Chapter 46: Winning an Award? (Asking for Collections and Recommendations)

"Distinguished leaders, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, good evening..."

On stage, a male and a female host held microphones, enthusiastically hosting tonight's award ceremony.

The process was somewhat boring; it was nothing but opening remarks, followed by introducing the important guests.

It would drag on for quite a while before the formal awards could begin.

Beside Qi Hui Hui yawned, his mind elsewhere, his eyes scanning the entire hall in an attempt to find something less boring.

However, he found nothing interesting, only something that depressed him.

When the hosts introduced the guests, government officials and big shots like Zheng Xiaolong would stand up, bow, and salute the audience.

But those foreigners were as if their buttocks were glued to the chairs, not moving an inch.

Even when the hosts read the names in both Chinese and English, those few foreigners acted as if they hadn't heard, being extremely arrogant.

People from France and Germany... Beside Qi Hui Hui curled his lip; these two nations that fought each other to the death were surprisingly unified when it came to arrogance and rudeness!

It wasn't just those few foreigners; the people from Hong Island were the same.

Upon hearing the host introduce her, she merely stood up, expressionless, and sat back down without moving a muscle.

Beside Qi Hui Hui shook his head; it was good, not the spineless Hong Island of a few years later that mobilized the entire city to find a stolen internet-famous bicycle.

Keep it up, keep it up.

Beside Qi Hui Hui was so bored it hurt that he directly took out his phone to play, logging into QQ to check messages first, then preparing to play Snake and Tetris.

Phones nowadays could access the internet, but data was expensive, and web pages were hard to use.

He, who was already accustomed to smartphones, couldn't get used to it, so he simply chose not to trouble himself.

Snake and Tetris were still more suitable for Mr. Qi.

"Hehe, Senior Brother, I see you." Jing Tian held a computer, sent Beside Qi Hui Hui a message, and also sent a screenshot.

It was a fleeting shot, somewhat blurry, but Beside Qi Hui Hui could be seen.

The audience seating at the Magnolia Award venue was somewhat dim, but a beam of light shone upward from below Beside Qi Hui Hui, making him look a bit like a villain in a horror movie.

The brightest guy in the entire venue, combined with Jing Tian's intentional search, quickly captured this picture.

Unfortunately, Beside Qi Hui Hui's feature phone couldn't view images.

Even more unfortunately, the program team seemed to have discovered Beside Qi Hui Hui's abnormality, and the camera never scanned that way again.

"Really? The lighting is so bad, yet you can still see me?" Beside Qi Hui Hui was surprised and immediately replied.

He did not know he had already been exposed.

"Because you are playing on your phone, hey!" Jing Tian replied, adding an emoticon.

The award ceremony scene.

Holy cow, you can really see... Beside Qi Hui Hui looked left and right; Jing Tian's words gave him a feeling of being watched, raising goosebumps.

However, soon Beside Qi Hui Hui also knew the reason; it must be the phone light, which made it easy to attract other people's attention.

However, he did not intend to change it.

Anyway, he was just part of the atmosphere crew; awards and such had nothing to do with him; if he didn't play on his phone, what else was he supposed to do?

"Your eyes are really good, you can even spot me..." Beside Qi Hui Hui complained.

"No, the computer screen is clear!" Jing Tian immediately replied: "Foreign-made high-tech products are much better than domestic ones."

Beside Qi Hui Hui was shocked: "Which company's product is this good?"

Did the 4090ti come out early?

"I don't know, I don't follow these things." Jing Tian replied: "Do you want it? I can give it to you."

"No need..." Beside Qi Hui Hui twitched at the corner of his mouth; such sudden generosity made him somewhat uncomfortable: "Don't be like that, others will say I'm being kept by a rich woman."

Jing Tian blushed: "Pah, what rich woman, that sounds terrible!"

Just as Beside Qi Hui Hui and Jing Tian were chatting heatedly, the award activity on stage was also proceeding heatedly.

The animation category awards were given first, and several foreign animations won awards.

Next were the documentary category awards, and a string of unheard-of documentaries won awards, including two foreign documentaries.

Now, not to mention Beside Qi Hui Hui, even Jiang Wei, Sun Honglei, and others felt so bored they were dozing off.

It was just that it was a live broadcast now; otherwise, they would have started yawning.

Fortunately, after the documentary category ended, the film and television category awards finally arrived.

The numerous producers, actors, and directors whose sleepiness was surging suddenly perked up, no longer sleepy at once.

"Among so many TV dramas, I believe what the audience friends are most concerned about must be the TV series 'The Undercover.'" On stage, the female host mentioned 'The Undercover' as soon as she opened her mouth.

"Hey, I remember the audience of 'The Undercover' all have such a side effect." The male host took over the conversation and continued: "That is, seeing a chicken coop makes you want to dig..."

Downstairs, Kang Honglei, Duan Yihong, and other members of the 'My Chief and My Regiment' crew had slightly changed expressions, and a bad feeling floated up in their hearts.

"Damn, pointing at 'The Undercover' right from the start?"

"Suddenly have no expectations; 'The Undercover' will probably win."

"Nonsense, 'My Chief' is so powerful, how could it not have a fighting chance?"

Online, live comments were in an uproar; supporters on both sides were engaging in high-intensity arguments, neither able to convince the other.

"Exactly, who says 'The Undercover' is sure to win? 'Wang Gui and Anna' hasn't even made a move yet!"

"What is that? Dare to bark wildly here?"

"Teng Huatao, that trash, has the face to bring it out?"

"Pah! Trash!"

The blind 'Wang Gui and Anna' instantly attracted the concentrated fire of 'The Undercover' and 'My Chief', and was suppressed into silence in a few moves.

"Hehe, a bunch of trash. What can you do by making noise? The results came out long ago; you just didn't know."

That person left a vicious comment and then went into hiding.

As he said, the results came out long ago!

One by one, the awards were announced: Best Screenwriter, Best Television Drama Gold Award, and Best Actor—all went to "The Disguiser."

However, the Best Director was not Jiang Wei, but Teng Huatao.

Jiang Wei and Sun Honglei went up to accept awards one after another, followed by the entire cast and crew going up together to receive the Best Television Drama Gold Award.

As for "My Chief and My Regiment," it won very few of these heavyweight awards, securing only a handful in the audience-voted categories.

When this award was presented, Beside Qi Hui Hui looked up twice.

It wasn't because he thought, "I could take his place," but because the presenter was Gao Yuanyuan.

Moreover, she was dressed in a black skirt with short hair, giving off quite a bit of a widow's vibe... Ahem, Beside Qi Hui Hui couldn't help but look twice more.

On stage, Sun Honglei was giving his acceptance speech: "Actually... hahaha, my eyes really aren't that small..."

"Bigger than Duan Yihong's, right?" the female host kept stirring the pot.

For the Best Actor award, the two strongest contenders were Sun Honglei and Duan Yihong.

Facing the female host's provocation, Sun Honglei couldn't control the smile on his face, but he didn't lose his reason; he asked for a microphone and started talking about his and Duan Yihong's time at school.

Both came from the Central Academy of Drama; Duan Yihong was the senior, and Sun Honglei was the junior.

But now, the junior had knocked out the senior.

Sun Honglei held it in, but not completely.

The joy on his face was impossible to control.

Beside Qi Hui Hui looked twice, then continued chatting with Jing Tian.

Human joys and sorrows are not the same; he only found their noise annoying.

The award ceremony continued, quickly entering its later stages. Beside Qi Hui Hui counted the time, looking forward to the moment the gala ended.

This thing was just like a school leader giving a speech; it was terribly boring.

"The next award is also an audience-voted one: Most Promising Male Actor."

"Let's see which actors from which works made the list."

On the big screen, the images changed, and scenes appeared one by one: Zu Feng from "The Disguiser," Wang Dazhi from "My Chief and My Regiment," and Bosco Wong from "The Gem of Life."

And the last one: Beside Qi Hui Hui from "The Disguiser."

"Let's reveal the answer: The Most Promising Male Actor award goes to: Bosco Wong from 'The Gem of Life'..."

"... and Beside Qi Hui Hui from 'The Disguiser'."

As the voice fell, the lights came on, and beams of light shone on Bosco Wong and Beside Qi Hui Hui.

Prepared in advance, Bosco Wong smiled and nodded, looking gentle and refined.

But Beside Qi Hui Hui, holding his phone, looked completely bewildered, raising his head in confusion:

What's going on here?