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21:48:36.
In the director's room, unlike the excited and rousing scene outside, there was silent as a graveyard.
Everyone's eyes were fixed on the statistics screen displaying a number starting with 3, followed by many 9s in an eight-digit sequence.
This number had soared crazily for a long time, but now it was slowing down—still climbing, yet it felt like it could stop at any moment, or even fall.
It was just a number, after all, and shouldn't have conjured any expectations.
But following that last 20-minute segment of the show, everyone was desperate for something to validate it, to prove its existence, its greatness.
Finally.
[Total viewership across all platforms: 40,000,008.]
"Peak!! Peak!!" The analyst threw his papers into the air uncontrollably, "We've surpassed the peak season!! No!! We are the peak!!"
Instantly, the director's room erupted into a frenzy, tears of joy intermingling!
"Oh my God..."
"Awesome!!!"
