Shu Mei feels this is a milestone event!

The fame of celebrities, after all, needs various references and rankings to anchor.

Otherwise, it's hard for the wide audience to have a clear concept.

And Netflix's top ranking is precisely the kind of reference that can increase awareness.

If you say your idol is popular abroad, it's hard to convince everyone by merely saying so.

But if you say your idol's show, where they are the absolute lead, topped Netflix's top ranking...

What? You say you've never heard of Netflix's top ranking or even Netflix?

Well, you've surely heard of "Squid Game" and "House of Cards," right? These are shows from Netflix and topped the Netflix top ranking back then.

Round it off, it's like their idol starred in "Squid Game" and "House of Cards"!

Sure, there's still a difference between first places, and little details like absolute audience numbers shouldn't really concern us.

After getting up and meeting Shu Mei in the hotel restaurant for breakfast, she brought more information.

"Brother, our show is already third." She held her phone, looking at the ranking, genuinely amused.

"Generally speaking, the second and third days after a show's broadcast are the peak of its popularity. We've only been through one night; there's a good chance it will top the chart." Shi Wu was there as well, regarding the success of his boss's new show...

To be honest, he wasn't surprised anymore; the wins have almost been excessive, not a single show failed in the past half-year.

Also, as for how this show would fare, actually, it was already somewhat predictable back in Japan while recording the show, upon hearing that Wu Mu had connections with the Yakuza and was treated like an honored guest by them.

Although he himself really wanted to advise his boss to keep it low... no matter how free-spirited, it's a bit excessive being treated as an honored guest by the Yakuza, for a public figure!

Wu Mu nodded, "Just as I was coming down, the show's director Cui Xiangzhong called me to talk about this."

Previously, Jin Huiyan said Director Cui was hard to get along with, but that was a complete misunderstanding.

He wasn't difficult to get along with at all; not only did he keep expressing gratitude on the phone and warmly inviting him to continue participating in his future shows, he even jokingly asked if he was interrupting Wu Mu's rest, claiming he had checked Wu Mu's profile and deliberately called at a later time.

Isn't this quite easy to get along with?

The show's popularity doesn't just show on the Netflix platform ranking but also in the social media buzz.

Making it to the trending topics in Japan and South Korea is taken for granted, and Shu Mei focuses on Wu Mu's accounts' follower growth across platforms.

"Brother, we gained over a hundred thousand followers on Twitter overnight!"

The global hit show's impact was immediate; Wu Mu's Twitter followers were a little over 4.2 million, mostly due to the Japanese album release and Cannes best actor wins previously.

And now, it increased by more than a quarter overnight.

Instagram followers also grew by ninety thousand, now exceeding 2.8 million.

This despite Wu Mu hardly using Twitter and Instagram, previously just posting a hometown promotion video and a backstage video from "Music Station."

"Brother, use Twitter more! You need to keep it active; this way, people are more interested in following!" Shu Mei strongly suggested.

This time Wu Mu nodded in agreement; it's high time to use Twitter more. For future performance card exchanges, he can't always target local audiences; it's time to engage international ones too.

Because previously most exchange projects were focused domestically, he somewhat forgot the international market could also allow for profit card exchanges.

This realization came when he noticed this morning—the pre-order numbers for his game suddenly surged.

Before the Netflix show's airing, Wu Mu's game had a bit over four million pre-orders.

A game not yet launched just based on one Weibo post garnered over four million pre-orders; it can certainly be described as astounding.

But it hadn't even fulfilled half the quota of the profit card.

The pre-order numbers had clearly started to slow down.

With this trend, it seemed it might be indefinitely delayed.

But looking this morning, he suddenly realized pre-orders had surged to over 4.6 million.

A leap of five to six hundred thousand in one go.

At first, he thought it was domestic audiences picking up on the new show's buzz, again influenced by the performance card.

But when checking comments and messages on Weibo, they hadn't increased significantly.

Then checking the backend statistics of the game pre-order activities, a significant portion were from European and American users?

...

United States, Los Angeles.

Tom had just spent the night gaming, yawning as he washed up planning to sleep.

But even having stayed up all night, lying in bed, he habitually took out his phone and opened Netflix intending to binge-watch some shows.

Now it feels like a day isn't quite over without scrolling through some shows or short videos before bed.

However, upon opening the Netflix ranking, he had basically already seen all the English-language programs in the ranking; the ones he hadn't seen didn't really interest him.

So he simply opened the non-English program ranking, wanting to see if there were any interesting shows from abroad.

This is one great advantage of the Netflix ranking, because the entire Netflix uses the same software, global users look at the same English and non-English program rankings apart from local rankings, which attracts many users from other regions to watch shows.

This also provides considerable exposure.

Upon opening the non-English program ranking, Tom naturally saw the face of Wu Mu on the cover of "City Survival Battle: Survival Game."

"This guy looks so handsome?"

Tom muttered to himself a bit.

He's not female, nor is he gay, so a handsome face didn't really interest him.

But anyway, looking for a show, picking any is picking.

With that mindset, he clicked to start watching the program.

Then...

Tom looked red-eyed, bewildered at the blazing sun outside the window.

Whoa, seven hours have passed?

Already afternoon?

No, he just wanted to casually scroll through his phone for a bit!

He's already exhausted, but thinking about the scenes of the show he just watched, he couldn't help but feel too thrilled to sleep.

Especially the celebrity from Hua Country in the program, which roused his curiosity immensely about who this person is.

A Hua Country celebrity he hasn't heard of, yet the variety show felt as thrilling as a movie?

He simply forced himself to wake up and opened Twitter, searching for information about the program's lead.

Then, the result that appeared at the top wasn't Wu Mu's profile but a game tweet:

[Hit Variety Show "City Survival Battle" Star Wu Mu: A Genius Game Designer from Hua Country]

Huh?

Huh??

Tom stared at the tweet on his phone screen, stunned.

What the heck is this?

Wu Mu, the star of "City Survival Battle," a genius game designer??

Did he lose his senses from staying up too late?

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