[This is the first time in a spy drama that a character has ever fought off a mistress! Both Di Ting and Cheng Daiqing are very charismatic characters, can you guys please stop messing around...?]
[If the fans of the mistresses don't wantonly interpret Li Yiming's relationships, do you think we'd want to pay attention to them?]
[Ah, right, right, Di Ting and Cheng Daiqing are both very charismatic characters, and Li Ruhui is just another one on the sidelines.]
[The male lead who has sacrificed the most lives in the history of spy dramas...]
So what? No matter how many mistakes Li Ruhui makes, Li Yiming still loves him! No matter how charming Di San and Cheng Si are, Li Yiming won't even give them a second glance [laughing with hands covering mouth]. As long as Li Yiming loves Li Ruhui, Li Ruhui is the male lead. Aren't you angry? [laughing]
What's going on here? It's one thing for the editors and commentators to argue about who Li Yiming loves, but this is magazine behind-the-scenes footage... What does actor behind-the-scenes footage have to do with the character?
[Get lost, you rational Chinese people! Where were you when Di San's fans were chasing after Li Ruhui and cursing him for thousands of posts, stealing the sweet glances Li Yiming gave Li Ruhui and giving them to Di San, and stealing the sweet words Li Yiming said to Li Ruhui?]
[Where the hell did I get here...? What sweet glances, what sweet words, did I miss anything in "Half a Sky"?]
There's not enough sweetness between the Dawn Couple (Li Yiming and Li Ruhui). Even a single glance from Li Yiming towards Li Ruhui is a huge treat. I don't know which glance was stolen by the Dili CP fans...
As for sweet talk, well, it might be that "clean it up." Someone edited it into a clip where Li Yiming said it to Di Ting, and the fans of the Leon Lai couple are currently furiously attacking the "other woman" in the comments section.
[You'll get used to it. It's been half a month since the episode where Li Ruhui sacrificed himself, and these two fan groups have been arguing non-stop every day. Now it's evolved into analyzing Ye Chu's Weibo posts to find any sweet moments. Do you know what the two fan groups are saying about Ye Chu endorsing that Renxing brand? The Leon Lai couple fans say "two people, one star" represents the approaching dawn, while the Dili couple fans say the star is the child of the sun and moon, and that Diting has one eye like the sun and one eye like the moon, so Ye Chu took this endorsement to express her love for him.]
What are the solo fans saying?
[What else can I say? Just grab them all! The CP fans think Li Yiming's emotional expressions are too reserved, that he doesn't love his partner enough, so they write about Li Yiming's constant pursuit of his "husband" in a dramatic, unpredictable way—pursuing Li Ruhui in the morning, then Di Ting in the afternoon, it's ridiculous. They even write about Li Yiming cheating on his wife with a literary man, then suddenly realizing his mistake and going back to pursue her... If I were a solo fan, I'd be furious.]
The main hashtag for the web novel "Tianban" has banned both couples.
[Huh? The host is so fierce? Didn't he get torn apart by the CP fans?]
[I'm also curious. The "Drip" hashtag has 300,000 members, and the "Leon Lai & his wife" hashtag has 400,000 members. These two groups are so crazy, and the host just banned them like that? Isn't that incredibly audacious? Besides, do you think the official channels would agree to that?]
The moderator of the Tianban super topic is Zheng Bohan...
Sorry to bother you, goodbye.
What is Ye Chu's attitude?
[Ye Chu seems to support Leon Lai, as she doesn't follow Chu Zixin on social media. However, that's not necessarily true; Ye Chu's solo fans dislike Shi Shan, and Ye Chu, who is known for being supportive of her fans, might not like Shi Shan either.]
[Wow, bro, you've got guts! Good luck, I'm running away if two of them gang up on me!]
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After a magazine goes on sale, the peak sales period is usually concentrated in the first three days. For some well-known magazines, the golden sales period may last for a week. But no matter how popular a magazine is, its peak sales period is extremely short, even fleeting—especially for some purely celebrity-driven stars.
Fans flooded in when the magazine went on sale, driving sales to their peak and achieving impressive figures of over 100,000 units sold in minutes and hours. However, from three days to the second week, the magazine's popularity rapidly declined, leaving only a small group of loyal fans contributing small amounts. Such details, of course, are best left unmentioned.
Shang Yechu's fan base is no exception.
Now is the golden period of the three-day sales launch, and the Ye Buds are spreading the word, determined to help Ye Chu reach new heights.
A desperate woman who was abandoned by her husband has made a comeback and is the first to show off her purchase. She posted a screenshot on Weibo showing that she bought 5,200 magazines, with a one-time payment of more than 200,000 yuan!
Like firing the first shot, many influential fans posted screenshots of their purchases. Some bought 521 books, others 813 or 1314. There were countless posts showing purchases of dozens or even hundreds of books.
Even Sun Xiaoxiao saved up all her pocket money and her entire living expenses for the first month of her high school life to buy 100 magazines, which she proudly showed off in the super topic.
This was Ye Chu's first time visiting Dengfeng, and the entire Ye circle was mobilized, creating a truly awe-inspiring spectacle. They took every last penny, spending it like dirt. It was as if money wasn't money, but an inexhaustible river flowing eastward!
Unfortunately, just as predicted by netizens, Ye Chu's mobile phone and magazine endorsements were scheduled too close together, which really drained some fans. After all, wealthy big fans like the "desperate abandoned woman" are a minority; most fans are ordinary wage earners and students. Such a intensive harvesting is bound to be a bit overwhelming.
While Green Petal netizens may be sharp-tongued, they do possess considerable insight and experience regarding certain aspects of the entertainment industry. Ye Chu's rise to fame was too rapid; her fan base exploded overnight, and she hasn't yet cultivated a sustainable pool of followers. Furthermore, without a prolonged period of "fan torture," refinement, and purification, it's difficult to extract a highly effective and financially powerful fanbase for female celebrities.
Ji Juntao once complained privately that it was all Zheng Bohan's fault for loving Li Yiming too much. Li Yiming had a smooth and successful life in the drama, and everyone loved her both on and off screen. Other characters always lived in her shadow and could not pose any threat to Li Yiming.
Playing such a role may be very enjoyable, but it won't hurt many fans.
Ji Juntao privately lamented several times that it would have been better if Zheng Bohan had arranged for Li Ruhui to play the role of a first love or something similar. That way, it would have been easy to stir up a political battle between that female character and Li Yiming, causing a huge uproar in the public opinion, with fans arguing for ten or eight years, generating endless buzz.
Although she disliked the drama of fighting over men, Ji Juntao, with her keen business acumen, realized early on that factional strife and female rivalry could better solidify the female characters' fanbase and extract a large number of willing-to-spend customers.
Unfortunately, Zheng Bohan loves Li Yiming so much that he would never create any characters or storylines that would harm Li Yiming. As for Li Ruhui, not only are his ex-girlfriends all male, but even his former colleagues are all men!
How can there be factional infighting? How can there be female rivalry? How can there be flirting? How can there be purification? How can there be extraction of the essence?
If it weren't for the rampant ivy, Shang Yechu wouldn't have suffered a single scratch in the drama "Tianban". Ji Juntao sometimes chuckled at the ivy's foolishness.
With sales exceeding ten million, she has already reached the pinnacle among female celebrities. Yet, she still hasn't broken into the top three.
According to the current sales ranking of Chinese entertainment magazines, the top three are Luan Qing, Shi Shan, and a certain boy group.
Luan Qing came in third, trailing second-place Shi Shan by just over 50,000 copies, much to the dismay of her fan, Qingque. As for the first-place boy band, they cleverly employed a multi-version sales strategy, setting a record that remains unbroken.
The boy band had seven members, and the magazine cover featured a group photo of all seven. However, there were over a dozen different versions of the magazine's freebies!
The free gift is a photocard included with the magazine. There are over a dozen different photocard designs, including individual photos of each group member, photos of two or three members together, and even group photos of the entire group. Fans can choose their free gift when ordering the magazine.
This method of exploitation was unprecedented in the Chinese entertainment industry. It precisely targeted the wallets of every group: group fans, individual member fans, couple fans within the group, and fans who wanted to collect the whole set!
To boost sales for their idols and their favorite on-screen couples, the boy band's fans poured money into their magazines, causing quite a stir back then. As a result, the magazine raked in a staggering 36 million NTD in sales, more than double that of the second-place magazine, Shishan!
Many boy bands tried to emulate this, but an official document from above strictly prohibited this ruthless way of making money at the expense of others. This boy band's sales figures thus became an unrepeatable legend.
Surpassing the number one boy group is absolutely impossible. However, Ye Chu's magazine sales for this issue have already exceeded 12 million, getting very close to second-place Shi Shan...
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