Chapter 96: Blizzard's opening and Su Can's forces
Chen Lingshan distinguished herself in the Shanghai Television Festival's Film and Television Newcomer Competition, winning the Golden Cup Award and becoming the champion.
Su Can only learned this later from a magazine. He also later learned that the competition he had watched on television that day on Nanjing University's snack street, while the guys offered their running commentary, had not been broadcast live. It had been a repeat of a prerecorded show.
These days, even the Spring Festival Gala, which always touted itself as live, was prerecorded. If you wanted to find a live program among all the television stations, your safest bet was probably CCTV's Xinwen Lianbo.
In fact, by the time Su Can watched the televised contest, the real winner of Shanghai Television's Film and Television Newcomer Competition had already been decided a week earlier. A few days after he watched the repeat, some media outlets followed up with reports on the news.
However, because the main focus this time was the Shanghai Television Festival, the coverage was not particularly extensive. The three newcomers who signed contracts were like all the other actors who got their start in this industry through similar talent shows. Some might become wildly popular, some might become familiar faces, and some might marry into wealthy families. Others would probably remain obscure, unable to land even one or two advertisements a year. Nor would they attain that glamorous life of walking red carpets before countless cameras, mingling with celebrities, and wearing luxury clothes.
An entertainment dream factory-this had always been a place where dreams were made. Just as a city had to allow young people to work their way up, step by step, shouldering its pillars with their own backbones, this place also allowed girls who