Chapter 80 – Brushing a Favorable Impression (1)

How was there even the slightest trace of disfigurement? Her beautiful face was flawless!

Suddenly, one after another, there were long sighs of relief from the spectators.

However, for a long time, no one spoke.

During the previous performances, no matter who was performing, there would be fans of other performers that continued to talk in whispered tones.

But now, the stage was so quiet that people could hear sounds from the backstage.

Director Zhou Hui, who was judging today, wryly smiled. It took him a while before he could pick up the microphone in front of him to say, “I need a moment to calm down.” 

Standing below the stage, Ni Yi felt his heart hanging on tenterhooks.

His hands were at his sides, and he clenched them. It felt as if he had been cursed. He couldn’t stop his body from trembling.

He soon realized that some of the audience members had the same reaction as him.

Director Zhou Hui lightly sighed.

“In the past, I frequently advised actors against taking the roles where they had to express pain of loss. Because it’s impossible to fake pain and remain unaffected by it. When a person’s pain is at its utmost, the pain would spread out to everyone around him or her. This doesn’t need a spoken language. A hopeless or sad gaze, a heart-wrenching sound, any of these things would be enough to spread your pain to other people. You can’t fake this emotion.”

“An actress has to use her genuine physical reactions to convey and let the audience feel the same sorrow and pain as her.”

After Director Zhou Hui said this, he gestured his spread out hands at Yu Yaoyao.

On his tanned face, a hint of approval appeared on his face.

“Congratulations, you succeeded.”

Veteran actor Shao Qing nodded in agreement. His normally expressionless face even showed a faint smile.

“The recent stifling feeling on the stage shows that you succeeded in demonstrating your interpretation of the topic. I’ll vote for you today. I’ll also say that the expression you showed when you looked in the mirror for the first time was very good. I saw a beauty that was extremely satisfied with her appearance.”

After hearing these words from the veteran actor, everyone in the audience sobered up.

When the audience looked at the stage, their eyes were burned by the beauty of the woman on the stage.

Yu Yaoyao was standing in the center of the stage. Barefooted, wearing a white dress, long hair that reached her waist, and eyes that were clear as water. When her eyes slightly curved, it brought forth the feeling of a spring breeze. She looked like a fairy that had just woken up in a silent forest.

Underneath the illumination of the stage lights, it felt as if there was a halo around her body. It was a moving sight.

She was clearly a perfect beauty!

No flaws could be seen at all.

This perfect face had acted out a scene of a disfigured beauty that had caused them unable to keep their breathing smooth.

After a short pause, there was a smattering of applause. Soon, the number of people applauding increased.

There was even the sound of whistling and cheering from some of the male audience members.

Ni Yi, who was still standing below the stage, felt as if he had just tried out bungee jumping.

His shirt was soaked through with sweat and even the tip of his nose was sweaty.

At one point, he felt like someone at the gallows and someone had kicked the block out from underneath him. However, her performance had been like a safety rope. In the moment, when he had been freefalling in despair, she had smoothly pulled him out of it. Her rescue was so quick that he had bounced up in empty air!

Ni Yi almost cried.

He turned his head to look at the previously jeering actresses that were still stunned and harrumphed at them

The actresses’ faces immediately paled.

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T/N: Thanks for reading! I probably won’t have time to edit more parts until March. I wanted to let you guys know so you’re not wasting time checking for updates.

Kitty Jiu provided instructions on how she figures out MTL if anyone else wants to give it a stab. https://shainag425.livejournal.com/6408.html

Chapter 79 – A Horrified Scream

It was true. The content of her performance was completely inconsistent with the topic!

He looked at the stage with extreme apprehension. He couldn’t even be bothered to wipe the sweat from his forehead.

But, right after he turned his head to glance at the jeering actresses, he suddenly heard a sharp shriek from the stage! He almost bit his tongue in fright!

It was a scream of heartbreak!

Almost instantly, his scalp felt numb. Row after row goosebumps appeared on his body! 

He looked at the stage and saw the scene on the stage had changed.

Yu Yaoyao, who had been lying in bed and narcissitically looking in the mirror, had sat up and was clutching the left side of her face.

Black hair passed through her slender fingers. She covered her face and let out a horrified scream!

No one could tell what she had seen in the mirror.

However, everyone could tell that she had seen something frightening!

It felt as if the horror in her eyes didn’t care about the distance between her and the audience; it engulfed the stage along with her horrified scream!

She hunched over. The hand that was holding the mirror started to shake.

She was gasping quietly. It felt as if the sound of her horror was coming from her throat.

The gaze that she looked at the mirror with, it was like she was looking at a stranger. No, that was wrong, it looked as if she was looking at a terrifying monster!

Where had this monster come from?

It was an ugly monster that people would feel nauseated just by looking at it.

The hand that was covering the left side of her face slightly moved to reveal a gap.

She opened her red lips. It seemed as if she couldn’t breath when she slowly snuck a glance of herself in the mirror.

“Ah!”

She flung the mirror away!

Both hands were trembling as she covered her face.

Her hands slowly moved to stroke her face…

The previously beautiful and confident limpid eyes looked dilated, and then they slackened…

“No no no… no…”

Because she had been violently shaking her hair, her loose black hair had gotten tangled up.

Her words were insensible, and no one could understand what she was saying.

And, her chest was sharply undulating. It looked as if she was in pain and couldn’t breath. It looked as if something had instantly taken away all of her strength. When she collapsed onto the floor, she seemed as if she had lost her soul.

When her slender fingers touched the broken mirror on the ground, she pulled it back as if she had been burned.

A tear dropped down on her face, which was half covered by her hair.

Looking helpless and fragile, she slowly pulled up her knees together and tightly buried her face between her legs.

Her entire body was shaking, and a hoarse crying was welling up in her throat.

This sound wasn’t sharp or loud. It sounded as if it was sorrow that came from her heart. The moment that people heard it, they would feel enshrouded in a bitter and depressing atmosphere.

Soon, the only sound in the spacious recording and broadcasting hall was her extremely painful sounding cries.

Again and again, there came a despairing and helpless cry.

At this moment, no one could laugh.

Even the actresses that had mocking her earlier, they now had stiffened expressions.

The entire stage felt so heavy that people felt as if they couldn’t breath.

There were even many viewers that couldn’t help but put down their glow sticks.

The people that had been discussing, the people that had been whispering, they had all stopped.

Finally, the woman on the stage that was trembling in despair stood up. She was standing bare feet on the ground.

At the moment when everyone was feeling unbearably uncomfortable, she gathered up her loose hair and revealed her beautiful forehead and her glamorously beautiful face.

Her eyelashes swayed over her limpid eyes, and she winked at the audience.

“That’s the end of my performance. Thank you everyone.”

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T/N: I tried to read MTL version of Transmigration: Raising the Child of the Male Lead Boss while waiting for updates. Brain felt like mush after a few chapters, so I try editing it to see if that would help. This is my first attempt at editing MTL. Hope its passable. I wanted to share it with other readers while we wait for the original translator to resume regular updates.