Depressive Screenwriter

Zhong Qingxuan's heart trembled.

What's going on?

Because Su Yan's dramas are always set in the Sakura Island region, the reason is simple: high school students in Xia Guo schools are not allowed to date, so the same goes for film and television dramas. It's understandable that Su Yan has this setting.

But because of this, she also knew that in Sakura Island, girls who are heartbroken like to use this method to express their feelings.

Why would she do this?

Is it because the male lead is dating Senior Okudera?

No, didn't you create the opportunity for their date?

If you like the male lead, you should at least contact him, meet him, and only after being rejected by him can you acknowledge that you are heartbroken and then cut your hair!

Zhong Qingxuan felt a little confused.

She realized that something was definitely wrong with this drama.

However, the linear narrative structure of the plot made it impossible for her to find out where the problem was.

But soon, this strange point emerged.

The female lead, wearing a kimono and with her hair cut short, dressed up and appeared at the lively evening festival in the town, and in the night sky of Itomori Town...

That brilliant comet, with its long tail, appeared.

Tearing through the sky, with its colorful arc, and then a small piece split off and fell downwards.

Something's not right...

It's impossible that the comet wouldn't be visible in the Tokyo area, but it would be visible in Itomori Town.

The camera switched to the other side.

Tachibana Taki, holding his phone, repeatedly wanted to call Mitsuha. He wanted to tell her that he liked her, but he hesitated all night, because he didn't see the comet, so... he chose to write these things in her notebook during the next body swap.

However...

From that day on, the body swapping never happened again.

Unconsciously, Zhong Qingxuan's entire brain was fully engaged.

She never expected that watching a romance drama would turn into a brain-burning drama halfway through.

Why could the two of them swap places and even find the reason in the history of the Miyamizu family?

After all, the grandmother had said in the previous plot that this was a family trait, and the women in the family would dream during adolescence.

But why did the two of them suddenly stop swapping?

The plot seemed to guess the audience's thoughts. Tachibana Taki, after discovering that the swapping phenomenon had disappeared and also finding that he couldn't contact Miyamizu Mitsuha's phone, immediately set off, pulling along his friend and Senior Okudera, who he once had a crush on but was now just a friend, to go to Itomori Town, wanting to find Mitsuha directly.

Zhong Qingxuan blinked.

"Is there such a method?"

Of course, there is actually a bit of a bug in the original animation: what is the first thing the male and female leads do when they wake up after swapping?

That's right, go to school.

What is the first thing a normal person does before going to school?

Definitely check the time.

If they didn't notice it once or twice, that might be normal, but the time they swapped was calculated in months. It's really impossible that the two of them wouldn't notice that their timelines were different. Therefore, in the Xia Guo version, Su Yan also explicitly added a bit of swapping side effects to the plot.

That is, after waking up, it's really like a dream. They will only vaguely remember what they did after swapping, but the details are not so clear, let alone the time, they can't remember it at all.

In this plot, the answer is quickly given.

Why Tachibana Taki couldn't swap with Miyamizu Mitsuha again, and why he couldn't contact her by phone.

Because Tachibana Taki, who came here, was led by the remaining residents of the area to the location of Itomori Town.

Next to the huge crater where Tachibana Taki used Miyamizu Mitsuha's kuchikamisake, another new crater was added, which happened to destroy Itomori Town...

Itomori Town was directly destroyed three years ago due to the comet's impact.

Miyamizu Mitsuha also died three years ago.

The moment this setting was revealed, Zhong Qingxuan's neck broke out in goosebumps.

Swapping, but not in the same timeline?

Is the current Tachibana Taki swapping souls with Miyamizu Mitsuha from three years ago?

The cross-sections of the two huge craters merged, and over time, a crater lake formed.

Itomori Town, which Tachibana Taki had gradually become familiar with during the swapping process, was now a ruin.

The female lead of this drama, Miyamizu Mitsuha, also died three years ago.

Zhong Qingxuan's eyes turned red.

Old thief, you lied again.

What romance comedy!

Isn't this purely a tragedy?

No wonder Tachibana Taki didn't see the comet when he was dating Senior.

It turned out that the comet that Miyamizu Mitsuha was talking about had fallen to Blue Star three years ago.

The moment she understood the truth, her memories began to collapse.

The message records that Miyamizu Mitsuha had saved for him in Tachibana Taki's phone began to turn into garbled characters.

The memories in his mind also began to become unstable.

But soon, the male lead found a way.

He came to the cave where Miyamizu Mitsuha's kuchikamisake was once placed.

He waded through the water and moved forward in the rain.

The words that "Grandma" had told her during the swapping process, about the Miyamizu family's tradition of being prone to daydreaming during adolescence.

He picked up that bottle of kuchikamisake in the cave.

Zhong Qingxuan held her breath. She guessed what the male lead was going to do.

But...

"No way? That's the pure, handmade wine that Miyamizu Mitsuha chewed herself and then naturally fermented with her oral saliva! Are you really going to drink it?"

She, as a female audience member, felt a little awkward.

But the male audience members on the scene were excited.

When Tachibana Taki really drank that bottle of wine...

The connection between him and Miyamizu Mitsuha was re-established in the dark.

The key parts of the memory torrent in Miyamizu Mitsuha's already completed life also poured into his mind.

Zhong Qingxuan didn't doubt how this kind of thing happened. It's obviously problematic to overly discuss science in a time-travel drama.

Since the screenwriter set it up that Tachibana Taki, who drank the wine and re-established contact with the female lead, could see Miyamizu Mitsuha's memories, then he could see them.

She woke up again and came to the day before the female lead's death.

The day she cut her hair short.

Waking up from the bed, she started to rub her chest skillfully with tears in her eyes.

Zhong Qingxuan's slightly uncomfortable mood instantly broke down, and she laughed out loud.

Old thief, you did it on purpose, didn't you?

She began to tell the people around her about the meteor that would fall tonight, and then made a series of plans with her two friends, Sayaka and Teshigawara.

For example, cutting off the power supply in the town at night, so that the people in the town would definitely not stay on the streets and be wiped out by the comet.

Go to her father, who is the mayor of the town, to discuss evacuating the masses, but the town's father will definitely not let the festival, which cost a lot of money to prepare, be ruined because of such a ridiculous reason.

"Is this useful? Can history be changed? Won't it be like 'Ancient Love Song'?" Zhong Qingxuan frowned.

No... it's useful.

Suddenly, Zhong Qingxuan thought of the key point. Before, when Mitsuha met with Teshigawara and Sayaka in a short-haired image, it was at night before the meteor fell.

But this time it was during the day, and the male lead took the initiative to control the female lead's body to meet with them.

From this point of view, history has already changed.

Leaving aside whether or not the entire town can be saved.

As long as the male lead, who is now controlling Mitsuha's body, lets her take the train leaving Itomori Town, then it is certain that Mitsuha will be saved.

But the problem is that the male lead wants to save not only Mitsuha, but also the other five hundred people who died in the comet's fall three years ago.

Including Yukino Yurie, the female lead of 'The Garden of Words', who is a teacher in Itomori Town.

On the other side, the female lead also woke up in Tachibana Taki's body, who had fainted in the cave, and saw the destroyed Itomori Town.

From here we can infer.

Tachibana Taki time-traveled to the female lead's body on the morning of the day the meteor fell.

But the one who time-traveled to Tachibana Taki's body was the female lead's soul, who had experienced the destruction of her hometown by the meteor and had already died, with her memory staying at that moment.

In Itomori Town three years ago, the male lead, using the female lead's body, rode a bicycle, wanting to find a way to save everyone, and his memories began to emerge...

The following plot began to tell the audience in the theater a memory.

In the previous plot, Miyamizu Mitsuha, who helped the male lead create the miracle of dating the senior, in the subsequent action...

After helping the male lead create the opportunity for the date with the senior in the evening of the next day, she woke up in her own body on the morning of the next day.

But soon, she regretted it.

Because Miyamizu Mitsuha fell in love with Tachibana Taki.

She didn't want the male lead and the senior to confirm their relationship through this date.

So at noon, she embarked on the bullet train to Tokyo.

Coming to the big city for the first time, she relied on the memories from the time-traveling to prepare to go to Tachibana Taki's house to find him.

And on the crowded subway...

She discovered her target in advance, Tachibana Taki.

But not high school student Tachibana Taki, but...

Tachibana Taki, who was still in junior high school at this time.

Tachibana Taki at this time had not yet time-traveled, so naturally he didn't know what this strange older sister on the subway was doing, why she was looking at him with strange eyes, and also asking him why he didn't remember her.

But Zhong Qingxuan was a little tearful.

She understood too well.

Miyamizu Mitsuha recognized Tachibana Taki at a glance. She was confident that Tachibana Taki could also recognize her at a glance. Only in this way could she prevent the boy from stopping dating the senior in her imagined "tonight".

But unfortunately...

Time was messed up...

【Taki, don't you remember me?】

【Who are you?】

The short dialogue between the two made the movie theater silent.

Zhong Qingxuan felt sorry for Gu Qingyuan's performance.

Soft BGM sounded, the sound of the city railway running, the crowded people in the carriage.

The girl's disappointed expression.

The boy's doubtful gaze.

The station arrived, the subway doors opened, and the girl was unconsciously squeezed out of the carriage by the crowd.

【That, what's your name?】

The boy looked at the girl's figure leaving, and blurted out in a hurry.

【Mitsuha... Miyamizu Mitsuha.】

Mitsuha also took off the ribbon on her head at the end, and then sent it to the boy before she was squeezed away.

Zhong Qingxuan understood and her eyes were a little red.

It turned out that Miyamizu Mitsuha and Tachibana Taki first met on the subway three years ago.

It turned out that the bracelet that Tachibana Taki had been wearing on his hand was her ribbon.

It's just that the time was too long, causing Tachibana Taki three years later to not remember the strange girl on the subway three years ago. Even though their bodies swapped later, he still couldn't remember, and it was only this time that he understood the whole story because he drank the kuchikamisake and accepted the female lead's memories.

This is why Miyamizu Mitsuha cut her hair on the day the meteor fell.

Because she was rejected by the boy on her trip to Tokyo "yesterday".

The boy didn't recognize her at a glance as she imagined, which meant that she was not important to him.

Although they only met once, she also confirmed that the boy had no affection for her. Everything was just her wishful thinking.

That's for sure, because Tachibana Taki at that time didn't know her at all.

But the information gap made Miyamizu Mitsuha think that she was completely heartbroken, and then she cut her hair short and died in the meteor disaster the next day.

Zhong Qingxuan straightened out the timeline and let out a long breath.

The old thief's movies are indeed different.

Is there anything more brain-burning than this in romance movies?