Chapter Ninety-Nine: The System Grand Prize, a Dimensional KTV!

Within just a few days, White Spirit received one piece of good news after another.

The first episode of The Empress Consort had already surpassed thirty million views.

And the series as a whole had climbed to nearly five or six hundred million views.

Of course, thirty million views did not mean thirty million viewers. It referred to sustained clicks after excluding repeated hits over a short period of time.

For an online drama, which was relatively niche, numbers like these showed that many people kept returning to rewatch the episodes while waiting for updates.

White Spirit had not asked her fans to inflate the numbers, and had even advised everyone not to make it look too exaggerated.

Yet even so, such striking achievements and figures still came in.

Naturally, White Spirit felt quite relieved.

As for exactly how much revenue it would bring in, she did not know yet. She guessed the platform would only conduct the first settlement after the entire series had finished airing.

What puzzled her a little was that during all this time, her blasted system had remained completely silent.

Ever since White Spirit ran into trouble until now, it had not made a single sound.

It was as if it were leaving her to solve everything on her own.

Of course, White Spirit had never planned to rely on the system to get through the crisis, but its unusual behavior was still suspicious.

So White Spirit took the initiative and called out to the system.

“The host's performance during this period has been average. The system is conducting a long-term comprehensive performance settlement. Does the host wish to settle immediately?”

“P.S. The host's current television drama The Empress Consort Is Promoted is still in the middle of a hot run, and its traffic is continuing to rise. If settlement is made at the peak period, there may be unexpected gains.”

In response to White Spirit's summons, the system gave exactly this answer.

“Long-term settlement?”

“So that's how it is...”

“If that's the case, of course I'll choose to wait a little longer.”

White Spirit nodded, thinking this over.

Then, coming back to herself, she stared into the empty space before her, pretending it was the system's true form.

“Wait a minute. Explain what you mean by ‘average performance’ during this time.”

Thinking back on everything that had happened lately, White Spirit might not have been tormented beyond endurance, but she had at least worked hard and done her part.

And yet the system just blurted that out?

If you have the ability, why don't you try it yourself?

The system replied calmly, “In view of the fact that the host's main way of escaping crisis during this period has come from coincidence and a certain degree of luck.”

“Although that coincidence and luck are very much related to the host's goodwill, this system cannot determine whether the crisis was resolved by the host's actual strength or by pure luck. Therefore, this system will conduct long-term observation.”

White Spirit was instantly speechless. “As expected, it's just a system. Not that smart after all.”

Perhaps because this thing was her only remaining thread of connection to her past life, White Spirit had subconsciously treated it like a companion.

That feeling was something like... a pet dog?

More or less.

White Spirit muttered, “I'm looking forward to the reward this time!”

Then she stopped paying the system any further mind.

As for the next few days, Sister Ge naturally did not arrange any more work for White Spirit.

After having overcome such a crisis, they were naturally going to celebrate properly.

Ouyang, Zhuge, and the crew staff were all called over. They ate, drank, sang karaoke, and had the time of their lives.

Especially karaoke. Whenever the crew staff kept singing to the Bottom of the Sea and Invisible Wings, and even demanded that White Spirit, the original singer, set an example herself...

It was quite taxing on the throat.

Still, since this was a hard-won victory, White Spirit was naturally willing to go wild with them for once.

Time passed quickly. Aside from eating, drinking, and having fun, White Spirit did absolutely no serious work.

Apart from urging the donation matter, she rarefied enjoyed this vacation.

Fortunately, The Empress Consort was not a long series, and it had finished updating within half a month.

On the one hand, White Spirit wanted the donated money to reach Zhoujia Village Primary School as quickly as possible, so that Teacher Zhang Ruchun could use the funds promptly to expand the campus and take in as many children as possible from nearby villages and even the surrounding townships.

She wanted them to have a better environment.

On the other hand, White Spirit, Ouyang, and the others did not want to keep dangling the audience's appetite forever.

Especially White Spirit. In her past life, some dramas loved to dribble things out in tiny doses, stringing along every viewer and forcing them either to chase the episodes or keep them on the back burner.

White Spirit admitted that this could certainly yield better viewing numbers and stickiness.

But now The Empress Consort had already achieved quite excellent results, so there was no need to adopt a method that left the audience unhappy.

After all, quite a lot of people were already growing anxious waiting for the series after its removal from the platform.

And after the series finished airing, the system finally responded.

“Based on the host's indulgent behavior in the latter half and the preceding circumstances, the system determines that the luck factor slightly outweighs the strength factor.”

“Reward distribution now commencing!”

“Congratulations to the host for obtaining one day of access to a dimensional karaoke hall!”

“Congratulations to the host for obtaining one super acting training card!”

“Congratulations to the host for unlocking the talent: Clear Articulation!”

“Congratulations to the host for unlocking the talent: Immersive Identification!”

Four rewards appeared before White Spirit at once.

The dimensional karaoke hall was quite an interesting thing.

Similar to the effect of using an acting training card, White Spirit could enter an illusory space filled with songs, so many they were beyond imagination.

Whether they were classic songs from her past life or the classics of this parallel world, they were all there.

And through the dimensional karaoke hall, White Spirit could perform, thereby improving her mastery of the songs.

Of course, the most important part was improving her singing skills.

That included breath control while singing, diction, pitch, intonation, and more.

Unlike the past, when the system generously granted abilities like perfect pitch, it now seemed more inclined to let White Spirit work for her own gains.

Though she only had one day of use, the training effect inside was equivalent to a year outside.

If White Spirit could make good use of that day, her singing skills would surely improve by leaps and bounds.

As for the super acting training card, it also reflected the system's desire for White Spirit to work harder.

The word super before the reward referred to the effect.

Using the acting training card for just one hour would produce results several times greater than before.

Exactly how far it could improve depended on White Spirit's own determination.

The harder and more seriously she worked, the better the effect.

As for the last two rewards, they were talents. Though not as astonishing as outstanding literary talent or perfect pitch, they still offered considerable help.

Clear articulation could benefit both acting and singing, and of course, it would also make ordinary conversation with others more pleasant.

Immersive identification was even more focused, and served acting in particular.

The end.