The netizens were all in agreement that with Jiang Ling receiving 110 million votes, the Golden Peony Award for Best Actress was undoubtedly hers.
Jiang Ling herself thought so too.
She had originally expected to garner around seventy to eighty million votes at best.
Never did she imagine that her fans and the audience would use their passion to push the vote count into the hundreds of millions.
If, with such unprecedented votes, she still couldn't win the Golden Peony, she might as well hang herself with a noodle.
Jiang Ling tapped her finger, sliding to another page to check the voting results for Best Actor.
Upon seeing it, good heavens, the top contender for Best Actor was "The Frog Prince" with over nine million four hundred thousand votes.
Compared to the second place's two thousand nine hundred-plus votes, it was more than triple.
It was important to remember that although Jian Zhou was very popular, he was essentially a newcomer who had just entered the industry.
"The Frog Prince" was his first work after joining the entertainment circle.
Generally speaking, a newcomer's debut work rarely achieved high popularity.
To think that Jian Zhou's first work and first character would approach a hundred million votes was utterly unexpected.
It truly was a case of "comparing oneself to others leads to one's own demise."
Seeing these vote counts, countless young idols must be crying tears of envy.
If nothing unexpected happened, he would be this year's Golden Peony Television Best Actor.
Actors who won the Golden Award for Best Actor in a film were film emperors, and actresses who won Best Actress were film empresses.
Similarly, the Golden Award for television corresponded to television emperors and empresses.
Over the many years of development in the mainland entertainment industry, there had been no shortage of natural acting prodigies. However, those who won film or television emperor with their debut work could be counted on one's fingers.
Jian Zhou, this fellow, had truly struck it lucky.
Jiang Ling couldn't help but sigh.
She had initially believed that with her innate talent as a three-time film empress from her previous life, her development was already incredibly rapid.
Who would have known that compared to Jian Zhou, she was merely a dwarf.
She then clicked on the voting pages for Best Director, Best Television Series, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Cinematography.
"The Frog Prince" was prominently listed, with astonishing vote counts, firmly holding the first position in all categories.
Seeing this, Jiang Ling couldn't help but be surprised.
It seemed that this year's Golden Peony Television awards were going to be swept clean by "The Frog Prince."
Thinking about it, it made sense. A phenomenonally popular hit drama was never the achievement of just one or two actors.
Only with good actors, a good script, a good director, good cinematography, and the tacit cooperation of all the crew members could a masterpiece be created.
The audience's love for "The Frog Prince" had long since overflowed the screen, and through affection by association, they were naturally willing to vote generously for the supporting actors, director, and cinematographer in addition to the lead actors.
Sister Sa leaned over to take a look and was also surprised, "Good heavens, with so many Best awards voting, 'The Frog Prince' is in first place for all of them. They're going to win everything this time."
Jiang Ling smiled and nodded, "If nothing unexpected happens, they should indeed win everything."
Such "winner-takes-all" scenarios usually occurred in less popular, niche awards like the Magnolia Awards.
She hadn't expected "The Frog Prince" to be nominated for first place in every category at this year's Golden Peony.
Soon, the results of the Golden Peony Awards were announced.
Best Television Series: The Frog Prince
Best Director: Chen Mingzhang, for his work "The Frog Prince"
Best Cinematography: Su Tianbao, for his work "The Frog Prince"
Best Actor: Jian Zhou, for his role Dan Junhao/Tong Hao
Best Supporting Actor: Lin Qingxi, for his role Xu Ziqian
Best Supporting Actress: Li Yunyun, for her role Fan Yunxi