After Being Robbed of Everything, She Returns as a Goddess - Chapter 482

After Being Robbed of Everything, She Returns as a Goddess
Chapter 482 – Qingqing is enraged, Su Yang backs her up (1)

Translator : Virichime
Editor : Chu
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[Ahhhhh Xie Yu!]

[Congratulations to Xie Yu for debuting in an overwhelming first-place center position!]

[Billions of votes— Xie Yu, you deserve it!]

But the fans didn’t have long to celebrate, because the second-place ranking was announced right after.

No.2 Lu Yan 223,918,371
No.3 Ye Qingyou 221,928,332
No.4 Xu Xiyun 198,102,837
…
No.10 Shi Yu 14,819,027

When she saw this ranking, Si Fuqing’s expression froze for a moment. The fingers holding her cup tightened little by little.

She calmly turned her head and looked toward the director and producers backstage.

Neither the producer nor the director dared to meet her gaze. Their hands hung limply at their sides.

The moment the final rankings were revealed, the fans exploded.

Those in the audience even jumped to their feet. If security hadn’t stopped them, they might have rushed the stage.

The result completely exceeded the expectations of viewers who had followed the show all along.

[Rigged! It’s rigged!]

[Are you kidding me? Ten minutes ago Shi Yu was ranked fifth— now he’s tenth?? Do you think we’re blind?]

[Damn it, they swapped votes! Position-switching and vote manipulation! We followed this for so long and this is what you give us??]

[Xu Xiyun got switched too! He should’ve been second— how did he drop to fourth?]

[I’m furious! Six people from Mentor Si’s class, and four of their votes were tampered with. Xiao Xu* didn’t make the top three, and Shi Yu and two others didn’t even make the debut lineup!]

*Nickname for Xu Xiyun.

Vote manipulation through position-swapping was indeed a common tactic in idol survival shows.

First, investors would coordinate with the trainees’ agencies. The two sides would exchange certain resources in return for a debut spot.

Shi Yu and two other trainees had been swapped out.

Either their company had secured better resources to promote other artists under their label—

—or they simply couldn’t offer enough resources* in exchange for a debut position.

*resources here meant they had already invested heavily and pulled strings to push their trainees forward.

At that moment, all the cameras were focused on the stage, and Lin Qingyan no longer held back.

She pressed her lips together in a faint smile and lowered her voice.

“Mentor Si, didn’t you say all the students in your class would debut? Three of them didn’t make it. This time, you lost our bet.”

She had already warned Si Fuqing.

In these talent shows, what ultimately mattered was never the vote count or the audience.

It was the capital and strength behind the trainees’ agencies— and their relationship with the investors.

So what if Xu Xiyun’s singing and dancing skills had already surpassed Lu Yan’s?

The investors could still change the rankings.

Shi Yu had indeed been in fifth place, but his company wasn’t strong enough. They couldn’t secure more resources, nor catch the investors’ attention.

Si Fuqing lowered her eyes.

Her fingers clenched, joints cracking with sharp pop sounds. Then she stood up.

Lin Qingyan frowned, about to speak—

Bang!

With a loud crash, Si Fuqing kicked over the mentors’ table.

The table had been bolted to the floor, yet now it lay scattered in pieces.

Water from the cups spilled and rolled across the ground.

Lin Qingyan’s smile froze. She stared at her in disbelief. “What are you doing? Are you crazy?!”

This was a live broadcast.

On the night of the group’s formation, viewership had reached eighty million.

Even the celebrities invited to sit in the audience didn’t dare let their expressions slip.

One poorly timed screenshot uploaded online could get someone dragged for days.

And yet Si Fuqing, as a dance mentor, dared to cause such a scene?

Not to mention the size of her anti-fans, they would swarm at the slightest disturbance.

The vocal mentor was startled and grew anxious. “Mentor Si, sit down. Please, sit down.”

Li Jingchen said nothing. His lips were pressed tightly together; his mood was clearly dark.

He knew the votes had been swapped. The ranking was wrong. But there was nothing they could do.

They were only hired mentors. How could they possibly compete with the investors?

But the commotion was too big and it was live.

The entire venue had noticed.

Backstage, Xu Jingshan hadn’t expected this at all. He flew into a rage. “What is she doing? Get up there and drag her down!”

“S-Sir, this is a live broadcast,” a staff member wiped his sweat nervously. “We—we can’t use force in front of the public.”

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