Depressive Screenwriter

Sakura Network Comments Section.

"Brothers, can I say that I, a guy, watched this with tears in my eyes?"

"Me too. My girlfriend watched this show with me, and she got so angry that she cursed the screenwriter for being inhuman."

"Why did they have to make this love affair so torturous? Can the screenwriter be normal?"

"I feel so bad, I can't sleep at all after watching it."

"Lu Shi and Yi Hua's death. Shen Buyan kneeling towards Lu Yuan, acknowledging her status as empress to stabilize the situation... This episode really made me feel so tired."

"But this plot really makes Lu Yuan and Shen Buyan so good. A female lead who only knows about romance is always second-rate. Although Lu Yuan values Shen Buyan more than her own life, the people of Sheng Kingdom are more important to her than Shen Buyan! This is the kind of pattern a female lead should have. Compared to Lu Yuan, those romance drama female leads on the market are trash."

"Shen Buyan is also very powerful! Although he is very painful that Lu Yuan chose to become an empress and chose to die on the Shangsi Festival ten years later, he still respects her choice and doesn't pester her. Instead, he immediately decides to support her no matter what she decides. This character is a hundred times stronger than those useless male leads!"

"People always have some ideals that outweigh everything else. The protagonist's awareness is fully shaped in this episode."

"Although it's hard to watch, I think this episode is really the best episode of the whole work so far."

"I don't care, why don't these two have a good ending?"

"It's all the fault of the screenwriter Su Yan, he is manipulating the fate of these two characters. It is him..."

"Su Yan, you old thief, are you in the forum comments section?"

"Everyone, don't panic yet. Doesn't Shen Buyan have two more chances to travel through time with the broken jade in this drama? The second time travel didn't change history, maybe the third time will?"

"That's right, changing Lu Yuan's ending is the main theme of this drama. If history really cannot be changed, then what's the point of filming the remaining episodes of this drama?"

"What do you mean don't panic? Have you all forgotten the tragedy of Rurouni Kenshin? This combination of Su Yan and Ayumi Shinozaki is not to be trusted."

"It's impossible for this drama to end up being all for nothing, right?"

"Don't say it, I'm a little panicked."

"The male lead Shen Buyan only has two chances to travel through time. He must help Lu Yuan defeat Li Yong in the next two time travels, so that Lu Yuan will let go of her obsession with Sheng Kingdom and choose to spend her life with him as an ordinary person."

"But is it possible that in the following plot, Shen Buyan will no longer use his two time travel opportunities? He really just stays in this era to help Lu Yuan defeat Li Yong, one as an empress and the other as a minister, spending their lives like this..."

"This kind of plot is absolutely unacceptable. If the final ending is like this, I will hate Su Yan and Ayumi Shinozaki forever."

"It seems that many people said this kind of thing in the past two weeks, but I see that they are still watching the drama now."

"I can't take it anymore, I'm going to go to the Sakura TV official website to put pressure on the TV station's screenwriting department and production department. Everyone, let's go to the Sakura TV official website and demand that the screenwriter Su Yan must not make the ending depressing."

"Count me in."

"Me too."

"What unchangeable fate? As long as we can influence the screenwriter Su Yan and let him directly write the plot of Lu Yuan becoming an immortal, what's unchangeable? Ridiculous."

Su Yan woke up and habitually went online to read the audience's comments on the fifth episode of 'Ancient Love Song'. He immediately closed the webpage after reading it for less than a minute.

Although he had expected it, it was indeed a little unsettling to see thousands of posts scolding him.

"But scolding is one thing, the audience in Xia are understanding."

Su Yan looked at the 9.3 rating of 'Ancient Love Song' on Sakura Network.

It had risen again overnight.

Scolding is scolding, but since the rating has risen, it means that the audience's anger is directed at him as the screenwriter, not at 'Ancient Love Song'.

On the contrary, although last night's plot was depressing and sad, it also moved a considerable number of viewers, which prompted them to change the rating.

In the early morning, Gu Qingyuan was recognized by a group of people while eating breakfast at a breakfast shop, shouting 'Lu Yuan, Lu Yuan' and asking her to sign autographs.

When she arrived at the film and television base in the suburbs of Shanghai, she could see many staff members in the base greeting her along the way.

Even if these people are not necessarily from the 'Ancient Love Song' crew, they still know Gu Qingyuan.

A TV series with a 2% viewership rating and ranked in the top 20 is enough to make Gu Qingyuan famous among actors.

People in this circle are very sensitive to relevant news, so it's not surprising that they recognize her.

It's just that Gu Qingyuan felt a little unreal.

After all, who knew her in the entertainment industry a few months ago?

When she arrived at the crew, she saw Ayumi Shinozaki, Shi Peihua, and Su Yan studying the viewership data of the fifth episode of 'Ancient Love Song' from last night.

"2.49%, it's up again." Ayumi Shinozaki took a deep breath to calm her excited emotions, but she couldn't.

"Judging from this viewership data, the viewership ranking of 'Ancient Love Song' this week might be able to squeeze into the top sixteen of the season? If we're lucky, maybe fifteenth?" Shi Peihua took out another list of forms.

It recorded the viewership ratings and rankings of a number of TV series broadcast in Xia Kingdom last week.

Last week, the sixteenth-ranked work had a viewership rating of 2.48%.

"The distance from the top ten doesn't seem that far away."

Ayumi Shinozaki's expression began to恍惚 again.

At first, her viewership target for this drama was only 1.4%, and a viewership ranking in the top 30.

Now the viewership is almost 2.5%.

"But it's also thanks to the mediocre quality of the film and television dramas broadcast this season," Su Yan said.

"In the previous seasons, a 2.5% viewership rating would still be hovering around 20th place. But this season, a 2.5% viewership rating can squeeze into the top 15."

"If we talk about the previous seasons, such as the autumn season last year, there were dramas with a 5% viewership rating. And in the same season, there were two dramas with a viewership rating of over 4%. This season, only 'The Person in the Painting' has temporarily broken 4%," Shi Peihua said.

"But the film and television drama market is like this. After a slump for one or two seasons, it will usher in a boom period, and every one or two years, there will even be one or two phenomenal hit TV series... But we don't need to consider the viewership situation of film and television dramas in other seasons, our opponents only exist now."

"The most important thing is that even if the viewership rating of 'Ancient Love Song' stays at this level from the next episode onwards, even if it doesn't achieve the goal of a top ten viewership ranking, surpassing 'Night Sakura' is already a great success for us," Ayumi Shinozaki said.

"The production department will comprehensively examine the potential of the three of us, Su Yan, me, and Aunt Shi... If we have any works that need to be established and produced in the future, in the area of TV station funding allocation... It will definitely not be as difficult as before."

Ayumi Shinozaki looked up at Su Yan, her eyes were a little red, and tears were swirling in her eyes.

The effort of sleeping less than five hours a day for the past two months has paid off.

This is the meaning of finding a reliable big-shot screenwriter!

She had been messing around in the TV station for two years without achieving anything.

Now that she has met the right person, her performance has reversed in less than half a year.

At this moment, she really proved to those colleagues and media people in the TV station who laughed at her that her basic qualities as a producer are not a problem.

Give her enough funding, and she can manage the crew in an orderly manner.

The previous two works failed miserably, purely because the screenwriters, directors, and planners she collaborated with were too unreliable.

Su Yan paused, he was not used to this kind of scene.

But looking at Ayumi Shinozaki's tearful eyes, he hesitated for a moment, then handed her a tissue and pretended to be relaxed and said.

"If you're so moved by the results that you want to cry, it's best not to be now."

Ayumi Shinozaki and the others looked at Su Yan.

"Because it's too early to cry, the viewership rating of 'Ancient Love Song' will definitely not stop at this result."

"It will continue to rise, and it will surpass 'Night Sakura' and squeeze into the top ten in the viewership rankings. And maybe..." Su Yan looked at the two.

"Not just the top ten, it will be even higher."

"I can't provide concrete evidence to support my ideas, but time and the final results of 'Ancient Love Song' will explain everything..." Su Yan smiled.

"The autumn season is not even halfway over yet."

The scene suddenly fell silent.

After a long time, Ayumi Shinozaki, Shi Peihua, and Gu Qingyuan, who was standing not far away listening to the three of them, all raised their heads.

Each of their expressions carried a look of contemplation.

The seeds of ambition were planted in the hearts of all three by Su Yan's words.

In the fifth week of the autumn season, the viewership rankings of each work remained basically unchanged.

The Person in the Painting No. 1

The Lone Doctor No. 2.

The Gilded One No. 3.

Night Sakura remained at No. 11 as always.

And Ancient Love Song ranked No. 16 in the viewership rankings this week.

But this drama premiered on Sunday midnight, and the viewership rating rose from 1.38 to 2.49, and the ranking rose from 27 to 16.

The opening score on Sakura Network rose from 9.0 points to the current 9.3 points, surpassing the three A-level dramas and ranking first in the season.

All of this is conveying a message to a group of drama fans in Xia.

Ancient Love Song is a drama buried by the schedule.

Looking at its comments section, a large pile of people are scolding the screenwriter for being idiotic.

But no one scolds the plot or the characters, which shows the audience's love for Ancient Love Song.

These swear words are only born out of love for Ancient Love Song and hatred for the screenwriter.

Once the market's public opinion and adjustment mechanism are turned on, it will not be transferred for human purposes.

During this week, the paid views of Ancient Love Song on Sakura Network showed a sharp increase.

It directly exceeded the paid viewing data of 3.5 million and 3.9 million per episode of Night Sakura and Beneath the Azure Sky, two TV series with viewership ratings of eleven and six respectively.

With a paid viewing data of 4.6 million per episode, Ancient Love Song is only ranked after Sakura TV's A-level drama The Gilded One with a paid viewing volume of 5.3 million.

After all, these are all works that have been broadcast on TV stations, and the percentage of viewers who are willing to pay a second time on Sakura Network will definitely not be too high.

It's already very good to have four or five million new viewers join the fray and old viewers pay to watch it again.

The surge in viewership ratings and paid data on Sakura Network this week directly shocked many employees of Sakura TV.

At the production department meeting last season, Akasaka Yoshishi arranged for Ancient Love Song to be broadcast in this time slot with the reason of boosting Sunday midnight.

Everyone knows that this is Akasaka Yoshishi's act of revenge for Ancient Love Song taking away the investment amount that should have belonged to Night Sakura according to normal development.

But now...

Why does it feel like this thing is going to come true!

If it really continues to maintain this viewership rating, it would be too painful for Akasaka Yoshishi's face.

He, the deputy director of the production department, can't even suppress a new screenwriter, and his prestige is completely gone!

It's not just the internal staff of Sakura TV.

Many internal staff of Shanghai TV and China TV have also heard about these conflicts between Akasaka Yoshishi, the deputy director of the production department of Sakura TV, and the new screenwriter Su Yan.

Many people's interest has come up, and they unconditionally support Su Yan.

After all, they are all working people, and they have a natural aversion to superiors as a creature.

It turns out that in addition to the dramas broadcast on TV in the autumn season, there is also this kind of workplace drama in reality!

Many colleagues in the TV industry have started the mode of eating melons.

In this way, October passed, and November came.

It's another Sunday night.

But now, in addition to caring about the fifth episode of The Lone Doctor, which will be broadcast at eight o'clock in the evening, many people in the Xia TV industry, film and television drama critics, and major media are also shifting their focus to the sixth episode of Ancient Love Song, which will be broadcast on time after midnight.

Will the viewership rating of this new episode rise?

Or will it fall?

This new screenwriter has only had one short drama with good results before.

Can he grasp the later plot of this quarterly long drama and maintain the rating of Ancient Love Song at the high position of 9.3 for the first season until the end?