SB: Chapter 10

Qiu Qiu knew that the matter of his participation in the talent show couldn’t be hidden from the family head, but he had absolutely no idea that the news would circulate so quickly.

He completely underestimated his own reputation at school. He sang on stage in the afternoon, and when night came around, all the students of university city knew that A University’s most handsome boy sang the Legendary song: 《I Am Only A Little Sheep》and succeeded in advancing.

On the second day, he had a major class taught by the university vice-president Wang. There were two segments and a 15 minute break in between. Professor Wang happily called him up on the stage to sing for everybody during this time.

……Qiu Qiu realized the fear of an elementary school student being compelled to perform for all their relatives for Chinese New Year festivities.

However, Qiu Qiu had a strong mentality and never felt stage fright. After he finished singing confidently, he won the cheers of his audience.

In truth, a lot of male students were waiting for this campus Prince Charming to make a fool of himself, but there were just some people who had a natural disposition to be charming. Even singing a nursery rhyme could cause the audience to feel emotion.

From the bottom of the stage, a female student shouted: “Qiu Qiu, I’ll give you a litter of pups!”

Qiu Qiu awkwardly said: “……But I’m just a sheep, ah.”

Someone recorded a video of this solo performance and uploaded it to their friend circle on WeChat, coming up with the title 《Shocking! A University’s Tyrant Campus Beau In Major Class Unexpectedly Not Here to Attend a Lecture, But Rather Did This Kind of Thing……》and circulating it rapidly within the student community.

Qiu Qiu’s uncle saw this video; this chicken thief then shared it with the family circle.

(T/N: “鸡贼” means stingy or crafty in a dialect, but chicken thief made more sense. It has a connotation of being a traitor, or someone who’s sneaky.)

Father Qiu and Mother Qiu were, as expected, “shocked” after seeing the video.

I am Old Qiu: ……Qiu Qiu is the campus beau????

Understand Your Heart: ……Qiu Qiu is the top student????

I am Old Qiu: Teacher Dong, your son follows the footsteps of his father. He’s of great talent, erudite and informed, has an achievement point of 4.0, so naturally he’s the top student.

Understand your Heart: Teacher Qiu, your son follows the footsteps of his mother. Petite face, large eyes, long legs, slender waist, who knows how many maidens want to marry him.

Value Virtue Like Water: Good, this child will be a very capable person.

Qiu as in Autumn: (ノへ￣)

This family was really unable to recognize the important point, ah.

Right now, Qiu Qiu was already in the second semester of his junior year. The schoolwork was hard and the workload was heavy. Originally, he was afraid his father would criticize him about not attending to his studies properly, but who would’ve thought Old Qiu simply never thought about this kind of thing.

He thought children had time, so they should go play and temper themselves. If they didn’t experience things now, then after they find jobs where they toil from nine to five, where would they find the time to participate in singing competitions or whatnot?

When Qiu Qiu went home for the weekend, Father Qiu carefully scrutinized him for half a day before saying his image was too academic. He wanted to take Qiu Qiu to the hairdresser’s to give him a more fashionable hairstyle, something to match his campus beau title.

“Just that ‘Mexico style’ with the two sides shaved short, slicked back. The hair on top is a little bit longer……I always see a lot of young people shave it this way.”

Qiu Qiu followed his father with a muddled head.

It wasn’t until he sat in front of the mirror in a hairdresser shop that he realized it wasn’t “Mexico style” but “Mohican style.” The person who was cutting his hair also wasn’t “Teacher Dai,” but “Teacher Daisy.”

(T/N: “Teacher” in this case is not used as an actual school teacher, but an honorific for an expert in a field. In this case, a beautician.)

Qiu Qiu was very nearsighted. It was the type of nearsightedness where once he took off his glasses, he wouldn’t be able to distinguish humans from animals. He never went into a salon casually because he would forever be unable to tell whether it was a beauty expert or a disfiguration expert standing behind him.

After he waited an hour, he put his glasses back on and discovered that not only had his entire head had been completely renovated, but that his entire brain had also been refreshed, and the result was a 404 Cannot Display screen.

(T/N: “刷新” could mean renovate, refurbish, refresh, or to break a record. No wonder Chinese has so many puns lol.)

Teacher Daisy enthusiastically asked him if he liked his new hairstyle.

Qiu Qiu: “……I look a bit square.”

“Square? It’s nothing, I’ll help you shave it a bit rounder.”

“……”

And just like that, a perfectly good ladykiller turned into a kiwibird with a tuft of hair on top.

When Qiu Qiu returned to school, the students laughed, the teachers laughed, and even his dorm mate Da Xiong laughed.

When the staff for 《Super Generation Voice》 came over to give him the semifinals competition guidelines, they were gobsmacked.

The person who came today was the same guy in the yellow vest, and reportedly the deputy director. This deputy director was actually quite famous. It’s just that within the cast and crew, he ran countless jobs. There was nothing he did not do, except for the video cameras.

This specialized, responsible, contestant communicator deputy director was still quite polite: “……Student Sheep, for the sake of the show, your self-sacrifice is truly big.”

“My surname is Qiu……”

“Sorry, sorry, it’s noted. It’s the haircut, really too similar to ‘Lan Yangyang.’”

(T/N: “懒羊羊” is one of the characters in Pleasant Goat——his hair is in the shape of a poop swirl hahaha.)

Qiu Qiu was extremely worried: “is it really that ugly?”

“Doesn’t matter, it won’t affect your performance. You’re in the ability faction and can depend on your talent, not your face.”

“……” Qiu Qiu knew that this hairstyle was really ugly. It was so ugly, it turned him from the idol faction to the ability faction.

(T/N: “Idol” faction would be people who relied on their looks to advance rather than talent.)

The two people met at the campus coffee shop. Unlike the previous auditions where anyone could go up for a pre-selection, the district semi finals were important. As long as they could win this stage, they could compete in the district finals. They belonged to the North China region. Once the three finalists of the North China advanced, they would go further to compete with finalists of other regions.

The process of the regional competition is not complicated. As long as you won two matches, you would pass. It’ll be trickier after entering the nationals because there will also be resurrection competitions. In short, how you’ll catch attention is how you’ll catch the gold.

Before, Qiu Qiu never paid attention to events with elections. This was honestly the first time he’s ever heard of competition rules and regulations.

He suddenly realized: “I understand now. I’m currently a bronze, so I should play layer by layer, and when I win, I’ll advance. When I become more and more awesome, I can get the gold rank ba?”

The deputy director slapped his thigh: “Yes, yes, yes! Children your age still watch Saint Seiya, ah?”

“……I’m talking about King of Glory.”

(T/N: Looked up some screenshots of King of Glory, seems to be like an e-sport game like League of Legends.)

The deputy director choked for a bit but his face was thick and soon continued to chatter: “This time, the semi finals and finals are held in A City’s television station. We already rented a broadcasting studio, the largest one there. It can accomodate 500 audience members. It’s also the place where the famous romance show 《Man and Woman Clash》is recorded.”

Qiu Qiu was familiar with that show. Teacher Dong would pursue the episodes with fervor to the point that even when overseas, she would insist on watching recordings.

“That broadcasting room isn’t easy to get. The programs who want it are countless, and originally we wouldn’t have been able to get it, but who allowed us to latch on to such a big sponsor? Our financial father is rather generous. All the money for the broadcasting studio came from him,” the deputy director said in a tone that was both modest and bragging. He then patted Qiu Qiu on the shoulder twice, and said “young man, the audience will be big, but don’t be nervous. Don’t go on stage and suddenly go silent.”

“I won’t be nervous,” Qiu Qiu said.

The deputy director obviously didn’t believe him, thinking that this youth was just showing off a brave face.

Really though, how would the deputy director know that every year, A University’s commencement parties held ten thousand students in attendance? After experiencing this kind of big wave, an audience of five hundred can barely cause a splash in Qiu Qiu’s heart.

They drank coffee for about half an hour and ten of those minutes were used to explain the competition system. The deputy director used the remaining twenty minutes to brag about the golden thigh he was able to hold onto. He said that he himself was blind to pearls, and this golden thigh was all-seeing and all-knowing to have seen the potential in the show. Right now, they had to unite their efforts, and bring the show up to the next level.

Not only did the golden thigh buy the naming rights, he also paid extra money and effort to package up the whole program. Right now, the program was like a bird shotgun that got replaced by a cannon. It was no longer the 18th line, ordinary, everyday broadcast that it was before.

(T/N: There’s 1st-line actors, 2nd-line actors—basically a ranking. You can imagine how shitty the 18th line is.)

The deputy director fished out a thick stack of program introductions and threw them on the coffee table, making the sugar jars jump with its shake.

Qiu Qiu, on the other hand, jumped in fear at the promotion cover to the point his hair stood up too.

——《Super Generation Voice》was broadcasted under the Enrui Group’s name.

Qiu Qiu felt like he was still a sugar baby somehow——his sugar daddy Fu Ruien’s single-handed establishment was called the Enrui Group.

Qiu Qiu wasn’t foolish. He originally thought that being able to advance in rank while singing 《I Am Only A Little Sheep》was rather strange. He thought it was just the program that was too watery, but when he thought about it now, it seemed that this water was just too muddy!

Qiu Qiu asked faintly: “……brother deputy director, how much money is invested in this program ah……”

“Not much, not much. Twenty million.”

“……”

“In terms of our program’s potential, it’s definitely worth it!”

“……”

After the deputy director left, Qiu Qiu sullenly gave his sugar daddy a call.

The call connected quickly.

“Qiu Qiu, what is it?”

Qiu Qiu very bluntly but also very vaguely asked: “……Daddy, other than the fifty thousand dollar guitar, do I also owe you twenty million?”

Fu Ruien paused for a few seconds before replying indifferently. “No.”

Qiu Qiu grinned from ear to ear: fortunately, he wasn’t the reason his daddy smashed a bunch of money to this inexplicable program.

“For offline production and online production, there’s an additional ten million.”

“……???”

From a debt of fifty thousand to thirty million and fifty thousand, Qiu Qiu cried over the phone about how he wouldn’t be able to sleep tonight.

Fu Ruien was satisfied with this.

“Being unable to sleep is okay. Think about me more.”

“……”

After hanging up, Qiu Qiu’s mind was frenzied to death. If you weighed him by catties, he was worth around two hundred thousand.

He anxiously sent Fu Ruien a WeChat message.

Qiu as in Autumn: Daddy, you really are rich and overbearing……

Dad as in Daddy: No, I’m just capable.

(T/N: The phrase in the raws for “capable” was “big wealth, rough tools,” which is a phrase used to describe something women look for in men *wink wonk*)

Qiu Qiu blushed as he read the words on his phone——he unexpectedly understood the perverted joke. It must be daddy’s influence.

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Translator Notes:

Gonna try and see if I can start translating constantly again—I need to stop procrastinating haha. Also gonna try and go back to edit and solidify some terms in previous chapters.

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