Depressive Screenwriter

I thought it was just a simple time-travel drama, but why does it inexplicably make me want to cry?

Can't the duo of Su Yan and Xiaoqi Yumei be normal? Why are the dramas they make always like this?

Cao Huan composed himself, but immediately realized something.

Wait, it's only the second episode!

First of all, in the original history, Lu Yuan was killed in her later years after the adopted son Chu Tongshang grew up and settled scores with her.

Then, in the first time travel, because the protagonist messed around, Lu Yuan died at the age of 36 to save the protagonist by blocking an arrow.

Now the protagonist has traveled back to when Lu Yuan was 26 years old, so there are ten years. It's impossible to let Lu Yuan die on that night again, right?

Maybe he can also take the opportunity to clean up Li Yong, this big corrupt official and traitor.

At this point, Cao Huan almost realized the main plot of the drama.

On the surface, it's the military and political struggles surrounding the ancient Sheng Kingdom's Empress Lu Yuan, the powerful minister Prime Minister Li Yong, and several countries around the Sheng Kingdom, such as the Northern Lie.

But in reality, it's the journey through time and space of the male protagonist Shen Buyan, a modern person, to save Lu Yuan and change her historical fate of being nailed to the pillar of shame as a demon queen.

What a novel drama.

Cao Huan had never thought that "Gu Xiang Si Qu" could be more interesting than "Rurouni Kenshin". He was only watching this drama out of love for Kenshin and Yukishiro Tomoe.

But now, he is truly attracted by the plot and setting.

In the next episode broadcast by the TV station, the reason why Shen Buyan was assassinated will be clarified.

It turns out that the silly fool Shen Buyan helped was the current emperor of the Sheng Kingdom, Emperor Yuan Qi.

The assassin originally learned that Emperor Yuan Qi was traveling incognito on the Shangsi Festival night, so he came to assassinate him.

But Emperor Yuan Qi insisted on giving Shen Buyan an important token because Shen Buyan helped him, causing the assassin to misunderstand that he was the emperor when he saw the token.

Then, Lu Yuan, who is not yet the empress but only serves as a palace official, and General Lu Shi came forward to save Shen Buyan.

After the assassination plot, it's the sweet moments.

But it's not between the male and female protagonists, but between Yi Hua and Lu Shi.

Obviously, these two are in the stage of liking each other but not expressing their feelings.

Although Cao Huan thinks it's a bit exaggerated that Lu Shi, a man in his early twenties, can become a general in the Sheng Kingdom and control half of the country's military power,

But considering that there were many similar examples in the ancient history of Xia Kingdom, he can accept it.

On the other side, Shen Buyan in the drama finally opened his mouth and asked Lu Yuan many questions.

【Your Majesty, Empress, I would like to ask what year of Yuan Qi is it now?】

【What do you think?】

【The fifteenth year of Yuan Qi?】

Lu Yuan's expression was obviously dazed after hearing the answer of the fifteenth year of Yuan Qi.

She was silent for a long time before answering.

【It is now the fifth year of Yuan Qi. And, I am currently serving as the Palace Administrator in the palace, not an empress.】

Shen Buyan confirmed his guess. His actions are the same as Cao Huan and the audience in front of the TV.

Why waste time?

Just lay it all out, don't dawdle.

Shen Buyan directly revealed that Li Yong would betray the country and defect ten years later, would take the country's military secrets and escape from the East Gate on the Shangsi Festival night, and would take Lu Yuan's adopted son as a threat.

"Yes, that's the normal way of thinking." Cao Huan was satisfied.

The protagonists in the dramas he watched before always dawdled. Obviously, some things could be avoided if they were laid out, but they just held back. To put it bluntly, it's because the screenwriter's level is not good enough, and they have to use IQ-reducing operations on the protagonist to advance the plot and achieve the development direction the screenwriter wants.

Lu Yuan turned her back to Shen Buyan and couldn't see her expression. After a long time, she turned around.

【What are you talking about? I don't have an adopted son, and Prime Minister Li will not betray the country.】

Lu Yuan's expression was calm, without a trace of fluctuation.

Cao Huan opened his mouth. He realized that let alone Lu Yuan, an ancient person, would believe this, even he, a modern person, wouldn't believe it.

If someone in the real world came to him and said that his son would be killed by a truck ten years later, would he take it seriously?

Cao Huan would definitely beat the bastard who cursed his son to death.

The fact that Lu Yuan didn't react and beat Shen Buyan up shows that her quality is really high.

Or is it because Shen Buyan just helped the silly Emperor Yuan Qi and obtained the token given by Emperor Yuan Qi, so Lu Yuan, as the Palace Administrator, has such a good attitude towards Shen Buyan?

Then, the most explosive plot came out at the end of this episode.

After Lu Yuan left Jinghualou, she got into Li Yong's carriage.

Lu Yuan is a female official promoted by Li as the Prime Minister.

And Lu Yuan's younger brother, Lu Shi, is Li Yong's adopted son.

The second episode's ED music sounded.

Cao Huan looked dumbfounded.

Ah?

In the first episode, the 36-year-old Lu Yuan and Li Yong were at odds with each other.

In the second episode, the 26-year-old Lu Yuan, Li Yong, and Lu Yuan's younger brother are actually in the same group?

Good fellow, one manages the government, and the adopted son manages the military power.

Why would Li Yong betray the country?

Emperor Yuan Qi is a fool, isn't he the actual emperor of the Sheng Kingdom?

Also, why does the plot always end in such a tense place?

Cao Huan was a little uncomfortable with this plot.

He opened the official forum page of "Gu Xiang Si Qu" on Sakura.com.

Only then did he realize that the forum had already exploded.

"It almost made me cry. The 36-year-old Lu Yuan's sentence 'We will meet again' really made me sad."

"It's a goodbye for Lu Yuan, but a farewell for Shen Buyan."

"After watching the second episode, I realized where the 36-year-old Lu Yuan's feelings for Shen Buyan came from. It must be the feelings built up by this second time travel."

"What exactly did Shen Buyan do to the 26-year-old Lu Yuan during the second time travel that made the 36-year-old Lu Yuan, who is already the empress, willing to block an arrow and die for him?"

"So why did Lu Yuan marry that silly emperor! It always feels wrong."

"There are more and more pits."

"I hope screenwriter Su Yan will work hard and change Lu Yuan's fate in the second time travel as soon as possible, so that she can avoid the ending of dying at the age of 36."

"I have a question. Didn't the 26-year-old Lu Yuan in the second episode not believe Shen Buyan's words? Why did the 36-year-old Lu Yuan in the first episode believe it? She even ambushed the defending army at the East Gate."

"People change. The protagonist is obviously going to do something in this time travel to make Lu Yuan believe that he is a time traveler. These may be the plots of the third and fourth episodes."

"My brain has exploded. Since the 36-year-old Lu Yuan believed the protagonist's words, why was she still killed?"

"Is it possible that it was because she believed the protagonist's words and had an intersection with the male protagonist that she was killed at the age of 36 to save the male protagonist? This is the butterfly effect. If she didn't believe the protagonist from the beginning, then her ending would be the orthodox historical one of being settled by the adopted son after he grew up, and she could have lived for many more years."

"It feels like a reverse cause and effect. But since the 'result' of Lu Yuan's death at the age of 36 has been determined, no matter how unwilling the protagonist is, no matter what he does to the 26-year-old Lu Yuan, he will not be able to change it, right? Or rather, everything he does is just right, leading to Lu Yuan's death to save him ten years later?"

"Damn, then isn't this drama a complete tragedy? I don't want to watch a tragedy! Rurouni Kenshin was already very sad, why is 'Gu Xiang Si Qu' going to be sad again!"

"Not necessarily! These are just your guesses. At least Lu Yuan is not the empress now, and her younger brother Lu Shi is not dead. As long as Shen Buyan can change the historical trajectory of the two in the next plot... then it shows that history can be changed."

"First of all, there are five pieces of shattered jade, which means that the male protagonist has four chances to travel through time. If history cannot be changed, why would the screenwriter set these up?"

"Why are there only four time travel opportunities for five pieces of shattered jade? Didn't you learn elementary school math well? It's obviously five times?"

"Um, this question is difficult for me to answer. If you can't figure it out, then don't speak. Pay attention, these shattered jade pieces will eventually be pieced together into a circle!"

"Breaking history, changing history, and saving people who cannot be saved, that's the male protagonist. I thought it was just a midnight drama, but I didn't expect such a wonderful development in the second episode. I haven't watched Rurouni Kenshin, but you guys are so supportive, I'll have a drama to pass the time while working the night shift later."

"That's right, being able to easily do things that we can't do is called the male protagonist. On the surface, the death of Lu Yuan in this drama is a foregone conclusion and it's a tragic ending. But I believe that Teacher Su Yan will not let Lu Yuan sacrifice like this."

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"Believe Su Yan? Have you forgotten how Yukishiro Tomoe died?"

A drama, as long as it starts to be brain-burning, the amount of discussion will definitely not be low.

Although not many people are watching "Gu Xiang Si Qu" in the late-night party, the good atmosphere of plot discussion has been determined.

Moreover, most of the people who have watched "Gu Xiang Si Qu" think that this drama is more interesting than the A-level dramas of the three major TV stations.

Those dramas have such old routines that they rely entirely on the cast and the quality of the episodes.

To put it bluntly, these are the only goods on the market, so you can only pick the slightly better ones to eat.

And the setting of "Gu Xiang Si Qu", a time travel, or even a reverse time travel, is the first time in the Xia Kingdom's film and television drama market.

The plot and setting are novel, and you can't guess the plot of the next episode.

Although it is temporarily niche, the reputation is much better than other dramas in the same period.