Chapter 502: The Drama That Is Bound to Have a Bad Ending

Chen Ru, you are not alone.

Since the broadcast of "Reset", many "Canon" enthusiasts have had a different feeling when listening to this piece again.

Fortunately, however, this phenomenon will mostly fade away with the passage of time.

"Canon" is a timeless classic, and it naturally has its unique qualities.

On the contrary, many people who play musical instruments have a new feeling when playing "D Da Diao Ka Nong".

"Explode! Explode!"

"Destroy everything! Wahahahaha!"

"Blow it up for me!"

A piece that is not at all impassioned is being performed by them with bobbing heads and in a crazed manner.

Especially those playing the 【Piano Version】, they press the keys with such force, as if they are pressing the switch to a bomb.

I reckon when the teacher comes to evaluate them, they will be punished with extra practice.

And on the premiere night of "Reset", what is our male lead Luo Mo doing?

He is busy rehearsing.

Ning Dan's variety show always has a very tight schedule.

As a real man who is single-mindedly focused on his career, Luo Mo just likes things tight.

He is too busy; if this variety show required recording for over half a month, he definitely wouldn't have come to fill in.

For the new 【Family】 themed short film, Luo Mo has employed more Actors, and the number of participants this time is much larger than in the previous "Ten Years of Work Offstage".

Therefore, many people in his camp are also busy to the point of being overwhelmed.

Song Ge, on the other hand, is left with leisure.

This makes him wonder: "Am I earning the money of a variety show while living the life of a vacation?"

He is too idle every day.

Other people, even if they haven't been selected, will find all sorts of things to do for the sake of getting screen time on the show.

For example, helping others run lines, acting as a partner during someone else's rehearsal, or if they are experienced, giving tips to some Newcomer Actors.

Song Ge doesn't want to be a hot face pressing against Luo Mo's cold butt; his previously wavering heart has already been calmed.

Knowing that Luo Mo looks down on him, he has solemnly decided to save his "chastity" for Director Tian.

What is a trusted aide? This is a trusted aide!

Once Director Tian returns, there will be absolutely no trace of Luo Mo on me.

This is a choice I made myself, absolutely not because past grievances left me without the option of Luo Mo!

With nothing to do, Song Ge doesn't want to stay in the rehearsal room all the time either.

Because this is the main recording site, there are cameras in every direction, striving not to miss a single exciting moment.

If he keeps slacking off in the Corner of the rehearsal room, the impact probably won't be good after the show airs.

It would be better to just disappear from these frames and hide himself.

And so, he spends more of his time in the dining area.

Eating snacks one moment, eating fruit the next, and having iced cola when thirsty.

Because he is truly bored to death, a thought flashes through his mind: "Should I take a look at 'Reset'?"

"Know yourself and know your enemy!" he thinks to himself.

Strictly speaking, it doesn't really matter if he contributes those few views or not.

Hiding in the dining area, Song Ge sets up his phone, opens Penguin Video, and starts watching "Reset".

From "I'll only watch one episode."

It turns into "I won't watch anymore once I figure out the whole 【Loop】 routine."

Then it turns into "I want to see how they will solve the car crash incident."

Finally—"How the hell did I finish it!?"

An episode of "Reset" is only a little over 40 minutes, and after removing the opening and ending credits, the main content is just that long.

Moreover, in order to deceive himself and occupy the moral high ground, Song Ge chooses to play it at 1.5x speed, thereby declaring: I wasn't even watching his Drama properly at all.

This makes him finish it without realizing it.

After finishing, Song Ge begins to calmly analyze the differences between "Hunting Crime" and "Reset".

To be fair, the Suspense of "Hunting Crime" is heavier, with one case every two episodes, and the pace is incredibly fast.

"Reset" also has Suspense, and the subject matter is fresh; the pace is not that fast-paced, but the sense of rhythm is excellent, steadily advancing the Drama, one layer inside another, linked ring by ring.

From the current perspective, Song Ge actually feels that "Reset" is stronger than "Hunting Crime".

But he soon discovers a very important point.

"'Reset' always revolves around a single bus explosion incident; five episodes have passed, and it has only pushed to the point where the audience knows there is a bomb on the bus."

"This kind of 【Loop】 mode, after watching five episodes in one go, the novelty is already gone, and that feeling of amazement has already disappeared."

"What is he going to talk about in the next 10 episodes?"

"Judging from the main plot and rhythm, it's going to collapse!"

Song Ge's thinking is actually quite correct.

If "Reset" continues like this, it will indeed appear very sluggish and will gradually become mediocre.

But in reality, this Drama is not following the path he thinks at all.

Many viewers on Earth, when evaluating the Drama "Reset", all believe that starting from the sixth episode, the content and quality of this Drama are what truly explode!

Besides this, Song Ge also thinks of a more Deadly problem.

"How should the finale be handled?"

"If I were the screenwriter, how would I write this?"

He could not come up with an answer.

In his view, this was almost a drama—destined to have a terrible ending!

At this moment, Song Ge, who was in the middle of a brainstorm, did not know that a small interlude had occurred while he was watching the drama.

Behind the scenes of Director Show, General Director Ning Dan watched the recorded footage playing on screen after screen and suddenly spoke: "Cut to the restaurant side."

Ning Dan's female assistant immediately said: "Understood, Ning Dao."

The feed cut to the restaurant, where only Song Ge was seen slacking off while watching the drama.

"Record this segment for a bit longer, and aim the camera at his phone screen," Ning Dan said.

The female assistant took a look and quickly reacted: "Oh! He's watching Luo Mo's drama!"

Ning Dan nodded, her eyes carrying a hint of playfulness.

She would edit this clip into the final cut, considering it a wave of advertising for Luo Mo's Reset.

At the same time, many netizens were aware of the bad blood between Song Ge and Luo Mo.

Song Ge himself was half a "Pineapple Person."

Song Ge: I actually gave Luo Mo a wave of advertising with my own hands!?

If this scene were to be broadcast, it wouldn't just be a simple matter of Song Ge's mentality collapsing.

But, Who Cares?

Anyway, Ning Dan didn't care at all.

On the contrary, she felt that such an effect would be even better and could bring greater popularity to Reset.

Could Run Jie have any bad intentions?

She just wanted to "run" him to death.

The female assistant, who had been with Ning Dan for 6 years, looked at the scene in the restaurant, then glanced at Ning Dan, and couldn't help but say: "Ning Dao, among so many screens just now, you only took one look and saw that there was Luo Mo's footage on his phone?"

"Mm." Ning Dan pursed her red lips slightly and said nothing more.

……..

……..

Reset, on the day of its premiere, had explosive results.

As mentioned before, many people in the industry looked down on web dramas and didn't understand why Luo Mo and Ding Xiaoyu, who were already so popular and had so many successful works, would still condescend to act in a web drama.

Most people's guess was: Luo Mo was coerced by Penguin!

The total investment for Mist Theater reached hundreds of millions, making it Penguin Video's biggest project this year.

Every web drama was labeled as S-level, so what was the concept of four of them added together?

And what could be more secure than Luo Mo starring in it himself?

Yet, this group of people never expected it to become this popular.

As Luo Mo's first modern drama, Reset was highly anticipated from the start.

Period dramas and modern dramas still had huge differences; they belonged to different fields and could attract different fans.

No one felt that Reset would flop.

It wasn't as if, just because this wasn't a period drama and you were acting in a modern drama, we would all jump out like fools to mock you and say you were destined to flop!

However, wasn't this result a bit too monstrous?

"The 24-hour data for Reset has directly doubled the historical record for all web dramas on the entire internet!"

"The rating is also very high!"

"The internet-wide discussion index has also soared directly to first place in the film and television drama field."

"Dramas broadcast on CCTV have been directly crushed!"

What surprised everyone the most was that a large group of people on the internet were actually shouting: "We request Reset to open the Advanced On-Demand feature!"

"Are you looking down on us? Can't I afford this money?"

"It's too painful, I want to keep watching!"

In the past, when web dramas opened this kind of Advanced On-Demand feature for 3 yuan an episode, they were usually blasted onto the Hot Search and cursed at: "Your greed is ugly!"

What kind of situation was this? There were even people actively requesting it?

There was no help for it; the ending of the fifth episode of Reset left a huge cliffhanger.

In the fifth episode, the male lead Xiao Heyun and the female lead Li Shiqing decided to screen the people on the bus one by one. Since they could resurrect anyway, they could Loop, and they wanted to rely on themselves to find out who was carrying the bomb, then cooperate with the Police to save the lives of everyone on the bus.

If they couldn't find out who had the bomb, based on previous explosion experiences, they knew it was impossible to solve the problem in such a short time.

After being blown up enough times, they became "truly mature."

As for the target they first had to screen, it was the man who got on halfway through the route, carrying a backpack, wearing a hat and a Mask, hiding in the back row as soon as he got on, and looking suspicious.

But in reality, what was hidden in this person's backpack was a Cat; he had snuck a pet onto the bus.

During this screening process, this person named Lu Di also successfully got off the bus and did not board the bus that exploded.

And so, the suspense arrived!

Xiao Heyun was pulled off the bus by Li Shiqing, and after escaping a disaster, he entered the Loop with his memories.

Could Lu Di also successfully enter the Loop and become a new assistant to the male and female leads?

—A duo becomes a trio!

At the same time, many people on the internet also raised many questions.

"How many times has the Loop already happened in the drama?"

"Is the number of Loops really infinite?"

"How can one finally escape the Loop?"

And the most important thing:

"How should the grand finale justify itself?"

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(End of this chapter)