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The first episode of the play "Ruzidi" tells the story of three successive generations of emperors passing away in less than four years.

The current talented and generous Emperor Wu passed away after more than forty years of reign, and Emperor Heng succeeded him. Three years later, he died of a serious illness.

After Sidi's death, he left no heirs, so he could only choose a successor from among the other two sons of Hengdi.

Han Ruzi and the King of the East China Sea.

The former is a child born to a court lady, not loved by Emperor Heng, and his mother's family is humble; the latter's mother's family is a member of the power minister Cui's family, and has a high prestige.

Here, Dimension Entertainment made some adaptations of the original work.

In the original book, the protagonist Han Ruzi and the important supporting role Donghai King are both very young, about thirteen or fourteen years old. In the setting of the play, the grade of the two is set to be seventeen years old. Mainly because of the actor's problem, Li Ze is already in his third year this year, so it might be okay to ask him to play a 17-year-old boy, but it's definitely not good to play a 13-year-old boy.

What's more, the protagonist at the age of thirteen or fourteen is very inappropriate. This is not a juvenile drama,

The story begins after the death of Emperor Si. Han Ruzi was brought into the court by the eunuch Yang Feng, and together with the King of the East China Sea, he became a candidate for the emperor and eventually became the emperor.

However, this is just a puppet.

The King of the East China Sea is supported by many foreign ministers outside the court, and it is precisely because of this that the Empress Dowager did not want the King of the East China Sea to succeed, but instead chose Han Ruzi, a man with no foundation and better control, as the puppet emperor—— And it's just a transition.

During this process, the ministers of the imperial court made great efforts and even attacked the court, trying to establish the king of the East China Sea as the emperor, but they failed in the end.

The first episode, about an hour long, finishes this process.

During the whole viewing, Ge Mei could be said to be engrossed. When she first watched it, she still had a slightly scrutinizing attitude, but when the plot entered a very important part in the first episode, the whole story could be described as seamless, and Ge Mei watched it unconsciously.

Pull the progress bar and jump to see? Stop it. From the first minute of this drama, the amount of information thrown out is particularly large, and I wish that every scene has a deep meaning. In the process of watching, Ge Mei felt that she was using her brain all the time, and she had no desire to jump at all.

Before I knew it, I had finished watching the first episode.

Couldn't help it, and immediately clicked on the second episode.

The quality did not decline, but as the plot entered Ruzi became the emperor, the situation did not improve. After the story became more ups and downs, the whole story became more gripping.

Looking at it, a word from the earphone suddenly woke her up.

"What are you looking at?"

"Ah?" Taking off the earphones, Ge Mei found out that it was her roommate Dou Min who had returned.

Dou Min repeated the question just now.

""Ru Zi Di"!"

"Have you read the "Library of Heavenly Dao" I recommended to you?"

"Look."

"I'm handsome, right?"

"There's only the face left."

"What do you mean?" Dou Min was a little unhappy, she couldn't hear a word of bad things about her.

"No...it's nothing..." Ge Mei didn't want to argue with her roommate on this matter, otherwise, there would definitely be no good end.

"The drama is indeed a bit mediocre..." It seems that Dou Min himself knows the situation, "But it has nothing to do with Kun! It's all the fault of the director and the script. I, Kun, have worked hard."

"Yes yes yes..." Ge Mei nodded in response, after she finished speaking, she put on the earphones again and continued to watch.

Dou Min was all right, standing behind Ge Mei and watching together for a while.

Although she couldn't hear the sound, after watching it for a few minutes, she said again: "Eh? Who is this little brother? He's pretty handsome too."

She was talking about the protagonist of "Emperor Ruzi", Li Ze who plays Han Ruzi.

"The lead actor's name seems to be Li Ze." Ge Mei took off the earphones again, turned the computer into an external speaker, and asked simply, "Do you want to watch it together?"

"Okay, tell me about the previous plot..." Dou Min moved a bench and came over to watch it together.

...

On the first day "Ruzidi" was launched, the ratings of major review sites were unlocked.

On Douban, it directly scored 9.0 points. Generally, when a work is first launched, as long as the quality is good, the score will always be higher. After a long time, it will naturally return to a normal level.

But in any case, the score of 9.0 is not too low.

In general, the audience's impression of this work is mainly concentrated on a series of labels such as 'realism', 'actor style', 'Li Ze is a good actor', 'cruel power struggle' and so on.

In general, this drama is quite good in the evaluation of all parties.

However, bad situations are not without exception.

In stark contrast to the fairly good word-of-mouth, the results of "Ruzidi" on the first day of its launch, even with a wave of assists beforehand, were not outstanding.

Compared with "Tian Dao" and "Bu Dao" in the summer, the pre-sale of the work is far behind, only about 500,000. Including the paid members brought by the work, the revenue before the entire launch was only about 30 million, which was a slightly sluggish figure.

And after the work was launched, the number of views on the first day barely exceeded 100 million in the whole day-this is the number of views including all free and paid content.

This is not a drama with big ambitions, the performance it should have.

Seeing such achievements, Sun Junyi, the Operations Director of the 'Dimension Platform', felt rather disheartened.

The taste of failure is really uncomfortable.

However, after Ye Jiayi and Fan Zhe knew about this, they didn't blame him and Wu Jingtong too much.

"Just be ourselves, take your time."

Not being scolded was the only thing that made Sun Junyi feel in a good mood.

But in fact, after the old grandson left, Ye Jiayi still inevitably showed some frustration.

This kind of mood is not suitable to show in front of subordinates, but in front of Fan Zhe, Ye Jiayi will no longer pretend to be calm.

"This time...we seem to have failed."

Her nature is not high enough.

But Fan Zhe, who heard this next to him, was not so pessimistic.

"Failure? It seems to be too early to make a conclusion. I don't think I failed." After a pause, he continued: "I see that the audience's comments are quite good."

"Word-of-mouth is good but grades are poor, whether it's good or not..." Ye Jiayi shook her head helplessly.

This kind of thing is quite common. Not only in TV series, but in movies, this situation is even more common.

The quality of the work is good, but it does not mean that the results will definitely be good.

But despite this, Fan Zhe still maintains a good attitude: "It's still too early, believe it or not, although it seems that the performance of "Ru Zi Di" may be worse than that of "Tianhong"'s "Tian Dao", but If we look at it in the long run, our results can overtake them.”

"Uh..." Ye Jiayi looked at Fan Zhe, wondering why he was so confident.