I really don't want to be the top streamer anymore

Chapter 156 A new album made for Su Zhi

"To be honest, although Xu Kong's new drama has been hyped up for a long time, judging by the subject matter, I am still more interested in "Mysterious Valley."

"I like Xu Kong, too, but in terms of lineup, Fairy Sword is definitely not as good as Mystic Valley."

"Do you really think that Su Xun's TV King title is just luck? Xu Kong filmed a movie called "Want to See You," so fans think he can compare with him?"

As soon as the news that the two dramas were scheduled to be released on the same day came out, almost both sides started to take action.

Of course, the methods are nothing more than buying internet trolls, praising one person and stepping down another, and smearing and leaking information.

This aspect is indeed too easy for Mango, as it was founded on this.

Even though Wu Youxue was not there at the moment, some other Mango executives were still very skilled at this.

Of course Kiwi also joined the group, including the producer Huayuan Film and Television.

In comparison, Fengge’s two partners this time are a bit disappointing.

Penguin Video is still okay, at least it can win a few battles in the public opinion war.

Tomato TV was completely in the dark and was beaten so badly that it had no power to fight back.

As the director and male lead of The Legend of Sword and Fairy, Xu Kong is inevitably compared with Su Xun.

"Want to See You" was indeed very popular last year, and now Xu Kong is no longer just a traffic idol without any real talent.

But in terms of works, with only one hit drama, it is still a bit not enough.

Su Xun has been in the industry for more than ten years. Now in his early thirties, he is no longer considered a young idol, but he is still at the peak of his career.

The fact that he won the Best Actor Award at the Magnolia Awards alone is enough to beat many of the top actors in the group.

A top star like Song Peiyu, who is so popular, has no right to even get involved.

Apart from the fact that the fans' fighting power is still acceptable, there will be almost no suspense in terms of passers-by's reputation.

Fortunately, the current rating of "Want to See You" is still stable at around 8.8 or 8.9 points, otherwise Xu Kong would also estimate that there would be one-sided suppression of public opinion.

But even though Kiwi kept making various moves, Xu Kong was not panicked at all.

At present, the pre-promotion and promotion of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" is sufficient.

Having said so much, "Mysterious Valley" broadcast by Mango and Kiwi is nothing more than a commercial TV series. It was hyped up a lot before it was broadcast, but in the end, the data will speak for itself.

As for the drama "Legend of Sword and Fairy", Xu Kong is not sure about other aspects, but he is still very confident about its popularity.

Although the early broadcasting journey of "Legend of Sword and Fairy: The Last Life" was quite bumpy, it was first broadcast on the local second channel and it took more than two years before it was finally officially broadcast on satellite for the first time.

In addition, the broadcasting TV station itself lacks influence, resulting in low ratings.

But the fact that the drama became increasingly popular and even became the childhood memory of a generation means there must be nothing wrong with the drama itself.

It is completely restricted by the limitation of "background".

This can be seen from the fact that many fantasy dramas have continued to follow the Legend of Sword and Fairy formula and have remained popular for many years.

This time, the background of the times has changed, and some of the shortcomings in the early days have been made up. He is also looking forward to what kind of results he will achieve in the end.

In addition, when it really came to the level of competing for reputation, Xu Kong did not feel guilty at all.

Although Xu Kong couldn’t predict the ratings of "Legend of Sword and Fairy" after it was broadcast, it would definitely not be low.

Moreover, according to his prediction, it is estimated that it will not reach that time.

Xu Kong also started to get busy, or rather, it was not just Xu Kong, the entire Legend of Sword and Fairy crew was the same.

As June gets closer, the main creators of "Legend of Sword and Fairy" have begun to cooperate with Penguin and Tomato in the promotion and marketing work.

I don’t know which genius invented this, but originally, advertisements in TV dramas were all inserted.

But now there are more and more routines and tricks in advertising.

Most of the popular dramas, whether it is Penguin or Kiwi, or even Tudou Video, have begun to customize special advertising theaters for advertisers.

Most of them are self-produced dramas of the platform, or the cooperation is finalized in the early stage of the project.

The leading actors were asked to wear the costumes from the drama and start shooting the commercial right on the set, and it was the kind with a plot.

Of course, the price of such customized advertising is ridiculously high.

Xu Kong and Song Youyou, including Shang Yuxin and some other main supporting actors, went directly to the Penguin Video set to reshoot several takes.

The advertising fees are also frighteningly high.

Xu Kong shot three in total, all of which were customized advertisements, and would only be inserted into the drama "Legend of Sword and Fairy".

But he still got about 8 million in advertising fees.

As for the Penguin Video platform, it makes the absolute lion's share of profits.

They really are unwilling to suffer any loss in the copyright fee of tens of millions per episode, so there are an alarming number of advertisements.

Even the cooperation of leading actors such as Xu Kong in filming the commercial was written into the contract in advance.

"I've already contacted the publicity department. Your studio is too busy to handle the follow-up operations, so you can ask them for help."

Zhu Yu knew that there were not many people in Xu Kong's studio.

This time, the official account of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", including some publicity and materials, are managed and operated by Xu Kong's own studio.

"Forget it, let's just let them learn and gain some experience."

Although Xu Kong seldom directly participates in management, he still cares a lot about his personal studio.

Otherwise, when Guo Zihao was recruiting, Xu Kong would not have instructed the other party to offer high prices to attract talents in the circle.

Xu Kong still had his head lying on Zhu Yu's thighs as usual.

But he has been too busy recently and he doesn't have much mood to tease Zhu Yu.

I felt a gentle touch on my head.

Zhu Yu actually took the initiative to press his temples.

Although the office was unusually quiet, neither of them spoke.

But Xu Kong was still somewhat happy in his heart. The other party's action also meant that the relationship between him and Zhu Yu had become closer unknowingly.

The whole month of May passed by quickly in this busy state without anyone noticing. By the time Xu Kong had some free time, there was not much time left.

Although he was very busy at work during this period, Xu Kong still managed his time quite well.

When he was working during the day or in Fengge, he would accompany Song Youyou, and from time to time he would perform some exciting scenes according to her requests.

When I go home at night, since Su Zhi and I live in the same community, we can be sure to see each other most of the time.

When I was at Fengge headquarters, I would always go to Zhu Yu’s office during lunch break.

As for Shang Yuxin, Xu Kong was in a completely passive state and would run to his studio whenever he had the chance.

On the surface, it was for work. After all, "Legend of Sword and Fairy" was about to be broadcast, and as one of the leading actors, there was indeed nothing wrong with the other party coming to Xu Kong.

But in fact, he would deliberately seduce and tease Xu Kong from time to time when talking.

It was because there were too many things to do that Xu Kong was too lazy to continue teaching the other party a lesson.

Otherwise, how could they allow the green tea merchants to become more and more unscrupulous?

Kiwi was also not idle.

In addition to praising one and stepping down the other, they also started digging up some negative information about Xu Kong.

Unfortunately, Xu Kong’s debut time was too short.

The only thing that can be used to make a fuss is the talent show on which he made his debut.

At the beginning, Xu Kong’s singing skills were questionable and his stage performance had no highlights at all.

It was indeed thanks to the relationship with Fengqing Entertainment's investors that he was able to win the championship and debut as the center.

That’s right, in fact Xu Kong is also the captain of a domestic entertainment boy group.

There has been no official announcement of disbandment yet.

The members of the group are all contestants from the original talent show.

In fact, less than a month after the show ended, the boy band had already become defunct in name only.

The members even have different specific management companies, and the producers have no intention of really operating it. The rest is almost the familiar life with dreams and each is wonderful.

Xu Kong is naturally the most successful person in the entire group at present.

As for some others, they either became completely obscure or had to fight lawsuits with their own agencies. To sum up, the whole thing was a mess.

But Kiwi is also a genius, as they have gathered all six members of the group except Xu Kong.

I went to a certain interview variety show produced by their platform.

These people gathered together, whether it was because of jealousy or because Kiwi deliberately guided them.

Anyway, although Xu Kong was never mentioned very formally from beginning to end, he was being sarcastic to him most of the time.

This incident did not have any substantial impact on Xu Kong.

Even those so-called negative rumors were just that, but they did disgust Xu Kong.

"what are you thinking about?"

As Guo Zihao has been Xu Kong's agent since his debut, he is naturally aware of most of the inside information.

In fact, those so-called shady dealings included Xu Kong's bad temper, eccentric personality, and so on.

Well, it’s all true and I can’t refute it.

Because at the beginning, Xu Kong really had no business ability except for being handsome, and his personality was also quite eccentric and irritable.

During the recording of the program, I had conflicts with many people, and some of them almost came to a head.

However, after his debut, Xu Kong's temper became much more restrained. By April and May last year, he suddenly seemed like a different person.

Guo Zihao saw all of this.

"I was wondering, shouldn't we invite the entire group over?"

"Why didn't I, the captain, receive an invitation?"

Guo Zihao looked at Xu Kong with interest and didn't know what to say for a moment.

If Xu Kong was really invited over, he felt that this guy might be able to debate with a group of scholars on his own.

And it doesn't affect his public image at all and he can leave people speechless.

"Shouldn't we respond?"

Guo Zihao ignored Xu Kong's unrealistic idea.

Given the current relationship between Xu Kong and Kiwi, it is estimated that Xu Kong will not appear in any program on the other platform in the future.

"Nothing to respond to."

Xu Kong shook his head.

Kiwi probably thought that doing this would disgust him or affect his own mentality.

It is very likely that the other party is waiting for him to respond actively.

But no one probably could have imagined that although Xu Kong had that memory, he would not put it into it at all.

He was not the one who experienced those things at the time, so he could have just treated it as a joke.

In addition, let alone the current Xu Kong, even if he goes back to half a year ago, he was a young star who could barely squeeze into the top of the domestic entertainment industry, and it would be impossible for him to respond to such things.

From the perspective of traffic stars, his old teammates are more obscure than each other.

How can I give the other party the opportunity to actively use my traffic?

It was the end of May, and Xu Kong could only sigh that time had passed too quickly.

In a blink of an eye, he has traveled through time for a year.

Although it seems a little different from his original plan, he has to say that he is still quite satisfied.

Xu Kong had actually made plans to quit the circle at the beginning. After all, his experiences in the previous life were enough, and he didn't think about starting over again.

So at the beginning, he just muddled along and had no idea of ​​changing anything.

But later, Xu Kong found that he seemed to be quite adaptable to the entertainment industry.

Moreover, he had just successfully transformed himself in his previous life and acted in so many dramas that he was finally able to become a fairly qualified actor. But in the end, his career ended just like that. It really makes people feel unwilling.

Then he gradually started to cheer up and stopped giving up.

So far, the progress seems to be relatively smooth.

Although he has not completely gotten rid of the label of a traffic idol, the path he took is different from that of his previous life.

And
"What are you thinking?"

Su Zhi's voice came, interrupting Xu Kong's memories.

After looking at Su Zhi's expressionless face, Xu Kong smiled and shook his head.

"nothing."

Moreover, he now had some ties to this world, and he was finally able to slowly integrate into it.

No more feeling like I don't belong here.

"Half a year has passed. Do your words still count?"

Su Zhi asked.

At this time, the two were in Su Zhi's personal studio.

Yuan Yinnan, who was not far away, had been glancing at Xu Kong from time to time since he came here.

"What?"

Xu Kong asked back subconsciously.

Then, seeing the way Su Zhi was staring at him, he remembered.

Last year, he promised the other party to help produce a new album.

It seems like we are already halfway through the year and there really hasn't been any progress.

"Just kidding, how could I not remember."

Xu Kong quickly said with a smile.

But looking at Su Zhi's expression, it was obvious that she did not trust what he said.

"I haven't told you yet, mainly because I wanted to give you a surprise."

“Actually, I’ve almost finished writing the songs for your new album.”

Xu Kong spoke nonsense without any guilt.

After Su Zhi heard Xu Kong's words, a rare look of interest appeared in her eyes.

For her, apart from Xu Kong, the only thing that could interest her was probably music.

"Do not lie to me."

Xu Kong nodded firmly.

"of course not!"

Yuan Yinan, who was not far away, had been staring at Xu Kong and Su Zhi.

In fact, she had already had some suspicions. Even though they had a good relationship, the two of them were too close.

Moreover, Su Zhi has been in this industry for so many years and has very few friends. Xu Kong's existence is too special.

Not to mention that Su Zhi insisted on moving the studio to Beijing, and she asked Xu Kong for help as soon as possible.

It would be too fake if she really couldn't find any clues.

But Yuan Yinan herself was a little hesitant. From a personal perspective, she felt that Su Zhi was a relatively pure person. Apart from music, she had almost no other interests or hobbies and her own social circle.

With Xu Kong’s appearance, she was a little worried that Su Zhi would be deceived or hurt.

But from the studio's perspective, if Xu Kong can continue to help Su Zhi write songs, it would definitely be good news that deserves celebration.

(End of this chapter)