Superstar's Development Diary
Chapter 460 - 461: The Fruits of a Bountiful Harvest (Additional - for Alliance Leader Zuo Zheng)

Chapter 460: Chapter 461: The Fruits of a Bountiful Harvest (Additional Chapter for Alliance Leader Zuo Zheng)

Many stars don’t have the clout to participate in global awards, but when it comes to domestic awards, it’s all in the family, and looking after our own stars always works out.

Domestic awards are tiered, with first-tier being the highest and third-tier the lowest. Winning a domestic award also raises a local star’s value.

Awards show how popular you are and provide a clear valuation of a star’s worth to the outside world.

Just as He Jinxia boarded the plane back to Imperial City, the awards were announced one by one.

As soon as the names were released, Luo You’s phone was about to explode with calls.

Zhang Dayou: "Baihua State’s Best New Artist Award, Baihua State’s Asian Rising Star top rank, Baihua State’s Fashion Best New Artist Award... Just from Baihua State’s awards alone, Jinxia has won five!"

Luo You dismissed call after call, until finally he just turned off his phone, saying:

"Look at Tengfei Entertainment’s awards. In recent years, Tengfei has delved into the entertainment circle, expanding many stars’ influence through its vast social networks. Domestic stars all give face by attending their events, and Tengfei’s awards are also prestigious."

Zhang Dayou gave an affirmative grunt, glanced over a webpage, and suddenly his eyes widened in surprise: "No way, she’s been nominated for the Golden Eagle Award too!"

Luo You stumbled, equally astonished: "What, the Golden Eagle Award?"

It was the end of the year, and the awards were all being judged in a cluster; some would be revealed in December, while others only announced their nominations and would give out the awards the following January or February.

Choosing to hold the award ceremonies at the end of the year and beginning of the next carries meaning—it’s about "reviewing history and looking forward to the future."

Among many awards, the Golden Eagle Award is considered one of the most influential domestic awards in Huaxia, officially known as the Huaxia Golden Eagle Television Award.

Each year the Golden Eagle Award selects a Golden Eagle Goddess, who is often the leading actress of a highly popular TV drama, with massive popularity.

Whether you have acting skills that rival a Movie Queen is not important, what counts is that you must be popular. If you’re not popular, you won’t win this award, because this is the only major TV art award in Huaxia decided by audience voting.

Of course, if you have acting skills too, that’s even better.

Zhang Dayou: "Let me see, Jinxia was nominated for the Golden Eagle Award’s Most Popular Best Supporting Actress, earning a nomination for her outstanding performance as Su Qingwan in ’Small Bridge, Flowing Water, People’."

Upon hearing this, Luo You expressed his regret: "Oh, Best Supporting Actress..."

Thinking of something, the look of regret on his face grew even stronger: "It’s a pity, ’High Energy Classroom’ was broadcast too late, otherwise she might have had a chance at competing for the Golden Eagle Goddess."

Zhang Dayou frowned: "Even if it was broadcast earlier, it wouldn’t have worked. You have to eat rice one spoonful at a time; taking too big a step isn’t good. She’s not experienced enough to be nominated for the Golden Eagle Goddess, and besides, ’High Energy Classroom’ isn’t exactly a blockbuster hit like ’Small Bridge, Flowing Water, People’ is."

Luo You sighed softly, flicking imaginary dust off his shoulders, his demeanor proud: "That’s why I said it was just a thought."

Zhang Dayou: "..."

Luo You heaved another sigh: "’Small Bridge, Flowing Water, People’ is indeed a pity."

Zhang Dayou also shook his head: "It’s a pity, indeed. When it was picked up for production, no one expected ’Small Bridge’ to become such a hit. Had they known, it would have been great to switch the lead actors.

If not for the poor reputation of the lead actors, they might have been able to win the ultimate prize with ’Small Bridge’."

Luo You said softly: "If Jinxia had been the lead back then..."

Zhang Dayou paused, somewhat hesitant to consider this further.

’Small Bridge, Flowing Water, People’ was the hit drama of the summer. If Jinxia had been the lead actress, without any blemish on her record and delivering a stellar performance, it’s possible... she really might have taken the title of Golden Eagle Goddess!

The youngest Golden Eagle goddess in history?

The most beloved TV drama actress from debut?

Movie Queen?

Zhang Dayou’s body shivered, he didn’t dare to think about it, really dare not imagine.

He said, "The voting channel for the Golden Eagle will open this afternoon. Jinxia has been nominated for Berlin, but no one knows whether she will win or not. We must strive to secure the Best Female Supporting Role at the Golden Eagle.

"We’ve basically got half of that award in the bag, Jinxia has performed well this year, and she should have a substantial number of people rallying for her vote."

Luo You nodded, "Okay, you handle it. By the way, how are things going with Tengfei?"

Zhang Dayou looked down, "Let me check..."

His eyes lit up, "Tengfei has also been nominated for Best Newcomer and Best Female Supporting Role. Tengfei is really good to Jinxia, they value her highly!"

Luo You smiled enigmatically, "Not to mention how much money ’Small Bridge, Flowing Water, People’ and ’High Energy Classroom’ made for Tengfei. Just a nomination for Jinxia is not a big deal, she has the strength to back it up."

He mused, "The only question is whether she can win the award or not."

’High Energy Classroom’ was a weekly drama with a niche theme, which brought Tengfei limited traffic, but ’Small Bridge, Flowing Water, People’ was different.

During the peak of the summer, Tengfei specifically introduced quarterly and annual membership recharge cards for ’Small Bridge’, and Tengfei Video was promoted in all major online application stores using ’Small Bridge’ as a front.

According to internal company reports, ’Small Bridge’ alone attracted nearly a hundred million new members, which is just a glimpse of how much Tengfei Video made from this show.

Awards were still being announced, but Luo You was already pondering what awards Jinxia should attend.

Famous awards like the Golden Eagle and Tengfei, with Golden Eagle being a top-tier award and Tengfei potentially crowning the video industry, so these two were a must. Baihua State was optional, and the situation would be assessed later.

The end of the year approached, and charity galas were piling up; Jinxia also had to make time to attend.

Luo You casually thought about it and felt that He Jinxia’s December schedule was incredibly busy.

He felt somewhat glad that he hadn’t accepted new movie roles for He Jinxia. Although end-of-year summaries were annual, this year marked the first time Jinxia would be attending with status. If possible, she should attend all of them.

To avoid leaving an impression of arrogance due to talent.

In fact, Luo You did want to find scripts for He Jinxia, but none of the roles were suitable. Compared to that, attending award ceremonies was also a good exposure opportunity.

As Luo You thought this, he saw that it was about time for Jinxia to get off the plane, so he turned on his phone and called Cheng Xiaohua to pick her up.

As soon as he turned on the phone, he saw that Cheng Xiaohua had already sent a WeChat message five minutes ago saying she had gone to pick up Jinxia.

Luo You was relieved and prepared to go through his missed calls one by one, when suddenly, a strange international call came through, sparking his curiosity.

An international call?

Could it be a wrong number?

As soon as he answered the phone, Director Wilson’s voice came through, "Hello, are you He Jinxia’s agent? I’d like to discuss something with you, yes, regarding the female supporting role in my new film..."