Exclusive Rights to An Online Voice Actor - Chapter 117
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Chapter 117

Chapter 117

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It was more difficult than I thought That guy said a moment before they both left the mic sequence, once again in that original cheerful tone. Qi Jing didnt say anything, focused on waiting for the judges evaluation and the audience votes to come through.

If this guy deliberately underplayed his ability during the semi-finals, only to reveal his true skill during the finals, then the people would naturally gain a newfound respect for him upon seeing his new s.h.i.+ne.

It was utilising the disparitya cla.s.sic move of making the most out of the opportunity.

But to create this disparity is not something just anyone can do, it requires skill, and an incredible lot of self-confidence.

But I dont plan on losing Qi Jing muttered.

The other party was his cooperation partner, but in a way, he was also his opponent. He didnt want to get defeated by this whole sense of disparity, it would feel so much worse to lose to it than if it was an open fight all the way through. Fortunately, Longbow, who couldnt attend two semi-finals for the main roles auditions, was finally back, so the judging panel was back to three members. At least with those three, there wouldnt be any dubiousness with the legitimacy of their judgement. Just The audience could also jump into voting for that guy out of hype.

Ding. The score was finally there.

Qi Jing took a deep breath and slowly lifted his head to take a look at the screen.

Group Score: 4.0, 3.5, average score 3.75

Elapsed Time: 60 seconds = 0.6 points

Audience Votes: 86.2% voting ratio = 0.862 points

Overall group score: 3.750.60.862 = 5.212 points

Dont ask for my return date individual score:

Voice Quality: 4.0, 3.5, average score 3.75

Enunciation: 4.0, 4.0, average score 4.0

Foundation Points: 4.0, 4.0, average score 4.0

Charisma: 4.5, 4.0, average score 4.25

Overall average scores: 3.754.04.04.25 = 16.0 points

Additional audience vote points: 77.4% voting ratio = 0.774 points

Overall score: 16.00.7745.212 = 21.986 points

How long away is forever individual score:

Voice Quality: 4.0, 3.5, average score 3.75

Enunciation: 4.0, 3.5, average score 3.75

Foundation Points: 4.0, 3.5, average score 3.75

Charisma: 4.5, 4.0, average score 4.25

Overall average scores: 3.753.753.754.25 = 15.5 points

Additional audience vote points: 81.7% voting ratio = 0.817 points

Overall score: 15.50.8175.212 = 21.529 points

Less than half a point of difference

Hu Qi Jing exhaled in relief, thinking how close it was.

It was to no ones surprise that this guys voting ratio was higher than his, and the group score was shared. Even Longbow gave them exactly the same scoresthe only thing he lost on was the individual score Pu Yuzhi gave him.

Seeing this score, How long away is forever used a kaomoji that was completely incongruous with his voice to express his hurt feelings.

How long away is forever: Waaaah So I really wasnt enough

Audience 1: Pfahahaha Sorry, I already did my best throwing you a vote for this oneAlthough I also voted on ReturnOi

Audience 2: (**) To be honest, I really want to see how Dont ask for my return date would react if he lost.

Audience 3: (**) To be honest, me too. Return Date-sama, please dont hit me~

Audience 4: (*k8278;*) Seconding the two above.

Audience 5: (*k8278;*) Lining up to express that I really really want to know what our Forever wanted to wish for~ Say it, say it, either way its gone, so you cant jinx it anymorek2026;k3010;Oi oi oik3011;

Audience 6: Pfft, the one above is so evil. Am I the only one who doesnt want contestant How long away is forever to have his way? I really feel like he didnt give his best during the semi-finals, so its kinda shady of him to go all out during the finals. And here I am, wanting to protect Dont ask for my return dates well-deserved rights!! (puffing chest)

After getting to know the scores, Qi Jing calmed down a little. But seeing this guy lament, his heart softenedhis do-gooding side was acting up once again.

If it wasnt too preposterous of a request, then there should be no harm in accepting it right?

So he quietly opened the DM chat box.

Yousaid toHow long away is forever: Did you do that on purpose?

How long away is foreversaid toYou: Eh?

Yousaid toHow long away is forever: The semi-finals. During the semi-finals, you didnt go all out, right? Just now, you didnt sound anything like someone who would just rank tenth during them.

Qi Jing went straight into the main point, but the other only denied, rolling from side to side.

Yousaid toHow long away is forever: Entice (enticing shou?)

How long away is foreversaid toYou: Pfft, no, its not about enticing shou. Its just that, only when Im acting in tandem with someone, I can get really into it, usually Im the type that cant do even remotely well when voice acting alone.

Oh? Qi Jing raised his brows. When he was voice acting before, he would often hear of some VAs that wouldnt be able to voice act during run-throughs because of being unused to such setting, but he didnt expect to stumble upon the exact opposite of that, If thats the case Then that would make it really interesting.

Although he himself could act both alone and with someone else, but because he was the type to get easily derailed by whoever he played with, it wasnt difficult for him to understand this trait.

And what to do, after understanding it, he even started to pity that guy a bit

No matter if it was online voice acting or the professional scene, the custom of playing with other voice actors was already slowly disappearing; most of it would be now done individually, so

How long away is forever

s future was really too limited.

Once he thought of this, Qi Jing couldnt help but type, Fine, tell me what you wished to ask for, I might consider it.

After he sent it,

How long away is forever

sent a string of ()/ kaomojis, seemingly pleasantly surprised.

How long away is foreversaid toYou: Really really really?!?! Return Date-sama, you really are such! A! Good! Guy!

Yousaid toHow long away is forever: (Im starting to regret that = =)

How long away is foreversaid toYou: Dont! Dont be like this! I really really want this thing!! Im begging you!!

Yousaid toHow long away is forever: Go ahead then.

How long away is foreversaid toYou: (////////////) I I I want to ask Return Date-sama to do an impression of Sleek Horses Run Fast, is that okay?

WTF

Qi Jings hand momentarily slipped, and he almost typed and sent Im sorry, I dont know how to play a dunce. But after later consideration, he deleted this message, unwilling to destroy the lofty image of that person in this guys eyes. The IRL was already too sad, better just leave him be with his beautiful misconception about the 2D.

Chatting through the messages to this point, he really felt like he had to change to a voice chat, because his typing speed could not keep up with the pace of this miraculous development.

Sleek Horses Run Fast? Youre talking about that long retired great G.o.d, Sleek Horses Run Fast?

Thats him, thats him!

So you were his fan No wonder he was so infatuated with his voice.

Mhm~

How long away is forever

used his middle-aged uncle voice as well as the bubbly and sweet girly tone as he chirped happily, Im Sleek Horses-samas hardcore fan! You sound very similar to him, both of you have this kind of gorgeous n.o.ble voice Aaah, I cant, its so cute!

Qi Jing felt his temples begin to ache.

How long away is forever

continued his unceasing stream of words, Sleek Horses-sama is already retired and nowhere to be found, so I was so depressed I always kept looking for someone with a similar voice, so when I heard your works, I was really moved! So please, Return Date-sama, you need to record something for me, I beg of you!

Sure enough, he wanted him to record something, most fans of VAs would ask for this. Will you promise me that this will never get shared with anyone else?

I will never share it!

Fine then, wait for a bit I need to ask for an opinion from someone related, whether I will do it depends on them.

How long away is forever

agreed in confusion, clearly not knowing who Qi Jing meant by someone related. Meanwhile, Qi Jing only silently typed a few words into an ID search of the chat, and after he got the search results, he temporarily closed the current chat box, opening a new window.

Yousaid toCrossing the bridge noodles: Good evening.

Crossing the bridge noodlessaid toYou: Good evening, Return Date. I was listening to your audition just now. Whats up, is something going on?

Yousaid toCrossing the bridge noodles: I want to use your boyfriend for a bit.

Crossing the bridge noodlessaid toYou:

Amused by this string of ellipsis from

Crossing the bridge noodles

, Qi Jing laughed as he opened the voice chat to explain to him the situation.

After listening to the end,

Crossing the bridge noodles

didnt seem too surprised, and replied calmly, Such a hardworking contestant, I dont think there will be any problem with recording a few words of encouragement for him.

Qi Jing asked curiously, Didnt that guy avoid recording anything, even for you? Saying that its only right to say things directly?

Crossing the bridge noodles

hummed, with a smile yet not really, That was only an excuse he used to come see me.

Qi Jing was taken aback, then coughed lightly when he recovered.

Noodles-kun, dont flash your PDA so out of nowhere

How long away is forever

was still waiting impatiently as he left him. Qi Jing came back in pa.s.sing to poke him with a question about what he wanted to have recorded, then disappeared without any additional word.

The second wait was shorter than the first one, only three minutes. After three minutes, Qi Jing directly sent him an MP3 file and said with a gentlemanly smile, I finished recording. I did my best to make an impression of him, try listening to itdoes it sound similar?

How long away is forever

sent him thanks, then their conversation ceased for a moment as he presumably went to listen to it.

Qi Jing waited for his reaction, a smile still on his face.

As expected, this guys voice was all shaky by the time he came backit could even be described as crudely as howling from joy, Aaaaaaaah, Return Date-sama! Return Date-sama! Its so similar, really so similar! Its almost as if Sleek Horses-sama recorded it himself

Qi Jing smiled impishly as he added in his mind,

Its not almost, its indeed your Sleek Horses-sama himself who recorded it~

Its similar enough to imagine it being true, right?

Mhm, mhm! Youre so amazing!

Really, such a gullible fellow

At this time,

How long away is forever

said something he didnt see coming, This way I will be so motivated when studying for my high school finals! Thank you, Return Date-sama!

Wait

High, high school finals? Qi Jing gasped in surprise, How old are you?

Im seventeen.

When this number got said with the uncle voice, Qi Jing felt his whole worldview crash.

This guy probably also expected that he would react this way and complained grumbly, I know that my voice doesnt sound young, but its been like this since I went through mutation. I always get asked to play uncles, fathers and so on by the producers, I really cant help that

Child you have it hard too.

But this way, this young girl-like behaviour would also make more sense.

In the online voice acting circle, a persons true age would always be different from their voices sense of age, not only for

How long away is forever

with his uncle voice, but also Shen Yan who was once t.i.tled as Forever a Grandpa.

And there was also

Crossing the bridge noodles

Qi Jing was still getting over the shock of getting to know

How long away is forever

s real age as the discussion around

Crossing the bridge noodles

sense of age unfolded in the public chat. Or rather than calling it a discussion, it would be better to call it an argument, as both sides were inches away from a full-on battle, the smell of gunpowder thick in the air.

The reason was the upcoming start of the group No.20s audition, still between Fang Yisheng and Yan Buliu.

And as for the contestants, it was Crossing the bridge noodlesvs.Went off with a bang.

Audience 1: (((p()q))) Awoooo~ Little Noodles! Our familys Little Noodles will finally have his first audition today!

Audience 2: (((p()q))) Aaaah, Im so nervous!! Break leg Little Noodles!! Big sis will vote on you in each audition, Little Noodles is the best!

Audience 3: Why did it have to be Crossing the bridge noodles? Hes too noob, he will drag down Bang Bangs score.

Audience 4: The one above, dont b.i.t.c.h around! Little Noodles also can do the youth voice! ()

Audience 5: Youth voice is a youth voice, but its still too youngan educated but inexperienced youth cant pull off that bearing. And dont you say that I didnt listen to him and dont know what Im talking about, I have heard his Fang Yisheng audition for semi-finals. The cold demeanour wasnt that bad, but since there was no intense scene, you wouldnt hear his shortcomings, but the scene chosen for the finals is a showdown between two powerful opponents. Its just perfect for our familys Uncle Bang, but how about your familys Little Noodles? (picks nose)

Audience 6: Seems like Crossing the bridge noodles has always been playing young boys, so he himself is probably also pretty young. The voice can be imitated, but it might be worrying if hes not able to make his demeanour stronger.Im not a fan of either of them, dont take it personally

Its no wonder people would worry Qi Jing shook his head slowly before the screen.

In all of the

Crossing the bridge noodles

works he listened to, he would always do the same type of roleeither the inexperienced boy type the audience mentioned or a youth type. The roles he received were also either a refined scholar or a sickly beauty, always sounding like a youth in his early twenties, maybe twenty four or five at most, nothing more.

Fang Yisheng was described to be twenty seven, so this role could be a bit hard to pull off for Noodles.

Those fans of Went off with a bang werent wrongduring a usual dialogue, its not easy to catch the imperfections, but once theres a need to manifest a strong bearing, people with a young-sounding voice would have it harder.

During the time when Jade b.u.t.terfly tried to drive a wedge between them, Qi Jing went through his weibo to understand him as a person, even finding a few recordings of his personal YY channelhe wanted to try listening what he would usually say to his fans, whether he would act the same as great G.o.d

Bronze Sparrow Terrace

.

But in the end, what he heard left him completely stumped.

Little Fox hid under moms belly, walking while blinking its round eyes, looking curiously here and there. After a while, a spot of light appeared ahead. After seeing it, Little Fox said, Mom, a star fell there, right?

His voice was even softer than in the audio dramas, as he used this very gentle and calming tone to read a childrens book slowly.

He would narrate the descriptions so, and whenever there was a dialogue between characters, he would also switch to the acting mode, like this part of dialogue where Little Fox spoke to its mom, where

Crossing the bridge noodles

voice suddenly turned high-pitched as he asked childishly, sounding so naive and sweet

At that time, Qi Jing thought only one thing. And that was

Crossing the bridge noodles

actually reads childrens books in his YY channel! He, he, he seemed like such a simple and rational guy on weibo, but he would actually use this tone to read childrens books!

And according to what Ning Xiaoxiao said,

Crossing the bridge noodles

would never mention his IRL activities when he was in his YY channel or wouldnt talk of the 2D gossip, wouldnt sing karaoke, do Q&As, organise any activities He would only read books, and it would always be niche childrens books. Most of

Crossing the bridge noodles

fans were young girls that took pleasure in listening to it, even finding it very cute.

Only Qi Jing didnt know what to think of it.

Once he kept being viewed through these lenses, it was no surprise that people in the circle would think of

Crossing the bridge noodles

as pitiful and adorably pure boy

This inherent impression made Went off with a bang, who was in a team with him, quite angry, but he still said with a fake courteous smile, Ranked third in semi-finalsI hope you live up to that achievement.

Crossing the bridge noodles

didnt say a thing. His words only indirectly mocked

Crossing the bridge noodles

advantage of his fans support in votes, questioning his ability to keep this t.i.tle.

Went off with a bang was the champion of Yan Buliu semi-finals audition, so he initially rejoiced in being able to get paired with the third place for Fang Yisheng, but once he saw

Crossing the bridge noodles

ID, his joy disappeared immediately. Crossing the bridge noodles was a very recognisable member of the online voice acting circle, the main reason for that being his s.h.i.+p with

Bronze Sparrow Terrace

, as well as his lovable little shou voice.

Went off with a bang

never got along with

Bronze Sparrow Terrace

.

Went off with a bang

didnt like gays, and he especially didnt like the effeminate gays.

Went off with a bang also took it for a fact that

Crossing the bridge noodles

was only capable of hindering him, so from the very moment he got put on the mic sequence, his att.i.tude was simply mocking.

After tossing out his first remark, the other didnt reply at all, so he couldnt stop himself from continuing haughtily, continuing with the second one, Just dont get attached just because youre playing with a man, little girl.

This one was clearly meant to mock his s.e.xuality.

Without waiting for his fans to fly into rage, the previously quiet

Crossing the bridge noodles

suddenly returned the jab, his tone indifferent, Dont worry, your voice is years apart from fitting my criteria for men.

Pfft

As a man No.1 to fit this criteria, Qi Jing couldnt help a laugh from escaping his lips.

A/N:

As a man No.2 to fit this criteria, Five is getting covertly bullied in this chapter, pft

I will also say in pa.s.sing that Kittys Papa voice also doesnt fit Noodles criteria.

T/N:

Lucilla: *grabs a popcorn to watch Noodles slay*