The Martial Artist Turned Movie Mogul-Chapter 742 - 741, why is it still not her?!

As soon as Liao Yicheng finished speaking, the audience began to discuss among themselves.

"My blind guess, Dean Wang is definitely in the top three!"

"I think Professor Xue will make it into the top three. After all, he’s ranked in the top five on the traditional Chinese painting leaderboard."

"Elder Li is pretty awesome too, okay? And the theme this time fits his usual style. I bet that ’Gallop Horse Painting’ is his work!"

"Brother, who do you think is impressive?"

One of them turned to a companion who had been silent all along to ask for his opinion. The latter smiled, his face showing a hint of watching a good show unfold.

"Why are you all guessing about the top three? Isn’t anyone curious about the last three?"

"Huh?"

"Huh?"

This statement... who cares about the last place in a competition? Isn’t everyone focused on the top three?

"Bro, your way of thinking is really unique!"

"Awesome, my brother. These days there’s actually someone who cares about the last few places? That’s really eye-opening!"

The man touched his nose, "No, you guys are overthinking it. I just remembered something just now and was a bit curious, is that not allowed?"

"So what did you remember?"

"Yeah, tell us about it."

His remark had piqued everyone’s curiosity.

"It’s just... this morning, all the judges were engrossed in their painting, and that female celebrity just sat in her chair without moving—"

You guys must have noticed this. Aren’t you curious now?

It doesn’t make sense!

Once he mentioned this, everyone suddenly remembered the issue they had all overlooked.

"Damn, I actually forgot such an important thing!"

"Huh? Now that you mention it, I suddenly remember that Uncle She only started painting at 11:30. I found that strange at the time!"

"Right, right, right, I saw that too. She just kept staring at Master Xu’s ’Charming Landscape’ and didn’t move. It was so weird!"

"Wait a minute... I just thought of something!"

"She painted a painting in half an hour?"

"And this painting is still going to be ranked among the top ten masterpieces?"

"It’s over, this will definitely be at the bottom—"

"That was a misstep, a huge miscalculation. Perhaps she had no idea that her work would be ranked alongside everyone else’s?"

A few people expressed their pessimism about Uncle She’s prospects. Even those who previously had a good impression of her would discount their opinion significantly after seeing her face yesterday.

After all, the world of calligraphy and painting is a small one that looks at one’s credentials and age—

At this moment, a young boy timidly raised his little hand.

"I’ve watched Uncle She’s live streams. She can complete a high-quality traditional Chinese painting in fifteen minutes. Her skills are actually really high."

So you really don’t need to say such things.

At this moment, he had to raise his little hand in support of his idol!

However, it was obvious that everyone else didn’t share this opinion; instead, they seemed certain.

"Little brother, you don’t understand. No matter how talented she is, in front of the masters, she’s not on the same level."

"Yeah, if she is as amazing as you say, and if she had three hours to carefully plan it out, I might have believed she could have competed. But she only had half an hour—what can you do in half an hour?" freēnovelkiss.com

Probably hadn’t even figured out the writing brush, ink stick, paper, and inkstone.

"She’s definitely last place!"

"Do you think... it was intentional? Maybe she decided to start painting in the last half-hour because she knew she’d likely be the last among the ten contestants?"

"Sss—It’s possible, and highly likely at that!"

"Such schemes, such schemes—too cunning!"

"So deep, so deep—far too profound—"

In just a short minute, quite a few people had come up with various small conspiracies and trajectories, enough to take up half an episode if this were a TV drama!

Liao Yicheng stood on the stage, holding a card with the rankings and smiled.

"The tenth place, Work No. 7 ’Autumn Harvest’!"

The large screen immediately displayed the painting ’Autumn Harvest’, with the number of votes it received indicated on the right side of the image.

The top section displayed the name of the judge associated with the work.

"So it’s Professor Zhao’s work!"

"I knew it, I guessed right, I felt like this painting was by Professor Zhao’s hand!"

"Wow, 182 votes, that’s already very high!"

As everyone was immersed in discussion, the small group that had just been sharing their feelings was suddenly taken aback.

"Eh? The last place isn’t She and Yu???"

"Unexpected, too unexpected, she does have something, huh?"

"If it’s not the tenth, then it must be the ninth, right?"

However...

"Not her?"

"Not her!"

"And again not her!"

"Oh my goodness, still no sign of her?!"

As time passed, within three minutes, seven works had been successively announced on the screen, and without exception, none of them belonged to She and Yu.

"Damn, damn, damn, still no She and Yu?!"

"Her, her, her, she actually made it into the top three?!"

"This doesn’t make sense—"

"Bro, let me remind you, you’ve said that seven times already."

"I’m dumbfounded, completely dumbfounded!"

"At this moment, please refer to me as ’The Scream’, thank you—"

...

As the announcement of the top three remaining works drew near, whether it were the contestants on stage or the audience below, they all seemed even more excited than before.

"Here it comes, the third place is about to be announced, I think it will be ’Charming Landscape’!"

"Now only No. 1, No. 2, and No. 10 are left to be announced, the votes are getting closer, it’s making me so nervous—"

"Sister, you can be nervous all you want, but don’t pinch me, it hurts!"

"Oh... sorry about that, missy, I’m just too excited ying ying ying~~~~"

"Let me sum this up, now we’re down to Elder Li, Master Xue, and... wait, who else is there?"

At this point, not only the small group that had been discussing earlier doubted their lives, most people sensed something was off.

"Damn! There’s also She and Yu’s Uncle She!"

"No, no, we should call her Tang Shu!"

She and Yu’s work actually made it into the top three?!

"Probably just the third place then... right?"

With each wrong guess, most people started feeling uncertain, given the situation had completely overturned their expectations.

People didn’t know where to put their hands and feet, their ears perked up, quietly listening to the voice coming from the stage.

Liao Yicheng’s voice rang out again, "The third place, is Master Xue’s ’Worker, Peasant, Soldier’!"

"Ying ying ying~~~ It’s still not her, I’m split open—"

"Say, haven’t we been focusing on the wrong thing? Shouldn’t the focus be on appreciating the masters’ works?"

Everyone: "..."

No, that’s no longer important.

Appreciating the works can happen at any time, they can reflect on them later, but guessing She and Yu’s ranking is more, important!

As someone who loves to watch the excitement unfold, one must defend their spot on the front line!