Chapter 156 A Feast for the Eyes
This fight scene is real.
The actor who plays Han Chang is a veteran in the martial arts industry with superb kung fu skills. You can tell he is a master just by looking at his moves.
Hu Xiaoxiao is even more tough. When she played Mu Guiying, she used blasting technology to smash the stone with a bow, but her strength was quite great. When she smashed the stone, the audience was worried for Han Chang through the screen.
The actors are handsome and the women are pretty, the plot is light and can attract the interest of housewives and students, and the martial arts scenes are as enjoyable as a movie, which male audiences also enjoy very much. It is a TV series that the whole family can watch from beginning to end.
The first episode of "Mu Guiying" did not start high and end low like "Fan Lihua", but was on an upward trend from beginning to end.
The TV station finally breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the report from the market research company.
However, the ratings of "Martial Spirit" are still far higher than those of "Mu Guiying", so TPT Hong Kong has once again stepped up its publicity.
On the other side, Baozhutai also received the news and decided to give "Martial Spirit" a massive publicity campaign to maintain the popularity of "Martial Spirit".
Experts see the ins and outs, and the people at Baozhutai see farther and more deeply than the audience.
"Martial Spirit" has the advantage of family and country feelings, but it also has a major shortcoming, which Baozhutai itself is also very clear.
Because of the historical background of "Martial Spirit", many plots are very tragic and aggrieved. Housewives generally don't like to watch these tragedies with fighting and killing, and many deaths. They prefer the type of family dramas with a warm and heartwarming tone.
The martial arts in "Mu Guiying" rival those in "Martial Spirit" and even boast many innovative features, making it highly entertaining. "Mu Guiying" also focuses primarily on women, focusing on the women of the Yang family. The plot is the kind of drama that housewives love—a genre that TTV Hong Kong and Taiwan excel at! This is a distinction that "Martial Spirit" simply cannot match.
On the Treasure Island TV side, due to the accurate market positioning of "Mu Guiying", the ratings have gradually recovered, and the artists in the crew have become more confident and more active in participating in activities.
On this day, they continued their promotional activities in the most prosperous commercial district. After the female generals demonstrated the Yang family's spear skills together, they received a round of applause.
Just as the emcee was about to announce the next performance, Hu Xiaoxiao and others heard a loud man's shout coming from the opposite side.
"scare--"
"scare--"
"Scare, scare, scare—"
The sound was loud and powerful, attracting the audience gathered under the stage of "Mu Guiying" to look back.
Hu Xiaoxiao stood on the stage, standing high and able to see far. What he saw was that there was also a stage on the opposite side, with a dozen men wearing only trousers showing off their muscles and punching in unison.
The banner hanging above the stage prominently read "'Martial Heroes' Appreciation Event for Citizens" in large letters.
Hu Xiaoxiao was amused. Their female generals used their marksmanship to attract citizens, and their men also used their bare-chested boxing to attract citizens. Did they bring the arena here?
Zhu Wanwen looked over and became a little angry. "Why are they imitating us? They've taken away all the popularity we've worked so hard to gather."
Mingxu came over, clenched his fists, and said to Hu Xiaoxiao, "Why don't we call the male artists from our crew over and have them box shirtless too, and see who's more manly."
"By the time they arrived, the audience had finished watching and gone back to cook," said Hu Xiaoxiao.
Because "Mu Guiying" focuses on women's plays, the actors who come to participate in the event are mainly female artists. There are relatively few male artists. Only Mingxu is present every day, and the other male artists are just two or three to make up the numbers.
If we were to call the other male artists, we'd probably still not have them by nightfall. After all, no one had cell phones, so we couldn't call them immediately. If we had to run around looking for them, we wouldn't know if they were home, out shopping, or on a date.
On the other hand, "Martial Spirit" came well prepared. The crew had more than 20 to 30 male artists, all of whom were muscular and came with great momentum. For a moment, they really suppressed the momentum of the "Mu Guiying" crew.
"So what?" the emcee asked. The audience flocked to the "Martial Spirit" section to watch the strong man, and no matter how good his eloquence was, he couldn't attract them back.
"How shameless." Hu Xiaoxiao sighed.
Men can fight shirtless, but women can't. There's flesh to be seen over there, which is definitely more attractive than wearing thick clothes. Hu Xiaoxiao couldn't help but take a few more glances at the free strong men, not to mention the public, and then said to Mingxu, "I don't think he's as strong as you."
"How about I sacrifice myself?" Mingxu was eager to try.
"Forget it, you alone are not as interesting as a group of them."
Just let it go?
Everyone in the crew of "Mu Guiying" felt discouraged.
Of course, Hu Xiaoxiao couldn't just let it go. If she did, wouldn't that mean the "Mu Guiying" crew had admitted defeat? She looked around, thinking of a solution.
Her eyes fell on a longbow, the one she used in the play, which she had brought as a promotional prop. Hu Xiaoxiao picked up the bow, pondered for a moment, and then came up with an idea: to ask someone to bring some water in a thin plastic bag.
Everyone didn't know what Hu Xiaoxiao was thinking, but now that the audience had all gone to the other side, they had nothing to do. So they all followed Hu Xiaoxiao's instructions, emptied the plastic bags, and poured some drinking water into them.
Hu Xiaoxiao took a look and told them to fill each bag with half the water and tie the opening tightly. After they did as he asked, they made several water bags and gave them to Hu Xiaoxiao.
Hu Xiaoxiao took a tube of prop arrows, picked one out, hung a water bag on the arrow, then drew the bow and pointed the arrow at the banner on the opposite stage.
"Will it work?" The emcee asked a little worriedly.
The distance is too far, how can you hit the target? If you drop it halfway and spill it on the crowd, it will backfire.
"No big deal." Hu Xiaoxiao narrowed his eyes and aimed.
The prop bow wouldn't work, but this one was a real one with a strong pulling force. It was more than enough for the distance between the two stages. Of course, that presupposed Hu Xiaoxiao's strength to be able to pull this longbow.
As soon as he loosened his hand, the arrow flew to the other side like lightning, carrying the water bag and hitting the wooden pole where the other side hung the banner.
The powerful impact caused the water bag to burst instantly, and the water in the bag spilled onto the man boxing on the stage.
The water fell on the men, soaking their bodies. The audience watching with great interest suddenly brightened up and whistled together. Obviously, everyone was getting more excited.
The actors of "Martial Spirit" couldn't help but stop, touch the water on their bodies, and look up at the sky, "Is it raining?"
Lead actor Feng Zidong looked at the dazzling sun and said, "It's so bright, how can it rain? Keep going, let's keep fighting. Didn't you see that we've crushed the competition for 'Mu Guiying'? Didn't the audience all run to our side?"
Everyone immediately stood back in their positions and started punching vigorously again. Their strong muscles and strong masculinity made the audience below scream and call it a feast for the eyes.
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