Chapter 602: You'd Better Actually Have Athlete's Foot

When the award presenter called out his name, Huang Jiaozhu, as one of the Best Actor nominees, felt something very different from usual.

The whole point is forcing a smile~

Right now his heart is super conflicted — on one hand, he really wants this Golden Rooster Best Actor trophy, after all, becoming the first actor to win the Golden Rooster Best Actor twice, that weight speaks for itself.

But after winning at the Hundred Flowers Awards last time, he already got a taste of what it feels like to step on the other contenders and take the award when your performance isn't enough to convince everyone, especially when there's a monster-level top-tier celebrity among them.

If he wins again this time, Bai Liang's fans would probably dig up his entire ancestral graveyard!

But if he can't get Best Actor, his ex-wife's moves are right there for all to see, and she's been subtly leaning toward Bai Liang, adding drama for herself — when the time comes, those "sisters" on Weibo probably won't pass up this chance to kick a man when he's down.

You can already imagine what those sisters would say~

Like, "You can't stop her from running toward a better person, can you?"

Even though all this drama was cooked up by his ex-wife on her own, and Bai Liang's side never responded, but those sisters don't care about any of that~ As long as they can use it to attack Huang Jiaozhu, that's enough.

So right now, Huang Jiaozhu feels like he's gone from being stuck between a rock and a hard place to being stuck between two hard places.

Damn it — winning Best Actor means about to suffer heavily, not winning also means about to suffer heavily.

Looking at it this way, seems like he can only choose the lesser of two evils~

Of course, which "evil" it ends up being doesn't depend on his own will — the "truth" is in the presenter's hands~

Looks like there's a choice, but really there isn't — he can only wait for them to announce his "fate."

Then, depending on which side's scolding he's about to get, decide on the team's PR strategy.

Looking at the state of the Best Actor nominees on the big screen, Huang Jiaozhu noticed everyone's expression seemed fine — only his own smile was the most forced, so he hurriedly adjusted it.

As for Bai Liang, who by all rights should be very nervous — after all, the public had already popped the champagne early — at this moment he was still relaxed, chatting and laughing with Chen Duling and Zhou Ye on either side~

As if he wasn't worried at all that the name announced wouldn't be his.

This state is exactly the same as during the Hundred Flowers Awards~

Only the result is completely different!

The presenters, Liu Dehua and Xi Meijuan, after chatting briefly, finally opened the envelope:

At this point Huang Jiaozhu could no longer control his stiff expression, and even Bai Liang couldn't continue happily chatting with the young ladies, because the young ladies were nervous beyond belief on the spot, each grabbing one of his hands, their nails practically digging into his flesh~

"The 33rd China Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor — congratulations, Bai Liang, 'Better Days'!"

The moment the name was called, applause immediately erupted in the venue.

This applause was partly congratulations to the newly crowned Best Actor, but more than that — beautiful! What a flex!

Absolute masterwork!

This year's Golden Rooster Awards was a small year, the buzz about the films themselves was much less than usual, but Bai Liang's move of celebrating without looking at the result after his "shot" directly maxed out the visual impact.

If this were a basketball game, it would definitely produce a viral iconic photo.

And as the protagonist of this moment, Bai Liang couldn't actually get up to go onstage to receive the award for a while.

Mainly because the two young ladies on either side had both thrown themselves onto him.

Fortunately, this was the Golden Rooster Awards ceremony, so their behavior could at most be considered celebratory excitement — after all, they weren't grabbing Bai Liang and giving him a passionate kiss, so it wouldn't be labeled as anything weird.

Plus it was both of them together, which made it even safer — no one would overthink it.

So Bai Da the Official just openly held one in each arm, lowered his head, and said a few soothing words.

After the two young ladies finally returned to normal, he left his seat amid the surrounding congratulations and walked up onto the stage.

Taking the trophy, he didn't really examine it — his first words were:

"Nailed it! No need to cancel tonight's victory banquet."

The venue erupted in laughter — by now even those who didn't know what was going on had been filled in by the people around them about exactly what Bai Liang had said before.

"Of course, even if I hadn't gotten this trophy, I still wouldn't cancel the victory banquet — being nominated for the Golden Rooster Best Actor is an honor in itself."

After a brief polite moment, Bai Liang's tone shifted again: "Here I finally have to say sorry to Weibo — from now on, in my profile's film honors, 'Weibo Best Actor' can't be listed first anymore."

Weibo Film Night: Crying! The Great Immortal actually still remembers us at a time like this!

Can only say he stayed true to his roots~

But after tonight, "Weibo Best Actor" will inevitably gradually "leave the stage" — after all, in the past when people called Bai Liang that, it was mainly teasing about his ranking, because besides Weibo Best Actor, he hadn't won any other Best Actor title with real weight.

Under those circumstances, he himself was willing to play along with the meme for laughs, so the "Weibo Best Actor" title naturally stuck with him, and anyone could toss out a joke or two.

Now that the Golden Rooster Best Actor is in hand, when people call Bai Liang a "30-billion-box-office Best Actor" from now on, those two words "Best Actor" are finally worthy of the name — no longer just freeloading on the "Weibo Best Actor" label.

Bai Liang's acceptance speech wasn't all that long either — after a few witty yet polite jokes, he properly thanked everyone he should have.

Flexing is indeed a necessity to some extent, but keeping it up the whole time is also a bit tiring~

Know when to quit while you're ahead.

He still has a victory banquet later~

The Best Actor award presentation was already the finale of this ceremony, and when outside viewers watching the livestream saw the moment Bai Liang won, the ceremony had officially ended.

Bai Liang didn't even go back to his seat — after a round of interviews backstage, he could slip out early.

Later, Chen Duling, Zhou Ye and the others would meet up with him at the victory banquet venue.

But Bai Liang had only just gotten in the car, the door wasn't even fully closed, when a small hand suddenly grabbed the car door, giving him a fright.

"You don't want your fingers anymore? If I'd closed the door with a bit more force just now, they'd have been snapped right off!"

"I was calling you from behind and you ignored me!" The evil little kitty was unusually a little aggrieved — Bai Liang had run off too fast, she'd been trotting after him the whole way and still couldn't catch up, and in the end seeing the car door about to close, she got desperate and reached out to grab it.

This move was extremely reminiscent of those sasaeng fans~

"Why didn't I hear you? What were you yelling?" Bai Liang scratched his head — he'd been walking and looking at his phone just now, so he really might not have paid much attention.

At this point the evil little kitty, who had already squeezed into the car and closed the door again, had returned to normal — after catching her breath a few times, her eyes rolled, "I was yelling 'daddy~' — isn't that your favorite to hear?"

"Shameless thing."

"Thanks for the compliment~ But why were you running off in such a hurry? I waited for you so long." After her little tease, the evil little kitty couldn't help but complain a bit.

She had no role after the ceremony began, and didn't even have a seat — to wait for Bai Liang, she'd stood in high heels backstage for almost three hours, her little feet were killing her!

"I still have to pick someone up~" Bai Liang waved his phone as he explained.

"Pick someone up? Meng Jie is coming?"

"I'm leaving tomorrow morning, why would she come."

"Dilireba or Gulnazar?" Li Yitong pressed.

In her heart, Bai Liang's answer would decide how she performed later—if it really was one of the two beauties of Xinjiang coming, then this time she had to pull herself together and go all out!

If Meng Jie dared to take on Dilireba one-on-one, she couldn't fall back a single step either.