Chapter 237 New Year's Drama [Part ]
Swallows are flying and deer are calling.
The next day before dawn, Xu Kun was woken up by the ringing of his cell phone. He pushed away Jiang Yiyan, who was like an octopus on his body, and dug out his Nokia N70 from under Li Xiaolu's hair.
Squinting one eye to check the caller ID, he found that it was a call from a deputy director in Beijing and Taiwan. Xu Kun's sleepiness immediately disappeared, and he swiftly rolled over Huo Siyan and went into the bathroom in his slippers.
After all the chaos, two of the three women woke up - needless to say, the one who didn't wake up was the big-mouthed elk who was the most noisy and softened the fastest.
"Brother Kun?"
Jiang Yiyan turned over and sat up in a daze, and happened to come face to face with Huo Siyan who also turned over and sat up.
Jiang Yiyan showed her disgust without hiding it. If possible, she didn't want Li Xiaolu and Huo Siyan to have any contact with Brother Kun again - this is not a Super Girl selection, why can they participate in the revival match after being eliminated!
But she couldn't stop Li Xiaolu at all, and she was worried that the two of them would drug Brother Kun behind her back, so she could only follow reluctantly.
Fortunately, Li Xiaolu just wanted to vent her emotions, and Huo Siyan was more concerned about Zhao Baogang's new work, so nothing unpleasant happened that night.
But even so, Jiang Yiyan felt that she had lost out.
Huo Siyan completely ignored Jiang Yiyan's rejection and went downstairs with the help of the light coming from the bathroom. As a result, she accidentally stepped on the small umbrella and felt disgusted.
Tsk~
I didn't see anything happen to you when you ate it raw.
Jiang Yiyan complained in her heart and got down carefully.
"What are you doing?"
Huo Siyan turned her head to look at her.
"Whatever you do, I will do."
"I'm not doing anything."
"Then I won't do anything."
"If you're not doing anything, why are you..."
"Are you guys performing ancient dragon drama here?"
Xu Kun came out of the bathroom, interrupted their chatter, and turned on the bedroom light.
"Hmm~"
Li Xiaolu was dazzled by the light and covered her eyes with her arms in a daze, yelling, "Li Chen, turn off the light!"
Xu Kun: “…”
He picked up a shirt with his toes, not caring whose it belonged to, and threw it over Li Xiaolu's head. The big-mouthed elk hummed twice and fell into a deep sleep again.
"what happened?"
Huo Siyan saw the faint doubt on Xu Kun's face and asked nervously, "Could it be that the ratings are not as good as expected?"
When she said this, Jiang Yiyan also became nervous.
Xu Kun shook his head and said, "The ratings are not bad, reaching an average of , which is slightly higher than when Zhu Yuanzhang first aired last year."
"Then how did you..."
"It's because of something else."
Xu Kun had no intention of explaining in detail. After all, apart from him, no one would be surprised by the viewership rating of "Wulin Waijia" on the first day [Note: historically it was ].
But putting aside the surprise, this is actually a good thing for "The Boss" - among the ratings in the same time period yesterday, "The Boss" was the only one that stood out.
Discussions about "Boss" on major portal websites are also very high.
However, the reviews were mixed. On the positive side, they mainly praised Xu Kun's domineering temperament and Liu Shishi's elegant and beautiful appearance, and tirelessly used the information deliberately released by the "Domineering Boss" crew to educate the audience on how many luxury goods were used in this drama.
The bad things were all kinds of things. Some criticized him for having a distorted outlook on life, some criticized him for making up stories, and some film critics expressed deep regret that Xu Kun had fallen.
Based on Xu Kun's performance in "Zhu Yuanzhang", it was not an exaggeration to win the Best Actor award. But he turned around and played a nouveau riche - well, a rather Western-style nouveau riche.
But even if it is a more Western-style tycoon, it still lowers the style!
They think Xu Kun should play historical dramas, fight with those movie kings, and perform self-torture performances...
Amidst all the chaos, the bulldozer plot of the fourth episode arrived as expected, causing the average ratings of the second day to soar from to , with the peak reaching .
At the same time, "Wulin Waijia" also increased from to [the original history was ], and its ratings during the same period were second only to last year's "Moment in Peking".
Although the ratings of "Wulin Waijia" dropped by due to the siphon effect of "The Boss", this low-budget comedy quickly made it to the headlines of major media outlets, and its ratings have continued to rise since then, showing that it is poised to become a dark horse on par with "The Boss".
But it is only 'hidden'.
In the early stage, "The Boss" firmly grasped the hearts of many Mary Sue girls with its fresh theme of a domineering president falling in love with me and the fast pace of two short stories of showing off wealth every day, and even won over some male audiences who like to take the perspective of the male audience.
Although the mid-term plot of the show's madly doting on his wife reduced the number of male viewers, it won the favor of more female viewers.
This means that even though the ratings of "Wulin Waijia" during the same period have exceeded that of "Moment in Peking", the ratings champion of CCTV last year, it is still severely suppressed by "Boss".
And because it was promoted as Meng Hao's starting project in "The Boss", the carrot juice was sold out within a few days.
Lao Bai Gan also took advantage of this favorable situation and launched the advertisement "Hengshui Lao Bai Gan, drink to show your masculinity" on CCTV.
Although the audience of "Boss" does not match the consumer group of Laobai Gan, Xu Kun's masculine image is widely praised by consumers.
In reality, Xu Kun soon felt the powerful effect of this enhanced version of the original domineering president drama.
On the afternoon of January 1, he came to Huayi as scheduled to assist with post-production. However, the news was leaked by someone and within half an hour, hundreds of young girls came and surrounded the gate of Huayi.
Shouts of "Meng Hao, I love you" and "Xu Kun, I love you" rang out one after another.
Xu Kun had never seen such a scene before, and his first reaction was to come out and say a few words to appease everyone, asking them to disperse first so as not to affect Huayi's normal work.
As a result, as soon as he walked out of the door, it seemed as if some violent reaction was triggered. All the girls were pushing and rushing forward frantically. The dozen or so security guards sent by Huayi to maintain order were unable to resist them at all.
Even if Xu Kun used a murderous glare, he couldn't stop the girls' enthusiasm.
By the time he fled back to the Huayi office building in a panic, his suit had become a beggar's outfit, with half of his sleeve torn off, one of his leather shoes missing, and more than a dozen bloody marks on the back of his hands and the back of his neck.
The security guards also threw down their weapons and weapons.
"Mr. Xu!"
The security captain used tissues to stop the blood from his nose and suggested in a muffled voice: "You should leave through the back door quickly. I see more and more people are gathering outside. If there's a stampede..."
Wang Zhonglei, who arrived upon hearing the news, also urged: "Kun'er, hurry up and leave. There are only a few dozen people at the back door now. I'll have the security guards protect you and you can still rush out. It will be too late if you are late!"
"Brother Wang, remember to send someone to check ahead and send anyone injured to the hospital immediately!"
After Xu Kun gave some instructions to Wang Zhonglei, he took the security captain and half of the security guards and rushed out through the back door.
It went smoothly at the beginning. Although the number of fans at the back door was six or seven times that of the security guards, they were all young girls after all. The security guards relied on their strong bodies and still escorted Xu Kun to the car.
However, just as Xu Kun drove out of the parking space, a girl rushed up from the diagonal below and lay directly on the hood of the A6.
Fortunately, Xu Kun did not speed up and stepped on the brakes in time, so he did not knock her away.
“Brother Meng Hao, I am also a Chinese major, my last name is also Lin, and I love you more than Lin Yuxin! Brother Meng Hao, I love you, I love you, I love you!”
Xu Kun felt horrified as he watched the girl climb onto the front of the car using her hands and feet, banging on the windshield while loudly shouting "I love you", not even noticing her cracked fingernails and bleeding.
No wonder the "dominant boss" has a bad reputation in later generations. These brainless fans are probably at least half responsible!
(End of this chapter)
