Depressive Screenwriter

In the early morning, Su Yan woke up. He looked at Sakazaki Ikumi, who was lying beside him, embracing his arm naked. He gently pulled his arm away and covered her with the quilt.

"The house is a bit shabby; it's time to move to a big villa. Hmm, I'll buy it now and use it as our wedding home when it's renovated."

Su Yan muttered to himself while preparing breakfast.

Not long after Su Yan got up, there was a rustling sound behind him.

"You can cook?"

Su Yan turned his head. Sakazaki Ikumi, wearing a bathrobe, hadn't completely dried her hair. Her snow-white calves were exposed from under the bathrobe, and her bare feet stepped on the floor as she entered the kitchen.

Looking at her attire, Su Yan's mind recalled the events of last night, and he felt a surge of heat within him.

"You're so rich, and you still make your own breakfast?" Sakazaki Ikumi said with a smile.

"Food made by a hired chef, no matter how delicious, can never express the importance you place on someone," Su Yan said.

"So, you're saying you value me a lot?" Sakazaki Ikumi walked forward, one arm around Su Yan's shoulder, pressing her body against his arm.

"Woman, you're playing with fire," Su Yan said, the famous line from a female-oriented novel from his past life slipping out.

As expected, Sakazaki Ikumi quickly took two steps back, covering her stomach and giggling.

"Su Yan, that line was so cringy! It's like the brainless male lead in a brainless romance drama about a domineering CEO falling in love with me."

"..." Su Yan.

"I thought you liked me like that."

"I really do like it. Say it again! It will definitely be my source of laughter for life. I'll use it to make fun of you when I'm ninety or a hundred years old."

"Hmph, vulgar!" Su Yan was a little angry. Being mocked like this, he had to retaliate.

"Man, are you angry?" Sakazaki Ikumi took two steps forward, using her finger to lift Su Yan's chin, looking at him with the tone he had just used.

Su Yan threw the spatula away, directly pulled Sakazaki Ikumi into his arms, and kissed her hard, not letting go until she had no strength to mock him.

"It's all your fault; my honey-glazed eggs are burnt," Su Yan said regretfully, looking at the ingredients in the pot.

"Don't worry, I can eat it even if it's burnt. My mouth is too sweet right now; I need something bitter to neutralize it," Sakazaki Ikumi continued to tease Su Yan.

"But Ikumi... you said you'd still use that line to make fun of me when you're ninety or a hundred years old. What does that mean? I'll only be with my wife when I'm a hundred years old..." Su Yan found a point to counterattack.

Sakazaki Ikumi narrowed her eyes.

"Okay, I accept your proposal!" Su Yan said with a smile.

"What? You accept my proposal? You're the one who's supposed to propose to me, give me a proposal ring, and say those words to me at a sudden moment. How did it become me proposing first?" Sakazaki Ikumi said anxiously.

But before she could finish speaking, Su Yan took out a box from his pocket and put something on her finger before she could react.

"Alright, is that sudden enough?" Su Yan said with a smile.

"Eh?" Sakazaki Ikumi looked at the ring on her finger.

"This is a proposal ring?"

"Yeah!"

"You prepared this a long time ago?"

"No, I bought the ring a while ago, just waiting for the right moment. You were the one who asked me to propose just now, so you can't be angry," Su Yan helped Sakazaki Ikumi put on her bathrobe, covering her exposed shoulders, and said to her with a smile.

"So, I didn't ask for your consent and just put it on for you."

"No, that's cheating. Let's do it again... I want to reject you three or five times first..." Sakazaki Ikumi prepared to take the ring off her finger.

"Hey, hey, taking it off will break the magic. It won't be the most sincere and surprising proposal," Su Yan quickly said, and she immediately stopped her actions.

Sakazaki Ikumi took a deep breath for a long time before glaring at Su Yan.

"You took advantage of me!"

Another year passed, and it was New Year's Day. Su Yan was thirty years old.

He came to Sakazaki Ikumi's house again to celebrate the New Year.

This year, Sakazaki Aki's gaze towards Su Yan was noticeably more fervent than last year.

"When are you planning to get married?" Sakazaki Aki said kindly, looking at the couple who, according to Sakazaki Ikumi, had been dating for four years.

"Anytime is fine. I'll let Ikumi decide on the wedding date. Of course, Auntie, you can discuss it with her," Su Yan said with a smile, taking a bite of fish and looking at Sakazaki Ikumi, who was wearing a kimono and focused on eating rice.

Upon hearing this, Sakazaki Ikumi dropped her chopsticks, her clear, dark pupils filled with a look that said, 'Su Yan, you're ruining me.'

"What are you doing?"

"It's New Year's, and you're not going to let me have peace, are you?"

Su Yan left Sakazaki Ikumi's house. At ten o'clock in the evening, Sakazaki Ikumi sent a text message.

"My mother is forcing me to marry you in the first half of the year. If you agree to this deadline, she'll choose the date..."

The first half of the year?

That's less than five months, right?

Su Yan smiled.

He sent a text message back.

"No problem."

"Of course, you have no problem. This time last year, I was still a single woman; this year, I'm going to be a married woman..." The text message from Sakazaki Ikumi was clearly filled with a hint of complaint and unwillingness, with a sourness of being taken advantage of by Su Yan.

"Me too!" Su Yan replied with a smile.

He knew that Sakazaki Ikumi's resentment would dissipate in half an hour.

If you can't tease your girlfriend, you won't have a chance after you get married.

In January, the winter season, the second season of One Piece premiered.

In the Arlong Arc, Nami's tragic past and the Straw Hat Pirates' courageous rescue of their companion from the Fish-Man's lair heated up the global fan base.

The scene where Nami stabbed her arm with a knife to remove the mark of the Fish-Man Pirates brought the global fan base's anger to its highest level.

Subsequently, the scene where the Straw Hat Pirates beat up Arlong made all the fans feel two words.

So satisfying!

Last year, Dimensional Film Company's net profit was even higher than the previous year, exceeding ten billion.

Among them, even though the Gundam SEED series ended more than half a year ago, its peripheral sales were still the company's largest source of income.

The revenue from the newly released FSN HF series was even less than Gundam.

Although Naruto and One Piece were extremely popular, their commercial value was still not high at this stage.

However, One Piece's popularity soared after the Arlong Arc. By the time of the Loguetown Arc, the ratings in China had also soared to the 7.8% range.

It was not much less than when the first season of Naruto ended.

But at this time, Su Yan didn't feel much about these data.

His energy was completely focused on the wedding in April.

From confirming the relationship to getting married, one year and three months might be a little fast.

But from meeting to getting married, ten years and ten months, that's definitely a long time.

Su Yan didn't have many relatives in China. His original parents were dead, so the people he could invite to the wedding were simple.

Gu Qingyuan, Shen Liqian, Zhuang Yuxin, the big and small actors he had worked with, and a bunch of big shots in the film and television industry.

And Sakazaki Aki had too many social relationships.

Former friends from Sakura TV.

She even sent a wedding invitation to Akasaka Yoshitoki.

It was considered disgusting to this former colleague.

In ten years, Su Yan had gone from a small employee suppressed by the head of the TV station's production department to a giant in the global film and television industry.

In the eyes of the current Su Yan, the former enemy was just an insignificant shrimp.

Shen Liqian, Gu Qingyuan, and Zhuang Yuxin put down all their work in March and began to help Sakazaki Ikumi prepare for the wedding.

Several people knew each other's thoughts about Su Yan, but since things were a foregone conclusion, they could only congratulate Sakazaki Ikumi.

In mid-April, at a hotel in Tokyo.

Most of the Chinese film and television industry came to the wedding at Su Yan's call, and a bunch of foreign superstars and top celebrities also attended the wedding. A top orchestra played the wedding march live, and the world's second-ranked singer sang the song.

The scene was grand. Hundreds of media outlets around the world broadcast the entire wedding process. The photo of Su Yan and Sakazaki Ikumi drinking the cross-cupped wine became the headline of the entertainment section in various countries around the world for the next week.

After all, it was the wedding of Su Yan, the boss of a film and television company, a world-renowned actor, and a screenwriter. It couldn't be low-key, and there was no way to be low-key. His strength didn't allow Su Yan to be low-key.

Sakazaki Ikumi, who had always been hidden behind the scenes of Dimensional Film Company, became a big celebrity among a large group of young people in China after this day.

On this day, many of Su Yan's fans cried bitterly late at night.

Su Yan got married. For many female fans who had been fans of Su Yan since elementary school and until they were about to graduate from college, their youth ended.

However, the commotion caused by the marriage only lasted for half a month.

The life of Su Yan and Sakazaki Ikumi after marriage was not much different from before.

They still cooperated with each other at the company. It was just that when they returned to Su Yan's newly bought luxury villa at night to review the day's work and the company's future development, they couldn't help but review it on the bed.

Newly married couples were always unrestrained. Su Yan's body had been transformed by the system, and his quality was excellent. As for Sakazaki Ikumi, under the happiness of married life, she even became younger and often bought some JK uniforms and workplace OL uniforms to sway in front of Su Yan at home.

As for the time at this moment.

China, no, the most explosive summer season in the global film and television industry in the past four years appeared.

Under Su Yan's command, the Rurouni Kenshin TV series premiered on Sakura TV, the second season of Naruto premiered on Zhongxia TV, and Mobile Suit Gundam Z Gundam premiered on Shanghai TV.

Su Yan gave everyone equal opportunities.

All of them were popular works in China. The three TV stations premiered on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday respectively.

The executives of the three major TV stations were as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

None of these three dramas were simple.

The sequel to the Rurouni Kenshin movie, which had won the box office champion for the Spring Festival for three years in the past four years.

The sequel to the popular IP Gundam.

The second season of the popular TV series Naruto.

Who is the first? It's hard to say. But this season, there will finally not be a situation where one family dominates and one TV series kills the entire field. Instead, three TV series will compete with each other, and it is estimated that the collective ratings will fiercely fight each other above 7%.

This summer season is likely to be the most competitive season in the history of the Chinese TV industry, and it is also a season that will go down in history.

Of course, no matter which work wins, Su Yan is the biggest winner.

The summer season ended, and the autumn season came.

In this December, Sakazaki Ikumi became pregnant.

Su Yan and her little fun games finally stopped, and Su Yan also began to stay at home as much as possible to take care of her and nourish the fetus.

Of course, when people are idle at home, they start to tinker with many things out of boredom.

The two works, One Piece and Naruto, have accumulated a lot of emotional value for Su Yan. In addition to exchanging for subsequent plots, Su Yan also exchanged for the Castle in the Sky movie.

He also exchanged for a work that he liked very much, Death Note. Of course, he also did not let go of another masterpiece that Su Yan liked, Steins;Gate.

Although some works are masterpieces, their IP value is not enough, but Su Yan is not a person who only looks at money. If the commercial value is not enough, then it is not enough. He is not short of money.

He took care of his wife at home while writing scripts, balancing family and work.

A month later, the production department of Dimensional Film Company received Su Yan's script and the notice of the new work production again.

The upper and lower thousands of people in the entire company were already too lazy to be speechless.

Do you need to say more about the boss's perversion?

Just do it.

The following time.

The two dramas One Piece and Naruto were basically broadcast alternately, and their popularity was increasing globally.

With the broadcast of two popular dramas, the IP status of the Gundam series has begun to stabilize.

Although the Rurouni Kenshin TV series did not have Su Yan's participation, the original plot was still liked by a group of people.

Time passed, and in this way, Sakazaki Ikumi, who was thirty-two years old in the second year of October, gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix twins for Su Yan.

Su Yan, who was thirty-one years old, became the father of a pair of children in one day, and these two cute little guys did not know that their young father had already left them with more than 20 billion assets, and this wealth was still accumulating rapidly.

After all, at this time, the IPs of One Piece and Naruto were basically built almost.

Their influence in the global film and television industry or among the group has directly chased the Gundam series.

Judging from the IP valuation alone for the three works, Gundam is close to the 10 billion mark, and Naruto and One Piece have also exceeded the 6 billion mark.

These valuations will continue to increase with the length of the work broadcast and the spread of influence. All the peers in the film and television industry do not know what kind of influence these works will eventually have globally.

And in the case of long-form masterpieces such as Naruto, One Piece, and Gundam being broadcast in rotation, and medium-form works such as Death Note, Slam Dunk, etc. being launched irregularly by Su Yan's company.

The scale, influence, and popularity of Dimensional Film Company expanded rapidly, and the company's operating scope continued to expand.

At this time, Su Yan did not actually need to worry too much.

The company's development had a group of people to be responsible for, and all he needed to do was to determine the general direction.

Time passed in this way for three years.

In this year's Spring Festival, Spirited Away won the second place in the historical box office chart with a global box office of 4.4 billion.

After all, without the existence of a behemoth like Hollywood that harvests the world and launches movies globally, it is difficult for most movies launched by large countries to exceed 4 billion relying only on the local market and some overseas markets, but Spirited Away is one of the only movies in nearly ten years to break through this result.

Su Yan is now thirty-four years old, but his appearance is still young, and he still looks like he is in his twenties.

Sakazaki Ikumi is similar to Su Yan, but the two couples are too famous globally, so they have to wear masks when they go out with their three-year-old son and daughter.

There is no mistake, no missing words, no wrong punctuation!

"Dad... is that you..."

"That's Auntie Xiao Qian."

"That's Sister Zhuang Yuxin."

"That's Auntie Xiao Yuan..."

Two children were standing around looking at a series of posters on the street.

They were promotional posters for the "Fullmetal Alchemist" television drama.

Zhuang Yuxin is now in her twenties and plays the female lead, Wendy, in the show. As for Shen Liqian and Gu Qingyuan, they made guest appearances as other popular female characters in the drama.

Although the two, who are the same age as Su Yan, could still play roles in youth campus dramas after applying makeup, they tried to avoid doing so.

The entertainment industry in Xia needs new faces to emerge. The two don't lack fame or money, so there's no need for them to compete for every good project.

Except for the role of the female lead in "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End," a script that Su Yan came up with last year. The two really disregarded their sisterhood and fiercely competed for it, ultimately resulting in Shen Liqian winning the role of Frieren, while Gu Qingyuan could only play Fern.

Gu Qingyuan, who was angry for several days because of this, went directly to Shen Liqian's house and made her cook for her personally for three days to vent her anger.

Su Yan walked through the commercial district with his daughter, Su Ling, and son, Su Yu.

Promotional posters for the series of works that Su Yan has launched in the past two years.

"Gundam," "One Piece," "Naruto," "Death Note," and "Steins;Gate" were plastered everywhere.

Preliminary promotions have already begun for "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End," which is scheduled to premiere in January next year.

Promotional videos for the "One Piece" game, which will be released in November, were also being broadcast in many stores.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that Su Yan has completely dominated the Xia entertainment circle, with at least half of the attention and popularity being taken up by his works.

However, the market has become accustomed to it.

Crossing the commercial street, Su Yan and Ayase Yumi each held one of their children's hands and arrived at a hotel across the street.

The two deliberately didn't drive to the hotel, considering it a stroll through the commercial district with the children.

Here.

Was the location of the wedding of the son of Su Yan's long-time friend, Director Shi Peihua.

Shi Peihua is now in her early seventies, but her forty-two-year-old son is only getting married now. She has been extremely worried about this for many years and has been unhappy because of it.

But today, her silver hair gleamed, her energy was as if she had returned to her youth, her voice was loud, and she was constantly smiling.

The three of Zhuang Yuxin, Gu Qingyuan, and Shen Liqian, who were talking to her beside her, often made her laugh.

"Su Yan, Su Yan, you're here." As soon as Shi Peihua spoke, the entire hotel fell silent.

Shi Peihua has been working with Su Yan for so many years that she has risen from a front-line employee of the company to the head of the film and television production department.

She has a huge influence in the film and television industry in Xia and even globally. Many people who want to cooperate with Dimensional Films must first be recognized by Shi Peihua.

Shi Peihua is already like this, let alone Su Yan, whose net worth has multiplied several times in recent years thanks to the "Gundam," "Naruto," "One Piece," and other series, and is rumored to be approaching the 100 billion mark?

Shi Peihua is an industry bigwig.

Then Su Yan is undoubtedly a top-tier giant in the industry. Although he has never done such a thing, it is no joke that with his current power, he can ban a first-line star with just one sentence and make it impossible for them to ever recover.

Of course, since getting married, he has become a slave to his children. Apart from regularly checking accounts, auditing corruption, and then regularly giving scripts to the company's production department and signing appropriation contracts, he basically doesn't take specific responsibility for the company's business.

If a big shot with hundreds of billions of dollars in wealth still toils for work like an ordinary person, wouldn't that money be earned in vain?

Unexpectedly, such a person would attend Shi Peihua's son's wedding today.

Su Yan's gaze turned to Shi Peihua's son, while Gu Qingyuan beside him looked at Shi Peihua's daughter.

When the two were filming their first drama, "Rurouni Kenshin," Shi Peihua tried to promote her pair of children to them.

Now the forty-two-year-old older brother is married, but the thirty-six-year-old younger sister is still single.

"In a flash, fourteen years have passed." Gu Qingyuan came to Su Yan's side, teasing Su Yan's daughter Su Ling's face with her finger as she said with emotion.

"Your daughter can already run errands."

"You can also work hard and strive to have your wedding next year," Su Yan said.

"Let's talk about it? You understand the celebrity industry. Marriage is not that easy. Xiao Qian and I haven't even met anyone we like in the past ten years, let alone get married," Gu Qingyuan said with a smile.

"Are your standards that high!" Su Yan said.

"Of course, we have to find someone better than you to feel balanced!" Gu Qingyuan joked.

"You two, stop discussing. You see each other once every week or two and get together once. What's there to discuss?" Zhuang Yuxin quickly ran over, took their hands, and pulled them to the center of the stage.

Soon, Shen Liqian and Ayase Yumi also came to Su Yan's side.

Then the four of them, as the heavyweight guests of today's wedding, took a group photo with the bride and groom on stage.

The shutter of the camera clicked, and Su Yan's mind was slightly dazed. He had been in this world for almost fifteen years.

"What's wrong, Su Yan?" Ayase Yumi, who was beside Su Yan, held his palm.

"Unhappy?"

"No..." Su Yan felt a slight sense of enlightenment arise in his heart at this moment.

He quietly held his wife's and children's hands, looked at the banner posted on the opposite side of the stage, and the various gazes of the guests looking at him, and suddenly smiled.

The photo froze.

Soon, Zhuang Yuxin, Shen Liqian, Gu Qingyuan, Ayase Yumi, and even Su Yan's pair of children were staring at the photo.

"Dad, you smiled so handsomely today!" said his son, Su Yu.

"Indeed, Su Yan, you didn't smile so easily before. There was always a different look in your eyes," Ayase Yumi said, looking at Su Yan.

"It's nothing. I just suddenly realized that my transition period in this world is over," Su Yan said with a smile.

Since coming to this world, Su Yan has been half troubled by his memories of his previous life and half troubled by his body's memories, and his identity positioning was unclear.

He was clearly living in Xia, but he always felt like he was still a person from China in his previous life. Everything in Xia was a life experience, like playing a role-playing game.

However, people's cognition always comes suddenly.

Just by simply attending a wedding, some thoughts in Su Yan's heart disappeared, and he recognized his identity.

"I am Su Yan, the chairman of Dimensional Films, right?" Su Yan said with a smile, looking at Ayase Yumi.

"Of course, your wife is me, you have a pair of lovely children, and you have a net worth of nearly a hundred billion, enough for you to spend ten lifetimes," Ayase Yumi also said with a smile, her fair skin flawless. She leaned close to Su Yan's ear and said.

"Why are you asking this kind of question? Do you feel like this kind of life is a dream?"

"That's right. Being away from work and taking care of children for a long time can give people this feeling. When the children go to kindergarten, I will return to the company with you. We have to continue to make the 'Naruto' and 'One Piece' IPs bigger and stronger. The manager the company hired is too poor. Last year, the performance growth rate decreased by five percentage points. Otherwise, your assets would have really exceeded the 100 billion mark. Let him get lost after the new year."

"It's not just 'One Piece' and 'Naruto.' In fact, I've also conceived several long-form works in the past few years while taking care of the children."

"What are the names?"

Shen Liqian, Zhuang Yuxin, and the others began to capture key information at this time.

"I won't tell you," Su Yan said.

"You won't tell me? Then you're sleeping on the sofa tonight."

"Look, Gu Qingyuan hasn't starred in a female lead drama for two years, right? There's a drama about fighting monsters that she can star in, called 'Inuyasha'! Shen Liqian too, I've also prepared a new big female lead work for her, but most importantly, I have two ideas. One is a work called 'Pokémon,' a television series based on catching pocket monsters, and the other script is called 'Dragon Ball,' the story of a monkey finding seven dragon balls to fulfill wishes."

"Will that be good? Don't ruin your reputation in your later years and end up discredited!" Ayase Yumi said with a disgusted expression.

"What later years?" Su Yan smiled.

"I'm still young, and I'm also preparing to return to my acting career after the children go to kindergarten and try to play leading roles in some works. Life has just begun, so where did the later years come from?"

"You're just starting your life?" Ayase Yumi laughed.

"You're already successful and famous all over the world. Then I don't even know how wonderful the life you're starting in your heart is."

"Then you just stay by my side and watch carefully."

Su Yan looked at Ayase Yumi, Shen Liqian, Gu Qingyuan, Zhuang Yuxin, Shi Peihua, and his two children.

"Now is just the beginning of my and Dimensional Films' development. Our limits and peaks have not yet arrived!"

"In the next ten or twenty years, it will still be us who are guiding the trend of the market in the entire Xia and global film and television industries."

"In another ten or twenty years, we'll all be old actors and won't be able to film your dramas," Shen Liqian said with a smile at this time.

"That's right, even if I'm very confident, there's no way I can play a high school student when I'm fifty years old. I should play a high school teacher," Gu Qingyuan said.

"But I'm still willing to challenge Artoria at that time," Zhuang Yuxin said.

"You haven't updated the script about her, my famous role, for several years, Su Yan. You haven't forgotten Artoria, have you?"

"I won't forget... And even if we get old," Su Yan looked at his son and daughter.

The two, who inherited Su Yan's and Ayase Yumi's genes, have been exceptionally beautiful since they were young.

"At that time, let the two of them take over."

"You're arranging your children's future. They're most suitable to be producers," Ayase Yumi said.

"I want to be an actor," Su Yu said quickly.

"Me too! I want to play father and daughter with Dad in a TV series," Su Ling said quickly.

"..." Ayase Yumi.

Su Yan looked at the high-level executives of Dimensional Films around him and smiled.

"It's still more interesting to film!"

"Okay, when I come up with a drama, we'll all cooperate again. Director Shi, you'll be the director, Yumi will be the producer, I'll be the male lead, and Shen Liqian and Gu Qingyuan, you'll continue to be the two female leads..."

The eyes of several people lit up, and they said together.

"Really?"

"Really!" Su Yan said.

"Let's film a work that makes all the fans scold and feel depressed. Those are the types of works that made us famous. The works I've put out in the past few years have had good results, but they've been too bland."

Depressing?

Several people looked at Su Yan with strange expressions.

Hehe, your true colors are finally exposed.

These commercial works in the past few years are not your favorite, right?

But depressing themes...

Indeed, the fans' wails are the joy of us creators.

"Okay, then it has to be the kind that's extremely abusive," Shen Liqian said.

"It has to make the audience grit their teeth after watching it. The kind that makes the audience madly scold you at that time," Gu Qingyuan added.

"Definitely..." Su Yan said.

The few people looked at each other and smiled in unison.

The end of the book.