"I have to admit, I’m a little surprised I won first place in the annual competition."
Jiang Qiuqiu had initially set her sights on first place, but she hadn’t been entirely sure she could win.
Jiang Qiuqiu kept her acceptance speech fairly conventional. She simply smiled at the cara, as if speaking directly to her fans through the screen, "Winning first place ans I now have a bigger stage."
"Going forward, I hope to use this bigger stage to bring the joy of delicious food to even more people."
"I also hope to explore how to cook wonderful als with more people and get more of you involved."
The mont she finished speaking, several strears from the food category in the audience were the first to applaud enthusiastically.
The hosts joined her on stage, and after exchanging a few pleasantries, Jiang Qiuqiu gathered the hem of her dress and slowly returned to her seat.
Onstage, the hosts announced that the group photo for the year 5355 had been taken. Suddenly, an image of a book appeared on the large screen behind them. Its pages began to turn, revealing countless old photographs, each page marked with a year.
5300, 5301... all the way to 5355.
This photo album chronicled the growth of the Federation Live Broadcast Company.
The image froze on the page for 5355. And thus, the figure who had changed the course of history for the 5300s era was immortalized within its pages.
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After the individual awards were all presented, it was ti for the category awards.
The Federation Live Broadcast Company had hundreds of categories, and each year, these categories were ranked against each other.
Although this ranking didn’t affect applications for promotional resources in the coming year, the various categories still took it quite seriously.
After all, whenever there was a competition, no one wanted to be last.
The category award rankings rarely changed much year to year. When they did, it was usually only a few categories riding the wave of a new trend. This year’s rising star was the food category.
This was all thanks to the ergence of a powerhouse strear who had completely dominated several smaller categories.
Another half an hour passed. After the category awards ceremony concluded, it was ti for the leadership speeches.
Even after thousands of years and with humanity spread across the Milky Way Galaxy, the leadership speech segnt was as boring as ever.
The broadcast director knew this, too. The caras were generally kept fixed on the speaker’s face, so it was no big deal if the people in the audience fiddled with their terminals for a while.
Many people started surfing the web to check out their online reception.
Jiang Qiuqiu was no different.
She first popped into her fan group to say hello.
Jiang Jiujiu: Hi~
Her ssage instantly blew up the chat.
[! Juju, aren’t you at the gala? What are you doing in the group chat all of a sudden!]
[I bet you’re in the audience, ssing around on your terminal!]
[Well, duh! That guy speaking right now is so monotonous, you’d fall asleep if you weren’t doing sothing fun!]
After a few of them roasted the speaker, they started congratulating Jiang Jiujiu again.
[I saw the clips of you at the gala today, Juju! It was your shining mont!]
[Congratulations on winning first place, Juju!]
[I rember you said in the group that you wanted to win first place, Juju. We didn’t really believe it back then, but now that I think about it—]
[Trust in Juju! You can’t go wrong!]
[Our Juju is a miracle worker!]
The chat was a waterfall of complints. It was a bona fide praise group.
Of course, after the wave of praise, soone asked, [So, is that all the screen ti Juju gets for today? If it is, I’m going to head off to bed.]
[Wanxing ntioned you have a performance later today, Juju. Is that true?]
Indeed, it seed the most exciting monts had passed, and many said they would go to sleep if there was nothing else.
Jiang Qiuqiu thought for a mont before replying in the group: If you’re sleepy, feel free to go to bed. I do have one more performance, but it’s not sothing I’m particularly good at. It’s just a little act for fun.
[There really is another performance!]
[Then I’ll wait!]
Sotis, the devotion of fans was a wondrous thing.
They would willingly endure an hour of boredom just to see their idol appear on screen for three minutes.
This was what it ant to follow the light for love.
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