According to the previous plan, "Running" should have been aired in early April, but some minor problems arose in post-production and review.

It was only after the help and coordination of Tao Yuanyuan that the broadcast was changed to May, otherwise it might have to be delayed until the summer vacation.

Li Rui doesn't mind delaying until the summer vacation, maybe the ratings will be better, but if the summer vacation is broadcast, the sun is scorching outside, and the scene of Wudalianchi bathing in the hot springs is playing on TV. Isn't it a bit unreasonable?

All in all, good things have gone a long way, and "Run" was finally confirmed to be aired on Friday night, May 11th.

The situation in "The Biography of Concubine Zhen" is completely opposite.

"Running" was delayed, while "The Legend of Concubine Zhen" was deliberately hidden until now.

"The Legend of Concubine Zhen" has too great potential. The ratings and online memes triggered by the previous life for more than ten years are enough to prove the quality and influence of this TV series.

Since Li Rui spent a lot of money to buy the copyright of "The Legend of Concubine Zhen", he would not squeeze out a drop of her surplus value?

According to the trajectory of his previous life, "The Legend of Concubine Zhen" was launched on satellite TV in March and was broadcast nationwide. Before that, in order to earn some copyright fees and test market reactions, it was broadcasted on some local stations in two rounds.

The advantage of this is that the TV series version can be adjusted according to the broadcast reaction of the local station, so as to hit the TV series in the best state.

Of course, there is also a lot of cost pressure. After all, "The Legend of Concubine Zhen" has huge investment and you must use all means to recover the cost, otherwise you will lose all your money if you are not careful.

This approach also has its drawbacks. Since it is broadcast, some clips or even pirated copies will naturally leak, which will have some negative impact on the official launch.

In this life, "The Legend of Concubine Zhen" was sold to Li Rui before it was completely filmed. Since there was no cost pressure, there was no need to broadcast it in advance to recover the cost.

This time it was broadcast on the satellite is the first time that "The Legend of Concubine Zhen" has appeared in front of the national audience. The rating enthusiasm that has triggered will definitely exceed that of previous lives!

The same is true.

At 7:30 p.m. on May 7, the news program had just finished broadcasting, and the countdown to the broadcast of "The Legend of Concubine Zhen" appeared on the TV screens of Dolphin TV and Tomato TV at the same time!

With the end of the advertisement and the series officially began, this annual drama that attracted the appetite of the national audience for a long time finally came on stage, and since then it set off a ratings storm that lasted for more than ten years.

How to compare the popularity of "The Legend of Concubine Zhen"?

Let’s use a metaphor that all national audiences can understand: "The Legend of Concubine Zhen" once replaced "The Princess Returning to the Pearl" and "Journey to the West" for the dominant daytime period in the winter and summer vacations, becoming a new generation of screen-dominated dramas!

Let me give you another example to illustrate the popularity of "The Legend of Concubine Zhen".

Just one year after the show was broadcast, Longjiang Satellite TV bought her replay copyright. In order not to waste this investment, Longjiang Satellite TV replayed "The Legend of Concubine Zhen" 13 times in one go, and the daytime ratings can even reach an astonishing 0.25!

Because Longjiang Satellite TV broadcasts "The Legend of Concubine Zhen" almost all day long, some people even joked that they changed Longjiang Satellite TV to "The Legend of Concubine Zhen" to "The Legend of Concubine Zhen". But what is unknown is that it is precisely because of the ratings brought by the rebroadcast of "The Legend of Concubine Zhen" that Longjiang Satellite TV replaced Bohai Satellite TV at that time and became the highest-rated satellite channel in the three northeastern provinces!

Is it ridiculous?

It's a bit ridiculous, but that's the fact, a fact that is more exciting than the novel!

The market never lie. The textbook says that there is an invisible hand manipulating the market. Putting this invisible hand on the entertainment field is the joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness of the people. They will use the remote control to vote, and customers will use the ratings to check the effectiveness of advertising.

As it turns out, the first wave of popularity of "The Legend of Concubine Zhen" lasted for three full years. No matter how late the TV station entered the audience, it could get rewards from her.

The first wave of eating meat, the second wave of drinking soup, and the third wave of gnawing bones, even the residue taken out of the fourth wave is very moisturizing enough for the small TV station.

If there was no problem with Zhenshi Group, which held the copyright of "The Legend of Concubine Zhen" in her previous life, "The Legend of Concubine Zhen" would have continued to become popular until it became popular again with the spread of short video platforms.

The copyright of "The Legend of Concubine Zhen" in this life is in the hands of Li Rui, so naturally there will be no more troubles like the Zhenshi Group in the previous life. It is conceivable that "The Legend of Concubine Zhen" will continue to become popular, becoming a dark textbook in front of every woman's bedside desk.

I believe that in the future history, a saying will be circulated: If you want to be a scumbag, you will read "The Thick Black Learning", you will become a green tea, and you will read "The Biography of Concubine Zhen" by women!

Li Rui knew so much about "The Legend of Concubine Zhen" because he had read it many times in his previous life.

When I was in love with Xiaoyi, I accompanied her many times.

After being with my wife, I also watched it many times.

Moreover, Li Rui found that these women have something in common. No matter what TV program they want to watch, if they see a TV station playing "The Legend of Concubine Zhen" during the change of stations, they will definitely stop and watch it for a while, although they may have watched this episode countless times and even memorized the lines.

What's even more amazing is that whenever they clean up their house, they like to play an episode of "The Legend of Concubine Zhen" on TV or tablet as the background sound.

It is precisely because they are so obsessed that Li Rui also met Concubine Zhen, An Lingrong, Shen Meizhuang, Hua, and Big Pig's Trooster...

Li Rui once thought seriously about why this drama is so attractive to women.

Perhaps it is because everyone in the play is neither black nor white, the complexity and contradictions of human nature, the cruelty and ups and downs of fate are all reflected in them, which resonates deeply, right?

Just like Concubine Zhen, played by Sun Lili, she has always been portrayed as a brilliant woman with both wisdom and wisdom, but she also has the attitude of a child favored by the emperor, the shrewdness she desperately shows in front of her lover, and the true feelings she reveals after losing her child, as well as the self-esteem and pride after seeing through everything.

Even the villain is quite interesting. An Lingrong is a villain, but she just wants to search for a way to survive among her powerful peers and seniors.

Concubine Hua is a villain. Her arrogant and domineering temper is actually a heart that lacks a sense of security.

I still remember that Xiaoyi once told Li Rui in his previous life: The beauty of "The Legend of Concubine Zhen" may be that it is a work that can grow on its own, leaving blank space between the characters just right, allowing her to still be able to reminisce and be full of imagination after turning off the screen.

Li Rui may never be able to understand the love and enthusiasm of female audiences when watching "The Legend of Concubine Zhen", but he also has his own favorite TV series, and after putting his heart in mind, he roughly understood it.

Just like some people will watch "Bright Sword" over and over again, some people will burst into tears when watching "Blood Romance", some people will study the mysteries in "Ming Dynasty 1566", and some people will mysteriously recommend "xx Republic" to Li Rui. Li Rui understands everyone's choice, and of course he can understand the popularity of "The Legend of Concubine Zhen".

Everything in the world can only be beautiful if it is uneven.
Chapter completed!