crying scene to come at a moment's notice.

Although she had been smiling all along, it didn't mean she didn't care at all.

Those little pearls falling had quite a bit of a "pity-inducing" feeling.

This was the best "acting" Sister Meng had ever done; of course, if she were really asked to act, she probably couldn't act out this flavor.

As for having something to say? The emotions that words could convey were all in the eyes staring straight at him after she threw herself into his arms and blinked her big eyes.

Today, Sister Meng was determined to eat the "rebound grass" again, again, and again; no one could stop her.

Bai Liang could only be glad that no one came to the restroom at this time.

Except for Lin Gengxin.

This guy actually hadn't left; he had been wandering around the restroom waiting for the event to end.

After going to chat with acquaintances for a while, he suddenly really wanted to go to the restroom.

As a result, as soon as he came in, he saw...

*Damn!

Lin Gengxin had no choice but to go out and watch the door for Bai Liang, silently counting: The Immortal owes me another meal.

Fortunately, Sister Meng wouldn't eat the rebound grass in the men's restroom; how could she do such an explosive thing?

After telling Bai Liang her hotel and room number with a red face and red eyes, she quickly slipped away.

Left the venue directly and went back to the hotel first.

"Buddy, others come to Weibo Night to gain exposure, you come to Weibo Night to challenge the limits of life!" Lin Gengxin, who left the restroom with Bai Liang, said with emotion: "But I really didn't expect your girlfriend to be this... it's too unexpected."

"Ah? No, I broke up with her; consider her an ex-girlfriend," Bai Liang said very rigorously.

He had actually asked Sister Meng once before, but the other party just played dead with him, so there was nothing he could do.

"You're awesome... I won't worry about you anymore; I have to go, you'll have to find a way to survive the trials ahead yourself," Lin Gengxin said with schadenfreude.

However, what trials could Bai Liang possibly have?

Because of Sister Meng's delay, he happened to catch the end of the event when he came out.

Glancing at the original positions, the girls had all left one after another.

Nazha, who left last, also turned and walked out before he could go over.

Bai Liang had no choice but to leave with the main crowd first.

There were many people at this time, and they were walking slowly... as a result, a body suddenly bumped into his arms, seemingly squeezed by the person in front.

Bai Liang looked down, "Huh, Chen Yao."

The slender Chen Yao looked up at Bai Liang and smiled at him: "Long time no see~"

Bai Liang was stunned: "Indeed long time no see, how have you been lately?"

"Quite good, thanks to you..."

Chen Yao was still the same as before, speaking slowly, and her tone was very gentle.

The last time the two met alone was almost a year ago.

It seemed like everything had changed.

At least Chen Yao knew that she probably wouldn't have the chance to work with Bai Liang again.

Just like today, even if she could appear by his side, there were others in between.

Even last time in the hospital, when she boldly reached into the blanket, it was because of Jin Cheng's external influence.

Now she didn't dare anymore.

However, looking at Bai Liang's still gentle and familiar smile, she felt... it seemed like nothing had changed.

Walking slowly outward with the crowd, it was as if they had returned to the time when they were dating to hype up a scandal; the thin Chen Yao held Bai Liang's sturdy arm, feeling that familiar sense of security return.

It was just that, as if it were that "date" again, they finally waved goodbye under the streetlights.