Depressive Screenwriter

The viewership rating for the third episode of "April" barely squeezed into the 4% range, achieving a rating of 4.01%.

Although it remained in fifth place for the season, it undeniably reached a 4% viewership rating.

Here's the viewership situation for the third week of the summer season:

First place: "Summer Flowers" with a 4.49% viewership rating.

Second place: "The Simplest Love" with a 4.35% viewership rating.

Third place: "Person of Hope" with a 4.23% viewership rating.

Fourth place: "Singles" with a 4.12% viewership rating.

Fifth place: "April."

And sixth place: "Words of Power" with a 3.68% viewership rating.

As for "Crimson Romance," "April's" competitor in the same time slot,

its viewership rating declined again, plummeting to only 2.19%, dropping to 23rd place.

That day, the entire "April" crew launched a celebratory banquet that evening.

No need to say much.

A B-grade drama broadcast on Qingkong TV achieving over 4% viewership rating, how could they not celebrate?

As for others in the television industry...

the focus of attention was no longer on how high "Summer Flowers'" viewership rating could soar.

Instead, it was whether the A-grade dramas of the three major television stations this season would be surpassed by Su Yan's new drama. If so, how many dramas would "April" overtake?

Previously, when Su Yan was at Sakura TV, even if his drama's performance surpassed the A-grade dramas of other television stations,

the three major television stations were merely annoyed and wouldn't react too strongly.

After all, the three major television stations had been competing with each other for many years, and winning and losing was normal.

Now it's different.

Now Qingkong TV's drama had stuck a knife into the butt of their own dramas.

The two A-grade dramas of Zhongxia TV were ranked third and fourth in viewership, with a gap of 0.1% to 0.2% from "April."

With "April's" viewership growth rate, it might even surpass them after the fourth episode airs?

The entire Zhongxia TV was in a panic.

How humiliating would it be if Qingkong TV's drama surpassed their performance?

So Zhongxia TV put all its efforts into promoting "Person of Hope" and "Singles" this week.

The station's variety shows were temporarily canceled and replaced with interviews with the cast and crew of the two dramas, inviting popular movie stars, directors, and screenwriters to tell "stories" to fans and viewers, hoping the two dramas would have stronger viewership ratings this week.

The fact is that Saturday passed.

The fourth episode of "Summer Flowers" had a 4.52% viewership rating.

The fourth episode of "Person of Hope" had a 4.29% viewership rating.

The fourth episode of "Singles" had a 4.18% viewership rating.

It was considered some progress compared to the previous week.

But whether it was the media or Zhongxia TV insiders, they all felt this viewership rating was very weak.

After all, "April's" momentum was too strong, with viewership ratings soaring at every turn.

"Your Lie in April" now has over six million paid views per episode on Raccoon Net, ranking second among the dramas that premiered this season on online platforms, second only to "Summer Flowers."

And the rating exceeds 9.3, this data has been the first from the first week of broadcast until now.

Although "Summer Flowers" has also risen to a 9.2 rating, there is still no sign of surpassing "April" in the short term.

And it is in this situation that many scandals and rumors about Su Yan have spread on the Internet in the past few days.

Such as Su Yan bullying others on the set, and insulting and physically punishing extras who made mistakes during filming.

Su Yan is engaged in gray transactions on the set and has an improper relationship with Gu Qingyuan.

And what about Xiaozaki Ikumi, Gu Qingyuan, and Shen Liqian fighting for Su Yan on the set, the "April" crew has now become a palace fighting scene.

Even a junior high school classmate who Su Yan doesn't even know revealed that Su Yan was a bad student in school, addicted to smoking, drinking, skipping classes, fighting, and gambling.

It is easy to guess who the writers of these news media are.

After all, Su Yan's drama is now directly threatening the monopoly of the three major television stations.

If Zhongxia TV's A-grade drama loses to Su Yan's "April," then Sakura TV and Shanghai TV will not be happy either.

This is equivalent to telling everyone in the television industry in Xia Country that the three major television stations are nothing more than that.

Zhongxia may lose today.

Sakura and Shanghai may also lose tomorrow.

The companies and GG merchants in Xia Country will also change their mentality, and they can have one more reason to bargain for GG fees with their television stations.

Therefore, these messages smearing Su Yan are not necessarily Sakura TV alone spending money to buy off the media to smear Su Yan.

Most likely... all three did it!

Of course, Su Yan's fans are not vegetarians either.

After all, the people who broke the news didn't even dare to reveal their real names, and they were all messages uploaded by some wild chicken media.

The real big news media are afraid of being sued by Su Yan and would never put such news online.

Most people will definitely not believe this kind of thing.

"It's obvious that they are jealous of Su Yan, the old thief, and deliberately smearing Su Yan, the old thief."

"Anyway, I laughed when I saw it. What Su Yan, the old thief, was lonely, unpopular, and had an abnormal mental state in junior high school. Am I uneducated? A handsome guy who is so handsome, can play the piano, violin, zither, and flute, would be an outcast in junior high school? This is a god-level riajuu, I guess a lot of girls like him, how could this kind of person be isolated?"

"Forget it, the three major television stations are panicking, they are afraid that "April's" performance will be too good and threaten their status, they can compile any nonsense news, please hire more professional water armies."

"People are afraid of being famous, and pigs are afraid of being strong! Su Yan, the old thief, is really embarrassed."

"If you are upright, you are not afraid of being framed. I am only interested in eating these melons when someone dares to break the news with their real name."

"Especially some media blackening Su Yan, saying that his relationship with Gu Qingyuan on the set is abnormal, I laughed anyway, our Rurouni Kenshin fans hope that the two are really in an abnormal relationship, and directly announce their love, so that it will fulfill a regret."

"Can't find any black spots to randomly blacken. I am Su Yan's elementary school classmate. He has been the popular king in the class since elementary school, but none of us knew that he had so many talents, we all thought he was just handsome."

"Don't care about these stupid news. The focus is on the viewership rating of "April" for me! "April" has been ranked fifth in viewership for two consecutive weeks, and I am not used to it at all. This feeling of standing still."

Akasaka Yoshiki was quite angry when he saw Su Yan's fans on the Internet taking the initiative to speak for him and everyone choosing to believe Su Yan's words.

Now, let alone Zhongxia TV feeling a great crisis.

Doesn't he, Akasaka Yoshiki, have a sense of crisis?

If "April's" viewership performance increases a little more and surpasses "Person of Hope" and "Singles."

Then, the next one under pressure will be "The Simplest Love!"

And if "April's" viewership rating even surpasses "The Simplest Love,"...

he couldn't imagine how big the rhythm would be for him, Akasaka Yoshiki, in the entire film and television drama market.

A drama made by a screenwriter he suppressed and a female star he suppressed surpasses Sakura TV's A-grade drama.

That would really be the sky falling.

At 8:00 p.m. on Sunday night, the fourth episode of Sakura TV's "The Simplest Love" aired.

The plot of this episode was a small climax. After the broadcast, the number of comments on this drama on Sakura Net obviously increased compared to last week.

But at the same time...

Qingkong TV's viewership rating increased rapidly at around nine o'clock.

From the 2.87% viewership rating of the drama broadcast by Qingkong TV at 8:00 p.m., it rose all the way to 4.02% before "April" started.

Shen Yun stared at the TV screen with anticipation in her eyes.

Soon, the familiar theme song sounded.

Of course, as someone who has been a fan of Su Yan's Rurouni Kenshin, she is so excited tonight.

Because in the trailer for "April" on the official website.

The character Igawa Eri played by Gu Qingyuan is finally about to appear.

She is a fan of Su Yan, and even more so a fan of Gu Qingyuan.

Soon, the picture of the fourth episode of "April" appeared. The initial plot was the campus life of the male protagonist Arima Kosei.

The male protagonist's best friend, Watari Ryota, joined the school football team and cried bitterly after a crushing defeat.

Arima Kosei promised Kaori Miyazono to continue on the path of music, so he also began to overcome his psychological obstacles and restarted his music training.

But the more he forced himself to practice the piano...

the pain of his mother's hellish piano training before her death, the pain of being beaten again and again for playing a wrong note, gradually came back to his memory.

Shen Yun watched in suffocation.

Because the TV screen presented these memories realistically and cruelly in grayscale tones before her eyes.

An eleven-year-old boy forced himself to train in order to make his mother smile before she died.

But his mother was never satisfied. No matter what achievements he made, how many trophies he won, how praised he was by the media as a genius,

she would never give him a compliment.

Since all the peers around him were not as good as Arima Kosei, he was compared with the genius pianists in history, and the achievements of a group of sages at his age were compared to strike him.

"This is too scary, isn't it?"

Shen Yun couldn't imagine how desperate she would be if her parents beat and scolded her because she was not as good as those geniuses who were famous in history.

No wonder Arima Kosei would hate the piano to the point of wanting to vomit.

But after Arima Kosei's desperate and extremely oppressive memories.

It is the colorful real world.

It is Kaori Miyazono's warm smile as she sits beside him, listening to his stories, encouraging him, and comforting him.

[Don't be discouraged! Look, when your hand touches me, you are obviously happy!] Kaori Miyazono spread her fingers and touched Arima Kosei's palm, and said with a smile.

[Your hand is telling me that it wants to play the piano very much.]

Who can not be tempted by this!

"Don't be deceived by her. Shen Yun, you are a fan of Gu Qingyuan, you should only like the character played by Gu Qingyuan." Shen Yun muttered in her heart.

But still, she began to like this character uncontrollably.

Kaori Miyazono is really too likable in this drama.

Otherwise, Shen Liqian's ranking in the popularity of female stars would not have jumped from 16th before the start of the summer season to the current 5th place.

Next, it was Arima Kosei submitting his piano competition registration form.

And the news that Arima Kosei re-registered to participate in the piano competition...

instantly spread to the ears of local musicians of the same age.

His childhood rivals, the eternal second and third place, Igawa Eri and Aiza Takeshi, who ate dust behind him,

were immediately excited to sign up, and found a time to wait for his arrival and say hello to him on the day of the competition.

However, facing two emotional opponents, Arima Kosei looked puzzled.

[Who are you?]

A bit funny, but too realistic.

Shen Yun looked a little uncomfortable.

The rivals who have been chasing for so many years have never had their own existence in their eyes.

At this point, the plot of the fourth episode came to the climax.

Although the daily emotional drama plot of "April" is also very interesting.

But the most interesting plot is obviously the music part of the drama.

From the moment Arima Kosei decided to participate in the competition, Su Yan's fans have been posting everywhere to help Su Yan promote that this episode will soon have Su Yan's piano solo plot.

A large group of "April" fans who were attracted by the excellent music part of the drama in the second episode also ignored their work, games, and even dates with their partners.

Instead, they returned home, turned on the TV, and tuned to Qingkong TV.

Although they can watch the drama later on Raccoon Net, but how can watching the drama later be as tense and exciting as chasing the drama?

And at the beginning of this music competition plot, it was not the male protagonist Arima Kosei who played.

It was his childhood old rival, another piano genius Aiza Takeshi who chased his back.

He gave up the competition opportunity for another international award, and did not listen to the teacher's advice. He chose to participate in this competition event at this time, which can compete with Arima Kosei.

It was just to win over this childhood admiration object and the opponent he recognized in his heart, even once.

Shen Yun's heart also became tense.

This character portrayal and atmosphere.

So good...

And when Aiza Takeshi's performance began.

Shen Yun's expression changed. The exciting piano sound directly hit her heart. After listening for only ten seconds, goosebumps appeared on her neck.

Completely different from the male protagonist, another style, a gorgeous and beautiful piano performance that even she, a music layman, could hear.

She knew that all the piano music in this drama was done by Su Yan.

The music part of this drama is really amazing!

But it also shows that Su Yan's piano performance effect is so strong that even a layman like her can hear it.

From here, the viewership rating of the fourth episode of "April" began to increase significantly.

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