I Inherited 5,000 Years of Family Property-Chapter 439 437: Who Did She Offend?

"Hmm, this one's not bad! She's pretty and has nice legs. Hong Yi, give her a million votes!"

"Damn! The Digimon theme song? It's totally my jam, this is some great song choice. Wang Yufei? I've got to remember her. This person definitely needs to move up, Hong Yi, give this one also a million votes!"

"Why does this person look so familiar? Where have I seen her before?" Zhang Menglong focused on a girl of similar age to him in the replay of the performance.

"Mr. Zhang, this contestant's name is Luo Qing, and she's your junior high school classmate. We invited her to Kaibong, but she refused because she wanted to be on this show."

"So that's it," Zhang Menglong nodded, "I was wondering why she looked so familiar. She must debut, brush her up to second place, that's good enough!"

"What's this dance? A rehabilitation exercise for disabled persons? Never mind, just brush her to the second to last place, she's definitely not making a debut anyway."

When it came to vote manipulation, Zhang Menglong entirely went by his own preferences.

He wasn't the kind of person who enjoyed playing behind-the-scenes games, but if someone else wanted to play dirty, Zhang Menglong was ready to play to the end!

Apart from Luo Qing and a few other performance stages he particularly enjoyed, Zhang Menglong almost stuck to the initial rankings when vote manipulating, of course, leaving a last-place spot for Hua Yuhan.

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"Knock, knock, knock!" In the manor lent to the Future Star contestants by Zhang Menglong, a girl rushed to another room and knocked urgently on the door.

"Luo Qing? What's up, I'm still taking a shower here!" A girl, drying her hair, poked her head out of the room, "What's the big rush?"

Both girls were contestants on this season's Future Star, coming from the same talent agency, and after two and a half years of training, they finally made their appearance on the stage of Future Star.

However, on a stage brimming with talent, their performances seemed to fade into the crowd, and they weren't well-known to many viewers. Their evaluations placed them in the mid-tier among the hundred contestants, barely advancing them to the public performance round.

"Feifei, did you see the support ranking?" Luo Qing asked.

"What's there to see? Aren't you clear about our level? Advancing to the public performance itself was good enough, and since the public performance doesn't eliminate anyone, whatever rank we reach is fine, as long as we do our best!" The girl known as Feifei was quite philosophic about it.

In fact, before she took a shower, she had seen the newly announced public performance rankings: out of sixty, she was in 47th place with over 130,000 votes, while her friend Luo Qing was in 45th place with over 140,000 votes.

If they didn't make a significant breakthrough in the upcoming training, they were likely to be eliminated in the next elimination performance.

They were from an ordinary talent agency with limited resources. The hundred and something thousand votes they received were a result of mobilizing a large number of fans. The company didn't have the surplus funds to support two artists who were still filled with uncertainties.

"Look at it again now!"

"What's the point? Even if I look again, at most we'll gain another ten or twenty thousand votes. What good will that do?"

"Will you just look again?"

Feifei opened her phone skeptically and clicked on the voting list. The number next to her name made her pupils dilate several times over.

1.27 million votes?

It wasn't just her; Luo Qing's vote count had also risen to 1.3 million! Their rankings had suddenly shot up into the top ten!

"What's going on?" The two looked at each other, their eyes filled with surprise and confusion.

"I don't know either. I just had dinner, and when I opened the ranking, it had turned into this!"

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"I'll make a call to the company!" Feifei was very clear about her situation; she had just completed the trainee program and barely had any fans, let alone wealthy ones who would spend money to vote for her. This surge in votes must be the company's doing!"

"President Liu, this is Feifei. I wanted to ask if the company has spent money to buy us votes?"

"Wang Yufei, have you not woken up yet? Have you seen what kind of performance you put on stage? Others chose songs that are well-known to the ear, and what did you pick? The theme song of Digimon? Did you think you were singing for children? Look at your own vote count; you still think the company would spend money on votes for you, you..."

The voice on the other end of the line suddenly stopped. Wang Yufei's company boss had just seen two astonishing vote counts on the leaderboard; Wang Yufei's "Butterfly" ranked 5th, while Luo Qing's rendition of "Darwin" was in 7th place.

This sudden rise in ranking even made the two of them hot topics within just a few hours, with their popularity skyrocketing.

"Hahaha, you two did very well. From now on, pour your hearts and souls into the competition; I will use the entire company's resources to create momentum for the two of you!"

Seeing their ranking, the boss's attitude completely changed. These were two new artists brimming with potential. If they could really debut, they would undoubtedly become the company's cash cows!

After hanging up the phone, Wang Yufei and Luo Qing exchanged glances. It was clear from the boss's reaction that their votes were not the result of the company's intervention. Could it be that they had some super-rich fan among their followers?

As for the idea that their talent attracted the audience? What a joke. They were keenly aware of their own abilities.

As artists, they were very familiar with the practice of vote manipulation. If those were indeed real votes, then the financial investment behind their more than two million votes would definitely exceed ten million! They didn't believe their current commercial value could reach that level.

"Who could it be?" Wang Yufei fell into deep thought. "Luo Qing, do you have a sugar daddy backing you up?"

"Hahaha, even if I had a sugar daddy, he would only vote for me, not for you, right?"

"Maybe you have some rich relatives?" Wang Yufei said.

"Come on, my dad is just a fisherman from a small island; almost all my relatives work in fishing. Where would I get a rich relative?" Luo Qing replied. "But speaking of that, I do have a very wealthy middle school classmate."

"Oh? Who?"

"Zhang Menglong!"

"Zhang Menglong? The world's richest Zhang Menglong?" Wang Yufei raised her voice. That's just very wealthy? Isn't that practically invincible wealth?

"But we haven't been in touch for a long time," Luo Qing said. "Half a month ago, he sent someone to tell me he was organizing a big gathering to travel to Kaibong, but I had to decline because I was participating in this event. We haven't been in contact since."

"Could he be the one voting for you?" Wang Yufei speculated.

"But my relationship with him wasn't that good; I used to beat him up!" Luo Qing laughed. "Besides, even if he was voting for me, what about your votes? Do you have such a wealthy friend too?"

"Wait, look, the vote counts of the others are increasing too!" Wang Yufei had been monitoring the vote counts closely. She just refreshed the page, and the rankings of several contestants had jumped significantly, with increases of at least seven or eight hundred thousand votes!

"Lu Yiyao moved up to first place!"

"Luo Qing, you're now in second place! I'm in fifth place!"

"What? What about Hua Yuhan? Wasn't she in second place?"

"Others' votes are rising too quickly; she has fallen below the top ten!"

"How is it that the rankings suddenly became so chaotic?"

"Could someone be manipulating things behind the scenes?"

"I see it now; someone is targeting Hua Yuhan!" Luo Qing, with her sharp intuition, quickly realized the situation. "Who could she have offended?"

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