Depressive Screenwriter

"Your Lie in April" achieved a quarterly viewership rating of second place for two consecutive weeks, directly attracting a large number of casual viewers to Raccoon Net to catch up on the series.

As a result, the paid views for "Your Lie in April" officially exceeded the ten million mark per episode.

Although the show has only aired up to the eighth episode.

But veteran fans have already sensed that something is wrong.

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New fans, however, are blindly optimistic, their years of drama-watching having formed a psychological inertia.

Xia Country's dramas generally create a bunch of suspense in the early stages, and then have a happy ending in the later stages.

What depressing direction?

What tragic ending?

It's only just begun!

New fans only see the youthful romance in this drama.

They only see the unique, high-quality musical segments of the work.

They only see that this drama is different from those formulaic dramas on the Xia Country market.

The female lead just has a disease, is the screenwriter really going to let her die? Don't be silly.

She will definitely overcome the illness in the end.

In TV dramas, if the disease is not something that can be overcome like the villains, then it will be meaningless.

New and inexperienced drama fans are very convinced of this view.

So, in the comment section of Raccoon Net, a large number of verbal battles broke out between new and old fans.

"Don't think too much, I guarantee you, before the tenth episode, the female lead's illness will definitely be cured."

"Too young! You can tell you've just started watching Su Yan's dramas."

"I just saw the male and female leads' first violin and piano duet on Raccoon Net, so Miyazono Kaori's fainting is actually due to illness and not just physical exhaustion?"

"I binged all the way to the latest eighth episode, can you recommend any similar-themed dramas in Xia Country? Must have music and romance, and preferably the music quality should be comparable to April."

"You won't find any. The music in this drama, April, is really good. Other musical dramas don't combine the characters' emotions, story, and music competition like this one does."

"Su Yan is really amazing! But only a screenwriter with such high musical talent could create such a drama. Other screenwriters don't have that level of skill."

"I binged all the way to the eighth episode on Raccoon Net, and couldn't sleep all night, wondering when the two leads will confess! And when will Miyazono Kaori get better."

"What are you guys doing, discussing when Miyazono Kaori will get better and when they'll confess? You should be worried that Miyazono Kaori will be written to death by the screenwriter!"

"Here we go again with this topic. Why are you watching a campus romance drama if you're so easily scared? Go watch variety comedy shows, there's not a single minute of angst from beginning to end."

"In a word, no normal screenwriter would kill off the most popular female lead in the entire drama, unless this screenwriter doesn't want to work in this industry anymore. You all say that this screenwriter named Su Yan has a bad track record, but in my opinion, no matter how much he insists on his own way, he wouldn't dare risk offending so many fans and kill off Miyazono Kaori!"

"Exactly, if you don't believe in Su Yan's character, can't you believe in his desire to make money as a film and television company owner who just became independent from Sakura TV? Unless he wants his next drama to lose money badly. Otherwise, no one would go against the audience and against money."

"Yes, support Teacher Su Yan. Support April, are you people who keep saying April is a tragedy hired by Sakura TV to smear Teacher Su Yan?"

"That's right, I've seen the feud between Sakura TV and Teacher Su Yan in the media, these people must be Sakura TV's hired trolls, so tell me, how much money does Sakura TV give you for posting a smear post? Is it the market price of fifty cents? Is your conscience only worth fifty cents?"

"Wow, you new fans are really stubborn even when death is at your doorstep. You're even defending Su Yan, the old thief? Okay, okay, based on my understanding of Su Yan, the old thief, if you don't become anti-fans on the spot after the last episode of this drama, April, airs, I'll livestream myself eating."

"Another internet beggar trying to scam food and drinks."

The influx of a considerable number of new fans actually led to an increase in Su Yan's reputation.

Many veteran fans of Su Yan woke up and found that they no longer dominated public opinion and were labeled as Sakura TV trolls by new fans.

It really lived up to the saying.

Su Yan earnestly films TV dramas, and with the quality of the early and mid-term episodes of April, as long as more people watch it, there will naturally be great Confucians to defend him.

This made Su Yan feel a little embarrassed.

Although he was somewhat touched by the naivety of these new fans and their belief in him.

And he was indeed preparing to shoot a second ending for broadcast on online platforms.

But the depressing ending that will be broadcast on TV, I think it will severely backstab these new fans who believe in him.

Cute newbies who are backstabbed too many times will become old fans who scold him, thinking about it, Su Yan feels a little melancholy.

"Fortunately, I have swordsmanship skills, so I'm not afraid of any unexpected accidents."

Thinking of this, Su Yan felt much better.

At the end of August, the ninth episode of "Your Lie in April" aired.

If the first seven episodes of this drama were a journey of the female lead Miyazono Kaori saving the male lead Arima Kousei.

Then from the eighth episode onwards, the situation completely reversed.

It was Arima Kousei who had to start saving Miyazono Kaori's heart tortured by the disease.

At the same time, the plot of the ninth episode brought the important character Saki Aiza, who appeared in the previous episodes, to the forefront.

She was participating in a music competition, which was a duet piano performance.

She invited the male lead Arima Kousei to the stage to be her accompaniment.

And the reason why Arima Kousei was willing to go on stage was to convey his music to Miyazono Kaori, who was still in the hospital, hoping she could cheer up and face her illness.

It was another music competition plot that the audience liked.

The ninth episode ended with the two meeting on the rooftop.

If you only talk about the plot, April is not complicated at all.

A pair of men and women save each other through music.

But the highlight is the extremely delicate psychological descriptions of the male and female leads in the process.

A simple plot, but it can make the audience who seriously watch it feel a strong sense of immersion.

Looking at Miyazono Kaori, who is suffering from illness in the TV series, the vast majority of the audience feels as if their favorite girl has encountered the same encounter.

The feeling of depression that is stimulated from the depths of the heart, clearly makes you a little afraid to watch the next episode, but you will still have expectations, thinking that perhaps in the next episode, Miyazono Kaori's situation will be reversed.

She can leave the hospital and stand on the stage with Arima Kousei again, she holding the violin, and Arima Kousei playing the piano with her.

The viewership rating for the ninth episode of April rose to 4.56%.

Obviously, its growth rate is also declining.

But April's main competitor at the moment, the drama Xia Fenghua, is also showing signs of fatigue.

The viewership rating for the previous episode broke the 4.6% mark.

This episode's viewership rating fell to 4.58%.

It can be said that the viewership ratings of the two dramas are extremely close now.

Before the summer season started, film and television drama fans all over Xia Country did not expect April to reach this point.

But now that April's results have reached this point, then whether it is the fans, the main creative team, or the TV station, the news media will definitely go all out.

Why not fight when you're only one step away?

Su Yan's old and new fans temporarily cooperated after arguing for a week.

No matter what everyone thinks of Su Yan now, at least.

Everyone's love for this drama, April, is real. It's another matter if April's viewership rating is still several points away from Xia Fenghua.

But if there is only a 0.02% viewership rating difference?

Now is not the time for infighting, we must unite against the outside world.

Whether Su Yan is a good person or not is not important.

But April must reach the top.

Miyazono Kaori must become the number one female character of this season!

On the four major online broadcasting platforms, such as Raccoon Net, Xingxia Net, Red Pine Net, and Sakura Net.

Because April's sudden rise has affected Xia Fenghua's position.

April fans and Xia Fenghua fans are fully engaged in war.

On the Xia Country film and television actress popularity list, Shen Liqian narrowly surpassed TV Queen Fei Meiya and temporarily topped the list.

After all, Shen Liqian has a new drama airing this season, and it is normal for her to rely on the role of Miyazono Kaori to make a comeback from the sixteenth place on this list all the way to the first place.

Similarly, on this list, relying on the role of Emi Igawa in the drama April, Gu Qingyuan's ranking has also soared from outside the fortieth place before April started airing, all the way to the tenth place!

At the same time, on the Xia Country male star popularity list.

Su Yan is ranked second with a small margin behind Xia Fenghua's male lead, TV Emperor Mai Huabin.

This popularity list is updated in real time, relying on collecting online hot topics, search volume, media reviews and other factors for each star.

It does not represent the actual status of each person on the list in the Xia Country film and television industry, after all, it is normal for a star with a drama airing to have high popularity this season.

But even so, the fact that Su Yan, Shen Liqian, and Gu Qingyuan have all squeezed into the top ten of their respective categories on the list already says a lot.

Online, April fans and Xia Fenghua fans even broke out in a network public opinion war on Wednesday.

And the center of the public opinion dispute is the big melee of the fans of several leading actors.

"What a piece of trash, April, a mama's boy and a glass-hearted female lead's music dream made you April fans cry your eyes out, and you still want to top the viewership ratings and surpass my Meiya, keep dreaming."

"Fei Meiya is already 36 years old, and she's still playing an 18-year-old girl in TV dramas, and you're calling her Meiya? I'm 15 years old this year, and my mom is only 34 years old."

"A screenwriter who doesn't take his work seriously. The screenwriter can't be number one, the actors can't be number one, the violin isn't number one, the piano isn't number one, but the fans want to fight for number one everywhere, it's hilarious."

"I scold Su Yan, the old thief, because he deserves it, what are you guys? Are you worthy to scold Su Yan? It's true, Su Yan, the old thief, is not number one in many things, but so what if he's not number one? You find someone in the actor circle who is stronger than Su Yan in violin playing, piano playing, violin playing, flute playing, harp playing, screenwriting ability, and martial arts scenes, oh, of course, Su Yan, the old thief, may indeed need to hone his acting skills, after all, he said in an interview that April would give us fans a satisfactory ending, which can no longer deceive our April fans whose hearts are as cold as iron. But even so, Mai Huabin's fans, don't make us laugh to death. Mai Huabin was still running errands when he was 21 years old, and Teacher Su Yan will soon top the quarterly viewership ratings... his second time topping the ratings, oh!"

"Want to top the viewership ratings? Keep dreaming!"

"If a traditional historical drama like Xia Fenghua loses to a pale, bloody romance drama like April, it would be a tragedy for the Xia Country film and television industry."

"A historical drama? Where in Xia Country's history did Emperor Xia Ming seize his son's wife? That's just unofficial history, and the TV series dares to film this plot and still dares to call it a historical drama? Laugh your father to death, if April is a pale, bloody romance drama, then isn't Xia Fenghua a collection of self-high and wishful thinking of a bunch of illiterate fans of unofficial history?"

"You Xia Fenghua fans just wait and see. This week, April's viewership ratings will surpass Xia Fenghua! See if you'll still be stubborn then?"

The fans on both sides were arguing fiercely online.

In reality, the creative team of Xia Fenghua was also panicked.

I maintained a quarterly viewership rating advantage, how could I be surpassed in the last two weeks?

The Xia Fenghua crew, who had been sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai before, watching April and the simplest romance, Hope, Singles, and the competition there, finally experienced the fear of being caught up in the viewership ratings by these dramas.

Who can stand this?

If the viewership ratings of this drama, Xia Fenghua, also lose to April, wouldn't all three major TV stations in Xia Country lose to Su Yan and Qingkong TV?

That's not a matter of face.

But a battle for the interests of the TV station industry.

No matter how out of line Su Yan was at Sakura TV before, no matter how much the later reversal and the soaring viewership ratings were, it was also a matter for the three major TV stations.

It is absolutely impossible for a group of companies in Xia Country to lower the price of GG by this reason.

But now, if April really defeats Xia Fenghua in terms of viewership ratings.

The belief that the three major TV stations dominate the Xia Country TV station industry will be broken, which will directly affect the three major TV stations' bargaining power for the GG fees for the next season.

So Sakura TV and Zhongxia TV are now also starting to be generous.

They actively invite the Xia Fenghua crew to their own TV station's variety shows to help the competitor, Shanghai TV, with publicity.

Under the pressure of the external enemy, Su Yan and Qingkong TV, the three major TV stations have unexpectedly united.

But is there any meaning to this behavior?

The media thinks it's boring.

Su Yan smiled.

Xia Fenghua has always been the number one work in terms of viewership ratings this season, and its exposure rate has always been very high, even if Sakura and Zhongxia TV help it, its effect is very limited.

Moreover, starting on Wednesday, after the eleventh episode of the April crew was filmed, Su Yan temporarily put down the filming of the if-line ending, and pulled up Gu Qingyuan, Shen Liqian, Shi Peihua, Yu Yuan, Chen Ji and other main creative team members to start a crew roadshow in multiple cities in Xia Country.

The roadshow content is also a fan meeting and...

Su Yan and Shen Liqian's live violin and piano duet!

In the TV series, these two only have one piano duet.

But in reality, the two let April fans see enough.

If you want to fulfill your dream, you can fulfill it in the real world.

Su Yan didn't hide anything in this kind of live roadshow, the piano playing skill that the system gave him was fully open, saying it was a roadshow, but a group of fans and passers-by eventually left the scene in a daze.

Su Yan's piano playing was too lethal and infectious.

It was the real deal, music that could truly resonate with the audience.

Su Yan's outrageous performance skills at the promotional event were the perfect news fodder for the media.

The four major online streaming platforms were flooded with clips of Su Yan and Shen Liqian's duet performance at the promotional event.

They were good-looking and talented, and their past experiences of being suppressed by Akasaka Yoshishi resonated with many workers in Xia. Moreover, the subject matter of 'April' was suitable for all ages, while historical dramas like 'Xia Fenghua' would definitely be more selective in their audience.

From Wednesday to Friday, online media reports showed that 'April' was consistently overshadowing 'Xia Fenghua'.

Although the 'Xia Fenghua' production team sensed something was amiss, the tenth episode of 'Xia Fenghua' still premiered smoothly at 8 PM on Friday night.

The next day, the viewership ratings for the tenth episode of 'Xia Fenghua' were released.