Depressive Screenwriter

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After the fourth episode of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" aired, the entire Su Yan fan base exploded that night.

People who thought this show would be a cheerful, harmonious story of good triumphing over evil were immediately dumbfounded.

"What the hell? What was that plot tonight?"

"Wait, my brain is a mess. Why did the plot suddenly develop in such a dark and grotesque direction?"

"My daughter was scared to tears tonight. I returned the official Kyubey plushie I bought online overnight."

"Why does Su Yan's show have to be like this?"

"Isn't it too twisted? The essence of a magical girl is to become a gem in exchange for a wish?"

"Where are all the people who said they wanted to become magical girls a few weeks ago? Show yourselves!"

"Didn't Su Yan, the old thief, say this show wouldn't be depressing? If this isn't depressing, then becoming a magical girl is a tragedy in itself."

"And I don't like how this plot is developing. Su Yan, the old thief, is playing Kyosuke Kamijo. Does he really like Sayaka? Isn't Sayaka just acting on her own feelings and self-gratification?"

"That's right, Sayaka became a magical girl to heal her childhood friend. But he doesn't even know that his recovery is thanks to Sayaka. But now, what is Sayaka supposed to do? She's become a monster, can she still have a future with Kyosuke?"

"I'd be dumbfounded if I were her. A magical girl turned into a monster for nothing."

"I don't think it's that different! Even though the soul becomes a Soul Gem, isn't it still using the original body?"

"How is it not different? When you're sitting in the driver's seat, do you think you're a car? When you're controlling a human body with a Soul Gem, do you think you're human?"

"Oh man, you're right, it does sound different."

"Su Yan, the old thief, this cliffhanger at the end of this episode has really depressed me."

"Brothers, I have a bad feeling. I feel like this show is going to become dark, deep, and cruel as it goes on."

"Take out the 'feel like,' this show is definitely going in a dark, deep, and cruel direction."

"Then what about what Su Yan, the old thief, said before about this show having a happy ending?"

"What else can we say? He's just tricking us viewers in like pigs, then killing us with one blow."

"Changing my viewing mindset. What magical girls, what happy ending, this show feels wrong. Don't be fooled by the theme song and the visual style, I have a feeling this show is going to do something big later on!"

"Su Yan, the old thief, you better not show your face these next few days!"

As predicted, after the fourth episode of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" aired, the fans' emotions were clearly agitated.

The number of views for the "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" setting collection on the Dimensional Pictures website skyrocketed.

Many media outlets that were questioning "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" last week quietly deleted their previously published articles.

Something seems off.

At this time, the temperature in Tokyo was warming up. Because the filming of "5 Centimeters Per Second" had ended, only "We Made a Beautiful Bouquet" needed to be filmed.

The company's workload was greatly reduced, and Su Yan's routine became more normal.

The various copyright revenues of "Tokyo Love Story" in China and overseas regions were successively received, and after about 300 to 400 million yuan entered the company's account, the company's somewhat sluggish capital chain was relieved of a small crisis.

Su Yan also took the opportunity to buy a villa in Tokyo in the company's name as his residence.

After getting up, washing up, and eating breakfast, he drove to the office in Tokyo. His office was already filled with a pile of documents that needed to be reviewed and signed.

These were all cooperation projects and appropriation plans for the company in the next few months.

And Su Yan's partner, Ikumi Shinozaki, was wearing a black dress and had already started working at her seat.

She had many things that needed to be communicated with Su Yan in real time, so their offices were directly set up together.

"You're here?" Ikumi Shinozaki glanced at Su Yan.

"You've been very lazy lately! You're only coming to the company at this time."

"Because I'm not directly involved in the acting, the workload is much less, so the schedule doesn't have to be as tight as before," Su Yan said with a smile, then sat down at his seat and started looking through the documents on the table.

"The post-production special effects for 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica' are basically almost finished. The post-production editing of '5 Centimeters Per Second' has also started, and we also have a general idea of which movies will be competing for the summer档同期 release," Ikumi Shinozaki reported some key content while working.

"If our goal is to win the summer box office champion, then you'll have to start making large-scale appearances from June, and cooperate with the main creators of the two movies, '5 Centimeters Per Second' and 'We Made a Beautiful Bouquet,' to start promoting them."

"Yeah, I understand." Su Yan quickly looked through the documents and signed them one by one in the key places.

"Also," Ikumi Shinozaki looked at Su Yan.

"Aunt Ayaka Sekita from Sakura TV contacted me. She talked to me for a long time yesterday, and the general idea is... if Yoshitoki Akasaka steps down from the position of Production Department Director at Sakura, would we be willing to cooperate with Sakura TV in the future?"

Ikumi Shinozaki felt a little nervous when she said this.

She hated Yoshitoki Akasaka, but she didn't have any major opinions about her old employer, Sakura TV.

She also respected Ayaka Sekita very much.

As long as "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" continues to dominate this season, a Production Department Director who, no matter how hard he tries during his tenure, can only get the second place for his station's big-budget project is meaningless to the TV station.

After Yoshitoki Akasaka steps down, there's a 90% chance that Ayaka Sekita will take over.

She faces the same situation as Yoshitoki Akasaka: how to boost the station's performance?

Is she going to continue competing with Su Yan?

How is it possible that in today's Xia Country drama industry, anyone dares to say that they can compete fairly with Su Yan's works?

Ayaka Sekita's idea is of course to win over Su Yan.

Su Yan can cooperate with Zhongxia TV, so why can't he cooperate with Sakura TV?

Su Yan thought for a moment when he heard this.

Honestly, his cooperation with Zhongxia TV is pretty good right now, but basically, it's just a matter of mutual benefit, and there's not much personal relationship.

But Ayaka Sekita is different. If she really drives Yoshitoki Akasaka out...

Just based on the fact that she helped him get the investment for his first few works, it would be difficult for Su Yan to refuse her request. Moreover, he also knows the relationship between Ikumi Shinozaki's mother and Ayaka Sekita.

Ikumi Shinozaki rarely interferes with Su Yan's decisions on the company's major development directions, but since she took the initiative to say this, her attitude is also very clear.

She still hopes that Su Yan can cooperate with Ayaka Sekita appropriately.

Anyway, it's just cooperation with one of the three major TV stations. As long as the person they hate disappears, there's no problem.

However, there's a limit to how much he repays favors, and Su Yan can't excessively give away his own benefits.

After all, he is now the chairman of Dimensional Pictures, and hundreds of employees are waiting for him to support them.

"Well, let's talk about it when Yoshitoki Akasaka really gets the hell out of here, and Sakura TV has to show sincerity in cooperation," Su Yan said with a smile.

"Understood." Ikumi Shinozaki looked at Su Yan's expression and knew what he was thinking.

Su Yan wouldn't say anything definitive, but having this ambiguous attitude basically indicated that he didn't refuse to cooperate with Sakura TV without Yoshitoki Akasaka.

"Thank you," Ikumi Shinozaki said when she heard this.

"What's there to thank me for? A crafty rabbit has three burrows. I don't have a strategic alliance with Zhongxia TV. Who knows if there will be conflicts of interest between the two sides one day. Cooperating with Sakura can be considered a double insurance," Su Yan said with a smile.

"However, the works our company produces now basically have to rely on these major TV stations to broadcast, which always feels like we're being controlled by others."

"It's the same as making movies. The production company, distribution company, and theaters are all three-party collaborations. This industry is all about mutual cooperation. Even the three major TV stations have times when they can't do everything and need to introduce works produced by private film and television companies to boost ratings," Ikumi Shinozaki knew what Su Yan was thinking.

"You don't have to worry about the three major TV stations uniting to boycott your works."

"With our current popularity in Xia Country, the three major TV stations would only be benefiting our former partner, Qingkong TV, and other large TV stations by doing so. If the three unite, we can go and cooperate with these TV stations, and in a year or two, the three's monopoly will be completely torn apart. We know this, the three major TV stations know this, and the entire industry knows this..."

"So, they don't dare!"

Before Su Yan's reputation was fully established, he needed to use the traffic of the three major TV stations to promote his works.

But now, he and the three major TV stations are mutually beneficial.

Even if Su Yan's works are now broadcast on Qingkong TV, how much lower would the ratings be?

After all, for these drama fans, switching from the three major TV stations to other TV stations is just a matter of moving their fingers to operate the remote control for two seconds. Su Yan is still worth most Xia Country drama fans making that one operation for him.

Su Yan thought about it, and that was indeed the case.

The two stopped talking and worked in the company for a while. When it was noon,

The chef arranged by the company sent the prepared meal to the office, and Su Yan's phone rang.

"5.39%," Su Yan said after a pause.

"The ratings for the fourth episode of 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica.'"

"5.39%," Ikumi Shinozaki said in silence.

Having experienced the ratings of "Tokyo Love Story" exceeding 6%, she was no longer surprised by the current ratings data.

But she still felt a little dreamy.

Because according to this data trend, it's hard to say whether this drama, "Puella Magi Madoka Magica", can compare to "Tokyo Love Story", but it will likely exceed "Line Walker".

The ratings record that Xia Country hadn't broken in the past five years will be broken three times by Su Yan within a year.

Inside Sakura TV, the hope that Yoshitoki Akasaka had just ignited was completely extinguished by the results of the fourth episode of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica".

After Zhongxia TV announced the results, the entire Sakura TV station was already in turmoil.

Yoshitoki Akasaka's side was quiet, but Ayaka Sekita's side was exciting.

Many of Yoshitoki Akasaka's former confidants secretly contacted her and began to reveal some inside information about Yoshitoki Akasaka's past as the director and deputy director of the department.

As the director of the production department of such a large TV station, the income and expenditure of funds for filming TV dramas and producing various variety shows every year are calculated in the billions, so how could there not be some shady dealings?

Everyone knows these things, but now Yoshitoki Akasaka has indeed developed to this point. With the results of "Madoka Magica", who can believe that it will be surpassed by "Peerless" later on?

These confidants of Yoshitoki Akasaka were also planning ahead and submitted their loyalty certificates to Ayaka Sekita in advance.

The outside world cannot know the internal turmoil of Sakura TV. News media only report some unsubstantiated things as usual.

On Friday, the fifth episode of "Peerless" aired.

Ratings of 5.18%.

This ratings data basically shattered Sakura TV's hope of reaching the top.

From the TV industry to the media and the masses, basically no one regards the drama "Peerless" as a threat to "Madoka Magica".

Even on Saturday, in the TV drama popularity statistics compiled by the entire network, the popularity of "Peerless" did not exceed "Madoka Magica" on this day.

Although the ratings data of "Peerless" is extremely good,

But second place means it is the biggest loser of this season.

Saturday passed quickly, and time came to Sunday again.