Depressive Screenwriter

After the seventh episode of Gu Xiang Si Qu aired, it undoubtedly sparked the biggest wave of heated discussions among fans since the show's premiere.

At one in the morning, three topics related to Gu Xiang Si Qu soared into the top ten of the Sakura Network's trending searches.

The paid views for the first episode of Gu Xiang Si Qu were skyrocketing at a rate visible to the naked eye.

The viewers of Gu Xiang Si Qu on Sakura TV finally realized:

This show deserves a rewatch!

One watch is just the beginning.

Those inexplicable plot points in the first episode can only be understood after rewatching it following the seventh episode.

Many people clicked on the first episode of Gu Xiang Si Qu.

What flooded in was a tidal wave of comments.

[I can't take it anymore! Reviewing the first episode.]

[Forgive me for laughing at Lu Yuan when I first watched the first episode. I really didn't understand what she was doing at the time.]

[How can there be such a drama? What's going on in the screenwriter's mind?]

[Is this episode the last one for Lu Yuan and Shen Buyan?]

[I don't want it to be!]

[Could it be that this drama needs to be watched in reverse order to follow the normal timeline? Is that why the title of the first episode is, 'Episode 14: This is the First Episode!'?]

[Rewatching gives a completely different feeling.]

When these rewatching viewers saw in the first episode, after Lu Yuan's three questions and three answers, Shen Buyan turned back three times as he said to Lu Yuan, "I'm really leaving, and I won't be back."

Then Lu Yuan, with a choked voice, forced a smile and responded to Shen Buyan, "I know."

[Lu Yuan must have felt that once Shen Buyan left here, she would never see him again, right.]

[Definitely! This time Shen Buyan doesn't recognize her, which means it's their first meeting. Once Shen Buyan leaves, he won't be back, ever, ever.]

[Make me cry. I won't allow myself to be the only one crying to death during this part.]

[This is a farewell.]

[Lu Yuan waited for a full 15 years, from the age of 21, just for this one hour of the Shangsi Festival night tour. Just for that moment of the willow branch catching the dew, to perform the祓禊 ritual to ward off disaster for Shen Buyan, just so Shen Buyan could personally pick up the willow branch she held in her palm, and then, she received Shen Buyan's reply.

"This kind of thing is meaningless to me."]

[Stop talking. I can't sleep at night, and it gets sadder the more I watch.]

[Was the screenwriter dumped by his white moonlight during his student days? Why is Rurouni Kenshin so angsty, and Gu Xiang Si Qu is also so angsty! Can a normal person come up with these plots? Isn't he sad when he creates them?]

[Perhaps, he's just not a normal person?]

[He's not human.]

When the scene showed 36-year-old Lu Yuan blocking an arrow for Shen Buyan, falling into Shen Buyan's arms, and smiling weakly at Shen Buyan, "Don't be afraid, you will see me again!"

The comments went so crazy that they almost covered the screen.

That night, the fans of the drama Gu Xiang Si Qu completely couldn't take it anymore.

On Sakura Network, and even in the forum areas of the other three video websites, they were frantically spamming topics related to Gu Xiang Si Qu.

Waking up the next morning, any drama fans who liked to go online would learn from these discussion posts that Sakura TV had released an ultimate "sweet drama" called "Gu Xiang Si Qu" in its Sunday midnight slot this season.

People always have curiosity.

Gu Xiang Si Qu's season-leading 9.3 rating, as well as the high praise for the work and the negative reviews for the screenwriter online,

attracted another wave of people to jump into the pit again.

Moreover, the internet would radiate into reality.

Many people who didn't go online heard a lot of people around them discussing this drama in their daily lives.

At this time, the autumn season was just over halfway through.

"2.86%"

In the Gu Xiang Si Qu production team, Xiaozaki Ikumi and Shi Peihua looked at this result in a daze.

Naturally, they must have fantasized about this result.

But when the fantasy came true, reality was like a dream.

"This is a midnight drama, right."

Xiaozaki Ikumi looked at Su Yan.

"That's right."

"It's only aired seven episodes, right," Xiaozaki Ikumi asked.

"That's right."

Xiaozaki Ikumi's expression was silent.

In January, she experienced the low point of her life because of Sakura Island Love Song.

In November, she reached the peak of her life.

The ups and downs of life, she really couldn't grasp a bit, Sakura TV's water was too deep.

She never thought that from the low point of life to the peak of life, she only needed to find a young screenwriter who had just been officially hired this year in the scriptwriting department.

She needed some time to digest this fact.

"Last week, Night Sakura's ratings seemed to be at the 3.1% level," Shi Peihua was slightly more stable.

"According to this rate of increase in ratings? It'll be surpassed in just two or three weeks?" Xiaozaki Ikumi's expression was really dumbfounded.

In the past, when the Sakura TV production department discussed the two midnight dramas from Zhongxia TV and Shanghai TV last year that broke 3% ratings, everyone had an expression of envy, jealousy, and hate.

Your drama is broadcast during the golden time slot with an average rating of 4%, and it gets a 4% rating with an A-level drama with an investment of 40 to 50 million. What kind of achievement is this? It's a crime if you don't reach it!

But being able to get a 3% rating with a C-level drama with an investment of 10 million in the garbage time slot with an average rating of 1%, that's called achievement, that's called ability.

Who can question it?

Regardless of whether this kind of success is strength or the market's opportunity, the right time and place.

Anyway, this is a huge qualification for the career of a producer, screenwriter, and director.

And now, Xiaozaki Ikumi seemed to see that for a long time in the future.

Colleagues in the Xia Country film and television industry repeatedly mentioned the achievements made by Gu Xiang Si Qu this season and the name of her Xiaozaki Ikumi.

"Su Yan, Aunt Shi!"

Xiaozaki Ikumi looked at the two, and finally, she remembered Gu Qingyuan, who was still filming Lu Yuan's scenes on the set.

"And Gu Qingyuan, the four of us... it feels like we're going to be famous in this industry."

"The autumn season hasn't ended yet. Don't draw conclusions. Perhaps the final result will exceed the current predictions," Su Yan said with a smile.

He felt that if the Xia Country audience hadn't rejected the plot of Gu Xiang Si Qu until now.

Then the ending shouldn't drive the fans crazy.

Maybe they have to think more about squeezing a few more places in the top ten ratings?

For Su Yan, although he knew that this kind of drama had a market in his previous life, he didn't know how big the reaction would be if it was moved to Xia Country TV.

He was actually a little nervous in his heart.

But now it seems that the word-of-mouth and achievements have exceeded what he initially thought.

"Yes, we must be careful. There are also many dramas that are complacent in the middle and don't pay attention to details in the later stage, leading to a decline in word-of-mouth," Xiaozaki Ikumi nodded in agreement.

"If Gu Xiang Si Qu's ratings really exceed Night Sakura, then we must defend the ranking of the ratings and never give it a chance to overtake."

A few days later, the average paid views per episode of Gu Xiang Si Qu on Sakura Network rose to 5.4 million. Among them, the paid views for the first episode of Gu Xiang Si Qu exceeded 8 million and were still growing.

Anyone with discerning eyes could see that the paid views for the later episodes of Gu Xiang Si Qu would definitely increase significantly. Eventually, the more than 8 million paid viewers of the first episode would gradually radiate to the second episode, the third episode, and the last episode.

This drama naturally had the potential for rewatching. In addition, many melon-eating drama fans couldn't stand the online promotion of Gu Xiang Si Qu fans and came to Sakura Network to catch up on the drama in large numbers, which directly made it even more eye-catching than a group of A-level dramas in the online drama market.

On the same day, the ranking of the seventh week's ratings in the autumn season was released.

Gu Xiang Si Qu ranked thirteenth in the season with 2.86%.

Night Sakura's ratings this week slightly declined to 3.03%, ranking eleventh in the season.

At this time, the people in the production department and the scriptwriting department of Sakura TV recalled.

Su Yan's bold words released in the crew before the premiere of Gu Xiang Si Qu.

【The goal of Gu Xiang Si Qu this season is to be in the top ten in ratings!】

It was ridiculous and outrageous, but this goal seemed to be coming true.

"Su Yan is really going to do it?"

"How did he do it?"

"This kind of person interned in the scriptwriting department for a year before being officially hired?"

"Xiaozaki Ikumi is so lucky, she was able to pick up this kind of genius?"

A group of people in the production department were extremely jealous of Xiaozaki Ikumi at this moment.

Jealousy almost made them dissociate.

Deputy Minister's Office of the Production Department.

Akasaka Yoshishi frowned as he looked at the ratings report of the TV drama market this week.

For a long time, the wrinkles on his brow did not disappear.

He wanted to support his nephew Kiyota Yamaji to become a fake genius.

How could he have thought that he would encounter a freak like Su Yan.

He had even broken out of the Sunday midnight slot.

In his many years of working career, Su Yan was the first freak he had encountered.

But now he couldn't do anything. He couldn't possibly add trouble to the premiere of Gu Xiang Si Qu at this time.

The competition between his nephew Kiyota Yamaji and Su Yan's genius screenwriter.

Can only be handed over to the market.

For two consecutive days, Gu Xiang Si Qu began to be reported by more famous media and news in Xia Country.

【Xia Country's genius screenwriter Su Yan rises, Gu Xiang Si Qu becomes the biggest dark horse in the autumn season.】

【Reverse-time-travel abusive love, Gu Xiang Si Qu is definitely the most creative script of the year.】

【Gu Xiang Si Qu's ratings are against the sky, and the paid views in the online drama market are even more amazing. The rating ranks first among all dramas in the autumn season. Su Yan may win this year's Xia Country Best New Screenwriter Award!】

【The autumn season is halfway through, it is too early to talk about "genius". Gu Xiang Si Qu may have a collapse in word-of-mouth in the later plot and become another Qingfeng.】

【Sakura TV's two C-level dramas this season, Night Sakura surpasses a group of B-level dramas and ranks 11th in the ratings. Gu Xiang Si Qu may go further in the short term and break into the top ten in the ratings.】

【The king of depressing dramas, genius screenwriter Su Yan, has created two dramas that have earned countless scoldings by making the audience's stomachs hurt. He has pioneered a new track.】

By now, Gu Xiang Si Qu has become one of the mainstream topics of discussion in the Xia Country TV drama market.

A considerable part of the Xia Country drama fans know about this dark horse drama that premiered with the highest rating.

In this market where the quality of a bunch of broadcast dramas is generally average this season, Gu Xiang Si Qu will definitely become more and more attractive to these drama fans.

For people who are in a drama drought, the midnight slot is really not an insurmountable hurdle.

The world's network is not as developed as Su Yan's previous life. The public's entertainment is mainly film and television dramas.

Xia Country has plenty of people who can stay up late.

The only difference is whether he is willing to stay up late.

Time, came to Sunday again.

It was another familiar day for the premiere of the seventh episode of "The Lone Doctor".

However, after the premiere of The Lone Doctor this week, a large number of TV viewers did not directly turn off the TV to rest as before.

Instead, a considerable number of these viewers switched channels to Sakura TV, waiting for the premiere of the latest episode of Gu Xiang Si Qu that night.

Staying up late.

No problem.

Thanks to Qingkong Wuxian, Chaodianci Da Shang Fireworks Qingyin for the reward.

Thank you, boss!