Depressive Screenwriter

In the Rurouni Kenshin production team, during a break in the filming of the fourth episode, Su Yan, Gu Qingyuan, Xiaozaki Yumei, and Shi Peihua were all glued to their computers, watching the reviews of Rurouni Kenshin on Sakura website.

"Why has the number of views increased so much today? This result is unexpectedly good," Gu Qingyuan said, her usually cold expression filled with emotion.

"It means Kenshin's reputation is taking off," Xiaozaki Yumei said, a bit dazed.

The 130,000 paid views on the first day of Kenshin had already exceeded her expectations. After all, the paid views of these online dramas on the first day are usually about one-third of the paid views in the first week, and the paid views in the first week are about one-third of the total paid views.

In other words, the first day's views of the first episode of an online drama multiplied by nine is roughly the total views of the first episode of the drama.

But this is an empirical estimate, only accurate for works of average quality.

For those god-tier dramas or god-awful dramas, anything can happen with the data trend.

It's obvious that Kenshin's reputation has risen, which led to such a ridiculous increase in views on the second day of its release.

"The paid views of the first episode exceeded 410,000 in two days, with a score of 9.2. Do you know what this means?"

Xiaozaki Yumei looked at Su Yan, Gu Qingyuan, and Shi Peihua.

Shi Peihua was an old person and didn't understand the data value of online dramas.

Gu Qingyuan and Su Yan, one a recent graduate and the other an old otaku who had just transmigrated, understood even less.

"Anyway, this data is no worse than 'Qingfeng,' which invested more than ten million, with sparks and lightning all the way, various connections to protect it, and full website promotion, when the first episode was broadcast," Xiaozaki Yumei's voice became a bit gloating.

Of course, she was brooding over the fact that Qingfeng had snatched one million in investment from Rurouni Kenshin, and she hated it to the core.

If Qingfeng, which was highly expected by the station, ended up with the same results as Rurouni Kenshin, which invested one million, and even had a lower website score than Rurouni Kenshin... tsk tsk, then that uncle and nephew would really become a laughing stock.

Su Yan pondered upon hearing this.

"In other words, if Rurouni Kenshin continues to follow this trend, its final results will be similar to Qingfeng?"

"Rurouni Kenshin's current score and reputation are much higher than Qingfeng, but in terms of publicity resources, Rurouni Kenshin is far inferior to Qingfeng back then. Based on my experience, it's highly likely that the first episode of Rurouni Kenshin will be slightly worse than the first episode of Qingfeng in the first week," Xiaozaki Yumei said after a pause.

"But the final results of the two dramas do not depend on the first episode. There are a lot of dramas in Xia Country's history that received rave reviews at the beginning but ended up being a pile of garbage."

Xiaozaki Yumei felt a little guilty when she said this, thinking of her previous drama, Sakurajima Love Song, so she changed her tone.

"We all know what the script is like. The fourth episode of Rurouni Kenshin is absolutely heart-wrenching, absolutely tragic... Can the audience accept this kind of plot after it's broadcast? Can the market tolerate it? No one knows."

"Perhaps Rurouni Kenshin will cause a sensation among fans after the broadcast ends with the highly abusive plot of the fourth episode, pushing up Kenshin's reputation, and the results will also increase significantly. But it is also possible that the highly abusive plot of the fourth episode will be hated and sprayed by fans, and the reputation will collapse, leading to a sharp drop in scores and paid views."

Xiaozaki Yumei looked at Su Yan.

"The only thing I can be sure of is that after the fourth episode of Rurouni Kenshin is broadcast, it is absolutely impossible to end peacefully. By creating this kind of plot, Su Yan, you must be prepared to be bitten back by the double-edged sword."

"Or rather, Su Yan, you still have the opportunity to change the ending now," Shi Peihua said at this time, looking at Su Yan and offering a suggestion.

"Keep all the plots unchanged, including Tomoe Yukishiro blocking the knife for Kenshin. But only let her be seriously injured, not let her die... After the two recover from their injuries, they leave Kyoto, the political struggle of Sakura Island, build a hut in the countryside, and ignore everything. There will be no Battosai in the world."

"If you change the script like this, it is indeed the most stable. It's a bit clichéd, but the fans will definitely not have any big reactions," Xiaozaki Yumei thought for a while and echoed.

Su Yan smiled lightly upon hearing this and was about to speak.

"I... I don't think this is good," Gu Qingyuan, who had not spoken much, said at this time, her voice a little excited.

"Why?"

There were no big names in this production team, and Xiaozaki Yumei and Shi Peihua would not be dissatisfied with Gu Qingyuan's sudden speech, but just looked at her curiously.

"For no reason. Yukishiro Tomoe's death is the finishing touch that completely saves Kenshin from the abyss of killing. Her death is not meaningless."

"If Kenshin gives up his ideals, no longer wants to rely on the sword in his hand to save people who are suffering, but instead becomes a tortoise hiding in the countryside and living a personal life with Yukishiro Tomoe, then what is the difference between Kenshin and the other numb people in the story? Whether it's Kenshin or Yukishiro Tomoe, the character's charm will drop directly from a hundred points to a failing grade."

"Of course, this is just the personal opinion of me, the actress playing Yukishiro Tomoe. Director and producer, you can just take it as a reference," Gu Qingyuan added at the end.

Shi Peihua and Xiaozaki Yumei were silent upon hearing this.

"That's right," Su Yan said at this time, looking at Gu Qingyuan with admiration.

"Moreover, a mediocre ending will only make Rurouni Kenshin a mediocre work like Qingfeng."

"Miss Xiaozaki, Director Shi, Miss Gu... A mediocre work like Qingfeng is destined to not exceed Qingfeng's results."

"If Rurouni Kenshin wants to surpass Qingfeng in terms of results..." Su Yan looked at the three.

"Seeking stability is not an option. We want to bet that the highly abusive ending of Rurouni Kenshin can touch the audience's hearts. Bet that the audience will recognize the ending of this story... Bet that this ending will make Kenshin's results exceed Qingfeng."

Su Yan said a lot in one breath. He naturally knew that the Xia Country audience could probably accept the ending of Kenshin's Reminiscence arc.

The fact that the ending of Kenshin's Reminiscence arc was welcomed and regarded as a masterpiece in so many countries in his previous life has already explained a lot.

It's just that Su Yan definitely had to use another reason to persuade the other members of the main creative team.

"Exceed Qingfeng..."

As soon as Su Yan said this, Xiaozaki Yumei thought for a moment, and her eyes lit up.

What kind of face-slapping is it to have a mediocre ending and have the same results as Qingfeng in the end?

To get revenge, you have to bet that Rurouni Kenshin's final results will be even higher than Qingfeng's.

Also a web drama produced this season, Akasaka Yoshitoki, you cut one-tenth of the budget of other dramas and half the budget of Rurouni Kenshin?

Looking down on who?

The current situation is a competition between the lowest-invested and the highest-invested web dramas of the station this season.

If Rurouni Kenshin wins in the end, Xiaozaki Yumei can be sure that Akasaka Yoshitoki will definitely lose face at the next production department budget meeting.

Her mother's long-time friends, the aunts in the high-level of the production department, are just as vengeful as her.

In the last few days, only the most important part of the fourth episode of Rurouni Kenshin needed to be filmed.

Whether it was the origin of the cross-shaped scar on Kenshin's face, or the scene of burning Yukishiro Tomoe's body, it was a big challenge for Su Yan and Gu Qingyuan's acting skills.

But in this week, Rurouni Kenshin's popularity on Sakura website continued to rise due to Su Yan's super-high-level action scenes and the plot full of depth and epic sense in the first episode, and the score rose further on the basis of 9.2, reaching 9.3 points.

Moreover, the paid views also maintained a rapid growth trend in the following days.

Finally, the time came to July 29th.

On this day, the relevant data of the first episode of Rurouni Kenshin was announced.

With a paid data of 1.05 million in the first week, it became the second-best premiere result among the four major platform web dramas this season.

Many online film and television media wrote articles reporting on Rurouni Kenshin.

This not only shocked a group of people in the Sakura TV station's writing department, but also made Kiyota Sanji and Akasaka Yoshitoki feel extremely bad.

Although this result was still not as strong as Qingfeng's 1.09 million data in the first week.

But what conditions did Rurouni Kenshin have, and what conditions did Qingfeng have?

The fact that these two dramas can be compared together means that there is a big problem.

Kiyota Sanji no longer looked as smug as he did in the past few weeks.

His heart must be in a mess.

In the evening, before nearly eight o'clock.

The audience who were fans of the first episode of Rurouni Kenshin had already chatted in the dynamic chat room of the playback page.

"Brothers, I've figured it out. Kenshin's actor and screenwriter Su Yan is a newcomer. Yukishiro Tomoe's actress Gu Qingyuan is a graduate of this year's performance major, and as for the director Shi Peihua, she's a director who retired a few years ago. And the producer Xiaozaki Yumei, you absolutely can't imagine... She's the producer of the big bad drama Sakurajima Love Song in the first half of the year hahaha, didn't expect it! It's just that this group of people combined together and had a wonderful chemical reaction."

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"Sakurajima Love Song?"

"The producer of Rurouni Kenshin is her?"

"Are you kidding me?"

"Don't scare me!"

"Sakurajima Love Song was all good in the early episodes, and I was fascinated by it. Who would have thought that a big pile of garbage would come in the later stages. Rurouni Kenshin won't be like this too, right."

"Don't worry, the reason why Sakurajima Love Song is so bad is because the screenwriter's mentality was unbalanced during the later stage of writing the script because his wife cheated on him. At least Rurouni Kenshin's screenwriter Su Yan doesn't even have a girlfriend, so there's nothing to worry about at all."

"Even if you say that, I'm still very scared!"

"Scared!"

"Looking forward to the performance of screenwriter Su Yan, come on! I like Rurouni Kenshin, looking forward to the subsequent plot development of Kenshin and Yukishiro Tomoe, and most importantly, the screenwriter must let the two have a happy ending!"

"I hope there will be more fights in the second episode."

"Am I the only one who wants to see the male lead's master, Hiko Seijuro, appear?"

A lively comment area.

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Kenshin fans who had been looking forward to Kenshin and Yukishiro Tomoe's first meeting for a week.

Time quickly approached eight o'clock in the evening.

The second episode of Rurouni Kenshin was launched on time.

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