webnovelvip Chapter 36 Who gave you the courage, Fish Leong?
Chapter 36 Who gave you the courage, Fish Leong?
Lu Ran is not surprised that "Time Train" is a chart-topping phenomenon.
Lu Ran also browsed through this short drama. Compared with other short dramas, it had some novel ideas, but in the end it was still somewhat cliché.
Lu Ran believed that his short drama series, "The Return of the God of War," would eventually surpass "Time Train."
"Isn't he always number one? What's there to be angry about?" Lu Ran comforted the group.
"If it were just first place, I wouldn't be this angry," Tan Yu said angrily. "This short drama, 'Time Train,' must have been freaking inflated its numbers."
"At the current rate, we should have been able to surpass them in the next couple of days," Tan Yu said, getting increasingly angry. "But when I looked at the data today, their numbers were almost double what they were yesterday. What else could this be but manipulation?"
After Tan Yu said that, Lu Ran understood everything.
So this bastard resorts to such despicable tactics when he can't win a game.
Since they manipulated the data, there must be a vulnerability.
"It's alright, just continue with your promotion as usual. I have ways to deal with the data they're inflating," Lu Ran reassured them.
"Okay, Brother Lu, we're relieved to hear that." Tan Yu and the others then went out.
Lu Ran turned on his computer and closed "Sheep and Goat".
Who invented this garbage game? It's a waste of my time and a ruin on my youth!
Okay, I've finished my rant, so other players should stop.
This time, Lu Ran directly opened Python. He was going to write a web crawler to expose the data prototype of "Out of Control Train".
The program was very simple, at least for him, an old programmer, it was easy.
In less than half an hour, Lu Ran had finished writing the code. He then ran the web crawler and scraped all the data from popular short dramas on the Kuaishou and Douyin platforms.
After finishing, Lu Ran got up to get a cup of hot water.
As soon as I stepped out of the short drama department, I heard many people whispering.
"Really? Lu Ran and Liu Siqi, the queen of pop who's always slacking off?" A colleague from the editorial department whispered in the break room.
"Absolutely true! Young Master Tan said he saw it with his own eyes. The two were head to head and shoulder to shoulder, they couldn't be more intimate!" Another colleague from the animation department said with certainty.
"No wonder Lu Ran, a slacker, can still do so well; it turns out there's this connection behind it all," a colleague in the editorial department deduced.
"First it was Shen Zhiwei, now it's Liu Siqi, and Tan Yu and a few others. Tsk tsk, Lu Ran's connections are quite something."
If there is anything in this world that moves faster than light, it must be gossip.
Before getting the water, Lu Ran only overheard the two being intimate; after getting the water, he overheard them talking about dating.
Lu Ran was speechless, utterly speechless, extremely speechless.
Am I going to have to start thinking about names for our two kids soon?
However, Lu Ran didn't care about any of this, and he said, "Whatever makes you happy!"
He was too lazy to explain, and he couldn't explain it clearly anyway.
Trying to explain such things will only make things worse.
After all, he's a celebrity in the company now, and there are plenty of people who envy and are jealous of him behind his back.
Although his colleagues all thought his soaring short drama ratings were due to good luck, at least now they were much more polite to Lu Ran than before.
Just as he was thinking this, he ran into Li Mo.
For the past month, Li Mo has been riding high.
On the one hand, after Lu Ran was transferred out to form a separate short drama department, the efficiency of the editorial department increased dramatically, and they were extremely efficient.
On the other hand, he transferred all the company's playboys, cronies, and slackers to the short drama department, which greatly improved the overall work atmosphere of the company and solved major problems for many departments.
What surprised him even more was the impressive performance of the short drama department.
At the company's general meeting a few days ago, the short drama department was specially named and performed. As a result, he, the person in charge who advocated for the establishment of the short drama department, was also performed by the company, who praised him for his strategic vision.
So he was very happy to see Lu Ran.
"President Li," Lu Ran greeted him politely.
"Lu Ran, you don't need to be so polite with me from now on. I'm a few years older than you, so just call me Brother Mo. I'll call you Brother Ran from now on." Li Mo patted Lu Ran on the shoulder.
"Huh? Isn't that a bit inappropriate?" Lu Ran said.
That's really inappropriate. Li Mo is already over 50 years old, a year older than his father-in-law.
If you two ever get together in the future, I'll have to call one "brother" and the other "dad." Won't that be awkward?
"There's nothing inappropriate about it." Knowing that Lu Ran had powerful connections, Li Mo took the initiative to get closer to him.
"Alright then, Brother Mo, if there's nothing else, I'll head back to my department."
"Okay, if the short drama department has any problems, just tell your brother Mo, don't be shy." Li Mo waved his hand at Lu Ran.
After watching the two leave, a colleague who had been muttering to himself in the editorial department added, "Now Lu Ran has another connection with Li Mo. He has too many connections."
When Lu Ran returned to the department, he saw that the web crawler data had not been fully analyzed yet, so he decided to help Liu Siqi think of songs for her new album first.
Although Liu Siqi said she wanted two songs, Lu Ran knew she was too embarrassed to ask for more, so Lu Ran decided to give her five songs directly.
In any case, Lu Ran would never admit that he was after the high dividends.
Based on Liu Siqi's timbre and the style of "The World," he searched his mind and selected a few suitable songs.
They are "Time Thief" with a folk style, "Rolling Up the Pearl Curtain" with a strong Chinese style, "A Little Happiness" with warmth and healing, "Chasing the Light" with a slight rock element, and "By the Lake Baikal" with an extremely beautiful melody.
Every song in this collection has been tested by the market in its previous life; they are all absolute classics.
With these songs added, Lu Ran felt that this album was almost as good as Shen Yuege's new album.
Should I write a few more songs for my wife, or maybe I should just make an album entirely composed by myself?
Lu Ran thought for a moment and decided to wait until he got back and discussed it with Shen Yuege before making a decision.
Lu Ran packaged the audio files and sent them to Liu Siqi, with a note: "I wrote a few more songs in case you didn't have enough. Pick whichever you like—as long as the money is right."
Liu Siqi accepted the document and replied: "Little money-grubber."
Lu Ran: I can't be a penny-pincher, I still need to save money to get married, otherwise I won't be able to marry a beautiful wife.
As soon as the message was sent, Lu Ran slapped his forehead.
These words sound like those of a scumbag! He needs to tone it down.
Liu Siqi didn't reply to him; she was probably listening to the song he sent her.
Since he was free now, Lu Ran opened the Six Cats Author Assistant and planned to update the content of "Battle Through the Heavens" ahead of schedule for next month.
At this moment, a message popped up from the web crawler: the data for all the short dramas on the list had been collected.
Lu Ran clicked in and took a look, then smiled!
"With this little bit of data, you dare to talk back to me? Who gave you the courage?"
"Fish Leong?"
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