Depressive Screenwriter
#42 - Riddler, Grades, and the Market
Now that Lu Yan's three questions had been answered, Shen Buyan was ready to leave.
【I asked you questions, but you were vague. I want to find the answers myself.】 Shen Buyan told Lu Yan his intention to leave.
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【Go.】 Lu Yan's response was trembling.
The way she stared at Shen Buyan's departing figure made Nishimura Rie uncomfortable.
Because it was like seeing a lover she would never see again in this lifetime.
"No way?" Nishimura Rie wasn't very clear about the setting of this drama.
But the emotions the actors were portraying had fully informed her.
Lu Yan was indeed treating this scene as her last encounter with Shen Buyan.
That's why she was so reluctant to see Shen Buyan leave.
What made Nishimura Rie even more uncomfortable was that Shen Buyan, who had already walked more than ten meters away, suddenly turned back and said to Lu Yan.
【I'm really leaving.】
【Okay.】 Lu Yan's pupils were fixed on Shen Buyan.
【I'm leaving, and I'm not coming back!】 Shen Buyan said again.
【I know.】
In the drama, Lu Yan's back was to the audience, so her face couldn't be seen, but Nishimura Rie could hear that she was almost crying when she said that.
Nishimura Rie felt increasingly uncomfortable.
Subsequently, Shen Buyan no longer hesitated and left decisively.
Tears finally flowed from Lu Yan's eyes, sliding down her cheeks.
Something's not right, this drama is not right.
Nishimura Rie's mind was already sounding alarm bells.
Because she wasn't clear about the specific setting in this first episode, the mystery of the male lead's time travel, the mystery of Lu Yan, the mystery of the broken jade, and the old woman selling broken jade were all very problematic.
These were all unrevealed foreshadowings, so Nishimura Rie found it difficult to connect some of the logic in these plots.
But the emotions revealed in the drama wouldn't lie.
Even if Nishimura Rie couldn't understand the plot logic, seeing Lu Yan tearfully watching Shen Buyan's departing figure at this moment...
Nishimura Rie herself was almost moved to tears by the overwhelming sadness of the actors.
She thought Gu Qingyan's Tomoe Yukishiro was the peak.
How could her acting improve so much in her second drama?
Moreover, with this kind of sorrowful atmosphere, it felt like this drama was also a depressing one!
At this time, Nishimura Rie suddenly remembered the title of this episode.
【Episode 14: This is the First Episode!】
This was the first episode of the drama, but the screenwriter Su Yan deliberately used this kind of title, was there any deeper meaning?
Calculating from October 1st this year, there were indeed fourteen Mondays.
Nishimura Rie felt like she had grasped something, but before she could figure it out, the plot continuing on the television interrupted her thoughts.
Shen Buyan, wearing a cracked mask, wandered alone on the curfewed streets.
But at this time, he remembered what Lu Yan had said about the Shangsi Festival on March 3rd of the Yuanqi fifteenth year.
After all, he had researched the history of the Sheng Kingdom for a long time in order to write novels.
This day was an important node recorded in the books where the virtuous Prime Minister Li Yong was framed by Lu Yan.
The male lead Shen Buyan, who was bursting with a sense of justice in the setting, in order to prevent Lu Yan from committing...
Shen Buyan went directly to the East Gate, where Lu Yan ambushed Li Yong according to historical records.
On the other side, Lu Yan, after learning that Li Yong was carrying Sheng Kingdom's military secrets and information about the defenses of various cities within the country and was preparing to escape, directly presciently ordered all the city's defending troops to surround the East Gate.
Another mysterious premonition.
How could she know everything?
The following plot was relatively smooth.
Shen Buyan, who arrived at the East Gate in advance, saw Li Yong's treasonous conversation with spies from enemy countries, as well as Li Yong's act of killing the East Gate guard.
He completely recognized the true face of the virtuous Prime Minister Li Yong in history.
Just as Li Yong was about to leave, Lu Yan led the army to arrive.
As for Li Yong, he had already captured Lu Yan's adopted son in advance, threatening her to open the gate and let him pass.
The male lead Shen Buyan, who was lurking nearby, noticed that the events recorded in the history books were not right, and coupled with his own sense of justice, he hurriedly jumped out to interrupt Li Yong's attempt to poison Lu Yan's adopted son, Chu Tongshang.
Although this behavior was a bit abrupt.
But in Su Yan's previous life, if a modern Chinese person traveled to ancient times and encountered the First Emperor Ying Zheng in danger, he would definitely want to save him.
The reasoning was the same. Other emperors could be allowed to die, but the First Emperor definitely couldn't.
And in the setting of "Gu Xiang Si Qu", Lu Yan's adopted son Chu Tongshang was the emperor who later unified the nine kingdoms.
Although "Gu Xiang Si Qu" was based on fictional history, Nishimura Rie could understand the meaning behind it and approved of the male lead Shen Buyan's behavior.
At the end of the first episode, Shen Buyan's mask was knocked off by Li Yong's subordinate. Li Yong, as well as the leader of the enemy country's spies, exclaimed in unison when they saw Shen Buyan's face.
【It's you?】
The ending song sounded.
Nishimura Rie was watching with great interest and was now completely dumbfounded.
This, this is the end?
So what exactly is going on with the male lead? Why is it that he travels to ancient times one or two thousand years ago and everyone recognizes him wherever he goes?
The foreshadowing in this first episode has already given Nishimura Rie a headache.
But now, calming down and sorting out her thoughts...
"Good-looking." Nishimura Rie breathed a long sigh of relief, first acknowledging the quality of the first episode of this drama.
Whether it was Lu Yan's inexplicable feelings for Shen Buyan.
Or Shen Buyan's inexplicable time travel.
As well as Li Yong's inexplicable recognition of Shen Buyan, and the expression on his face as if he saw an enemy when he saw him.
These things were too suspenseful.
Looking at the time, it was late at night.
Nishimura Rie was quite sleepy before the premiere of "Gu Xiang Si Qu", but now she was becoming more and more energetic.
She opened her computer, logged into Sakura Net, and found the official page of "Gu Xiang Si Qu".
Sure enough, those "Kenshin" fans and casual fans were already arguing inside.
"So Lu Yan recognized the protagonist a long time ago, right?"
"Yihua also recognizes him. Li Yong also recognizes him, including even the leader of the enemy country's spies in the Sheng Kingdom, who also recognizes Shen Buyan. But the protagonist Shen Buyan doesn't recognize any of them? What the hell?"
"It's a bit brain-burning. I can't understand the logic, but I instinctively feel that this drama is good."
"Can I say that I cried? Lu Yan's acting is too good. She picked a willow branch, dipped it in dew, and sprinkled it on Shen Buyan. She handed over the willow branch full of anticipation, but Shen Buyan responded that it was meaningless... I felt so uncomfortable watching it!"
"What's so uncomfortable? Can't you understand it? I feel like I need to watch a few more episodes."
"This drama has too much foreshadowing in the first episode, which will definitely affect the viewing experience. But in fact, a lot of the plot can be guessed. Lu Yan likes Shen Buyan. She first went on the Shangsi Festival outing with Shen Buyan on this day, and then went to arrest Li Yong, indicating that Shen Buyan's importance to her was even greater than the traitorous Prime Minister. Now we have to wait for the second episode to start filling in the holes. Why is Shen Buyan so famous in ancient times?"
"Isn't this drama going to be a depressing work like 'Rurouni Kenshin'?"
"Doesn't seem like it."
"What doesn't seem like it? Didn't the background introduction in the first episode say that this demon empress Lu Yan was killed by her adopted son Chu Tongshang after he grew up and seized power?"
"History books also say that Li Yong was a virtuous Prime Minister. Just watch these settings in the drama. They're all to mislead the audience. I think the plot is very likely to develop into Lu Yan running to the modern era and falling in love with Shen Buyan. Shen Buyan can travel back to ancient times, so Lu Yan can also come to the modern era."
"Don't guess, can Su Yan's teacher be guessed through by you? Who could have known the final ending of 'Rurouni Kenshin' was Tomoe Yukishiro's death? I have a hunch that this drama might achieve unimaginable results this season."
"What can you see from just the first episode?"
"Although the setting of this drama hasn't been revealed, a truly good drama can be seen just by watching the first episode. I also can't understand the plot logic, but I can watch it to the end without blinking. As a drama fan for over twenty years, works that generally give me this kind of viewing experience have very good results."
"It's just this cliffhanger, sigh... it's hard to bear."
The next day, at noon,
The average viewership rating for the first episode of "Gu Xiang Si Qu" was released.
1.38%.
Su Yan nodded slightly after learning of this result in the crew.
He didn't expect the first episode of "Gu Xiang Si Qu" to have explosive word-of-mouth and results.
After all, the first episode was all about foreshadowing. The thirteen episodes behind this drama were all about helping the first episode fill in the holes.
With so many holes buried, the excitement of the first episode would definitely be affected.
For Su Yan, it would be a great success as long as there were no negative reviews after the first episode aired.
The focus was on "Gu Xiang Si Qu" relying on word-of-mouth to break out after the subsequent episodes aired.
On the other side, Kiyota Yamaji of the "Night Sakura" crew also took the time to pay attention to the premiere results of "Gu Xiang Si Qu".
"1.38%? Heh, as expected, what genius screenwriter? Don't brag. With this kind of time slot, even a god would only get this result."
Kiyota Yamaji's expression relaxed.
The viewership rating performance of the premiere of "Gu Xiang Si Qu" was at the middle-to-upper level of Sakura TV's Sunday midnight slot in the past two years.
But for the autumn season drama market, dramas with a 1% viewership rating are simply not worth paying attention to.
Starting from Monday, October 1st, the summer autumn season market officially kicked off.
From Monday to Thursday alone, there were as many as 8 dramas with viewership ratings exceeding 2% on the three major TV stations, and there were also 11 self-produced dramas from other large TV stations that were not the three major TV stations with viewership ratings exceeding 1%.
But these were not the highlights of this season's film and television drama market.
Starting from Friday, the b-level and a-level dramas of major TV stations would also be premiered one after another.
These were the strong contenders for the top ten dramas in the autumn season viewership ratings.
It was also the long-awaited feast for thousands of drama fans in Summer Country.
"Gu Xiang Si Qu" was inconspicuous among these works, except for "Rurouni Kenshin" fans and casual midnight slot viewers after the premiere of the first episode of "Gu Xiang Si Qu"...
Including the Summer Country TV stations and a bunch of film and television media, almost no one would report on or pay attention to this drama.
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