Depressive Screenwriter

In the following period, "Gundam SEED" continued to air.

Aside from handling some particularly important company matters, Su Yan was mostly in a relaxed state.

He made a list of Tokyo's attractions, gourmet food, and shrines – places he had wanted to visit for years but never had the time for – and began checking them off one by one.

Moreover, during this process, Su Yan intentionally or unintentionally started inviting Ayumi Shinozaki along.

The work at Dimensional Pictures is very stable now. Su Yan has already planned things out until the year after next. Of course, it's great to have Ayumi Shinozaki on site, but even without her or Su Yan, the talented people he spent a fortune recruiting are capable enough to solve most problems.

No one is born to be a workaholic.

The fact that Su Yan and Ayumi Shinozaki used to find joy in their work and worked continuously doesn't mean they can't find joy in this leisurely, wealthy lifestyle after taking a break from work.

Su Yan's behavior of always including Ayumi Shinozaki in everything he did after disengaging from work could be seen as social interaction between friends.

However, Ayumi Shinozaki, whose heart was filled with complicated thoughts, felt increasingly strange.

"Are you... are you trying to pursue me?" she finally mustered the courage to ask one day.

"What are you talking about? I'm just traveling and looking for a travel buddy," Su Yan said with a smile.

When Ayumi Shinozaki heard Su Yan's words, she breathed a sigh of relief, but felt a slight sense of loss in her heart. Then, Su Yan's next sentence made her eyes widen.

"But now that you've asked, I'm a little curious. What if... what if I really was, as you think?"

The atmosphere became somewhat tense, but Su Yan didn't dwell on the topic too much.

However, from that day on,

Ayumi Shinozaki never mentioned Shen Liqian, Gu Qingyuan, or Zhuang Yuxin in front of Su Yan again.

She also stopped sharing information about Su Yan in the group chat where she and her best friends exchanged gossip.

Moreover, she began to change her style of dress when she was around Su Yan.

After so many years, she certainly knew Su Yan's preferences.

Long hair, black stockings, and big breasts.

This was evident in all of Su Yan's film and television dramas. Whenever possible, and when it suited the type of series, whether it was the female lead or a supporting actress, Su Yan would try to lean in that direction.

Time passed in this way, and it was the end of August.

"Suzume's Journey" was also released as scheduled.

The Summer Film Festival audiences had already seen many works in Shinkai Makoto's style. As soon as "Suzume's Journey" was released, a large number of fans exclaimed that the flavor was right, and the familiar scenery and film style were back.

Moreover, Su Yan also made some detailed changes to the original script of "Suzume's Journey", adding some plots from the novel, such as the inexplicable falling out between the heroine and her aunt in the later stages of the plot, which needed to be foreshadowed a little in the early stages, otherwise it would be too sudden.

There was also the inexplicable relationship between the heroine and the hero. It was okay for them to risk their lives for each other after only knowing each other for a short time.

But the heroine's classic line, "I'm afraid of a world without Souta!" was directly deleted!

You could say it was to save the masses regardless of life, but the heroine and the hero had only known each other for a few days, and in a large part of the plot, the hero was just a chair. What was there for the heroine to be afraid of if he really died? Even if it was love at first sight, it wouldn't be to this extent.

These were all key plot points that fans of "Suzume's Journey" from his previous life complained about after watching the movie.

How could Su Yan make the same mistakes in Summer Film Festival? Therefore, after "Suzume's Journey" was released in Summer Film Festival, the word-of-mouth was indeed not as good as "5 Centimeters Per Second" and "Your Name", and the opening day box office of 360 million was not amazing compared to Su Yan's other movies.

But at least no large-scale complaints appeared.

If "Your Name" was given a score of 100, then at least "Suzume's Journey" would have an 80 in the Summer Film Festival movie fan community.

Of course, on the second day of the release of "Suzume's Journey", Su Yan also specially invited Ayumi Shinozaki to the cinema to watch the premiere.

He called it an on-site investigation of the audience's first impression of the movie, which was a market research for the production of future movies by the company.

But in reality, it was a date.

Su Yan knew this, and so did Ayumi Shinozaki.

She dressed up grandly that day, wearing an expensive black dress, with her hair draped over her shoulders, her made-up oval face as exquisite as a painting, her skin fair and delicate, and her smile bright and moving, generous and beautiful.

Su Yan could tell at a glance that Ayumi Shinozaki must have directly hired the chief makeup artist of the company's makeup team to do her makeup, and even the clothes were chosen for her by someone else.

Ayumi Shinozaki usually only wore professional makeup. This style of dress had never been seen on her before.

"How is it? Is it okay?" Ayumi Shinozaki smiled at Su Yan, her tone frank, but there was still a hint of nervousness in her eyes.

"Very beautiful," Su Yan said without hesitation.

Of course, Su Yan wore a mask the whole time. As for Ayumi Shinozaki, although she was beautiful, she was not well-known among Su Yan's fans as a producer. More fans were shipping Su Yan and Shen Liqian and others.

That night, Su Yan and Ayumi Shinozaki simply watched the movie, and then there were no other dating activities. They went home separately.

But as the saying goes, the first time is awkward, the second time is familiar.

With the first date, the progress of the relationship between Su Yan and her was much faster.

They both understood each other's intentions, but the time had not yet come.

As for Shen Liqian, Gu Qingyuan, and Zhuang Yuxin, even if they were slow to notice, they could sense something from the ambiguous attitude between Su Yan and Ayumi Shinozaki.

For two days, the three of them were in a bad mood and felt a little lost, but they quickly adjusted their mood.

Ayumi Shinozaki just didn't act. In terms of appearance, she was not inferior to them at all. As one of the people closest to Su Yan, it was normal for Su Yan and Ayumi Shinozaki to develop feelings over time.

It was okay to feel lost, it was okay for a crush to be shattered, but they must not indulge in it for a long time.

So a few days later, the trio's emotions were revived. Since it was impossible to change things, they might as well help their friend.

From then on, Ayumi Shinozaki's trio of best friends began to change their thinking and began to devise plans for the progress of Ayumi Shinozaki and Su Yan's relationship.

And at this time.

The summer season ended.

The fall season arrived.

The first season of "Gundam SEED" ended, and the second season would be broadcast in January, after a three-month interval.

At this point, all of Dimensional Pictures' works for this year had finished broadcasting.

The company's full-year revenue, not including the fourth quarter, from film and television dramas such as "FSN", "Code Geass", "Rurouni Kenshin", "Howl's Moving Castle", "Gundam SEED", and "Suzume's Journey", plus the derivative copyright, merchandise, and game revenue from Su Yan's past few years of work,

Was a full-year net profit of 8.1 billion Summer Film Festival currency.

Almost double compared to last year.

Dimensional Pictures is not a publicly traded company, and this financial report does not need to be published, but there are capable counterparts in the Summer Film Festival film and television industry who know this information.

After the relevant information was disclosed, the global film and television industry was in an uproar.

There are no Hollywood-style film factions in the Summer Film Festival world that harvest the world.

In his previous life, many of Hollywood's major film companies had annual revenues of tens of billions of dollars and profits of billions of dollars, but in the Summer Film Festival world, most film companies have a much smaller market scope. Dimensional Pictures' revenue is not outrageous, but 8.1 billion is profit!

In early October, Su Yan made headlines in a number of film and television media around the world.

This 29-year-old young man has created such a film and television company in less than ten years. What about in twenty or thirty years?

Even Su Yan's most hardcore haters had to admit that the prototype of a film and entertainment empire was already showing on Dimensional Pictures.

As the fall season ended and the winter season arrived,

The second season of "Gundam SEED" aired on time.

The opening ratings were 7.42%, as always, far exceeding the market average.

But the "Gundam" merchandise market has now exploded!

Many limited-edition figures and mecha models are being sold on the market at ten times their original price.

The various mecha models that appear in the "Gundam" series, even the most rubbish government-issued standard mecha, can attract a large number of "Gundam" fans to line up outside peripheral stores to buy them.

Many Summer Film Festival TV series fans are not very enthusiastic about peripherals after watching the works.

But that group of global middle-class fans who have a little economic power and a collecting hobby is enough to turn "Gundam" peripherals into a blue ocean market in the global cultural entertainment industry.

This is just the beginning.

After January, the weather turned cold. Su Yan, who had been acting as half a hands-off shopkeeper since July, gradually returned to the company.

It doesn't matter if you don't care about the company for half a year, but it definitely won't work if it's for a long time.

It's not that the company can't operate without Su Yan.

But things like the company's middle and high-level executives colluding with outsiders, using Su Yan's company's power to engage in some strange transactions, and embezzling filming funds will happen on a large scale.

Su Yan is not a fool. He has worked in this industry for so many years. The financial reports and the use of funds submitted by his subordinates look fine on the surface, but in reality, if you delve into them, you will find mistakes everywhere.

Especially for a company like Dimensional Pictures with annual revenues of tens of billions and profits of billions, if you are not careful, some of your subordinates will be making a lot of money, and the emergence of these moths will dampen the enthusiasm of grassroots employees.

Su Yan couldn't stand these moths when he was working in his previous life, so of course he would crack down on them severely when he started a company in this life.

Anyone who is found out will be severely punished.

Some companies will also worry about whether the dismissal of some middle and high-level executives will lead to a loss of talent, whether these people will run to competing companies and become their own major enemies, or whether they will take away the company's customers and dare not act rashly.

But Dimensional Pictures is very simple.

The core of the company is Su Yan, and the only valuable thing in the company is the script and copyright of the works that Su Yan takes out.

The company can't replace anyone except Su Yan, that's true. Anyone can be replaced. Even if all the employees are fired, Su Yan can reorganize another top film and entertainment work production company in the industry with the funds in his hands in a year or two.

Su Yan, who returned after half a year and cleaned up a bunch of middle and high-level executives, made all the employees of Dimensional Pictures feel a shock.

Their boss is usually relatively gentle, but if you touch his bottom line, he is even more ruthless than the vice chairman Ayumi Shinozaki!

After returning to the company, Su Yan devoted part of his energy to the supervision of "Naruto" and "One Piece", and the other part of his energy was spent on planning when to explain things to Ayumi Shinozaki. They are all adults, not students, and there is no need to complicate a relationship.

Ayumi Shinozaki has not shown an attitude of distancing herself from Su Yan until now, so her attitude is actually relatively clear.

However, while Su Yan was still thinking about what gift to buy and what opportunity to give her a surprise and confess his love,

"Su Yan, this year, come to my house with me for the New Year."

At the end of January, Ayumi Shinozaki came to Su Yan's office and said to Su Yan in a somewhat awkward tone.

"Eh?" Su Yan was stunned.

"I have to be urged to get married every year when I go home, and my mother urges me to go on blind dates. This year... well, you come to my house with me, and my mother will..." At this point, Ayumi Shinozaki's ears instantly turned red.

"You go as my boyfriend. Do you... do you agree?"

Without the confession and agreement link, Ayumi Shinozaki directly threw Su Yan a deeper bombshell choice: meeting the parents.

Agreeing to meet the parents means agreeing to date, otherwise there is no hope.

"Yes..." Su Yan only thought for less than ten seconds, and then replied.

"You agreed?"

"Yes, I agreed," Su Yan said with a smile.

In early February, after finishing a lot of work at the company, giving out year-end bonuses to his subordinates, and holding the company's annual meeting, Su Yan and Ayumi Shinozaki were both drunk. At Su Yan's request, the two were sent to Su Yan's villa by the driver.

Of course, although they were in a dating relationship and had also developed to the stage of holding hands, they still slept in separate rooms.

However, when Ayumi Shinozaki woke up the next day, after washing up, she looked at the clothes she was wearing with wet hair.

Those were the change of clothes that Su Yan had the driver run to the mall to buy overnight while she was asleep, because she really helped Su Yan a lot last night, and the driver also received a double year-end bonus as a reward.

"Ah! It's my first time spending the night at Su Yan's house, and I was drunk, and that's it?" Ayumi Shinozaki's expression was a bit dazed, a bit funny, but also a bit relieved.

The third day after the year-end holiday is the Spring Festival.

Su Yan specially hired a makeup artist to spend several hours designing a look, put on a white brand-name suit, and a handsome, cheerful young man walked out of the villa gate.

Although Su Yan is nearly thirty years old, he still looks like he is in his twenties.

Following the address given by Ayumi Shinozaki, he came to a villa area. The person who opened the door was a middle-aged woman whose age had left its mark, but who could still be seen to have had a stunning appearance when she was young.

Ayumi Shinozaki's mother, Akiko Shinozaki.

As Ayumi Shinozaki's partner, Su Yan had met her no less than twenty times.

But this time, he was visiting as Ayumi Shinozaki's boyfriend.

Akiko Shinozaki's expression was stunned, and her tone was a bit unbelievable.

"Chairman Su?"

Her daughter told her the day before yesterday that her boyfriend would visit before the New Year's Eve dinner today, so that she wouldn't urge her to get married this year.

Akiko Shinozaki made a table of signature dishes with some skepticism.

But the person who came to the door was actually Su Yan?

"Auntie, just call me Su Yan," Su Yan said with a smile.

"You're here?"

It was snowing heavily in Tokyo, but in Ayumi Shinozaki's home, which was heated by central heating, she was still wearing cool summer clothes.

Wearing a thin black t-shirt and denim shorts that revealed straight, snow-white legs, her skin was as delicate as snow, and her cheeks seemed to have a slight blush due to the temperature in the room. She quickly walked to the door, took Su Yan's arm with both hands, and then closed the door.

"Mom, let me introduce you, this is my boyfriend, Su Yan," Shinazaki Ikumi said with a smile.

"You two, have been together for long?" The astonishment on Shinazaki Aki's face disappeared, replaced by joy.

She was just afraid that her daughter would become an older single woman like those successful career women.

In Xia country, boys with the same looks as Shinazaki Ikumi, the same wealth as her, the same ability as her, and the same positive character and values are not exactly rare, but their numbers are definitely less than the pandas in the zoo.

And among them, Su Yan definitely counts as one.

Shinazaki Aki had imagined her daughter and Su Yan together, but considering Su Yan's achievements and the beautiful and seemingly more gentle female celebrities around him, she gave up on the idea.

"Three years," Shinazaki Ikumi said without changing her expression.

"That's why I told you before, you don't need to worry about my marriage."

Three years, more like three weeks, right?

Su Yan looked at Shinazaki Ikumi beside him.