Depressive Screenwriter

The overall feel of Rurouni Kenshin Episode 2 wasn't as bloody as the first, and the fight scenes weren't as numerous, but the final fight scene between Kenshin and the Shinsengumi was as stunning and bloody as ever.

Viewers who came for the action were satisfied.

And viewers who wanted to see romance also saw the emotional entanglement between Kenshin and Yukishiro Tomoe in the second episode.

It's an episode that bridges the gap between what has come before and what will follow.

Of course, Rurouni Kenshin, with only two episodes aired, is just a martial arts drama filled with action, stunningly beautiful actors, a profound plot, and tied to elements such as the country and the world.

It's certainly worthy of being called excellent, but it's still a considerable distance from being called a 'god-tier' show.

However, compared to 'Qing Feng,' the most popular web drama of the season on Sakura Net, people who have watched both dramas on the website can clearly feel the excellence of Rurouni Kenshin at the script level.

Comment threads on the website appeared one after another.

"It's a pity, such a good-looking drama is just lacking in funding. The texture of the costumes and props is still a bit poor."

"If Qing Feng's budget was given to Rurouni Kenshin, this drama would be an absolute masterpiece."

"Screenwriter Su Yan is really amazing. Not only did he write such an excellent martial arts drama, but he also played the male lead Kenshin himself."

"Is it possible that the male lead Kenshin is actually a character created by the screenwriter based on himself as a template?"

"I always feel that the swordsmanship and smooth movements of the actor playing Kenshin don't seem like acting."

"I've studied Kenshin's moves in the drama frame by frame in slow motion. I didn't find any special effects, and it's not an effect created by fast editing. It can be determined that the actions Kenshin can make in the drama, Su Yan can probably also make in the real world, maybe it's just a matter of success rate."

"Actually, after seeing it now, I don't care about the fights anymore. What's more exciting than the fight scenes is the entanglement between Kenshin and Yukishiro Tomoe. Where will these two eventually go? Enemies, or will they resolve their grievances?"

"Surely Yukishiro Tomoe will forgive Kenshin and live a happy life together with Kenshin. This kind of plot is a bit clichéd, but I love it!"

"That's right, what era is it? You don't really think Kenshin will kill Yukishiro Tomoe because she wants to avenge her fiancé, do you? He's not such a petty character."

"Damn it. Why did screenwriter Su Yan end the second episode in this way? I have to wait another week, it's so painful."

"I've experienced the pain of chasing updates again after a long time. What will happen to Yukishiro Tomoe and Kenshin's subsequent plot? It's so hard!"

On the first day of its release, Rurouni Kenshin Episode 2 reached 360,000 paid views.

At this time, the first-day paid views of the fifth episode of 'Qing Feng' were only 310,000.

A total of more than forty low-budget web dramas were launched on Xia Country's four major webcasting platforms this season.

The general production cost is between four million and six million.

Among them, because 'Qing Feng' has high investment and the support of Sakura TV, the industry is not surprised that it has achieved good results.

If you are willing to spend money to hire good actors, a good production team, and buy publicity, there is nothing to boast about having such results.

But Rurouni Kenshin, what the hell is this?

Four episodes, with a total investment of 1.2 million.

Because it was too poor, the screenwriter played the male lead.

The female lead is a recent college graduate.

The producer is an almost certain person to be eliminated by the TV station due to poor historical performance.

The director is an old lady who has been retired for several years and has nothing to do at home.

Such a combination, in the summer web drama market, showed its fangs to 'Qing Feng' and has threatened 'Qing Feng's' market position.

It really surprised the industry.

This is okay?

The first episode of Rurouni Kenshin was close to Qing Feng's results.

But after the second episode of Rurouni Kenshin aired,

It already has a momentum to surpass it.

[Sakura TV's Genius New Screenwriter Shakes the Web Drama Market.]

[Small Costs Can Also Have Big Profits. Rurouni Kenshin May Pass Down Sakura TV's Highest Investment Drama Yield This Year.]

[Rurouni Kenshin Surpasses Qing Feng in the Web Drama Category Hot Search on Sakura Net, Reaching the Top of the Website's Web Drama Hot Search.]

[Rurouni Kenshin's Score is 9.3, the Highest Opening Score for a Web Drama in Xia Country This Year.]

[What is the origin of Su Yan, the mysterious genius who is responsible for the genius-like martial arts action design, the screenwriter, the male lead, and the martial arts director of this drama?]

[I thought Qing Feng would be the debut work of the genius screenwriter Kiyota Yamaji. But now it seems that there seems to be even more geniuses above geniuses.]

[Why did Su Yan create Kiyota? If the average paid views per episode of Rurouni Kenshin are finally comparable to Qing Feng, then the entire Qing Feng crew will be the biggest victims.]

The word-of-mouth spread of web dramas is faster than that of TV hit dramas.

Once Rurouni Kenshin shows a little bit of a sign of surpassing Qing Feng, a bunch of video website media will start.

Kiyota Yamaji stayed in the TV station's screenwriting department today as if sitting on pins and needles, refreshing the paid views of the second episode of Rurouni Kenshin every few minutes to compare with the fifth episode of Qing Feng.

Until his uncle Akasaka Yoshitoki called him and scolded him, telling him to quickly find a solution.

But what can he do?

Can he control Xia Country's netizens from going online to watch Rurouni Kenshin?

Thinking about it, why can Rurouni Kenshin's results be comparable to Qing Feng?

And in the Rurouni Kenshin crew,

A beautiful woman in white clothes stained red with blood, with a pale face, used the knife in her hand to slash across the face of a handsome young man who was also covered in blood and had a painful expression.

The new knife mark and the former scar formed a crossed cross.

"I'm sorry, husband."

The woman said this sentence with reluctance in her eyes, enduring the pain of her injuries, and her hand fell weakly, and the knife fell into the snow.

The young man's eyes widened, and his pupils were filled with endless pain.

"Cut! That's a wrap!"

After getting the director Shi Peihua's approval, Su Yan and Gu Qingyuan, who was lying on the ground pretending to be dead, suddenly changed their expressions.

The parting of life and death and sadness before the two disappeared instantly, replaced by an irrepressible joy.

The two stood up, grabbing each other's sleeves and jumping and cheering to celebrate.

"Yay, it's over."

"It's the forty-sixth time."

"No, it's the forty-seventh time, we finally passed this shot."

"Oh my god, I'm so happy I'm about to cry. This shot took two full days..." Gu Qingyuan's eyes were a little red after being happy.

"The prop blood on my body has solidified, and I feel uncomfortable all over." Su Yan said while rubbing the dry blood stains on his arm.

"Although I still feel that you two have room for improvement in this shot, and you can play a more sad look. Unfortunately, time and money do not allow it." Shi Peihua said at this time while watching the shot just now not far away.

"Congratulations, after the filming of this most difficult shot is over, the entire Rurouni Kenshin drama will be completed in two days."

"Two days..." Gu Qingyuan heard the words, and the happy expression just now was slightly lonely.

"What's wrong? Are you not happy that the filming is over?" Su Yan noticed the change in her inner emotions.

"Of course I'm happy that the filming is over. But this also means that my first acting experience in life has come to an end... I don't know when I will meet such an excellent and pure creative team like Teacher Su Yan, Director Shi, and Miss Ayaka next time." Gu Qingyuan sighed softly.

Xia Country's entertainment industry is no better than Su Yan's previous life.

There are endless unspoken rules and various insider trades.

The stars who have made their way out naturally have ways to avoid those.

But the problem is that it is difficult for actors in the starting stage to avoid them.

Shi Peihua is a girl.

Ayaka Ikumi is a girl.

Su Yan was focused on filming and was not interested in Gu Qingyuan.

There were no inexplicable investors in the crew who came to interfere.

Gu Qingyuan knows very well that it is difficult to meet a second such perfect crew.

"If there is a first cooperation, there will naturally be a second." Ayaka Ikumi came over at this time.

"The current single-episode paid views of the first episode of Rurouni Kenshin have exceeded 1.3 million, and the second episode has exceeded 360,000 on the first day of its broadcast. If the next two episodes can really cause a sensation among the audience, the drama will break the circle and the results will skyrocket, and the results can surpass Qing Feng, then there is no doubt..." Ayaka Ikumi looked at Gu Qingyuan.

"You will definitely become famous. And Su Yan is the same."

"So?" Gu Qingyuan realized something and asked hesitantly.

"I have no reason not to use the leading actors of the popular characters Kenshin and Yukishiro Tomoe." Ayaka Ikumi's beautiful face bloomed with a smile.

"When Su Yan has a new script project, I will ask Gu Qingyuan to participate again, don't refuse me!"

Gu Qingyuan looked at Su Yan. When Ayaka Ikumi said this, Su Yan's expression did not change, which shows that he and Ayaka Ikumi had discussed this kind of thing privately.

"Teacher Su Yan, are you saying that we have the possibility of cooperation?" Gu Qingyuan asked after a pause.

"Well, the premise is that after the fourth episode of Rurouni Kenshin is broadcast, the fan group can accept and recognize this ending. Then Kenshin and Yukishiro Tomoe will become an unforgettable couple in the minds of the audience, and I and you, as the leading actors of these two characters, can also eat the character dividend of Kenshin and Yukishiro Tomoe for a while." Su Yan nodded.

"But if the audience does not accept Kenshin's ending. If you see the two of you on the screen in the future, you will have a psychological shadow... Then you two will definitely have no chance of cooperation." Ayaka Ikumi added with a smile next to her.

Gu Qingyuan was silent for a moment after hearing the words, then took a deep breath and said calmly.

"I believe that Yukishiro Tomoe, played by me, and HImura Kenshin, played by Teacher Su Yan, will not be hated by the audience, and they will definitely be able to accept this ending."

"That's not necessarily true." Ayaka Ikumi said softly.

"The market is not subject to anyone's."

"Definitely."

"Because I am playing Yukishiro Tomoe. In addition to screenwriter Su Yan, I know Yukishiro Tomoe's charm better than anyone else, and I also know Kenshin's charm." Gu Qingyuan's tone was very serious.

"No one will hate Yukishiro Tomoe. No one will hate HImura Kenshin either."

In the next few days, the Rurouni Kenshin crew was busy with the final filming work.

And the second episode of Rurouni Kenshin, one week after its release, had higher paid views on Sakura Net in the first week than the first episode.

Reached 1.23 million.

Affected by the positive impact of the drama's reputation and media reports

Whether it was the first episode or the second episode, the paid views increased greatly this week, slightly surpassing the webcasting data of Qing Feng's first and second episodes in the same period.

Fortunately, this drama is only a four-episode short drama, and the short drama means that the popularity of the work will last for a short time.

Maybe after the fourth episode is broadcast, this situation of a surge in views due to word of mouth will quickly disappear, and eventually in a few weeks, Kenshin's average paid results per episode will be far behind Qing Feng.

But this kind of thing is just a guess of a group of TV industry practitioners at this stage.

Before Rurouni Kenshin is finished, no one knows the final result.

The time came to August 6. On this day, a large group of people were waiting for the third episode of Rurouni Kenshin to air.