Depressive Screenwriter

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Su Yan hung up the phone.

At this moment, it began to drizzle outside the window, and the black clouds were heavy.

For many established screenwriters in Xia Country, it's perfectly normal to rest for a few months or half a year after a work achieves success.

No one is a nuclear-powered donkey; inspiration is like the sea.

But Su Yan couldn't afford to. Akasaka Yoshishi definitely had opinions about him. He had to seize the opportunity while he was still fresh off his success, and while the script department and production department were still paying attention to him, to create a new script while the iron was hot.

A few months after Rurouni Kenshin's popularity declined, if Su Yan wanted to get his script approved by the production department, he would definitely face Akasaka Yoshishi's stern opposition.

Although Rurouni Kenshin was still providing him with a large amount of emotional value every day, by the end of the month or next month, the emotional value might accumulate to seven or eight million, and more emotional value would definitely draw better works.

But there was no way around it. He had to draw the work out now, or he wouldn't make it in time for the October autumn season.

Su Yan took a deep breath and looked at the system.

With a thought, the five million emotional points in Su Yan's system space instantly cleared, and some kind of information flow seemed to surge in his brain.

Half a minute later, a huge flow of information poured into Su Yan's mind.

The script, music, storyboard, creative points, and other information of this work appeared out of thin air.

The words "Gu Xiang Si Qu" (literally "Ancient Love Song") appeared before Su Yan's eyes.

?

Su Yan's expression was dumbfounded.

It was actually it.

And then another piece of information appeared.

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining Flute Playing Expertise.]

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining Konghou Playing Expertise.]

Su Yan's eyes narrowed. The flute and konghou were the exclusive instruments of the male and female protagonists in the story.

The system's skill lottery bonus was really good at choosing.

But that was fine. Su Yan himself didn't understand much about music theory, but in film and television dramas, music theory interludes were extremely important. If Su Yan wanted to move the excellent film and television interludes from his previous life and accurately arrange them, this knowledge would be very useful.

Dispelling the distracting thoughts, Su Yan focused his attention on the drama itself.

"Gu Xiang Si Qu" was a web series made by Bilibili in Su Yan's previous life.

It hired a bunch of unknown, almost new actors, and the total production cost was only over four million. This was an extremely poor configuration.

But after the broadcast, an ancient costume drama, in Bilibili, which was full of ACG enthusiasts, won more than 200 million views with its quality and extremely depressing plot, and has long been ranked first in the website's TV series hot search list.

Moreover, because Gu Xiang Si Qu was a drama that only members could watch, these 200 million views were member clicks, that is to say, they belonged to paid users' clicks.

In fact, adding the pirated clicks, this data may have to be doubled.

Of course, Bilibili was not a giant among video websites in Su Yan's previous life, and it was also a place where anime and ACG fans gathered, and the traffic was much worse than that of the three giants: iQiyi, Tencent Video, and Youku.

This also led to the popularity of Gu Xiang Si Qu only spreading among the Bilibili group. For users of other video websites, they may have never heard of it at all.

After all, whether a work can become a big hit depends on the quality of the drama itself and the channels through which the drama is broadcast, which are equally important.

However, a score of 9.9 given by tens of millions of viewers is enough to prove its quality.

At least, it was an absolutely memorable work in Su Yan's mind.

Although it was a time-travel drama, it was not a cliché time-travel, but a time-travel against the timeline.

It was the same reverse time-travel as the classic Japanese film "Tomorrow I'll Date with Yesterday's You" in terms of story setting, but in Su Yan's perception.

Gu Xiang Si Qu was even better than the latter in terms of depression and plot excellence.

As a romance-themed work, it was similar to Rurouni Kenshin, but it was not limited to petty love, but mixed with the choices of family and country feelings.

The male protagonist first met the female protagonist when she died, using the most unfamiliar eyes to face the female protagonist who had been waiting for him all her life.

And the last time he saw the female protagonist, the female protagonist met him for the first time and didn't know him at all.

After watching this drama, Su Yan was really emo for several days, and the depressing emotions could not be dissipated for a long time. The after-effects were great.

After seeing the words "Gu Xiang Si Qu", the memories sealed in Su Yan's mind emerged.

It had similar elements to Rurouni Kenshin: ancient costume drama, love, depression, and...

It had been proven in his previous life that it could be a hit and get super high ratings without any big-name stars or big-budget production.

Su Yan didn't think that he could really get a lot of investment from the production department with his Rurouni Kenshin results.

The reason was simple. Akasaka Yoshishi would definitely make trouble.

Considering this premise, drawing the work Gu Xiang Si Qu was unexpectedly suitable.

"However, I have no choice." Su Yan smiled after thinking for a moment.

"I don't have the right to be willful at this stage. I can only make what I draw, not draw what I want to make."

Su Yan was a man of action.

In the next few days, Su Yan immersed himself in the creation of the script.

It wasn't to say that this drama had no shortcomings because it was popular in his previous life.

At least the male protagonist's background setting had to be slightly strengthened.

After all, he knew military strategy, and he could also teach the female protagonist a lot of survival skills and knowledge in troubled times in the later stages of the story. He had to be a polymath with extensive reading.

Some of the political struggles between countries in the story also had to be more rigorous.

How could the Empress Dowager jump off the city wall to die?

Even if the emperor publicly ordered her to die, it had to be in accordance with etiquette and rules.

And, when writing the script, he had to consider the scenes and costs of the drama.

If there was a war scene, would there be the cost to express the picture?

If there was no cost to shoot those scenes, it would be better not to waste ink in the script at the beginning, so as not to make a joke of a big war being filmed as a small village fight.

While Su Yan was immersed in creating the Gu Xiang Si Qu script.

The September summer season had not yet ended.

Except for Rurouni Kenshin, which ranked first in average episode play data and ratings this season, the other quarterly online dramas were all in the final stages.

After the tenth episode of Qingfeng was broadcast, the response was mediocre. Many netizens even said that it was another drama that started well and ended poorly.

But overall, the number of views of Qingfeng did not decline, after all, the plot was just mediocre, not yet terrible.

The average paid views per episode of Rurouni Kenshin also exceeded 4 million this week.

Although the work was over, a large group of Rurouni Kenshin fans were still unwilling to let it go. They not only commented on the Rurouni Kenshin play page, but even ran to the Sakura TV station's official website comment area to ask the TV station and Su Yan to produce the subsequent plot of Rurouni Kenshin.

Su Yan also paid attention to this. In addition to the Reminiscence arc, Rurouni Kenshin also had a very long manga main story.

Even if the manga was not discussed, it also had four or five live-action movies with a combined box office of nearly 30 billion yen.

But the system didn't let him draw those works, and Su Yan couldn't do anything about it.

Just like that.

Monday, September 9th.

Shinozaki Ikumi, who hadn't seen Su Yan for more than a week, wore a black suit, stepped on black silk slender legs, and came to Su Yan's office in the script department dressed beautifully and intellectually.

At the office door, Shinozaki Ikumi took a deep breath.

"Okay, let's see what the script that Su Yan confidently said on the phone would probably be a hit after being made into a TV series looks like?"

Shinozaki Ikumi knocked three times on Su Yan's office door.

In the early stage, the author will let the protagonist do some works that are not particularly famous, but I think are very good.

Because it also conforms to the protagonist's current development and the value of the works that his emotional value can draw.

Including Japanese anime, games, or excellent domestic works.

Such as To the Moon.

Actually, I'm still considering Life is Strange.

Life is Strange also made me emo for two or three days after I finished the game.

However, many readers should know about Life is Strange. It is a milestone work in the interactive game genre.

Although many readers may not have seen Gu Xiang Si Qu, it is really good-looking.

At least I felt uncomfortable for a week after watching it.

I think it is not inferior to many Japanese anime masterpieces.

Also, everyone doesn't have to worry about not being able to read the novel if they haven't seen this drama.

From my previous experience, the vast majority of readers have not seen the works I wrote in my books, but they can continue to read them.

Just like Rurouni Kenshin, I guess many readers have not seen it, but they can also read it here.