Depressive Screenwriter

On Sunday, starting from the afternoon, the viewership ratings for China Central Television began to soar.

From 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM, the television station even held a special promotional variety show for the finale of Tokyo Love Story.

During the show, behind-the-scenes footage of Tokyo Love Story, obtained from Su Yan, was revealed.

This variety show alone achieved an average viewership rating of over 4.5%.

Currently, although online reviews of Su Yan are quite harsh, the majority of the drama's audience remains silent.

Younger viewers are quick to criticize, but the majority of Tokyo Love Story's audience consists of housewives.

These individuals have seen much of the world; what is a five-way love affair involving the male lead, Kanji, the female lead, Rika, the second female lead, Rimi, the second male lead, Mikami, and the rich heiress, Shoko Nagasaki, to them?

What are scummy men, scummy women, white lotuses, and green tea b*tches to them?

Many of these viewers may experience emotional fluctuations with the plot, but they will never be emotionally broken.

Of course, they do hope that Tokyo Love Story will provide a perfect ending for the female lead, Rika, in the finale.

With a frustrated expression, Tao Lei watched the end of the variety show.

He took a deep breath.

Here it comes.

The show ended at 7:59 PM, and after a half-minute closing credits sequence, the screen seamlessly transitioned to the theme song of the eleventh episode of Tokyo Love Story without even a second of interruption.

This is the last time I'll hear this song.

Tao Lei felt a tinge of melancholy.

The opening scene showed the male lead, Kanji, with a lost and dejected expression on a soccer field in Ehime Prefecture.

But as the male lead turned around, he saw that figure.

There was no dragging it out.

He saw that smile.

The heaviness in Tao Lei's heart seemed to gradually dissipate.

In this drama, as long as you can see Rika's smile, everything is worth it.

Including him, a viewer who hasn't moved on from a breakup six months ago, has been healed by the female lead's personality many times while watching this drama.

But how could he have imagined that the plot would develop in this way towards the end?

Kanji is searching for Rika all over Ehime. If Rika were in this place, she would naturally have heard about it. At this time, she takes the initiative to appear in front of Kanji...

Has she finally figured it out and wants to make a clean break with Kanji?

The story's pace is still the same as before, with multi-line narration.

Kanji and Rika meet in Ehime.

In Tokyo, Mikami and Rimi have a long-awaited reunion.

Well, actually, the most magical thing about this drama is that everyone in it absolutely separates friendship and love.

Even Mikami and Rimi, two former lovers, can still sit together and laugh like old friends after breaking up.

So, what about Rika and Kanji?

Will Kanji be able to use this reunion with Rika to think clearly, sort things out, and then apologize to Rika properly, so that they can get back together?

Although they clearly broke up in the previous episode, it is very normal for the male and female leads in a romance drama to experience a breakup and then reconcile.

"As long as the old thief Su Yan is willing, this episode can still have a happy ending," Tao Lei thought.

The scene changes, and the conversation between Mikami and Kanji ends.

It returns to Ehime, to the conversation between Kanji and Rika.

"I've decided, I'm going abroad!" Rika's face flashed with a smile.

The same bright smile as in the first episode.

"I'll hide the fact that I liked you deep in my heart."

Tao Lei's heart sank.

He had guessed that the plot would develop in this way, but when it really came, he couldn't accept it.

"Rika, live a little easier!" Kanji didn't know how to comfort her and could only say in a heavy voice.

You have the nerve to say that!

Tao Lei started to get angry again.

Why isn't she living easily? Don't you know?

It's because you waver back and forth and don't have a firm will that you've created Rika's current predicament. Rika walked along the embankment by the coast, her back to Kanji.

Suddenly, her smiling face turned sad.

She turned around.

And looked at Kanji with her final, determined gaze.

Finally, she ran into Kanji's arms.

The background music started at this moment.

Tao Lei's eyes widened.

"I'll be waiting for you at the station!" Rika said, her voice choked with sobs.

"The timetable says the train is at 4:48 PM. There are still two hours."

"Before that, if you change your mind, come find me!"

"If you still can't, then I'll just leave."

Rika looked at Kanji, but the perspective presented on the TV screen made it seem like she was looking at the audience outside the TV.

Her eyes were still so lovely, with a smile.

"This is my last request! I want to see you at 4:48 PM, so I won't say goodbye."

Tao Lei's previously listless and decadent heart was instantly pumped with energy.

This is Rika, still fighting for a chance until the very end.

"Kanji, I beg you, can you be a little braver? You definitely have feelings for Rika in your heart, right? Think carefully, will there be a second woman in this world who loves you so much? Rimi? That woman gets angry if someone says anything about her. Do you really think she's better than Rika?"

Tao Lei is very anxious now.

He really wants to be like the protagonist in a novel, travel into the drama, travel into the male lead's body, and directly make a choice in place of Kanji.

Rika and Rimi, is this even a multiple-choice question?

Kanji, this is Rika's last hope for you, and it's also the last chance she's giving you.

But unfortunately, the plot is still struggling.

Sitting by the sea, Kanji fell into inner turmoil.

The time of 4:48 PM gradually approached.

Rika looked at the distant train whistle with red eyes.

At one point, Kanji's body got up unconsciously. He ran towards the station, and he arrived on time.

The train at 4:48 PM...

But Rika left.

After asking the security guard at the train station, he was told that Rika had left on the 4:33 PM train.

Tao Lei clenched his fist, and a sense of powerlessness arose in his heart.

Every time, in this drama, it is Rika who waits for Kanji, and Kanji is always late. He never came, Rika must have thought that Kanji wouldn't come, and wouldn't be on time...

It's ridiculous, uncomfortable, wanting to laugh and cry.

With this plot arrangement, Tao Lei appreciates Rika's decisiveness this time, but at the same time, he feels sad for her.

Kanji looked at the seat where Rika had been sitting, a white scarf with words written in lipstick.

"Bye bye, Kanji!"

At this moment, a group of Tokyo Love Story viewers in China were hard-controlled by the plot.

On the train, Rika Akana lowered her head, her expression about to cry, but she suppressed her voice.

Rika returned to Tokyo, and then without stopping, accepted the company's arrangement and went to Tokyo.

Kanji was distraught, but...

After Rika left, he got together with Rimi.

A strong sense of loss emerged in Tao Lei's heart.

Is this plot bad?

Actually, judging from the characters of Rika and Kanji, it's not bad.

Kanji arrives early every time he dates Rimi.

Every time he dates Rika, he is late.

Just once, even if it was just once, if he didn't arrive right on time, but treated Rika and Rimi equally and arrived early.

He would have been able to arrive at the train station before 4:33 PM and meet Rika.

Arriving right on time means failure.

It means he is still hesitating.

The truly happy ending of this drama is not Rika compromising and waiting bitterly for Kanji at the train station as before.

But the male lead, Kanji, arriving at the train station early in the final plot to save Rika.

He didn't do it, which means that he and Rika are not meant to be together.

It's just...

"It's really hard to accept," Tao Lei took a deep breath.

Everyone can understand the reasoning, but it's not so easy to accept.

"Kanji, you idiot. You always wait for Rimi early every time, why are you arriving right on time this time? Can't you be a little more of a man, think everything through, and go early?"

Of course, in the later plot.

Soon, three years passed in a flash.

Tao Lei's expression was completely hopeless.

Three years?

That means the possibility of Kanji running to a foreign country to chase Rika back is completely eliminated.

Of course, the plot of Mikami and Shoko Nagasaki getting married can only be regarded as a small seasoning.

Although the plot of Shoko Nagasaki marrying her fiancé, and then running back to be with Mikami during her honeymoon, and then the two of them getting married smoothly three years later is very outrageous.

But in this drama, everything seems normal.

Everyone can easily accept it.

Mikami and the woman who can like Mikami must be so maverick.

The sad background music slowly sounded.

Kanji and Rimi were attending Mikami's wedding. When they were walking home on the street, they met her...

That familiar figure.

Rika Akana.

A reunion after three years.

Rika's expression was much calmer this time. She smiled and looked calmly at the wedding rings on their fingers.

Tao Lei could endure the previous plots.

But watching Rimi tactfully leave, allowing Kanji and Rika to be alone, the calm atmosphere between the two of them...

He really couldn't hold back.

It's like the situation before the two of them were in love, with smiles, but separated by something.

The conversation between the two of them alone clarified everything that hadn't been said when they separated.

Rika and Kanji, perhaps there were regrets, but they all... let go of this relationship.

At the time of parting.

"Don't you want to go out for a meal together?"

"No. Isn't this good? Meeting by chance on the street, yes, next time, it will be in a few years."

"Goodbye," Kanji paused and said.

"Goodbye."

"Bye bye."

"Bye bye!"

This familiar conversation, and that familiar scene, Tao Lei suddenly came back to his senses.

Isn't this the scene when Kanji and Rika separated in the first episode?

"Good luck."

"You too!"

"It seems like this situation has happened before," Kanji said.

"Yes!"

"Then let's count to three like before!" Rika said with a smile.

"Okay!"

"One, two, three!"

"One, two, three!"

This time, after the two of them counted to three, they collectively jumped backward.

This time, Rika didn't act like she did in the first episode anymore.

The two walked in different directions.

"Kanji."

Rika's voice made Kanji's body stiff.

It also made a glimmer of hope arise in Tao Lei's heart.

But in the end, the hope was dashed.

"Kanji."

Kanji turned around, only to see Rika's bright smile and her farewell wave.

Then she left without looking back.

This time...

It's really over.

Both their love.

And this drama.

It's just that these two have let go, but Tao Lei can't let go!

It's even more uncomfortable...

When the passionate ending song sounded, Tao Lei lay down on the sofa, his brain empty, no longer wanting to think about anything.

Until the ending song ended...

This ending is already pretty good for Rika.

At least she figured it out and saw through it.

Life is always full of setbacks, whether it's work or relationships.

Tao Lei thought in his heart.

But on the TV screen, a text message appeared at this time.

"Tokyo Love Story if route! Next Sunday at 8:00 PM, China Central Television will broadcast it on time. At 9:00 PM, China Central Net will be online simultaneously."

A piece of information text that made Tao Lei do a carp jump from the sofa appeared, and he sat up straight all of a sudden.