Depressive Screenwriter

"Old Thief, this drama feels like it added a lot of plot!"

"The Old Thief from before wouldn't have portrayed the villain's plot so meticulously."

"After all, this drama is an ensemble drama! Although the female lead is the appointed Saber, the other characters are also very charmingly portrayed."

"It's just that Kayneth is really hilarious. At school, he's the number one in the world, but at home, he gets scolded by his wife and doesn't dare to talk back. And it seems his wife is...sigh, a green hat on his head."

"But Diarmuid is a true knight! He's willing to be loyal to such a master. Kayneth's wife has problems, but Diarmuid is a true gentleman."

"I read the character biography of Diarmuid that Old Thief updated on the official website. It seems that in his lifetime, his knightly path was tainted because his lord's fiancée liked him. Now, summoned in the Holy Grail War, he's in the same situation again. Is Old Thief going to send out knives (create tragedy)?"

"The rules of the Holy Grail War seem to be that it only ends when one Servant and Master survive, so don't sympathize with the Servants other than Saber. The rules of the Holy Grail War determine that all these Masters and Servants will die later, and only Saber and Kiritsugu Emiya can survive."

"No way, I really like Diarmuid! And Alexander the Great. Will Old Thief let them die?"

"Of course, this drama can't possibly be a happy family reunion. Seven Servants, only one can survive and have their wish granted."

"Then Gilgamesh, played by Su Yan, will also die?"

"Probably."

"I feel like the plot of this drama is developing in a bad direction. From what I've seen so far, the worldview of this drama seems a bit dark. Magicians are a bunch of guys who don't take human lives seriously, and everyone competing for the Holy Grail doesn't care about the lives of ordinary people."

"Kiritsugu Emiya does! I re-watched the first episode on the website before, and his goal is to create a peaceful world. From this point of view, he's the most virtuous of the seven Masters, right? But his fighting methods are a bit despicable. Always playing tricks and engaging in sneak attacks."

"A person with a distorted process but pursuing a just result? I feel like this protagonist is doomed to tragedy sooner or later."

"Honestly, am I the only one who thinks this drama doesn't feel as good as Old Thief's previous works?"

"It's normal. Old Thief used to make only romance dramas and hasn't done this kind of genre before. You're just not used to it."

Fate/Zero aired to the fourth episode, with a rating of 5.54, a very stable increase, basically the same every week.

Although the work's score is only 9.4, the industry still has high expectations for FZ's ratings to surpass Madoka Magica.

And then there's...

The Xia Yan Awards ceremony on the last day of January.

Su Yan has attended the Xia Yan Awards ceremony four or five times in total.

However, last year, he and other members of the team basically won all the awards they should have.

And this year, the situation is similar to last year.

Best Director, Screenwriter, Actress, and other major awards were all awarded to Su Yan.

And the winning works were very consistent.

All were *Puella Magi Madoka Magica*.

Only the Best Actor award was won by someone else, and the reason is very simple. There are no important male characters in *Puella Magi Madoka Magica*, and the roles are not significant enough to win this award.

It's impossible to give this award to Su Yan for playing the minor character Kyosuke Kamijo!

However, the Best Actress award also met everyone's predictions and was awarded to Gu Qingyuan, who played Homura Akemi.

That night, the two-hour Xia Yan Awards ceremony ended without any twists and turns.

The next day, February 1st, the media in the Xia Country's television industry overwhelmingly boasted about Su Yan's performance at the awards ceremony last night.

Especially Su Yan's last speech on the podium.

"As expected, I'll still be standing here on this day next year."

After that sentence was said, the expressions of a group of big shots in the television industry under the stage were wonderful, but everyone, including the host and a group of haters, couldn't say a word of rebuttal.

Judging from FZ's current results, Su Yan was just stating a fact.

As expected, next year's Best Actress award will be directly awarded to Zhuang Yuxin, the newcomer actress who played Saber.

And she will achieve a terrifying achievement.

Winning the Best Actress award with her debut work.

This kind of achievement is unprecedented, and there will basically be no successors.

From late January, Su Yan's hot searches in the Xia Country's film and television industry came one after another, and every time Su Yan had a new hot search, under the promotion of a group of media who spent money behind him, the resulting wave of public opinion made many competitors unable to withstand it.

The producers behind *Breaking the Formation* and *The Counterfeit Detective* were really anxious.

But when time entered February, only a little over a week away from the release of the *Rurouni Kenshin* movie, Su Yan had a new move and started.

He began to imitate the marketing methods of Chinese movies in his previous life.

You can say that Chinese movies in Su Yan's previous life became more and more ugly later on, but you can't deny that they are definitely the top in the industry when it comes to attracting audiences to buy tickets and enter the cinema.

In Su Yan's previous life, a group of movie fans on the Internet frantically criticized those movies' publicity as fraud.

The scenes released on short videos, the editing of the plot is so wonderful, but after you are really tricked into the cinema, you find that other movies hide the real highlights when doing pre-promotion, and cut some unimportant plots as trailers.

But for most of the movies in Su Yan's previous life, you only need to watch the editing and promotional videos of the producers. All the good-looking clips are in there, and the other plots in the main film are even more boring.

But although Su Yan's marketing is this idea, he absolutely believes that the *Rurouni Kenshin* movie is an excellent movie, so he is seeking truth from facts.

Starting from February 1st, Su Yan began to release some short videos on the accounts certified by the four major video websites and some short video software.

The content is very simple, just to explain to the audience a brief version of the Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū swordsmanship used by Kenshin in *Rurouni Kenshin*.

Why is it a brief version? Because the original is a real killing swordsmanship. Su Yan can't find someone to try it, and besides, although Su Yan's body has been transformed by the system and he has also been instilled with swordsmanship skills by the system, his body has not been exercising every day for many years. Although he is stronger than ordinary people, if he really wants to forcibly perform pure swordsmanship, he himself will probably have muscle strain injuries, and he will have to recuperate and recover after a few sword moves.

However, the videos released by Su Yan are enough to shock Su Yan's fans for a whole year.

After all, when you click on these videos released by Su Yan, Su Yan's first sentence at the beginning is.

"Hello everyone, today we will explain what kind of swordsmanship is the Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū used by the protagonist Kenshin Himura in *Rurouni Kenshin*. Next is the simplified version of the basic move Dragon Nest Flash..."

Looking at the whole video, Su Yan first lets the audience understand what one plus one equals two, what is addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Picking up the sword, kicking the legs, turning around, chopping...

All the movements are simple, and people who watch the video feel that if they hold a sword, they can also be as unrestrained as Su Yan in the video.

"Okay, now you know, right! I'll demonstrate the simplified version of this move."

Su Yan said with a smile in the video.

Then, when Su Yan demonstrates the swordsmanship, it really jumps from the difficulty of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to the level of calculus.

In less than two seconds, they saw Su Yan in the video use the sword in his hand to perform a gorgeous sword move for them.

The speed, strength, and accuracy were all terrifying.

Most importantly...

All of us fans were just suspecting in our hearts that you, Su Yan, were really fighting in the filming, without being suspended by Wia wires.

Now you, Su Yan, have proved it yourself.

You can really do those movements in reality!

Old Thief?

You really know Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū!

That's not a swordsmanship that was blown out!

Su Yan had been practicing in the office in various ways before in order to shoot these simplified versions of swordsmanship.

There is no way to show the real killing technique, this is enough.

What is the core point of the promotion of *Rurouni Kenshin*?

Of course, it is Su Yan's direct and divine restoration of swordsmanship movements.

How could Su Yan let it go without using it for marketing.

It doesn't matter how much he boasts in the trailer and on the promotional slogan about how powerful the fighting scenes in this movie are, it's better to have such a video to let the audience know what level the fighting level of his protagonist is.

And the effect...

Can only be said to be explosively good.

Su Yan's fans were dumbfounded.

Passerby audiences were also numb.

Su Yan's competitors in the same period felt a little cold.

A group of colleagues in the Xia Country's film industry were stunned.

Su Yan's fighting scenes are very famous in the Xia Country's television industry, but not many people in the film industry know about it.

We are really making movies.

But you, Su Yan, are playing for real in the movie?