This celebrity is absolutely wicked.

Chapter 468 Find something for Director Lu to do

Previously, the ratings for "Soldiers Sortie" were all below 2.5, which is a poor result for a drama broadcast on CCTV's drama channel.

This is CCTV's drama channel.

Without joking, Xu Gaomin believes that if his drama "Snow Blade and Furious Tiger" were broadcast on CCTV, with the popularity of the male and female leads and the publicity team's bombardment of trending topics, the ratings would definitely break 3% within four days of its premiere.

This is the biggest reason why Xu Gaomin dislikes "Soldiers Sortie".

In many industries, practitioners tend to blindly trust data.

After all, there's a saying that goes, "People can lie, but data doesn't."

The ratings for "Soldiers Sortie" are just bad.

But as the days went by, the ratings kept getting higher and higher.

According to the ratings statistics of major TV stations, "Snow Blade and Furious Tiger" has a rating of 2.42, while "Soldiers Sortie" has reached 2.37, ranking right behind "Snow Blade and Furious Tiger".

Soldiers' Assault was only on February 2.15th yesterday.

This kind of data showing a counter-trend increase is the most alarming.

At this moment, Xu Gaomin didn't care whether the data was misleading or not.

"Did they buy ratings?"

Ratings can be bought; in fact, there's a well-established process for it now.

Not only can viewership ratings be bought, but a lot of data on online streaming platforms can also be bought.

Xu Gaomin had previously thought that Lu Ran wouldn't do something like this because of his personality.

But the current surge in viewership has made him suspicious.

"do not care."

Xu Gaomin didn't care about these things.

He immediately began issuing orders in various WeChat groups.

"The plot of Snow Blade and Furious Tiger is about to reach its climax in the next few days. Tell the publicity company to step up their efforts and push our ratings up to three!"

"All the actors, don't sit idle. Hurry up and promote what you need to do. If the ratings break 3%, it will also benefit you."

It's the holiday season now, so now's the time to boost ratings.

Around noon, Tencent Video updated "Soldiers Sortie," which allowed viewers who didn't have time to watch the show on TV to binge-watch the latest two episodes.

In these two episodes, although Xu Sanduo was transferred to the Steel Seventh Company, he seemed to turn into a coward as soon as he arrived. He was useless in everything he did in the Steel Seventh Company, and everyone who saw him had a headache.

That's a coward.

Only Shi Jin was like a ray of light, warming him.

After watching these two episodes, a group of netizens rushed to Lu Ran's Douyin (TikTok) and Weibo posts.

"Director Lu, could you please update faster? Two episodes a day isn't enough for anyone to read. If you're so capable, give me ten episodes!"

"I can sense that Xu Sanduo will definitely grow up, it's just that the updates are too slow."

"Squad Leader Shi is really great. He always reminds me of my old squad leader, who is the exact opposite of Shi Jin."

At noon, Lu Ran had just returned from the cafeteria of Qincheng University.

The notifications on his phone kept ringing, and Lu Ran picked it up to take a look.

As soon as the Penguin Video channel updated at noon, all the viewers rushed to his channel to urge him to update.

Is this something he can control?

Director Lu's word doesn't count.

Lu Ran simply turned on the shaker, adjusted the camera angle, placed the phone on the ground with a phone stand, and started the live stream.

He didn't say anything, but just assembled the flying sword while broadcasting live.

Soon a large number of netizens flooded in.

"What is Director Lu doing?"

"Are you really making flying swords? Do you really need to work this hard? If you're going to film a fantasy drama, do you really need to learn how to cultivate?"

"Can this flying sword actually fly?"

Lu Ran glanced at the comments in the live stream: "It can fly. I'll make a video for everyone when it's done."

Lu Ran then introduced the items in his hands to the netizens.

It would have been better if he hadn't introduced himself; after he did, the live stream chat exploded with even more comments.

“Director Lu, there’s really no need for that. If you have nothing better to do, go and update a few episodes of Soldiers Sortie.”

"There's no need for that. I think if Director Lu is tired from working, he can take off his shirt."

"You lot are really up to no good. It's not that I don't support Director Lu's research on this flying sword, but I'm mainly afraid that one day Director Lu will actually start researching immortality and won't include me."

"Whether he cultivates immortality or not is not important. What I'm mainly concerned about is whether Lu Ting is lonely and needs a man to keep him company."

When Lu Ran saw the silly comments from the viewers in the live stream, he immediately felt that it was too negative.

I've watched his live streams, how come he still says such irrelevant things every day?
These men deserve to be taught a lesson by Brother Quan.

Lu Ran installed a small fan on the handle of the flying sword and said, "You guys say I have nothing better to do, then find me something to do, something positive, we need to maintain positive energy."

The viewers in the live stream immediately became interested upon hearing this.

"Director Lu, come to my house and give me some positive energy!"

"Holy crap? Who's the person in front of me? Something's not right!"

"I don't sleep well, so I need Director Lu to sleep with me."

Lu Ran asked casually, and he knew that the group of silly netizens in the live stream wouldn't offer any useful advice.

What's this about injecting positive energy? What's this about sleeping with someone? Is this really positive energy?
You're just lusting after my body, you slut!

At this moment, in the courtyard of a rural house in Yunnan Province.

A woman who looked to be in her early twenties was picking vegetables while watching a live stream on her phone.

The live stream on the phone was Lu Ran's live stream room.

This woman's name is Jiang Meng, and she is just an ordinary person.

Upon hearing Lu Ran say, "Find me something to do," Jiang Meng immediately thought of her husband.

Her husband has a special identity: a border guard.

She has never been interested in military dramas, but because of her husband, she watched every episode of "Soldiers Sortie" very carefully without fast-forwarding at all.

She had talked to her husband about TV dramas on the phone. When she mentioned "Snow Blade and Furious Tiger," her husband strongly discouraged it, saying it was rubbish. Only when she mentioned "Soldiers' Sortie" did he say she could watch it. Her husband was about to be discharged from the army in two days, ending his twelve-year military service.

Jiang Meng and her husband Pang Bo's parents have always had a regret.

That is, I was unable to visit the border post where Pang Bo was stationed, to see the place where he worked and lived for twelve years.

Thinking of this, Jiang Meng shook the water off her hands, dried them on her apron, and typed a line of text in the live broadcast room.

“Director Lu, I’d like to go with my parents-in-law to the border post to see my husband. Could you take us there?”

Jiang Meng saw a group of people in the live stream giving Lu Ran things to do, so she sent out this comment.

Although Lu Ran just started a live stream casually, there are now tens of thousands of people in the live stream room, and the number of comments is countless.

Jiang Meng didn't hold out any hope either.

After sending the comments, she continued picking vegetables.

On the other side, Lu Ran was multitasking, his eyes scanning the barrage of comments.

These silly netizens had various suggestions for him: some told him to go to a bathhouse to scrub people's backs, some told him to take kids who wanted to play video games to internet cafes, and others told him to rescue prostitutes.

There isn't a single positive message in this.

At this moment, Lu Ran saw the comment Jiang Meng posted.

"Why are they even setting up border outposts? Are they trying to trick me into going to the border? Or send me to northern Myanmar?"

Lu Ran clicked on the sender's name in the bullet comment, looked at the profile, and felt that it wasn't a scam.

Her homepage is full of daily life posts; she's clearly a married woman, and there are even videos of her holding her child.

From several videos, Lu Ran saw the figure of the husband she mentioned; he was indeed a soldier.

After confirming the information was true, Lu Ran picked up his phone and stood up.

"Okay, I saw the useful suggestion. I've already sent you a private message to this netizen named Mengmeng. You said you wanted me to take you and your parents-in-law to the border post to see your husband. Let's arrange it!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the live stream chat exploded with comments.

"Holy crap? Director Lu, I thought you were joking. Are you really going to do this?"

"Not Director Lu, are you serious?"

"Who told him such useful information?"

Seeing a barrage of comments from netizens, Lu Ran continued, "I'll update everyone on any developments. That's all for now, goodbye everyone."

Lu Ran immediately shut down the live stream.

On the other side, Jiang Meng stood there, stunned.

She had heard what Lu Ran had just said, but she still couldn't quite believe it.

She quickly wiped her hands, then picked up her phone and opened her private messages.

A new notification appeared in her private messages; it was a private message sent to her by Lu Ran.

"Leave your phone number, we can discuss the details over the phone."

Jiang Meng immediately sent her phone number.

Soon her phone rang.

Jiang Meng felt excited and pressed the answer button with trembling fingers.

Lu Ran's voice came through.

"Hello, sister-in-law, I'm Lu Ran."

"Hello."

"Let me check with you to confirm which outpost our brother is stationed at."

"At the Zola outpost."

"What is your name?"

"Pang Bo".

Lu Ran asked for some more information.

"Is this your phone number also your WeChat ID?"

Jiang Meng: "Yes."

"Okay, I'll contact you again later."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Ran called Gao Yuhui.

"Happy Holiday, Mr. Gao."

Gao Yuhui was clearly in a good mood: "How come you have time to call me on such a big holiday?"

"I want to go and take a look at the border post."

Lu Ran told Gao Yuhui what had just happened.

Gao Yuhui said seriously, "This is no joke. The Zhuola outpost is 4,600 meters above sea level, and the lowest temperature is more than minus 40 degrees Celsius. People in poor health simply cannot endure going up there."

"Don't worry about that, we won't joke around with our lives. We just want to ask you to help us coordinate."

Visiting the border outpost is not something that can't be done, after all, Lu Ran even brought his military wife along.

Given Lu Ran's own status, he could also go up and perform for the benefit of the audience.

We just need to go through the proper procedures.

Television stations can also film in such places if they want to.

Gao Yuhui laughed and said, "You don't act like a celebrity at all."

Which celebrity would skip a holiday and head to a border post instead?

Although both are at an altitude of 4,600 meters, the environments of tourist attractions and border outposts are quite different.

Even at the same temperature, people feel differently.

However, considering what Lu Ran did before, his current behavior is normal.

After chatting with Gao Yuhui, Lu Ran posted in the Burning Studio group chat: "Anyone want to go on a trip to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau?"

Zhao Long was busy playing games at the moment, but when the message popped up, he stopped playing and replied immediately.

"I'm going, I'm going!"

(End of this chapter)