Chapter 10

After a good night's sleep, Huan Xu woke up and looked at the clock. It was already past ten o'clock. The house was very quiet. The diligent Professor Gu went to the company early in the morning.

After going down the stairs, the housekeeping robot received the instruction and started to work, bringing the warm breakfast to the table for Huan Xu. Huan Xu turned on the light brain, ignored the 99+ strange private messages in the private message, and was just about to check out the effects of the new film.

Bang! The door was pushed open with force, and Gu Chen, panting, stood at the door.

Huan Xu looked at his adopted brother and asked curiously, "Why are you back so early?"

As a busy senior high school student, my younger brother is still experiencing a demanding school life. He lives in school on weekdays, has half-day classes on Saturday mornings, and goes home after school on Saturday at noon to enjoy a day and a half of vacation.

Logically speaking, if you come back after school, it should be noon at the latest.

The child had obviously run all the way back. He calmed his breath before answering, "The last class is self-study, so I asked for leave." Gu Chen was the top student in the class, and the teacher did not make things difficult for him by asking for a self-study class.

After the child finished answering, he continued to stare at Huan Xu without blinking. Huan Xu beckoned, "Come and sit down."

Although Huan Xu's action was a bit like greeting a puppy, Gu Chen pursed his lips, moved step by step to the table, and sat opposite Huan Xu. During the process, his eyes were still on this familiar yet unfamiliar elder brother.

"Have you had breakfast?"

Gu Chen nodded.

"Eat some more?"

Gu Chen shook his head.

"That's fine, we can have lunch in two hours."

Huan Xu stirred the rice porridge with a spoon. Looking at the silent child whose heart was written all over his face, he raised his chin and said, "You have something to say to me?"

Pursing his lips, Gu Chen spoke, continuing to stare at Huan Xu, not missing a single change in his expression: "During the break, I heard the students discussing something unrelated."

Huan Xu: "Oh."

Gu Chen: "...It's your Wuti!"

Huan Xu continued to tease the little face paralysis: "So?"

Gu Chen: “…”

Gu Chen finally couldn't help but raise his voice, his face flushed with excitement as he said, "I heard from their discussion that Untitled is a movie by Xinghuo, and the director's surname is Huan, Huan Xu!"

"So you took leave to come back just to confirm? You're not afraid that I won't be at home."

"I..." I feel like you are here. Gu Chen swallowed the second half of the sentence. It sounded like he was being coquettish. He and Huan Xu were not that close.

As if realizing his own recklessness, Gu Chen sat on the chair, tightly gripping the strap of his schoolbag. The light in his eyes gradually dimmed, and his face regained its stern look: "I'll go upstairs."

The child was about to stand up when Huan Xu stopped him with a smile, "I just woke up and don't know what's going on online yet. But since you students are all following the discussion, it seems like there's a lot of interest. Come, let's take a look together."

Gu Chen loosened his grip on the strap of his schoolbag slightly, but he was still a little at a loss, not knowing whether to leave or stay.

Controlling the projection screen on the light brain, Huan Xu seemed to remember something and asked Gu Chen with a smile: "By the way, your classmates shouldn't be scolding me, right?"

"..." This question was a bit sharp. From the few words he heard, it seemed as if he was indeed being condemned, but it was not a scolding.

"They won't really scold me, will they? That shouldn't be the case. They don't like it?"

"No, they... probably like your work."

"who I am?"

"What?"

Huan Xu raised his hand and patted the child's head. "I'm your brother. I was wrong before, and I'm formally apologizing to you now. Don't be so nervous in front of me in the future."

Gu Chen didn't speak immediately until Huan Xu started browsing the comments, and then he heard the child say "hmm" softly.

Huan Xu didn't say anything else. The rift between the original owner and his younger brother didn't form overnight, so he would take it slowly.

Huan Xu first looked at the background data. Although he didn't think it would fail, he didn't expect that the data was a bit exaggerated.

In just one night, the number of views has exceeded 30 million, with over 100,000 comments. Most importantly, the subscription rate is as high as 85%.

Because of his mother's work, Gu Chen also understands the meaning of these data. In the current era of homogenized film content, let alone an 80% subscription rate, the average director's subscription rate can reach 70, which is a very high subscription ratio.

More than 80% of the good results can only be achieved by famous directors. Even famous directors may fail. If the quality of the film content is slightly worse, the subscription rate will continue to decline.

The key point is that his brother is a new director and has no fame bonus at all, and many of the new films on the list have chosen to be released for free in order to rush to rank.

Of course, the first work of a new director, under the premise of ensuring quality, is generally a short video of about 20 minutes. Works like "Untitled" that are 50 minutes long are rare in the history of Canglan.net.

The price of Untitled was set by Huan Xu at 6 star coins, which is very low compared to the prices of other films. Compared with the high quality of Untitled's content, the subscribed viewers all feel that they have made a good deal, and there are basically no negative reviews.

Perhaps it is because the fees are too low and people cannot afford to lose money, so the audience base is larger and the subscription rate has increased instead of decreased.

Just now, Gu Chen saw with his own eyes the real-time data in the background being refreshed, and 85 jumped to 86 in an instant.

Gu Chen: “…”

Huan Xu did resolve a doubt in his mind. Even if he was confident in "Untitled", he didn't think that it could become so popular that even high school students would have heard of it just by relying on the recommendation of netizens.

According to Huan Xu's plan, Wuti should start a real round of data growth when it appears on the homepage of the new list.

The plan is now brought forward because the subscription rate of "Untitled" is so outstanding that after being judged by the intelligent system in the background of Canglan.com, it was awarded a small gold badge for high-quality content.

The traffic of the Gold Medal List cannot be compared with that of the newcomers in the back row.

In addition, some up-loaders with a keen sense of smell have already edited selected clips overnight, both serious and non-serious.

One of the videos, called "Find the Differences", received countless likes, and the comments were filled with hahahahahs from the audience.

Due to the limited budget at the time, Huan Xu did not hire actors from outside, and even the extras were arranged internally. For example, the audience did not know that the passerby lady walking on the street in Liangcheng was actually Xinghuo's kitchen aunt.

The small number of people means that some supporting characters will appear repeatedly after changing their makeup.

In the Detective's clip, the prime minister of the current dynasty and the uncle from the clothing shop next to Tu's Medical Clinic are in the same frame. Although they have beards as a distinction, it cannot hide the similarity of their eyebrows and eyes.

[Bullet comment: Prime Minister, Prime Minister, have you been laid off by the Emperor? Why are you back home selling clothes?]

[When you reach middle age, you're unemployed and forced to be in the spotlight. Talking about it brings tears to your eyes.]

It's not just the prime minister and the shop owner, but also the emperor and the King of Qi. They are not brothers who look 60% or 70% similar. It is clearly one person playing two roles. The up-host also edited the footage of the two into a ghost video.

[Yoyo, Chek Nao, guess whether I am the emperor or the King of Qi ao~]

[Don't ask me why I'm so crazy, it's just Director Huan's arrangement! ]

[The Emperor squatted. After the Emperor squatted, the King of Qi squatted. After the King of Qi squatted, why did the King of Qi squat again?]

Because of the hilarious "easter eggs", "Untitled" became popular again.

With the support of many parties, one night, "Untitled" became popular both reasonably and unexpectedly.

It is only a matter of time before it reaches the front page of the new list or even the top of the list.

After knowing the reason, Huan Xu no longer paid too much attention to it. Looking at a comment with a lot of likes under the post of the work, Huan Xu raised his eyebrows slightly.

It turns out that some netizens asked for a detailed explanation of the untitled poem in Song Moxuan's last letter home.

Originally, the reason why Li Shangyin's untitled poem was put up there was because Huan Xu wanted to include some personal opinions and show off the culture of our ancestors to the people of the interstellar space.

The reason there is no poetic explanation is to let the interstellar people discover it themselves, which will be more impressive. Unexpectedly, the official research institute came to an end so soon.

The officially certified Mother Planet Cultural Research Institute: @Huan Dao @Xinghuo Entertainment @Untitled. The family letter "Untitled" quoted by Huan Dao in the film "Untitled" was originally written by Li Shangyin, a famous poet from the medieval Blue Planet era, during the Tang Dynasty.

He has written many love poems that have been passed down through the ages. The documents I have now contain a total of six love poems by this poet, and "Untitled" is one of them.

If you are interested in Untitled, the poet and the story behind the poet, you can click on the pagination of ancient poems and search for keywords, such as Li Shangyin, a poet from the Middle Ages in Blue Star.

This is advertising in the comment section.

Huan Xu smiled and clicked back. However, it was obvious that the Institute of Ancient Chinese Literature was in such a state of decline that it had far fewer fans than the official websites of other large research institutes and organizations.

Huan Xu not only followed the official website of the Institute of Ancient Chinese Studies, but also posted a new update after @ing the Institute of Ancient Chinese Studies: When you are young, you don’t understand Li Shangyin, but when you understand him, you are already a person in the poem.

As soon as Huan Xu posted the update, new fans flocked in quickly. However, after seeing Huan Xu's new update, the fans fell silent again. It seems that this director Huan is really willful.

How could this be possible? After publishing the work, he disappeared for a whole night regardless of the flood on the Star Network, and only reappeared at noon the next day.

As a result, he seemed to be oblivious to the audience's accusations that he was deliberately scaring people, nor did he care about the rapidly growing number of fans or the praise from actors and fans.

All kinds of problems are turned a blind eye.

The new updates were posted, but they were directing traffic to other people’s websites.

"Okay, okay, you are indeed the willful Director Huan."

"Director Huan is not being kind to make money by advertising for others right after becoming famous."

"It's true that Director Huan is running an ad, but he probably doesn't get paid for it. As everyone knows, the Institute of Ancient Studies often can't get funding for activities, so they probably don't have the money to hire someone to run an ad."

"To sum up, Huan Dao had a deep love for this ancient poet surnamed Li."

"Little fairy, I'll do as you say. I'm going to go see your idol now. Are you happy?"

Huan Xu shook his head. It was true that Li Shangyin was his favorite poet, but he was not an idol, nor was he a fan of anyone. Director Huan was a very philanthropic person. What he loved was the entire brilliant and glorious civilization.

Starting with Mr. Shang Yin, Huan Xu also felt that the love saint and the people of Cang Tianxing seemed to be a better match.

Director Huan's grasp of the wind direction is as accurate as ever. With Director Huan's heart-wrenching recommendation and his reputation as a love saint, the effect of attracting traffic is better than the efforts of the Ancient Research Institute in one night.

In the Institute of Ancient Studies - Cultural Poetry Research Branch, a young man browsing his laptop looked up at his director and said, "Director, do you really have no py deal with Director Huan?" Otherwise, why would such a popular director bring traffic to them for free? It was incomprehensible.

The director couldn't figure it out either. After thinking about it for a while, he suddenly thought of a possibility.

After Wu Ti's sudden appearance, he also got to know this good young man who had a deep study of ancient culture. He was Gu Mingrui's stepson.

Gu Mingrui is also a member of the circle and knows the director, but Professor Gu's research direction is the folk customs of the mother planet. Although the two know each other, they are not very close friends. At this moment, the director couldn't help but think, could it be that Professor Gu unilaterally introduced me to be a confidant?

Then shouldn't I also express something? The most important thing is that Professor Gu has such an outstanding son like Huan Xu. Such a good young man should be brought into the circle early, and everyone should communicate more!

Yes, it is about communication. The layman watches the excitement, while the expert watches the details.

The complete miniature of the medieval Blue Star era shown in the Untitled, plus the condensed "mythical demon" system in it, has proved Huan Xu's strength. Even though Huan Xu is young, his knowledge is more profound than those old men who have studied for many years.

The branch director stood with his hands behind his back and sighed in a literary tone, "Good boy, every generation has its own talented people!"

Below the untitled comment section, there are also enthusiastic netizens who have returned from the Institute of Ancient Studies, who have given everyone a brief introduction to the relevant content about Mr. Li Shangyin.

"No wonder Mr. Li Shangyin is called the Romantic Saint. He and his wife were very affectionate. The few poems handed down in the Institute of Ancient Studies were all written by him to his wife. Unfortunately, unlike Xiaoyu and the scholar, their love was not destined to last, and they were separated by death at an early age."

"I'm planning to watch it for the fourth time, and I'll be reading it along with the translation of Untitled. The love story between the scholar and Xiaoyu is so moving, and the quote from the family letter at the end is so clever. Shang Yin is talented, and so is Director Huan."

"A silkworm's thread is not exhausted until death, a candle's tears are not dried until it turns to ashes. I cried until I fainted at my workstation. I was in a relationship for three years, met his parents and friends, and was preparing to get married with my boyfriend last year, but he was diagnosed with a terminal illness and left me forever six months ago. I didn't understand Li Shangyin when I was young, but I am already a poet after I understand him."

"Woo, hug the sister upstairs. Your boyfriend didn't leave. He just turned into a star to protect you."

On this day, countless people changed their space signatures to poems from Untitled.

The author has something to say:

"Spring Silkworms" was originally a love poem, but later gradually evolved into an ode.