Depressive Screenwriter

After a week of eager waiting, it's Monday again.

Getting off work a bit late, a heavy rain started in Shanghai today. Lin Yuting took the subway, bought dinner along the way, and hurried back home.

"Fortunately, it's only 7:50," Lin Yuting said with a faint smile, her heart filled with anticipation.

This summer, the three major TV stations combined broadcasted over a dozen or twenty dramas. A bunch of variety shows, music programs, and talent shows were all of good quality.

The four online broadcasting platforms also had a bunch of small and medium-cost web dramas, with styles ranging from bizarre, detective, suspense, horror, to intellectual battles.

But in her mind, the number one work of this season is still Rurouni Kenshin.

Maybe this is what is called love at first sight, different people have different preferences.

Although Kenshin's production is indeed not gorgeous enough, and the picture is quite simple, but liking this kind of thing is just unreasonable.

Every day, she would pay attention to the paid views, ratings, and online scores of Rurouni Kenshin to see if there was any improvement.

Recently, she even participated in several arguments on Sakura.com between fans of Qingfeng and fans of Rurouni Kenshin.

After all, the two dramas are now in absolute competition.

"Alright, what kind of story will unfold in the third episode of Rurouni Kenshin?" Lin Yuting took a deep breath and refreshed the page.

The words [Rurouni Kenshin Episode 3: Yosato Village] appeared as a link.

Lin Yuting clicked on it, the set account automatically paid, and the computer screen flashed.

Entering the view was a lush green mountain wilderness.

Lin Yuting recognized it at a glance. Isn't this the abandoned small mountain village in the western suburbs? The company had a team building event there before.

Unexpectedly, the filming of the third episode of Rurouni Kenshin was chosen there.

In the story, Kenshin is chopping wood.

And Yukishiro Tomoe, dressed in white, with her hair up and lipstick on, is acting as his wife.

The text appearing next to the screen began to introduce the background.

After the Kyoto turmoil, Kenshin, under the arrangement of the forces behind him, lived in seclusion in a mountain village with Yukishiro Tomoe as a pharmacist couple.

Kenshin chops wood, cultivates the land, and plants radishes.

Yukishiro Tomoe cooks and weaves.

If she hadn't watched the first two episodes, Lin Yuting would really have thought they were a couple.

"So good!"

No fighting like in the previous two episodes, not so many political struggles, not so many collisions of ideas.

Kenshin and Yukishiro Tomoe's eyes meet.

The indifference on Kenshin's face gradually disappears, he will take the initiative to talk to Yukishiro Tomoe, and his eyes become more and more gentle.

The lines didn't elaborate at all. But those who watch carefully can appreciate the gradually heartwarming atmosphere between the two.

Yes, just like that, a single man and a single woman are in the same room.

What are you pretending to be a fake couple for?

Lin Yuting became excited.

However, the way Rurouni Kenshin depicts the story will naturally not be so direct.

Under the moonlight, Yukishiro Tomoe, wearing a light pink kimono, sighed softly as she looked at the full moon.

"I wonder how long we will live here?"

This sentence instantly shattered the hazy heartbeat that Lin Yuting had produced because of the previous plot.

It also made Kenshin's eyes change from gentle back to calm.

"We still have to live here for a while, I can't say exactly how long."

The plot doesn't need to be stated directly, but Lin Yuting can see from the change in Kenshin's eyes.

He wanted to continue living as a fake couple with Yukishiro Tomoe.

It's just that...

Fake couples are always fake.

The current life, the fake wife around him, will eventually leave him one day, and he will eventually pick up the sword again... to kill.

Yukishiro Tomoe has resentment in her heart.

Kenshin has guilt in his heart.

Both know that this peaceful life cannot last.

However, they hope it can last forever.

In the story, summer ends and autumn comes.

Early in the morning, Yukishiro Tomoe gets up early.

She once again took out the dagger from her arms, looking at it with cold eyes.

But finally put it down.

"Damn it," Lin Yuting suddenly became nervous.

"Writer, don't make a bad ending!"

At this moment, dozens of barrages floated across the screen.

[If Yukishiro Tomoe assassinates Kenshin, I will immediately abandon the drama.]

[Writer, please don't have a brain tumor! It's just a fiancé, don't make a cliché plot of the heroine chasing her dead husband.]

[If you want to come to Kyoto to be a superior person and achieve success, you must be prepared to be killed. Kenshin is not wrong, Kiyosato is not wrong either. But if Yukishiro Tomoe can't let go of Kiyosato's death, and Kenshin and Yukishiro Tomoe break up, then that's your fault, writer.]

[To be fair, the writer is the actor who plays Kenshin, I believe he can make the right choice and will not ruin the current good broadcast situation of Rurouni Kenshin.]

[To be honest, wouldn't it be better for Yukishiro Tomoe to kill Kenshin with poison? Kenshin is defenseless against her. In the end, she herself hasn't figured out whether to do it or not.]

[Obviously, she is still hesitating.]

The plot continues to play.

On the way back from selling medicine at the market, Kenshin and Yukishiro Tomoe.

The setting sun is like blood, and the white cranes are crying.

Kenshin is carrying a medicine basket in front.

"The identity of husband and wife really doesn't arouse suspicion."

"Yes, and business is also very good," Yukishiro Tomoe replied with a smile.

"That dagger, you didn't bring it with you?" Kenshin asked suddenly with a normal expression.

At this moment, white cranes crowed together in the surrounding pools.

Yukishiro Tomoe's expression showed a shocked expression.

Just like Lin Yuting's inner heart at this moment.

Dagger?

Did Kenshin discover it a long time ago?

Yukishiro Tomoe always carries a dagger with her.

That's right, if he couldn't even discover this, Kenshin would have died in Kyoto long ago.

The barrage also exploded at this moment.

[Fortunately, Yukishiro Tomoe didn't attack Kenshin, otherwise it would be over.]

[Kenshin just knows that Yukishiro Tomoe will carry a dagger with her, this is normal, right? In this world, a woman carries a weapon for self-defense.]

[So Kenshin said these words to her so calmly! Obviously he thought so too, so he said that.]

[This shows that Kenshin completely trusts Yukishiro Tomoe, right? If he didn't trust her, he definitely wouldn't have revealed this matter, pretending not to know.]

Lin Yuting's inner emotions had not yet calmed down. In the play, after the shock on Yukishiro Tomoe's face, a trace of struggle flashed, and then her tone returned to calm.

"Yes, the dagger is at home, because, I am now a pharmacist's wife."

Under the setting sun, the backs of the two people, one in front and one behind, seemed to be closer.

Lin Yuting took a deep breath, feeling a little nervous.

The more these two people rely on each other at this moment, and the truth beneath the surface relationship between the two, the more the sense of crisis brought to the audience will be strengthened.

The camera switches again.

At night, Kenshin falls asleep holding his sword, just like he did in Kyoto.

Yukishiro Tomoe gets up and puts her clothes on him.

From beginning to end, Kenshin's body has not moved at all, he is sleeping soundly.

Lin Yuting's nose felt inexplicably sore.

She has a good memory.

She remembered that in the second episode, when Kenshin, who was still a manslayer in Kyoto, fell asleep, as soon as Yukishiro Tomoe approached him, he would wake up and hold his sword against Yukishiro Tomoe's throat.

But now, Kenshin didn't make any movement.

If Yukishiro Tomoe really wanted to assassinate Kenshin with a dagger, it would actually be easy, right?

Late autumn, the rainy season is coming.

At night, Yukishiro Tomoe took out the dagger she had collected, recalling the day her fiancé Kiyosato died and her world collapsed, painful tears flowed out, and she said in a sad voice.

"You are too gentle when you don't kill people."

Yukishiro Tomoe has always known that Kenshin killed her fiancé Kiyosato.

Approaching him was only to assassinate him.

However, she can't do it.

"So, don't take revenge! It's not a husband, it's a fiancé... an ancient fiancé, maybe they haven't even met, it's just a marriage arranged by the family. Is it necessary?" Lin Yuting felt a little uncomfortable watching.

Continue watching.

The following plot reveals all the conspiracies.

Yukishiro Tomoe was hired by Kenshin's opposing organization.

She and her younger brother Yukishiro Enishi are both like this, the purpose is to get close to Kenshin, it would be great if they could take the opportunity to assassinate Kenshin.

If not, then use a plain life and Yukishiro Tomoe to corrupt this Kyoto's strongest sword.

At least when Kenshin is sleeping, he is defenseless against Yukishiro Tomoe.

Their purpose has indeed been achieved.

And the spy in Kenshin's organization is Iizuka, who has always been Kenshin's liaison.

The chain assassin Kenshin and Yukishiro Tomoe encountered before their first meeting was Iizuka betraying Kenshin and reporting the information.

Lin Yuting was stunned all of a sudden.

Autumn ends and winter comes.

The radishes that Kenshin and Yukishiro Tomoe planted together have grown and can be pulled out.

At night, Kenshin and Yukishiro Tomoe are eating the white radishes they planted together.

Kenshin eats rice and radishes in big mouthfuls.

Yukishiro Tomoe looks at him with a smile on her face, and says softly.

"It's the first time I've seen you eat so deliciously. If..."

"If our life like this is real, would you be willing to continue living like this?"

Lin Yuting felt even more uncomfortable.

Whenever she is immersed in the warm life of Yukishiro Tomoe and Kenshin in the story.

The screenwriter always uses Yukishiro Tomoe's mouth to tell everyone that this is fake.

Kenshin is a fake pharmacist, a fake husband.

Yukishiro Tomoe is a fake wife, her purpose of approaching Kenshin is to avenge her fiancé.

Then what about these radishes that the two planted together?

What about the feelings that have accumulated after living here for half a year? Are they also fake?

"After coming here, I have been thinking. After learning the Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū, I wanted to protect the weak and protect the happiness of as many people as possible, but..."

Kenshin's eyes moved away from the radish and looked up at Yukishiro Tomoe.

"Now that I think about it, that was such arrogance. I have tried my best to protect this everyday life. I have never known what happiness is..."

"But now I know. This life right now is happiness to me."