The system gave no response, only popping up the confirmation prompt once again.
Yun Ruoxi sighed helplessly, had no choice but to jump off the bed, lock the dorm door, then lie back down under the covers and close her eyes, choosing to confirm silently in her heart.
The next second.
Her vision went black, as if entering a virtual space, instantly transported to a brand-new world.
Directly in front of her was a computer, the screen displaying a video editing software she had seen in her past life.
To the right was a fully equipped recording studio, and on the left was a massive space resembling a photography studio.
Seeing all this, Yun Ruoxi immediately understood everything. She really shouldn’t have expected anything from this broken system!
“Screw this, I can’t sing, and I don’t know how to edit videos!!”
She raised her middle finger viciously.
But she looked so cute that it lacked any real threat.
【Host has excellent singing talent and can meet requirements with minimal training. Regarding editing, the system will provide tutorials for the host to learn on their own or directly exchange skills.】
【Of course, the host may also choose to forgo this reward.】
“Then forget it.”
She said it out loud, but this reward was actually pretty good. Yun Ruoxi wasn’t foolish enough to refuse it.
OPs and theme songs were also a source of popularity, and she had so many scenes that she could further deepen the audience’s recognition of her “female lead” identity.
She walked over to the computer and sat down, flipping through it.
She found that the editing software had already completed about 80% of the OP for Starry, with most of the footage taken from the first three episodes.
It was basically a highlight reel of the first three episodes.
Although Yun Ruoxi could freely insert footage she created anywhere in the OP timeline, her material library also came from those first three episodes, so there wasn’t much room left for creative freedom.
【If the host is unsatisfied with the material library content, they may go to the Universal Photography Studio to shoot new footage.】
“Got it…”
Yun Ruoxi muttered as she tried following the tutorial but realized this was not something she could learn in a short time, so she simply exchanged for the skill 【Master-level Video Editing】.
Skills like this were cheap in the system, only costing 5,000 popularity points, which was nothing for her at this stage.
With the skill successfully loaded, all kinds of editing techniques flooded her mind instinctively.
When Yun Ruoxi started working again, she was much more proficient.
She dragged footage from the material library, clicking and cutting rapidly. The OP for Starry was a little longer than usual anime openings, but only about two minutes total.
That meant she only had about 24 seconds of freedom to play with.
She inserted her current three highlight clips, leaving just five seconds remaining.
How to arrange these last five seconds…
She crossed her legs and pondered for a moment, then suddenly her eyes lit up. She stood up and walked into the photography studio on the left.
The system’s Universal Photography Studio was truly amazing—it could generate sets, virtual actors, and props based on what she imagined.
With her 【Master-level Acting】 skill, she quickly filmed the scenes exactly as she pictured.
However, Yun Ruoxi wasn’t in a rush to insert these shots into the OP.
A good OP definitely needed to resonate with the theme song. She moved to the recording studio on the right and listened to the completed demo.
Unlike the OP, the demo was already finished—all lines were sung by the characters from the show.
She could freely choose 20% of it to sing herself.
“Hm, it’s hot-blooded with a faint hint of rebellion and melancholy… pretty fitting for this season’s theme.”
After listening once, Yun Ruoxi felt inspired. She already had the actual effect of the OP in her mind, and immediately selected her favorite segment to record.
The singing process went much smoother than Yun Ruoxi had expected.
The system provided universal tuning functionality, so as long as she could sing near the original pitch, the system could tune it naturally and beautifully, like a million-dollar sound engineer reborn.
“So I can actually sound this good singing?”
Listening to her own voice, Yun Ruoxi was ecstatic.
She quickly combined the recorded segment with her carefully edited OP footage and then clicked upload.
She was confident this brand-new OP would definitely catch the eyes of the otherworldly audience!
***
Another Saturday on the alternate Earth.
Countless Starry fans had long been waiting in front of their screens, impatiently refreshing Bilibili and other platforms, eager for episode four to drop.
While waiting,
they excitedly browsed the Hot Topic Thread on Tieba and watched every Starry-related video on Bilibili.
The third episode of Starry had been truly fantastic.
Though the plot lacked dramatic twists,
the excellent setup, emotional build-up, and large-scale battles had still ignited the internet, drawing in viewers who hadn’t originally cared about this show.
One could say, Starry now really possessed the kind of popularity that the three major domestic webcomics once had—almost everyone in the country knew about it.
Any high-quality Fan Creation or analysis videos related to it easily garnered huge traffic.
Every character in the show had their own Tieba and fan groups.
Among them, Yun Ruoxi, the cute but perpetually abused female lead, had the most fans and the strongest battle power.
Not only were there countless fan creations, but also countless reaction images flooding every community:
For example:
She punching 0003 away, captioned “This cat already has Hagen, recommend punching to death”;
Her crying while eating raw meat, with the words “Too disgusting” over her head; and her dazed, adorable expression after learning in the virtual space…
These reaction images were active in every social group, and though they hadn’t yet directly converted into system popularity, it was only a matter of time.
Finally, at exactly 6 PM!
Countless viewers clicked into the anime simultaneously, and the overwhelming traffic crashed multiple video platforms’ servers.
The pitch-black screen was covered by layers of scrolling comments:
“Red seconds!”
“I’m here, damn it!”
“Yay, just finished episode 3 and now episode 4 is out, I’m so lucky!”
“You won’t be lucky once you finish watching (lol)”
“I want to see Xiao Xi, I want to see Xiao Xi, Sekimon!”
Because the OP for the first three episodes of Starry had always been that vast, serene starry sky.
It was beautiful and had nice instrumental music.
But after watching so much, it inevitably felt monotonous, and many viewers developed the habit of skipping it.
However, this time, as soon as they jumped to the black screen before episode four, the screen was filled with comments shouting:
“New OP!”
“Nani, was the info wrong?”
“Super new OP, watch now!”
“And a theme song, sung by the voice actors!”
New OP? New theme song?
Many viewers were stunned.
They had thought Starry would continue to be unique and refuse a regular OP, so they never expected this surprise!
Everyone hurriedly dragged the progress bar back.
In the pitch-black screen, stars gradually appeared, and Lin Zhen’s firm voice slowly began:
“The garbage dump before dawn glows coldly, sweat soaks the stubbornness of youth.”
At the same time,
the camera locked onto one of those stars, zooming at light speed down to the star’s surface, focusing on the boy parkouring beside piles of trash and steaming pipes…