Chapter 29 - <<Return of the Warlord>> Rise to Fame

The online novel forum had a lot of people, and since <> was only ten minutes long, there was no need to edit the introduction; they just shared the original show directly.

Ryang Geumhee and the forum users kept sharing it everywhere.

The real-time view count for <> kept rising.

While the view counts for <> and <> began to stable, <> kept climbing.

In just one day, its views soared by 5 million, making it the top single-episode view count in a day.

BingeBox: "?"

CineHaven TV & ReelRise: "?"

…

"The warlord finds his daughter living in a doghouse…"

"We've offended him; the Lee family will be in trouble."

"It's getting cold; let the Lee family go bankrupt."

In the following week, phrases like "It's getting cold; let the Lee family go bankrupt" spread like a virus on TV drama forums and social media platforms like Chirp.

The animated clips from <> were turned into gifs and spread to every corner of the internet.

After the second episode of <> went online, its popularity remained high.

Unlike the first episode, which went unnoticed on its premiere day, the second episode easily surpassed one million views within just one hour of being online.

[ Actually, the acting is a bit over the top, but I don't know why I just can't stop watching it. ]

[ I can't stop watching it. ]

[ It's getting cold. When will my boss go bankrupt? Waiting for a boss to go bankrupt. ]

[ Waiting for a boss to go bankrupt. ]

[ LOL, so when is the next episode coming out? ]

[ It's so cringe, but I can't sleep without seeing the main character show off. ]

BingeBox's official Chirp account usually gets little attention, but after posting two promotional videos for <>, the comments section turned into a fan gathering spot, with people urging for updates, quoting famous lines, and asking for gif, popping up one after another.

The official account staff had never experienced this kind of scene before.

When posting, they started feeling like celebrities themselves.

They used to post two Chirp updates a day and sometimes replaced them with "Good morning" or "Good night" out of laziness since no one really paid attention.

But recently, they had to search online every day for various jokes about <> to keep up with the fans' wild imagination.

BingeBox's backend data was breaking records every day.

Gown Seongjae and his colleagues felt a bit euphoric these days—both the view count and popularity of <> had reached blockbuster levels, and VIP sales had hit the highest point since the platform was founded.

The promotional posters for <> all feature the BingeBox logo.

With the show's high popularity, netizens seemed to realize for the first time that besides CineHaven TV and ReelRise, there was also a site called BingeBox.

"It's breaking records!!"

"Wow, amazing!"

Ryang Geumhee and the forum buddies never expected that a short drama he casually recommended would become such a big hit.