Chapter 475: Chapter 494: Chasing the Light for Love, Waiting an Hour for 3 Minutes
“I have to admit, I’m a little surprised I won first place in the annual competition.”
Jiang Qiuqiu had initially set her sights on first place, but she hadn’t been entirely sure she could win.
Jiang Qiuqiu kept her acceptance speech fairly conventional. She simply smiled at the camera, as if speaking directly to her fans through the screen, “Winning first place means I now have a bigger stage.”
“Going forward, I hope to use this bigger stage to bring the joy of delicious food to even more people.”
“I also hope to explore how to cook wonderful meals with more people and get more of you involved.”
The moment she finished speaking, several streamers from the food category in the audience were the first to applaud enthusiastically.
The hosts joined her on stage, and after exchanging a few pleasantries, Jiang Qiuqiu gathered the hem of her dress and slowly returned to her seat.
Onstage, the hosts announced that the group photo for the year 5355 had been taken. Suddenly, an image of a book appeared on the large screen behind them. Its pages began to turn, revealing countless old photographs, each page marked with a year.
5300, 5301… all the way to 5355.
This photo album chronicled the growth of the Federation Live Broadcast Company.
The image froze on the page for 5355. And thus, the figure who had changed the course of history for the 5300s era was immortalized within its pages.
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After the individual awards were all presented, it was time for the category awards.
The Federation Live Broadcast Company had hundreds of categories, and each year, these categories were ranked against each other.
Although this ranking didn’t affect applications for promotional resources in the coming year, the various categories still took it quite seriously.
After all, whenever there was a competition, no one wanted to be last.
The category award rankings rarely changed much year to year. When they did, it was usually only a few categories riding the wave of a new trend. This year’s rising star was the food category.
This was all thanks to the emergence of a powerhouse streamer who had completely dominated several smaller categories.
Another half an hour passed. After the category awards ceremony concluded, it was time for the leadership speeches.𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶
Even after thousands of years and with humanity spread across the Milky Way Galaxy, the leadership speech segment was as boring as ever.
The broadcast director knew this, too. The cameras were generally kept fixed on the speaker’s face, so it was no big deal if the people in the audience fiddled with their terminals for a while.
Many people started surfing the web to check out their online reception.
Jiang Qiuqiu was no different.
She first popped into her fan group to say hello.
Jiang Jiujiu: Hi~
Her message instantly blew up the chat.
[! Juju, aren’t you at the gala? What are you doing in the group chat all of a sudden!]
[I bet you’re in the audience, messing around on your terminal!]
[Well, duh! That guy speaking right now is so monotonous, you’d fall asleep if you weren’t doing something fun!]
After a few of them roasted the speaker, they started congratulating Jiang Jiujiu again.
[I saw the clips of you at the gala today, Juju! It was your shining moment!]
[Congratulations on winning first place, Juju!]
[I remember you said in the group that you wanted to win first place, Juju. We didn’t really believe it back then, but now that I think about it—]
[Trust in Juju! You can’t go wrong!]
[Our Juju is a miracle worker!]
The chat was a waterfall of compliments. It was a bona fide praise group.
Of course, after the wave of praise, someone asked, [So, is that all the screen time Juju gets for today? If it is, I’m going to head off to bed.]
[Wanxing mentioned you have a performance later today, Juju. Is that true?]
Indeed, it seemed the most exciting moments had passed, and many said they would go to sleep if there was nothing else.
Jiang Qiuqiu thought for a moment before replying in the group: If you’re sleepy, feel free to go to bed. I do have one more performance, but it’s not something I’m particularly good at. It’s just a little act for fun.
[There really is another performance!]
[Then I’ll wait!]
Sometimes, the devotion of fans was a wondrous thing.
They would willingly endure an hour of boredom just to see their idol appear on screen for three minutes.
This was what it meant to follow the light for love.
