The diva and I cross each other

In fact, not only Cao Shuxin gave "White Night" an S rating, but other people in the evaluation department also gave "White Night Chase" a very high rating.

Among the six evaluation teams, four were S and two were A+. Since the establishment of Penguin Video, no TV series or movie has received such high evaluations.

For such a highly praised TV series, Penguin Video naturally provided a very high-quality supporting publicity plan, and some publicity work could also be followed up smoothly.

The first thing Penguin Video did was to invite Wen Wan to cover the song "Day Does Not Understand the Darkness of Night" and then upload it to Penguin Music.

The reason why Wen Wan was invited to sing "The Day Does Not Understand the Darkness of the Night" is because the female police officer Zhao Qian in "Day and Night Chase" was played by Wen Wan.

This is also the first time Wen Wan has appeared in a TV series again in a year. She had been filming movies before and rarely acted in TV series.

Zhao Qian, who will play the female police officer in "Day and Night Chase", has also finished filming the female lead in "The Wandering Earth" and her schedule is free.

In addition, Luo Ming specifically told Wen Wan that the drama "Day and Night Chase" would be the pinnacle of domestic suspense dramas, and it would be a sure win to show up there, so Wen Wan took the job.

After Wen Wan covered "The Day Does Not Understand the Darkness of the Night", someone from Penguin Video posted it on Penguin Music, and they started buying related hot searches.

With this song as the starting point, "Day and Night" began its extensive publicity.

However, what Penguin did not expect was that while they were promoting "Day and Night", iQiyi suddenly jumped out to promote a suspense TV series. What's more interesting is that compared to "Day and Night" which chose middle-aged actors with acting skills, iQiyi's TV series directly chose popular stars to act.

The TV series on iQiyi is called "The Cold-Faced Detective". As the name suggests, the show lets a popular young actor play the role of a detective with a paralyzed face.

After learning about the situation, Cao Jianghan sighed: "iQiyi understands. This is the biggest advantage of the young actors. We don't have to worry about their acting skills. It all depends on whether the script is up to standard."

Half a month passed quickly, and on November 11.1st, Penguin Video and iQiyi launched new TV series at the same time.

"Day and Night" and "The Hard Boiled" are competing against each other.

Since "Day and Night" has 32 episodes, Penguin simply gave it a big giveaway this time and released 6 episodes directly.

With the good reputation that Misty Theater had previously built, many viewers who like to watch suspense dramas chose "Day and Night" without hesitation, and they couldn't stop watching it once they started.

The first episode was full of suspense. Zhang Tao played four roles to perfection. It was obviously the same person playing the roles, even the scars on their faces were exactly the same, but the audience could tell who was who at a glance.

Even when his younger brother Guan Hongyu was in the criminal police team, pretending to be his older brother and dealing with his colleagues in the police force, his acting was amazing.

In addition, the plot of "Day and Night Chase" is very compact, so the audience can't stop watching it after they start watching it.

After watching the first episode, watch the second episode, and after watching the second episode, watch the third episode. If you don’t have a VIP membership, ask someone to borrow an account. If you can’t borrow one, become a VIP member and continue watching.

On the first day of the broadcast of "Day and Night", six episodes were updated directly. It was already twelve o'clock when I finished watching the six episodes, and I had no time to watch "The Hard Boiled".

Of course, the fans of young and handsome actors should not be underestimated, and the popularity of "The Hard-Earned Wife" is also quite high.

At 12 o'clock in the evening, various hot search terms of "Day and Night Chase" and "The Cold-Faced Detective" rushed to the homepage of Weibo's hot search.

Not only Weibo is a hot search, but also Tik Tok, Tieba, Mouban and other online platforms are all discussing these two dramas. Judging from the popularity at this time, the two dramas are actually somewhat equally popular.

The next day, in the office of the president of Penguin Video, Cao Jianghan asked his secretary, "How is it going? What is the feedback data of "Day and Night Chase"? "

"Mr. Cao, 'Day and Night' has broken the record. This TV series broke the record for the launch of our website's self-produced dramas. The number of views reached 3000 million within two hours of the first broadcast."

Cao Jianghan breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. This data was definitely stable.

In the evening, the 24-hour data came out. On the first day of its launch, the number of views of "Day and Night Chase" exceeded 1.1 million, reaching million, breaking the first-day view record of Penguin Video.

This result exceeded the first-day viewing volume of "The Hard Boiled".

However, the data of "The Hard-Boiled detective" is also very good. It is said that a case was completed in the first four episodes, and the completion of the case was very good. Although the number of views is not as high as "Day and Night", it has reached 1 million.

This made Cao Jianghan feel a sense of crisis. With the reputation of the Mist Theater, "Day and Night" has surpassed "The Cold Detective" by 1000 million views. Is the traffic of young actors so terrible? If this trend continues, will they be overtaken by the other side?

Thinking of this, Cao Jianghan immediately ordered the people at Penguin Video to increase publicity, preparing to step up efforts to directly promote "The Cold Faced Detective" on the day when "Day and Night Chase" was broadcast.

On the second day, the number of views of "Day and Night" reached 1.4 million, while "The Cold Blooded" was close behind with 1.3 million views.

IQiyi was not satisfied with this data because according to their original plan, they aimed to reach 1.5 million views yesterday.

In the end, the goal was not achieved and the number of views remained at 1.3 million.

To be fair, this result is already very strong and has definitely reached the top level of S+ big productions, but it did not beat Penguin Video. Instead, it was suppressed by Penguin Video, which is very unpleasant.

In order to reverse this situation, iQiyi started to take action. They secretly contacted the fans of the male lead Cai Xiao.
On the third day after the broadcast of "Day and Night" and "The Hard Boiled", the score of "The Hard Boiled" on Douban came out, with an opening score of 8.2 points.

This result immediately made Cai Xiao's fans open the champagne.

Many netizens went to a certain platform to see what the score of "Day and Night Chase" was.

But when netizens opened the page of "Day and Night" on a certain platform, they found that the rating column had not yet been opened.

There is a setting on Douban that the scores of TV series and movies will not be displayed before they are released or aired. This is to prevent the audience from giving preconceived scores before watching the show, which will result in non-objective scores.

Therefore, before the TV series is aired, the audience ratings on Douban are hidden and cannot be seen. The ratings will usually be displayed normally after the TV series is released.

Of course, when it comes to scoring, there will occasionally be delays in displaying the scores. The most common situation is when there is an abnormality in the score and the website needs to check whether there is a problem with the scoring system, which will cause a delay in displaying the score.

Therefore, when there is a delay in displaying the score, netizens will generally assume that the movie or TV series has been vote-rigged.

Now, "Day and Night" has been aired for two days. The score of "The Cold Faced Detective" which was aired at the same time has been released, but the score of "Day and Night" has not been displayed yet. Does this mean that "Day and Night" has inflated its score?
Cai Xiao's fans were delighted to see this and left comments on the official Weibo of "Day and Night Chase":

"Why hasn't your version of 'Day and Night' shown any scores yet? Could it be that the scores have been inflated?"

"I knew that Huayue Entertainment was not clean. Every year, the scores of Huayue Entertainment's TV series were ridiculously high. There must be some score manipulation. "Day and Night" was just caught."

"They must have inflated the ratings. Huayue Entertainment is such a jerk. Which new drama doesn't they inflate? They inflate the number of views, the ratings, and now the ratings. They are really shameless to the extreme."

"Don't forget that Day and Night is broadcast on Penguin Video. I don't need to say how bad Penguin is, right?"

"Tsk tsk tsk, some people just like to play both sides. Sisters, guess how many points this time will get."

"Sisters, please act quickly and lower the score of this lousy drama. Otherwise, if we let it get an 8, it will disgust us."

At one time, fans of Cai Xiao, fans of "The Cold-Faced Detective", and competitors of Huayue Entertainment and Penguin Video all began to band together and give low scores to "Day and Night".

If Penguin Video had encountered this situation in the past, it would have definitely started crisis public relations, but this time Penguin Video seemed very calm.

This is because Zhuoguang Entertainment sent a bunch of chat screenshots to Penguin Video.

These are all posts by Cai Xiao’s fans who started leaving messages everywhere on the Internet on the second day after the show aired, asking netizens to give the show low scores.

As long as netizens are willing to give "Day and Night Chase" a low score, Cai Xiao's fans will send red envelopes.

It even thoughtfully provides strategies on how to give low scores and where to give low scores.

Fortunately, the quality of "Day and Night Chase" is strong enough, and the number of views did not drop due to this rhythm.

When the data for the third day came out, "The Cold Blooded" was still surpassed by "Day and Night".

Cai Xiao's fans became even more anxious and began to push the rhythm to inflate the score of "Day and Night Chase", so more and more netizens began to pay attention to the score on Douban. For a time, the online doubts about the vote-inflation of "Day and Night Chase" were rampant, attracting countless netizens to participate in the discussion.

"I'm a pure passerby. I haven't watched either drama. But judging from Douban's past performance, this drama is obviously vote-rigging. Douban doesn't show the ratings, which means it's investigating vote-rigging."

"I've watched both shows, and Day and Night is better than The Cold War."

"I agree. I don't know if it has been watched or not, but Day and Night is really good."

“Just waiting for the investigation of fraud in Day and Night, and the ratings to plummet!”

“Those who say it’s good are probably the “Day and Night” trolls!”

Amid the debate among netizens, Douban finally displayed the audience ratings of "Day and Night Chase" this afternoon.

When netizens saw the ratings, both passers-by and fans were surprised, because the rating of "Day and Night Chase" shown on Douban was 9.0.

That’s right, the score is not 7, not 8, but 9.

Originally, the topic of the possible ticket fraud of "Day and Night Chase" became a hot topic.

Now that the ratings were revealed, the scores were ridiculously high, which made those traffic fans, as well as the rivals of Huayue Entertainment and Penguin Video all jump out.

"9.0 points? Isn't this just a fake score?"

"How shameless! I actually got 9 points."

"As expected of Penguin! How dare you buy it!"

"I never give ratings, but seeing how bold Huayue and Penguin are in brushing, I can only give a 1-star balance score."

"Actually, it's not necessarily a fake score, anyway, I gave it 5 stars."

“I also think that Day and Night is really good.”

The online rhythm was getting more and more intense. At this time, Penguin finally took action. Penguin hired a group of netizens and pretended to be reasonable and began to speak: "Don't netizens have eyes? Don't you notice? The bar graph of the scores does not conform to the rules?"

The netizens immediately commented: "There is indeed a problem. In the rating bar chart, the longest is 5 stars, the second longest is 4 stars, the third longest is 3 stars, the fourth longest is 1 star, and the shortest is 2 stars."

After being pointed out in this way, a blogger with over one million followers also noticed something was wrong.

After carefully looking at the bar graph, he posted a microblog: "I just watched it and it's really not right! According to the rating system of a certain platform, the rating of a good drama will show a normal distribution. In other words, for a 9-point drama, the longest should be 5 stars and the shortest should be 1 star. After all, the audience's preferences will not differ that much.

For this kind of high-scoring drama, if the number of people who voted for it one star is greater than the number of people who voted for it two stars, the one-star vote is usually a retaliatory vote.

For example, when two dramas starring top stars are broadcast, fans of both sides deliberately give 1 star to the other drama. This kind of rating is obviously not objective.

Many fans believe that Huayue Entertainment and Penguin have manipulated the score of "Day and Night Chase" to 9 points, which is actually wrong. Judging from the data, "Day and Night Chase" must have been maliciously given a low score by someone. "

As soon as this post was published, Cai Xiao’s fans cursed him to death, saying that the blogger was bribed by Penguin and Huayue Entertainment.

The blogger was very tough and did not delete the Weibo post. Instead, he started to curse at Cai Xiao's fans.

At this time, a well-known blogger suddenly released some screenshots and chat records, as well as strategies for low scores on various platforms.

This Weibo post immediately exploded the Internet and became a hot search topic in just a few hours.

Cai Xiao’s fans and competitors of Huayue Entertainment and Penguin Video were so fierce in the past, but now they are so embarrassed.

The fact that the drama "Day and Night Chase" was maliciously rated low by Cai Xiao's fans was exposed, and it became a complete laughing stock in the entertainment industry.

Now the truth was out, and many netizens and people who like to laugh at him all started to criticize Cai Xiao on his Weibo:

"When people first heard about cheating on scores, everyone thought it was about high scores, but it turns out that some people are cheating on low scores!"

"It makes me laugh to death. A bunch of NC fans are accusing "Day and Night" of inflating the scores, but it turns out that they are the ones who inflated the scores."

"Are you scolding yourself?"

"There is indeed something wrong with the rating bar graph of "Day and Night". Normal rating bar graphs are all normally distributed. In the bar graph of "Day and Night", the 1-star ones are longer than the 2-star ones. It is hard to say whether it is fake or not, but there is definitely malicious rating. I suggest that you should pay more attention to your fans in the future! Don't do this kind of thing."

"Who on Douban doesn't understand? Ever since the fan clubs invaded Douban and their idols' new dramas started airing, they started giving each other low ratings. It's simply disgusting."

"'Day and Night' was given a 1-star rating, but it still managed to get a score of 9.0. That's really impressive."

Cai Xiao was so scolded that he had no choice but to close the comments on Weibo.

Seeing that the real protagonist had admitted his mistake, netizens did not continue to pursue the matter, but instead started discussing whether "Day and Night Chase" was worthy of the score.

"Although I gave it 5 stars, when I saw it was 9, I felt it might be a little high. If it was 8.8 or 8.9, I think there would be no problem at all."

"It's true, after all, 9 points is the standard for a great drama. This title is too heavy and too tiring to bear."

"In that case, it's a good thing for someone to put some pressure on you by giving you a low score?"

"Maliciously giving low scores is definitely not a good thing, but you have to allow for people who just want to give "Day and Night Chase" 1 star. After all, different people have different tastes. What if someone really thinks "Day and Night Chase" is bad? You have to allow for people with different aesthetics to exist. Otherwise, what's the difference between them and Cai Xiao's fans?"

"That's reasonable, but giving low scores maliciously is disgusting."

"It's really disgusting, but I've had enough of the melons. A bunch of NC fans, accusing others of cheating, but it turns out they were the ones who were cheating. The stench is overwhelming."

Most netizens are still very rational. Some people think that the score of the TV series "Day and Night Chase" is too high, while others think that the score is appropriate.

Moreover, the opening score on Douban is only the score at the beginning of the TV series' broadcast, not the final score. As the TV series is broadcast, more and more viewers will rate it.

If the quality of the plot declines later on, the audience's ratings will become lower and lower, and the score will naturally continue to decline.

Of course, if the plot appeal of a TV series continues to increase, then the ratings are likely to rise as well.

A TV series that starts out with a score of 9 doesn’t mean that the score can always remain at 9, but it at least shows that the initial score is very high.

The issue of cheating on scores has caused a lot of debate on major online platforms for several days, and it has been a constant hot topic.

Black and red are also red. "The Cold-Faced Detective" has gained a lot of traffic because of this, and "Day and Night Chase", which is a positive character and a well-deserved protagonist, is even more of a traffic feast.

Many viewers had not yet started watching "Day and Night Chase" when they suddenly saw the whole debate online. Although the reviews were mixed, those with negative reviews were all questioning whether the show was inflated in ratings, while those praising "Day and Night Chase" all mentioned specific content in the show.

In particular, the highlight of Zhang Tao playing two roles was mentioned the most. As the audience saw it more times, they began to wonder whether he really acted well.

Therefore, the audience who had not started watching the show yet could not help but open "Day and Night" and start watching.

Moreover, most viewers can't stop watching once they start. Unless they have work and can't continue watching, they will catch up to the latest episode and then join the army waiting for more.

In this way, "Day and Night Chase" continued to be broadcast at the rate of two episodes per day, and the performance was getting better and better.

"The Cold War", which used to be on par with "Day and Night", has fallen behind since some time ago.

Many netizens have called "Day and Night" a landmark work in domestic suspense dramas. (End of this chapter)