Chapter 447: Isn't this just killing the donkey after the mill?

The next day.

In the city's subway station.

Several female students were chatting while waiting for the subway.

"Sigh, did you see this video yesterday? It's so engaging. It's been a long time since I've seen a short drama that makes me look forward to it so much. Can it be launched quickly!"

"What short drama?"

"I know, I know, released by Apple Audio-Visual, Nie Jingjing and Murong Xue double female lead, IQ online, plot compact, and these two have such a CP feeling!"

"Where, where, let me see too..."

"Ah ah ah ah! Murong Xue's outfit is so cool! Nie Jingjing's acting skills are actually not bad..."

……

Besides the subway station, there were many similar conversations.

Within a day, many netizens who often chase dramas followed the recommendation and looked forward to the short drama being launched as soon as possible.

The preheating Weibo, which originally didn't buy internet trolls and promotion, gained popularity because of the word-of-mouth of fans and passersby, and was also forwarded by a blogger who pushes dramas with millions of fans, and the popularity went up immediately.

Under the video that originally only had a few comments, thousands of comments urging for an early launch suddenly appeared, and the number of reservations and trailer views on the website were also constantly rising.

Lemon Short Video broke the record, and the number of reservations exceeded 50 million within half a month. While on Apple Audio-Visual's side, the trailer was only launched for less than two days, and it had already reached 10 million reservations, and this number was still rising.

Along with the popularity came Tian Jing's Weibo. Originally, her fans were pitifully few. Before, she posted two behind-the-scenes clips, and besides a few likes, no one paid attention to them.

But after the trailer was released, fans found her name in the cast and crew list, searched for her Weibo, and the behind-the-scenes clips that were originally ignored were forwarded tens of thousands of times, directly pushed to the sub-zone hot search.

……

Xu Tian's office.

"Mr. Xu, we didn't have much money in the first place. You bought so many internet trolls this time, isn't it adding frost to snow?" Nie Jingjing looked at the forwarding count of comments on Weibo with confusion.

She knew how many forwarding counts her Weibo usually had. This time it was almost doubled, and in such a short time, it couldn't have been brushed out by fans.

"These are not the internet trolls I bought." Xu Tian said: "These are the expectations of enthusiastic netizens for the short drama you shot."

"Really, these comments don't look like they were brushed at all." Yan Qingxue also started studying that trailer Weibo.

"Look, everyone, someone praised my acting skills!" Nie Jingjing was happy to see the comments after hearing that it wasn't internet trolls, but unfortunately, she exploded after reading just two comments.

"No way? What do you mean Murong Xue's aura is stronger than mine?" I am the queen, okay!" Nie Jingjing rolled her eyes at Murong Xue: "She just has a good setting!"

"Mr. Xu, you are also biased enough. Why let her play the undercover agent? My setting is too weak, limiting my performance."

"If you were allowed to perform in your true colors, would the audience still have surprises?" Xu Tian raised his eyes and looked at Nie Jingjing faintly: "Look at this kind of contrast now, that's what they are looking forward to."

At the same time, the Apple Audio-Visual office building was also busy.

"Did post-production cut out the last five episodes?"

"And the behind-the-scenes are also ready, wait for the short drama to go online and update synchronously!"

"By the way, another sponsor said they want to invest. Remember to p an advertisement, or contact Agent Xu's side and ask him if he can shoot a segment."

The popularity of the short drama could be so high, which was unexpected by Manager Song.

He originally didn't hold much hope, just didn't want to lose too ugly.

Because Apple Music's data has been too poor recently, and they didn't buy internet trolls, so after Weibo was just sent out, there was no response.

Manager Song was dizzy with busyness, yet he was full of energy.

Compared to Manager Song's busyness, Zhang Baishun over at Lemon Short Video was also tied up in knots.

"How is this possible! They must have bought fake traffic, otherwise how could the number of reservations exceed ours?"

Zhang Baishun looked at the constantly rising number of reservations, his face flushed with anger.

"Manager Zhang... view counts can be faked with traffic, but these subscriptions are calculated based on accounts. When the short video websites were rectified previously, real-name registration for accounts was already implemented, so it's impossible to use fake traffic to boost reservations." The secretary stood cautiously by Zhang Baishun's side, fearing that they would be the target of his anger.

"It can't be faked! Then why is their reservation count more than double ours?" Zhang Baishun roared, slapping the table: "Our trailer was released a week before theirs; no matter what, it's impossible for them to surpass us so quickly!"

"Maybe... there are just more interested netizens..." the secretary explained in a low voice, but after being glared at by Zhang Baishun, they didn't dare to make another sound.

Zhang Baishun grabbed the mobile phone on his desk and called Guo Zhihao, but the ringtone went on for a long time without anyone answering on the other end.

"Damn it! This Guo Zhihao is too unreliable!" Zhang Baishun was so angry he threw his phone and urgently contacted the operations staff to hold a meeting.

At this moment, Guo Zhihao was not intentionally ignoring Zhang Baishun's call; he simply couldn't spare the time to answer it.

While he was still lingering in Zhou Shishi's apartment, he had received all sorts of messages.

Guo Zhihao scrambled out of bed, didn't bother to wash up, hurriedly threw on some clothes, and headed straight for the company.

Qingguo Music.

Guo Zhihao walked to the office with long, swift strides.

The originally noisy employee area went quiet for a few seconds because of his arrival, and only after his figure disappeared from sight did they start discussing again.

"I didn't expect Xu Tian to be so capable; he was still able to secure resources after leaving the company."

"Actually, the resources he gave Nie Jingjing and Murong Xue weren't even that good. I think the most impressive thing about him is that even though Apple Audio-Visual was already so obscure, he had Nie Jingjing and Murong Xue film a short unit drama for them, and it made their website's traffic and popularity soar directly."

"Originally, it was good if Apple Audio-Visual's reservation count could break a million, but now it's starting at ten million, and even the number of sponsors has increased by dozens."

"I think it's still Xu Tian's credit; otherwise, why didn't the short drama that Nie Jingjing and Zhou Shishi filmed have as much popularity as the one he and Murong Xue filmed?"

"Murong Xue has a lot of fans too, right..."

"Zhou Shishi has fake traffic too; she's been spamming the screen everywhere these past few days. If someone who doesn't understand the entertainment industry saw it, they'd think she was a popular young star!"

"I also think Zhou Shishi's popularity is very hollow; it's completely faked."

"I feel that when Agent Xu was here, our company's development prospects were better. Guo Zhihao is completely useless except for having a CEO uncle. Agent Xu had no connections and no backing, yet he was forced out. To put it bluntly, isn't this just 'killing the donkey after the millstone is put away'?"