This celebrity became even more popular after being exposed of having multiple girlfriends-Chapter 5 - Recording Starts

Fan Zhang Li mingled with the crowd, listening to the audience's skepticism about Wu Mu, feeling a great sense of relief.

Serves him right, that deadbeat!

This is what deceiving fans and collapsing the room gets you!

When she had un-followed him before, she had resolved never to pay attention to Wu Mu's news again, as good as considering him dead.

But who could have guessed that the sentence she casually posted about dropping her fan status would cause such a huge uproar, directly leading to Wu Mu's album selling an extra two million copies.

This gave her quite a sense of guilt, so with a mentality of making amends, she also participated in the program's audience selection, and then, unexpectedly, she was chosen.

She was here just to give Wu Mu low scores!

After this deadbeat made a fool of himself and got eliminated, she would never pay attention to him again.

Zhang Li thought to herself.

...

Half an hour later, the show's host came on stage, and the official recording commenced.

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All the contestants gathered in the venue's individual rest areas, waiting for their turn to perform.

The "Singer-Songwriter" show featured a total of sixteen singing guests. In the first episode, each guest made an appearance, introduced themselves briefly, then each sang one of their own songs. The audience would vote on the guests' performances to determine the rankings. Then, according to these rankings, they would pair up to form a singer-songwriter duo.

No one would be eliminated this episode, but the bottom eight would be placed in the losers' group, increasing their chances of elimination in the next round. So it was important.

In their individual rest areas, most contestants were sitting upright, staring at the large screens, waiting to observe the performances of their competitors.

In Wu Mu's rest area, he was half-lying in the familiar "Ge You slump" on the sofa, snacking on brand-name treats provided by the show's organizers, occasionally glancing at the screen, embodying a leisurely attitude.

It's not like he was deliberately trying to stand out and be different.

He was very clear that he wasn't cut out to be an idol.

If it weren't for the Star System, even if he hadn't collapsed the room, he most likely would be doing something else.

He couldn't stand that kind of life where you create a public persona, then tiptoe around maintaining it everywhere you go.

It's too exhausting.

So rather than now putting up some hardworking persona or some quality idol persona, then later being discovered to not be that way and facing a backlash, he might as well just do things according to his own heart from start to finish.

Anyway, he had a cheat. Whether the audience liked him or not didn't really affect him—as long as he could get points and draw prizes, that was enough.

"System."

Wu Mu called up his system panel.

[Wu Mu]

[Appearance: 87]

[Constitution: 69]

[Points: 8]

He already had eight points. From the announcement of the start of the show's recording, his points had been ticking up now and again.

The speed of the increase was rather gratifying.

He had been worried that the points would take a long time to accrue, but now it seemed he had been overly concerned.

At this rate, he would be able to draw twice by the end of this recording session.

And that was when he hadn't even appeared yet.

The system points would slowly increase from the formal start of recording until the end of the entire program, but they generally wouldn't rise much during this time.

Once he was on camera, or when the system judged that he played an important role in that recording, the speed of increase would accelerate.

The more famous the recorded program was, the more points he would earn, and the more screen time and importance he had in the program, the more points he would obtain.

While Wu Mu was still looking at his system panel, the contestants in front had already begun to appear on stage.

The host started announcing the contestants' entrance speeches.

"He is a well-known talented singer-songwriter of the new generation, a top-level singer with songs popular across the straits, and is recognized in the industry as a music prodigy!"

"He is, Xu Zhiwen!"

"Welcome Xu Zhiwen!"

The first to take the stage was Xu Zhiwen, who had previously trampled on Wu Mu's face on Weibo.

Wu Mu glanced up and saw a fairly good-looking young man around twenty-eight or twenty-nine.

Xu Zhiwen appeared on stage to the audience's applause, gave an interview with the host, and sang a heart-wrenching song called "Deep Love."

This song was one of Xu Zhiwen's signature works, once widely popular in Blue Star and Hua Country.

Although many in the audience didn't know he wrote it, they had all heard it, so as soon as he started singing, the mood among the spectators exploded.

Added to his indeed impressive singing ability and strong infectiousness, he ended up with a respectable score.

There were more than five hundred five-star ratings, over three hundred four-star ratings, and only about a dozen low scores of one or two stars.

After being weighted with the scores from the professional judging panel, his final score was 763 points.

An absolute high score, and one could say that he had already secured a top five ranking.

Though only in the top five, in a professional singer-songwriter program like this, that was really no small feat.

Everyone who came was talented; none were weak.

The following contestants didn't surpass Xu Zhiwen in scores, but they were all above seven hundred points, not too far behind.

Until another heavyweight contestant appeared, with album sales over ten million, and a popular singer on the verge of becoming a king—He Jie.

With an explosively emotional song, "Breaking the Cocoon and Becoming a Butterfly," he scored 792 points, ranking temporarily in first place.

Then, not much later, the veteran Zheng Qiang, with a thirty-year career, rocked the entire venue with a rock song called "Undying," thrilling everyone so much they all rocked out together, scoring the top score of 812 points.

Just when everyone thought the rankings were about to settle down, the fifteenth contestant once again ignited the atmosphere in the venue.

"She is a former child star with a career spanning sixteen years, an award-winning tiny Heavenly Queen in the circle, and a national goddess singer in everyone's hearts."

"She is, Mo Mo!"

A beautiful girl who looked about the same age as Wu Mu, with radiant white skin and a pure aura, like a fairy, stepped onto the stage.

With an embarrassed wave, she said, "Hello, everyone, I'm Mo Mo."

A simple greeting like this sparked screams from the audience as if they were fans.

Of course, that's not to say everyone in the audience was a Mo Mo fan.

It was because the program hadn't officially announced Mo Mo would be coming beforehand, so her sudden appearance added a surprise element, intensifying the delight.

"The program team actually had such a card up their sleeve."

Wu Mu muttered to himself in the rest area.

Of course, he knew Mo Mo—the national goddess singer mentioned by the host was not just an empty title.

Mo Mo's parents were rock singers, big names in the industry from the old days. She had been performing on stage with them as a guest since she was six. Mo Mo was a child star that the nation watched grow up, with an extremely high national profile.

Of course, most importantly, her talent was indeed strong, winning virtually every major music award in the country and several internationally known awards.

Adding the term "tiny" before Heavenly Queen was simply an affectionate nickname; in truth, she was a bona fide Heavenly Queen level singer.