Imposter Young Master
Chapter 786 - 789 Concubine_1

Chapter 786: Chapter 789 Concubine_1

However, after watching the VCRs of Yang Fei, Zhang Miao, Anqi, and Yu Duoduo, Yang Gang was greatly disappointed.

With the exception of Yang Fei, who still had some vitality, the rest seemed distracted. Moreover, the whole VCR lacked originality and had no emotional appeals. No chance it could attract rich investors, let alone ordinary fans with this VCR. They had no motivation to vote.

This will not do!

If Yu Duoduo’s VCR had no traction, that was fine. Her popularity was mediocre anyway. Even if her VCR was well made, it would be hard to pull votes.

But! Yang Fei, Zhang Miao, and local celebrity Anqi are the three most popular contestants in this selection. If these three could not attract investments from the wealthy, there goes his dream of counting money until his legs cramp up!

The afternoon quickly approached.

Yang Gang sat in a room in the Royal Palace, staring at a large screen which displayed the popularity value of the 16 candidates. The top three would advance to the fourth round.

To emphasize the principle of fairness, an independent third-party organization was responsible for the voting system. Even the Xueji Government couldn’t manipulate it behind the scenes.

This was a pure popularity contest, or you could say, downright money contest.

What was agitating Yang Gang was that an hour had passed since the voting system opened at 3 pm, and only 10 million votes in total had been cast. In monetary terms, that was 10 million yuan, and only 5 million yuan would go to the Xueji Government!

Obviously, this was not good enough for Yang Gang.

More critically, even though the voting could continue for four hours, the number of votes started to lose steam just after one hour.

Yang Gang glanced at the voting situation: Yang Fei had 5 million votes, Zhang Miao, 4 million votes; Anqi, 700,000 votes; including Yu Duoduo, the remaining 12 candidates just had 300,000 votes in total.

In this scenario, Yang Fei, Zhang Miao, and Anqi would stably advance to the next round, and the rest had no chance against them.

This safe and predictable scenario was not what Yang Gang wanted to see.

"Hmm.." Yang Gang, with hand on chin, lost in thought.

After a while, Yang Gang abruptly called Zhao Shanshan.

Zhao Shanshan’s expertise in university was finance, and she is currently the Deputy Minister of Finance of Xueji. Although she is a deputy, she exercises greater powers than the primary post as she’s part of the "Love and World Peace" group.

"Boss, what’s up?" Zhao Shanshan said.

"How much cash do we have in our treasury?" Yang Gang went straight to the point.

"Around a hundred million dollars," Zhao Shanshan replied.

Yang Gang’s mouth twitched, "So poor! We are really on the brink of bankruptcy!"

He regained his composure and casually said, "Take it all out."

Zhao Shanshan didn’t ask why, she just replied, "Got it."

Half an hour later, a hundred million was added to Yang Gang’s personal bank account.

At this moment, the ranking on the popularity chart hadn’t changed much. Yang Fei, Zhang Miao, and Anqi had left all the other candidates far behind.

Yang Fei, with 5.5 million votes, was still the leader;

Zhang Miao came second with 4.5 million votes,

The gap between them was still one million votes.

Anqi, ranking third, had 1 million votes.

The number of votes everyone else got were negligible.

Room 709, Coastline Hotel.

Everyone was gathered around the computer, watching the fluctuating popularity values.

’According to this trend, Feifei, Miao Miao, and Anqi should be the ones advancing to the fourth round, right?" Red Moon said.

"Hmm." Su Xiaoxi nodded, then glanced at Yang Fei and said with a smile, "But I didn’t expect Feifei could really outperform Miao Miao."

Su Xiaoxi turned to Zhang Miao and laughed, "Miao Miao, it seems that even with the bonus for being a wife, you are no match for Feifei’s youthfulness."

Yang Fei was a bit embarrassed, but there was clearly excitement in her eyes.

Zhang Miao rolled her eyes but said nothing.

"Ah, this is so boring. The outcome is settled," Su Xiaoxi stretched and yawned, "I am going to bed."

"Wait!" Red Moon suddenly said.

"What’s going on?"

"Yu Duoduo’s votes are surging!"

"Hmm?"

Everyone gathered around again.

True enough, Yu Duoduo, who had been hovering around tenth, suddenly experienced a surge in votes. In just ten minutes, her votes went from 30,000 to 1.5 million surpassing Anqi and ranking third.

This stimulus triggered a reaction from Anqi, whose votes had been growing steadily.

In the following ten minutes, Anqi’s votes surged by 5 million, bringing her total to more than 6 million votes.

Yu Duoduo’s vote count was similar to Anqi’s.

Their votes alternated for the lead.

By the time they came to, they realized that the vote counts of Yang Fei and Zhang Miao, who had been leading all along, had already fallen behind Anqi and Yu Duoduo.

Just because the top three in popularity would advance, according to this ranking, Zhang Miao, who was in fourth place, would be eliminated!

Just then, Zhang Miao’s votes also started to fluctuate.

It skyrocketed by nearly ten million votes in just one minute.

Shortly after, Yang Fei’s votes also started to fluctuate, surging by ten million votes in just one minute, which equaled ten million RMB!

Those who originally thought it was boring and had even stopped paying attention, once again turned their attention to the popularity chart. The atmosphere on the Internet, on television, and in real life was lively again.

In the following two hours or so, Yang Fei’s votes soared to 3.08 billion, while Zhang Miao’s votes also soared to 3.07 billion.

The two of them formed the leading group, and it was almost certain that they would enter the next round.

Because there was only about half an hour left before the voting system closed, and to prevent someone from voting in large numbers at the last moment and disrupting the "fair competition," the voting system set a limit on the number of votes. Each minute, only a maximum of a hundred million votes could be cast. If they started voting now, the maximum would be 3 billion votes. Therefore, Yang Fei and Zhang Miao were set to enter the fourth round as the top two.

Anqi, currently ranked third, had 160 million votes;

Yu Duoduo, ranked fourth, had around 100 million votes.

Because of the previous fierce competition, the vote increase for Anqi and Yu Duoduo was extremely slow now, with only a few hundred votes per minute.

Of course, not only Anqi and Yu Duoduo, but also including Yang Fei and Zhang Miao, everyone’s votes had almost stopped growing.

As time slowly passed, there was less than five minutes left before the voting system would close. The votes of the 16 candidates virtually stopped growing.

Just when everyone thought the outcome was set, another candidate’s votes began to grow rapidly, surging by 50 million in just one minute, and the surge continued.

"What’s happening?!"

The viewers’ emotions were once again stirred.

"Concubine? That’s a weird name. Wait, is she on the list of the top 16?"

"Seems like you haven’t been paying attention all along. A player from the top 16 dropped out, and this woman named ’Concubine’ stood in as a supplement."

"Oh, so that’s the woman in black robes and veil in the VCR?"

"Yes, she said in her VCR that not showing her face is part of their customs. So no one knows what she looks like. But she sounded like a queen."

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