Caught in Affairs with Superstar

Chapter 1174 - 652: Behind the Scenes

Zhou Yun attended the audience meeting for "Deep Sea" in the United States, and Yuehai also released news about the event.

"Deep Sea" is doing very well now, with the first three episodes surpassing hundreds of millions in viewership in the first week. According to backstage data, effective viewers for these episodes have exceeded thirty million.

If this momentum continues, this drama is definitely going to be a huge hit.

Back home, Zhou Yun’s fans saw how well-received Zhou Yun is abroad and felt particularly proud with a career-focused mindset.

This phenomenon actually exists in the domestic entertainment industry. Any artist with decent skills tends to have more career-focused fans among their fanbase or those with such a mindset.

Everyone is happy to see Zhou Yun being popular around the world.

This gives many of them a sense of pride.

The hashtag #Zhou Yun’s popularity in the United States# also hit the trending list.

Upon noticing this, Zhou Lan hurriedly contacted various platforms to lower the trend’s heat.

Compared to other domestic artists, Zhou Yun is indeed a bit more popular in the United States, at least not entirely unknown.

But claiming exceptional popularity would be over-exaggerating.

Right now, Zhou Yun is steadily making strides in entering the international market, but Zhou Lan doesn’t want Zhou Yun to suddenly suffer due to excessive praise.

Upon inquiring, it turns out that Yuehai was the one who bought the trending hashtag for Zhou Yun.

Zhou Lan immediately contacted Yuehai’s executives to reach an agreement on Zhou Yun’s future promotions—every advertisement and marketing related to Zhou Yun must be reviewed by Zhou Yun’s team first.

Yuehai’s people, of course, were resentful.

Frankly speaking, it’s ridiculous. They did the show’s promotion and bought a trending hashtag for Zhou Yun, spending real money on it. The hashtag hadn’t even stayed long on the trending list before Zhou Lan urgently rushed to have it removed, citing the reason that it was unnecessary and they didn’t want Zhou Yun to face undue pressure. Additionally, Zhou Lan strongly demanded that Yuehai should not take the liberty to promote Zhou Yun independently in the future, entirely distrusting Yuehai.

If possible, Yuehai would have long suppressed Zhou Yun.

With such troublesome and uncooperative actors, Yuehai is big enough to not bother serving them.

But—

Yuehai has no choice.

Not to mention, "Deep Sea" has already broken several of Yuehai’s records, even without "Deep Sea," given Zhou Yun’s current status (especially his status in the eyes of the financial backers), Yuehai can no longer maintain a distance as they did before.

Advertisers now show loyalty to Zhou Yun.

If you, Yuehai, don’t have a drama featuring Zhou Yun, advertisers initially lose interest.

If it weren’t like this, Liu Ziyang wouldn’t have taken "Flower City" to negotiate follow-up cooperation with Zhou Yun.

Therefore, ultimately, Yuehai had no choice but to agree to Zhou Lan’s request.

However, "Deep Sea" will face a tough battle next week.

Wei Ru Xue’s "Flying with Phoenix" is going to be broadcast, and it will be aired simultaneously on TV and online with daily updates. Additionally, "Immortal Feather Decision" will premiere next Friday.

Everyone is speculating, with these three major dramas scheduled at the same time, which one will come out on top.

In the drama field, Wei Ru Xue’s reputation is still slightly greater than Zhou Yun’s.

Wei Ru Xue’s consecutive dramas have all achieved ratings exceeding 1, with excellent results. Regardless of the genre, they are widely popular, and platforms often crown her with the title "Drama Queen" when promoting her new dramas.

Zhou Yun hasn’t seen or interacted with Wei Ru Xue for a long time.

Yet this time, the two have suddenly found their new dramas clashing in schedules, destined for a confrontation.

Wei Ru Xue was asked at an event, "Ruxue, your new drama ’Flying with Phoenix’ is about to be released, and now ’Deep Sea’ is doing so well. Do you have confidence in surpassing ’Deep Sea’?"

The question was clearly intended to stir conflict, but Wei Ru Xue did not evade it.

She has always been proud in her field, never fearing opponents.

She simply said, "There’s no point in comparing ’Flying with Phoenix’ and ’Deep Sea’; one is a concurrent TV and online broadcast, the other a purely online drama. They’re not on the same level, so how can we compare? Against ratings or something else?"

Wei Ru Xue’s remarks were often mocked for allegedly looking down on online dramas with arrogance.

This actually displeased many netizens.

More people now particularly enjoy watching online dramas, and with the increasing difficulty of star broadcasting, many dramas end up going directly from online exclusive broadcast to star broadcasts.