Depressive Screenwriter

Although Su Yan doesn't need awards to prove himself now, he will still attend the ceremonies to collect any awards he receives.

Otherwise, his detractors will accuse him of disdaining awards, looking down on his peers, and being arrogant.

Moreover, more people from Su Yan's company and production teams received award invitations this year compared to last year. Su Yan doesn't care much about these things, but the employees in his company have been excited for weeks in advance.

As January arrived, Su Yan began his familiar busy life.

After the filming of 'Fate' and 'Rurouni Kenshin' concluded, he was mainly involved in post-production work. Although Su Yan was the screenwriter and actor for both works, he also had to participate deeply in the post-production process.

How the special effects should be made, how the music should be added, the emotions in the voice acting, and the editing of the scenes.

It could be said that Su Yan was interfering with some of the director's work, but of course, he wasn't an amateur giving instructions to a professional.

Having been in this industry for so long, even if he hadn't eaten pork, he had at least seen pigs run, right?

Su Yan mostly discussed with the directors of the two works how certain details should be done. If others could offer better opinions, then Su Yan would naturally respect the director's inspiration.

If they couldn't, then they would listen to Su Yan.

And besides the post-production work for 'Fate/Zero' and 'Kenshin',

the filming of 'Kimi ni Todoke' and 'Your Name' also fully commenced.

Although Su Yan didn't play the male lead Taki Tachibana in 'Your Name', he still made a cameo appearance as Taki Tachibana's good friend at Yumi Shinozaki's repeated requests.

After all, Su Yan is now the king of traffic in the Xia country's film and television industry. Even if he doesn't play the lead role, even a cameo will greatly boost the box office.

On set,

on the street.

【So, although you may be tired of hearing it. But I still have to say...】

A girl with a bright smile, long black hair, and wearing a high school uniform said to the boy.

【Thank you!】

The camera switches, the boy sees the smiling girl, his expression is first stunned, a smile unconsciously appears on the corner of his lips, and then the extras playing students wave to the boy and call him to go home from school together, but the boy unconsciously blocks the girl's sight, not letting his friends behind him see her expression.

【Sorry, that expression you just had, please let me have it all to myself.】

"Cut," director Shi Peihua quickly called out.

"It's over," Gu Qingyuan took a deep breath, her expression returning to normal.

"Amazing! Teacher Su Yan, your performance just now was really charming."

"Not at all, you're the one who's amazing. I'm already getting a headache thinking about how, when the finished film comes out, I'm going to have the post-production special effects artists make your daily scenes have a dark and terrifying atmosphere. I don't think no matter what we do, the Xia country's television viewers will be afraid of the Sawako Kuronuma you play."

Su Yan and Gu Qingyuan have been friends for several years, and it's common for them to engage in such commercial mutual flattery during filming. Everyone no longer feels restrained.

It's just that the other members of the crew are a little unaccustomed to it.

In the past, Su Yan was always filming works with depressing and tragic themes, and everyone was used to the various bitter and tragic scenes between Su Yan and Gu Qingyuan.

But this 'Kimi ni Todoke'...

Just reading the script is sweet enough.

The two of them are even sweeter when they film it.

It's really a bit awkward, it feels like the crew's style is wrong.

After the filming of the scenes was completed, Gu Qingyuan also consulted Su Yan about a lot of information about the character Sawako Kuronuma.

"You seem to really like this character?" Su Yan also noticed this.

"Because Teacher Su Yan, you clearly said that this drama has a happy ending! I was originally someone who likes dumpling-filling plots, and besides, this is the first non-tragic ending drama in my acting career, and it may even be the last happy ending drama of my life... I definitely have to take it seriously," Shen Liqian said with a slight smile.

"No need to be so pessimistic..." Su Yan's expression was awkward.

"But strictly speaking, I really like works like 'Kimi ni Todoke', campus youth romance, this is a genre that I've liked since I was a child. Participating in this work this time can be considered fulfilling a dream, it's just that I'm not sure if Teacher Su Yan's fans will accept it when it airs. I'm quite afraid that our pure love work will end up being scolded by fans who like depressing works!"

"No, they will adapt."

"It's just that the script for this drama has been written up to the seventh episode, but the male and female leads haven't even held hands yet. For a romance youth campus work, won't there be a problem with this?"

The two could be considered to have opened up, and Gu Qingyuan also asked the doubts in her heart.

"There won't be a problem." Su Yan paused and smiled.

The nickname of this drama in Su Yan's previous life, 'seems to want to make you die of anxiety,' wasn't just for show.

A romance anime with dozens of episodes, experiencing various things in the middle, the male and female leads only confess after such a long period.

To some extent, following this work is also a kind of torment for the audience.

"Is that so, I'm looking forward to the final episode script of this drama," Gu Qingyuan said to Su Yan with a smile.

As the two were chatting, Yumi Shinozaki also rushed over from the 'Your Name' crew next door, along with Shen Liqian, who was also wearing another style of school uniform costume and playing Mitsuha Miyamizu.

The two beauties walked briskly, their eyes lighting up when they saw Su Yan and Gu Qingyuan.

"Not bad, your looks today are obviously higher than they were a while ago!"

"Here you are, okay, we can go eat now," Su Yan stood up.

Besides eating, the main purpose of this meal was to discuss and arrange the travel arrangements to Shanghai, and by the way, they would also have to go to Shanghai together to carry out the final promotion for the release of the 'Rurouni Kenshin' movie.

After all, the Xia Yan Award ceremony and the Spring Festival release of 'Rurouni Kenshin' were less than a week apart.

And also including director Shi Peihua of the television version of 'Kenshin'.

Although Gu Qingyuan and Shi Peihua didn't have much work in the movie version of 'Rurouni Kenshin', there was still nostalgia...

There were still flashback scenes of Yukishiro Tomoe.

The ex-husband brother in the original 'Kenshin' movie basically had memories appearing in every movie and was repeatedly stabbed.

After a few years, it took Su Yan a lot of effort to find the ex-husband brother actor who participated in the television version of 'Kenshin' back then. After all, he felt that he had no future in the film and television industry, so he went back to his hometown to open a hot pot restaurant, but the hot pot restaurant also lost money, with hundreds of thousands in debt. He was just about to enter a factory to work on screws to pay off his debts.

He was found by Su Yan and given a considerable signing fee, and he was signed as an artist under the company.

In the future, if subsequent 'Rurouni Kenshin' movies are to be filmed and released, the ex-husband brother actor will have to cooperate with the promotion.

At the dinner table, Su Yan and the other four people unanimously felt a sense of melancholy.

"Speaking of which, when we left Sakura TV back then, who would have thought that in just three years, our company could develop to this point," Yumi Shinozaki said.

"I was really desperate at the time, so I came to Su Yan, who was also suppressed by Akasaka Yoshito, to stick together for warmth," Shen Liqian said with a smile.

Now that they were so familiar, she didn't mind talking about those little thoughts back then.

"I was originally retired. I worked at Sakura TV for thirty years and didn't win any awards. After retiring, I was called out by you and even won a Best Television Director Award once. As expected, I'm going to win another one this year..." Although Shi Peihua was old, his mental state was getting better and better.

After all, the goals he wanted to achieve when he was young have now been achieved, and he has filmed many television dramas with Su Yan. Although he doesn't have company shares or dividends, Su Yan hasn't treated him badly, and he has accumulated a salary of more than eight figures.

"My current state can be considered to have achieved my career goals. And Sister Liqian, we are competitors for this Xia Yan Award.", Gu Qingyuan said with a smile.

She and Shen Liqian both received nominations for the Xia Yan Award for Best Actress.

And both were because of the 'Madoka Magica' drama.

From the current situation, the possibility of Homura Akemi winning the award in the end should be greater than that of Madoka Kaname.

"Okay, there's no need to reminisce about these things. Everyone is still young, and the road of life has just begun..." Su Yan said.

"At least... this year, let's plan to make greater achievements in film, and... win some awards."

As Su Yan's voice fell, the expressions of the people at the table were thoughtful.

Indeed, based on the performance and reputation of '5 Centimeters Per Second' and 'Hana to Alice' last year, those major film awards this year should give out some awards.

A few days passed quickly. On Sunday, the second episode of 'Fate/Zero' premiered.