Chapter 363: Appearing on a Show
This event was broadcast live nationwide. Many viewers were watching the live stream in front of their computers. They also saw the blonde girl who had been called up today. It had to be said that this girl’s looks were really high. It wouldn’t be out of place for her to be a star, and she was even a foreigner. The Japanese audience was obviously very interested.
And this event had two big-shot figures, Watase Mako and Yamada Yui, present. The fans in China, far away, also watched this live stream. It was also fortunate that Bilibili had bought the rebroadcast rights for this event, so the fans could also see the live stream in Japan.
“Emmm, this blonde girl is so cute. Is she American?”
“Yeah, she’s quite cute, a lot like a child star from abroad. Could she be a star?”
“Wait, why does this girl look so familiar…”
“Holy crap, haven’t you guys noticed! That’s Yu Linna, an internet celebrity. She’s also made a guest appearance in a movie. How did she get to Japan!”
Some viewers recognized that the lucky audience member on stage was Yu Linna. They frantically spammed the bullet comments. It was believed that soon there would be a topic on Weibo as well, but that was a matter for later.
At this moment, Yu Linna was very conflicted. She had been called up as a lucky audience member. She really suspected that the organizers had done it on purpose. But that shouldn’t be the case. She had no fame and not that many fans. Logically, there was no need for them to call her name. Thinking about it, it could only be a coincidence.
“So, this lucky little audience member, can you introduce yourself and tell us your name?” the host asked.
Yu Linna paused, slowly understanding his words, and after a while, she slowly answered in her not-so-fluent Japanese.
“My surname is Yu. I’m Chinese.”
“Oh dear, not American?”
“…I live in China. I’m Chinese.”
“I see. So you’re a mixed-race. This little audience member is quite cute, but speaking Japanese is quite a struggle, right? Is it okay?”
“Japanese… I’ve been learning for a month.”
“Only a month? To be able to speak like this in a month is quite good. Then let’s get a translator. Little sister Yu, you can speak English. We will ask Yamada-sensei to be our translator.”
After Yu Linna understood his meaning, she shook her head.
“Can I speak Chinese?” she asked, one word at a time. Although her Japanese was quite not fluent, she still decided to say it.
“Why is that? Is there a special reason?”
“No. I am Chinese. I want to speak Chinese.”
“Oh, oh, I see. It’s fine. You can choose the language you want to speak. We are very welcome.”
Yu Linna simply said a few words on stage. The fans in Japan didn’t feel much, but in China, it exploded. Bilibili was full of bullet comments, and the entire screen was covered.
“Oh my god, I’m completely a fan now. When Yu Linna said, ‘I am Chinese, I want to speak Chinese,’ I was so moved!”
“I’ve decided, I’m going to be her fan! From now on, I’ll call her Little Yu!”
“Little Yu fan here!”
“+1.”
“+2.”
“+3.”
“So moved. She’s clearly a mixed-race, yet she took the initiative to admit her Chinese identity. Worth a like.”
Yu Linna, of course, did not know about these things. She was currently on stage, accepting the host’s questions, and also interacting with the big shots on stage.
“Then let’s start the activity. Little sister Yu, do you like to read novels?”
“Yes, I like it very much. Especially Japanese novels. When I was in middle school, I often went to second-hand stores to buy novels to read. Many times, I could buy a pretty good novel for one yuan.”
“It seems you are a true fan. Do you have a particularly favorite Japanese light novel?”
“I like to read Shana. It was my favorite in middle school.”
After being allowed to speak Chinese, Yu Linna’s state was clearly much better. Besides the initial nervousness, she completely integrated into the stage later, chatting with the host with ease. And the audience in China was also seeing this Yu Linna speak Chinese in a live stream for the first time.
This was because when Yu Linna had guest-starred in movies in her home country before, she mostly didn’t have any lines. Even if she did, she would speak English. Because every time she filmed, the director would ask her to speak English. From then on, the setting of her only speaking English when guest-starring in movies had been continued. If the audience hadn’t seen her speak Chinese so fluently at the event, they might have thought that this mixed-race girl’s Chinese was not good.
“Little sister Yu, hello. I’m Yusa Maho. Do you know me? I shouldn’t be very famous in your country, right?”
“Not at all. In our country, you can still watch Japanese anime on regular websites. I also know that Miss Yusa is the voice actress for the female lead in Hikikomori Little Sister. I’ve also watched your voiced works.”
“That’s really lucky. Let’s play a game. If you win, I’ll give you an autograph.”
Then Yusa Maho announced the content of the game, which was to have Yu Linna take a test on the work Hikikomori Little Sister. Someone on site would ask questions. Two points for each correct answer, one point deducted for each wrong answer. Ten correct answers would be a win. It could be said to be very simple.
But the organizers clearly wouldn’t let her get it right so easily.
“Question one: why did Sawai become a hikikomori?”
“Mmm… because her parents remarried, and she felt uneasy about her new older brother.”
“Wrong. The correct answer is that the younger sister was bullied at school.”
“…”
“Question two: why did the male protagonist, Sota, cook for his younger sister every day?”
“Because he wanted to be a good older brother.”
“Wrong. Because he had fallen in love with his younger sister, Sawai.”
“…”
Yu Linna felt she had lost face.
She hadn’t answered a single question correctly, and she had even said on stage that she had seen this work. This appearance, if seen by her countrymen, would surely be flamed to a pulp, and then she would be told, “You’re a disgrace. You can leave the group now.”
However, in fact, the live stream online in her home country was very peaceful.
“For some reason, I find Little Yu’s confused look very cute.”
“Although she answered incorrectly, can you not make things difficult for her? She’s still a child! For this situation, I just want to say, can you ask a few more questions?”
“Emmm, cute, really cute.”
“I want to see her confused expression again.”
Yu Linna was completely defeated in the Q&A segment.
But unexpectedly, she was highly sought after by domestic fans. Many people saw her as a cute thing and spammed her with bullet comments. If she were to start a live stream, everyone would probably send her gifts.
“Wait, why do I feel that Little Yu’s voice is so familiar?”
“Yeah, it seems… like the voice of Little Angel’s best friend, Little Na.”
“No way. Hasn’t Little Na been retired for a long time? No matter how much you rush Little Angel, Little Angel won’t let her out.”
“Now that you mention it, it really is very similar…”
Some nosy people even took out the voice of Yu Linna at the Japanese event and compared it with the voice of Little Na during Little Angel’s previous live stream, and unexpectedly found that they were quite similar. This time, it was impossible for Yu Linna not to be on Weibo.
“It’s a pity, little fan. You didn’t answer a single question correctly, but I’m willing to give you a chance. Let’s play another game.”
“Alright, what game?”
“Let’s talk about novels. May I ask, little sister Yu, what are your thoughts on the novel industry? You don’t have to mind Yamada-sensei and Watase-sensei here. I just want to know, as a reader, what are your thoughts on novels?”
Clearly, she had prepared this question. Because when they had greeted each other before, Yusa Maho knew that Yu Linna also had an identity as a writer from China. She wanted to throw out a question about novels and writers to see how she would answer. Although she didn’t know that Yu Linna had never shown her face in her home country.
And the host felt it was very strange. Wasn’t this a game? Why did they have to throw out a question about novels?
“As a reader, I naturally want to see better novels, more interesting stories. I believe everyone thinks so.”
“I see.”
To be honest, Yusa Maho was vaguely a little disappointed. This was not the answer she wanted to hear.
“But to write a good story, interesting content, is not that easy. I believe that for those who write novels, to create a good story, a satisfactory story, eight out of ten can’t do it.”
This statement of hers caused a lot of discussion among the audience. In any case, this statement was a bit too much.
“But,” Yu Linna suddenly paused, “even if you can’t write it, you still want to work hard to write it, to do your best to do this thing well. Because you are a writer, you can’t be perfunctory with your readers. To write a story with your heart, to create a fairy tale world for your readers with your heart, if there were more writers like this, how could there not be good stories?”
Her words surprised Miss Sakurai very much. She had never expected her to be able to say such words. Indeed, in today’s impetuous era, to be able to calm down and write a story with your heart, not to be perfunctory with your readers, there were really not many writers. It was just that everyone didn’t say it out loud.
At this moment, Miss Sakurai’s view of her changed. She took the microphone and decided to say something for her.
“I very much agree with your statement.”
Miss Sakurai’s support surprised the audience even more.
“There are no bad works, only writers who don’t want to do a good job. If you do it with your heart, even if it’s not very good, at least you have to let others feel that you are not being perfunctory. It’s very good that you have this kind of thought. If you want to write stories in the future, you will definitely not be perfunctory with anyone. I believe you are such a person. Mmm… xiexie li.”
In the end, Miss Sakurai said a thank you in Chinese to her, although the pronunciation was very strange.
In the end, Yu Linna didn’t get an autograph and went off stage. Because the time was limited, the stage couldn’t let her stand on it all the time. After Yu Linna went off stage, although the subsequent activities were also very exciting, and the host had also called a few audience members to come on stage to interact, the excitement was far from when Yu Linna had first come up. The audience’s response was also very bland.
And in her home country, Bilibili, Yu Linna could be said to have made a strong presence. Everyone was cheering for her, spamming the screen for her, and she had also won a wave of small fans.
And her getting such a high evaluation from Yamada Yui-sensei at a public event naturally couldn’t go unnoticed. Japanese netizens had also started to pay attention to her.
And Ye Zhiyun in China had watched this live stream, not speaking all the while. After the program was over, she turned off her computer and immediately called someone to help her book a plane ticket.
