Chapter 161 Semi-finals

Chapter 161 Semi-finals
Ye Xuan opened his phone again and checked the housing prices in the capital.

He flipped to the downtown area he wanted and looked at the housing prices. He couldn't help but sigh at the astronomical figures of over 100 million.

"Hey, I can't afford it at this price."

Ye Xuan thought about it and decided to give up the house in the city center.

Many of the houses in the city center are a bit shabby. Although the courtyard houses look high-end and expensive, the living experience is not very good.

After all, the houses are made of wood and stone, and some are even in disrepair. They have a good name, but the living experience is not as good as modern commercial housing. His money did not come from the wind, so there is no need to save face.

So he set his sights on some manors and villas with beautiful surroundings.

"A villa worth 1 million?"

Ye Xuan looked at the villa and felt a little fond of it.

The architectural style of this villa is in line with his aesthetic taste in every aspect. The site is large enough and, importantly, not far from the center of the imperial capital.

"I've decided. When I have more money, I'll buy this house."

Although this price is more expensive than the cheapest courtyard house in the city center, Ye Xuan prefers this decoration style.

Now he only has 500 million in his pocket, not even a fraction of the money for the house.

I don’t know when I will be able to buy this 1 million villa.

He turned off his cell phone and began to thoroughly enjoy his vacation life.

During these 7 days, Ouyang Mi and Tian Yu were both contacting their own announcement resources. They were so busy that they had no time to contact Ye Xuan too much.

Ye Xuan was also happy to have some peace and quiet.

However, when Ye Xuan and others were not online, the program team began to build momentum under his official Weibo.

The next episode will be the semi-finals. Now the number of online viewers of the show is almost in the tens of millions. Perhaps it will reach tens of millions as soon as the semi-finals start. Naturally, they cannot do nothing to promote it.

The director team and staff began to busy themselves with planning posters, editing official blogs, and cutting trailers.

These routine operations did not actually attract much attention from the audience. What really attracted the audience's attention were the changes to the competition system made by the official blog.

Wait until the program team posts on Weibo.

Some viewers who had been surfing the Internet noticed at the first sight that their Weibo posts this time were different from previous ones.

"Rules and Regulations?"

"Why do the semi-finals seem to have some new rules?"

"Is the program crew causing trouble again?"

Netizens commented on his Weibo.

The program team did not explain the new rules and competition system in this Weibo post.

So netizens don’t know the specific content and can only leave comments below out of curiosity.

After a while, the program team sent out a separate Weibo post, briefly talking about the new content of the challenge.

They tagged all the remaining contestants and said.

"The next episode will be the semi-finals of the show. We have decided to select the first place winners from the four groups of contestants in the next episode and have invited four new celebrity guests to participate in the recording of the show. Please stay tuned."

Their words were very brief, leaving plenty of room for netizens' imagination.

"Don't say half of your words, finish them all."

"That's right, why keep it a secret?"

"Four celebrity guests? They won't compete with the contestants like Cao Suifeng and Bai Kainan did, right?" "Oh my god? The production team should behave themselves. Only Ye Xuan could beat those two groups of celebrity guests. The other three groups of contestants couldn't beat them. Now with four more celebrity guests, how are the other three groups going to survive?"

“Hahahahahaha – I’m dying of laughter.”

"I'm beginning to feel pity for those three groups of contestants, hahaha."

"When I heard the new content, the first thing I thought about was not who these four people were, nor who would be first. Instead, I felt sorry for those three groups of contestants, hahahaha."

"They probably think it's unlucky. There was already a big devil in the competition, and two groups of celebrity guests were added. Now they have to add 4 more. How can they continue to play?"

"If I were a contestant, I would be cursing right now."

“Hahahahaha I am dying of laughter.”

"But that's not necessarily the case. He just said to add four celebrity guests, but didn't say what they were for."

"What else could it be? I can't think of it."

Netizens expressed their opinions in the comment section, and for a while the comment section was filled with various joyful views.

"Isn't everyone's focus off the track? Shouldn't the focus be on the first place in the competition group? Isn't this just the semi-finals?"

"Yes, yes, how come the first place in the contestant group has been selected now?"

"If you hadn't said it, I really wouldn't have realized it. Isn't the No. 1 in the group the champion? The champion will be decided in the semi-finals?"

"It feels like there's some big conspiracy going on with the show."

"plus 1"

“I’m really curious.”

Some netizens carefully discovered that the program team had hidden meaning in their words.

However, the program crew did not give any response to their comments.

After posting the Weibo, they started pretending to be dead.

Instead, they allowed all kinds of speculation in the comment section to ferment.

For a while, the new knockout format of the comedy contest became a hot topic again.

Now the comedy competition has firmly ranked second in the live broadcast program, and even in the recorded program, it ranks second.

The only ones ahead of them are the old variety shows.

This momentum shocked everyone.

It is hard to imagine that the program has achieved such results even though it has only been less than two months since its launch.

Especially since this is a comedy show, there has never been such a show before, which makes the current data of this show particularly shocking.

Seeing how popular this program was, some interested people began to imitate it.

Without anyone noticing, some people began secretly preparing for a similar program, ready to imitate and plagiarize the content of this program and then declare it.

The director team received some news, but they were not afraid.

Not to mention that this show is almost coming to an end, let’s just talk about why this show became so popular?
That's all because of the excellent content of the work, which attracted so many audiences.

Before this show, young people nowadays rarely watched sketches. They surfed the Internet, mostly watching short videos and entertainment variety shows. Not to mention their understanding of sketches, some people had never even seen or heard of them.

The mainstream audience for entertainment themes such as sketches and crosstalk are still the middle-aged and elderly groups.

After all, everyone was influenced by the era of the Spring Festival Gala, and watching sketches and crosstalk is their way of entertainment.

The reason why this program can attract so many audiences and make modern young people interested in sketches and crosstalk is purely because of the good content!
(End of this chapter)