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Chapter 32 The Melancholy Zheng Xingqi
If you were to ask just how popular Xiao Jianci is, you could probably find the answer by simply searching online.

With the upcoming broadcast of the hit drama "The Legend of the Immortals and Demons," the related promotional work is overwhelming, naturally making Xiao Jianci even more famous.

Moreover, even among male audiences who generally don't have much of a liking for young male idols, this actor doesn't have the same unique sense of aversion as other new generation male movie stars, because his acting skills are quite good.

He actually joined in the dance cover?!

Director Chen was stunned, and he opened the video with a grimacing expression.

The number of likes has reached over 300 million, the number of comments has reached 19, the number of favorites has reached 21.2, and the number of shares has reached a staggering 105 million.

The traffic is terrifying. Putting aside other videos, just looking at this one video alone, we can deduce from this data that the single video may have already exceeded 100 million views.

Very exaggerated.

Clicking into the comments section revealed a shocking scene.

"????"

"Holy crap, am I seeing things? Who is this?!"

"Huh?? Xiao Jianci is dancing to this?? Am I still half asleep??"

"When will the TV series air, bro?"

"To be honest, Xiao Jianci's dancing was actually pretty cool."

"Unlike other dance bloggers, who mainly focus on rubbing, and although they seem to have achieved the rubbing, they are all only focused on being blinded by the sun. Their movements are no different from those of weaklings. Xiao Jianci is different. He is exceptionally powerful, and his movements are very clean. He really makes a simple slow rock dance feel like a dance."

"I've seen quite a few people doing the fleece-lined rock dance these past few days. This is the first time I've seen someone doing the fleece-lined rock dance without any femininity, just pure power."

"You think seeing him is a bonus? After all, right now you're standing in front of the Taoli Cup champion and a professional dancer who has won the third prize in a world-class competition, dancing for you. If he hadn't switched to acting, you'd have to buy a ticket to see him dance!"

"Fun fact: Xiao Jianci is a national-level dancer. Seeing this is a real treat."

When will "The Legend of Immortals and Demons" be released, bro?

"It's Xia Shen again! It's Xia Shen again!!! Ahhhh, it's him again!! He even wrote this song!"

"I just noticed too. This guy is unbelievable! What a walking, talking new hit song generator!"

"This traffic is terrifying!"

"Indeed, breaking 10 billion in three days is terrifying."

"Actually, the traffic wasn't this high to begin with, it was just over 100 million views, and it was estimated that it would only reach 500 to 600 million views in the later stages. It was Xiao Jianci's jump that pushed it up directly."

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Explosion! Huge explosion!

If it reaches 10 billion, it's already considered a huge hit.

Director Chen was stunned for a while before putting down his phone and asking, "What about the other songs? How are they doing?"

Operations: "The other songs don't have such high data yet; they're all in the promotion phase. The data isn't bad, but it's not exactly a hit; it's just normal data. I guess we can invest more in operations later. The worst data is for 'Still,' which hasn't even reached a million plays."

“I understand.” Director Chen sighed: “A song like ‘Still’ would never be able to be promoted on Douyin and Kuaishou. It’s too serious and the threshold is too high.”

To reiterate, as the director of a media company, he genuinely doesn't understand music, there's no point in hiding that, but damn it, he's a master of generating buzz!
Logically speaking, the song "Still" was the kind of song that he had already ruled out before it was even released, so he shouldn't have agreed to let Xia Shen put it on the album.

But the problem is, they did do some work for the company, after all.

Shouldn't we show respect to the monks rather than the Buddha?

The reason he allowed Xia Shen to include this song in the album on behalf of the company was also due to personal considerations.

He could actually understand Xia Shen's feelings, knowing that doing things against one's own heart would be very unpleasant.

But money is hard to earn, and life is tough, isn't it?
Who is born with a penchant for creating resentment? Aren't they all forced into it by life?

Moreover, Xia Shen is currently making money for the company, so both morally and logically, the company should allow Xia Shen to be a little willful in an appropriate and not excessive way.

"Next, we'll focus all our efforts on promoting the remaining songs, increasing our intensity and investment!"

He made his decision.

At the same time, he became increasingly satisfied with Xia Shen.

Sure enough, this young man, as long as he listens to advice, has a very bright future. And he had a feeling that this would definitely not be the end for Xia Shen, because Xia Shen released this album at an incredibly fast pace.

In other words, he has a bright future ahead of him!

As a result, over the next few days, the entire staff of the visual effects company witnessed Xia Shen's songs gaining more and more viewership day by day.

The speed of information dissemination in the Internet age is on full display right now!
Among them, the most exaggerated is undoubtedly "Fleece-lined Shake," which is derived from "Midnight DJ Version of Heading to Morning." After several days of viral spread, it went straight to 25 billion views. Almost the entire internet was dancing to this thing, and many bloggers even gained a lot of followers because of it, giving rise to many big bloggers.

Of course, this is not the most outrageous one.

The most outrageous thing was when everyone thought the data growth should have stopped at this point.

And then, one after another, several more celebrities joined in.

First, the other main actors of "The Legend of Immortals and Demons" joined the cast one after another, including the female lead, the second male lead, the second female lead, the third male lead, and the third female lead.

Then many other popular celebrities also joined in.

This directly propelled the song's popularity to a level it didn't deserve!

At this moment, Director Chen was shocked, but he also began to carefully consider the feasibility of the idea he had been thinking about for some time.

That is to say, it seems that it's really time to let Xia Shen do something relatively serious.

In the university town of Shanghai, there is a truly delicious hot pot restaurant.

"Come on, everyone, eat as much as you want! Xia Shen is going to make a fortune now! He's a tycoon! We have to fleece him!"

Qi Yixiang raised his glass and stood up.

"Come on, come on!"

The others followed suit, their beer glasses clinking together, causing some beer to spill through the thick foam and scatter in spots, reflecting a joyful glow under the lights of the hot pot restaurant.

Xia Shen smiled sincerely and said, "Don't worry, after this is over, I'll treat you to massages for the second session! Just order the most expensive one!"

"The most expensive? Are you sure?" Wenxiong narrowed his eyes: "Then I'll add 92, 95, and 98 all of them. I'd be doing you a disservice if I didn't give you a 599 set meal."

"Come upstairs is not included! You'll have to pay for it yourself." Xia Shen glared at Wen Xiong, annoyed.

"Tsk, you really don't know how to enjoy life." Wenxiong shook his head: "Old Xia, I'm not trying to criticize you, but the most important thing when you make money these days is to enjoy it. You're just too honest."

"This isn't about being honest; it's about taking responsibility for yourself," Xia Shen said, rolling her eyes at Wen Xiong.

“If you persuade Xia Shen to do this, be careful Zhou Jie will kill you.” Zheng Xingqi nudged Wen Xiong with his elbow.

“That’s true.” Wenxiong scratched his head.

Xia Shen twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "Stop spreading rumors. There's nothing between me and that person."

The three of them merely exchanged a glance, then simultaneously sneered disdainfully, "Ha!"

Unable to find a satisfactory explanation, Xia Shen rolled her eyes and stopped dwelling on the issue.

The group continued drinking.

Actually, today's gathering was organized by Xia Shen to express his gratitude to his old buddies.

To be honest, he owes his success to his roommates.

Everything is moving in a positive direction now, and he has caught up with his roommates.

However, among the group of people who were having a good time, there was one person who seemed rather odd.

That was Zheng Xingqi. His expression was somewhat melancholy, as if he were deep in thought.

Soon, Xia Shen noticed Zheng Xingqi's downcast expression, looked over, and asked, "What's wrong? You seem unhappy."

"Well, it's nothing much. It's just that their dance troupe seems to be disbanding soon. Their captain has already issued an ultimatum: if things don't improve, they'll disband in a month. Several core members have already left."

"I knew it! Street dance and freestyle basketball? It's a dead end," Qi Yixiang replied.

Xia Shen: "Oh???"

(End of this chapter)