Depressive Screenwriter

"Gu Xiang Si Qu?"

Shinozaki Ikumi looked at the three episodes of the script that Su Yan placed in front of her with a curious tone.

"What a strange name."

"What type of work is it?"

"Historical costume, romance, and then..." Su Yan replied.

"Add some patriotic sentiments."

"Isn't this very similar to Rurouni Kenshin? It's also a story set in ancient Sakura Island?" Shinozaki Ikumi perked up.

After all, Su Yan became famous with Rurouni Kenshin, so if the sequel is a work with similar elements to Rurouni Kenshin, it will naturally attract the attention of Kenshin fans.

"Historical costume, but not the Sakura Island region, but a traditional Xia country historical drama, and the male lead is not as powerful as Himura Kenshin, but..." Su Yan thought for a while and said.

"He's the kind of guy who has courage and is smarter than Kenshin, but essentially, he's just an ordinary person."

"Not a martial arts drama?" Shinozaki Ikumi frowned upon hearing this.

After all, although Rurouni Kenshin took off with the depressing plot of the fourth episode, the martial arts scenes in the early stage were also extremely important. If there are no martial arts scenes, will Kenshin fans buy it?

"Then, is the ending of this drama a tragedy?" Shinozaki Ikumi suddenly thought of her experience of being scolded by angry Kenshin fans for half a month without stopping, and said at this time.

"Not really!"

Su Yan thought for a while. The male and female leads both realized their greatest dreams.

Before dying, they saw each other one last time.

Realizing their dreams, how can it be considered a tragedy?

"That's good." Shinozaki Ikumi's face bloomed with a smile.

"I knew it, Su Yan, you are also a normal person. Depression and the like are just occasional products. In fact, the market trend still leans towards the truth, goodness, and beauty of a happy ending."

Su Yan's expression was strange.

Since you asked that, why didn't you just ask if this drama is a depressing style?

The male and female leads are a modern person and a woman who died thousands of years ago in history.

They fell in love across a history of one or two thousand years, and because of the male lead's irregular time travel, they only met six times in their lives but remembered each other for a lifetime.

Is this considered depressing?

After Shinozaki Ikumi finished asking, she sat upright opposite Su Yan and took a deep breath to pick up the script.

The script begins with a certain ancient dynasty.

In the imperial capital, a grand trial and punishment scene.

The common people who watched, the former dynasty's evil empress who controlled the fate of this country for decades, and impoverished the people through military aggression, and the glance she gave at the male lead Shen Buyan in the crowd before her execution...

With surprise, complexity, and then turning into sadness in her eyes.

A writer who specializes in writing historical novels, the protagonist Shen Buyan woke up from a dream.

That dream, which was almost like a personal experience, made him greatly interested in the Sheng Kingdom in the dream, and he wanted to write a novel about the rise and fall of this dynasty.

Next, the foreshadowing of the early stage of this drama appears on the stage.

The ancient tree that is said to be able to fulfill wishes.

The old woman selling strange broken jade.

After saying a bunch of inexplicable riddles, she tricked Shen Buyan into buying the broken jade.

Then

One night, Shen Buyan, thinking about how to write his novel and researching the historical truth of the Sheng Kingdom.

He time-traveled.

He time-traveled to that Sheng Kingdom, the era when the evil empress Lu Yuan still existed.

Shinozaki Ikumi's eyes widened.

Time travel is basically non-existent in the Xia country film and television market.

In Su Yan's previous life's Hua country online novel market, this was a cliché setting.

And in the film and television industry, the concept of time travel was only popularized 10 years later by works such as 'Scarlet Heart' and 'Palace'.

But in Xia country, before this, there was no such concept.

A clichéd routine in one world is innovation in another world.

Shinozaki Ikumi was already interested when she saw this.

Reading on

Shen Buyan, a youth of the new century, time-traveled to the era when Lu Yuan in her thirties existed.

And as soon as he time-traveled, he was in the imperial palace.

But in this era, the Sheng Kingdom was facing a crisis of national subjugation, the enemy's army was approaching the city, and the country's Prime Minister Li Yong was also preparing to betray the country and surrender to the enemy.

And Lu Yuan, as the mother of the young emperor, acting on behalf of the world, was also called the evil empress.

This kind of background setting is too common in history.

In Su Yan's previous life's Hua country, Zhao Feiyan and Sun Ruowei were famous historical figures known as evil empresses.

And there are also many empress dowagers who control the government, such as Empress Lü and Empress Dowager Cixi.

Shinozaki Ikumi accepted the background setting without any resistance, after all, there are plenty of such characters in Xia country's history.

As for the setting of the Sheng Kingdom, there are too many small and obscure dynasties in Xia country's history, so there is nothing to complain about.

But the weirdness of the plot lies in the fact that Shen Buyan, who time-traveled to ancient times for the first time, met a palace maid who seemed to have known him for a long time.

And this maid brought him to a beautiful woman.

And this woman was the Empress Dowager of the Sheng Kingdom, Lu Yuan.

And she seemed to have known Shen Buyan for a long time, as if she had known for a long time that he would come to the palace this day, and prepared suitable clothes and crowns for him, and spent the sacrificial festival with him, willow branches brushed with dew, and祓禊 to remove disasters.

Then, under the attack of the traitorous Prime Minister Li Yong, she sacrificed her life to block a fatal blow for him.

Shen Buyan watched the death of Lu Yuan in her thirties. Why did this woman use her life to save him, a stranger?

With questions, Shen Buyan's first time travel ended.

Two of the five pieces of jade he bought were fused together.

Shinozaki Ikumi felt dizzy after reading the first episode of the script.

What is Lu Yuan, this woman full of mysteries, going to do?

Is she dead? Why did she risk her life to save a man she met for the first time?

Why is it that everywhere in the script, she seems to have been preparing for a long time for this day, this night, and the meeting with the male lead?

Didn't Su Yan say that this drama is not a tragedy?

Shinozaki Ikumi couldn't wait to pick up the second episode of the script and continue reading.

The setting that shocked her all day appeared again.

After returning to modern times, the male lead still couldn't forget the history of the Sheng Kingdom and the evil empress Lu Yuan who saved him, so he time-traveled again through the jade pendant.

He time-traveled to ten years before the first time travel, to the era when Lu Yuan was not yet the Empress Dowager, but only a female official, and was only in her twenties.

Ah?

Shinozaki Ikumi's expression became even more dizzy.

How will this plot develop?

From a time-travel drama, it has become a brain-burning drama.

The first time travel was to when Lu Yuan was in her thirties.

The second time travel was to when Lu Yuan was in her twenties?

This...

What kind of setting is this?

What about Lu Yuan in her thirties?

She saved you and died, so you're just going to ignore her?

The main line of this drama thus emerges.

After the male lead Shen Buyan met the young Lu Yuan, he learned the historical truth of the Sheng Kingdom that does not exist in historical books.

In order to change the fate of Lu Yuan dying at the age of thirty to save him, he began to make various efforts and attempts in an earlier time period, hoping to change history.

After reading the scripts for three consecutive episodes, Shinozaki Ikumi blinked and looked at Su Yan.

"Is there more?"

"No, I've only written three episodes these days." Su Yan said.

"How is it? Do you think it's interesting?"

"Of course." Shinozaki Ikumi got excited when she talked about this topic.

"What's going on with that Lu Yuan? Did she know the male lead Shen Buyan a long time ago?"

"And that Prime Minister Li Yong, he is clearly betraying the country and surrendering to the enemy, so why is he still called a virtuous prime minister in history? Also, why did he look at Shen Buyan, who time-traveled for the first time, as if he saw his father-killing enemy, and desperately wanted his subordinates to kill Shen Buyan?"

"Lu Yuan... did she really die at the age of thirty?" Shinozaki Ikumi's voice was a little low when she said this.

"I haven't thought about these plots yet." Su Yan's expression was calm.

He doesn't like spoilers, because it's meaningless to spoil the subsequent plot for the producer Shinozaki Ikumi. Su Yan will not change the script, nor will he be influenced by her. In that case, it's purely a sentence of 'I haven't thought about it yet,' saving all the trouble.

"Do you think these three episodes of the script can pass the review of the TV station's production department and get investment?"

"Of course." Shinozaki Ikumi's expression was confident.

"This script is much more interesting than those clichéd workplace dramas and campus romance comedies on TV stations. With the concept of time travel thrown out, it's hard for me to imagine that the production department would give up this script?"

"But..."

Shinozaki Ikumi thought of Kiyota Sanji's uncle.

Heh.

Writing a good script is Su Yan's job.

And smoothing out these difficulties.

Is Shinozaki Ikumi's responsibility.

She got up and looked at Su Yan.

"Give me these three episodes of the script, and I will get the production department to approve the script and allocate funds."

Thanks to Super Electromagnetic Fireworks and Moonlight Burial Rock for the rewards.

Thank you, great bosses.