Depressive Screenwriter

The male lead's plan was successful; he successfully averted the tragedy of Lu Yuan and her siblings in history.

And at the end of this episode, the origin of Chu Tongshang, Lu Yuan's adopted son who unified the nine kingdoms in the future of this drama, was also revealed.

He was actually the illegitimate son of the Prince of Beian, the Emperor Yuanqi's younger brother, during the fall of Fire Beacon Fortress.

He is still an infant now, found by Lu Yuan and raised as her own adopted son.

In this episode, Shen Buyan gradually develops feelings for the 26-year-old Lu Yuan, who loves him because of past experiences.

Lu Shi and Yihua's youthful romance.

Chu Tongshang is found, and Fire Beacon Fortress is recovered.

Lu Yuan did not become the empress.

Lu Shi did not die.

History was rewritten.

It can be said that this episode is the only episode in the fourteen episodes of 'The Love Story in Ancient Times' that contains sweet moments.

After the broadcast, the audience was very satisfied, and for the first time, they praised the screenwriter Su Yan while praising the plot.

"The screenwriter finally got the hang of it! He actually knows how to give us sweet moments."

"I enjoyed watching it very much."

"But isn't Shen Buyan falling in love with Lu Yuan a little too fast?"

"No, think about it, the first time he traveled through time, Lu Yuan risked her life to block arrows for him. The second time, Lu Yuan was also entangled with him, and the army marched for at least a month, with the two of them constantly following the army.

Plus, this time, Lu Yuan fainted him and went to her death as bait to let Shen Buyan live. It's just that Lu Yuan's combat power is too strong, and her younger brother's sneak attack reduced the enemy's forces, so she wasn't killed. Don't even mention Shen Buyan, I would be captivated by Lu Yuan if I were him."

"I fell in love with Lu Yuan at first sight. Shen Buyan took so long to fall in love with Lu Yuan. Too slow."

"Stop dwelling on the romance. I find the appearance of that baby Chu Tongshang in this episode a little unsettling!"

"I thought Chu Tongshang was the illegitimate child of Lu Yuan and Shen Buyan, raised by Lu Yuan as an adopted son. Turns out he's the son of Emperor Yuanqi's younger brother!"

"But Chu Tongshang is also a white-eyed wolf. In the history where Shen Buyan didn't travel through time, he was the one who purged Empress Dowager Lu Yuan."

"There's no helping it! There are too many examples in history of a strong mother and a weak son, with the empress dowager interfering in politics. If the new emperor wants to control the government, he definitely has to target the empress dowager. Even with biological mother and son, it's like that, let alone Lu Yuan, who isn't his biological mother. If history is changed, Lu Yuan can just teach him well."

"It's so satisfying to watch. Those who said history wouldn't be changed last week, come out. Has history changed or not? Lu Yuan didn't publicly display the empress's token, so she didn't become the empress. In this episode, she also said that the reason she kept the token that Emperor Yuanqi gave her but kept it secret was to deal with Li Yong one day using her identity as empress. But the reason she hasn't used the token is because she's still looking forward to living with Shen Buyan by Nanmeng Lake after the world is at peace."

"But why would Emperor Yuanqi give Lu Yuan a token representing the empress's status?"

"This episode mentioned it briefly. That was the behavior of Emperor Yuanqi five years ago before he became demented due to illness. He must have liked Lu Yuan at that time to do that."

"So the plot of this drama is that Shen Buyan and Lu Yuan, plus the not-dead Lu Shi, will engage in political struggles with Li Yong in this era, and finally have a happy ending?"

"That should be right."

"But the 26-year-old Lu Yuan knows Shen Buyan. Doesn't that mean the male lead Shen Buyan will travel to an even earlier time to meet Lu Yuan?"

"Maybe, but it's not important. As long as Li Yong can be defeated in this era of Lu Yuan's 26 years old, that's fine. Although there are still two time-traveling opportunities left in the jade pendant, the male lead doesn't have to go back to modern times to use them. Wouldn't it be fine to stay here for the rest of his life and live with Lu Yuan?"

"Can Shen Buyan decide about staying here for a lifetime?"

"Shen Buyan can't decide. Screenwriter Su Yan can decide! The audience has the final say on how the plot goes. As long as we put pressure on Su Yan, hehe... Dare he not give Lu Yuan and Shen Buyan a happy ending?"

"Great! If this drama has a total of fourteen episodes as everyone guesses, then that means there are still ten episodes until the end. I can watch Lu Yuan and Shen Buyan's sweet moments for a full ten episodes. Yay!"

The third week of the October autumn season.

The third episode of 'Person in the Painting' on China Central Television finally broke the 4% mark in ratings, reaching 4.07, becoming the first drama this season to break 4%.

However, 'The Lone Doctor,' the second-highest-rated drama of the season on Shanghai Television, and 'The Gilded One,' the third-highest-rated drama of the season on Sakura Television, remain the same as always, with extremely stable ratings and minimal fluctuations.

However, 'Night Sakura' slightly exerted itself in the third episode, with ratings increasing slightly to 3.12%, and its ranking rising back to 11th place.

And 'The Love Story in Ancient Times' once again increased in ratings as expected by the market, reaching 2.01%, with its ranking rising to 17th place.

From the premiere of the first episode with a rating of 1.38%.

To the fourth episode with a rating of 2.01%, this is definitely not something that 'The Love Story in Ancient Times' could have achieved by cannibalizing the audience of other TV stations on Sunday midnight.

The media and practitioners of the TV stations all understand that this is the fermentation of the drama's reputation.

Many viewers who would have gone to sleep long ago at this time insisted on staying up late to wait for the drama to start before resting.

This can be seen from the fact that the paid views of the first three episodes of 'The Love Story in Ancient Times' on Sakura Online are not at all inferior to those of 'Night Sakura' and 'Under the Azure Sky,' two dramas ranked in the top ten in ratings.

Many casual viewers are catching up and following 'The Love Story in Ancient Times' by watching the online dramas on Sakura Online.

After the ranking of 'The Love Story in Ancient Times' rose to the top 20, various drama critics and media also began to take notice.

Various reports and articles appeared.

[Wandering Swordsman Screenwriter Su Yan's Powerful Work, 'The Love Story in Ancient Times' Exerts Effort in the New Season, Late-Night Drama Receives High Praise, Work Score of 9.0 Ranks in the Top Five Among the Season's Premiered Film and Television Dramas.]

[If You Had a Chance to Travel Through Time, What Would You Use It For? The Protagonist of 'The Love Story in Ancient Times' Shen Buyan Tells You That Being Ennobled and Becoming a Prime Minister Are All Fleeting Clouds, Saving the Woman You Love, Changing History for Her... This Is the Most Romantic Drama of the Autumn Season.]

[Wandering Swordsman Screenwriter Su Yan's New Drama No Longer Deals Knives, Ancient Costume Sweet Drama 'The Love Story in Ancient Times' Has Become a Dark Horse in Late-Night Ratings.]

[Genius Is Not Bound by Common Sense, Even in a Time Slot Like Sunday Midnight, 'The Love Story in Ancient Times' Still Reverses the Trend in Ratings, Breaking Sakura Television's "Same Time Slot" Three-Year Ratings Record.]

[Seita Yamaji and Su Yan, Two Recently Rising Genius New Screenwriters of Sakura Television, Leaving Aside Factors Such as TV Station Resource Inclination, Su Yan Is Too Much Stronger Than Seita Yamaji in Personal Performance.]

[A True Genius Who Can Act, Write Scripts, and Even Play the Konghou, Flute, and Do Martial Arts... How Did Su Yan Learn So Many Skills? Is This the World of Geniuses?]

"What future star?" Seita Yamaji blacklisted the author of this informational article he saw on his phone.

At first, Seita Yamaji was still as stable as an old dog when the ratings of 'The Love Story in Ancient Times' rose.

A drama starting at 1%, how much can you rise?

But now, 'The Love Story in Ancient Times' has been broadcast for a month, and the ratings have soared to the 2% level.

How can he be stable?

Although in the past decade, among the hundreds of film and television dramas broadcast by the three major TV stations in the Sunday midnight time slot, there are only two dramas with ratings exceeding 3%, but a small number does not mean none...

Seita Yamaji is indeed a little panicked now.

Impossible, right?

It should be the limit for this drama to rise to 2%. It can't rise any further, right?

The more Seita Yamaji thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt. He remembered what Akasaka Yoshishi had said to him.

If he, Seita Yamaji, hadn't messed around with the drama 'Qingfeng' last season, causing the work's reputation to collapse.

There would have been no chance for 'The Love Story in Ancient Times' at the production meeting.

If 'The Love Story in Ancient Times' really achieves something after being broadcast on TV, then the person Su Yan should thank the most is him, Seita Yamaji.

Seita Yamaji's chest began to feel blocked.

It was another Sunday. After the fourth episode of 'The Lone Doctor' ended, past midnight, the fifth episode of 'The Love Story in Ancient Times'.

Began broadcasting on time.

Xiang Fan was still a little sleepy at this time, but as soon as the theme song of 'The Love Story in Ancient Times' started, his spirits immediately perked up.

After all, it was a drama he had been looking forward to for a week.

Xiang Fan, who had not yet emerged from the Kenshin and Tomoe Yukishiro plot in Rurouni Kenshin, said that how sweet the sweet moments of Lu Yuan and Shen Buyan are, give me as much as you can.

After the theme song ended, the plot immediately continued from the end of last week.

Shen Buyan and Lu Yuan temporarily left their old home by Nanmeng Lake, preparing to go to Fire Beacon Fortress to handle other matters and respond to the possible counterattack of the Northern Lie army.

And the younger brother Lu Shi and Yihua stayed at the old home by Nanmeng Lake, temporarily taking care of Chu Tongshang, the illegitimate son of the Prince of Beian who was just found.

But this plot is, in Xiang Fan's eyes, the sweet moments of Lu Shi and Yihua, the second male and female lead little couple who haven't fully expressed their feelings but clearly like each other.

Two couples are each other's third wheels, and they can only have their own sweet moments after separating.

Lu Shi's fight scenes are very handsome in this drama, and Yihua's lively and lovely personality also makes her very popular.

This CP is also considered to be very important in the hearts of fans.

But at the beginning of the fifth episode, it did give Lu Shi and Yihua a sweet scene first.

Then it jumped to Lu Yuan and Shen Buyan's side.

Lu Yuan, who felt that history had been changed.

Her younger brother survived.

Lu Yuan, who didn't need to be empress to control the army and fight against Li Yong, believed that Shen Buyan would stay in this era and live with her by Nanmeng Lake.

She was going to return the Phoenix Token representing the empress's status to Emperor Yuanqi, who was already demented, after returning to the imperial capital.

But on the way, she suddenly realized a key piece of information.

"My memories... haven't changed."

Lu Yuan looked at Shen Buyan.

?

At first, Xiang Fan didn't understand what this plot meant.

"Why do I still have memories with you?" Lu Yuan looked at Shen Buyan with increasingly empty eyes.

"If history has changed, and you choose to stay this time, then it means you won't travel back to my past and meet me again." Despair appeared in Lu Yuan's eyes.

"In that case... why did I still meet you in the past? Why haven't those memories of meeting you in the past disappeared?"

"If there was no cause in the past, how could there be the effect today?"

"Without you back then, I wouldn't have gotten that Phoenix Token representing the empress's status. But now, that Phoenix Token is still on me..."

Lu Yuan's expression turned white, and she took out the token proving her identity as empress from her arms.

"This shows that everything... is still developing according to the original trajectory."

After Lu Yuan said this.

Xiang Fan's scalp tingled instantly, and goosebumps rose.

Has history not been changed?

Or can history not be changed?

In that case, Lu Shi will die, and Lu Yuan will still become the empress.

Then she will still die on the Shangsi night at the age of 36.

This...

What kind of plot is this?

How does it feel like the sweet drama of the previous episode was a guise?

This drama, won't it only be sweet for one episode, right?

Thank you Moonlight Burial Ballad, Old Man and Kelp, Mount Qiaogeli, and Super Electromagnetic Fireworks Light Sound for the rewards, thank you bosses.

Although I still update two chapters, it's just that I don't like to divide chapters. In fact, it's two chapters of 8,000 words. In fact, I update two chapters whether I update more or less. The difference is between 4,000-5,000 words and 7,000-8,000 words.

Let me say it, to show that I'm not being lazy.