Depressive Screenwriter

The fourth day after the ending of "To the Moon."

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The average paid views per episode of "To the Moon" on Sakura Network officially exceeded ten million.

The media's evaluation of "To the Moon" was also unanimously praise.

Meanwhile, Su Yan, who was slacking off in the office while reading the newspaper, almost had his phone blown up by people from all walks of life.

China Central Television, Shanghai Television, and the other five large television stations that were already short of talent.

It was simply outrageous that this talented young and good-looking screenwriter who had achieved success had not signed any non-compete agreements or long-term contracts with Sakura Television.

Although Su Yan always said on the phone that he had no intention of changing jobs for the time being.

What do you mean no intention?

You just want to wait for a better price and ask for more money.

We all understand, we are all adults, we are all ordinary people.

Based on the performance of Su Yan's past three works in the market, a total of seven television stations offered Su Yan top salary contracts.

Among them, the prices of the five large television stations were slightly higher, but China Central Television and Shanghai Television offered additional contract conditions that were more favorable for career development in addition to the quoted price.

On the Sakura Television side.

Su Yan still had no intention of renewing his contract. Koda Ayaka asked Su Yan many times, but Su Yan said not to worry.

The excuse that he was going to rest for a while after "To the Moon" ended and then slowly consider his future career development directly made her panic.

Could it be that Su Yan really intended to change jobs?

Koda Ayaka even mobilized Yumi Shinozaki twice in a few days to persuade Su Yan, but Su Yan got away with it.

"It's about time."

Su Yan looked at the emotion points in his system space.

Although waiting a little longer might accumulate more, it would be too much of a waste of time.

Start the lottery.

Su Yan first directly used 16 million emotion points to draw.

Lottery draws always have risks. If he draws any prohibited works, it would be a loss outweighs the gain, so he also kept a hand, with 6 million emotion points remaining in the system space.

The system interface in the system space kept flashing, and some information flowed through Su Yan's mind.

[You have won "Your Lie in April!"]

[You have won a violin and piano professional performance experience pack.]

A huge stream of information flowed through Su Yan's head.

It took a long time for Su Yan to wake up.

"Drew "April"?" Su Yan's expression was pleasantly surprised.

It was definitely a profit to draw it with 16 million emotion points.

After all, if he specified an exchange, this work would require more than 30 million emotion points to redeem.

Moreover, this work does not have any fantasy special effects scenes, and the scenes in the work are mostly based on schools, and do not include war or large-scale action scenes.

That is to say...

The production cost will not be too high.

This is the most crucial thing.

Su Yan calculated that after the income from "To the Moon" arrived, he would only have a little over ten million in assets, and he could not afford to film some fantasy special effects dramas.

But even so, a production fund of ten million is still too little for "April."

Unless he doesn't hire any popular stars and uses all amateur actors.

Su Yan thought for a moment, but his thoughts temporarily shifted to the skills he had drawn.

"But this time, I got new skills again? Violin, piano..."

Su Yan also understood.

The skills obtained from the lottery are basically everyday things.

And they are all skills possessed by important characters in the work.

For example, in "To the Moon", the important characters, Cheng Li and Shen Yi, only possessed the knowledge of operating memory machines.

Obviously, the system will not give Su Yan this kind of thing, and even if he draws any fantasy-themed works in the future, he will not give him any superpowers or other skills.

"I can't be too greedy. It's not like I can cultivate immortality in China, right?" Su Yan smiled.

After doing everything, Su Yan exited the system space.

He was about to continue reading the newspaper and slacking off.

However...

In the scriptwriting department, some unexpected news began to spread from the morning, and even he could not avoid hearing it.

"Have you heard? Production Department Chief Yoshiaki Shigeyoshi is confirmed to be retiring."

"Eh? Is his Alzheimer's really that serious?"

"What Alzheimer's, do you think he's reached that level? It's just that other underlying diseases have led to poor health. The old man is over seventy years old, constantly entertaining and managing the production department, putting in a lot of effort and stress. This time, he was hospitalized for nearly a month, but his physical fitness and energy could not be restored, so he stopped bothering."

"Yoshiaki Shigeyoshi is retiring, so who will be the chief?"

"Do you even need to ask? Of course, it's Yoshitoki Akasaka!"

"Damn, is the production department going to undergo a major change?"

"Of course, once the chief changes, many producers who used to control resources in the production department may no longer be in the limelight, and the works produced by producers who have been under Yoshitoki Akasaka for many years will definitely receive more resource inclination."

Su Yan stood at the edge of the scriptwriting department, listening to the discussions of his colleagues.

"So fast?" Su Yan's expression was surprised.

For high-level executives like Yoshiaki Shigeyoshi, it wouldn't be a big problem for him to take a few months or half a year off to recuperate.

Anyway, the production department has Yoshitoki Akasaka taking over on his behalf.

But he's actually preparing to retire directly...

"It seems that his physical condition is indeed not optimistic."

But this has nothing to do with Su Yan.

Su Yan was even very glad that he had made up his mind to leave Sakura Television early on.

Otherwise, if he really signed a five-year or ten-year long-term contract with Sakura Television, wouldn't he have to look at Yoshitoki Akasaka's face in the future?

Su Yan's expression was slightly solemn.

The other colleagues in the scriptwriting department looked at Su Yan not far away with complex expressions.

Everyone in the entire scriptwriting department knew about the competitive feud between Su Yan and Sanji Kiyota.

It can be said that when Su Yan blocked Sanji Kiyota's path, he was already on Yoshitoki Akasaka's blacklist.

Moreover, "Ancient Love Poetry" and "To the Moon" stole the limelight from the dramas produced by Yoshitoki Akasaka's producers for two consecutive quarters.

The A-level dramas "Gilded" and "Door" both had their ratings surpassed by Su Yan's works in their respective broadcast quarters.

Yumi Shinozaki, who is cooperating with Su Yan, is also under Koda Ayaka, Yoshitoki Akasaka's old rival.

Now that Yoshitoki Akasaka has become the chief of the production department, what will Su Yan do?

Even if Su Yan is capable, he does not belong to the Yoshitoki Akasaka faction.

Will he be neglected and become a marginalized person in the television station after Yoshitoki Akasaka takes office as chief?

No, it should be impossible. Yoshitoki Akasaka will most likely try to win over Su Yan to work for him.

In the film and television industry, where investments are tens of millions at every turn, what does that little conflict count for?

As long as Su Yan admits his mistake and expresses his apology to Yoshitoki Akasaka, with Yoshitoki Akasaka's sophistication, looking at the benefits, he certainly wouldn't reject Su Yan.

Many colleagues had various thoughts in their minds at this time.

But Su Yan was too lazy to pay attention.

Su Yan has two weeks left on his contract. Yoshitoki Akasaka can be his chief, but Su Yan will soon be free as a bird.

The scriptwriting department will be buzzing and causing a sensation because of the production department's affairs.

The inside of the production department is even more so.

A new official takes office with three fires. Who will Yoshitoki Akasaka use as a typical example to rectify?

Many employees in the production department actually have a clue in their minds.

Leaving others aside, Yumi Shinozaki is definitely going to be in big trouble.

Without others reminding her, Yumi Shinozaki understands this very well.

If she were to rank the people on Yoshitoki Akasaka's list for killing the chicken to warn the monkey, she would definitely be in the top three.

Not to mention the conflicts she and Su Yan had with Yoshitoki Akasaka's continuous face-slapping in these three quarters.

Just the relationship between her mother and Yoshitoki Akasaka as colleagues before her retirement was extremely bad.

From what Yumi Shinozaki had heard, the number of times her mother openly cursed at Yoshitoki Akasaka in meetings was no less than ten times.

"Damn it, you old bastard, you're deliberately disgusting me, aren't you?" Yumi Shinozaki's blood pressure was a little high in the office.

That guy definitely did it on purpose, knowing that she couldn't defect to his command, he still made this request last week, and then this week he was promoted to chief at lightning speed before suppressing her.

That old bastard is indeed good at disgusting people.

Want me to regret not agreeing to your conditions that day to defect to your command?

No way!

I can just quit Sakura Television and find a job back in Sakura Island. I won't starve to death.

And the fact was just as Yumi Shinozaki guessed.

On the third day of Yoshitoki Akasaka becoming the chief of the production department.

At six o'clock in the afternoon.

Yumi Shinozaki's mother's good friend, her direct superior Koda Ayaka, came to her door and said to Yumi Shinozaki with a guilty expression.

"In the meeting held in the production department this morning, Yoshitoki Akasaka transferred, demoted, and dismissed 11 employees with poor performance and insufficient ability in the production department team. You are one of them."

Yumi Shinozaki clenched her fists.

Koda Ayaka took a deep breath and said.

"According to Yoshitoki Akasaka, your variety show and drama 'Sakura Island Love Song' last year brought millions of losses to the television station. You should have been fired directly. But in view of your credit for discovering the screenwriter Su Yan..."

"Okay, just tell me the result directly!" Yumi Shinozaki interrupted Koda Ayaka.

Her eyes were filled with a trace of anger and unwillingness, but her voice was very calm.

"He doesn't think you are suitable for the position of producer. Even if you have achieved certain results, it is Su Yan's personal screenwriting ability that is driving the crew forward. If Su Yan's three dramas had a more capable producer to initiate and produce them, they would definitely bring greater benefits to the television station."

"Using this as a reason, he transferred you from the front-line position of producer to a logistics position," Koda Ayaka said.

?

Yumi Shinozaki almost laughed out of anger.

If Yoshitoki Akasaka hadn't made all kinds of骚 operations in the production department meeting, reducing investment and giving Su Yan's works bad scheduling suggestions, Su Yan's works would certainly have performed better.

But now he's blaming her for insufficient ability causing the television station to suffer losses?

He really wants to be a ghost and a god.

Koda Ayaka felt very guilty.

When Yoshiaki Shigeyoshi was still the chief, she was only at a disadvantage.

But now, let alone protecting Yumi Shinozaki, even her position as director might be at risk if she doesn't do well.

"I understand." Yumi Shinozaki took a deep breath.

Although she was angry, she also knew that this matter could not be blamed on Koda Ayaka.

After a while, Koda Ayaka also left Yumi Shinozaki's office.

"Damn it, shitty Yoshitoki Akasaka, why don't you go die?"

"How can there be such a stupid person like you in this world?"

After Koda Ayaka left, Yumi Shinozaki directly cursed at that guy in the office for half an hour.

But after getting tired of cursing, she also understood that this was just incompetent rage. No matter how she cursed Yoshitoki Akasaka, it wouldn't cause him to lose a single hair.

"Logistics position?" Yumi Shinozaki took a deep breath and sneered.

"Yoshitoki Akasaka, you old thing, you might as well just fire me directly, so I can get two more months of severance pay! Damn it, what a loss! You're really good at disgusting people."

Yumi Shinozaki opened her computer and started typing furiously on the keyboard, writing her resignation letter.

But as she wrote, she felt aggrieved, and a tear fell on the keyboard.

Two years!

She had just achieved success in the position of producer and even won the Best New Producer award.

But this is the ending.

"Don't cry. That's what they want you to do."

Yumi Shinozaki quickly rubbed her eyes with a tissue.

Knock knock knock!

Just then, there was a knock on her office door.

"Please come in." Yumi Shinozaki restrained her expression, and a smile appeared on her beautiful fair face.

Even if she's in a bad mood, she shouldn't let others see her make a fool of herself.

"Yo."

Su Yan pushed the door open and entered.

Yumi Shinozaki's smiling expression froze, and then her eyes turned red.

After taking a few deep breaths, Yumi Shinozaki opened her mouth and said.

"Do you need something? Su Yan"

"I heard some rumors about the production department and you, so I came to ask you," Su Yan paused and said.

"Are you interested in leaving Sakura Television with me and starting a film and television company together?"