The Martial Artist Turned Movie Mogul
Chapter 930 - 929. My hands are about to give out!

Chapter 930: 929. My hands are about to give out!

Several more images appeared, and Tang Shu’s longtime fans vented their emotions through comments, and the phrase "Uncle is being inhuman again" was copied and pasted countless times.

"So for Tang Shu, who has 65 million fans, it’s actually not difficult at all to achieve a single episode click rate exceeding 230 million, after all, to answer the quiz, these young people, who might be black fans, can watch back and forth four or five times."

"Alright, I admit that after finishing the ten questions, I rewatched the first two episodes twice, the editor admits being deeply addicted..."

The main text ends.

Fortunate netizens who read this sponsored soft article said—they didn’t express much, as they were already immersed in those ten absurd questions, and even started a heated discussion in the comment section below the soft article.

[1st Floor]: "What’s the answer to the first question? Why didn’t I notice this detail?"

[2nd Floor]: "The person above, I chose A, the not at all guarantee type one!"

[3rd Floor]: "I know the third question, it’s B! I remember it crystal clear!"

[4th Floor]: "Holy smokes, dude, were you watching the drama or researching the village chief’s house? How could you get such questions right?"

[5th Floor]: "I was wrong, I thought I really understood this drama, never expected it to be just my wishful thinking!"

Made to doubt life by the questions!

Afterwards, this group of people quickly exited the sponsored content, and ran to Tang Shu’s Weibo... um, the disaster area, starting to curse and swear, thus further expanding the army of long-time fans.

Those who appeared to be black fans and had turned in their answers on the first day were full of question marks and popped up again:

"Dude, where did you come from? The quiz entry is clearly closed!"

"What’s the deal, why are we still discussing the quiz at this time? Did you all time travel? I feel like I’m still living in the night three days ago!"

"Wait... is there a special entry? Quick, tell me, bro! I can still answer again with my parents’ phones, this time I’m fully prepared!"

Only then did the new netizens react:

"What the heck, the entry is closed? Such an absurd exam even has a time limit? Damn, can’t it be any more unfair!"

"I was hoping to join the fun and snag a premiere ticket?"

"Really no chance anymore? Please open the entry, I really do know this question!"

"Wrong billion!"

"Wrong billion +1!"

"Wrong billion + ID number..."

The comment section is full of wailing.

***

As this sponsored article, which aimed at revealing the click rate surpassing two billion, became more and more popular, many netizens flocked to Tang Shu’s Weibo, sparking a quiz craze.

What does it matter if the quiz entry is closed? I can still joyfully search for the answers!

As the saying goes, laymen watch the excitement; the insiders watch The Doorway. Therefore, after the soft article went viral, some insiders saw quite a lot in it, and also came to a conclusion.

"So the reason why the click rates of the previous episodes were so terrifying was entirely for answering the quiz?"

"To be precise, it’s for a premiere ticket for Director Xie’s upcoming film."

"Does that mean the click rate for the subsequent episodes will drop significantly?"

"So that’s what it was, scared me to death, I actually thought this TV drama was really popular with the younger crowd!"

"Speaking of which, if it hadn’t been for this trivia activity, I wouldn’t even have known that Director Xie had shot a new movie."

Insiders in the industry immediately relaxed, feeling they had been scaring themselves, and that actually, "The Doorway" wasn’t that mystical and would stabilize in a few days.

Well, it was all Tang Shu’s doing, who could blame someone so clever for coming up with such a brilliant publicity strategy?

Thus, the green-eyed insiders gathered their increasingly positive spirits and turned to dive into new work. Of course, the name Tang Shu was bound to be mentioned repeatedly.

"Speaking of which, this Tang Shu really has some tricks up her sleeve, turning a fan welfare event into a whole new gimmick, so playful——"

They’re all seasoned pros in the industry, so why hadn’t they thought of this method themselves?

Look at how her PR does it: promoting the new drama well and skillfully involving Director Xie’s new movie, consuming fan enthusiasm without letting fans feel exploited, and instead consolidating the relationship with silly questions.

Killing three birds with one stone, these fans are probably going to like their idol even more.

"I want this PR team, we definitely need to learn from them, how can there be such a big gap between people?"

"Netizens nowadays really go for this goofy stuff, any other ten questions wouldn’t have gotten us this result."

"So is it that the serious stuff doesn’t appeal to netizens anymore? This bunch is getting harder and harder to please."

What vexes industry insiders the most? Of course, it’s how to win over netizens’ hearts. To increase their artists’ fandoms, the whole entertainment circle is wracking their brains.

But when it came to Tang Shu, why did it all seem so easy?

"What we lack is her brains——"

Industry insiders also started busying themselves with their own work, griping like the netizens, and didn’t notice one thing: that episodes three to six of "The Doorway" had nearly as many views on the video player as the first two episodes.

The gap wasn’t nearly as big as they had imagined.

As for why?

"Though I came for the trivia, this series seems kind of addicting?"

"Barely caught the uncle in the village girl getup, how could I miss out? I’ve decided to use pictures from this series as my phone wallpaper from now on!"

"Tsk tsk, uncle’s braided pigtails are done so well, can the bro upstairs make an emoticon pack for it~~~I’m willing to pay!"

"This drama is kinda interesting, huh? I find myself missing it if I don’t watch a bit every day, gonna keep watching it tonight."

"I’m already caught up to the latest update, the storyline is extremely comforting, feels like getting rich and farming, most importantly there are no vile characters!"

Indeed, the most surprising thing about "The Doorway" is the absence of villains. Even when there are people with ulterior motives in the village, almost every issue is resolved within two episodes, which also makes the pacing of the drama much faster than usual TV dramas.

At this time, the admins of Tang Shu’s Support Club were swamped.

"Damn, what’s happening today? I’ve approved like thirty or forty new membership requests this morning!"

"My hand hurts from clicking ’agree’, did I say anything? Let me make it clear, I haven’t even had the time to work since this morning, it’s been click, click, click non-stop after logging into the group!"

"Me too... bro aren’t you the admin of Group 1? I’m from Group 3, and I’ve also received dozens of requests."

"Group 5 here, my hand is about to break from all the clicking."

In the small group for admins, as soon as the topic was brought up, almost everyone chimed in, bemoaning the fate of their fingers.