Depressive Screenwriter

January 7th, evening.

Having to work overtime on Sunday, Zhao Yuchen was full of resentment, cursing his boss dozens of times on the subway ride back to his rented apartment, but when he got home and checked the time, he breathed a sigh of relief.

7:46, thank goodness, not late.

He quickly turned on the TV. As the leader of Su Yan's seven fan groups, he immediately started stirring up the atmosphere in the groups.

"Thirteen more minutes!"

"My mom is sitting with me, ready to watch Su Yan's new drama!"

"I've been waiting for over half a year, finally today."

"Fate fate!"

"Although I don't know what genre it is, for some reason, my expectations are already maxed out!"

"I hope the plot of this drama is a bit simpler. Old Thief's fantasy dramas are too brain-burning. It was like that with 'Strange Life'; I didn't understand it until I watched it a second time!"

"If you guys have to work overtime, you can have your family turn on the TV. Old Thief hasn't had a new drama premiere in over half a year. We can't let him lose face with the first episode of this new drama! I'm not saying the ratings have to surpass 'Madoka', but it definitely can't be worse than 'Edgerunners'!"

"You're making it sound like 'Edgerunners' is bad. It's just that its ratings were slightly lower compared to 'Tokyo Love Story' and 'Madoka'. In reality, it's also the ceiling for dramas in Xia Country in recent years."

"Looking forward to Old Thief's drama breaking new records in ratings!"

"I don't need to be too harsh. Old Thief is basically the number one person in the drama industry now, and the results of his works can't improve indefinitely. I'll be satisfied as long as Old Thief doesn't want to retire after earning enough money and is still willing to create scripts! Everyone should calmly view the results."

"If the ratings are even slightly worse, the haters will come out!"

"Why do you care about those people? How many times have they been slapped in the face by Old Thief? In the Xia Country entertainment industry's group of haters, Su Yan's haters are the biggest joke."

In the fan groups, information refreshed extremely quickly. Su Yan's die-hard fans, who had been silent for a long time, were now incredibly excited.

As the time approached eight o'clock, at a certain moment, the frequency of everyone typing and speaking began to decrease.

The focus of most people's attention shifted to the TV.

Zhao Yuchen took a deep breath, watching the TV station's advertisements.

Eight o'clock sharp.

The Sakura TV station's screen paused.

The screen turned gloomy.

The opening scene was a serious-looking young man standing outside a room with his head bowed.

And in the room, his silver-haired, beautiful wife had just given birth to a daughter.

The man was a standard East Asian.

His wife had a noble temperament, beautiful and stunning, and was an extremely stunning Western beauty.

This kind of foreign face is relatively rare in Xia Country dramas, so Zhao Yuchen wasn't used to it at first.

But after the foreigners in the drama all spoke Xia Country language, that feeling of discomfort slowly disappeared.

In Su Yan's previous life, because 'Fate/stay night' came out first, basically everyone who watched 'Fate/Zero' knew that this man was Kiritsugu Emiya, the adoptive father of Shirou Emiya, the male protagonist of 'FSN', and this girl who had just been born was Illyasviel von Einzbern, Shirou Emiya's older sister.

However, there was no 'FSN' in Xia Country, so Zhao Yuchen could only actively receive this information in his brain.

Hmm.

Since the camera started with this man, it meant that he was the male protagonist.

And since he had a wife from the beginning and she gave birth to a daughter, it meant that at least for the male protagonist, there would be no romance in this drama.

【I feel really lucky to have given birth to this child!】

The BGM started, and the woman's happy smile and the love in her eyes as she looked at her daughter made Zhao Yuchen feel a bit immersed in it.

Maybe Su Yan's drama was a family-friendly fantasy genre, which would be fine. Family affection also has its highlights.

But the next moment, the male protagonist Kiritsugu Emiya's words made him a little stunned.

【Irisviel, I will send you to your death in the future!】

The woman was stunned for a moment, then smiled.

【I know, this is the Einzbern family's long-cherished wish. I was born for this. Precisely because I know your wish, and have the same wish in my heart, is there the current me.】

The man's hands trembled.

【To create a world where no one needs to cry, that is your, Kiritsugu Emiya's, desired ideal, right?】

The couple's conversation left Zhao Yuchen a little confused.

In the drama, the man turned around, looking at his wife and children.

The camera zoomed out, showing a landscape of white snow, the castle covered in plain white!

The following plot began to instill new settings.

'Fate/Zero' mainly tells the story of seven Masters summoning seven heroic spirits of famous people who died in the past to the present world, competing with each other through battles for the ownership of the Holy Grail, and then...

The winner can make a wish to the Holy Grail.

Any wish can be fulfilled.

Once this setting was unfolded, Zhao Yuchen immediately felt a sense of familiarity return.

Make a wish?

Isn't this similar to the setting of 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica'?

It's just that in 'Madoka Magica', making a wish depends on the magical girl's aptitude. If the aptitude is not enough, the wish may not be fulfilled.

And this Holy Grail War?

Then is it a truly meaningful all-purpose wish-granting machine that ignores the rules?

Zhao Yuchen, who had watched too many of Su Yan's dramas, immediately rejected this idea as soon as it arose.

How is that possible.

A wish-granting machine with no price? Isn't that nonsense? With Su Yan's personality, this Holy Grail definitely isn't that simple.

But Zhao Yuchen's mind was filled with various thoughts.

However, the plot of the first episode of 'Fate/Zero' did not unfold as Zhao Yuchen had imagined.

The plot began to become a group drama.

Tokiomi Tohsaka, the head of the magician family, the Tohsaka family, and his newly recruited closed-door disciple, Kirei Kotomine.

The two concealed their master-disciple relationship, preparing to participate in the war as two of the seven, giving the other five Masters a wave of deception.

Kariya Matou, a man from the Matou family who clearly liked Tokiomi Tohsaka's wife.

In order to save the fate of Sakura Matou, the child of the person he liked who was adopted by his family, he chose to participate in the Holy Grail War in order to exchange for that child's freedom.

Then, the swarm of dense insects wriggling in the basement of the Matou family gave Zhao Yuchen goosebumps.

What kind of magician is this, raising these things, it's simply a cult, right?

Then there was Waver Velvet, a student studying at a magician school in a Western country, and his school teacher, Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald, who looked down on him.

The perspective of the plot kept switching.

Even Zhao Yuchen, who was quick-witted, felt a bit of a headache from being bombarded with a large amount of character information.

"Su Yan is cramming so much information into the first episode of this drama, will it work?" Zhao Yuchen already sensed some problems.

It could be said that if this wasn't Su Yan's work, with such a slow-burning plot in the first episode, he would have already changed the channel to find a variety show to watch.

And it hadn't ended from here.

The seven major classes in the Holy Grail War, the magic rituals required to participate in the Holy Grail War, the relics needed...

Everything, starting from Waver stealing the relic that his teacher Kayneth had sent because of resentment and heading to Sakura Island...

At this point, half the episode ended.

The main plot was only telling about the interpersonal relationships of the people participating in the Holy Grail War and the setting of the Holy Grail War.

Zhao Yuchen yawned.

"When will they start fighting! There's so much foreshadowing in the early stages, hurry up and fight! Since it's a war, don't have so many literary scenes, have more action scenes!"

After introducing the main characters, the perspective returned to the male protagonist, Kiritsugu Emiya.

The major families participating in the Holy Grail War were basically understood.

The following plot focused on Kirei Kotomine and Kiritsugu Emiya looking at each other's information, praising each other commercially, and then unanimously regarding each other as the biggest enemy.

Kirei Kotomine, a person without a wish.

Kiritsugu Emiya, known as the Magus Killer, a despicable and unscrupulous man in battle, what was he participating in the Holy Grail War for?

Kariya Matou, who chose to burn himself by injecting Crest Worms in order to save the child of the woman he loved.

Waver, an optimist chosen by the Holy Grail.

Kayneth.

At the end of the first episode, the perspective kept switching between these people.

Each had their own reasons for fighting: the reason they couldn't lose.

Then everyone unanimously began to take out the relics they had found that were closely related to the person they wanted to summon in front of the magic circle they had carved that night.

The BGM started.

It started slowly, then became grand and majestic.

The superb quality of the drama's visuals.

The characters' eyes performed online.

The summoning words were a bit chuuni, but they could stir Zhao Yuchen's emotions!

【I command you, heed my will, I entrust my fate to your sword!】

【I hereby swear, I shall become all the good in the world. I shall suppress all the evil in the world.】

【You who are confined in a cage of madness!】

【Come forth from the Ring of Deterrence!】

Seven rays of light shone in front of different people in Fuyuki City.

Zhao Yuchen, who had been a little sleepy before, stood up directly this time.

Although he didn't know what was happening, it looked amazing.

This magnificent BGM.

These special effects scenes full of the feeling of money.

This complex, symmetrical, and aesthetic magic circle.

The atmosphere of the battle between a group of extraordinary people in the dark corners of the peaceful world was created.

The huge moon hung in the sky, and the woman's chant in the BGM rose, becoming the prelude to the climax.

Then...

The BGM sounded again in a shocking way.

A burly man wearing a red cloak appeared in front of Waver.

An evil person wearing armor and exuding black mist descended out of thin air in the basement of Kariya Matou's house.

Su Yan's face...

No, that's not right.

It was Su Yan playing a handsome, noble, gorgeous man wearing golden armor with arrogant and indifferent eyes, looking at Tokiomi Tohsaka and Kirei Kotomine in front of him.

【We won!】 Tokiomi Tohsaka started popping champagne halfway through.

And in the castle where the male protagonist Kiritsugu Emiya was located...

A girl wearing a blue knight's uniform, covered in armor, with blonde hair, a bit short, but with a trace of awe-inspiring righteousness on her face, appeared in front of Kiritsugu Emiya.

When that face was exposed in front of the TV, Zhao Yuchen was slightly suffocated.

It was a bit too beautiful.

Moreover, that otherworldly temperament made people feel a bit inferior.

Zhao Yuchen somewhat understood why Su Yan had gone to such great lengths in the market for the female lead's casting last year.

Su Yan chose Zhuang Yuxin because he valued her temperament, right!