Chapter Ninety-Four: Joy and Sorrow

On the evening of January 10th and 11th, the 3rd and 4th episodes of "Haojie Chunxiang" were broadcast, and the ratings increased a little compared with the first and second episodes, reaching 18.5% and 17.6% respectively.

Not only that, but from the recent positive comments from the media and the audience's support messages on the official website of "Haojie Chunxiang", the crew members have reason to believe that the spring of "Haojie Chunxiang" is coming. As the saying goes, after the competition of the powerful opponent of "Love at Harvard", the audience's attention to "Haojie Chunxiang" and its ratings will definitely rise.

While rejoicing and looking forward to it, Jang Sung-won did not forget to call to congratulate his fellow sister Kim Tae-hee.

"Sister Taixi, congratulations, your "Love at Harvard" has come to a successful conclusion, and congratulations on winning the Top Ten Star Award and the Most Popular Award at the SBS Acting Awards at the end of last year."

"It's been more than ten days since I won the award, and you're just congratulating me now, what did you do earlier?" Kim Tae-hee scolded angrily, and his voice shook so much that Jang Sung-won hurriedly took the phone away.

When Kim Tae-hee won the award on December 31, she thought that Jang Sung-won, a good brother, would call her immediately to say hello, but after waiting for several days, she didn't see any movement from Jang Sung-won, and she felt very annoyed at that time. Just when she was gradually forgetting about this matter in the past few days, Zhang Chengyuan brought up the old matter again at this time, so it suddenly caused the resentment buried in her heart.

Although Zhang Chengyuan didn't know why Jin Tae-hee would lose his temper over such a trivial matter, he knew that he couldn't anger her again at this time, so he apologized softly: "Sister, it's my fault, I solemnly apologize to you, I'm busy filming these days." ”

After Kim Tae-hee lost his temper, most of the resentment in his heart went away, and after hearing Jang Sung-won's apology, he was no longer angry, and said gently: "Forget it, I'll forgive you this time, but next time you must take your sister's affairs to heart, otherwise I want you to look good." She made a rare threat to Jang Sung-won.

However, Jang Sung-won didn't feel strange, because after years of getting along, he had already discovered that Kim Tae-hee seemed gentle, but she was quite strong in her bones, but her strength was rarely shown to others, and usually only showed a little to the people closest to her.

At that moment, Zhang Chengyuan honestly agreed, and was about to say a few more pleasing words, when he suddenly heard a gurgling sound of running water from his mobile phone, and he was puzzled, and when he wanted to ask, he heard Kim Tae-hee say lazily: "Chengyuan, I still have to take a bath, so I won't tell you, we'll talk later." Then she hung up the phone.

As soon as he heard Kim Tae-hee's words, Jang Sung-won was stunned, and his head couldn't help but imagine the beautiful scene when Kim Tae-hee took a bath.

I don't know how long it took, a very slender jade hand hit him on the head, and I only heard Han Caiying say coolly: "You kid, you're crazy again, you've been stunned for five or six minutes and you're still in a daze, didn't you hear that the director was urging us?" Well? What do you think, why are you all red? And where are your eyes looking, under-hitting, aren't they? ”

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Another week passed, and the ratings of episodes 5 and 6 of "Haojie Chunxiang" jumped sharply to 25.1% and 27.5%, which surprised everyone. Although everyone was very optimistic in advance, they only thought that it would rise by about 3% at most, and they didn't expect the ratings to rise so much at once, so while they were happy, they were also a little incredulous.

In addition, after seeing this kind of ratings data, the crew members began to look forward to it, and they all desperately hoped that the ratings would break through to more than 30% in a week or two. Because if it can really reach 30%, then even if it is not touted by the media, it can be proved that "Haojie Chunxiang" is a very successful TV series, then everyone can be happy and famous. In particular, the two rookie screenwriters, as well as the two male and female leading actors Jang Sung-won and Han Chae-young, will surely receive the greatest attention.

However, while everyone is looking forward to a better future with joy, Jang Sung-won is not happy at all, because "Shamrock" starring Lee Hyo-ri also aired this week, and the ratings of the first broadcast were only 12.6%, and the ratings of the second episode dropped to below double digits. Although with the development of the Internet in recent years, the number of people watching TV dramas has begun to decrease, but the single-digit ratings are really miserable, and the starring role of the TV series is still the female singer Lee Hyo-ri, who is currently very popular in Korea and has attracted the attention of tens of millions of people. It can be seen how displeasing the TV series "Shamrock" is, and how disappointing Lee Hyori's TV image is for the first time.

Although Zhang Chengyuan had already predicted that "Clover" might fail, he didn't expect it to fail so completely, and he was defeated by "Haojie Chunxiang" starring him, as a TV program opponent in the same time period, the more successful "Haojie Chunxiang" is, the more "Clover" will fail, Zhang Chengyuan can already predict that the ratings of "Clover" will inevitably continue to decline, and then Lee Hyori, as the starring role, will inevitably be more criticized by the media and criticized as one of the main culprits of the failure of this TV series.

In this way, how can Jang Sung-won not worry about Lee Hyo-ri's psychological condition at this time? As Lee Hyori's closest younger brother, how could he not know that although Lee Hyori looks very strong on the surface, his heart is far from being so strong! And since her debut, she has almost always been smooth sailing, praised, and has not suffered any major setbacks, but now she has suddenly become the object of criticism from the audience and the media, how can she accept it for a while?

"Sister Xiaoli shouldn't be hiding in the room alone and holding her head in pain, right?" Zhang Chengyuan thought extremely worriedly, and desperately wanted to return to her side as soon as possible to comfort and comfort her.

At ten o'clock that night, after finishing the day's shooting, Zhang Chengyuan immediately hurriedly called Li Xiaoli, because today's shooting task is quite heavy, and he knew that Li Xiaoli must be busy with work during the day, so Zhang Chengyuan did not call Li Xiaoli during the day, but did not call until after finishing work.

It took several calls before Lee Hyo-ri answered the phone.

Zhang Chengyuan asked with concern and guilt: "Sister Xiaoli, are you okay?" ”

"I'm fine, I'm fine, you can film your scene well, don't worry about me." Lee Hyori said calmly. But Zhang Chengyuan clearly heard her voice trembling slightly, and her nasal voice was slightly heavier, he could imagine that Li Xiaoli must have been crying before, and after seeing his call, in order not to worry him, he deliberately wiped away his tears, and maybe even washed his face to stabilize his emotions, and then pretended to talk to him as if nothing happened, the purpose was not to let him notice anything wrong.

Zhang Chengyuan said softly: "Sister Xiaoli, don't lie to me, how many years have we been together, I remember your words and deeds, every move, and I am very familiar with it, you can't fool me." ”

Li Xiaoli said angrily: "I said that if there is nothing to do, there is nothing to do, what are you talking about?" Do your thing well and go! ”

Zhang Chengyuan let out a breath and apologized: "Sister, I'm sorry, I caused you to be like this." In Zhang Chengyuan's mind, if he didn't shoot "Haojie Chunxiang", even if Lee Hyori still couldn't avoid this blow, at least it wouldn't let him have a "I caused it with my own hands", which made him feel guilty to death and felt very uncomfortable.

"If you talk nonsense like this again, I won't recognize you as a younger brother!"

After hearing Zhang Chengyuan's apology, Li Xiaoli became even more angry, although she is indeed very sad and sad now, but she is even more afraid that Zhang Chengyuan will feel sorry for her, so she just pretended to be "nothing" just now, just to reduce the guilt and uneasiness in Zhang Chengyuan's heart, because she knew that this stupid brother who was sincere to the four of their sisters and cared about them everywhere would definitely be on the tip of the horns because of this incident.

Zhang Chengyuan apologized again: "I'm sorry, sister, I won't say that again." ”

Li Xiaoli said angrily: "Don't tell me I'm sorry again, I don't want to hear it!" After a pause, she softened her tone and said gently: "Chengyuan, don't worry about me, I'll never be fine, go to sleep!" My sister is also ready to rest. With that, he hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, Li Xiaoli was depressed for a while, and suddenly thought: "For the sake of Cheng Yuan, a stinky boy, I must cheer up, lest he think crankily again." ”