Chapter 25 - Unexpected Surge

For someone like him, the upward path was already narrow, but if Im Giseok chose the route of short dramas, his upward path would be almost nonexistent.

Short drama = bad show — that was the general consensus in the industry.

Besides, just looking at the name <> it sounded lame.

Kim Soseong had already decided in his heart that Im Giseok was finished.

"Are you even going to watch this show?" the manager asked.

Kim Soseong shook his head, "Only 130,000 views, what's there to see?"

If the script he wrote only got 130,000 views, he wouldn't have the face to stay in the entertainment industry.

The manager didn't say anything more.

Actually, <> didn't just have terrible ratings when it aired on TV — even after moving to online streaming, the viewership was still not great, with most episodes not exceeding 100,000 views.

But Kim Soseong had already shifted the blame to Im Giseok.

He acted as if <> had nothing to do with him, so the manager naturally didn't want to bring it up and risk making him angry by mentioning it again.

What Kim Soseong didn't know was that 130,000 views were indeed the current view count for <> but just one hour ago, that number was 100,000.

In other words, in just one hour, the real-time view count for <> had increased by a full 30,000.

...

Gwon Seongjae was chatting with Im Giseok.

No matter how the view count for <> turned out, BingeBox's plan was to make 30 episodes, turning it into a small series.

After all, the total runtime of a 30-episode short drama is still less than ten episodes of a typical TV show.

Im Giseok had already finished part of the later scripts, and Gwon Seongjae discussed some ideas his colleagues had with him, hoping to add some creative elements to <>.

Gwon Seongjae had always thought of Im Giseok as somewhat aloof, a screenwriter who didn't like others interfering with his creativity.

But as they continued chatting, Gwon Seongjae found him easy to get along with.

Im Giseok might not always respond immediately, but if he found something interesting, he was definitely willing to talk about it.

Gwon Seongjae was focused on typing when he heard a series of low exclamations from the office:

"It went up again, damn!"

"... It increased by almost 200,000 in an hour! I thought I was seeing things! No, I was watching closely last hour; it really only went up by 30,000."

"When did we get so fancy to use the word 'only'?"

"That's amazing!"

The group initially kept their voices down, but they grew louder and louder as they talked.

Just as Gwon Seongjae was about to tell them to quiet down, two colleagues from the front row came over with their laptops, bringing two chairs along.

"Seongjae, look!!"