Chapter 421

Chapter 421: I Don’t Wanna Grow Up.

In December due to the cold, people avoided outside activities.

‘Meteor Girls’ Restaurant’ that was in production for 3 months was finally released.

It wasn’t that Shanhai Streaming hadn’t done variety before but viewership wasn’t great as all those great variety shows had been shown by those big TV stations.

Everyone was used to watching it on TV.

So they needed to consider that if they wanted to develop in that area.

But Chen Huan gave them a plan and then Meteor Girls got popular so the princess readily accepted the plan.

With the princess standard, everything must be the best.

Not only the best production team in the industry had been recruited, even the photographer was recruited from Japan and the average cost of an episode was no less than 10 million.

Meteor Girls were also running in all directions.

It took 5 days to shoot an episode at the beginning and they exhausted themselves by shooting day till night.

It became better later as it took 3 days.

When talking to Chen Huan over the phone, they said they would rather go to advertising or perform commercial performance over this.

Chen Huan learned that minor painful situations happened over this period of time.

For example, they bought the wrong ingredients, cut themselves while handling knives, burning themselves with oil splash, almost causing a fire etc… they suffered those.

But they didn’t complain about it and just mentioned it like it was some everyday matter.

It could be seen that although they were some haughty princess before, they hardened and grew up a lot after going out to the world for half a year.

As the planner, Chen Huan watched the footage and gave some tips so they could do better and better in the second and third phase of production, there was no reason for failure anymore.

And this led to Saturday night at 8pm when Shanhai Streaming would air it. Chen Huan opened the app on his phone to view it.

After two weeks of promotion, all users of Shanhai Streaming knew that ‘Meteor Girls Restaurant’ was coming.

There was also the ‘One Billion Meteor Fans’ who got crazy about it and hoped that everyone came to watch with them.

Variety shows generally charge money otherwise the program would bring another few million subscribers to Shanhai Streaming.

There was actually a reason why they chose Saturday instead of another day of the week.

Of course, the tendencies of people watching from TV and watching from phones were different.

People who watched from TV were usually workers that worked a lot and students.

They usually only had time during the weekend and were in the mood to watch variety shows.

For people on the phone, they could watch any day as long as they had a phone and they weren’t some social person, they would use their phone until 11 or 12 pm.

So on the surface, variety shows by Shanhai Streaming weren’t some big production that only showed during the weekend and could be shown during the week day.

But who was the audience of Meteor Girls?

It was 12-18 kids!

Most of them were students that were under pressure to study and couldn’t play with their phone at all!

They could only use their phone to play a little during Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

They wouldn’t be able to watch ‘Meteor Girls’ if it was broadcasted during the week days so most of the hardcore would naturally be missing and it would be a great impact on the show’s rating.

When Chen Huan opened the app, a number was shown on the top left of the video that indicated how much people were currently watching it.

That’s right.

The rating on the internet couldn’t be expressed in percentage.

Just look at the top.

How many people were watching it was clear at a glance.

It was one minute before the start and there were already 5 million people waiting.

It was already a great number.

The previous record Shanhai Streaming for a variety show was 7 million and it was an old show that had been running for three years.

‘Meteor Girls’ Restaurant’ hadn’t been broadcasted yet so it was very gratifying for it to receive so much attention.

After a bunch of commercials and preludes, a round black stage appeared on the screen.

When the light was on, nine girls dressed in Japanese school uniforms were standing on the stage.

The music started and then Meteor Girls sang along the tune.

“Why can’t I find, however I try, a rose that never fades. Why are all the princes I met not really prince-like.”

“I don’t expect him to have crystal shoes and a white horse. I’m only astonished how loving sweet words could turn into lies.”

“…”

The beat was very fast and their singing was clear as every word was on the beat, which was perfectly in line with the theme of Meteor Girls and inherited the innocence from ‘Burn My Calories’.

At the prelude stage of the chorus, the music suddenly picked up in intensity and the singing from the Meteor Girls also sped up with this exciting rhythm.

“I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna, don’t wanna grow up. When I grow up, there would be no fairy tales in the world.”

“I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna, don’t wanna grow up. I’d rather be dumb forever.”

“I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna, don’t wanna grow up. When I grow up, I’ll lose him.”

“He who I loves deeply, he who loves me deeply, has changed into someone unlike him.”

“…”

The lively and yet emotional ‘I don’t wanna grow up’ told the girls’ joy, hesitation and worry etc… during first love.

Every girl would feel that.

But boys would also feel something from this as they thought about if the girl they liked thought like that.

Regarding youth and love, the sweet and yet hesitating feeling was what teenagers loved the most.

So the viewership count soared to 7.2 million while Meteor Girls sang ‘I Don’t Wanna Grow Up’ and directly broke the record of Shanhai Streaming variety shows.

The official program didn’t start yet!

Shanhai Streaming had pop up texts.

If people wanted to watch without it, they could toggle it off and toggle it on if they wanted to comment and read the comments.

But those popups had disadvantages as it would cover the screen when there were too many of them.

The people would usually turn it off when there were too many so it wouldn’t affect their viewing experience.

Chen Huan had it open all the time.

Because he had a computer and a phone.

The computer for the popups texts and the phone to watch the show.

“Wow, the show just started but I already feel it’s going to be good.”

“The song is nice, it’s called ‘I Don’t Wanna Grow Up’, right? It’s good!”

“No shit, it’s our Sister Xiaofeng who wrote the song.”

“He’s really taking a good care of his disciples, no wonder people are gossiping about it.”

“Stop paying attention to those bored people, let alone this song, isn’t this variety show planned by Sister Xiaofeng?”

“Right, Sister Xiaofeng is really amazing! He can do it all!”

“It’s already so fun right at the beginning, can’t wait to see the rest!”

“…”

This was a good start judging from the current comments.

7.2 million viewers was enough to reassure the people from Shanhai Streaming.