Depressive Screenwriter

The next morning.

Tokyo Love Story crew.

It was that once-a-week time again when the cast and crew were distracted.

After all, this crew basically represented the pinnacle of the Summer Kingdom's television industry.

The success of Tokyo Love Story would also become a highlight of their careers.

Besides...

Who doesn't have a dream?

Tokyo Love Story's premiere ratings were similar to 'The Edge Walker.' Could it be...

Could it possibly break 'The Edge Walker's' viewership record?

At this thought, everyone collectively lost their composure.

Time ticked by, second by second.

By noon, the crew members were frequently glancing at Su Yan.

The time had come. Even though Tokyo was thousands of miles from Shanghai, a text message arrived on Su Yan's phone in just a few seconds.

After a few coughs, a smile appeared on Su Yan's face.

"5.13%."

"A significant increase in viewership compared to last week."

Hearing this, Shinozaki Ikumi's hand trembled, but she announced the news to the crew with a normal expression, and soon the set erupted in deafening cheers.

Gu Qingyuan clapped her hands lightly, a faint smile on her face.

Although she had been heavily criticized last night, she was enjoying it.

She was tired of always playing flattering roles.

Challenging a role that everyone hates is actually quite interesting.

The fact that people on the internet were scolding her was also an affirmation of her performance.

As for the core creative team, Shen Liqian's heart was racing the fastest at this moment.

In 'The Edge Walker,' she was a supporting actress, and Gu Qingyuan was the lead.

But in this drama, she was the lead, and Gu Qingyuan was a supporting actress.

The better Tokyo Love Story performed, the more she would benefit.

And based on the current reputation of the drama, she was likely the only beneficiary among the entire cast.

After all, Gu Qingyuan had been constantly criticized for playing the role of Rika.

Even Su Yan was being bombarded by Lika fans for playing the role of Kanji.

Before working with Su Yan, she was just one of the less influential first-tier actresses in the Summer Kingdom's television industry.

But this drama...

Truly allowed her to see the possibility of reaching the top.

"Calm down. Calm down. Don't be arrogant... The drama has only aired two episodes, and filming is only up to the seventh episode. There are still two or three weeks before we see the final script that Teacher Su Yan gives us," Shen Liqian calmed herself down.

She now desperately hoped that time would speed up. As long as she could see the final script of Tokyo Love Story, she would have a general idea of the drama's final reputation.

Although Su Yan's scripts had never disappointed in the later stages...

She certainly had to consider the possibility of a low-probability event.

"Also... My contract with my original agency is about to expire. I have to deal with things over there as soon as possible and join Dimensional Pictures as quickly as possible."

Just as Shen Liqian was thinking about a bunch of issues...

Su Yan also received congratulatory gifts from many actors in the crew.

In any case, the results of the first two episodes of Tokyo Love Story far exceeded the expectations of the cast and crew.

Actors like Yamamoto Yuto, who played Mikami, and Yoshikawa Kotone, who played Nagazaki Naoko, a female character with more screen time in the mid-to-late stages...

As actors from the Sakura Island region, they were undoubtedly much better at handling interpersonal relationships than Shen Liqian and Gu Qingyuan.

The gifts they prepared for Su Yan were carefully selected. Perhaps they weren't worth much in terms of value, but in terms of sincerity, they were definitely full.

Shen Liqian thought her competitor was Gu Qingyuan.

But hadn't these two thought about more?

Su Yan could promote these two actresses, so why couldn't he promote them in the future?

They were supporting roles in this drama, but maybe Su Yan would let them be the leads in the next drama.

Everyone has dreams.

After the viewership ratings for the second episode of Tokyo Love Story were released, the attitude of the entire cast and crew towards Su Yan could be said to have increased from 120% enthusiasm to 200%.

Su Yan could also sense this.

He could now vaguely understand what kind of treatment those big capital and big directors in the film and television industry received on set in his previous life.

If Su Yan's reputation in the industry wasn't too clean, and he didn't talk to any of the beautiful actresses on set except for work, and he hadn't shown similar tendencies in his daily life, which led many crew members to suspect that he liked men...

Then probably many actresses in the crew would have been bolder and had ulterior motives.

As for Shinozaki Ikumi...

She was even busier than Su Yan.

After Tokyo Love Story aired, "friends" she used to know, didn't know, or even just had a meal with in the industry were all trying to get in touch with her.

When she left Sakura TV with Su Yan, she was ridiculed by many people.

Now, all of those people wanted to use their relationship with Shinozaki Ikumi to try to get even a minor role in Su Yan's next drama.

Everyone saw it very clearly...

There was a 90% chance that Tokyo Love Story would be the seasonal champion.

It was unimaginable what would happen if Su Yan's Tokyo Love Story topped the charts again this season.

What would happen at the Summer Flame Awards in January?

Probably all the major awards would be snatched up by Tokyo Love Story and The Edge Walker, right?

Sakura TV's Blood Road might indeed be very powerful, with an attractive plot and undeniable viewership ratings, definitely worthy of its investment, and undoubtedly a seasonal champion in any other season.

But actively looking for Su Yan's drama to compete head-on was foolish...

Although this idea was ridiculous...

Everyone now felt that Sakura TV's sense of oppression in the industry seemed to be even lower than Su Yan's!

After the viewership ratings for the second episode of Tokyo Love Story were released, the Summer Kingdom's film and television media also started.

Although the internet has no memory...

The internet's records will never disappear. Everyone can easily find their memories.

How Blood Road exaggerated before its premiere, how screenwriter Akiyama Shunsuke cooperated with the TV station in front of the media to belittle Su Yan, and how Akasaka Yoshitoki let the TV station's operations department, including various open and secret taunts of Su Yan on the station's variety shows...

Now it all came back to slap them in the face.

"Blood Road's viewership ratings have been crushed by Tokyo Love Story for two consecutive weeks. Akiyama Shunsuke's new work after ten years has been miserably defeated."

"Genius screenwriter Su Yan once again tells everyone in the autumn season who is the new god of the television industry!"

"The old waves are being pushed forward by the new waves. The transformation of the Summer Kingdom's television industry is irreversible."

"Akasaka Yoshitoki is facing a major crisis in his career. His arbitrariness two years ago has brought such a terrible enemy to Sakura TV. It is conservatively estimated that Su Yan has caused Sakura TV potential losses in the hundreds of millions. Sakura TV's shareholders have been unable to tolerate him!"

"Since his debut, Su Yan has not had a single work that flopped. Where is his limit?"

"It is rumored that after Tokyo Love Story, Su Yan's next new work, Magical Girl, will also be broadcast on China Summer TV soon. This year, the Summer Kingdom's television industry has been dominated by The Edge Walker and Tokyo Love Story, so what about next year? Are the three major TV stations really helpless against Su Yan, the owner of a private film and television company?"

"Although China Summer TV has shone brightly in the Summer Kingdom's film and television market relying on Su Yan's dramas, in essence, Su Yan's rise is gradually breaking the moat built by the three major TV stations for decades."

"Professional media predict that Tokyo Love Story's viewership ratings are very likely to exceed The Edge Walker. Compared to the bloody and violent The Edge Walker, Tokyo Love Story is a popular drama suitable for men, women, and children, with no viewing barriers!"

For a week, the news media blew Tokyo Love Story out of proportion.

In Sakura TV, Akasaka Yoshitoki's face was visibly much more haggard this week.

The viewership ratings gap between Blood Road and the second episode of Tokyo Love Story was only about 0.2. Even Akasaka Yoshitoki was in an extremely low mood.

Based on past experience...

There were many examples of dramas that had higher initial viewership ratings than Su Yan's dramas, but later had a lot of problems.

What's more, Blood Road's initial viewership ratings were crushed by Su Yan's new drama.

Akasaka Yoshitoki, who always regarded the film and television industry as a capital game and felt that even the most powerful geniuses were just ants in front of capital, was now truly feeling a sense of despair.

What should he do?

There was no time left...

After Blood Road, it was a drama of S-level that he had previously led the production of.

That drama had been confirmed to target Madoka Magica when it aired...

If Blood Road couldn't beat Tokyo Love Story, could that drama beat Madoka Magica?

Akasaka Yoshitoki, this confident man, was feeling unconfident for the first time.

If both dramas lost, he would definitely be kicked out of the position of部長.

Twenty or thirty years of struggle, working so hard for so long...

But only staying in this position for two years?

How could he be willing to accept that?

But he really had no other way now.

The methods of capitalists can only deal with ordinary people.

They are useless against opponents of the same level.

Su Yan, backed by China Summer, was not afraid of Sakura at all.

Now Akasaka Yoshitoki was very clear that if he wanted to make a comeback, he could no longer rely on how powerful the works created by his subordinates were to win.

He could only rely on Su Yan making mistakes himself.

Tokyo Love Story had only aired two episodes...

He could only hope that the drama's later plot would be completely rotten!

On Friday, the third episode of Blood Road aired.

This week, the drama's viewership ratings finally broke 5%, reaching 5.03%.

After spending three weeks, Sakura TV played countless GGs.

Blood Road's viewership ratings finally broke the results of the first episode of Tokyo Love Story.

But on Saturday and Sunday, there were few reports in the Summer Kingdom's film and television media about Blood Road's viewership ratings breaking 5%.

The media's attention was focused on Tokyo Love Story.

How were the viewership ratings for the third episode of this drama?

On the online broadcast market, the growth data of the average paid views for the first two episodes was incredibly heaven-defying, already exceeding 8 million views per episode. It was estimated that it would break 10 million in a few days, and the work's score was as high as 9.5.

Honestly, these results were really better than when The Edge Walker was broadcast.

Practitioners in the Summer Kingdom's television industry were very sensitive. They had already sensed something.

Tokyo Love Story definitely had the potential to go further.

The premise was that the quality of this drama remained as good as ever until the end.

In the afternoon, Su Yan's fans on the internet became active in advance.

A large number of Lika fans posted self-made dynamic images of the character on the internet, and recommended the work to fans who had not yet seen it on the forum.

In the evening...

China Summer TV's viewership ratings began to grow crazily from the start.

The viewership ratings of other TV stations in the same time period fell again and again, almost being drained by China Summer TV.

In a residential area in Shanghai...

Jiang Yuan was eating snacks, chatting with her best friend on the phone, and happily preparing for the premiere of Tokyo Love Story.

She had never watched Su Yan's dramas before, and she became a fan this season from Tokyo Love Story.

Then, in just two weeks, she became a member of more than a dozen Su Yan fan groups.

Just like the media said, bloody battle love dramas like The Edge Walker really still picked their audience.

But Tokyo Love Story didn't pick at all, men, women, and children could all watch it.

She hadn't watched Su Yan's dramas before, even though Su Yan's reputation was so great.

She wasn't interested in any special effects, fantasy, time-traveling martial arts music.

But workplace romance was different.

She had a very strong sense of immersion. After all, she was a professional.

Tokyo Love Story was definitely the most down-to-earth drama with the lowest viewing threshold among all of Su Yan's works so far.

Time passed little by little, and soon 8 p.m. arrived.

The third episode of Tokyo Love Story premiered.

Jiang Yuan's eyes lit up and she put down her snacks.