As the "Da Zhou" series of dramas continued to air, and the later plotlines remained consistently exciting rather than falling flat, the viewership steadily climbed. While the ratings fluctuated, they consistently stayed above nine points, dominating the entertainment charts for a full two months.
This means that for the past two months.
Among all the dramas airing online.
The "Da Zhou" series consistently held the top spot. When all three dramas aired simultaneously, they even occupied the top three positions.
The platform representatives responsible for signing contracts were both thrilled and regretful. Thrilled because with such success, even without a promotion, a salary increase was certain, and their year-end bonuses would be substantial. Regretful because they hadn't insisted on buying out the rights. If they had purchased them outright instead of opting for a revenue-sharing agreement, they would have undoubtedly earned much more.
Along with the dramas, the deeply memorable lead and supporting actors became famous, and even the eunuchs or passers-by who only appeared for a few seconds, yet stunned the world, gained recognition.
When Ding Yun created this virtual world, she didn't just adjust the appearances of the protagonists and supporting characters to make them more attractive. To save effort, she had moderately enhanced the attractiveness of everyone in the entire virtual world.
Therefore, among the crowd of passers-by outside the main and supporting cast who were regularly on screen, it was normal for a few exceptionally attractive individuals to occasionally appear. After all, she had created an entire virtual world. An entire virtual world couldn't possibly consist of only dozens or a hundred handsome men and beautiful women like the main and supporting characters. Ding Yun hadn't paid much attention to those beauties who flashed by occasionally at the time.
So, she didn't cut them out.
This inadvertently led to a trending topic and a sensation that captivated millions of viewers: an activity to find the "hidden gems of the sea."
Countless people meticulously slowed down each episode, searching the crowds for these lost treasures, handsome men, and beautiful women.
Once found, they would take screenshots and send them to Ding Yun's account.
Demanding that she reveal the accounts of the beauties within.
In addition to this, the clamor for Ding Yun's account to reveal the actors of the drama's main and supporting roles, and to have them participate in live broadcasts and variety shows, rose one after another.
Eventually, some people even suspected.
That Ding Yun might have imprisoned the actors.
They even threatened that if the actors didn't appear soon to show they were safe and sound, or to participate in live broadcasts, they would report it to the authorities.
At this point, Ding Yun could only begin to try and salvage the situation. She posted a statement indicating that these actors were not previously from the entertainment industry and had only agreed to act because of her influence, intending to simply have some fun. They had no plans to enter the entertainment industry, and she hoped everyone would refrain from overthinking or disturbing them.
Furthermore, Ding Yun directly threatened that if people continued to cause too much trouble, she might not be able to invite them to participate in other dramas for fun in the future.
If they didn't make a fuss and only focused on watching the shows, without chasing after the actors.
There was still a possibility of inviting these actors to perform in one or two more dramas in the future, or perhaps to record some game variety shows.
With the release of this content, although some fans were still somewhat dissatisfied, even feeling there might be hidden reasons, the majority believed it. They then began to imagine that the handsome men and beautiful women Ding Yun had invited might be people outside the entertainment industry, perhaps even second or third-generation heirs from prominent families, whose genes had been refined over generations, making them naturally good-looking. It was perfectly reasonable that they wouldn't want to be in the entertainment industry or become celebrities.
And with their imaginative elaborations, some of the previously strange situations now seemed to make perfect sense. They even spontaneously took it upon themselves to manage the situation for Ding Yun.
Thus, the hidden dangers of Ding Yun using her virtual divine kingdom and virtual humans to film dramas were basically resolved.
However, the subsequent problems still needed to be addressed.
After all, it wasn't ideal to continue deceiving people like this indefinitely.
Moreover, all the characters in the fantasy martial arts series of drama films she had just edited were entirely new virtual humans, a completely different group from the "Da Zhou" series.
She couldn't possibly claim that these people were also just there for fun.
And had no intention of entering the entertainment industry.
The excuse that actors were just having fun and didn't intend to enter the entertainment industry could only be used once. Using it repeatedly with different characters each time would be hard to believe. After all, where else could so many handsome men and beautiful women who had acted in dramas be found, all purely for leisure?
With no intention of entering the entertainment industry for profit.
And all of them concentrated in her hands!
Therefore, these troublesome matters still needed to be resolved. To this end, after publishing the announcement, Ding Yun quickly entered her virtual divine kingdom and, using her omnipotent creation god authority within the divine kingdom, forcibly resurrected those who had already died of old age in the virtual world. That's right, she resurrected them.
After finishing filming the dramas and films, Ding Yun had not stopped the time acceleration in the virtual world. Therefore, several hundred years had already passed in the virtual world. All the original protagonists, supporting characters, and minor characters had long since died, replaced by their descendants.
Whether it was for recording variety shows or doing other things with those people, she had to resurrect them first.
As these characters were resurrected, Ding Yun quickly divided the power of faith from the viewers of the films and dramas, which had been accumulating in the virtual divine kingdom but could not be injected into individual entities.
The power of faith poured into which actor.
Would be allocated to which virtual human.
This was not the end. After this division, Ding Yun summoned the hundred or so virtual humans, whose faith power was sufficient to materialize them, to her side. While awakening them, she also provided them with information about the real world and their current predicament.
In other words, she told them about their origins and circumstances.
Following this, she waited for their reactions.
Unsurprisingly, those who had just awakened, upon learning from the memories Ding Yun had transmitted to them that they were merely virtual characters created by Ding Yun, and that their lives, including all their past experiences, were largely predetermined plotlines, were undoubtedly quite shocked and found it difficult to accept.
Fortunately, the initial intelligence Ding Yun bestowed upon them was not exceptionally powerful. At least, it was not enough for them to possess too much independent thinking ability, nor was it enough for them to develop rebellious thoughts of "my fate is my own, not dictated by heaven."
So, after the initial shock, they quickly resigned themselves to their fate.
They asked Ding Yun what she intended to do with them.
And Ding Yun frankly stated, "It's very simple!
I hope you will join my company and become my employees. I will arrange real-life identities for you and grant you true life and true souls. Of course, this is all voluntary.
If any of you are unwilling, that's fine too."
"I will erase your corresponding memories, allowing you to continue to freely cycle through this virtual world. Furthermore, due to the presence of some faith power within you, until this faith power completely dissipates, each of your reincarnations within the virtual world.
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