Chapter 20 - 19: Twinkling Starlight
In September, the National Film Academy started its new semester, and by this time "Palace City" had completed shooting, scheduled to premiere at the end of the month on Banana TV. With the main actors of the drama frequently appearing on various variety shows, Ye Qiu, lacking in fame, only had a brief appearance on a major indoor game show on Banana TV.
In October, Ye Qiu returned to her rural hometown for a visit, arranging for a more professional caregiver for her grandmother. During this period, she was approached by two small entertainment companies, but she rejected them both.
By now, due to the popularity of "Palace City," Ye Qiu's name began to be mentioned frequently online.
Princess Xuan is a beautiful and flamboyant woman who loved the wrong person. Believing that the Emperor, who she thought loved her deeply, only saw her as a substitute for the Noble Consort. She was like a firework, brilliant in an instant but extinguishing just as quickly.
Ye Qiu portrayed such an innocent, glamorous, and flamboyant character very well, so when Princess Xuan's character was killed off, many people felt regret, and a netizen even edited all her scenes into a short video and uploaded it to Weibo. The high-quality, aesthetically pleasing video was shared tens of thousands of times.
Thanks to the official "Palace City" Weibo account's repost, Ye Qiu's Weibo also gained a modest following of nearly a hundred thousand fans, experiencing a small burst of popularity.
Afterward, major film and television companies and studios began to contact her one after another. Ye Qiu took some time to choose and ultimately selected Yamei International Entertainment, a rival of her previous life's Starshine Company.
Starshine is a well-established entertainment company with vast resources but also intense competition among its artists, including top movie stars, popular young idols, and fresh-faced talents. Lesser-known minor stars struggle to get appropriate roles, and the contracts are long with a low profit share for the artists.
Yamei International Entertainment, on the other hand, has grown rapidly in recent years. The mixed-race owner is said to have a powerful family backing and isn't short of funds, with considerable international influence, enabling Yamei to compete with Starshine within a mere decade.