[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-a-low-rank-female-goes-viral-across-the-galaxy":3,"chapter-a-low-rank-female-goes-viral-across-the-galaxy-a-low-rank-female-goes-viral-across-the-galaxy-chapter-204":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","A Low Rank Female Goes Viral Across the Galaxy",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1390483,1844,"Chapter 204: Box Office","a-low-rank-female-goes-viral-across-the-galaxy-chapter-204",204,"\u003Cp>Because all the film critics’ reviews were somewhat vague, netizens grew extremely curious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If ten film critics had been bought out, surely not *all* the film review bloggers could have been, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the bloggers who became famous for their venomous, scathing reviews seemed a bit incoherent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a strange feeling to it. For the same plot point, they would criticize it one moment and praise it the next.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, take the scene where Cheng Yong goes to offer incense and give money to Old Lü’s wife after Old Lü’s death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One critic went on a tirade, cursing out the screenwriter. The gist of his complaint was that the script made the patients pitiful, yet also detestable, while still making them know how to be grateful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This forced the audience to feel both sympathy and disgust for the ugliness of human nature, constantly pulling at their emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he was clearly criticizing, anyone who came across his post could read the praise between the lines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, some people suspected he had been paid off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This blogger, known as Marquis, stated bluntly, \"Which of the top ten films in the Federation have I *not* criticized?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which of their backers isn’t more powerful than Jiang Qin’s? Have I ever been afraid?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for taking money, that’s even more out of the question. I don’t accept payment from anyone, so nobody has anything on me. But if I took money from one studio, it would be impossible to justify not taking it from others. I’m smart enough to understand that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most people believed him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This blogger, Marquis, might not have been the most followed film critic in the Federation, but he was definitely the one with the most followers among the \"venomous review\" niche.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had built his fame on nitpicking, so there was no reason for him to ruin his own reputation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, there was one exception: if he married Jiang Qin. Otherwise, there was no reason he could be bought by her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, that possibility could be ruled out, as Marquis was a married male.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On his personal account, all of his posts were about his female master, which showed how much he loved her. Cheating was out of the question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Based on this reasoning, one could conclude that his reviews were as harsh as ever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How bad could a movie be if it could make such a harsh critic give it backhanded compliments?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Driven by curiosity, more and more people flooded into movie theaters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who saw it almost universally gave it positive reviews.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After seeing so many war films, watching a movie with this kind of theme felt like a breath of fresh air. Everyone found it incredibly story-driven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more they watched, the more engrossed they became.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Initially, theater attendance was split evenly among five films. But when too many people were unable to buy tickets, they began to pressure the theaters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Day three of trying to snag tickets, and I still haven’t gotten one. I’ve had enough! The hype has me completely hooked, and I still can’t even see the movie.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Same here, three days and no ticket. It’s so frustrating! I can’t get into a bar when it’s packed, and now I can’t even get a movie ticket.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What about all those people who called it a bland, unremarkable drama? Didn’t they say they weren’t going to watch it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who are all these people scrambling for tickets every day?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each city had at most five theaters. The larger ones could accommodate three thousand people per screening, while the smaller ones could hold a thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each planet had ten cities, meaning around fifty theaters in total. With one screening per day, the number of available tickets was approximately one hundred fifty thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each ticket sold for 70 Star Coins. Therefore, with a complete sellout, *Medicine God*’s daily box office revenue surpassed ten billion Star Coins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was unprecedented.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not even films by famous directors had achieved such a high attendance rate on their opening day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, opening day box office numbers were always slightly inflated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for the box office to remain this high on the second and third days, with demand still exceeding supply—those were solid numbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the fourth day, many theaters had increased their screenings of *Medicine God* to as many as four per day. The primetime slots were almost entirely dedicated to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sharing the schedule were two films from the Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although *Medicine God*’s box office revenue was climbing rapidly and had surpassed projections on its first day, it still wasn’t growing as fast as the two films from the Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, those two movies had a simultaneous Interstellar release, while *Medicine God* was only showing in the Federation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, its box office numbers were naturally lower than those two films.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of this, many netizens posted angry comments:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Right now, *Medicine God* is the only film from the Federation that has a hope of competing with the Empire’s movies. Who the hell are these people who aren’t supporting our own film and are just rushing to buy tickets for the Empire’s movies?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They should add two more screenings of *Medicine God*! I still haven’t been able to get a ticket.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m not buying a ticket for an Empire movie, period. I can wait a few months for it to be released on the Star Network and watch it then.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m not buying one either. I’m not that interested in *Medicine God*’s genre, but I’d rather buy a ticket to support it than buy a ticket for *High Light* or *Black Mist*.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*High Light* and *Black Mist* were the two newly released, high-grossing films from the Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their production budgets alone were nearly a trillion Star Coins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The invited cast, from the leads to the supporting actors, were all Interstellar superstars. Even the villain was played by an award-winning superstar from the Myriad Races.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several of the Federation’s own best actors and actresses also had roles in these two films.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were, in a word, star-studded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On their opening day, they were screened across the entire Interstellar theatrical circuit, boasting an attendance rate as high as ninety percent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their box office revenue soared to a hundred billion in a single day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hype continued through the second and third days, though the box office dropped by about ten billion from its opening day high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was because various film critics had come out with their reviews:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s the work of a famous director, so the execution is solid, but the plot is pretty conventional. You can’t say it’s bad, only that it holds no surprises.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s basically a movie for the fans.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although they couldn’t record videos to upload to the Star Network, people who had seen the movies wrote out plot summaries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*High Light* was a historical war film based on past events.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The protagonist was the Imperial General Hos, who lived three hundred years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, the Insect Race and the Empire were in a perpetual state of war. The two sides fought for many years until a pivotal battle where Hos and the Insect Race Queen perished together, after which a peace treaty was finally signed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was why the movie was titled *High Light*.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That battle was the most glorious moment of General Hos’s life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a light that shone upon the people for many years to come.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With its nostalgic appeal and superstar power, it was hard for the film not to be a massive hit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though this plot and this period of history had been filmed over and over again, plenty of people would still buy a ticket just for the name Hos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for *Black Mist*, it was an exploration and survival film.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The plot was about a group of protagonists whose spaceship is damaged, causing them to accidentally fall through a black hole and land on a planet lost in the cosmos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On that planet, they discovered traces of human life from at least a thousand years prior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, all that remained on the planet was crumbling junk and debris, and the supplies they had brought with them would only last for a month.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In order to repair their ship and leave, they began to explore the lost planet, finding numerous relics of a past civilization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, none of it was edible. It was a dead planet, and they couldn’t find any food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was impossible to know how long it would take to repair the ship. How could they survive without supplies?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, they began to turn on each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a series of events that exposed the darkness of human nature, only the male and female leads survived in the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They also managed to luckily repair the ship, travel back through the black hole, and return to their proper flight path.\u003C\u002Fp>",1480,"2026-06-05T22:55:33.682Z",1,"novelbin.me","96d7d968090f87f72a4432b705f18efcc45728a7320992427b9a64e9d13b8e1f","a-low-rank-female-goes-viral-across-the-galaxy-chapter-205","a-low-rank-female-goes-viral-across-the-galaxy-chapter-203",500,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fa-low-rank-female-goes-viral-across-the-galaxy-cover.jpg"]