Depressive Screenwriter

The next day, after the premiere of the third episode of Rurouni Kenshin, many people in the scriptwriting department of Sakura TV had strange expressions.

In fact, the average of the concurrent paid viewership data for the first two episodes of Rurouni Kenshin had already exceeded the average of all six episodes of Qingfeng.

What's more, the data for the third episode of Rurouni Kenshin was still rising.

If you said Rurouni Kenshin's results could catch up with Qingfeng and be on a similar level, everyone would treat it as a joke.

Before, everyone's mentality was that they were just talking, but now the situation is: Rurouni Kenshin, are you serious?

Kiyota Yamaji walked into the scriptwriting department today with a terrifyingly dark expression.

Everyone whispered behind his back, occasionally letting out low chuckles.

This made Kiyota Yamaji even more furious.

He had been scolded by his uncle again early in the morning.

He felt very dissatisfied, but couldn't find a reason to refute.

Could he have the face to tell his uncle that the collaborating screenwriter Kanzaki Yusuke you found for me was too weak, which caused Qingfeng to lose to Rurouni Kenshin?

He also had to save face!

In the joint chief screenwriter team, there was not only Kanzaki Yusuke, but also him.

At the same time, he was also very disheartened.

Because Akasaka Yoshitoki had clearly told him that if Qingfeng couldn't win against Rurouni Kenshin this season, and couldn't even achieve the top spot in the online drama category invested in by the station,

Then it would be difficult for Akasaka Yoshitoki to convince the senior executives of the production department to agree to let the station fund a drama in the next season, with Kiyota Yamaji as the main creator and screenwriter, that could be broadcast on Sakura TV.

The logic is very simple.

Even Kiyota Yamaji, who ranked second in performance, dared to have such good treatment.

Then how should Su Yan, who ranked first, be arranged?

The production department was not Akasaka Yoshitoki's sole domain.

Su Yan.

Thinking of this name, Kiyota Yamaji was about to explode.

How could this guy be so annoying?

Blocking his path everywhere.

He now regretted not having his uncle reject Su Yan's Rurouni Kenshin script when it was submitted to the production department.

He thought that Su Yan, a new screenwriter, and a low-energy producer like Shinozaki Ikumi, would create a short drama that would be a huge flop and become a contrasting background for the success of Qingfeng.

He never thought that he would be forced to this point by Rurouni Kenshin today.

Taking a deep breath to expel the resentment in his heart.

"But I haven't lost yet. Rurouni Kenshin is a short drama, and its popularity will quickly decline after it finishes broadcasting. It's useless for its data to be leading Qingfeng now. It's only August now, and it needs to wait until the end of the summer season in September for its average paid views, ratings, and reputation to surpass Qingfeng to be truly surpassed."

Kiyota Yamaji thought to himself, feeling more confident.

The longer a drama is, the more its popularity will last, and it can attract more casual viewers to pay attention to its first episode, and then follow it all the way to the latest episode.

Including the online dramas broadcast by online platforms in Su Yan's previous life, it was also the same. All the episodes were released in one go, and after a week, everyone finished watching them all, and the drama had no popularity. No one discussed the plot of a completed TV series, so the effect of attracting casual viewers would be much worse.

Rurouni Kenshin definitely has a big disadvantage in this regard compared to Qingfeng.

Unless Rurouni Kenshin has a plot development in the ending that can make the work go viral.

While Kiyota Yamaji was thinking about these issues.

The arrival of a person at the entrance of the scriptwriting department made everyone silent for a few seconds.

It was Su Yan, who had just finished filming the fourth episode of Rurouni Kenshin yesterday.

"Su Yan, you're here?"

"Yes, I just finished filming Kenshin yesterday. It's my first time as a screenwriter and lead actor, and I'm a bit inexperienced, which delayed the filming time," Su Yan said with a faint smile.

"Congratulations, Su Yan. Rurouni Kenshin is a huge hit!"

"Not really, Kenshin still has the last episode. It only counts as a huge hit if the fans' reputation doesn't decline after the finale. Everything is unknown now."

"Su Yan, where did you learn your martial arts and swordsmanship? Teach me."

"Haha, I can't teach you that. It's a secret passed down in my family, and it can't be heard by outsiders," Su Yan said jokingly.

He turned his head and happened to meet Kiyota Yamaji's gaze, which was filled with resentment and dissatisfaction.

Su Yan smiled when he saw this and didn't bother to pay attention to him.

If you don't pretend to be polite with me, then that's exactly what I want. I don't like hypocrisy either.

That's how workplace competition is.

Whether you have connections or strong abilities.

As long as you want to move up, then the enemy is already determined.

In the afternoon, Su Yan was alone at his workstation, ostensibly working hard on the final stages of Kenshin.

In reality, now that the series had already been filmed, post-production didn't require Su Yan at all. He was thinking about more important issues.

He was now intently focusing on the system page.

Emotion Value: 3135181.

And this number was constantly jumping.

Rurouni Kenshin had only been broadcast for three weeks, and the emotion value it had brought to Su Yan had already exceeded the two million he had spent to draw it.

"If Rurouni Kenshin: Trust \u0026 Betrayal could be broadcast on television, with a higher audience reach, then this number might be multiplied several times..." Su Yan sighed.

But you can't eat a big fat man in one bite.

The fourth episode of Kenshin is the most depressing and explosive episode of the entire work, and the emotion value it can provide after it airs should increase a lot.

But at the same time, if Rurouni Kenshin's final results really surpass Qingfeng, then Su Yan would basically be considered to have offended Akasaka Yoshitoki from the production department, after all, he had blocked the path of someone's nephew.

So for the next work, he had to hope to obtain more emotion value and draw more valuable works in order to pass the investment and approval stage of the TV station's production department.

But speaking of which, this lottery thing is extremely unreliable.

The system tends to draw works that Su Yan had been exposed to in his previous life.

And Su Yan knew himself very well. Most of his accumulation of works over the years in his previous life were depressing and bad-ending themes.

Whether it was games, anime, or novels.

Bad endings often gave him the greatest sense of emotion.

Beauty is born from regret.

The premise is that the audience in Xia Country can accept this style.

Um...

Wait a minute.

Su Yan suddenly thought, what if he drew something like School Days when he was preparing to draw a lottery...

After thinking for a while, he couldn't be bothered to worry.

Whatever, if I draw shit, I'll just feed shit to the people of this world. Anyway, these kinds of shit works are pretty good in the early stages, and there's no problem getting approved in the production department. It's just that the plot goes crazy in the later stages, and it's the same for earning emotion value.

"I hope the people of Xia Country can feel the beauty of Kenshin: Trust \u0026 Betrayal!"

Su Yan leaned back in his chair, drove away the strange thoughts in his mind, and said softly.

After leaving the filming work of the crew, his biggest expectation now was to see the scene of Xia Country fans being moved by the ending of Trust \u0026 Betrayal after the fourth episode of Rurouni Kenshin aired.

In the evening, Gu Qingyuan personally cooked in her rented house to entertain her university roommates.

"Qingyuan, you're still amazing! Who would have thought a month ago that Rurouni Kenshin would be so popular now," Zhai Xue said happily while eating hot pot.

"At that time, you went to the Rurouni Kenshin crew to be the female lead, and Feng Nannan got the opportunity to participate in the Qingfeng crew as the female fourth character. We all thought that Feng Nannan would definitely be the fastest one to develop among the four of us in the dormitory... but now..." Tang Ju said.

"Sometimes, luck is more important," Gu Qingyuan said softly.

"I never thought that Rurouni Kenshin could get to this point at the beginning."

"Luck is also part of strength. It's a pity that Feng Nannan didn't come because she had something to do, otherwise it would be even more perfect if the four of us in the dormitory gathered to celebrate the great success of Qingyuan's debut work," Tang Ju changed the subject.

"That's right, no matter how busy the Qingfeng crew is, it's impossible for them to still be filming her female fourth-ranked character's scenes at 8 pm," Zhai Xue quickly said.

"She's too ungrateful."

Gu Qingyuan's beautiful face was as cold as ever. She looked at the empty seat on the dining table.

She also called Feng Nannan to inform her, but the other party didn't come.

Well, she probably understood Feng Nannan's thoughts.

She probably didn't come to the gathering because she felt embarrassed.

After all, when she hadn't left school in June, she was very proud of the female fourth character she played in the Qingfeng crew, and almost every day she would use this as a reason to make the three of them work hard.

But now it's August, and Rurouni Kenshin's results are slightly better than Qingfeng, and Gu Qingyuan happens to be the female lead of Rurouni Kenshin. If they meet again, she will definitely feel a little awkward.

Although she only left school in July, it's only been a little over a month.

Gu Qingyuan could also find that after she truly entered the entertainment industry, most of the people and things around her had changed.

"Speaking of Qingyuan, what's the plot of the last episode of Rurouni Kenshin? Tell us," Tang Ju asked curiously.

"There's a confidentiality agreement in the contract I signed, so I can't say," Gu Qingyuan said.

"What are you afraid of? We're not the kind of big mouths, and the people from Sakura TV aren't here," Zhai Xue said with a smile.

"No, this is professional ethics," Gu Qingyuan looked at the two of them and used her chopsticks to pick food for them.

"Then what about Su Yan? You've filmed a TV series with Su Yan for a month, is he really that handsome in person? Also, are his martial arts moves in the drama real, not special effects?" Tang Ju asked.

"He's more handsome in person than he looks on the screen. The moves are all done by himself, and he didn't hire a stunt double," Gu Qingyuan thought for a while and said.

"So amazing? Then what about the kiss scene in the third episode?" Zhai Xue became excited at this moment.

"That's real, right?"

"Yes, it's real," Gu Qingyuan nodded.

"What does it feel like?" Zhai Xue became excited.

"That's just acting," Gu Qingyuan looked at the two gossipy roommates.

"Eat quickly, don't ask so many questions."

After the filming of Rurouni Kenshin ended, there was only a small amount of post-editing, synthesis, and other work.

Shi Peihua and Shinozaki Ikumi worked together for a few days.

The finished product of the fourth episode of Rurouni Kenshin was finally completed.

"I always feel that after this episode airs tomorrow, Little Ikumi, me, Teacher Su Yan, and Little Qingyuan, the four of us will be heavily criticized!"

After watching the edited finished product, Shi Peihua said this, but her tone was gloating.

"At least Qingyuan shouldn't be criticized. The Yukishiro Tomoe she plays is the biggest victim in the drama, and the audience will definitely pity her. I and Aunt Shi won't be criticized either. We've already done our best to maximize the quality of the film within the budget, and the audience can feel the sincerity of the two of us. The only one who will be criticized is one person..." Shinozaki Ikumi's tone was even more gloating.

"The tragic fate of Yukishiro Tomoe is all caused by the screenwriter..."

"At that time, Su Yan will bear the audience's滔天anger alone."