Chapter 358

Li Zhibai came back with broad beans and squid shreds, sat down, and kicked Lu Yan He with his foot.

Lu Yan He moved his legs, and Li Zhibai sat down.

"*My Own Swordsman* is the script you wrote yourself, it is normal for you to have many ideas. They are not cooperating with people like you for the first time, they have experience in how to deal with you." Li Zhibai said. "Don't think that you are wrong to stick to your own opinions, they are not necessarily right. If they could play it 100% according to their way, why would they find you."

Lu Yan He: "Sigh, actually I am just not that confident."

"Why?"

"Because no success can be 100% replicated."

What Lu Yan He wanted to say was that a project succeeding in another world does not necessarily succeed in this world.

But Li Zhibai understood it as the success of the previous project does not necessarily bring the success of the next project, thinking that Lu Yan He is because *Friends* was too successful before, worrying that *My Own Swordsman* cannot replicate such success.

Li Zhibai said: "Old Lu, do you remember what you said before?"

"What?"

"If you fail, you fail. Who doesn't have a time of failure? If you fail, just climb up and start over."

"Sigh, this is one thing to say, it is another thing to really face it." Lu Yan He admitted honestly. "My awareness is not high."

"It's already not bad." Li Zhibai said old-godly. "Sister Ziyan is really right, why do you like to belittle yourself so much?"

Lu Yan He fell silent.

Does he like to belittle himself?

Li Zhibai suddenly remembered something, heyed, "Let's not talk about this, I'll tell you something. *Seventeen Layers* is about to air, right? I heard that other platforms have prepared other shows to confront your show."

"Confront?"

"Yes, and it's not a direct confrontation. Isn't your *Seventeen Layers* planning to broadcast weekly? I heard that other platforms use daily broadcasting to confront your weekly broadcasting." Li Zhibai shrugged his shoulders. "Of course, I don't know if it's true or false. Maybe it's because your show is too concerned, so someone is busy sniping you."

Lu Yan He said: "Isn't it said that generally when encountering big shows like ours, other platforms will avoid it?"

"That's weekly broadcasting, not daily broadcasting. Two episodes a week, you can finish watching it easily. No matter how popular it is, it doesn't affect what shows everyone watches normally." Li Zhibai said. "The traffic is there, and it can't grab much of their traffic."

Lu Yan He was speechless, because he felt that what Li Zhibai said made sense.

With the gradual understanding of film and television production, they also have a deeper understanding of this industry.

Like *Seventeen Layers* airing on Northern Lights Video, because it is weekly broadcasting, and knowing that its heat is not low, then other shows launched at this time can definitely rub off on the dividend of platform traffic growth.

Just the opening ads of the platform and the recommended browsing volume of the carousel map will increase a lot.

But for other platforms, this also means that seven days a week, there are five days when this big hit show is not updated.

That is equivalent to these five days, there is still basic traffic that can be competed for.

There is still space for big shows to survive.

It is no longer an era where only one show can dominate.

There are many times when several shows are airing at the same time, fighting on the stage.

In this situation, *Seventeen Layers* finally aired.

The premiere was Friday night from 9:30 to 10:30. Because of the one-hour duration, for the TV station, the time that can be scheduled is so much. It is not like *Friends* which only has a 20-minute length and can be operated flexibly.

The time slot from 9:30 to 10:30 is also a very good broadcast slot.

Lu Yan He and Li Zhibai watched the premiere at Ziyuan Bridge.

Yan Liang had work, so he couldn't be with them.

At the beginning of the show, it was Chen Bige. She sat in a coffee shop in a bustling city, under the attention of everyone, beautifully and sexily signed for a courier sent from the same city, and walked out of the coffee shop holding the courier box.

She returned home with the courier box, unpacked it, and inside was an invitation letter, and a USB flash drive was attached.

The screen turned, and it arrived at Lu Yan He.

He sat in a study full of books, wearing a pair of glasses, and opened a same courier with a knife with a blank and dull face. When he saw the invitation letter inside, his expression changed.

Everyone's appearance shots were very fast. The one with the longest duration was Chen Bige. The later the appearance, the less the shot time. In such an editing rhythm, it invisibly gave people a feeling of slowly accelerating the rhythm, as if being urged.

The next second, the screen turned, and seven people appeared on a pier at the same time.

Seven people introduced each other, tested, and got on the boat.

The boat was also full of swords and shadows, testing each other, taking action, and discovering that those on the same boat were not simple characters.

And when they got off the boat, they soon discovered that they had come to a deserted island.

There was only one building on the island.

Behind the door was a letter to everyone.

The letter said that they were carefully selected players. What they participated in was a treasure hunt game that was very famous in the dark web world. "You must rely on yourselves to escape from this building. Only those who finally reach the top of the building can call a helicopter through the only satellite phone on the top of the building and leave here."

At this time, they realized that they had been pitted.

They became guests in the live broadcast of the dark web world—of course, with their stimulation and despair in the face of life and death as the main content.

Lian Bei did not soften his hand and cut off all the trivial parts. After the first advertisement, seven people were forced to enter the first secret room of the test.

Ten minutes, if the key to escape this secret room was not found, the fire nozzles around the room would burn them into ashes.

Some people didn't believe it was true, just treating it as a joke.

But some people knew it was true.

While there were conflicts between each other, they had to try every means to crack the puzzle.

The retired soldier Fatty Li, acted by Jiang Jun, originally took on the role of captain, but after his two mistakes, he was disliked by others and driven down.

The orphan Li Meng, acted by Chen Bige, keenly found the real key. Five seconds before the fire gun had already sprayed, she opened the door of the secret room, and seven people escaped consecutively. When the time was up, twelve fire guns sprayed flames at the same time, and the whole room was covered by flames, and a heat wave rushed directly to the face. The last one to escape, Wang Poison Master, let out a painful scream—some fire burned on his back.

Fortunately, he ran out at the last minute and closed the door.

The first episode ended here.

The moment Lu Yan He heard the ending song, he let out a long breath. From the beginning to the end of the first episode, it was done in one go, almost without any urine points.

After watching it himself, he had only one feeling: this show should be a success.

But when he took out his phone, he was suddenly stunned.

Because the real-time ratings of *Seventeen Layers* in the past hour were actually a trend of real-time decline.

Ten minutes after the start, there was a short rise, from 0.81% to 1.27%, and then it kept fluctuating and falling. By the end of the first episode, it actually dropped to 0.75%.

The chat record of the *Seventeen Layers* main creator group stayed on this screenshot of real-time ratings, and no one spoke again.

Li Zhibai saw Lu Yan He's face suddenly change, thinking what happened, and asked: "What's going on?"

Lu Yan He showed the phone to Li Zhibai.

"The trend of ratings is a bit pessimistic."

Li Zhibai frowned in confusion.

"How can it keep decreasing?"

Lu Yan He shook his head.

He didn't know either.

Of course, if you look at the premiere, the ratings of the first episode are not bad, and the average ratings per episode also came to 0.93%.

But compared to the big promotion of *Seventeen Layers* before, this rating is like responding to Director Lian Bei's sentence: as long as the ratings don't break 1, it belongs to messing up.

This rating result has even been hung on the hot search in real time.

The keyword is: *Seventeen Layers* ratings real-time decline.

There are indeed many people paying attention to this show, and all the opponents are also paying attention.

Once they saw that the ratings were not as good as expected, everyone started to fall into the well.

This is not a villain's heart, it is all for profit—*Seventeen Layers* was so concerned before it aired, almost all advertisers flocked to it. Now they want to tell everyone overwhelmingly that *Seventeen Layers*' ratings are not as expected, you don't need to flock there.

Beijing TV's reaction was also extremely fast. Less than half an hour after the hot search of "*Seventeen Layers* ratings real-time decline" entered the hot search list, the hot search of "*Seventeen Layers* high reputation won audience praise" was also bought up.

Indeed, compared to this constantly declining rating, the comments about this show online are all good.

Many people praised that it is rare for the country to make a show with such a fast rhythm.

Moreover, many people said that when the time for the first hurdle was fast, they all had a sense of stimulation of being burned by fire like the protagonists.

The plot is very gripping.

Lu Yan He brushed online for a long time, rarely brushing until one o'clock in the morning.

In the *Seventeen Layers* main creator group, there is still no sound.

This rating matter has obviously hit everyone.

Everyone's expectations for this show are too high. Even if its trend is upward, it is fine, which shows that this show can keep the audience, but now this trend seems to explain one thing: the audience who came to watch this show at the beginning is not small, but many can't stay and all ran away.

Confirming that most of the real netizens online (rather than black fans bought by unknown people) really felt that the first episode of this show was good-looking, thrilling, and exciting, Lu Yan He was relieved.

He said in the main creator group: I brushed online for more than two hours, basically all were praising this show. I think the trend of the ratings constantly declining is probably because Beijing TV's main audience group is still mainly middle-aged and elderly people over forty. It is normal for them not to be used to this kind of show. I think, when it goes online on the video website tomorrow, the web broadcast data will definitely not be bad. Don't be depressed, it's not the time to be depressed yet!

Lu Yan He didn't expect that as soon as he sent these words, Chen Bige replied with a thumbs up.

She said: Yes, I am also seriously looking at the comments of netizens. Everyone said our show is good-looking and praised me for knowing how to pick scripts.

Yan Zhimeng said: Even I got on a hot search, which shows that there are really quite a few audiences who like and discuss our show.