In the morning, Jang Sung-won instructed Lin Ji-so to send someone to return Lee Joon-gi's car to Lee Joon-gi, and then he got into the car driven by Kim Yoo-gi and returned to the crew of "Quick Knife Hong Jitong". At this time, the TV series is about to start, so the filming situation is even more tense, and if he has nothing very important in the future, he is afraid that director Lee Jung-sub will not let him go.

On the way, Jang Sung-won was about to call Lee Joon-gi to ask about his situation, but suddenly thought that he might still be hungover at this time, or that he was in love with Nam Sang-mi after waking up, so he gave up this idea and thought: "I don't know if he blames me for being troublesome now, or is he grateful to me for inviting Nam Sang-mi to his house?" Anyway, ask him again the next time we meet him. I hope that he can achieve good things with Nan Sangmei in the future and get out of the situation of a bachelor as soon as possible.

Oh, by the way, I don't know how Brother Lu Daozhen is now? Have you ever had a crush on a beautiful woman? Well, maybe his path to love will be a little more tortuous than Joongi's. Alas! How could a master of love like me become good friends with Brother Dao Zhen and Jungji, two Mu Ne people? I have to worry about them all this when it comes to it. ”

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Two days later, on January 2, 08, "Quick Knife Hong Ji Tong" finally premiered on KBS TV.

Since September, the crew and actors have exposed action training, actor stills, shooting tidbits, promotional posters, trailers and other materials from time to time to launch the promotional offensive of this drama, so it has already aroused the strong and continuous curiosity of the audience. In particular, Jang Sung-won's first time as a martial arts instructor and his appearance of wearing sunglasses in the play, Sung You-ri's fresh image changed from the past, and Jang Keun-suk's first appearance as a traitor created extremely hot topics among the public. Therefore, many viewers very much want to see what the situation will be like after the filming of this drama, and it can be said that the expectations for "Quick Knife Hong Jitong" are eager.

In addition, the script of the Hong sisters is now a kind of quality assurance. and the star appeal of Jang Sung-won, Sung Yoo-ri, Jang Geun-seok and others. As a result, the premiere ratings of this TV series are quite good. reached 18.5%, if it weren't for the fact that the ratings of the competitor "NewHeart" were quite hot during this period and suppressed "Kuaidao Hong Jitong", then the ratings of "Kuaidao Hongjitong" would have been better.

In particular, it should be pointed out that since the MBC Acting Awards, the hot topic formed by the relationship between Jang Sung Won and Yoon Eun Hye beyond the ordinary brother and sister has made Jang Sung Won's public attention, which has gradually declined since the end of "Coffee Prince No. 1 Shop", suddenly rise again. As a result, it has had a considerable positive effect on the ratings of "Quick Knife Hong Jitong". Otherwise, the premiere ratings of this TV series will not be able to reach the current height.

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When the first episode of "Quick Knife Hong Jitong" was broadcast, the audience's views on the storyline of this show were somewhat inconsistent, and some viewers thought that the plot was too exaggerated, adding too many modern things to the historical drama, which was difficult to accept; And there are also incomprehensible parts in terms of historical background, such as how it is possible for people in Hong Ji's childhood to have dealings with the Qing Dynasty, and the era in which he lived is equivalent to the Ming Dynasty in China.

Another viewer thinks that this TV series is very novel and interesting, abandoning the old-fashioned and heavy feeling of traditional historical dramas, which is refreshing. And it's quite witty and humorous, which makes people feel very interesting and not bored.

In addition to the plot. The most discussed by the audience is the martial arts scene in the play. In this regard, the audience's caliber is quite consistent, and they all think that the martial arts action design is novel and unique, which is very different from the old-fashioned fights in Korean dramas in the past. And all the action actors, including several leading actors, are almost real and wonderful fights, which also make people enthusiastic and reluctant to look away, and even better than the action scenes of Korean movies. Many male viewers even feel that if the action scenes after that can be as exciting as the first episode, then even if they only watch the action scenes of this TV series, it will be worth watching them.

Maybe it's because many viewers are too interested in the martial arts scene of "Fast Knife Hong Jitong", so although a small number of people who are not satisfied with the plot of this TV series choose not to watch this drama anymore, but more people join the ranks of viewers, so that the ratings of the second episode have risen instead of falling, and the national ratings have reached 19.8%, almost breaking through the 20% mark.

This made Zhang Chengyuan very satisfied, and he felt that he took the initiative to seize the position of martial arts instructor to stimulate the ratings of the TV series by improving the quality of action camera shooting, which was very correct. As a result, he was more determined to design and shoot better-looking and exciting action scenes, and continued to strictly supervise the actors' practice. And it is precisely because of Zhang Chengyuan's idea that since then, the action actors have worked harder, but for the audience's praise of the action scenes, they gritted their teeth and continued to persevere. Of course, they will inevitably curse Zhang Chengyuan in their hearts from time to time for being cold-blooded and ruthless and impersonal.

As for director Lee Jung-sub, when he saw the positive role of the martial arts arena in the face of ratings, he trusted and supported Jang Sung-won even more, and he did his best to meet all the manpower and material resources that Jang Sung-won asked for and had a positive effect on the filming of action scenes, whether it was costumes, props, shooting equipment, or actors' food and recuperation.

Sometimes Lee Jung-sub even completely entrusted the filming of action scenes to Jang Sung-won, and let Jang Sung-won be the executive director to direct the shooting, and Jang Sung-won also lived up to his expectations every time to shoot martial arts scenes that made him feel extremely satisfied.

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Time flies quickly, and soon the next week, the 3rd and 4th episodes of "Quick Knife Hong Jitong" have also been broadcast. The ratings of these two episodes reached 20.6% and 21.4% respectively, a slight increase from the previous week, ranking second among the three major TV stations in the same time period, still second only to MBC's "NewHeart", but the gap has narrowed a lot from last week, from about 5% last week to about 2%.

And due to the increase in the viewership of "Kuai Dao Hong Jitong", the ratings of "NewHeart" cannot continue to rise, but declines slightly. This is expected in the near future or even next week. The ratings of "Quick Knife Hong Jitong" may surpass that of "NewHeart". occupy the first position in the ratings of the same period.

The ratings of the TV series "No Khan", which was broadcast on SBS TV at the same time and starring Jang Hyuk and Lee Dahae, were bleak, dropping from about 9% when it premiered last week to 6.2% in the fourth episode.

In this regard, Zhang Chengyuan didn't know whether he should be happy to defeat the competitor "No Khan Party", or feel sorry for it. After all, the heroine of this drama is Li Duohai, and he really doesn't want to see Li Duohai under too much pressure because of the poor ratings of this TV series, such as criticism from the audience and film critics, doubts about his own ability, and so on. So he called Li Duohai many times in his spare time to comfort him.

But Li Duohai seems to be far stronger than he imagined. I never complained to him, nor did I complain about anything, but I just asked Zhang Chengyuan to ask her to have a drink to comfort her after finishing the filming of "Quick Knife Hong Jitong". Zhang Chengyuan naturally agreed to this small request.

While continuing to be busy filming TV dramas, although the time is very tight, Jang Sung-won still occasionally finds time to go back to Seoul to deal with some things, such as the endorsement and promotion activities of some big businesses and big brands. Since about half of his current income comes from advertising, he really doesn't dare to deal with big financiers like Samsung, LG, and SK who give him a lot of endorsement fees for the time being. For the business catwalks and other events organized by them. He didn't dare to push it off.

Fortunately, Lee Jung-sub had a good relationship with him at this time. can understand his distress and allow him to take occasional leave, of course, provided that it does not affect the filming progress.

When he went back to Seoul to catch the announcement, Zhang Chengyuan would deal with some personal matters by the way, such as learning about the income of the company or store under his name in 07, discussing the company's business and the company's development strategy in 08 with Lin Zhixiu, and getting together with his sisters who had free time and so on.

On the afternoon of January 10, Jang Sung-won returned to Seoul and appeared at the new product launch of LG mobile phones, and met Kim Tae-hee, whom he had not seen for several months. She is also one of the spokespersons for LG phones.

However, although they are also one of the spokespersons of LG mobile phones and have also co-produced TV commercials, not every LG mobile phone promotional meeting, the two will attend together. In fact, the two rarely meet together, and more often because of the conflict in their schedules, the two go on the catwalk alone or match with other spokespersons. For example, Kim Tae-hee often goes to China and other places with Hyun Bin to promote products, while Jang Sung-won does more publicity work in South Korea.

However, this time, Jang Sung-won, Kim Tae-hee and Hyun Bin, as well as another spokesperson, Kang Dong-won, these four spokespersons rarely attended this new product launch conference together. This may be due to the fact that this conference is the first product launch conference of LG mobile phones in 08 years, and LG Electronics attaches more importance to it.

No matter what the reason, Jang Sung-won has to be grateful to LG Electronics for making such an arrangement today, otherwise, if he wants to meet Kim Tae-hee, he may have to wait until he finishes filming "Quick Knife Hong Jitong" before he will have time.

Maybe he hadn't seen Kim Tae-hee for too long, missed her too much, and wanted to stay with her too much, so in the preparation time before the press conference began, Jang Sung-won always stayed by Kim Tae-hee's side and showed great hospitality, almost ignoring the other two spokespersons, Kang Dong-won and Hyun Bin.

Fortunately, Hyun Bin and Jiang Dong Won are also relatively taciturn people who don't like to communicate with strangers, so they don't mind Jang Sungwon's actions very much, and even think that he is better off like this, because they don't know how to communicate with Jang Sungwon, a senior who debuted earlier than them, is younger than them, and has a very cold personality.

As a result, during the entire press conference, Zhang Chengyuan, Jiang Dongyuan, and Hyun Bin basically did not say anything except for saying hello when they met and when they separated. And Kim Tae-hee was so entangled by Jang Sung-won that he almost didn't have a chance to talk to Kang Dong-won and Hyun Bin, who had cooperated in filming advertisements and had a good relationship with her.

And after the product launch conference, Jang Sung-won insisted on pestering Kim Tae-hee to accompany him to dinner, and even after eating, he dragged her to his apartment to sit idle for an hour or two before letting her go, during which he inevitably ate tofu a few times while Kim Tae-hee was unprepared. Of course, it was inevitable that he was taught a few more lessons by Kim Tae-hee and received a lot of punches and kicks. (To be continued......)