Early the morning after the guests arrived in Cloud City, the highly anticipated Heartbeat Tempo suddenly announced that the show would officially begin broadcasting at ten that morning.
The announcement caught the fans completely off guard.
The program would use two formats. First came an all-day, unedited livestream, running from nine in the morning until nine at night. Each of the three guest couples had its own livestream room, and viewers could enter whichever room they wanted to watch. Every feed consisted entirely of direct footage of the couple they had chosen.
Afterward, the production team would edit the footage and release weekly episodes on the Meteor Video app. Viewers who had no time for livestreams, or simply disliked watching them, could choose that format instead.
This way, the show captured audiences with two different viewing preferences and maximized its popularity.
With less than ten minutes left before the show began, access to the livestream rooms opened. Fans who had been waiting for a long time poured in all at once, and the picture lagged for five full minutes before returning to normal.
The popularity gap between the three livestream rooms was large. “Raise the Flag and Cheer” ranked first, followed by “Warm and Refined,” while “Still Waters Run Deep” had somewhat lower popularity.
That was not strange. Chu Yao was already a top-tier male star in the industry, and his secret marriage had only recently been made public. Naturally, viewers were especially curious about him.
Wen Xu and Lu Yiwen had gotten to know each other and begun dating through a romance reality show. They had already accumulated many shippers and had a built-in audience, so people naturally cared about how their relationship had developed afterward.
As for Zhao Jing and Bai Jishen, they had been married for five years, longer than the first two couples. Their wedding had caused a huge sensation back then, and they had openly shown affection plenty of times in the years since, so viewers naturally had slightly lower expectations for them.
When three minutes remained before the livestream began, a 180-second countdown appeared on the screen.
[I have never felt time move this slowly. I’ve been waiting so long my eyes are practically worn out.]
[While the show hasn’t started yet, hurry and cut yourself a fruit platter.]
[You still dare eat fruit? Aren’t you afraid of too much insulin?]
[Haha, careful—you’re about to get a sugar overload.]