Depressive Screenwriter

Although he received the nomination, Su Yan wasn't particularly excited.

After all, there are five nominees for each award, and being nominated doesn't guarantee a win.

From Su Yan's perspective, he might actually have a chance for the Best Music nomination.

After all, the music for "5 Centimeters Per Second" is truly excellent.

However, Shen Liqian's Best Actress and his own Best Original Screenplay nominations have a very small chance of winning.

In the history of Xia, there are no examples of debut works winning Best Actress, and Su Yan doesn't think the award committee really values Shen Liqian's acting skills enough to actually give her the award.

But for Su Yan, the necessary notifications must be delivered.

After calling Shen Liqian over and explaining the situation to her, she actually had the same idea.

"It's probably just to accompany the others," Shen Liqian said, flipping through the red invitation, aware of her own limitations.

These award nominations don't solely consider commercial success; the actor's performance is also a crucial factor.

But last year, Xia had several critically acclaimed works, and although the box office might not have been as high, Shen Liqian was impressed by their performances and understood that her chances of winning were slim.

"I'll have to ask Teacher Su Yan to come to the event with me then," Shen Liqian said, looking at Su Yan with a smile on her face.

"Even if we don't win, we can just treat it as a trip."

"Your 'Your Name' movie shoot isn't finished yet," Su Yan reminded her.

"'Your Name' should be finished filming by April, so Teacher Su Yan, you don't need to worry about that."

"And, regardless of whether we ultimately win any awards..."

A sharp glint flashed in Shen Liqian's eyes.

"Let's just consider this year as an opportunity to see the world. Next year, I hope that when Teacher Su Yan and I go to the nomination ceremony again, we can both win big!"

Shen Liqian's words weren't excessive. Based on the reputation and success of "Rurouni Kenshin", it's unlikely that Su Yan and Shen Liqian would be absent from next year's Emperor Capital Award nominations.

"What next year, not next year? Let's strive to win Best Actress this year and then win it again next year," Su Yan laughed.

Even if the hope is small, Su Yan still dared to imagine boldly before the results were out.

It was another Sunday.

Fate/Zero episode nine premiered.

After the previous week's highlight for the female lead, Artoria, the attention on FZ this week clearly increased.

A large number of casual viewers caught up with the latest episode through Sakura Net and joined the ranks of drama followers.

However, this episode's plot gave Su Yan's fans a head-on blow.

After all, for the past eight weeks since the drama's premiere, the basic tone has been character battles of wits, passion, and cool fights.

There were murderers, knights, dictators, emperors, and mad berserkers.

But everyone was fighting for their own reasons, in legitimate battles, with no right or wrong, and the methods, while not absolutely righteous, weren't despicable.

But in this episode...

The male lead, Kiritsugu Emiya, showed the audience what despicable meant.

While Artoria and Lancer Diarmuid were engaged in a chivalrous battle, he and his assistant, Maiya, launched a surprise attack on the main camp, taking control of Diarmuid's master, Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald, and his wife, Sola-Ui.

To save his wife, Kayneth abandoned his honor as a magus and chose to use the Command Seals on his hand to order his Servant, the true knight Diarmuid, to commit suicide.

Using truly despicable means, he defiled this knightly battle.

In the last moments of his life, Diarmuid looked at Artoria and her master, Kiritsugu Emiya, with tears of blood in his eyes.

He launched a final curse against this despicable act.

"I curse the Holy Grail, curse your wishes to be accompanied by disaster!"

But it didn't end there. After Kiritsugu Emiya had Kayneth kill his own Servant, although he kept his promise not to "personally" kill Kayneth, he had others kill Kayneth with guns.

How could Kayneth, with his aristocratic pride, understand the word games of someone who crawled out of the mud?

The audience was uncomfortable watching!

Moreover, this episode's plot was incomplete. Next, Kirei Kotomine would betray his mentor, Tokiomi Tohsaka.

This episode's plot directly silenced a group of Fate viewers in Xia.

That night, a group of FZ fans recalled the pain of being depressed by Su Yan back then.

It's back, that familiar feeling.

"What the hell! He just died like that?"

"Even if Kayneth is annoying, he hasn't done anything terribly wrong, right? He just likes to look down on people a bit, but he hasn't done anything that harms heaven or reason. Why did the old thief give him this kind of ending? It's too tragic, right?"

"I actually think it's okay for Kayneth to die, after all, it's the Holy Grail War, and most Servants and Masters have to die. But why did the plot arrange for Diarmuid to end in that way of death? He just wanted to have a battle result with Artoria that was befitting of a knight, he just wanted to get rid of his past destiny, to get rid of the result of turning against his lord. In the end, Kiritsugu Emiya, that beast!"

"The most disgusting male lead in the old thief's works. Is this Kiritsugu Emiya a human? It's not even about knightly spirit, he doesn't even have a sense of contract. He said he would let Kayneth go, but then he had his subordinates shoot them, what's going on? Is he human?"

"I'm so angry watching this. I feel sorry for Artoria, the most knightly of them all, but she met a shameless Master. Participating in the Holy Grail War under such a person is also an insult to her."

"When I watched Kiritsugu Emiya's ideals in the first episode, he hoped for world peace and to eliminate war, and I thought he was a normal person, just a bit extreme. Now it's good, it turns out he's just a fool who spouts big talk, would this kind of person hope for world peace? He doesn't have any of the virtues of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trustworthiness. He's really disgusting."

"If this drama didn't have Artoria, I would have dropped it directly because of this Kiritsugu Emiya."

"And Tokiomi Tohsaka. Although I thought he was a hypocrite before, it seems that he's not bad, sending Sakura to the Matou family was just hoping that she could become a magus. That Kirei Kotomine is also an idiot, inexplicably killing his mentor. It's disgusting to watch."

"To actually turn against his mentor just because of the emotion of pleasure, and the purpose of killing his master is just to know what he wants, what a freak."

"Actually, this kind of person is the most terrifying. When the police encounter a murder case, the most difficult to solve is random killing. The murderer has nothing to do with the deceased, they just kill on a whim. Kirei Kotomine is also like this. Tokiomi Tohsaka, such a shrewd person, dared to leave his back exposed to Kirei Kotomine, just because he couldn't imagine why he would attack him, wealth, power, or strength? Kirei Kotomine wouldn't get anything by killing him, but Kirei Kotomine just did it!"

"It can only be said that the Holy Grail War is a bunch of lunatics!"

"Can Artoria and Kiritsugu Emiya's contract be unbound? It feels like the only normal person in the Holy Grail War is Waver Velvet. Let Artoria join Waver's camp and fight alongside the Great Emperor!"

"It's all the old thief's fault! He's a perverted enough screenwriter to have these perverted characters appear."

"Everything is the old thief's fault!"

"Everything is the old thief's fault!"

"Speaking of which, I feel like this drama is starting to get depressing! This episode is obviously different in style!"

If the turning point of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" was the moment Mami Tomoe's head was bitten off.

Then the turning point of the plot style of FZ is in episode nine.

Before this, the drama felt like a passionate battle.

And now, it's more like a mutual beating between a group of mentally ill Masters.

Among them, Kirei Kotomine and Kiritsugu Emiya, two important characters, also topped the list as the second and first most hated male characters in Xia that season overnight.

And Su Yan's comment section, which hadn't been massively bombarded by fans for a long time, is now starting to be sprayed by a group of people.