Ch190 - Was that what he was supposed to do? (1/2)
14.2 – Was that what he was supposed to do?
translator: xiin
editor: alamerysl
On the other side, Spring Rolly sent Xue Ling a private message along with the script.
[ Spring Rolly: This script was originally intended for that fool Forgotten, and the announcement has already been recorded, but something happened with that fool and he’s been taken off the team. QWQ I can’t find anyone with that kind of evildoer voice. I thought that since Little Fox looks like an evildoer too, I can give it a try. ]
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[ Snow Fox: Evildoer voice? ] His original voice was not directly proportional to his looks. If he wanted to do a falsely seductive voice, it would not be difficult, but the question was whether or not they could make use of it.
[ Spring Rolly: Nevermind. Little Fox, just give it a try. If it weren’t for the author’s deadline and that fool Forgotten being busy and having no time to do the recording, I wouldn’t be in such a tight spot. After all, the announcement has already been made, and it’s not a good to have to switch people so suddenly. ]
[ Snow Fox: Okay. I’ll read the script and novel tonight, and then give it a try tomorrow. I’ll help you if I can. If I can’t, then that’s that – you’ll have to find someone else. ]
[ Spring Rolly: Good! ╭(╯3╰)╮ Little Fox you’re the cutest~ Thanks for the hard work~ ]
Xue Ling put the script down before asking his system, “Why do we have to accept this? You should know that the drama has already been announced. It’s very stressful for the voice actor who picks up the role after that. And Forgotten’s evildoer voice…” Although he felt confused about many things, he still remembered what kind of person Forgotten was.
Forgotten Shore had once been a well-known gong voice in the circle, but after taking on a project for a book written by an author under the pseudonym Laughing Forgetting, his talent in changing voices, and especially his evildoer voice that was coined as being seductive enough to make straight men turn crooked was gradually revealed!
Xue Ling first went through the script in order to get a general idea of the plot, and discovered it was a martial arts story. His character was the protagonist shou, and he was an evildoer who followed the devil’s path…
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Xue Ling looked at the author and discovered that it was Laughing Forgetting…
No wonder the system wanted him to accept it. If it was Laughing Forgetting’s book, then it could indeed help him become even more popular.
“Although you have Forgotten Shore as a comparison, host can also be very much an evildoer~ I believe that host will have no problem with it~”
Xue Ling didn’t know where the system’s inexplicable belief in him came from. He opened up his nano-computer to take a look at the original novel, and found that it was an abuse novel covered up as dogblood. The two protagonists ultimately split up for good. The gong died, and the shou turned into someone he would never have become in the past.
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Basically, this was a growth-oriented text. At the beginning, the protagonist shou was really a seductive beauty. But as the plot unfolded and he interacted more and more with the protagonist gong, slowly, he began to change. At the end of the novel, the gong died in battle, and the shou slowly reshaped himself in the gong’s image.
According to the script he had been given, the manager should have split the novella into three stages for the audio drama. Disregarding the announcement that had already been made, the three stages would require half a year even if it was done as quickly as possible. The crew didn’t have much time left, and were anxious to find staff. The announcement had already gone out, and the deadline when the author needed to give authorization for the project was getting closer and closer, but they had been unable to find a replacement for Forgotten Shore. There were too few people with evildoer voices in the circle; especially those who could stand on the same level as Forgotten Shore.
Thinking about it, Spring Rolly must be clutching at straws by now, telling him to give it a try because he looked like an evildoer and therefore should be able to sound like one… Xue Ling rubbed his nose, then went to the bathroom to stare at himself in the mirror for a long time.
He had to admit that he really had a seductive face – particularly those fox eyes with the slightly uplifted corners. He had a natural charm that shone through even without eye-liner, not to mention when he had make-up on for various programs. When eye-liner or intense make-up was added to his eyes, his entire aura and temperament became incredibly attractive.
His appearance was rather androgynous, but that pair of eyes was very useful in helping distinguish his gender. He remembered he had trained up his gaze for a long time in order to make himself look a bit masculine, but now that he was looking at his naturally broad eyebrows in the mirror, Xue Ling sighed.
Ai, was it really his fault that he looked like an evildoer? No, right…
It was rather late, and Xue Ling was tired. He tidied up a bit and lay down in bed, opening up the software for audiobooks as he began to listen to the entire novel.
But he fell asleep halfway through. The system poked its way into the nano-computer in order to connect with this world’s network, and began to crazily collect all kinds of information.
Only by collecting a lot of information would it be able to help its host rise up as quickly as possible and help the two of them meet up again…
But when it thought about that man’s identity, the system once again felt that meeting again would have to depend on host and that man’s fate. Their identities were a little far apart right now; perhaps it would be better to start by approaching the people around that man?
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Since Xue Ling did not retain any of his memories, the system did not dare to give him too many tips. It could only lie and call itself an entertainment counterattack system in order to approach the matter from another angle. It had come into this world behind the Ten Directions World’s back, and if its methods were too excessive, the Ten Directions World would definitely come and force it to go back. It would be screwed over and killed, then screwed over and killed again…
That scene was too terrible to even think about…
When Xue Ling woke up the next day, he found that his assistant had left a message for him to call after he was awake. Xue Ling could roughly guess what was going on – the reason he had been on leave this time was because the trial period with the agency was over, and it was now time for him to look into whether or not they should continue the contract.
Xue Ling washed up first; he didn’t have a lot of feelings for this company. The agency wasn’t a large one, and in this world where entertainment reigned supreme, the company’s resources were basically all things that had leaked out from between the larger agency’s hands. This was also the reason why the amount of work Xue Ling had gotten over the past few years had been limited, and why he was only in the lowest rungs of popularity without becoming a hit. It was a complete waste of his good looks.
He clearly had had no intention of dominating the entertainment industry and wanted to spend his life coasting before he woke up yesterday, but today he suddenly wanted to work hard. He was a little curious about the changes in himself, and Xue Ling found it a little hard to believe. He pulled the system out to ask it if it had done something, but the system sincerely expressed that it hadn’t done anything.
The urge to strive hard was so strong; it felt as though he would lose something if he didn’t push as hard as he could. Xue Ling searched the system’s gaze for a very long time, and finally decided it was time to change agencies.