Depressive screenwriter.

Chapter 50: Unstoppable Achievements
Sakura.com comments section.

"Brothers, can I say that I, a boy, was moved to tears?"

"Me too. My girlfriend watched this drama with me. She got so angry that she scolded the screenwriter for being a jerk."

"Why is it so cruel for these two to have a love relationship? Can the screenwriter be a little more normal?"

"It was so uncomfortable. I couldn't sleep at all after watching it."

"Lu Shi and Yi Hua's death. Shen Buyan knelt down in front of Lu Yuan and admitted her status as the queen in order to stabilize the situation. I was really tired watching this episode."

"But this plot really portrays Lu Yuan and Shen Buyan well. A heroine who only cares about love is always second-rate. Although Lu Yuan regards Shen Buyan as more important than her own life, the people of Shengguo have a higher status in her heart than Shen Buyan! This is the vision that a great woman should have. Compared with Lu Yuan, the heroines of the romance dramas on the market are now blown to pieces."

"Shen Buyan is also very good! Although he was very distressed that Lu Yuan chose to become the queen and chose to die on Shangsi Night ten years later, he still respected her choice and did not pester her. Instead, he immediately decided to support the heroine no matter what decision she made. This character is a hundred times better than those useless male protagonists!"

"People always have some ideals that outweigh all others. The protagonist's consciousness is fully shaped in this episode."

“Although it was very painful to watch, I think this episode is truly the best episode of the entire series so far.”

"I don't care. Why can't these two have a happy ending?"

"It's all the screenwriter Su Yan's fault. He's the one controlling the fate of these two characters. It's him."

"Su Yan, you old thief, are you in the forum comment section?"

"Everyone, don't panic. In this drama, doesn't Shen Buyan have two more chances to travel through time? The second time didn't change history, but maybe the third time will?"

"That's right. Changing Lu Yuan's ending is the main plot of this drama. If history really can't be changed, then what's the point of filming the remaining few episodes of this drama?"

"What do you mean don't panic? Have you forgotten the tragedy of Rurouni Kenshin? The combination of Su Yan and Shinozaki Ikumi is not trustworthy."

"It's impossible that this drama will end up being a waste of time until the end, right?"

"Stop talking, I'm a little panicked."

"The hero, Shen Buyan, only has two chances to travel through time. He must help Lu Yuan defeat Li Yong in the next two times. Only in this way will Lu Yuan let go of her obsession with Sheng State and choose to spend her life with him as an ordinary person."

"But is it possible that in the following plot, Shen Buyan will not use his two opportunities to travel through time. He really accompanies Lu Yuan in this era to defeat Li Yonghou, and they spend their lives as a queen and a minister."

"I absolutely cannot accept this kind of plot. If the final ending is like this, I will hate Su Yan, Xiao Qi and Yu Mei for the rest of my life."

"A lot of people seemed to have said this in the past two weeks, but I see they are all still following the show."

"No, I'm going to Sakura TV's official website to put pressure on the TV station's screenwriting department and production department. Let's all go to Sakura TV's official website and demand that screenwriter Su Yan's ending must not be depressing."

"Count me in."

"I'll go as well."

"What do you mean by unchangeable fate? As long as we can influence the screenwriter Su Yan and let him directly write the plot of Lu Yuan becoming an immortal, it will be fine. Unchangeable? Ridiculous."

Su Yan woke up and out of habit went online to read the audience's comments on the fifth episode of Ancient Love Song. He only read for less than a minute and immediately closed the webpage.

Although I had expected it, I still felt a little guilty when I saw thousands of posts scolding him.

"But scolding is one thing, and the audience in Xia Country can see it clearly."

Su Yan looked at the 9.3 rating of Ancient Love Song on Sakura.com.

It rose again overnight.
No matter how much they curse, the fact that the ratings have gone up shows that the audience's anger is directed at him as the screenwriter rather than at Gu Xiangsi Qu.

On the contrary, although last night's plot was depressing and sad, it also moved a considerable number of viewers, which prompted them to change their ratings.

Early in the morning, when Gu Qingyuan was eating breakfast in a breakfast shop, she was recognized by a group of people, who kept calling her "Lu Yuan Lu Yuan" and asking for her autograph.

When she arrived at the film and television base in the suburbs of Shanghai and walked inside, she saw many staff members from the base greeting her along the way.

Even though these people may not be from the Ancient Acacia Song crew, they all know Gu Qingyuan.

Being the leading actress in a TV series with a 2% viewership rating and ranked in the top 20 was enough to make Gu Qingyuan famous among the actors.
Those people in this circle are very sensitive to relevant information, so it is not surprising that they recognized her.

It’s just that Gu Qingyuan felt that it lacked substance.

After all, who knew her in the entertainment industry a few months ago?

When I arrived at the crew, I saw Shinozaki Yumi, Shi Peihua and Su Yan from a distance. They were studying the ratings data of the fifth episode of Ancient Lovesickness Song last night.

"It's increased again by 2.49%." Shinozaki Ikumi took a deep breath and tried to calm her excitement, but there was no way.

"Based on this ratings data, I feel that this week's Ancient Love Song may be able to rank among the top 16 of the quarter? If we're lucky, maybe it'll be 15th?" Shi Peihua took out another list of tables.

It records the ratings and rankings of a number of TV series aired in Xia Country last week.

The work ranked 2.48th in the ratings last week, with a viewership rating of %.

“It seems like the distance to the top ten is really not far.”

Shinozaki Ikumi's expression began to become dazed again.

At the beginning, her ratings target for the show was just 1.4%, ranking in the top 30.

The ratings are now almost 2.5%.

"But it is also due to the fact that the quality of TV dramas and movies broadcast this quarter is biased." Su Yan said.

"In previous seasons, a 2.5% rating would have put the show in the 20th place. But this season, a 2.5% rating would have put it in the top 15."

"If we talk about the previous quarters, for example, in the fall of last year, there were dramas with a 5% viewership rating. And in the same quarter, there were two dramas with a viewership rating of over 4%. This quarter, however, only the drama "The Painted Man" has temporarily broken 4% in terms of viewership rating," said Shi Peihua.

"But the film and television drama market is like this. After a downturn for one or two quarters, there will be a period of upswing. There will even be one or two phenomenal hit TV series every one or two years. But we don't need to consider the ratings of TV series in other quarters. Our competitors only exist in the present."

“The most important thing is that even starting from the next episode, the ratings of Ancient Acacia Song remain at this level. Even if we don’t reach the goal of being in the top ten in the ratings, surpassing Night Sakura will be a great success for us,” said Shinozaki Ikumi.

"The production department will comprehensively examine the potential of our trio of Su Yan, me, and Aunt Shi. If we have any works that need to be produced in the future, it will not be as difficult as before for the TV station to allocate funds." Shinozaki Ikumi looked up at Su Yan, her eyes a little red and tears welling up.

The efforts of sleeping less than five hours a day for the past two months have paid off.

This is the significance of finding a reliable and experienced screenwriter!

I had been working in a TV station for two years but achieved nothing.

Now that I have met the right person, my performance has turned around in less than half a year.

At this moment, she truly proved to her colleagues and media people at the TV station who had laughed at her that her basic qualities as a producer were not a problem.

Given enough funding, she can manage the crew in an orderly manner.

The two previous works were a complete failure, purely because the co-writers, directors, and planners were too unreliable.

Su Yan paused, he was not used to this situation.

But looking at Shinozaki Ikumi's tearful eyes, he hesitated for a moment, handed her a tissue, and then spoke in a relaxed manner.

"If you want to cry because of your grades, it's better not to do it now."

Shinozaki Ikumi and the other person looked at Su Yan.

"Because I cried too early, the ratings of "Ancient Love Song" will definitely not stop at this result."

"It will continue to rise, and will surpass Yeying and squeeze into the top ten in ratings. And who knows..." Su Yan looked at the two of them.

“Not just the top ten, but even higher.”

"I can't provide definite evidence to support my idea, but time and the final result of Ancient Love Song will clarify everything." Su Yan said with a smile.

"The autumn season is not even halfway through yet."

The scene suddenly fell silent.
After a long time, Shinozaki Yumi, Shi Peihua and Gu Qingyuan, who was standing not far away and listening to the three people talking, all raised their heads.

There was a thoughtful look on each of their faces.

Su Yan's words planted the seeds of ambition in the hearts of the three people.

In the fifth week of the autumn season, the ratings rankings of various works remained basically unchanged.

The Man in the Picture No.1
Lone Doctor No. 2.

Gilded No. 3.

Yeying is still No. 11.

As for Ancient Love Song, it ranked 16th in the ratings this week.

But the show aired on Sunday midnight, and its ratings rose from 1.38 to 2.49, and its ranking rose from 27th to 16th.

The rating of Sakura.com has risen from 9.0 points to fifth place in the first season, surpassing the three A-level dramas and ranking first in the quarter with 9.3 points.
All of this is conveying a message to all the drama fans in Xia Country.

The drama "Ancient Love Song" is a drama that was buried due to the schedule.

At first glance at the comment section, you may see a lot of people criticizing the screenwriter for being stupid.

But no one criticized the plot, and criticizing the characters shows that these viewers love Ancient Love Song.
These curses were simply caused by the hatred towards the screenwriter caused by the love for Gu Xiangsi Qu.

Once the market's public opinion direction and adjustment mechanism are activated, they will not be shifted for human purposes.

During this week, the number of paid plays of "Ancient Love Song" on Sakura.com has seen a sharp increase.

It directly surpassed the two dramas "Night Cherry Blossoms" and "Under the Blue Sky" which both had a viewership rating of 350, as well as the paid broadcast data of the sixth TV series with an average of 390 million per episode and million per episode.

With an average of 460 million paid views per episode, "Ancient Love Song" ranks only behind Sakura TV's A-level drama "The Gilded Man" this quarter, which has an average of 530 million paid views per episode.

After all, these are works that have been broadcast on TV stations, and the proportion of viewers willing to pay a second time on Sakura.com will definitely not be too high.

It's already pretty good that there are still four or five million new viewers joining the show and old viewers paying for a second watch.

The surge in the ratings of "Gu Xiangsi Qu" and the payment data on Sakura.com this week shocked many employees of Sakura TV.

At the production department meeting last quarter, Yoshitoki Akasaka arranged for the broadcast of "Ancient Love Song" in this time slot on the grounds that it would boost the Sunday midnight time slot.

Everyone knows that this is Yoshitoki Akasaka's act of revenge because he was dissatisfied with Gu Xiangsiqu for taking away the investment money that should have belonged to Yeying according to normal development.

but now.
Why does it feel like this is going to come true?
If the ratings really continue to remain like this, it will be a huge slap in the face for Yoshitoki Akasaka.

As the deputy director of the production department, he can't even control a new screenwriter. He has no prestige at all!
It's not just the people inside Sakura TV.

Many internal staff of Shanghai TV and Zhongxia TV have also heard about the conflicts and disputes between Yoshitoki Akasaka, deputy director of the production department of Sakura TV, and new screenwriter Su Yan.

Many people became interested and supported Su Yan unconditionally.

After all, we are all workers, and we naturally feel aversion to creatures like our bosses.

It turns out that in addition to the dramas that are officially broadcast on TV during the autumn season, there are also such big workplace dramas in reality!
Many colleagues in the television industry have turned on the spectator mode.

And so, October passed and November arrived.

It's another Sunday night.

But now, the practitioners of Xiaguo TV industry, film and television critics, and major media are not only concerned about the fifth episode of "Doctor Lone" which will be broadcast at 8 pm.
The focus of many people has also shifted to the sixth episode of "Ancient Love Song", which will be broadcast on time at midnight.

Will the ratings of this drama increase in the new episode?
Or will it fall?

This new screenwriter had only one successful short play before.

For this quarterly long drama, can he grasp the later plot and keep the rating of "Gu Xiangsi Qu" at the highest level of the season at 9.3 until the end?
(End of this chapter)