Depressive Screenwriter

July 22nd, 7:50 PM.

Just as Chu Yumeng returned to her workstation after picking up takeout, ready for overtime, she saw a group of friends in her phone group urging her to quickly log in and play the latest game.

She helplessly replied in the group:

【Black Company: Overtime.】

"It's so hard to be a working stiff!"

Chu Yumeng slapped her cheeks and sighed, looking at the empty company office, resentment rising.

She mentally counted the work she had to finish tonight, getting angrier with each count, closed the office software, and casually opened Sakura Net.

"Anyway, I definitely won't finish before ten o'clock, and the director has already left work. I'll watch an episode of a drama and slack off first."

Chu Yumeng quickly took out a few bags of snacks and drinks from the company's refrigerated cabinet, opened the takeout container, and prepared to find an 'electronic榨菜' (brain-numbing) drama on Sakura Net to watch while eating.

She scrolled down the website's trending drama list.

《Qingfeng》?

Hmm, I watched an episode last week, a campus romance, not interested.

《The Corpse Collector》, hmm, a horror drama that premiered on Sakura TV last quarter, with a viewership rating of only 2% and a score of 5.8. It's obviously a terrible drama.

《Temptation of the Sister-in-Law!》, forget it, a score of 2.9 says it all. Wow, the viewership is so high, emm, there must be something to it. I'll bookmark it first and watch it when I have the chance.

She scrolled all the way down, but still didn't see any dramas that interested her until she reached the thirtieth-something spot on the trending list.

But then she suddenly caught a glimpse.

"Huh?"

Chu Yumeng scrolled the mouse wheel up.

The four characters 《Rurouni Kenshin》 and the drama's promotional image appeared in her eyes.

It wasn't that she was interested in some wanderer or some sword heart.

The main point was that the male and female lead character images in this promotional image really suited her aesthetic.

She admitted that she was all about appearances.

When looking for an 'electronic 榨菜' while working overtime and eating dinner, whether a drama's plot was good or not wasn't the most important thing. The main point was whether the drama's protagonists were good-looking enough to make her want to eat.

"You're the one I've decided on," Chu Yumeng said with a smile.

She opened the Rurouni Kenshin playback page, quickly paid through her account, and Chu Yumeng picked up her food.

The first shot on the screen was a full moon and a sky full of stars.

And the second shot was a scene of a long sword piercing a woman's throat, with blood splattering everywhere.

At that moment, Chu Yumeng hadn't even taken her first bite of food.

"?" Chu Yumeng was completely dumbfounded.

The following scene was a massacre.

A group of thieves launched a massacre against several defenseless women and children.

When only three women and one child remained.

The child picked up a knife and stood in front of the women, with fear on his face.

"Shinta, you are still young, unlike us, you can choose your future path, so you cannot die now, you must live, strive to live."

"Shinta, live on."

The woman behind the boy stood in front of him at the critical moment, taking the sword thrust through the throat for him.

Chu Yumeng's eyes twitched.

This scene is bloody, how am I supposed to eat?

In the end, the three women still died tragically.

And at the critical moment, when the man was about to die, a young man holding a long sword appeared.

He was exceptionally handsome, with a cold face, but his whole person revealed righteousness.

With a series of bizarre and strange sword techniques and movements, he killed all the dozen or so thieves, with severed hands and feet flying everywhere.

When filming this scene, the scene of Hiko Seijūrō's first appearance was performed by Su Yan as a stunt double.

So the action was gorgeous, precise, and fierce, but Chu Yumeng enjoyed watching it very much.

"This action scene... is a bit amazing!" Chu Yumeng forgot to eat her meal.

One reason was because the plot was good.

The other reason was because the bloody scene really made it hard to eat.

At this moment, a pile of comments was also floating across the screen.

【The same gorgeous action as the trailer.】

【Handsome, the master is also amazing!】

【Is this Kenshin's master from the trailer?】

【This kind of drama only received one million in investment, Sakura TV is doomed.】

【The fight scene is so visually impactful.】

This was the beginning of everything for the work Kenshin. Young Shinta met his master, the sole successor of the Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū, Hiko Seijūrō.

Later in the plot.

The next day, when Hiko Seijūrō came to this place with wine, wanting to bury the corpses of the thieves he had killed yesterday.

He discovered the mounds that stood erected in the wilderness under the twilight.

The boy named Shinta stood ragged in front of these mounds.

"Not only the girls you saved, but even the thieves who wanted to kill you, you built graves for them?" Hiko Seijūrō asked.

"Whether they are bandits or human traffickers, they are all the same when they die," young Shinta said.

Shinta's words not only touched Hiko Seijūrō, but also touched a group of people watching the drama.

"This line is really artistic," Chu Yumeng had already put down her chopsticks.

The story used a few minutes to explain how Shinta met his master Hiko Seijūrō, then was renamed Kenshin and taught the Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū.

At this moment, the large characters of the title "Rurouni Kenshin Episode 1: The Killer" slowly floated onto the screen.

The scene changed. In the dark night, a group of samurai escorted a high-ranking official walking in a dark alley.

"Next month is your wedding, right? Kiyosato... marrying that childhood sweetheart beauty? What good fortune!" The high-ranking official said with a smile to the guard named Kiyosato beside him.

"The world is turbulent now, but I am still thinking about personal affairs," Kiyosato's tone was polite, but his eyes were full of smiles.

"What are you talking about? No matter what the world is like, what's wrong with wanting to pursue happiness?" The high-ranking official said.

After the high-ranking official finished speaking, he also gave Kiyosato and his fiancée about ten seconds of flashback scenes.

What Kiyosato went to Kyoto to achieve success, and told his fiancée that he would come back next year to marry her, etc.

At this moment, comments floated by.

【Flashback kill. Absolutely, this Kiyosato is definitely going to die.】

【Dark and windy night, these two are happily discussing marriage? Setting up a flag, hehe.】

【You're done for. Kiyosato.】

【I saw this scene in the trailer, this high-ranking official and all the guards including Kiyosato are all dead, killed by Kenshin in three seconds.】

【Attention ahead, high energy is coming.】

【I watched the front and came back, I rely on, everyone don't blink for the next ten seconds of fighting, super handsome.】

Chu Yumeng's expression was relaxed.

Although there are always people who spoil things when watching online dramas with comments turned on.

But it doesn't matter.

Keep watching.

The high-ranking official and his party were carrying lanterns at this moment, and in front of them was a man with black hair, cold eyes, and a tall figure. In his hand, he held a long sword.

Without any nonsense, the high-ranking official and his party immediately looked horrified when they saw this man, as if they recognized him.

"Assassin..." Kiyosato shouted.

"Do you think you can change the world with just a sword?" The high-ranking official was also angry.

In the alley, a group of people rushed forward.

Then Chu Yumeng saw why someone had given a high-energy warning before.

Because this fight under the moon was as gorgeous as art.

The result of five or six people rushing forward was that at the moment of exchanging blows with the black-haired youth, the blade was wielded, a cold light flashed, and the speed was so fast that Chu Yumeng, who was watching the drama outside the screen, was startled.

Stabbing the throat, piercing the heart, beheading, severing the body...

The entire action did not exceed three seconds, but the character actors continuously changed direction five or six times, the whole person turned somersaults, turned in the air, and leaped with the agility of a cheetah, using the walls of the alley, and finally pierced the eyebrows of the pot-bellied high-ranking official with a sword, leaving only a face full of fear, and the handsome samurai who was still setting up flags just now... Kiyosato.

Without any special effects, purely action scenes, the entire shot was smoother than Chu Yumeng going to the toilet after occasionally eating a Xia Lai Shi hamburger.

Most importantly, the coldness in the black-haired man's eyes under the moon contrasted with the fear on Kiyosato's face at this moment.

Cruel, bloody, but so handsome that it was difficult to describe with adjectives.

"I don't want to die, I don't want to die..."

Kiyosato had no power to resist the black-haired assassin's attack.

The image of his fiancée kept flashing in his mind.

The final blow, wagering his life, only brushed against the black-haired assassin's cheek at the moment the two swords clashed, forming a thin and narrow wound on his face.

A little blood spilled from the black-haired assassin's face.

But Kiyosato's body was almost cut in half by a sword.

Kiyosato, lying on the ground, shed tears and muttered that he didn't want to die.

But life ended ruthlessly.

At this moment, Chu Yumeng finally took a deep breath.

What is this?

You can see that it's a poor crew, a poor production, but such classic fight scenes appear.

The comments at this moment all brushed past with words like awesome, stunned, amazing, and handsome.