A Low Rank Female Goes Viral Across the Galaxy-Chapter 256: In a Dilemma

Casting for *Strange Tales* was easy. Although there were ghosts and monsters, most of them looked normal.

Their daily lives weren’t too fantastical, so the characters were relatively easy to understand.

For example, in the story about Zhu Erdan, aside from Lu Pan who could use a few Spells, the other characters were all ordinary people.

Since Jiang Qin had already produced two historical dramas, the actors only needed some basic training in ancient etiquette to be ready.

After all, they were professionals with their own understanding of their roles; otherwise, they wouldn’t have been chosen in the first place.

The difficult one was *My Date with a Vampire*.

This was yet another genre Interstellar People had never seen before. Scenes involving things like Taoist Skills were even harder to grasp than Ancient Martial Arts.

And then there were the jiangshi.

There were stories and legends about Vampires in a few corners of the Interstellar age, but no one was interested in that stuff.

Because in everyone’s eyes, those were just stories adapted from zombies.

During the latter stages of the zombie apocalypse back then, they had indeed evolved into immortal, white-skinned, red-eyed, man-eating monsters.

High-level Zombies were mostly sentient.

So, basically, everyone believed that Vampires were just zombies!

As for jiangshi... they’d never heard of them.

Herding corpses? They would just be completely baffled.

Now that she was doing *My Date with a Vampire*, Jiang Qin also planned to film *Zombie Taoist Master*.

It was just that she was incredibly busy right now. She needed to be on set to supervise every single production.

After several consecutive days of auditions, she finally received an invitation from the Empire to start filming the variety show again.

After some hesitation, Jiang Qin agreed.

It wasn’t for any other reason than to see things through to the end. Besides, this time they were filming on the Federation Main Star, so she could work on her sets while recording the show.

As for the auditions, the main roles were mostly cast. She could probably find the rest before the variety show started taping.

After all, what she had received was just an invitation. The actual recording wouldn’t start for another three days.

She didn’t ask which guests the production team had invited this time.

***

「Two days later.」

On the day before the variety show taping, the role of Ma Xiaoling still hadn’t been decided.

They had previously selected three female candidates who fit the image well, but after the screen tests, all of them were cut.

This left Jiang Qin extremely frustrated.

It wasn’t that she hadn’t considered taking the role herself, but honestly, she wasn’t necessarily more professional than a professional actor.

’Now I’m in a real bind.’

’Should I work hard on my acting and do it myself, or should I continue auditioning and try to find a suitable actress, then break down and explain Taoist arts and metaphysics to her...’

This reminded her of the casting for Daiyu in *Dream of the Red Chamber* during her first life.

’What was more important, the aura or the looks?’

In the end, that director had said he would rather have that actress’s temperament than find a prettier one.

’In terms of image, I think I’m a decent fit.’

Any shortcomings could be compensated for with makeup and styling. The only thing she wasn’t confident about was her own acting.

After wrestling with the decision for a long time, Jiang Qin decided to keep looking.

So, Tianwen Entertainment had no choice but to issue another announcement to continue recruiting female actors. The requirement: a Central Continent face.

There was no need to specify an age. Interstellar females could maintain the appearance of a 20-year-old even at 50.

Therefore, age was the last thing worth mentioning.

Many of the female actors who had already auditioned before were tempted.

After all, they had only been rejected for supporting roles. Who was to say they weren’t destined to be the female lead?

And so, Tianwen Entertainment’s audition building was once again packed to the rafters.

"Her features are too much like a Western Continent person’s. No. Next."

"Her legs aren’t well-shaped enough. Next..."

"Too cute, not suitable. Next."

"Her fingers aren’t pretty... Next."

Jiang Qin went through them like she was on an assembly line, rejecting a huge batch of people in just a few short hours.

In all the days of auditions, no one had ever seen her like this.

Today, she was nothing short of ruthless.

After leaving the audition room, the rejected female actors’ faces immediately fell.

"SOB... Miss Jiang Qing is so cold today."

"Don’t even mention it. I didn’t even get to do a screen test. I just held out my hand and was cut."

"Well, what can you do? The female lead in this show has a lot of scenes with hand gestures. They can’t just get a hand double every time or CGI everything." 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

"Sigh, I got cut because my build is a little too sturdy..."

"I was cut because my hand gestures were too stiff and my eyes were too empty."

"Honestly, I don’t even get why the female lead has to do such an awkward set of hand gestures to fight. I felt like an idiot and almost burst out laughing..."

"I still don’t understand what this show is even about. I was auditioning for a female cannon fodder role before.

It was just one scene, on a fashion runway, where I turn into a female jiangshi and fight the male lead.

I played it like a female zombie, and I got rejected."

"Even though I didn’t get the part, I have a feeling this is going to be a really interesting show!"

...

The calls for the next number continued from inside the room, and more and more female actors emerged with sour expressions.

Most of them left in a hurry; they had clearly been rejected.

This made those still waiting feel increasingly anxious.

Half-beastman females didn’t even get a chance to audition, and pure-human females had basically no chance either, since they couldn’t handle the fight scenes at all.

It was already hard enough to find someone who just fit the image.

Right up to the day filming for the romance reality show began, Jiang Qin still hadn’t chosen her female lead.

As for the male lead, Long Hao had already been cast.

Although he was a male from the Empire, his features were purely Eastern. As for his eyes, colored contacts would do the trick.

***

On the first day of filming for the romance reality show, all the guests gathered in a scenic town in Central City.

Jiang Qin saw a few familiar faces there.

Female guest: Natalie.

Male guests: Ni Jia, Jiang Qingfeng, Yuan Ling, and Long Hao!

As for Apollo, she’d heard online rumors that he had become Denise’s boy toy.

’Of course, that’s just a rumor. I’m not sure if it’s true,’ she thought.

There were also three unfamiliar females and one male, all newcomers. She didn’t recognize any of them.

Just then, the director began the introductions. "I’m sure our friends who watched the first season of our show recognize some of the guests here today, right?"

"That’s right, they’re our old friends from season one: Miss Natalie, Miss Jiang Qing, Young Marshal Jiang Qingfeng, Prince Hao, Mr. Ni Jia, and our Mr. Yuan Ling."

"The rest are our new guests!"

The director first introduced a female with fiery red, medium-short hair and both ears covered in all sorts of studs.

"This is Miss Qi Shan from the Empire. She’s an A-level female and also an outstanding Flying Car racer!"

The director held the microphone to Qi Shan’s lips and asked politely, "Miss Qi Shan, would you like to say hello to our friends in the livestream?"

Qi Shan grinned. "Hello everyone. I’m bisexual, and I came here for Miss Jiang Qing and the Young Marshal."

"I hope the three of us can walk away hand-in-hand and go home together!"

... The entire set went silent.