"Beautiful, so beautiful! Jiang Ling looks absolutely stunning in this outfit!"
"This pleated skirt exudes a rich ancient charm, subtle yet refined, alluring yet not seductive. It's truly magnificent!"
"One role, two Best Actress awards. She's the brightest star tonight!"
"It's a pity. Jiang Ling has portrayed so many popular characters that left audiences with deep regrets. By rights, she should have been showered with awards, but until today, she remained empty-handed in television dramas. Yet, a film she took on casually has bagged two major awards. Fate truly plays tricks on people!"
"Indeed. So many characters she played were my favorites, yet she couldn't win a single award. If I were her, my mental state would have probably collapsed long ago."
The guests attending the awards ceremony, gazing at the breathtaking Jiang Ling, couldn't help but remark.
When the awards ceremony commenced, Jian Zhou was still on the Hengdian film set, filming other scenes for Jian Zhou Hao.
However, he carved out some time to watch the live broadcast on his iPad.
He was nestled on the hotel sofa, his eyes glued to the screen, looking extremely focused.
These past few days, Xiao Hei, having nothing better to do, specially came to Hengdian to meet up with Jian Zhou and also to see Sister Sa.
As fate would have it, Sister Sa had accompanied Jiang Ling to the awards ceremony, leaving him with no choice but to stay in the hotel and watch the broadcast with Jian Zhou.
Xiao Hei washed a bunch of plump Sun Rose grapes, plucked one, and tossed it to Jian Zhou, teasing, "It's just an awards ceremony. You're staring at the screen so intently, you're going to bore a hole through it."
Jian Zhou accepted the grape and ate it slowly, saying faintly, "This is her first award in her life. It holds a different significance."
Roughly calculating the time spent at Huohua Media, Jiang Ling had been in the entertainment industry for five years.
While at Huohua Media, despite acting in numerous productions under capital packaging, none of them were truly outstanding, nor had she ever won a prestigious award.
Among the three major golden awards, the Golden Peony Award was geared towards the public, allowing netizens to vote for their favorite Best Actor and Best Actress.
Huohua Media had intended to leverage fan support to help Jiang Ling win a Golden Peony, which would have been favorable for her public image.
However, although the Golden Peony could be voted for by the audience, the expert judges still held 20% of the voting power and possessed the right of a single veto.
If the works selected by the public were too subpar, to the point where all expert judges found them unbearable and each cast a dissenting vote, then this veto right would take effect.
This arrangement was made to prevent capital from manipulating voting rights through fans, thereby obstructing the fairness and impartiality of the three major golden awards.
However, tastes are diverse, and everyone's preferences differ. For all experts to cast a dissenting vote was not an easy task.
Therefore, this right of a single veto had been rarely exercised since the establishment of the Golden Peony Award.
Perhaps it was because the original host Jiang Ling's acting was so atrociously bad that it angered the heavens and earth. The senior management of Huohua Media, using fans to vote and support Jiang Ling, thought that the Golden Peony Award was a sure thing.
Who could have imagined that after watching Jiang Ling's performance, the panel of expert judges felt as if they had been hit by dozens of crates of rotten onions, their eyes almost blinded. Everyone unanimously cast a dissenting vote, the single veto took effect, and she was completely out of the running for the Golden Peony Award.
Xiao Hei said, "A single announcement, and it's a stunning one. Five years in the industry, winning two major golden awards at once. That's quite impressive!"