Zhao Xiaodao just stood up and directly criticized the other party for not having the qualifications to make Lu Zheng behave so insidiously, which made the three women, including Si Lingxi, feel more favorable towards her.

So Shen Ying even shared her transformation video with her.

"Wow! It's really nice!"

Zhao Xiaodao was referring to Shen Ying's dance in the first half of the video, "Sister Ying, did you learn to dance?" 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

"I learned a bit," Shen Ying said with a smile.

During her life, Shen Ying was also a well-bred young lady, dabbling in music, chess, calligraphy, painting, dance, and embroidery. Although not as good as professionals, she was of top-notch standard when brought to Blue Star.

So Zhao Xiaodao could instantly see that Shen Ying's dance was very graceful and professional.

"The special effects are also done very well. Which company did you hire to produce this?" Zhao Xiaodao said with surprise, "It's so realistic. Even just these few seconds of video effects must be expensive."

Shen Ying nodded with a smile but did not answer the question about the special effects.

Shen Ying only updated the video the day before yesterday. Although the video quality is excellent, it's not something quirky or timely, nor did she buy traffic, so the popularity didn't rise quickly. By today, she had only received over a hundred likes and a dozen comments.

"The lady is so pretty!"

"It's scary at the back!"

"Does this lady have some special fetish for ghosts, scared me to death…"

"Only five, not enough to watch, quick update, can't sleep at night."

"The lady is quite beautiful, start a live broadcast."

"Come on, add a friend!"

Zhao Xiaodao took out her phone, logged on to the platform, followed Shen Ying, and decisively forwarded one of Shen Ying's transformation videos.

[@Tao Ying, super awesome Hua Country classical transformation video, the lady blogger's dance is highly praised, also not recommended for the faint-hearted]

As the country's hottest short video platform, Zhao Xiaodao also registered an account, but only occasionally posted promotional videos and has never done any live streaming.

However, even so, her number of followers on the platform was still substantial.

So once she forwarded it, not only did her forwarded video instantly attract a lot of comments, but Shen Ying's video also suddenly received many likes, comments, and shares.

"Is she a new artist from Little Saber's company?"

"The lady is so pretty!"

"How much did this cost? Special effects and having Zhao Xiaodao advertise, just for a transformation video?"

"Is she a newly debuted lady, I followed."

"Haha, how much beauty filter and retouching did this have, it's distorted."

"Don't believe it, have the guts to turn off the beauty filter for a live broadcast, if she's still this pretty I'll livestream eating my phone."

"Doesn't look like it used too much beauty and editing, right?"

"But the special effects are really real, this sudden ghost transformation really scared me!"

"Not a single company name there, is she some rich lady spending money for fun? Rich sis, take me along, I don't want to work hard anymore!"

"Not sure, but my favorite video is the Painted Skin one, it really peels off its own skin, holy crap so terrifying!"

"I like the one where time flies by and then transforms into a female ghost, has this feeling of fleeting time and seizing the moment."

"Oh my, watching a transformation video and you've found some philosophy in it?"

"It's making me feel all tingling, now everyone around me seems off."

...

"Hehe, thank you."

"You're welcome, no biggie!"

Seeing the various funny remarks from netizens, Shen Ying was amused and giggling constantly. Encountering some unfriendly ones, she simply muted and blocked them entirely, without her mood being affected at all.

"It's past six, let's go have dinner," Zhao Xiaodao suggested, "What do you want to eat?"

Lu Zheng replied, "Nothing avoids our taste, you're familiar with this area, all up to you."

Zhao Xiaodao nodded, "Then let's go to Jiali Hotel, I'm staying there, the dishes there are more comprehensive and the taste is decent."

The location itself isn't particularly prosperous or developed, mainly relying on cultural tourism. There aren't really any special private dishes or gourmet food locally, so it'd be better to eat at a big hotel.

"By the way, you haven't booked a room yet, right?"

Lu Zheng nodded, "We did, coincidentally, at Jiali Hotel. I heard many stars stay at this hotel, I'm hoping to run into a few like Liu the Celestial Immortal and Yang Mi."

"Swipe, swipe, swipe!"

A few glances swept over, Lu Zheng said with a calm face, "See if they really have tooth gaps and big foreheads."

Zhao Xiaodao could only suppress her desire to laugh, and the assistant couldn't help but shiver.

...

The group returned to the parking lot, got in the car, and soon arrived at Jiali Hotel.

Over here, Lu Zheng and the group collected the room cards for three deluxe double rooms, and over there, the assistant had already booked the dinner banquet room.

She didn't know the tastes of Si Lingxi and the others, so simply ordered all the hotel's signature dishes, which guaranteed not to go wrong.

"Cheers!"

Everyone raised their glasses, taking a light sip.

The assistant chose red wine, with a low alcohol percentage, and drank a little, so it seemed fine.

It also was perfectly fine as Si Lingxi and the others liked the taste of red wine.

But the dishes were not to be complimented.

The ladies only tasted a bit, and after sampling, picked a few slightly refreshing side dishes, eating occasionally while the big table was only finished by Lu Zheng who didn't avoid any taste.

However, Zhao Xiaodao didn't think much of it, she thought the girls were just controlling their diet like her to maintain their figures.

At the table, Zhao Xiaodao was social and witty, occasionally speaking about gossip, then talking with the ladies about cosmetics, creating quite a lively atmosphere.

As Shen Ying had posted a short video, Zhao Xiaodao asked, "Does Sister Ying want to enter the entertainment circle?"

Shen Ying waved her hand and said with a smile, "I just made a few videos for fun and wanted to share, but don't have any real intention of becoming a star."

Even on Blue Star, the status of celebrities only rose in recent decades. Many older folks still view them as performers.

Of course, due to the rapid development of the internet and information technology, celebrities now also bear some cultural promotion and value transmission responsibilities, offering far more value than the previous purely entertainment-centric career.

But Shen Ying didn't have any mission to promote and transmit culture and wouldn't become a star.

Performing in Illusion Array opera and making transformation videos purely from interest and uploading them online because it's fun, not to debut.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Xiaodao understood.

Indeed, judging from the actions of Lu Zheng and Lin Wan, Shen Ying, as Lu Zheng's confidante, wouldn't become a star.

While everyone was eating and drinking, the assistant's phone suddenly rang.

"Hello, what? It's baseless, how dare he? Okay, I'll take a look." The assistant's face changed, and after hurriedly hanging up, she opened Weibo.

"Duan Yakun has a lot of nerve!"