Serve as Contrast Team in a ‘Dad with Baby’ Show

Chapter 31.1: — Dad... - The Performance Style is Different

After a commercial, the second half of [Living with Dad] began to air.

The sequence was still the same as the previous segment, but the number of viewers at this time was noticeably much larger than before.

When the scenes of Bai Yulin, Gao Yuankai, and Zheng Chengye finished, the screen switched to Lin Cheng and Lin Momo.

Seeing Lin Cheng and Lin Momo appear on the screen after a smooth transition, Wang Xi and Zhou Qi breathed a collective sigh of relief.

“I thought that because of the show crew’s piss-poor temperament, they would show a commercial before Brother Cheng’s section,” Wang Xi said, voice trembling with lingering fear.

Zhou Qi also nodded and said, “I thought so too…”

Lin Cheng’s popularity was not as good as the previous three teams. If the show continued after the first three teams finished, then the show could still retain most of the audience. However, if a commercial were inserted at this time, by the time Lin Cheng’s portion was aired, the number of viewers would definitely drop off a cliff.

Fortunately…

“Keep watching,” Zhou Qi said.

Wang Xi nodded.

The two continued to stare at the screen with stern expressions.

At this time, scenes from the next day were on the screen: Lin Cheng set off for the LPG distribution station, while Lin Momo was left at home.

The camera soon came to the scene of Lin Momo cleaning the house.

Seeing that Lin Momo was cleaning obediently, many viewers raised doubts in the comment area just like the viewers in the livestream channel before:

[Is this a script given by the program team?]

[I also think that the probability of a child obediently cleaning the house: Unlikely.]

[The performance requirements are a bit heavy.]

… …

Looking at the unfavorable comments in the barrage area, Zhou Qi and Wang Xi looked at each other, hesitation on their faces.

“What do we do? Should we step in?” Wang Xi asked uncertainly.

This was the task Chen Yu gave them before leaving—to keep an eye on today’s show. If the audience’s comments were not very good, contact the people in the studio and let them control the pace.

However, such a task would charge payment based on the number of comments needed to change the rhythm. And based on their current economic situation… Wang Xi was not sure.

Zhou Qi also frowned and said hesitantly, “How about we observe it some more?”

The two of them went back to staring at the screen.

However, before these two could take any action, the trend in the comment section had already reversed itself.

[Do you really think it’s acting?] Someone commented in a different tone.

Soon there were more and more voices of support.

Because everyone found that Lin Momo in the video looked very serious, without showing any unnatural or unhappy expression, and did not look like she was being forced to perform.

And because the program team did not deliberately edit this section, one could see that this small room has indeed become cleaner little by little with Lin Momo’s efforts.

[It really doesn’t look like like she’s acting.]

[Agreed, if it was acting, there’s no need to be so serious.]

[If the acting can be so realistic, then I will admit it even if it is acting.]

… …

Wang Xi and Zhou Qi were a little surprised to see the change in the flow of discussion.

“Did you contact a water army?” Wang Xi asked Zhou Qi.

Zhou Qi shook his head, “Not yet, did you?”

Wang Xi also shook her head, “I didn’t either.”

… …

It’s not just these two people here who were, at this time, holding mobile phones, looking at the comments rhythm change before they could even have time to look for a water army. There were also a bunch of people in the program group’s office, carefully monitoring the change in the direction of comments—including the chief director.

If it were before, the chief director wouldn’t care if Lin Cheng’s team was scolded. It would even be better if such scolding brought a wave of topics to the show.

But it was different now.

Although the chief director still didn’t know the backing behind Lin Cheng and the identity of the old man who came to the program’s office that day, he knew that if Lin Cheng and his team were criticized by the netizens because of this episode’s broadcast, he—as program’s chief director—would probably be in trouble too.

The chief director breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at the head of the program’s post-production team and asked, “Was there any problem with the post-editing?”

“They were all edited according to the normal pattern,” the head of the post-production team said, but there was still some anxiety on his face.

If you want to say what the problem was with Lin Cheng’s team—dad and daughter were too normal!

In other groups, during the recording process of the program, there would be some funny interactions between father and child, or some unexpected events that could become the reel highlights or breakthrough points of the program.

In comparison, in Lin Cheng’s team, it seemed that all that happened was the dad did his job seriously and the daughter just stayed at home and cleaned the house. It was really difficult to edit some shots that could have a positive impact on the program.

Seeming to guess the concerns of the post-production team head, the chief director frowned, then sighed and said, “Forget it, just edit it normally and don’t let them get blackened.”

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