Chapter 363: News of the Second Season

At 9:30, the third episode of *Seventeen Layers* aired on time on the Beijing Channel.

Real-time ratings reacted at the first opportunity.

The opening of 1.47% shocked everyone who was paying attention to this data.

Online, many netizens were updating the screen of themselves sitting in front of the TV watching the show in real time.

Chen Siqi noticed that many people watched the first and second episodes on Arctic Light Video and couldn't wait to see the third episode, so they chose to watch TV on Friday night.

She keenly perceived that this would be a big topic, and immediately sent her thoughts to the self-media group of *Jump Up*, looking for the editor on duty today to write this topic.

*Jump Up* self-media now has four full-time editors, and they have arranged shifts. On the day of the shift, it is not something else, but the emergence of this temporary, sudden topic, which must be written by the editor on duty immediately.

Self-media attaches great importance to seizing the opportunity.

And the speed honed made this manuscript come out before the third episode was finished.

*Seventeen Layers, Online Playback Feeds Back TV Station Ratings! Lu Yan He Realizes the Rating Miracle Again*.

Chen Siqi tutted and deleted the last sentence directly.

Recruiting hatred.

"Send." After she finished reading, she only made such a modification.

At 10:30, after the third episode finished airing, the discussion about *Seventeen Layers* online grew exponentially.

Chen Siqi watched TV at her home.

Her father and Liu Weian had a social engagement in the evening and did not come back.

Chen Yuanzhi had been taken to sleep by the nanny.

Only she was on the first floor.

Chen Siqi turned off the TV, looked around, and suddenly a thought sprouted.

Could she buy a house herself?

In that case, she wouldn't have to live here again.

"I watch *Seventeen Layers*, I don't know if you can understand, I can even understand Li Meng a little bit. No, it's not understanding, I am even a little envious of Li Meng. She is an orphan, although life is very bitter, she also avoided encountering a very bad family." Chen Siqi said, "In the past two years, the attitude of my father and Liu Weian towards me has obviously changed, especially my father. Now he is polite to me, just like treating a guest. When I was a child, I hoped he would be like this, to receive less of Liu Weian's instigation to manage my affairs. Now he can't manage it, and obviously doesn't want to manage it anymore. I am a bit uncomfortable instead. People are also cheap."

Chen Siqi seemed to find it difficult to accept such discomfort.

Lu Yan He sighed and said: "Human nature, he is your father, you can never cut it off in this life."

Chen Siqi: "But I see he can cut me off."

Lu Yan He wanted to say "Don't say angry words," but he felt that if he said so, Chen Siqi would probably hang up the phone in an angry way, so he swallowed the words back.

"Don't say this, *Seventeen Layers* is quite good, and I have a premonition that this show will explode later, although it is already very popular now." Chen Siqi said, "I feel that many people around me are watching it. I feel that the last time I chased a show on such a large scale was *Friends*."

Lu Yan He: "*Seventeen Layers* itself has a natural advantage in genre. As long as everyone watches it, they will definitely be attracted to watch it down."

"Indeed, and this script is well written and well cut. One level per episode, both with a main line, but each episode is relatively independent." Chen Siqi said, "I feel that the success of *Seventeen Layers* this time will drive many dramas to truly start exploring the weekly broadcast mode. After all, weekly broadcast can keep the popularity of a show for a longer time. Previously, weekly broadcast couldn't be done in our country because several weekly broadcast dramas that tested the water didn't have good broadcast effects and flopped a lot. Your *Friends* this time, and *Seventeen Layers*, are both done very successfully. The number of episodes is very small, one is eight episodes, one is more than ten episodes. Although the cost per episode is high, the total cost is much lower than many TV series, which is also more conducive to the platform controlling risks. Everyone sees that success is not an isolated case. It is estimated that many projects that want to replicate the weekly broadcast miracle will appear next."

Lu Yan He said: "But there are not many scripts suitable for weekly broadcast at present. Now the scripts are still mainly long drama scripts. They want to make short dramas, all of which are created according to the characteristics of weekly broadcast from the script stage."

Chen Siqi: "Hmm, you may not believe it, our magazine has several authors who have received invitations from film and television companies, wanting them to create scripts."

Lu Yan He was a bit surprised and asked: "Are they looking for our authors? Why don't they look for mature screenwriters?"

"I didn't learn the specific reasons, but anyway, film and television companies casting screenwriters is also a wide-net approach, a sort of 'raising a poisonous insect' style of cultivation," Chen Siqi said. "Basically, as long as it's someone who deals with words, they have received such invitations to some extent."

Lu Yan He: "Do we have anyone doing it?"

Chen Siqi: "Temporarily, no authors have tried it. Although it is said that film and television companies actively invited, it is not that they let them be the main writers, they are all giving a hand to famous screenwriters. The remuneration is not high, and they have signed with us, and they can honestly earn manuscript fees by publishing works and writing books. Why earn that little money from them."

Lu Yan He suddenly realized.

Chen Siqi: "*Jump Up* is just our base camp. Now we have many self-media accounts, involving film and television, entertainment, food, reading, character interviews... adding up to thirteen, and the demand for manuscripts is also very large. If everyone wants to earn more manuscript fees, they can also come to these self-media accounts to write columns, mainly responsible for our themes. If they write well, we will publish them."

Lu Yan He was surprised when he heard Chen Siqi say this.

"So many?"

"Yes." Chen Siqi said, "Of course, the main reason is that several of our editors have opened their own accounts, and we have also signed with their accounts, and have cooperation, managing and operating as one of the managed accounts under our banner."

Lu Yan He suddenly realized.

So that's how it is.

He said, thirteen accounts, this is too exaggerated.

Chen Siqi said: "Among the thirteen accounts, only three can achieve profitability, and the other accounts are still developing."

Lu Yan He nodded.

"This is also very powerful." Lu Yan He said to Chen Siqi, "I didn't realize that we have so many self-media accounts now."

"The development of self-media is the general trend, and running a magazine is going against the current." Chen Siqi said, "We are doing well now."

Lu Yan He: "Powerful."

Chen Siqi: "That Li Bi you found is quite capable of tossing. He applies for additional special funds from me time and time again to do some things, but he has the courage. Although he spends a lot of money, he has also done many things, and the report card is very beautiful."

"He was a paparazzi. Paparazzi work is very hard. If he can do paparazzi, if he has the opportunity, he can naturally do other work well." Lu Yan He said.

Chen Siqi looked at Lu Yan He with surprise and said: "Okay, I didn't expect you to look at paparazzi so highly."

"Mainly in the past year or two, I often fight with them. Sometimes I feel they are pervasive, and I really feel they are quite powerful." Lu Yan He said with a smile, "Sometimes I think, since they have such powerful skills, why don't they use these skills in serious work? With this ability, they would have achieved success in the secular sense long ago."

Chen Siqi nodded, "Then you feel we can recruit more paparazzi?"

"That still needs to pay more attention. After all, most paparazzi... hmm, have no bottom line. I felt Li Bi was okay at the beginning and let him try because he secretly photographed me and went to rent a house seriously." Lu Yan He said with a smile, "Actually, renting a house is not a matter of how much bottom line. If you think about it carefully, it is really not. At that time, I felt he was quite different. I didn't expect to meet a particularly capable person."

Chen Siqi: "Sharp eyes, you really have the ability in this regard."

The average rating of the third episode rose by nearly 0.5 percentage points like a sudden emergence, reaching 1.37%, which shocked the industry.

Again?!

Let the ratings reach such an exaggerated position again?

Except for CCTV, almost no local station can make the ratings reach this data in this era.

*Friends* did it at the beginning of the year, and now this summer, *Seventeen Layers* did it again!

Jiang Lan's mobile phone was like being installed with a vibrator after the ratings came out, and it never stopped again.

Her face was almost stiff with laughter.

Everyone came to congratulate.

With such a posture, it is obvious that *Seventeen Layers* is about to take off.

And Arctic Light Video, which did not update tonight, was a bit depressed.

Everyone said that this was because the first and second episodes played too well on Arctic Light Video, which instead brought a lot of viewers to the Beijing Channel TV series.

Many viewers who couldn't wait chose to watch the premiere on Friday first.

Arctic Light Video was a bit worried internally. Will this affect their online playback data?

Regardless of the ideas of these two broadcast platforms, once this rating result came out, Chen Bige and Lu Yan He washed away the public opinion situation that had been ridiculed by many black fans before.

The status of these two people in the entertainment industry is high now, and it is not the kind that only has status but exits the acting front line.

There are not many actors who are truly recognized by film and television companies and platforms as having "drama-carrying strength," especially those who can carry any type of drama, and even fewer.

The success of *Seventeen Layers* this time also made Lu Yan He the first actor this year to have two starring ratings breaking 1.

Chen Ziyan naturally would not miss this opportunity.

When it comes to promoting actual performance, Chen Ziyan will never care about Lu Yan He's hot searches being too many and needing to maintain the mystery of an actor.

At this time, it must be promoted generously and with gongs and drums, so that everyone knows how resistant Lu Yan He is in terms of business ability and how prominent his actual performance is.

When the ratings of the fourth episode remained at the level of 1.26%, everyone knew that the rating performance of *Seventeen Layers* was stable.

It was at this time that Arctic Light Video announced that Lu Yan He would develop the battle royale web drama *Squid Game* with Arctic Light Video.

Riding the east wind of *Seventeen Layers*, although this project was not officially announced for the first time, it still easily made it to the hot search.

Besides the official announcement, there was also gossip.

*Squid Game* will be co-starred by several popular actors such as Huang Kairen, Zeng Qiao, and Jiang Yuqian who have cooperated with Lu Yan He.

This cast immediately made it to the hot search.

Then, Zheng Huairen, the content head of Arctic Light Video, clarified: "At present, *Squid Game* has indeed contacted some actors, but the online list is not true."

Lu Yan He went to shoot an advertisement and was intercepted by the media at the door of the studio.

"Is there anything you can reveal to us about *Squid Game* first?"

"It's still confidential for the time being." Lu Yan He said with a smile, "The only thing that can be revealed is that my script has been written almost, and the first draft has been handed over to Arctic Light Video. It should be modified for several rounds later."

"So *Squid Game* was written long ago?"

"After filming *Seventeen Layers*, I had the idea of creating such a battle royale story." Lu Yan He said with a smile, "Director Lian Bei heard my idea and supported me very much, so I tried to write it. At that time, an overseas streaming media wanted to talk to me about the cooperation of *Squid Game*, but the conditions were very inappropriate, so I refused. I thought it would be shelved, but I didn't expect Arctic Light Video to be very interested."

"How do you manage your time with so many projects in progress?" The reporter was very surprised, "I feel you have written a lot of scripts in the past two years."

"Actually, I have been accumulating since I graduated from high school. At that time, I just wrote for fun and didn't show it to others. Now it has concentratedly emerged in the past two years. Of course, I didn't write it in the past two years." Lu Yan He said with a smile.

"Then which actors is *Squid Game* contacting? Can you reveal one or two? Are those actors on the online list real?" The reporter asked with a smile.

Lu Yan He sighed and said: "You clearly know I can't say. However, it can be said that those actors on the online list will indeed have new cooperation with me later. Everyone can look forward to it, not just *Squid Game*. Also, *Seventeen Layers* has only aired to the fourth episode, and the plot behind is more exciting. Please help us promote it! I am about to shoot, I can't chat with you anymore, bye!"

After speaking, Lu Yan He didn't answer any more questions and entered the studio.

The popularity of *Squid Game* also made the Beijing Channel notice.

In the internal meeting, someone said: "Lu Yan He took advantage of the popularity of *Seventeen Layers* to cooperate with Arctic Light Video on *Squid Game*. Is this okay?"

"People want to rub popularity, can you stop them?"

"Who could have imagined."

Someone said: "People wrote the script long ago. How is it to rub the popularity of *Seventeen Layers*? People wrote a show like *Friends*, still need to rub the popularity of *Seventeen Layers*?"

"Then why not announce it early, not announce it late, why announce it at this time?"

"Can't we buy the exclusive TV broadcast right of *Squid Game*?" Someone suddenly proposed, "I feel this play is clearly a big drama."

"This hasn't been filmed yet, who can agree to buy?"

"Then what if *Squid Game* is snatched by other TV stations?"

Everyone discussed.

Jiang Lan knocked on the table and said: "What we are discussing today is the second season of *Seventeen Layers*. *Squid Game* doesn't need you to discuss."

She spoke, and everyone quieted down and returned to the topic.

"The ratings of *Seventeen Layers* have reached our expected goal. As long as it doesn't collapse later, we will definitely shoot the second season. This project itself is also a trilogy project." Jiang Lan said, "Especially this project has done a lot of derivative development, which is our new attempt. We must continue the popularity of this IP."

"We signed a three-season contract with Director Lian Bei in one breath, but the actors didn't. To shoot the second season, they will definitely ask for a raise."

"Does Director Lian Bei not raise it?" Jiang Lan sneered, "I didn't ask you to discuss this kind of thing. What you have to discuss is when the second season will be produced and when it will be aired. There must be a time. Hurry up and talk to the production team and actors. If you don't grab the schedule early, you will be passive in doing anything later."

That afternoon, Jiang Lan announced a piece of news to the familiar media:

Beijing Channel is preparing for the second season of *Seventeen Layers*, everyone returns!

This news is not an official announcement, but released in the name of gossip.

As soon as it came out, this news made it to the hot search. It is the most popular TV series at the moment, and its sequel news is highly anticipated. ===== CHAPTER 364 =====