Depressive Screenwriter

The news of "April" topping the ratings in April spread throughout the Xia Country's television industry in less than half a day.

A 4.6% rating isn't unheard of; Xia Country typically has several dramas that achieve this level each year.

However, for Qingkong TV to reach a 4.6% rating and top the quarterly ratings was akin to a disabled person competing in the regular Olympics and winning a gold medal.

Before this happened, the media and industry professionals, while jokingly mentioning things like "April" might top the quarterly ratings or that the three major TV stations were being suppressed by a young screenwriter, deep down, most still believed that Xia Fenghua would ultimately defend its fortress.

How could the 0.1% rating difference between the two dramas during the broadcast of the ninth episode suddenly reverse in the tenth episode?

But despite the suddenness, the media was quick to react.

["April is Your Lie" Tops the Ratings! First in the Quarter, No Opponents!]

[Xia Fenghua Loses to "April", Suffers a Rating Reversal in the Tenth Week of the Summer Season.]

[Qingkong TV Achieves Its Best Record Since Its Founding! 21-Year-Old Xia Yan Emerges, Creating a Legend in the Xia Country's Television Industry!]

[For the First Time in Over a Decade, the Three Major TV Stations Lose the Quarterly Ratings Champion Title. Does This Mean a Drastic Change in the Xia Country's Film and Television Industry?]

[A Newcomer Who Debuted Just a Year Ago Can Force the Three Major TV Stations to This Extent, Which Proves Once Again That in the Face of True Genius, So-Called Past Glory and Heritage Are Worthless.]

[Does "April"'s Rating Surpassing Xia Fenghua Mean the End of the Summer Season Ratings Championship Battle? Or Can Xia Fenghua Stage a Comeback in the Eleventh Week, When the Final Episode of Both Dramas Airs?]

[After "April" Topped the Ratings, the Online Flame War Between Xia Fenghua Fans and "April" Fans Intensified, with Fans of the Main Actors Attacking Each Other Like Fire and Water.]

[A Genius Like Su Yan Should Have Been a Sharp Blade for Sakura TV, But Now, Su Yan Is at Odds with Sakura TV! As the Production Department Head of Sakura TV, Akasaka Yoshishi Must Take Primary Responsibility for Sakura TV's Poor Performance This Quarter!]

The news media's reports and the real-world and online battles between "April" fans and Xia Fenghua fans jointly propelled the popularity of both dramas to their highest levels since their premiere during the eleventh week of the summer season.

On Wednesday, the filming of the second ending of "April is Your Lie" was completed.

Su Yan, Shen Liqian, Gu Qingyuan, and all the supporting actors who appeared in this episode felt a sense of melancholy.

"The filming of this drama is over," Su Yan said softly to everyone.

But the atmosphere was somewhat silent.

"Tonight is the wrap-up banquet for the 'April' crew. Please wait and take the crew's car to the hotel together," Su Yan continued.

"And... I hope we have the opportunity to work together again in the future."

After Su Yan finished this last sentence, everyone in the crew's eyes lit up.

Continue to cooperate?

Is there a chance to continue working together?

The success of "April" has exceeded everyone's expectations.

Especially Shen Liqian, who initially contacted Su Yan hoping that the drama's ratings would enter the top five for the quarter. As her comeback project after more than a year of silence, this level of success would give her the capital to slowly develop and return to her former peak.

But now, "April is Your Lie" has directly topped the ratings.

She remembered what Su Yan had told her a few weeks ago.

Perhaps this drama could not only restore her popularity to its peak but even surpass her previous peak and allow her to win the Best Actress award at this year's Xia Yan Awards.

"As everyone knows, the ending of 'April' will air in a few days. Then, next Sunday, the second ending of 'April' that we just finished filming will be released on Raccoon Net," Su Yan said, looking at everyone in the crew.

"What I want to tell everyone is that the achievements and peak of 'April' are by no means limited to the influence of this current drama, nor will they stop this quarter. Instead, it will become a label on everyone's acting experience for a long time to come. This drama will become a work that you will be fortunate to have participated in. Finally, thank you for your dedication and support to this drama over the past few months... Tonight, let's not go home until we're drunk."

Su Yan's words easily ignited the enthusiasm of everyone present.

The entire "April" crew cheered excitedly.

In the film and television base, there were many employees from other Sakura TV crews.

They vaguely heard the crazy cheers from the direction of the "April" crew's set and felt a little envious.

Originally, this kind of achievement should have belonged to Sakura TV. If "April" had premiered on Sakura TV, then after Sakura TV achieved its seasonal performance and revenue goals, the quarterly bonus given by the station would normally be very generous.

Now, "The Simplest Love", which was highly anticipated, has basically confirmed that its ratings will only be third for the quarter.

Can this kind of achievement be considered good?

Of course, there's no quarterly bonus or anything like that.

And all of this is thanks to Akasaka Yoshishi, the head of the production department.

He likes to engage in special treatment, suppressing a genius like Su Yan for the sake of his idiot nephew?

Now, he's messed things up!

In the last few days, Qingkong TV and Hudou TV gave their greatest support to the public opinion promotion of "April" and Xia Fenghua, respectively.

For Hudou TV, as long as the eleventh episode of Xia Fenghua's finale achieves two conditions:

The ratings exceed the eleventh episode of "April".

The single-episode rating of the eleventh episode is the highest of the entire quarter!

Then Xia Fenghua is still the undisputed king of this quarter, successfully defending the dignity of the three major TV stations and continuing the three major TV stations' decade-long reign as quarterly champions.

As for Qingkong TV, they must consider whether this cooperation with Su Yan is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the TV station.

No one knows whether Su Yan will definitely cooperate with Qingkong TV in the future, and even if they continue to cooperate, whether opportunities like "April", which is only one step away from winning the quarterly championship, will appear again.

It can be said that if they cannot make "April"'s quarterly championship a reality in this summer season,

Then for Qingkong TV, this will most likely be the biggest regret since the station was founded.

So what if our Qingkong is not as good as your three major TV stations?

I don't need to surpass you every quarter; I just need to surpass you this quarter, this time, and Qingkong TV can brag about this achievement in the industry for the rest of its life!

The three major TV stations are united against a common enemy due to common interests, and other small and medium-sized TV stations that are not among the three major TV stations must also support Qingkong TV in their hearts.

And the TV stations control the information dissemination media in the industry.

With their respective biases,

This directly led to the fact that the ratings competition between "April" and Xia Fenghua this week was also highly concerned among the Xia Country's television drama community.

On Friday night, the eleventh episode of Xia Fenghua premiered.

At the same time, the other two of the three major TV stations tacitly broadcast some terrible programs during this time slot, not competing for viewers.

That night, Xia Fenghua successfully concluded, and the drama's fans pushed the news of Xia Fenghua's finale to the top of the trending searches on the four major online broadcasting platforms.

The next day, Xia Fenghua's ratings were released.

4.74%

After this result came out, Hudou TV and the Xia Fenghua crew felt relieved.

First of all, the final episode of Xia Fenghua has exceeded the 4.69% rating of the tenth episode of "April".

If this result cannot be achieved, then everything is in vain, and the record for the highest quarterly rating will still be held by "April".

But now, the situation has reversed.

The eleventh episode of "April" must have a rating higher than last week and higher than 4.74% for its quarterly championship to be recognized.

An increase of 0.05% in ratings compared to last week doesn't seem like an outrageous request, but Qingkong TV's audience size, its upper limit, can it really support "April" to continue to improve in the eleventh episode?

Walking a hundred miles is only halfway at ninety.

The difficulty of improving from 80 points to 95 points is far less than the difficulty of improving from 95 points to 98 points.

Maybe 4.69% is the upper limit of Qingkong TV, the stickiness of Su Yan's fans.

At the same time, starting on Saturday, the media controlled by the three major TV stations and with good cooperative relationships frantically praised Xia Fenghua, belittled "April", and belittled Su Yan, Shen Liqian, Gu Qingyuan, and other "April" actors, attempting to create an atmosphere that Xia Fenghua had already locked in the victory in advance.

But Su Yan's fans and Qingkong TV did not sit idly by but promoted "April" through various channels. Qingkong TV also actively invested several million to promote and stream "April is Your Lie" on Raccoon Net on Saturday.

On that day, as long as people clicked to enter the Raccoon Net webpage, the quick viewing link entry to "April" would pop up first.

Obviously, the paid playback data of "April" on Saturday was increasing at an incredible rate.

The paid playback data for the first episode exceeded 14 million, and the average paid playback data for the entire series exceeded 11 million.

Su Yan, his fans, and all the employees of Qingkong TV were very nervous on Sunday.

Time passed little by little.

Soon it was approaching 9 p.m.

The finale of "April is Your Lie", the eleventh episode, is about to premiere.