Nezuko’s bullet comment was a little too slow.
A multi-person video frame had already appeared on Xia Zhi’s screen.
Besides Xia Zhi, the video frames of the other five people were all very small. Under the account name “Shanyin’s Beautiful Voice” was a man wearing glasses, and next to him sat an elderly person with a full head of white hair.
The elderly person’s account was called “Li Mingda.” With kind, gentle features and dressed in a red Tang suit, they had six million followers. The account bore a verification badge, indicating that this person truly was a senior authority in the vocal music world.
The other three people—one man and two women—when their accounts were clicked open, all turned out to be singing streamers with over 200,000 followers each.
At present, apart from Shanyin’s Beautiful Voice having audio, the other four people had all muted their microphones.
“Here we can see that our newcomer singing streamer, Miss Zhizhi, has connected with us. We’ve received your registration application, and we’ve arranged a PK stage for you with the other three streamers. I’m the host of Shanyin’s Beautiful Voice—just call me Xiao Shan.”
Upon hearing this, Xia Zhi’s eyes were filled with surprise: “Registration? I never registered.”
Xiao Shan flashed a professional smile: “Miss Zhizhi, don’t joke around. You left a comment in Teacher Li Mingda’s comment section, saying you’re the future queen of female singers and that you very much look forward to receiving Teacher Li Mingda’s critique.”
These words left Xia Zhi even more dumbfounded.
She glanced at her own livestream room and happened to catch Nezuko’s bullet comment.
[Someone’s out to get you. Probably the person you offended set a trap to embarrass you. This Beautiful Voice livestream program has been running for a long time, and the viewers in the room are genuine music lovers. Teacher Li Mingda is sharp-tongued, and I was afraid you couldn’t handle it, which is why I told you not to accept.]
So that was it.
Xia Zhi now had a clear picture.
Yesterday when she PK’d with Dou Dou, that last round had made Dou Dou lose face, and Nezuko had even come over to her side. And today she hadn’t accepted Dou Dou’s PK connection, so Dou Dou was deliberately causing trouble.
While Xia Zhi was silent, Leona—who had been continuously learning about the knowledge of Xia Zhi’s world through the bullet comments—asked: [Who did Lady Zhizhi offend?]
Axis: [Probably that Dou Dou from yesterday.]
Leona: [The recording. Send it to me.]
Axis: [How did you know I recorded it?!]
Leona: [I raised you.]
The conversation between aunt and nephew was quickly drowned out among the many bullet comments, yet Xia Zhi could spot their account names at a glance.
She increasingly felt that Leona, behind that account, was a gentle person. She was asking Axis for the screen recording to understand what had happened.
Xia Zhi smiled and didn’t directly speak to Leona or Axis again. She raised her eyes to look at the host of Shanyin’s Beautiful Voice on the screen: “Although it wasn’t me who left that comment, I’m honored to participate in your livestream program. I hope I can make some progress.”
Xia Zhi couldn’t see the host Xiao Shan’s screen, and naturally had no way of knowing that someone in Xiao Shan’s livestream bullet comments was speaking up for her.
[LOL. I just carefully went through Teacher Li Mingda’s comment section. That account that tagged Xiao Shan and was rude to Teacher Li Mingda looks the same as the female streamer on the other side, but when you click into it, you can’t see any livestream status.]
[Who’s framing this newcomer streamer? To think they could come up with such an obvious scheme.]
[Already went to that livestream to check out the drama. The streamer on the other side is a new streamer who made 900k in a single day yesterday. Another female streamer, Dou Dou, tried to bully her. She won at first, but then the other side’s big spender arrived, dropped 600k worth of gifts on Dou Dou as a shock, and even stole Dou Dou’s big spender away!]
[Politely eating this popcorn, looking forward to seeing what Zhizhi’s singing is like.]
Host Xiao Shan finished reading the comments in her own livestream and responded to Xia Zhi: “Alright, since Miss Zhizhi is still willing to challenge, let me explain the rules of our Good Voice.”
All four contestants must temporarily turn off their livestreams and connect via voice link to the Shanyin Good Voice account. No looking at faces, only listening to voices.
Each contestant is assigned a one-cent gift type: Little Heart, Rose, Popularity Ticket, and Shanyin.
After all contestants take turns singing, the votes determine the top 2 out of 4.
In the first round, after the audience votes on rankings, Teacher Li Mingda will give comments, and after the comments, it’s down to 2 to 1.
The prize for the competition is a signed postcard from Teacher Li Mingda affirming the contestant’s singing ability, as well as a mutual follow. If truly appreciated by Teacher Li Mingda, one might even receive a single-episode video recommendation from him.
A veteran artist with 6 million followers—a video recommendation carries enormous weight.
That’s also why this event has been able to continue for so long.
Too many singing streamers want to use this method to break through. Being recommended by Teacher Li Mingda is a golden opportunity to gain followers.
“Thank you for the explanation.” Xia Zhi was very polite. “So should I go rally my fans in my livestream to come over to yours?”
Xiao Shan nodded: “Miss Zhizhi is really smart. I’ll give everyone ten minutes to rally votes. See, two people have already disconnected from the video link.”
Indeed.
Two singing streamers were already absent from the video link.
Xia Zhi: “Then I’ll mute myself and rally votes.”
She muted her mic on Shanyin Good Voice.
Nezuko: [Well, there you go. You foolishly jumped right into their trap. This event isn’t actually fair.]
Strawberry Candy: [I agree. The number of people in his livestream varies by time slot, which means the votes each contestant can get are all different.]
Xia Zhi could also see the unfairness in the rules.
Especially since Dou Dou might be watching the livestream right now, sending her fans to boost other people’s numbers, just to suppress her. Who knows.
However, Teacher Li Mingda really was a formidable vocal professor. What if she got chosen by him?
“I really am looking for a vocal teacher.” Xia Zhi was very candid. “Learning has no end. I want to keep improving. Getting to know Teacher Li Mingda can only do me good.”
Seeing the young girl on screen speaking with utter seriousness about her goal, Nezuko on the other end smiled again.
[Well then, I suppose I’ll have to mobilize my power to rally some votes for our sweet-singing Zhizhi.]
Xia Zhi’s eyes lit up: “Really? Thank you, Nezuko baby! Mwah~”
When she said “mwah,” Xia Zhi gave the screen a wink.
Strawberry Candy: [Sneaky Nezuko!]
[Dammit, Nezuko, retract that and let me post it instead. I want Zhizhi baby’s mwah too!]
Leona had by now finished watching Axis’s screen recording.
On their video call screen, Axis lifted his chin, a hint of smugness in his tone: “I sent more gifts than you did yesterday. She even interacted with me offline in the evening—she touched my head and my…”
Axis stopped mid-sentence on his own.
His cheeks flushed slightly as he fell silent.
Leona felt puzzled about what Axis meant by the latter half of his sentence, but chose not to ask right now.
His voice was steady: “Axis, what we need to do now is figure out how to rally votes.”
If they shared Xia Zhi’s livestream room, more males would come to know Xia Zhi.
Even if females were allowed to have multiple male husbands by default, males weren’t foolish enough to share the attention they could have gained ahead of time.
Since they couldn’t share within their own world, they could only start from Xia Zhi’s world.