Normally, hearing the sold-out notification two or three times in a day would be quite impressive since selling out even the furthest corner seats in a performance would already be considered a blockbuster.
Several times in a row?
The staff member holding their tea hadn’t even taken a sip when their colleague next to them was so disturbed that they couldn’t focus on their work.
"Hey, what are you zoning out for? Hurry up and deal with the emails. What kind of notification sound did you even set?"
"The sound of tickets being sold out."
A hollow voice drifted nearby.
The colleague didn’t take it seriously, "You can’t leave that on all the time!"
"It’s not on all the time. It only goes off once for every performance that sells out."
"Then is there a bug? Did you select the wrong setting?"
The voice next to them grew even more hollow, emotionless, which prompted the colleague, once immersed in their work, to look up.
"What’s going on... Wait, why do you look like you’ve lost your soul?"
"I feel like I’ve really lost my soul, bro!"
That person finally found their voice, staring intently at the computer screen with wide, incredulous eyes, as if they wanted to climb right into it.
"What’s wrong, what’s wrong? Calm down, sister!"
"I can’t calm down, bro! Completely sold out, all 24 performances for the next month, every single one! Do you realize what this means? Each performance holds 500 people, 24 performances that’s 12,000 in total, all sold out, just the ticket sales add up to more than 1.2 million!"
"...All 24 performances sold out? There must be a bug, right? Did the app run some promotion? It’s impossible that they all sold out."
Selling out seats in the far corners? That’s unheard of; nowadays, audiences care a lot about the visual experience and would rather wait for the next show than settle for a bad seat.
Selling out all seats in a performance is an extremely rare event; now someone tells me that 24 performances sold out in entirety, it’s as unbelievable as red rain from the sky.
"Don’t mess with me, sis. I need a quick relief pill for shock."
The person kicked their chair forward and leaned over their colleague’s computer, taking one look...
"Holy shit! It actually sold out?"
"Hey wait, ’Factory’, ’Youthful Ambition’, ’That Era’, why are all the sold-out plays these three hit dramas?"
Both of them were baffled.
"I remember all three are from the Lotus Drama Club?"
"That’s correct, two of them are Teacher Yan’s works, and one by Teacher Ke... Do they share anything in common?"
At first glance, besides all three plays being part of Lotus Drama Society, there didn’t seem to be anything in common, and they were even more perplexed.
At this moment, Stagehand Liu passing by saw this all too familiar scene and had an epiphany.
"Is Tang Shu in ’Factory’?"
"Yeah, she doesn’t just perform, she’s the leading lady, what about it?"
You still ask what about it!
Stagehand Liu glared at them fiercely, "Have you forgotten who was responsible for the best ticket sales these last two months?"
At that time, Imperial Capital’s First Theater made a fortune.