Huayu: We're asking you to act, and you're playing a superhuman?

"Bullet comments can increase the user's sense of immersion..."

Looking at the lush greenery revitalizing the courtyard, Wang Weili said to his phone, "This will simultaneously satisfy users' desire for expression, thereby retaining them to continue watching the series."

"However, iQiyi doesn't currently have a bullet comment feature..."

Gong Yu said noncommittally over the phone.

He was actually quite surprised by the phone call.

If Ma Dong hadn't explained the situation to him beforehand, he wouldn't even have known who Wang Weili was...

What intrigued Gong Yu even more was that when Wang Weili talked about the bullet screen function on A-site, he used very obvious internet slang. Could a celebrity possibly understand that?

"Mr. Wang, excuse me for interrupting."

"Um?"

Wang Weili awaits further developments.

Gong Yu asked, "You suddenly contacted me to explain the function of the bullet comments. Is there something you're thinking about?"

"I hope to add a bullet comment feature to the episode updates of Gu Jian Qi Tan, thereby creating a way to retain users..."

"Wait a minute! Grab a hand? That sounds like internet slang, doesn't it?"

"I consider myself a semi-internet professional, but that's not the point... Mr. Gong, do you know how many monthly active users AcFun has?"

Before Gong Yu could guess, Wang Weili gave the answer directly, while also expressing his true intentions.

"Less than 50! But this morning, a blogger attracted 3 people online at the same time while explaining the Gujian Qitan TV series and game, which crashed the server."

"Is this true?"

Gong Yu was both suspicious and surprised, but he quickly understood what Wang Weili meant.

Wang Weili confirmed: "This news has already made it to the top of Weibo's trending topics, and I've verified its authenticity."

"Okay, even if what you said is true, adding a feature rashly requires a lot of preparation..."

"There are no patent restrictions on bullet comments. Besides AcFun, smaller companies like Bilibili are also using them. As for the functionality, it's just a small front-end plugin, and it's not very difficult to implement."

Wang Weili glanced at Li Xue, who was sending comments on the sofa, and continued to dispel Gong Yu's concerns.

"My personal suggestion is to pilot the bullet screen function on the Gu Jian Qi Tan series. This way, we can see the effect and set up risk control measures in time."

"I understand what you mean."

The person on the other end of the phone fell into deep thought.

Wang Weili could only hear muffled footsteps coming from the phone, presumably Gong Yu was pacing back and forth in some quiet place at that moment.

After a moment, the sound returned.

"Mr. Wang, the online streaming rights for Gujian Qitan have been sold to us and Tencent Video. Have you contacted them?"

"If you agree to give it a try, I won't look for it anymore."

"Then why did you contact us first?"

"We should always prioritize those with a higher success rate. As a large corporation, Tencent's long-form video platform is just one branch, and it would be more difficult to change course."

To be honest, that was indeed the reason why he contacted Kiwi first.

Gong Yu chuckled, seemingly agreeing, but did not immediately give his consent.

"Mr. Wang, you just said you consider yourself a semi-internet professional, so you should be aware of the celebrity effect on Weibo, right?"

"By leveraging interactions between celebrities and fans, we can retain fans and increase monthly active users..."

"Yes! Interaction is essential for user retention and monthly active users. If we try to enable the bullet comment function for Gujian Qitan on the iQiyi PC platform, could you record a few video highlights to interact with the fans?"

"Can it only be me? Can't Yang Mi do it?"

Wang Weili has become conditioned to the tactic of closing the door and releasing Yang Mi.

Even Yang Mi herself probably couldn't have managed to use her popularity so effectively.

Gong Yu was naturally happy to oblige: "It would be great if Yang Mi could come, but I'd be more interested in meeting and chatting with you. Are you free?"

"I don't really want to leave Shanghai lately. Yang Mi is also filming here. Why don't you arrange for a group of people to come and film a compilation?"

Wang Weili has already used Yang Mi once, so it's unlikely he'll be able to trick her into going to the Kiwi Fruit headquarters in Beijing again.

Gong Yu felt that this was not an unreasonable request, so he agreed.

"Okay! I'll arrange for someone to go there. Can you handle things with Yang Mi?"

"able……"

Wang Weili was somewhat unsure of himself.

After the call ended, he paced back and forth in front of the French windows, clutching his phone, looking so conflicted that Li Xue turned to look at him.

"Boss, what are you doing?"

"If I just lied to a girl a couple of days ago, and now I want to lie to her a second time, what should I say?"

Wang Weili's serious demeanor made Li Xue almost mistake him for some kind of positive figure.

"If you weren't my boss, I would have already started swearing."

"That's right! As long as you use the excuse of getting her to cooperate with work, it won't be considered a lie. Assistant Li, I didn't expect you to be so clever."

That's not what I meant...

Li Xue reached out to clarify from the sofa, while Wang Weili had already taken his phone and walked back to the worktable.

……

"Honey, I'm done filming!"

Dilraba put on a fawning smile and leaned close to Yang Mi to report.

She hasn't had much work lately and has been staying at the Shanghai Theatre Academy. This time, she was called in to film a compilation of stars from the Legend of the Ancient Sword.

Unexpectedly, Yang Mi ignored her report and stared blankly at a certain spot in front of her with resentment in her eyes.

Following her gaze, Reba saw that Gong Yu, the CEO of Kiwi Fruit, was having a pleasant conversation with Wang Weili.

We're all born in the 90s, how come you stand out so much?

Reba complained to herself, but then she started to envy her fellow townsman, Naza...

"You're done filming, come with me."

Yang Mi coldly retorted, and without caring whether Reba heard her or not, she walked straight towards Wang Weili and Gong Yu.

Seeing this, Reba hurriedly followed, but dared not make too much noise with her footsteps, so in her panic she could only tiptoe and hop over.

As they walked a few steps forward, the conversation between Wang Weili and Gong Yu could be heard from afar.

"We attract traffic through Weibo's trending topics, retain users and increase popularity through the bullet screen function of the iQiyi platform, and finally let the audience's organic traffic spread and go viral."

"New users will be attracted to Weibo, thus entering a new round of promotional channels."

"This is a closed-loop system that uses Gujian Qitan as a starting point, coordinates work across multiple platforms, and allows the popularity to spiral upwards."

Wang Weili's theory received high praise from Gong Yu.

"This is what we video platform owners mean by 'content is king'! I didn't expect you, Mr. Wang, to have a similar view."

"Many theories have something in common."

Wang Weili responded politely, and then saw Yang Mi coming over.

"Honey, are you all done with your work?"

"Hmm, that's about right."

Yang Mi nodded with a strange expression.

Originally, she wanted to take this opportunity to get to know Gong Yu and expand her network of contacts, but embarrassingly, she didn't quite understand the conversation between Wang Weili and Gong Yu.

What is the bullet screen feature?

What the hell is a closed-loop system?

Can we say something that people can understand?

"Then we should leave too, Mr. Wang. Contact me via WeChat."

Gong Yuchong and Wang Weili shook their phones, greeted Yang Mi again, and then turned and left.

Wang Weili waved goodbye to Gong Yu, then turned to Yang Mi and said, "If there's nothing else, I'll be going now."

"Wait a moment!"

Yang Mi raised her hand to interrupt, squinting her eyes and glancing sideways at Wang Weili.

"You dragged me here to do unpaid manual labor twice, and even though it was both for work, you should at least treat me to a meal!"