Chapter 105

unedited

The plot and the description being light years apart from each other wasnt the main point. The main point was, even though they all knew that the two of them didnt line up, there was not a single person on the spot who wanted to return their tickets. Everyone just stopped breathing, waiting for the follow-up with their ears perked up.

And so, the follow-up came about.

Right, I still have yet to properly give you thanks for coming just to cheer for me that timethank you.

Crossing the bridge noodles

was the first to speaknot in the youthful voice he usually used to voice-act in dramas, but in his actual, natural voice. It still sounded young, but it was apparent that he was a young adult man. If one was to compare him to water, he would certainly be a clear, minty one.

No need to be so polite, The tone of Qi Jings reply was as if he spoke with an old friend, light and leisurely, If anything, I have to thank you for refuting the rumours about me under the gossip postcheering on for you is merely me returning the favour.

That gossip post about me and you was clearly heading towards bringing your name down later on, so as a person involved, me coming out to refute it was just a matter of course. This phrase from

Crossing the bridge noodles

was said in such a calm tone, that there was no intent to attack anyone to be heard, aside from those who were too obstinate and used to hating to realise this.

Thats true as well. Qi Jing said with a chuckle.

Audience 1: ( )

Audience 2: ( ) Eh? Eh eh eh?

Audience 3: ( ) So it turns out that Little Noodles and Dont ask for my return date they actually came here as friends??

Audience 4: Holy c.r.a.p!! The reality really shook me!! Wait wait My mind is so blank that I cant think straight But, about them knowing each other and even having a good relations.h.i.+p, I kinda feel really happy about it!!As a Time Limit s.h.i.+pper Im so hyped, I want to go run circles downstairs

Audience 5: Help Return and Crossing the bridge noodles were actually so close?? I remember that post, I think it was about Return sowing discord between him and the great G.o.d Bronze Sparrow Terrace or something.

Audience 6: Remembering that post +1. Seeing both of the people involved coming out to clarify it, Im suddenly so excited and happy~ ()/

But those listeners didnt know that at this point, the true highlight of their show was still ahead.

I feel like its because we never played main roles together that the rumours of us being in a conflict keep cropping out outside there. Qi Jing smiled slightly before suddenly changing the topic.

Didnt we already have a collaboration though? When

Crossing the bridge noodles

said that, the entirety of the audience bursted into exclamations of surprise, asking where the post thread for this drama was, or where it could be downloaded. But his following words disappointed all the Rice Noodles Fans. Its a pity though, the producer still didnt have time to officially make this news public.

But the strange thing is, the names of the main characters from this drama are just the same as our IDs. Qi Jing faked a musing.

Whats even more strange is, the producer actually sent our lines separate from each other,

Crossing the bridge noodles

continued lukewarmly, And they even sent us the wrong scripts, with the one you got being for me, and me getting yours.

So thats how it was? Qi Jing raised his voice, showing a surprised reaction, No wonder then, and here I was just thinking why am I the one cursing myself.

The audiences appet.i.te got instantly whetted, just as did their interest.

Audience 1: o()o Aaaah! Begging everyone for this drama with the character names based on the main actors IDs!!What is even that producer thinking, sending the wrong scripts?? This feels so weird

Audience 2: o()o Could it be an IRL s.h.i.+p audio drama?? I just cant be this happy as a Time Limit s.h.i.+pper!!covers face

Audience 3: The one above, buddy, you probably guessed it wrong~ Return Date has clearly said that he was cursing himself in it, so it doesnt seem like a s.h.i.+p audio drama, and more like a fight Aaaaaah, in the end what is that drama, this curiosity is about to kill me! Begging to publish the script! Even a small paragraph is fine!

Everyone seems very interested in listening to it, so how about it, Noodles? Qi Jing sought his opinion courteously.

Since the scripts got swapped, then we might as well go on with how it is now. Lets try acting it out together, shall we?

Crossing the bridge noodles

also agreed magnanimously.

Fine, then lets begin from me Qi Jings eyes curled up in a silent smile as he opened the picture he got back in a day from

Jade b.u.t.terfly

, using the cla.s.sic delicate and superficially pure tone of a scheming concubine from the TV dramas, as if throwing a fit, What kind of joke is that?! Who would want to play together in the same drama with someone as shameless as you, Dont ask for my return date, and tarnish their good name?

The audience was dumbstruck.

Crossing the bridge noodles

immediately replied in a mocking tone, Crossing the bridge noodles, now that you consider yourself as G.o.ds official CP, you suddenly dare to behave like Her Majesty the Empress? Such an excellent VA as me, of course I would get much better and popular than you. Im just not as shameless as you and dont run around clinging to people, so I never got a chance to collaborate with the G.o.d. Now that I finally got such a huge backing as Bronze Sparrow Terrace, I need to get a good hold on that opportunity.

The audience was again flabbergasted.

Qi Jing had a hard time holding down his urge to laugh, but he still persevered in maintaining the resentful ladys tone

Empress in the Palace

style. Humph~ He even added a nasal hum, like a living display of a princess syndrome, I know youre cooperating with Bronze Sparrow, so youre probably about to get popular from now on, but do I, with the amount of my fans in five digits, have to rub off some of your popularity? Whats more, the sheer thought of being in the same production crew as you makes me feel sick and all of the staff members who know me are aware of that.

At that moment he paused for a little, then said, filled with immense pride, If either me or one of them is in the production crew, you can forget about staying in it!

Audience 1:

Audience: Thats so much information at once _(:)_

Audience 3: I seem to have realised something _(:)_

Audience 4: I also remembered something A few months ago, there was a similar rumour pa.s.sed secretly between the staff members in the circle, so Dont ask for my return date got kicked out of a lot of drama teams. This rumour got pa.s.sed really far, I even secretly rejoiced in the fact that I didnt look for him before.Now that I remembered it, I only want to cry Lord Dont ask for my return date, Im begging for your forgiveness TAT

Audience 5: So right now, are they theyre being sarcastic with it on purpose?? Aaaaah!! I cant calm down now, begging for the truth!! ()

Audience 6: Honestly, when I first heard this gossip, I thought that it was either Dont ask for my return date courting a disaster, or Crossing the bridge noodles. But now that I got enlightened by hearing this Hehe, listening to that, its probably someone using Bronze Sparrow Terrace to set them against each other? ()

Them getting set against each other

there were sure many clever people among the audience, they got the clue very quickly.

In the end, it didnt matter if

Bronze Sparrow Terrace

, as a driving point of the conflict, knew about being used or not. After all, they would make this driving point unable to ever appear in the gossip about them again, no longer letting it be used as the reason behind their love affair catfights, the rumour about their so-called mutual jealousy collapsing on its own.

At that time,

Crossing the bridge noodles

raised his voice proudly, as if all mighty and lofty in his contempt, And what about it? Are they even remotely as plenty as Bronze Sparrow Terraces fans? As long as he turns towards me, his fans would follow his suitthe majority of Crossing the bridge noodles fans like Bronze Sparrow Terrace, so when the time comes, they would all switch sides, heh.

This heh of his got heh-ed so very confidently, so frivolously, that hearing it made ones palms itch, ready to give him a slap.

Qi Jing on the other hand a.s.sumed a wronged tonethe must-have of every superficially pure darlingas he murmured instinctively, In a word I wont give up Bronze Sparrow to anyone else.

Crossing the bridge noodles

contempt reached its highest, Heh, boy, you are so delicate, making yourself seem so pure, using your lovely and pitiful looks to earn the Great G.o.ds doting, just seeing this makes me sick.

Their exchange stopped at that.

The audience was completely dumb.

Pfft Suddenly, one of them couldnt keep himself from laughing anymore and bursted out in loud laughter and the other followed, laughing to his hearts content. Two completely different, yet equally clear and pleasant voices resounded together and only then everyone woke up quickly from their shock among their laughter.

Audience 1: ()/ Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Audience 2: ()/ Hahahaha, I finally got it!!

Audience 3: Hahahaha, cant stop slapping my desk!! It sure is a wholly new way to start an introduction!!I also suddenly got it Heh, some spheres sure are messy

Audience 4: It should have been a very serious topic, but I just cant! Whoever wrote these lines from behind the scenes, what the h.e.l.l were they thinking, hahahaha

Audience 5: (/)/ Aiyo! Those two are just too funny! Impersonating each other to curse themselves out, hahahaha!

Audience 6: (/)/ I dont know why, I used to be a pa.s.serby Moss s.h.i.+pper, but now Im proclaiming! Im now officially a Time Limit stan!

This much plot development should be enough.

Qi Jing skimmed through the comments in the chat, his voice returning back to usual as he said, laughing lightly, Enough with it. In fact, today we wanted to make use of this occasion to say this to the producerif youre listening, of course.

Crossing the bridge noodles

continued with the rest of his thought, The script wasnt too shabby, just remember to not send the wrong one next time.

The corners of Qi Jings lips curled up, Also, if you were planning to produce a drama like this from the beginning, then

At that moment, out of the two of them, one laughed, the other snickered, both of them finis.h.i.+ng the last bit tacitly.

Sorry, but you chose the wrong leads

Audience 1: Aoaoawoooo!!

Audience 2: Aoaoawoooo!No can do, just howling like a wolf!

Audience 3: (**) Aoaoawoo! This random plot twist is just so Im really beginning to feel for those two!! It can be said that even without partic.i.p.ating in the audition, Bronze Sparrow Terrace got his slap, pfft.

Audience 4: What is it with me being both sad and happy?

Audience 5: Both sad and happy +1Lighting a candle for myself, a past Moss s.h.i.+pper

Audience 5: Both sad and happy +2As someone who didnt know better and scolded Dont ask for my return date for the sake of Little Noodles I really am about to die from shame

Okay, this should be enough to clarify everything for everyone, so lets continue. Qi Jing smiled slightly, then went ahead to concede to Yang Chunqu, Otherwise the host would be at a loss of what to do.

Crossing the bridge noodles

hummed in agreement, but he didnt leave immediately, suddenly calling Qi Jing lightly. Return Date.

Hm?

I had said so before on weibo, and today I will say it again. As he was leaving,

Crossing the bridge noodles

just had to drop the heavy artillery without much care in the world, giving an unhurried, ambiguous chuckle, Compared to Bronze Sparrow Terrace, I like

you

more.

That emphasis on the you really did let ones imagination go completely wild

The Time Limit s.h.i.+ppers erupted in howls.

The Moss s.h.i.+ppers cried, their hearts in shatters.

And Qi Jing facepalmed in silence.

Noodles-kun Youre doing this on purpose, arent you?

Thank you for your confession of friends.h.i.+p, He took advantage of the course of this conversation and said, I hope that your real boyfriend wont get jealous when he hears this.

You too,

Crossing the bridge noodles

heard the hidden reverse flirtation in his tone and laughed calmly, I wont make a scene anymore, you too say h.e.l.lo from me to your boyfriend.

Information load, information load, information load

The key words, the key words, the key words

For now, there were only those two phrases in the listeners brains, buzzing around incessantly. This huge information overload was impossible to stomach at once. He believed that tomorrow, it would get a.n.a.lysed bit by bit by the folks in the forumit was bound to nourish the fields of gossip in the online VA circle well. Aside from that, the post thread for Time Limit was probably going to grow another page or two.

And as for someone who had nothing to do with the online VA circle like Yuan Zhengming, he could only silently type out in the chat, Are you guys making fun of me?

But he really didnt expect that those two really were about to have funan earnest, but also unconstrained fun.

Even though Fang Yisheng didnt actually get his POV in the original novel and was only described through the others characters observations, he could still be said to be the hardest role to grasp in the fifth instalment of Order to End the Heavens in terms of the changes in his psyche. Each and every move of his got described by the author in great detail, only his mind didnt.

That was because Fang Yisheng was set as an unfathomable man in the first place. For the contestants, a role like this could be said to be especially vague, with quite a lot of freedom of interpretation. If playing a different role could be said to be like writing a conventional essay with strict guidelines, then playing this character was like writing prosenot letting it lose its essence while taking some creative liberties was quite a tricky matter.

Even after many years, whenever Yuan Zhengming recalled the performances of these two, he would still pull his hair and fume while complaining to others that They really were making fun of me.

Dont ask for my return date

was No.7,

Crossing the bridge noodles

No.8.

They were lined up closely one after another, so the contrast was naturally even more acute.

First of all, in the characters introduction provided by the compet.i.tion, Fang Yisheng was mentioned to be Cold and n.o.ble with arrogant temperament, ruthless when necessary. But they didnt provide any clear guidelines as for how these characteristics were meant to be embodied, as even in the original novel, he was only depicted through show-dont-tell.

Qi Jings voice sounded n.o.ble by nature, everyone who listened to his previous two auditions knew that, but when it got paired with this role, it was still a bit too warm. But at the same time, his voice also had a conniving undertone to it, which was very suited for the shrewd and cautious side of this character.

Crossing the bridge noodle

s voice quality was cool, so he could completely embody that coldness in its fullest when he remained solemn, but it also sounded too clear and pure. Just looking at the roles he usually took, he wouldnt be able to play a man well-versed in the bloodstained depths of the court.

Yuan Zhengming really wished he could just smash those two into one.

Their strengths and weaknesses were plain to see, it was easy to foresee the effects of their acting and that would best be avoided.

After all, a compet.i.tion is a compet.i.tioneveryone would need to do their best to stress their good points while covering up their drawbacks. Currently, no matter if it was No.7 or No.8, neither of them was ideal, and their way of thinking was probably the same as his, to do their best to meet in the middle.

Or at least thats what he thought at first.

A/N:

Peddling, peddling, peddling the Time Limit s.h.i.+p~

T/N:

Lucilla: Gobbling, gobbling, gobbling down the Time Limit~