Depressive Screenwriter

Jiang Xiaoling's eyes turned red. At the sentimental moment when the BGM started, she seemed lost.

In the Code Geass series, only four characters' deaths were meticulously foreshadowed with extensive details, spanning over ten minutes of plot development.

Euphemia, Shirley, Rolo, and Lelouch.

Among them, Lelouch's death was undoubtedly the most shocking, heartbreaking, and yet, the most moving for the audience.

Jiang Xiaoling admitted that this approach was very romantic and also very fantastical.

How could there possibly be a world leader in the real world who would sacrifice himself for peace, orchestrating such a scheme?

But people watch dramas to see things that don't exist in the real world.

Lelouch's ending made Jiang Xiaoling feel sad, but at the same time, she was moved and agreed with it.

So, is this Lelouch's plan?

Is it possible that he faked his death?

There were many instances of Lelouch faking his death in this series. This time, please, let it be a fake death.

But the final result disappointed Jiang Xiaoling.

The timeline in the story quickly moved forward, and Lelouch died.

Cornelia ascended to the throne, and all the executives of the Black Knights were released.

Nunnally became the leader of the United Federation of Nations.

Everything proceeded according to Lelouch's plan.

Peace arrived.

Although this peace is temporary, as humanity develops, friction will intensify, conflicts will escalate, and war will come again someday in the future.

But for Lelouch, achieving an era of world peace was the limit of what he could do.

The story ends with C.C., played by Zhuang Yuxin, lying on the straw in a carriage.

The ending of this drama was also sublimated because of Lelouch's choice.

His initial goal was to destroy Britannia.

Or rather, to eliminate his father, Charles.

But after achieving all of this, he chose to exchange his death for peace.

At this moment, Lelouch's image was already fixed in the hearts of fans.

Just like the excitement of a group of Lelouch fans in Su Yan's previous life on the day the work ended.

Tonight, the Xia country's Lelouch fans completely went crazy and stirred up trouble.

A large number of fans began to flood Su Yan's company's official website and major online broadcasting platforms.

"It's over just like that? Who are you looking down on? Give me a third season."

"C.C. hasn't died yet, the contract hasn't ended yet, why did Lelouch die? This is not okay, Su Yan, you old thief, you bring Lelouch back to life."

"I cried so hard tonight. In Su Yan's previous works, the charm of the male protagonists was often suppressed by the female protagonists, but Lelouch is different. I love this character so much."

"Rest in peace, Lelouch. I will never forget this day."

"Even if there isn't a third season, release some extra episodes. Do you think we fans can't afford it?"

"Su Yan, get up. How can you sleep at your age? If you can sleep, I can't sleep! A forty-year-old man, angered by the ending where Lelouch and C.C. didn't end up together, threw away his late-night snack."

"Why? For Su Yan, it's normal to let Lelouch live, right? Suzaku can pretend to be Zero his whole life, can't Lelouch get plastic surgery after faking his death and live in anonymity for the rest of his life?"

"You're thinking too much upstairs. Lelouch voluntarily gave up the throne and power. Do you know what that means? Lelouch wants to be an ordinary person? Do you think the Black Knights, Lelouch's imperial sister Cornelia, and a group of people in the Britannia Empire who have deep hatred for Lelouch would agree? Lelouch can only truly die beyond any doubt for these people to feel at ease."

"That's right, people who voluntarily step down from the throne of power basically can't have a good ending. This has been proven many times in history. Don't talk about emperors abdicating to their sons and living a good life as the supreme emperor. That's just a title. Before the supreme emperor dies, that emperor is just a puppet. TV dramas won't film these things, but as viewers, you must be aware of it."

"This may be the most dignified ending for Lelouch."

"Alas, it's just hard to accept. Actually, Su Yan could have had other ways to break the situation, right?"

"Other ways to break the situation? That is to kill all the executives of the Black Knights and rule the world dictatorially. With Lelouch's ability, even if it's a dictatorial rule, the world will definitely develop prosperously during his term. The only people sacrificed would be Lelouch's former subordinates, his series of imperial sisters, brothers, and the leaders of various forces he captured. However, Lelouch didn't do this. Dictatorial peace is also peace, but Lelouch doesn't want to kill these friends, even Nunnally, so he can only kill himself."

"My chest feels blocked."

"I might need several weeks to recover."

"I can't do it anymore."

"I don't care, I'm watching a TV series, not listening to you analyze the political situation in Lelouch's world. Even so, I want Lelouch to come back to life. Su Yan, you film a third season for me~"

All night, Su Yan's fans didn't stop.

And the next day, a group of fans sat in silent protest downstairs at Su Yan's office building in the Tokyo area.

Like in Su Yan's previous life, people in the Sakura Island area still like this, but Su Yan will definitely not be coerced.

What a joke, the brilliance of Lelouch lies in this ending. If it's changed, the charm of the work will definitely be greatly reduced.

In his previous life, the Lelouch production company didn't decide to release a third season of this profitable and popular IP to exploit Lelouch's character for so many years. They only released some boring theatrical versions to swindle fans' money. Su Yan's integrity wouldn't be worse than the Lelouch production company in his previous life. He simply ignored it.

If they like to besiege him, Su Yan can't do anything about it. At worst, he'll work from home. After a while, the fans' anger will subside, and they will naturally understand the excellence of this ending.

However, this time, the popularity of Lelouch continued to exceed Su Yan's expectations.

The final episode's viewership rating of 7.46% was just the surface.

The online abuse of Su Yan became more intense day by day, followed by the best-selling of various Lelouch-related mecha peripherals, figures, etc. overseas and domestically.

The TV series copyright fee alone sold for over 100 million, the GG implant fee was also over 100 million, and the broadcasting share on online platforms was as much as two or three hundred million. But the sales share of Lelouch's peripherals still exceeded these.

If this work wasn't unsuitable for making a game, Su Yan would have made it long ago.

While sighing inwardly, Su Yan turned his attention to the Gundam SEED TV series that would premiere next summer.

With the broadcast of SEED, game and other derivative products will definitely be launched together.

The ending of Lelouch also slightly reduced the activity of Su Yan and Dimensional Pictures in the market.

But only for half a month, Dimensional Pictures began to promote the "Howl's Moving Castle" and "Rurouni Kenshin" movie third part, which were scheduled to be released during the Spring Festival.

However, this year's Spring Festival, Su Yan didn't do everything himself like in previous years, doing roadshows, holding fan meetings, and press conferences to help promote the works.

For the current Xia country film and television industry.

Even if Su Yan doesn't do these things, as long as the work's promotion carries the four words "Screenwriter: Su Yan".

That's more effective than anything else.

What is the so-called fan circle in Su Yan's previous life compared to Su Yan's fans?

The title of traffic star actually means that this person has nothing but their face.

And Su Yan is the number one in terms of traffic in the Xia country film and television industry. Who can question his creative strength and the talent he has shown?

There is no room for questioning the fan loyalty accumulated over nine years.

Although they themselves will angrily criticize the plot of Su Yan's works, their support for Su Yan's new works will not decline at all. At worst, they will criticize Su Yan while chasing the works.

Therefore, after entering January, the popularity of Lelouch in the film and television market began to decline, replaced by topics about the Kenshin movie and the Howl's Moving Castle movie.

After Su Yan was freed from these complicated affairs, he began to work on other things.

Su Yan had a series of ideas before Lelouch ended.

Now that the emotional value in the system space has accumulated in place, Su Yan doesn't procrastinate.

He entered the system space and went straight to the target.

The One Piece East Blue arc and the Naruto arc from the beginning to the end of the Chunin Exams were all exchanged.

One is One Piece, which had an IP value of over 20 billion US dollars in Su Yan's previous life, and the other is Naruto, which had a value of over 10 billion US dollars in Su Yan's previous life.

Even if only less than one-tenth of each work was exchanged, the emotional value that Su Yan accumulated from the FSN series, plus the Kenshin movie, Weathering with You, and the Lelouch TV series, was swept away.

If Naruto is filmed into a TV series in the Xia country, and a bunch of original and flashback plots from the previous life are removed, and the plot is more concise, it is estimated that it will have to be filmed for twenty seasons. Based on the ideal broadcast plan of broadcasting two seasons of this special effects combat drama a year, and spending the rest of the time on special effects.

Su Yan would have to spend ten years to finish broadcasting the Naruto work, and all of this must be based on the premise that the special effects production partners under his command can withstand this high-intensity work and not fail at all.

Similarly, One Piece is even longer. If it is really started to be made into a TV series and serialized, even if the plot is refined and some less exciting arcs such as Fishman Island and Dressrosa are compressed, it will still take at least fifteen years, or even more than twenty years to finish broadcasting.

Therefore, although the exchange price of the two works' emotional value is expensive, Su Yan is not worried about losing money at all.

With such a long length, the emotional value brought to Su Yan by the works in a dozen or twenty years will definitely be multiplied, and then the emotional value returned will be used to exchange for the subsequent arc plot. And it will bring hundreds of billions of profits to the company.

As for the two works flopping in the Xia country plane.

Su Yan has not considered such a thing.

A work that can be popular all over the world in his previous life can only have one reason for not being popular in the Xia country plane.

It's not that the work is not good enough, it's that the capital pushing them doesn't have the strength.

For the current Su Yan, his influence in the world is much stronger than the publishing company Shueisha of the two works in his previous life.

After exchanging the early arcs of the two works, Su Yan's attention began to focus on other aspects.

For such a long time in the past, Su Yan's works' special effects have actually been outsourced to some top companies in the industry.

But since the company has long-term profitable projects and the demand for special effects is particularly large.

Outsourcing must continue. The special effects production of so many works cannot be taken over by one or two works.

But Su Yan is preparing to train some of his own special effects department personnel.

Some special effects scenes that are not difficult and time-consuming are handed over to partners.

Su Yan is preparing to let his own people do those shots that require very sophisticated special effects.

Therefore, with the start of the creation of the scripts for the two works, Su Yan and Ayami Shinozaki also began to use the money in the account to search for some special effects production companies in the Xia country and overseas that have strong production capabilities, but whose performance is not very ideal and whose holders are willing to sell.

The three major sectors under Su Yan's company, TV series, movies, and games, have extremely terrifying demand for high-precision talents in this area.

Su Yan's strength is not worried about not being able to support this team.

Dimensional Pictures' actions in the industry cannot be concealed from its peers.

Everyone's eyes are now full of curiosity.

How can Su Yan poach people like this all over the Xia country and the world?

If it's just to make a movie or TV series, is it necessary to poach so many top special effects talents? And the salary offered is so outrageous?

Just when Su Yan's peers were talking about him.

This year's Spring Festival began.

Contrary to what the outside world initially expected, it was originally thought that this year's Spring Festival would be a battle between two heroes, the Kenshin movie and Howl's Moving Castle.

After all, for three or four consecutive years, the Xia country Spring Festival box office champion has been won by Su Yan's works. Everyone thought that this year Su Yan's works would easily win this honor again.

But a fantasy romance movie "Night of Dreams" emerged from the encirclement of seven movies with the posture of a dark horse.

Although the box office for the first two days of the Spring Festival was strongly suppressed by the Kenshin movie third part and Howl's Moving Castle.

But the word-of-mouth started to rise on the third day, and its screenings and box office also increased rapidly.

The single-day box office was even less than 10 million behind Howl's Moving Castle and the Kenshin movie third part.

The box office of the three movies can be said to be on par.

After the fierce battle in the first week of the Spring Festival for seven days, Howl's Moving Castle ranked first at the box office with 1.98 billion, and the Kenshin movie third part ranked second with 1.896 billion.

As for Night of Dreams, it ranked third on the box office chart with a box office of 1.881 billion.

This situation surprised a group of capital in the Xia country film industry.

You must know that with Su Yan's current popularity, his movies definitely have a huge advantage in the first few days before they are released.

And this Night of Dreams movie was able to rank third in the box office with only a slight disadvantage under the huge publicity and fan popularity offensive of Su Yan's works.

This is simply outrageous.

Even Su Yan went to the cinema to watch this movie in the midst of his busy schedule.

Then

He watched this movie three times in the next two days.

Because it's really good.

And Su Yan can feel that the director and the screenwriter are not only learning the advantages of the works he released before, but also innovating on this basis.

However, the chase of Night of Dreams ends here.

After the Spring Festival, Su Yan relies on a huge fan base, and even on weekdays, there are a considerable number of viewers who support him.

The box office of Night of Dreams declined rapidly.

The box office growth of Howl's Moving Castle and Kenshin is still normal.

But the Night of Dreams movie seems a little weak, and the total box office forecast has also declined from the 3 billion previously predicted by the media to about 2.6 billion.

The market's desire to see Su Yan defeated did not materialize.

The Spring Festival film box office battle was decided on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year.

However, this Spring Festival also showed the Xia country film and television industry an opportunity.

The pattern of Su Yan's strong domination and crushing for several years seemed to have the possibility of being broken.

This year, 'Night of Dreams' rose as a dark horse. What about next year, the year after?

Su Yan cannot always be number one.

Someone will always learn from him and surpass him.

Su Yan is well aware of this.

However, looking at the series of classic masterpieces in the system space that he hasn't released yet, he doesn't panic at all.

However, Su Yan started sending people to contact the team that produced the movie 'Night of Dreams'.

If this company team wants to create any works in the future, they can cooperate with Dimension Film and Television Company. If they lack funds, Dimension Film and Television Company can invest and buy shares.

Su Yan confirmed his third Spring Festival box office champion.

Shinozaki Ikumi's tangled mood eased slightly.

A few days ago, she really thought that the movie 'Night of Dreams' had a chance to surpass them.

"Do you think we would have really been surpassed at the box office if we didn't have so many fans supporting us?" Shinozaki Ikumi asked Su Yan.

"Maybe," Su Yan said with a smile.

"But that's not a bad thing either. Isn't it good for Xia country to have some strong competing companies to expand the market? If we really lose, I will definitely win back in the future and get revenge!"

"I really don't understand why you are so confident," Shinozaki Ikumi shook her head, but did not doubt Su Yan's words.

Su Yan's arrogance is backed by his ability.

Who knows what other excellent film scripts Su Yan has in his mind besides 'Rurouni Kenshin' and 'Moving Castle'.

"The first week of the Spring Festival is over, and next, we can take a break for a while," Shinozaki Ikumi said, changing the subject, her eyes filled with anticipation.

"I have to travel for a month no matter what!"

"Rest?" Su Yan said with a smile.

"It's not that easy."

"What do you mean? 'Gundam SEED' and the movie 'Suzume's Journey' will only be released in July. As for the broadcast of 'Moving Castle' and 'Kenshin', the subordinates can take care of it," Shinozaki Ikumi said.

Even if she and Su Yan leave the company for a month or two during these five months, it won't be a big problem for the company to operate.

While Shinozaki Ikumi was speaking, Su Yan also took out two folders.

"Although I'm sorry, your vacation will have to be postponed for now. The project preparation for these two works is about to begin."

"'One Piece'? 'Naruto'?" Shinozaki Ikumi looked at the folder information, feeling the heavy weight of the script and character design information, her expression changed.

This is the heaviest script folder that Su Yan has ever taken out!

How long are these two works?

And Su Yan, how do you have new script again?

Aren't you tired? Don't you need to rest?

The broadcast plan for 'Gundam SEED' and 'Gundam Z' will be broadcast from July this year to the Spring Festival next year.

You actually have two more TV series scripts?

"These two are the long TV series I told you about before," Su Yan said.

"The preparation period for this kind of long work is also long, and the casting cannot be sloppy. So..." Su Yan said with a smile.

"You and I will be busy for the next few months."

Shinozaki Ikumi's expression was stunned, then helpless, she sighed, and finally became high-spirited!