Chapter 610

"Naruto" Part One had ended, and Xu Feng was busy making money, so he wouldn't be appearing on screen for the time being.

One new show and movie after another began to launch.

It even left Xu Feng himself a bit confused.

He inexplicably had the feeling of Whitebeard dying in "One Piece," and then a bunch of pirates rushing in to carve up his territory.

The first one to lead the charge was the "Goddess" Liu Yifei's "A Dream of Splendor."

Because Xu Feng had previously recommended her for the role of Princess Nihuang in "Nirvana in Fire."

And after achieving high scores, the confidence of the "Goddess" fans was immense.

There was a strong momentum of "our goddess can still fight for another 20 years."

Uh... seeing these comments from the "Goddess" fans, Xu Feng was a bit speechless.

At first, he felt that Liu Tao playing Princess Nihuang and standing next to Hu Ge had a sense of awkwardness in their age gap, which is why he recommended Liu Yifei to try it.

But after watching this revised version, he felt... well, how should he put it?

Liu Yifei was almost the bottom of the barrel in terms of acting in this show; after all, there were too many veteran actors in it.

Even Hu Ge could only be considered mid-tier.

Coupled with the screenwriter's solid performance and the production team's dedication, the show's success was created.

To sum it up, the reason this show succeeded was thanks to the director, the screenwriter, and a large group of talented actors.

It was definitely not thanks to Liu Yifei; if one had to say, it was Liu Yifei's good luck to get the role of Nihuang and be carried to success.

However, in the eyes of the "Goddess" fans, it became not that the show carried their goddess, but that their goddess carried the show.

Even if she had flopped in the film industry for nearly ten years, she was still the Queen when she returned to the film and television industry!

Then, in the first three days of the show's premiere, the online rating was—9.3!

Seeing this rating, many netizens who hadn't watched it yet were dumbfounded.

Damn, is, is it really that fierce?

It had already surpassed the premiere rating of Xu Feng's "Inuyasha."

And so, a large group of anime fans who had no shows to watch because "Naruto" ended rushed over.

And then... they were full of question marks.

【No, this, this was rigged, right? Is this show really worth 9.3?】

【Delete the question mark. Isn't this just a canned historical idol drama? Liu Yifei's fans are as awesome as ever, rigging it so high.】

【Liu Yifei's double chin is about to pop out. Can't she manage her figure before filming?】

【I just want to know when Lisa is coming out. I came here just for her face.】

【Liu Yifei's line delivery reminds me of how I looked when the teacher called on me to recite the text in elementary school.】

Xu Feng, who was filming a Rolex commercial, looked at these questioning comments and refreshed the page during a break.

Unsurprisingly, the "Goddess" fans began to fight back. 【Please, that's Liu Yifei!】

【I like it, I gave it five stars on my own account, what right do you have to care? If you don't like it, go rate it yourself. It's not my fault your favorite show has a low score, go give it five stars too!】

【If you didn't cast our goddess as Kikyo, Xu Feng's show deserved to flop.】

Xu Feng could understand the previous arguments, but after seeing his own name added to the comment section, he made a "subway old man" face.

No, what does this have to do with me?

But Xu Feng was too lazy to care. Although there was the involvement of "Goddess" fans and the production team's hired mercenaries rigging the scores.

Making the show's premiere rating artificially high, at least the first eight episodes could still get a score of around 8 to 8.5.

Because the first eight episodes were written by Guan Hanqing himself.

As for the rest, the screenwriters had no material left, so they could only make it up as they went.

Sure enough, in less than a week, netizens discovered something was wrong with the show.

【The male lead breaks into the Empress's bedchamber at night. Does the Emperor know? If he knows, isn't he afraid? If he doesn't know, how did he become Emperor? Has power shifted to this extent?】

【A mere revenge for a father's death, this was my father's own choice. Damn, I'm stunned.】

【What kind of bullshit is this? The male and female leads keep emphasizing that they are pure, what kind of feudal remnants are they?】

【Damn it, they printed Lisa's photo so big on the poster, I thought she had a lot of screen time, but she was gone in one episode?】

【RNM! Refund!】

After this series of confusing plot points, the reputation of "A Dream of Splendor" naturally plummeted. Watching the score, which was originally aiming for 9.5, drop to 8.5, then 8.4, 8.3, 8.2...

There was no help for it; the production team had bought too many fake reviews and hyped it too high. The tree attracted the wind, leading to many netizens who didn't like the show in the first place.

Now that the situation had reversed, wouldn't they come to stomp on you?

Moreover, the "Goddess" fans had been too broad in their attacks.

They brought up the old matter of Xu Feng not choosing Liu Yifei to play Kikyo.

Saying that "Inuyasha" had such a low score precisely because it didn't cast Liu Yifei.

This directly offended quite a few anime fans.

Originally, in the previous life, "A Dream of Splendor" maintained a high score of 8.2 until it was taken down because of the many fake reviews and the fact that the hype had completely passed.

However, now there was still some time before the finale, and it had already dropped to 8.0.

【Hahaha, it cracks me up. A piece of trash like this has the nerve to compare itself to "Inuyasha."】

【If Guan Hanqing saw how you were ruining his work, he'd probably be so angry he'd climb out of his grave.】

【Please, that's Liu Yifei, hahaha!】

【Why is my little Lisa's screen time so short? Damn it, I'm going to sue you for false advertising!】

【I said before that Liu Yifei's acting hadn't improved in "Nirvana in Fire," and I was roasted by a group of people. Nothing to say now, right?】

Seeing these anime fans jumping around so happily, Liu Yifei wiped her tears at home and called Xu Feng to ask what to do.

Xu Feng replied directly: "Isn't that simple? Just announce that you'll film a show with a viewership rating over 4 next time, and won't that slap those haters in the face?"

Liu Yifei: "..."

She really wanted to remind Xu Feng what a viewership rating over 4 meant.

The show with the highest viewership rating she had starred in so far was "Chinese Paladin," which she starred in with Xu Feng, and the rating broke 5. At first glance, breaking 4 doesn't seem like a big deal, huh.

However, facts will tell you... bullshit!

Look at what era this is.

The internet age, the information age, people have plenty of entertainment options, and they don't necessarily have to watch shows.

If you really want to compare, why don't you talk about the 49% viewership rating of CCTV's "Three Kingdoms" in the last century!?

Even for shows written, directed, and starred in by Xu Feng, "JoJo" didn't break 4, and "Inuyasha" and "One Punch Man" only broke it during the high-tension episodes and the finale.

And the fact that "Bleach" and "Naruto" Part One broke 7 or even 8 at the finale was a miracle among miracles.

Liu Yifei struggled for a long time, but in the end, she was too embarrassed to say, "I don't think I have that ability."

"Feng, I don't quite understand, can you teach me?"

At this moment, Liu Yifei heard the voice of a young woman on the other end of the phone with the same accent as Guan Gu Shen Qi.

From the first word, Liu Yifei knew who it was.

Lisa Brand!

"Sorry, I'm busy, I'm hanging up."

Xu Feng hung up directly, making Liu Yifei so angry she almost threw her phone.

There was no help for it; how could a 29-year-old compare to a 19-year-old?

However, Xu Feng still posted on Weibo telling those anime fans not to go too far.

After all, the "A Dream of Splendor" crew had helped him a little.

However, next, one trashy show after another that repeatedly jumped on the audience's landmines followed. Liu Shishi's "The Golden Years," Yang Mi's "Legend of Fuyao"... Although the three shows of the "Chinese Paladin" beauties were divided into historical idol, urban, and xianxia genres.

They all had one common characteristic.

That was that they all used the guise of being a "female-led" show.

And another common point was that when the audience clicked in, they only saw three other words—Mary Sue!

On the surface, they used the guise of "female-led" and "feminism" to trick the audience in.

But in the end, they still relied on men.

Whatever problem arose, men were the ones to solve it.

【Have these post-85 actresses been in the industry for ten years? It's amazing that their acting hasn't improved at all. Even if you replaced them with a dog, it would have learned something, right?】

【I've already prepared to go back and rewatch "Naruto" Part One to wash my eyes with those child actors.】