You don’t want it, but I insist on giving it to you!

Mr. Pei was just that willful.

Of course, this willfulness had its reasons. After comprehensive consideration, giving the money to the GOG project would indeed have the smallest impact.

It was already extremely profitable, and this 10 million yuan would barely make a difference.

So, the matter was happily decided.

As for whether other departments would be confused after learning the result, feeling like they’d been toyed with—that wasn’t something Pei Qian needed to worry about.

Mr. Pei had never needed to explain his actions to anyone!

After all, the system didn’t count as a person.

If it were some particularly suspicious operations, Pei Qian might be a bit more restrained, but this money could reasonably be spent on any industry. Pei Qian believed his subordinates, who were skilled at divergent thinking, would certainly come up with a reasonable explanation on their own.

Pei Qian sent a message directly to the GOG project team, and that was that.

“Now let me check the situation on the AiLiDao website and see how ‘The Successor’ and ‘Agent Academy’ are doing…”

Pei Qian cautiously opened the page for “The Successor” first.

The page rating flashed by, and Pei Qian immediately closed it with a “snap.”

Damn, 9.7 points!

The growth rate of this rating—was it riding a rocket?

Last weekend, before the Ukraya election results came out, “The Successor” had been hovering around 6 points. But after this weekend, the rating suddenly shot up like it was taking off!

Obviously, the hype and promotion from various self-media played a crucial role in this process.

“The Successor” had previously burned through a large amount of promotional funds. Although the response wasn’t enthusiastic, it had become familiar to most people, laying the groundwork.

Although many people weren’t interested in this theme and hadn’t visited the AiLiDao website to watch it, they were at least somewhat aware of its existence.

After the events of last weekend came out, various public accounts, content creators, and self-media pounced on it like wolves smelling meat!

Originally, few people were paying attention to Ukraya’s affairs, but during Sunday and Monday, it completely flooded screens—everyone was discussing it!

And any video or article mentioning this event inevitably mentioned “The Successor,” because the two were so similar.

“The Successor” was based on a novel from a year ago, so it couldn’t possibly be riding the trend—it could only be described as a prophetic prediction.

Add to that the debate that “The Successor” had sparked online when it first aired, as well as the highly topical transformation from 6 points to 9 points, and it was the perfect material for hit articles and videos.

In short, the popularity that had been forcibly created earlier by spending money was now paying off, generating an excellent spread effect!

Naturally, more people came to watch “The Successor” out of curiosity.

There might still be many people who didn’t particularly like this theme and didn’t find the plot especially satisfying, but that didn’t stop them from giving it perfect scores.

Because previously, many people had evaluated it by the standards of power fantasy novels or popcorn blockbusters, so it was normal for “The Successor” to get a 6 as a not-so-satisfying show. But now, if evaluated by the standard of “a magical realist masterpiece predicting reality,” it absolutely deserved a perfect score!

Many who hadn’t watched all episodes, or hadn’t watched at all, were also willing to give it a perfect score, purely for the dramatic effect.

Those who had originally given low scores changed to high scores, those who hadn’t watched before came and gave high scores—of course “The Successor” couldn’t be contained and took off!

Considering that “The Successor” had signed a contract with AiLiDao based on ratings and view counts for revenue sharing, looking at the current situation…

“On the bright side, this rating doesn’t have much room to rise further…”

“Bullshit! Who comforts themselves like that? It’s already game over!”

“Forget it, let me check ‘Agent Academy’ instead.”

For “The Successor,” Pei Qian had completely given up.

When the original novel came out, it had seemed fine, with no signs of becoming a hit. How did it suddenly blow up after being adapted into a drama?

“Agent Academy” should be much better, after all, its quality was what it was. No matter how high its ceiling, it couldn’t possibly reach the level of “The Successor.”

However, after Pei Qian opened the page for “Agent Academy,” he was stunned again.

The rating was 9.3, which was above average for animated shows—a bit higher than Pei Qian had expected, but not by much, and completely within an acceptable range.

But what was going on with the view count!

It had just started airing a few days ago, how did it already reach tens of millions of views!

Pei Qian found it absolutely bewildering because this view count was a whole order of magnitude higher than what he had imagined.

Logically, even if GOG players came to support it, wouldn’t the limit for the initial following be around one million people?

The number of people following an anime was something that needed to accumulate. It was impossible for a regular animation to attract tens of millions of viewers to follow it as soon as the first episode aired.

Based on “Agent Academy’s” update frequency—one episode per month, or maybe two or three episodes because they had some in stock—the view count should be just over two million, right?

How did it directly add another zero!

Pei Qian felt something was very wrong; he must have missed some extremely important information.

He quickly switched to the follower count option and found that there were more than 1.7 million people following “Agent Academy,” which was even more than Pei Qian’s most exaggerated prediction.

But even then, two or three episodes should only have about five million views, right?

How could there be a whole order of magnitude difference?

Pei Qian hurriedly clicked on the episode list to check, and when he saw it, he was dumbfounded.

From Saturday until now, six days, they had aired six episodes!

Daily updates? Seriously??

If it were just two or three episodes, one could say they had some in stock and released them together at the beginning to let people watch more.

But updating consecutively for six days, what did that indicate?

It indicated that this was the normal update speed!

Because logically, if you didn’t have more episodes in stock and could only produce two episodes a month, spoiling viewers with six episodes in six days at the beginning and then slowing down later would be inappropriate.

Huang Sibo and Wu Chuan would absolutely not make such a basic mistake.

Pei Qian had a bad feeling.

Clearly, such a rapid update schedule had become a reason for many people to follow the anime.

Originally, Pei Qian had estimated that having one million followers would be quite good, but now it was actually 70% higher than his estimate. This was obviously the advantage brought by frequent updates.

Other anime series released one episode per week or even one per month, updating slowly, so audience retention would definitely be worse;

And while AiLiDao purchased overseas anime that released many episodes at once, many people had already watched them through other channels.

Only “Agent Academy” was punctually releasing one episode per day. Watching it daily could develop a habit and increase stickiness, and those who preferred to let episodes accumulate before watching would also definitely be satisfied with the quantity, making it much more enjoyable than other animations!

Based on the current trend, the number of followers would definitely continue to increase, and the viewing stickiness of these people would likely be much higher than for other anime.

Considering the update frequency of “Agent Academy”…

The total view count was probably going to explode!

Pei Qian quickly opened the comment section of “Agent Academy” to check what netizens were saying.

“I don’t usually follow anime, but was attracted by the recommendation in GOG. Didn’t expect it to be quite interesting—once I started watching, I couldn’t stop!”

“An anime with daily updates! I’ve truly opened my eyes! What kind of godly studio is this? Are they working 24/7 every week?”

“Fei Huang Studio’s animation team? Working overtime? What are you thinking! They work five days a week, eight hours a day, and even one extra hour requires Mr. Pei’s approval.”

“Huh? I thought they were working overtime like me! I used to feel better about my overtime when watching ‘Agent Academy,’ but now I realize I’m the clown!”

“Damn, that means they’re not making seven episodes in seven days, but seven episodes in five days? This is completely breaking human limits and overturning industry norms, right? Are they really not exaggerating?”

“Actually, this isn’t that difficult to explain. ‘Agent Academy’ has an existing original work, so they don’t need to rack their brains thinking about the plot, and its format is very suitable for short animations, making it easy to adapt. Plus, ‘Agent Academy’ is made using real-time rendering. Once they have the models, they just need motion capture actors to perform the actions. An episode is ten minutes long, so recording and editing is completely sufficient.”

“Yes, this approach has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that it’s fast; the disadvantage is that the quality and details might not be perfect. At first glance, the quality seems fine, but if you carefully compare it with major productions, you’ll notice obvious detail differences. But how should I put it? With so many updates, what more could you ask for?”

“Other animations could learn from this, but there are two prerequisites: first, they need an original work like ‘Agent Academy’ with millions of words suitable for animation adaptation; second, they need high-precision models, a specialized motion capture studio, and a large number of professionals in storyboarding, action, editing, and other areas.”

“Let me add something—the subject matter itself needs to be well-known. If ‘Agent Academy’ wasn’t based on GOG but was an original story, would everyone be so tolerant of its quality? Would it receive so much attention in the early stages? It’s hard to say.”

The comment section was buzzing with discussions about the successful model of “Agent Academy.”

Everyone had different opinions. Some felt that the quality of “Agent Academy” wasn’t actually that good, and it was only popular because of the high update frequency. Others thought that the quality of “Agent Academy” was already quite good, and crucially, the plot was interesting, and the hero character models from GOG were more detailed, making it worth watching for GOG players.

But fundamentally, everyone reached a consensus on one thing: “Agent Academy” becoming popular was almost inevitable because it updated so frequently!

The details might be a bit lacking, but that’s okay—daily updates, it could be forgiven.

The transitions might not be as smooth, but that’s okay—daily updates, it could be forgiven.

Some plots might seem a bit like filler and not as interesting, but that’s okay—daily updates, it could be forgiven.

In short, everything could be forgiven!

For many people, watching an episode during lunch or dinner was good enough as a mealtime companion.

Looking across the entire AiLiDao website, this kind of daily-updated animation was unique—what more could you ask for?