Depressive Screenwriter

"How did we end up in third again?"

"Who is this screenwriter named Su Yan? How can his works disrupt the market every season?"

"'To the Moon' ratings are up again?"

"Starting from the fifth episode, the ratings have risen from 3.1% to the current 3.9%?"

"At this rate, won't 'To the Moon' be able to threaten 'Scarlet Magician' even before it finishes airing?"

The ratings for the eighth episode of 'To the Moon' were released.

While the Moon fans were still grieving over the depressing plot, they were also excited about this achievement.

No one wants to be a niche group.

The fans were sad, but they were very clear that 'To the Moon' was a truly divine plot, and they were naturally happy to find that so many people were paying attention to this work with them.

But the biggest reaction was definitely not from this group of viewers.

But from Su Yan's peers.

Achieving results once or twice can be understood as luck plus a little strength.

But Su Yan has achieved results that exceeded market expectations three times in a row.

That's different.

It's normal to get a market score of 60 points with an investment and publicity of 60 points.

But if you get an investment of 60 points, and you can get a score of 90 points every time, then something is definitely wrong. This is not a question of the screenwriter just hitting the jackpot on the subject matter of the work.

From Sunday night to Monday, Su Yan's phone had a lot more calls than usual.

In Xia Country, in addition to Sakura, Shanghai, and China's three major TV stations, there are also five large TV stations, and dozens of small and medium-sized TV stations.

The traffic and attention of these five large TV stations are much worse than the three major ones, only 50% to 70% of the attention of the three major TV stations.

But they also have ideas about Su Yan, and they all want to pick up the slack.

The TV station industry is so big, and the news that Su Yan has not renewed his contract with Sakura TV is no secret in the industry.

A young, genius screenwriter who eats grass and squeezes milk.

These industry insiders naturally understand, and they have called Su Yan one after another, wanting Su Yan to jump ship.

However, Su Yan politely declined.

He was determined to start his own film and television company after the contract expired, so naturally he would not engage in any job-hopping intentions with them.

But Su Yan saved all the contact information of these TV stations.

Although he can't join the job, he can cooperate.

The works produced by Su Yan's own film and television company will most likely be looking for them to cooperate in broadcasting at that time.

Tuesday

The filming of 'To the Moon' came to a successful conclusion.

Accompanied by the cheers of hundreds of people in the entire crew, the wrap-up banquet for 'To the Moon' will naturally not be spared.

Qiu Junlin, Takezawa Kayono, Cao Shou, Gu Yingjie, Su Yan, Gu Qingyuan.

All the major supporting roles in the drama 'To the Moon' appeared together, and even the photographer specially filmed some short videos of Qiu Junlin and Takezawa Kayono showing their love as an old couple, which can be edited and used as promotional short films for the final episode of 'To the Moon'’s actor highlights.

"You are really amazing! Teacher Su Yan." Qiu Junlin held a glass of red wine and toasted Su Yan first at the banquet.

Su Yan quickly returned the greeting.

"When I took on the script for 'To the Moon', I thought that I had been out of the circle for more than ten years, and my appeal had declined a lot. It would be a success if this drama could be in the top ten ratings. I never guessed that it would be third now..."

Qiu Junlin is really happy.

After all, when he was young and at his peak, he was also an actor whose works often ranked in the top three in the quarterly ratings.

It must be of extraordinary significance that the drama he filmed when he came back temporarily when he was old still has the achievements of his peak period.

People like him have money at this age, and there is still a little bit of vanity left.

"Don't be too happy too early."

At this time, Shinazaki Ikumi, dressed in a black dress, raised her wine glass, squinted her eyes, and said with a charming smile.

Qiu Junlin looked at Shinazaki Ikumi in surprise.

"'To the Moon' may not stop at the third place. Perhaps, in the ninth episode broadcast this week, the ratings may even exceed 'The Door' and become the drama with the highest ratings on Sakura TV."

"So that's what you mean." Takezawa Kayono laughed.

Although the couple participated in 'To the Moon' for the sake of Shinazaki Ikumi's mother, they had a great time this season. The feeling of being watched by fans and the media made them feel like they were back twenty years ago.

Several people gathered together and talked happily.

In the main creative team, Gu Qingyuan was only responsible for adding wine to the people. She was not a talkative person, and interpersonal relationships were not her forte, but she liked the feeling of a group of people gathering together to celebrate the success of a drama.

There are no relatives in Su Yan's crew, and everything depends on ability. There are no disgusting transactions. It is simply the perfect crew in her ideal.

But for Su Yan, while enjoying the banquet, he was also thinking about other issues.

It's almost March.

What he cares most about now is the revenue of 'To the Moon'.

A clever woman cannot cook without rice.

It's not to say that a script is good and it will definitely be popular.

Even if Su Yan draws a divine script, it's useless if he doesn't have money to produce it.

Just like the cheating live-action drama of Clannad in his previous life, such a magical work, the choice of male and female protagonists was wrong, and with some inferior scenes, a spicy-eyed bad drama was released.

In the final analysis, it's money. With money, there is publicity, big production, and popular big stars, and the drama can be broadcast during prime time.

His contract with the TV station will end next month. If he wants to work alone, the amount of funds and bullets will directly determine his mode of action in the future.

Now the average number of paid plays for 'To the Moon' has exceeded seven million, and maybe there will be some growth after the tenth episode ends...

According to the contract, Su Yan also has a small portion of the GG revenue and copyright sales fee generated by 'To the Moon' on the TV station after deducting production costs.

"After the final revenue of 'To the Moon' arrives, plus the revenue from Rurouni Kenshin and The Love of Hypnosis, there is a high probability that my total assets will exceed ten million." Su Yan took a deep breath.

He has earned nearly ten million in less than a year, and he is still living in a rented house and driving a car worth tens of thousands of dollars.

All the money saved by frugality must be reserved for the filming of the next drama.

Thinking of this, Su Yan smiled.

I don't know when I will be able to really make a lot of money, so that he doesn't have to think about anything and can spend it as he wants.

Just as Su Yan was thinking about these things, his master Sawai Teruhiro's phone call came again.

"Master Sawai, have you eaten? We are now at..." Su Yan answered smoothly.

But Sawai Teruhiro on the other end of the phone quickly interrupted Su Yan.

"Su Yan, I'll make a long story short. It's Akasaka Yoshitoki who asked someone to pass a message to you again. He has booked a meal at a restaurant tomorrow, the time is 8 pm, and he has important things to discuss with you..."

Su Yan's expression froze.

Even a fool knows what Akasaka Yoshitoki is looking for him for now.

He must know that he has been poached by many TV stations these two days, can't sit still, and is ready to take action.

In fact, if 'To the Moon' had not achieved good results, Akasaka Yoshitoki would have been ready to rectify Su Yan.

Akasaka Yoshitoki knows very well that his peers in the TV station industry are more realistic. Once a young screenwriter like Su Yan's work becomes worse, the idea of digging him will definitely disappear immediately.

After all, so-called geniuses who are here today, gone tomorrow, always appear every few years.

But the ratings of the eighth episode of 'To the Moon' came to third place in the quarter, and Akasaka Yoshitoki changed his mind again.

How to suppress this?

Wouldn't the Sakura TV up and down be talking about it? Wouldn't peer media and Su Yan's fans spray his Akasaka Yoshitoki's whole family to death?

It is impossible to suppress it, and even Su Yan must be reused, otherwise the TV station executives will have opinions.

Then you can only change your thinking.

So he still had the idea of letting Su Yan transfer from Kotada Aya's command to his camp for the second time.

The head of the production department invites a young screenwriter to meet, and he has to invite him twice. He has no face, but what is face compared to real benefits.

"I'm not going." Su Yan said.

"My attitude is still the same as last time. I have no interest in joining his camp."

Sawai Teruhiro didn't persuade him much when he heard this.

"Understood."

Su Yan has the ability to be arrogant, but Sawai Teruhiro doesn't. Anyway, he helped to pass the message, and it has nothing to do with him whether Su Yan buys Akasaka Yoshitoki's account.

"But Su Yan, your contract issue should also be resolved. If you keep dragging it on, the TV station executives will have ideas about you." Sawai Teruhiro said appropriately.

"Thank you for your reminder, Master." Su Yan said with a smile.

After the two exchanged a few polite words, Su Yan hung up the phone.

A few days later, it was another Saturday.

During this week, news media and fans of 'To the Moon' went all out to help spread the popularity of 'To the Moon'.

The third place in the ratings of 'To the Moon' last week also gave this drama a great deal of exposure.

This directly caused the average number of paid plays of 'To the Moon' to be close to 8 million on Saturday.

In terms of online broadcast data alone, 'To the Moon' has surpassed 'The Door', second only to 'Scarlet Magician' this season.

Tonight, the ninth episode of 'Scarlet Magician' has just started broadcasting.

A large group of viewers poured into Sakura TV.

At this moment, posts appeared one after another on the work forum.

"Su Yan, you old thief, you understand. This drama must not be depressing!"

"If you have a depressing three-in-a-row, you will lose a fan."

"Please in this episode, let Cheng Li find a way to return the memory of the stream deleted by Shen Yi!"

"I don't mind if a god or immortal character suddenly appears, and finally when Xu Han dies, let the two souls reunite together."

"Actually, Su Yan, you old thief, can turn this drama into a fantasy love drama, and we can all accept it!"

"Ghost Love Story? Don't do it, if this is the case, this drama will have a blood collapse ending."

"Please, don't torture me anymore. I just want to watch a happy ending."

"I have an idea. In the ninth and tenth episodes, Cheng Li and Shen Yi dig out Xiaoxi's body and connect it to the instrument, and then read the memory data in Xiaoxi's body, so that Xiaoxi and Xu Han can meet again in a dream and tell all their thoughts."

"What the hell are you talking about? People have been dead for several years, and only bones are left. What memory data are you reading! Do you think you are reading a fantasy novel, and blood is dripping to be reborn!"

Turning off the online forum page, She Xinyu took a deep breath.

At this moment, Sakura TV was broadcasting the GG of Su Yan and Gu Qingyuan according to the computer CPU filmed by Sakura TV.

At the end of the GG, the ninth episode of 'To the Moon' officially started.

After the theme song ended.

The plot came to the memory world that Xu Han had been altered.

The rhythm of the ninth episode is relatively smooth.

After Xu Han left the middle school stage, he studied desperately, was admitted to a university majoring in aerospace-related majors, and then performed well during university, defeated a bunch of competitors, and successfully joined the National Aerospace Administration.

After deleting the encounter between him and Xiaoxi that night, Shen Yi's desire seed 'To the Moon' planted in his childhood finally took effect.

Supporting him all the way to the present, his new life has never wavered or been confused.

It seems.

Xiaoxi's influence on his new, false life has become zero.