Chapter 730: The Spring Festival Gala Ends, Creating a Myth

The magic performance at the Spring Festival Gala has now concluded.

This magic show can be said to have blazed a new trail.

It did not resort to mystification, nor did it give you a sense of the profound and mysterious; instead, it told you directly how I did it.

Yet, thanks to his superb technique, Chen Qian still made you feel it was incredible!

This was a different kind of shock, giving the audience a unique experience.

Whether the audience was satisfied, Chen Qian did not yet know.

Because the entire program was designed by Luo Mo, the pacing was controlled at Luo Mo's instruction, and even the types of magic performed were selected by Luo Mo.

This novel attempt required waiting for the final feedback from the audience.

However, Chen Qian himself had a blast performing it.

Ever since he stood at the pinnacle of the industry in the country, there were plenty of people trying to sabotage him.

Every time he finished a performance, some so-called "magic debunking" videos were actually just nonsense.

Chen Qian didn't perform the tricks that way at all; some people would deliberately create props just to fool the audience.

Yet, Chen Qian had no way to explain it.

If you denied it and said their debunking was nonsense, others would ask you: "Then you tell us, how did you do it?"

But was that something he could just say?

If you didn't say it, others would claim you were feeling guilty and that you had indeed used those stupid props.

There was another type of so-called peer debunking, where these people assumed the audience wouldn't pay that much attention to the details.

Take the "Magic Pot" performed by Liu Qian on Earth as an example.

Some debunkers claimed that the reason Liu Qian could pour various drinks and alcohol from the Magic Pot was because there was powder or something similar sprinkled at the bottom of each cup.

All he had to do was cover the bottom of the cup with his hand while pouring, and when the water rushed into the bottom, it would naturally react.

But in reality, in that performance, Liu Qian exposed the bottom of the cup without covering it.

Yet many viewers would never catch these details, nor could they remember so many details.

After watching such nonsense debunking videos, they would suddenly have an "aha!" moment.

"Damn, that's so low-level!"

"Laughing to death, I thought it was something impressive."

"Is that it?"

Either way, they would bash it first.

That was how the narrative would be steered.

This is the same principle as "a rumor takes a mouth, but debunking it takes running your legs off."

Many people were green with envy, jealous of Chen Qian, and wanted to bring him down.

Being able to make them uncomfortable made Chen Qian feel very comfortable.

This time, I am just showing off my technique, showing off my sleight of hand.

Just based on your abilities, can you replicate it?

This is the confidence of a top-tier, world-class magician.

Of course, he was not afraid of others being able to imitate or replicate it.

Because once you replicate it, you will get to experience the wave of what you once brought upon me.

The Spring Festival Gala is a live broadcast, a performance conducted in front of all the viewers.

Your replication videos are recorded.

By then, there will be plenty of keyboard warriors to question you, saying you edited it for clout, or that you used props, and so on.

——Chen Qian: Let the peers feel the pain!

Therefore, after Chen Qian finished reading Luo Mo's overall design plan for the stage, he slapped his thigh and shouted: "Brilliant! Truly brilliant!"

And in fact, the audience's feedback was indeed exceptionally good.

Before the reveal, I was shocked.

After the reveal, I was fucking even more shocked!

Most importantly, the theme of the entire program was also good.

Through a special format, it not only revealed the magic but also incidentally told you not to gamble, telling you that gamblers will meet a bad end.

The bullet comments were all spamming—I am irreconcilable with gambling and drugs!

Small bets are for fun, but big bets don't just hurt your health; they destroy your family.

If the person sitting in front of you is a dealer like Chen Qian, your naked eye would never be able to detect him cheating!

Besides this, as everyone knows, after Luo Mo took on the role of Chief Planner, many people in the entertainment industry paid close attention to the programs he produced.

Some screenwriters and directors were greatly inspired after watching "I Really Don't Know Magic."

It seems this type of movie also has potential!

If it were in the past, you might have filmed it and the audience would have thought it was fake.

But not anymore.

If you think it's fake, go watch Chen Qian's magic videos!

"After the New Year, should I try making a gambling movie?" many directors and screenwriters thought to themselves.

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Backstage at the Spring Festival Gala, Luo Mo did not yet know that the magic performance he had cobbled together would actually trigger a wave of gambling movie trends.

His own memories of gambling movies mostly stopped at those Hong Kong films.

For example, Fa Ge's "God of Gamblers," and those special ability series by Star Ye.

I have to say, the gambling films of the past were still very good to watch.

He only thinks to himself now: "I hope more gambling addicts can turn back before it's too late."

Of course, he also knows this is a very difficult thing.

Gambling addicts are not so easily persuaded.

His greatest hope for this program is that fewer Newcomers will step into a casino.

Many die-hard gambling addicts are likely to truly turn to ash; ten Oxen might not even be able to pull them back.

They have plenty of ways to convince themselves.

At the same time, this kind of adding value while letting things take their natural course is precisely the mode that CCTV favors most.

This makes it appear more high-class, and it will also be more loved by the audience.

The golden time of the Spring Festival Gala has just about ended like this.

But for the singing stages that followed, Luo Mo still put some thought into them.

For instance, the Singer from Luo Mo Studio, Sun Yi, sang a new song—Li Ronghao's "Old Street."

This song doesn't count as being among the most popular of Li Ronghao's songs, but Luo Mo personally likes it quite a lot; it sounds quite comfortable and pleasant.

Time flowed slowly, and finally, it was Xu Chujing's turn to go on stage.

Many viewers who stayed up late had been waiting for a long time.

Yes, there will still be "Unforgettable Tonight" this year!

The first time this song appeared on the Blue Star Spring Festival Gala was because it was written by Luo Mo, and the General Director felt it was excellent enough, and Xu Chujing's status was also sufficient.

Subsequently, it appeared on the Spring Festival Gala again because Luo Mo offered some conditions that the General Director could not refuse.

Now, as it is sung again at the Spring Festival Gala, it seems much more natural and appears much simpler.

Luo Mo is also growing in terms of galas.

For this year's Spring Festival Gala, he can already call the shots!

This is his energy today!

And with so many times of paving the way, "Unforgettable Tonight" will, just like on Earth, possess extraordinary significance and an unusual status!

Luo Mo's goal has also been achieved.

One could see that today, Xu Chujing was wearing a red dress.

Already generous and decent, and possessing a powerful aura, she was fully capable of controlling this large-scale Spring Festival Gala stage.

This year's "Unforgettable Tonight" also underwent a new Arranger treatment.

Because this year's Spring Festival Gala incorporated a lot of traditional culture, the accompaniment also incorporated quite a few national Yueqi.

As time goes on, many people will also think in their hearts: "For the same song, how many tricks can Luo Mo actually play?"

Perhaps this will also become one of the reasons why everyone listens to "Unforgettable Tonight" in the future.

In an atmosphere of joy and celebration, this year's Spring Festival Gala was declared over.

Backstage, the director team was already calculating the Average Viewership Rating for this Spring Festival Gala.

The online Live Broadcast data would be later, as they had to wait for Penguin Video and other platforms to send it over.

After seeing the final number for the Average Viewership Rating, Ning Dan's plump red lips curled up slightly, feeling a sense of relief.

As everyone knows, after a person is highly excited, what follows is a deep sense of exhaustion.

Ning Dan is like that right now.

After the burden on her shoulders was lifted, the exhaustion brought about by long-term high-intensity work instantly swept over her whole body.

For the next period of time, she intends to have a good rest.

"Actually, it's just that the Live Broadcast has ended."

"The subsequent sensation will continue," Ning Dan said in her heart.

She is now looking forward to the scene on major platforms after she wakes up from a sleep.

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The Spring Festival Gala ended, and Luo Mo and Xu Chujing each returned to their own homes.

During the New Year, they also need to visit relatives and friends.

Luo Ba and Luo Ma actually made a schedule for visiting relatives.

It's not that their son is a big star, so they need to arrange a schedule.

They just know in their hearts that their son must be very tired recently, so they want to let him have a good rest on the first day of the Lunar New Year, at least sleep a little longer.

Luo Mo lived up to expectations and slept in one go until the afternoon.

And during the time he was sleeping like the dead, the outside world was very noisy.

On platforms like Weibo and Doule, some of the legendary stages from the Spring Festival Gala could be said to have strongly dominated the rankings.

It was said earlier that many people would not watch the Spring Festival Gala Live Broadcast.

However, for some highly acclaimed hit programs, they would watch them individually on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

What's different this year from previous years is that in previous years, there simply weren't so many hit programs!

What everyone loved to watch most on the first day of the Lunar New Year in the past was internet wits collectively mobilizing to roast the Spring Festival Gala.

This year, many sharp-tongued bloggers have calmed down a bit.

There's nowhere to bite.

If I bite randomly, netizens will scold me for being rude.

There are simply too many good programs!

Works like "Prayer" and "Thousand-Hand Guanyin" can be said to have received thunderous applause.

The audience is praising them, and people in the dance world are praising them too.

The dancers of "Prayer" and the Disabled Persons Art Troupe both became overnight sensations.

The former is called "Fairy Sister" by many netizens, while the latter has been frantically reported on by a large number of news media.

In the reports, some special media outlets specifically mentioned: the Disabled Persons Art Troupe had also applied for the New Year's Eve Gala, but were unfortunately rejected in the end.

This caused many netizens who read the reports to start using the 【Great Summoning Technique】:

——Director Li Dongliang, come out and take a beating!

Although the reports also stated that "Thousand-Hand Guanyin" was a collaboration between Luo Mo and Xu Cong, and that the original dance had been upgraded and modified.

However, their dance foundation is clearly top-tier; there is no reason they weren't up to the standards of the New Year's Eve Gala!

No wonder, no wonder your New Year's Eve Gala is so lousy.

Isn't the reason for that found right here!

As for those netizens who only saw the dances today, they are essentially going crazy with "WTF" online.

Those who saw them yesterday and are watching them again today say—I want to say WTF again!

"This is the kind of level where you feel amazed no matter how many times you watch it!"

"Prayer" was a pre-recorded program, and the dancer did not come to the Spring Festival Gala venue.

As for "Thousand-Hand Guanyin," the dancers are quite special, as they are all deaf-mute girls.

The thunderous applause at the venue—the former did not hear it live, and the latter simply cannot hear at all.

Therefore, some gentle and thoughtful netizens said: "We just have to praise them, we just have to leave crazy comments, so that they can see them!"

"The young ladies are all amazing!"

These two dance videos were also posted to overseas websites by some official accounts.

We are just very confident, confidently believing that they are world-class dances.

They can absolutely be taken out to shock the whole world!

Even if you cannot feel the culture within them, the visuals alone are enough to make your soul tremble.

As for the new songs written by Luo Mo, they are strongly dominating the charts on all major music platforms.

Such as the 【Surging Chart】, 【New Song Chart】, 【Hot Song Chart】... they are sweeping them all!

In the music scene, it has been a long time since we saw the sight of so-called 【Red Songs】, 【Military Songs】, etc., strongly rushing onto the charts.

Of course, there are also a large number of netizens who say that when they go to the supermarket to buy things, they hear "Gong Xi Fa Cai," and then, when they go to the mall to buy new clothes, what they hear is still "Gong Xi Fa Cai"!

It's killing me, it feels like there isn't a single large supermarket in the whole country that isn't playing "Gong Xi Fa Cai"!

What is called real popularity?

This is real popularity!

Look at the songs of those traffic-driven Singers, what's the use of having good chart data, what's the use of fans going crazy and having all kinds of climaxes, will they be played in the streets and alleys?

Look at our "Luo-Luo Generous" duo of Chen Luo and Luo Mo, you might run to the countryside and still get brainwashed by "Gong Xi Fa Cai," and there might even be more people listening to it!

And the explosive popularity of "My Motherland" and "The Motherland Will Not Forget" has made CCTV and the Review Department ecstatic.

Many people with special status are looking more and more favorably upon Luo Mo.

Many soldier brothers already know how to sing "The Motherland Will Not Forget" and are already able to skillfully perform it as a chorus.

Since it is a military song, it must certainly gain the approval of the soldiers.

Songs like this that are both imposing and meaningful when sung are truly rare.

Luo Mo is a person with long-term vision; he is the type who looks three steps ahead for every step he takes.

He is working on the Spring Festival Gala, but he is not just working on the Spring Festival Gala.

As mentioned before, there are so many good works on Earth, but the timing of their appearance is very important.

In the new year, with the goodwill garnered by the military songs and Red Songs in this year's Spring Festival Gala, Luo Mo feels that some works with military themes, and especially those that need to use airplanes, tanks, and artillery, can be officially put on the agenda.

In the past, he might have been able to get this support too.

But now it is different; now what he can get is—strong support!

Even support from all sides!

Yes, becoming a supported project is very important.

In terms of the quality of the work, Luo Mo does not need anyone's help.

But in the filming process, if it is a supported project, at least many troubles can be solved smoothly, and many obstructive procedures can be reduced.

This will make people feel much more at ease, and they can have more confidence in their hearts.

From another perspective, as a man, Luo Mo is actually curious and has a Yearning for things like airplanes, artillery, and tanks.

"What's the fun in using special effects compared to playing with the real thing?" That is exactly what he thinks.

To him, this will also become a different life experience.

In fact, the major music platforms are also grateful to Luo Mo.

The large banners on the homepages are basically all given to songs like "My Motherland" and "The Motherland Will Not Forget."

These platforms are sparing no effort to carry out massive publicity and promotion.

Platforms also have tasks and quotas.

Luo Mo is effectively helping the platforms complete a portion of their tasks indirectly.

Even many schools and education departments have developed a strong interest in "My Motherland."

Shouldn't this be put into music classes?

And as for "The Motherland Will Not Forget," are you sure it won't be brought out for the students to sing in chorus during military training?

On Earth, there are indeed videos of thousands of people singing "The Motherland Will Not Forget" in chorus on school playgrounds.

Honestly, it was quite shocking to watch, and it had quite an imposing aura.

Of course, now that the Spring Festival Gala has ended, many people are very concerned and curious about its data.

Director Li Dongliang is one of them.

He both wants to watch and is afraid to watch!

People are always so contradictory, and then gradually act self-destructively within that contradiction.

As the disgrace among the directors of CCTV galas, Director Li Dongliang knows in his heart that going to look at the data for Ning Dan and Luo Mo is just asking for humiliation.

But in this process of acting self-destructively, he still convinced himself: "Even if I don't look, won't I hear about it anyway?"

He would know sooner or later, so it might as well be better to see it with his own eyes.

Director Li Dongliang first opened the Television Network.

Previously, the CCTV New Year's Eve Gala he directed had achieved a "good" result in the Television Network that was a 12% decline compared to last year.

According to the consistent pattern of the Television Network, declining data is shown in green, while rising data is shown in red.

During the New Year, red is definitely more comfortable and auspicious to look at.

Li Dongliang focused his gaze on the data for this year's Spring Festival Gala, and it was practically a sea of red!

All the data was flashing red!

The Peak Value was a big jump higher than last year.

The Average Viewership Rating had also happened to rise by exactly 12%!

Your gala fell by 12%, and my gala rose by 12%.

It was as if Luo Mo's voice rang in his ears: "Director Li, I've cleaned up the mess you left behind."

After finishing in his left ear, he didn't forget to add in his right ear: "Don't mention it."

After closing the Television Network, Director Li spent a long time building up his mental fortitude before he could muster the courage to look at the Spring Festival Gala Live Broadcast Heat Index on the major video platforms.

For the Spring Festival Galas of the previous few years, the average Heat Index on the major platforms was 13,071 and 12,808 respectively.

But this year, the Heat Index soared directly to 15,011!

Breaking the 15,000 mark, it created a new Myth of popularity amidst a trend of year-on-year decline!

Ning Dan, a variety show director situated at the bottom of the contempt chain, was the first variety show director to helm the Spring Festival Gala, and she became a legend in one go!

The entire variety show circle is shouting: "Director Ning is an Ox!"

This can also be considered helping us variety show directors hold our heads high for once.

Of course, everyone knows very well that the man behind Ning Dan deserves much of the credit.

Without him pushing Ning Dan from behind, Ning Dan would never have reached this position.

As for the group of high-level executives at CCTV—"Comforting."

The gloom left behind by Li Dongliang was swept away in their hearts.

—Spending the New Year comfortably!

As the head of CCTV, Ji Huawen gave Luo Mo and Ning Dan all sorts of authority this time.

The people below are all praising his wisdom now.

Ji Huawen thinks so himself as well.

After all, the results are right there.

It has popularity where it needs popularity, reputation where it needs reputation, depth where it needs depth, vision where it needs vision, and thematic significance where it needs thematic significance.

Only Director Chen is destined to have an incomparably agonizing New Year.

He has already received a portion of the judgment, but it is very clear that after the New Year, there will likely be another part.

Damn it, it's actually split into two parts.

The wisdom and martial prowess of the station head will increasingly highlight the major errors in Director Chen's work.

Ji Huawen: Luo Mo, Ning Dan, you'll have good fruit to eat after the New Year!

Ji Huawen: Chen, you'll have good fruit to eat after the New Year!

Chinese culture is broad and profound.

However, in reality, many ordinary people have entered a new round of struggle after watching such an excellent Spring Festival Gala.

"Can someone tell me, is it better to watch Hello Mr. Billionaire first, or Let the Bullets Fly first?"

Yes, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, everyone doesn't know which of Luo Mo's works to go watch first.

After all, as of now, everyone still thinks these two movies are purely Comedy films and don't yet know the differences between the two, so it is very difficult to make a choice.

As for Huo Yuan, the father-in-law of Mrs. Zhong Lin, he doesn't have this trouble, because he had long since bought several tickets for Let the Bullets Fly and invited his friends to go watch it together.

At this very moment, he is driving toward a certain residential complex to pick up a rather special friend.

(PS: It's the end of the month, and it seems there are still double monthly votes; I'm shamelessly asking for monthly votes.)

(End of this chapter)