But to be honest, having someone look so much like Teacher Fish Soup Noodles was truly incredible.
As everyone knew, the mermaid race was famous for their beauty!
Ever since the appearance of Fish Soup Noodles, the only mermaid to ever appear in the interstellar world, all kinds of media and screenshots featuring him had consistently received high likes and shares online. The promotional video from the official talent press conference had been played so many times it was practically worn out.
Although the press conference should have been a major commemorative event for all fish fans, it tragically turned into a day no fish fan wanted to recall, due to the despairing hot searches of falling in love and getting heartbroken on the very same day.
“But for a woman to look so much like Teacher Fish Soup Noodles, could she be a celebrity too?”
“But if she were a celebrity, she’d already be famous, right? There’s no way we wouldn’t have seen her before.”
The young couple looked in the direction where Yu Hui and her husband had disappeared, speculating curiously.
Could it be that all residents of the Federation Star looked this good?
Was there a Fish Soup Noodles every three steps?
After a round of fruitless guessing, the two of them, holding the photo they just took with the billboard of the movie “The Vast Immortal Path”, finally decided to drag their suitcases and rush toward the hotel.
“After all, we can’t miss the premiere!”
Only heaven knew how hard it was to win this fan benefit.
During the period when Teacher Fish Soup Noodles’s new book, “Live Broadcast Of Huaxia”, sparked a wave of historical live broadcasts, the trailer for “The Vast Immortal Path” was released at the perfect time, which naturally triggered a wave of Huaxia classical aesthetics fashion.
The trailer was written by Teacher Fish Soup Noodles himself, and from beginning to end, the whole piece was filled with an artistic conception of Oriental classical charm.
With the faint sound of a guqin, a drop of black ink fell onto paper, and in the next second, it spread rapidly, outlining a vast expanse of mountains and rivers, which was the Qingyan Mountain, where the Miao Xuan Sect was originally located!
Then, several characters from the book appeared one by one in the evolving ink-wash landscape of mountains and rivers, so brilliant that it dazzled the eyes.
When this ink-wash aesthetics trailer was first broadcast simultaneously on the advertising screens of major commercial centers led by Central Star, almost no one could resist stopping in their tracks, standing and gazing up at this unheard-of holographic trailer.
The two main protagonists, Qi Hanzhou and Lin Shuyi, made a long-awaited reappearance and triggered countless gasps from passersby, who immediately raised their light brains to take photos. The news climbed to the hot search list the same day.
It was said that inorder to watch the ad and capture a shot of the two protagonists appearing, the huge flow of tourists caused such a massive crowd that the intersection was completely blocked.
It was truly beyond anyone’s expectations.
[But seeing Teacher Fish Soup Noodles’ signature, it suddenly all made sense!]
[That’s right. Wherever Teacher Fish Soup Noodles shows up, there will always be bloody storms O皿O]
Of course, netizens on the star network quickly pointed out that any shocking headline became instantly understandable when it was accompanied by Teacher Fish Soup Noodles’ name.
After all, wasn’t it the same with “Bei Xing’s Necklace”? On the very first day the solar term advertisements were placed offline, they immediately sparked a frenzy of eager young readers trying to buy their merchandise?
The advertisements looked better than many movies.
Naturally, this time the ink-wash trailer of “The Vast Immortal Path” naturally made countless cultivation fans instantly recall the days when they were chasing updates.
And the stunning debut of the ink-wash concept even attracted the attention of the Federation News Channel.
As the illustrator, Yin stuttered through an interview and appeared on the news for the first time.
Once people learned that the trailer had been hand-drawn frame by frame, with each second being a beautifully detailed ink-wash painting, the movie “The Vast Immortal Path” gained even more attention.
A huge number of netizens couldn’t help but exclaim: Where did Teacher Fish Soup Noodles find so many amazing masters?!
This was also a question that many in the industry racked their brains over but couldn’t figure out: We can’t even hire people like this normally, how did Fish Soup Noodles manage to gather such a group of top-tier talents?
Especially after this appearance, some companies even tried to poach Yin by all kinds of means.
But once they saw Yin’s backpack covered in all kinds of mermaid pendants and badges, along with a desk full of Fish Soup Noodles merchandise and figurines…
Forget it. No use trying to poach this one.
This was clearly another classic case of a late-stage Fish Soup Noodles novel addict, typically accompanied by an intense obsession with mermaids. Just move on. [despair.jpg]
In a way, if any company could invite Teacher Fish Soup Noodles to be their HR, wouldn’t they basically have an unshakable position?
Meanwhile, in the old residence, the same trailer was playing repeatedly on the light screen.
Huo Yan hugged a plush doll modeled after a spirit beast from the cultivation world and watched with great interest. Even Qiao Ni, who was busy preparing dinner, couldn’t help glancing over several times.
“The lead actor Young Master Yu Mian chose for this movie is really as handsome as ever.”
Even someone like her, a middle-aged woman not particularly interested in the entertainment industry, felt a spark in her eyes after watching.
It would definitely become another big hit once it officially premiered.
“Of course, the actors who can participate in Brother Yu Mian’s movies must be super outstanding. Otherwise, we fish fans would definitely shut it down! Although some of the girls in class cried for a long time over the actor who didn’t get the role, I think this one the most suitable choice.”
Huo Yan passionately tried to explain the casting process to Qiao Ni.
Since the adaptation of Fish Soup Noodle’s IP had practically become a golden touch, every actor who played the leading role so far had exploded in popularity across the interstellar. Thus, the film and TV copyrights for each of his books had become battlegrounds where major companies fought with all means.
Every lead actor casting turned into a grand, universe-wide public voting campaign under the entire star network’s supervision.
If any company tried to get in with connections, fish fans across the universe would definitely rush out overnight with bundles of explosives and blow up the place, okay?
This time, the two actors selected to play Qi Hanzhou and Lin Shuyi naturally also stood out as excellent young talents, chosen under the strict scrutiny of the entire star network.
In particular, the young actor playing Lin Shuyi was a student of Central Star First Conservatory of Music, and was majoring in the guqin.
Though not the most handsome, once he donned a white robe, his immortal aura directly raised the audience’s expectations. His temperament was exactly like Lin Shuyi walking straight out of the book!
“If you like it so much, why didn’t you try out for the role during auditions?”
Yu Mian had just come downstairs after finishing his writing update and overheard Huo Yan excitedly recalling how the entire star network waged a century long war over the casting votes. He couldn’t help but laugh and gently flicked Huo Yan’s head.
From Yu Mian’s perspective, Huo Yan’s female classmates who were cheering for the actor who didn’t get the part really didn’t need to cry.
After all, even though he didn’t land the final role, that young actor had already become popular.
Now that he didn’t get selected, he had instead triggered a wave of heartbreak among fans and was definitely on the reserve list for explosive popularity.
“Me, acting?! No way, ahem, ahem.”
Huo Yan immediately flushed and waved his hands frantically.
Whether it was young Lin Shuyi or young Qi Hanzhou, he was completely unfit, okay?
Especially when thinking about those scenes in the book where young Qi Hanzhou was bullied in the orphanage, Huo Yan felt that if it had been him, he would’ve wanted to punch the supervisor who dared bully him straight into the sky.
Just reading the beginning of the new book had made him so angry he almost couldn’t take it. He even thought Yu Mian had stopped writing satisfying upgrade plots like in “Rebirth Of The Interstellar Soldier King”.
Those bad people in the orphanage didn’t understand at all what “don’t bully a young when he’s poor” meant!
“But Brother Yu Mian, what exactly is an orphanage? Are there really that many bad people in there? Should we go help them? A lot of my classmates felt really bad after reading those parts.”
Although Huo Yan had been mumbling for a while, he still looked at Yu Mian with wide, worried eyes, genuinely concerned about the orphanage mentioned in the book.
In fact, ever since “The Vast Immortal Path” became popular, the protagonists of various novels had gradually acquired a standardized backstory.
Starting off “no father and mother” became the norm, and the concept of “orphanages” was extremely popular.
“Uh… it’s just a fictional plot. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. And nowadays, the interstellar welfare institute system is very well-developed.”
Yu Mian was caught off guard by Huo Yan’s question and seriously offered an explanation.
How should he put it? This kind of Long Aotian background setting had been so wildly popular on Earth that certain novel websites even got nicknamed “The End Orphanage”.
After readers and writers of the interstellar era discovered the charm of such setups, they gradually became a trend across the novel world.
Because of that, during the serialization of “The Vast Immortal Path”, the Huanyu side actually had a similar plan, they wanted to privately make donations to nearby welfare institutes and charity organizations in a private and unobtrusive manner.
But unexpectedly, they were politely refused after being formally thanked.
The organizations said they were currently well-funded directly by the federal government and would contact him again once public donation channels were opened.
And after Yu Mian saw the related photos and videos, he was finally convinced that in the interstellar era, this part of the fiscal budget was really extravagant and generous, completely unlike the stereotypical image of orphanages and welfare institutes.
“Wouldn’t that be a good thing if more readers start paying attention to these public welfare efforts after the movie is released?”
Yu Mian genuinely felt great respect and admiration for the interstellar society’s complete social security system.
Huo Yan fell into deep thought upon hearing that.
But would everyone really stay so rational after the movie premiered?
Just like the actor who previously played the major villain Marshal Hilton in “Rebirth Of The Interstellar Soldier King”. In the movie, he was bad enough to make people grind their teeth, but in reality, he was a total sweetheart but people often forgot that.
However, this time, “The Vast Immortal Path” would premiere across different star systems and was indeed the largest in scale and widest in distribution so far.
Many star systems had even introduced the rights to both the physical books and the movie together, all hoping to finally see for themselves what kind of work this Federated Star mermaid author created!
This level of popularity could be seen in real life. Along the entire route Yu Hui and her husband took into the urban area of the Federated Star, they saw all sorts of advertisements and themed shops.
If before they had only heard that their son’s work was popular in the interstellar world, now they had truly seen it with their own eyes.
“And this mermaid pendant is actually really cute.”
Madam Yu Hui fondly stroked a soft little mermaid plush pendant and immediately called her husband Yu Dahai over in surprise.
“Ma’am, you’ve got a great eye! If you buy a doll now, you can enter the movie ticket lottery! Every day we’re dropping 30,000 premiere tickets across sub-venues.”
The salesgirl nearby had already been secretly watching along with her coworkers ever since Madam Yu Hui approached, wondering if they were a celebrity couple from another star system shopping for souvenirs.
After all, when many readers from outer star systems came to Federation Star, the first thing they did was buy lots of Fish Soup Noodle’s physical books and collectible merchandise.
There were quite a few well-known figures among them.
“Lottery? Movie tickets??”
Madam Yu Hui adjusted her sunglasses, convinced that her son’s movie was really in full promotional swing.
“Then I think it’s only right for the two of us to show our support.”
So before her husband Yu Dahai could stop her, Madam Yu Hui waved her hand grandly and declared that she’d take them all.
Yu Dahai, who was already holding a pile of items:
Pain, unbearable pain.
Couldn’t you wait until you contacted your son to buy these things!?
There were so many items, and it’d be hard to temporarily store them at the hotel!
And Madam Yu Hui had already followed a group of extremely excited salesgirls over to the side, curiously trying the lottery.
“But for the lottery, is this how you do it?”
“Yes, yes, yes! If you draw the mermaid logo, it means you win! But the winning rate is pretty low, so don’t feel too bad.”
“Is it this mermaid logo?”
Before the salesgirl finished explaining, Madam Yu Hui calmly looked at the logo on the light screen.
All the salesgirls: !??
No, how could someone win so naturally? So easily? Like drinking water!?
Could this be the legendary European emperor?
Under the shocked and envious stares of everyone, Madam Yu Hui simply smiled slightly.
A mermaid’s luck had always been high, okay?
That’s why Madam Yu Hui never actively bullied kids by participating in lottery events.
It’s just that this time, she was really curious about her son’s movie, so she couldn’t help giving it a try.
“To celebrate winning, let’s just keep one pair of those little pendants we bought just now, and the rest you little ones can each take one, or give them to the visitors who came to support the lottery. That’s fine too.”
This extravagant gesture from Madan Yu Hui instantly stunned everyone who had just been madly envious the second before.
Damn, this was a really rich fan of Teacher Fish Soup Noodles!?
Buying merchandise with her own money and giving it out on the spot.
You had to know that while the mermaid pendants were no longer limited editions, due to their exquisite craftsmanship, the price of each one was really not cheap.
As this news spread online, it immediately drew the attention of countless Fish fans:
[In tears. Central Star really has so many chances. If I buy a starship ticket now, can I still make it in time?]
[When will I also be rich enough to happily buy out a store and give away pendants to fans to thank them for supporting the author I love? |TwT]
[Hehe, I rushed over as soon as I heard the news and really got one! One per person! Is this another new big fan showing up? [photo]]
Many Fish fans even began to speculate whether another big spender fan had joined the trap.
After all, with “The Vast Immortal Path” movie about to premiere and the new book “Live Broadcast Of Huaxia” also being hotly serialized, it was only natural for more and more Fish fans to be joining.
But not long after the Yu couple got their movie tickets, Yu Mian suddenly received a star message from Huo Ting.
“What? Dad and Mom showed up on Federation Star?? How did you find out?”
Yu Mian had just been thinking about going back to Earth to look for them. He hadn’t expected his parents to actually come over.
As expected, the two of them did have a special way of traveling to the interstellar era.
“Oh, it’s because they directly wrote their identity as ‘mermaid’ on the immigration form.”
Huo Ting looked at the immigration declaration data that had been reported layer by layer and couldn’t help but laugh.
Secretary Hals beside him still hadn’t wrapped his head around it.
At first, they thought someone was making a prank, deliberately writing “mermaid” on the form. Although the entry details from a water planet made them hesitate.
But now it looked like… it was actually real?
Thinking about it, it did make sense. If Young Master Yu Mian was a mermaid, then at least one of his parents had to be one too, right?
So all the old man’s memories from back then were actually true, not only was the golden conch shell real, but the mermaid couple was also real!
Yu Mian had a kind of unexpected yet totally expected headache.
This really was something his parents would do. And Secretary Hals had indeed managed to notify Huo Ting and him efficiently and unilaterally.
“So where are they now? Did something go wrong on the way?”
Yu Mian decided not to dwell on it and instead focused on how to pick them up today.
“Uh, well… according to current itinerary data, the two of them entered from the neighboring water planet. After landing, they checked into the Kelston Hotel and then headed straight to Sabins Cinema.”
“And judging by the path, it looks like… they went to watch the premiere of “The Vast Immortal Path”?”
Secretary Hals stammered through the report, feeling like his brain wasn’t working right.
If you said that Young Master Yu Mian’s parents didn’t care about him, then the fact that they rushed to see a movie based on his book as soon as they landed said otherwise.
But if you said they really cared, well… coming all the way to Federation Star and not even meeting their son first, going to see the movie instead, that also felt kind of unreliable.
“Forget it. I’m sure now…it’s definitely them.”
Yu Mian couldn’t help but grab his head when he heard Huo Ting laughing on the other end.
“Then after the movie, let’s go pick up Uncle and Auntie together?” Huo Yan and the others were already planning to see it anyway.
Huo Ting checked the time schedule and started making plans.
“That sounds good.”
Yu Mian agreed.
He had to go and catch them on the spot. [fierce jpg]
Fortunately, the tickets they drew were for the sub-venue. If it had been the main venue, Yu Mian honestly wouldn’t have dared to go.
If he got recognized and caught on the spot, there’d be no way he could escape…
And “The Vast Immortal Path”, this exquisitely produced xianxia movie, truly did not disappoint.
On the night of the premiere, it amazed countless cultivation fans!
The breathtaking xianxia plots described in Teacher Fish Soup Noodles’ novel, such as the heaven-shaking thunder tribulations, secret realm expeditions, ancient inheritances etc, were brought to life vividly by the movie production team.
From the initial plot where Qi Hanzhou was bullied in the orphanage, the entire audience felt a surge of anger and heartbreak; then to the moment when the two main protagonists first met and joined hands on the path of cultivation with flair and ease.
In the end, after breaking through the Upper Spiritual Realm, would there be new challenges awaiting them beyond the vast skies?
The most critical point was, the special effects in the movie were just too realistic.
The flowing robes and sword-flying scenes shown on the big screen were far more stunning than imagined.
The longing evoked by reading the text was one thing, but now seeing Qi Hanzhou and Lin Shuyi ascend to the immortal world hand in hand on the giant screen made everyone feel like even in their dreams tonight, they’d be choosing a date to ascend.
Even when the movie ended and the credits rolled, and the lights came on in the theater, countless audiences who seemed to have just awoken from a dream still couldn’t calm their excited hearts.
Even the Yu couple sitting among them couldn’t help but hug their popcorn and marvel as the crowd surged toward the exit.
“This director really deserves a proper thank you, for making our son’s book into such a great film.”
Before coming to watch the movie, Madam Yu Hui had finished reading their son’s novel in one go back at the hotel suite.
She never expected that after reading the original work, watching the movie would still bring such a powerful experience.
However, just as Yu Dahai was about to nod in agreement, he looked at the group of people trying to approach them from not far behind.
“But it looks like we’re being followed.”
Yu Hui: ?
Unexpectedly, Madam Yu Hui turned around and looked directly at them, startling the group.
“Hello, we’re intern reporters from the Federation Star Media’s film and television segment. We’re randomly interviewing audiences in various premiere halls…”
In fact, while leaving the theater, the intern reporter pair, Salma and her partner, had already locked their eyes on the Yu couple among the audience.
“Let’s pick those two, they are so good looking. If we broadcast this, it’s sure to get high ratings.”
After all, who they interviewed didn’t matter much, interviewing good-looking people would naturally boost ratings, right?
So after a quick discussion, the two grabbed their equipment and ran over.
Seeing the camera and the slightly nervous interns, Madam Yu Hui instead smiled knowingly: “Interview? Of course, would you like us to share our thoughts on the movie?”
That smile alone made the two young reporters scream internally.
‘Help, she’s so gentle!’
They didn’t expect someone who looked hard to approach would be so friendly up close.
“Uh, y-yes, are you a fish fan too? How did you feel about Teacher Fish Soup Noodles’ premiere today?”
Salma stammered, starting to suspect they had bumped into some mysterious big shot.
“Of course I’m a fish fan, and I’m very grateful to everyone who likes and supports Xiao Mian’s work.”
Madam Yu Hui beamed as she answered the first question. At first, the audience watching didn’t quite catch what was off.
[Wow, the audience being interviewed at this sub-venue is so good-looking, and the auntie is so gentle! Could she be Teacher Fish Soup Noodles’ mom fan?]
[+1, I agree. She is like a celebrity! And such an open personality too.]
As Salma expected, the number of viewers in the interview live broadcast room began climbing rapidly.
Meanwhile, outside the cinema, Yu Mian, who had been waiting in the car for a long time without seeing anyone, couldn’t help but lean against the window, starting to wonder if they had gone to the wrong place.
Where were his dad and mom?
Even Huo Ting glanced at the time with a bit of hesitation.
