Depressive Screenwriter

Most of the time, Su Yan is a relatively low-profile person.

He spends his days busy handling company affairs, filming, and connecting with partners, and rarely does media interviews.

As for social media accounts, he only updates them with trailers and promotional videos of his works.

Suddenly, he posted such a dynamic message at midday.

"Starting from episode seven of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, this show will maintain its number one ranking in viewership until the end."

"Su Yan, you old fox, are you really not taking the other two S-level dramas, Black Gate and South Dream, seriously?"

"Celebrating with champagne halfway through the game..."

"If successful, it's a beautiful story.

If not, it's a stain for life! No matter what achievements you make in the future, once this kind of stain appears, you'll never be able to hold your head up."

Fans and the media were stunned by this news, but then, they were overjoyed.

There are always onlookers in every world.

"Teacher Su Yan has finally gone crazy, but I like it."

"That's the way, be domineering. I've been annoyed by that Black Gate thing for a long time. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners must take it down!"

"This is the first time I've seen Teacher Su Yan make such a statement. It seems he's been holding back his anger!"

"Of course. Teacher Su Yan was the first to announce that he would be producing an S-level drama this season, and then, inexplicably, Sakura TV, which hadn't produced an S-level drama in over two years, also prepared to produce one this season, and Shanghai TV followed suit. Who is this targeting? If Edgerunners hadn't premiered on China TV, China would probably have taken action as well. Su Yan must be holding back his anger!"

"I was still immersed in the grief of Maine's death, but this has made me excited. It seems Teacher Su Yan has a bit of a fiery temper!"

"Otherwise? Would someone without a temper create a cyberpunk-style drama?"

"Let's see how Sakura TV responds. Teacher Su Yan is basically attacking them head-on, [From now until the end of the show, it will never be surpassed]. He just doesn't think highly of Black Gate!"

"Hahaha!! Support, this is the writer and actor I like!"

"Strictly speaking, Teacher Su Yan is quite legendary. He's only been in the industry for two years, and now he's directly challenging Sakura TV. This is a true genius!"

"But what if the viewership of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is surpassed before the end? That would be a huge embarrassment!"

"If you don't even have that much confidence, how can you win the seasonal and annual championships?"

In less than half a day, the media and Su Yan's fans pushed the related topics to the top of the trending searches.

When Yoshitoki Akasaka heard the news, he was already angry because Black Gate's viewership had been surpassed again in the sixth week, and now his blood pressure rose even higher.

Sakura TV is a large and powerful company, so how could they yield to Su Yan?

If Yoshitoki Akasaka didn't respond to Su Yan's direct challenge, what prestige would he have left?

Under Yoshitoki Akasaka's hints, the Black Gate crew, from the producer and director to the writers and lead actors, all posted articles to counter Su Yan.

At this point, there was naturally no pretense of politeness.

They said all sorts of sharp and mean things.

They said Su Yan was arrogant and conceited, and didn't respect industry seniors just because he had achieved some success.

Shen Liqian and Gu Qingyuan, as the lead actresses, also refused to be outdone and posted articles to counter him.

In two days, Su Yan's statement triggered a network war between more than a dozen celebrities, writers, and directors.

The summer country's television industry had a feast with this scandal.

The media was the happiest, with daily news reports generating traffic.

[The conflict between Su Yan and Yoshitoki Akasaka intensifies. The battle for viewership ranking between Edgerunners and Black Gate is actually a battle for face between the two!]

[From the relationship between the high-level and low-level employees of Sakura TV in the beginning to the current head-to-head confrontation. It's hard to imagine that Yoshitoki Akasaka, the head of the production department backed by Sakura TV, would have such an embarrassing day.]

[After the broadcast of the sixth episode of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the network popularity index continues to suppress Black Gate with a slight advantage. The average broadcast volume of its works has exceeded 12 million, firmly ranking first this season!]

[Will it be complete deification or become a joke? The success of Edgerunners has become an important work that determines Su Yan's career!]

[Yoshitoki Akasaka personally cultivated his greatest enemy, Su Yan!]

[Celebrating with champagne halfway through the game may be too arrogant, but a true genius has the capital to be arrogant. It's not difficult to set a great goal, but it's difficult to say it in advance and then achieve it. If Cyberpunk: Edgerunners really succeeds in winning the seasonal championship, it will become a beautiful story in Su Yan's career and the biggest shame of Sakura TV in recent years.]

Some things, everyone knows what's going on without saying them out loud.

But after all, there is still some room for maneuver, leaving the other party some face.

But after the media and Xia Guo television fans made such a fuss, this room for maneuver was gone.

No matter what achievements Black Gate and Edgerunners ultimately achieve, no matter how high the viewership is, as long as they don't win the seasonal championship, they will be clowns, losers, and objects of national ridicule.

This is the effect of Su Yan's remarks.

Sakura TV can be said to have used all its resources to promote Black Gate to an outrageous extent.

China TV also refused to be outdone. How could they back down at this time?

The seasonal championship, and even the annual championship, are within reach.

As long as they win, the bonuses for China TV employees this year will definitely be considerable!

Not for Su Yan, but for themselves, they have to put in a lot of effort at this time.

The two TV stations collectively exerted their strength.

As for Shanghai TV's "South Dream", the media didn't report on it much anymore.

What's the point of reporting on a drama that ranks third in seasonal viewership?

Even if it is an S-level drama, as long as it is in third place, it is not a complete failure, but at least a partial failure.

On Friday night, the seventh episode of Black Gate premiered.

As always, it received rave reviews, as always, it sparked audience discussion, and as always, it topped the trending charts.

But the next day, its viewership was announced.

5.44%.

It was exactly the same as the viewership of the sixth episode of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

But...

This wasn't the sixth week of the spring season, but the seventh week.

If they wanted to win this week's viewership championship with this result, they could only hope that Edgerunners' viewership would decline this week compared to last week.

On Saturday, the seventh episode of South Dream premiered.

For the first time, the viewership of this drama broke through the 5.3% mark, reaching 5.31%.

But the television industry is like the college entrance examination, it doesn't matter how many points you score, what matters is your ranking.

This result of South Dream would be a massacre in any other season.

But only in this season did its results seem so shabby.

Soon it was Sunday, and the seventh episode of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners premiered.

After the death of Maine in the previous episode, fans of this drama had been discussing where the plot of this drama would go for a week.

And this episode provided the answer.

David becomes the leader and continues to lead the remaining members of Maine's team in their cyberpunk career.

It's just that the lively and innocent expression on David's face has faded.

He gradually became a mature man.

And in Night City, he became famous.

Lucy temporarily left Maine's team for some reason, but she and David were still boyfriend and girlfriend.

Television dramas certainly can't be too explicit, like the original animation, baring their chests and Confucianism, a couple meeting face to face at home.

But in the seventh episode, there were still some obscure couple scenes between David and Lucy, which directly excited Su Yan's fans.

Although the filming was staggered, the audience imagined it to be wonderful.

Of course, in the seventh episode, the role of another important female character, Rebecca, also increased sharply.

Although David and Lucy were still a couple, after Maine's death, there was always an unspeakable gap between Lucy and David.

Perhaps it was the thing that Lucy asked David to do, "I don't want you to die!", she felt that if David continued to be a cyberpunk like this, he would one day follow in Maine's footsteps.

Or perhaps Lucy never completely trusted David, and never said to David, "You can do it!".

In short, the audience could see that the two were indeed a couple in love, but they both had things on their minds that they didn't want the other to know.

Of course, at the end of the seventh episode, Lucy confessed to David that she was a hacker for the Arasaka Corporation in her childhood, but later escaped.

The end of the seventh episode ended with the Arasaka Corporation tracking down the mystery of Tanaka's death in the sixth episode, sending a large number of hackers to find the murderer, but they were all sniped by Lucy on the Internet.

A sense of impending doom and a final battle had already appeared.

From the beginning, this drama has been constantly emphasizing David's cybernetic endurance.

Stanislav, this kind of thing has been used so many times, but there is still no sign of cyberpsychosis.

Once David's top physique is discovered by the Arasaka Corporation, I don't know what kind of inhumane human experiments he will be caught to do.

The sense of crisis in this drama suddenly appeared.

After this episode aired, the audience of Edgerunners found something was wrong.

"Is it going to be sad?"

"The heroine Lucy used to be a female hacker for the Arasaka Corporation, and she escaped. Could it be that the next plot is about the Arasaka Corporation arresting Lucy?"

"No, something's wrong, Lucy obviously doesn't want the Arasaka Corporation to find David's whereabouts. Only Tanaka and Lucy know about David's specialness, Tanaka is already dead, as long as Lucy isn't caught, David will be fine!"

"The rhythm of this drama is too fast. I feel like it's burning my brain!"

"Just get used to it, cyberpunk-themed works themselves have a lot of settings. So far, I admire Lao Ze's innovation in this drama the most, many new elements are used to make a TV series, it feels like a waste, it's mentioned and then there's no follow-up."

"For example, that super dream, right? It can record other people's memories and experience it yourself, it's super cool."

"So when will Lucy and David go to the moon? Didn't David say he would take her to the moon? It's the seventh episode, and there's still no movement!"

"I don't know, maybe this drama will have a second season! Don't worry."

"Indeed, the setting of this work is very complicated, I feel like one season may not be able to explain it clearly!"

"I only hope that Su Yan Lao Ze is kind. Don't let David get cyberpsychosis, and don't let Lucy be discovered by the Arasaka Corporation."

"David should be immune to cyberpsychosis, right? He would have gotten it long ago, maybe this is the reason why he was targeted by the company."

"Damn it, it's been so suffocating since Maine died. I hope David improves his strength quickly and kills through the Arasaka Corporation!"

All night, fans discussed the plot of Edgerunners.

The next day at noon, the viewership of the seventh episode of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was released.

5.49%.

Not only did it win this week's viewership championship again.

It was only one step away from 5.5%.

Moreover, it was only 0.03% away from the 5.52% viewership record created by "Dawn" five years ago.