Depressive Screenwriter

Everyone enjoyed the meal.

Late into the night, Xiao Guantian Cai and the others were the first to leave.

Shinozaki Ikumi and Su Yan stood at the entrance of the restaurant.

Shanghai in December was already bleak and cold, though it hadn't snowed.

Shinozaki Ikumi tugged at the collar of her white trench coat, her clear eyes looking at Su Yan beside her with a hint of complexity.

"Su Yan, thank you."

"Eh? Why are you saying that all of a sudden?" Su Yan asked.

"Thank you for still considering me when thinking about your future career development," Shinozaki Ikumi said softly.

She didn't care about anything else Su Yan had said during the meal.

Only the most important sentence.

That under equal conditions, he would choose to stay at Sakura TV.

And if he stayed at Sakura TV, he would only consider working with her, Shinozaki Ikumi.

This kind of promise was too significant.

Sakura TV had plenty of producers who could manage a production team well.

But a genius like Su Yan, who had proven his strength twice in a row,

Sakura TV wouldn't encounter one in several years.

"Of course. You're the first friend I made since coming to this worl-" Su Yan paused, quickly correcting himself.

"Since coming to Shanghai."

"That's an exaggeration. Didn't you intern at the TV station for a year before? You must have made a lot of friends. But I'm still very happy that you said that."

Shinozaki Ikumi said with a smile, walking towards the underground parking lot with Su Yan.

"Alright... today's dinner has dispelled a lot of my worries."

Shinozaki Ikumi looked at Su Yan.

"At first, I set the goal for Gu Xiangsi Qu very low. I was being too cautious and narrow-minded."

"But now, since Gu Xiangsi Qu has achieved such results, my thinking may be leaning towards pride."

"Gu Xiangsi Qu is doing so well now. Maybe it can move up a few spots in the autumn drama market."

"Su Yan, you have a good chance of getting nominated for the Best New Screenwriter award in the Xia Guo television industry this year with this drama."

"And I'm already looking forward to January, when the award judging committee sends me the invitation for the Best New Producer nomination."

Shinozaki Ikumi took out her car keys and smoothed her hair behind her ear, smiling brightly.

She hadn't drunk alcohol, so she was driving Su Yan home.

Although she had been working at the TV station for a while longer than Su Yan,

her first work as a drama producer was the terrible romance drama Sakura Island Love Song at the beginning of the year, followed by Rurouni Kenshin and Gu Xiangsi Qu.

She was indeed qualified for this award.

"I've been lucky working with you. I have a feeling... this good luck will stay with me for a long time."

Su Yan paused upon hearing this, then smiled and opened the car door, sitting in the passenger seat.

"Remove the word 'feeling'."

"Good luck will stay with you!"

Shinozaki Ikumi got into the driver's seat and started the car, a smile on her face.

"Thank you for your kind words."

She thought that their conversation should end there, followed by an atmospheric silence, and Su Yan sitting in the passenger seat admiring the neon lights of Shanghai until he got home.

That kind of unspoken understanding between partners!

But Su Yan only remained silent for ten seconds before suddenly speaking, breaking the atmosphere.

"Miss Shinozaki."

"Hmm?"

"Next week is the production department's meeting to approve the new drama production for the January winter season, right?"

Shinozaki Ikumi, who had just started the car, slammed on the brakes, and both Su Yan and she leaned forward.

"Su Yan, why are you asking this?"

Shinozaki Ikumi immediately turned her head, a strange look flashing in her eyes.

The main shooting of Gu Xiangsi Qu would be completed in just over a week.

The remaining part was recording, editing, music insertion, and some necessary special effects production, which might take another week or two after the shooting.

But if

Su Yan had a new script, then the Gu Xiangsi Qu production team wouldn't even need to disband, it could seamlessly connect and immediately start producing the next work.

"You're right. I have a new script and I want to produce it and broadcast it in the January winter season," Su Yan said, looking at Shinozaki Ikumi.

Hiss!

Shinozaki Ikumi looked at Su Yan with a dumbfounded expression. She had personally witnessed Su Yan's workload this season.

Shooting the male lead's scenes, writing the script, creating and composing several popular theme songs in the drama...

And now you're telling me that you can still find time to write a new script?

Are you human?

Su Yan was also tired, but he couldn't help it.

However he calculated his total net worth after Gu Xiangsi Qu was broadcast and the profits were in his account, it would be at most five or six million.

If he wanted to leave Sakura TV next March and start his own film and television company,

he would need a starting capital of close to ten million.

So for the January winter season, he had to launch another drama, and work for Sakura TV again, to earn ten million as a 'nest egg'.

"Are you sure you want to shoot and produce three dramas for three consecutive seasons?" Shinozaki Ikumi asked, taking a deep breath.

"Do you think I'm someone who speaks without thinking?" Su Yan replied calmly.

"I've already thought about the script."

The atmosphere in the car fell silent.

"Another depressing drama?" Shinozaki Ikumi asked after a pause.

"Yes, very depressing!" Su Yan said.

Shinozaki Ikumi wouldn't be fooled by Su Yan a second time, so Su Yan didn't hide what type of drama he was preparing to produce.

Because the new script was drawn last night after spending one-third of his emotional value, about 3.5 million.

The emotional value earned from the unbroadcast episodes of Gu Xiangsi Qu and the remaining 7 million emotional value on him, he planned to use it all in one go after next March, as the first self-produced drama after establishing his film and television company!

After getting Su Yan's answer, Shinozaki Ikumi's teeth ached a little.

This guy is really reckless, not afraid that his audience will be abused to the point of running over to attack him in real life!

But after thinking about it carefully, those angry drama fans who come to trouble Su Yan are probably just coming to get beaten up.

And she, starting from Rurouni Kenshin, has been scolded along with Su Yan.

As the producer, she has the responsibility to review and ask the screenwriter to modify the script, so it's not unreasonable for her to be scolded.

But what can she do?

Su Yan is making these depressing dramas popular, and she doesn't dare to make random comments now.

After all, the lesson of Kiyota Sanji's Seifu was only two months ago.

"What's the name of your new script?" Shinozaki Ikumi asked curiously.

"【To the Moon!】" Su Yan said softly.

To the Moon?

Huh?

What a strange name?

Well, trust Su Yan.

Shinozaki Ikumi thought for a minute.

"Give me the first three episodes of the script within three days, so I can give it to Director Xiao Guan to operate in advance. No matter what..." Shinozaki Ikumi's eyes flashed with shrewdness.

"This time, we must strive for reasonable and compliant resources for your new script! Absolutely not allow that old bastard to interfere."

Shinozaki Ikumi started the car after finishing speaking.

Because Su Yan had already decided not to renew a long-term contract with Sakura TV, he didn't go all out for the script prepared for the January winter season like before, and invest all his emotional value to draw the next work.

But this doesn't mean that the value of 【To the Moon!】is very low.

Among the pile of depressing works that Su Yan had seen in his previous life, the emotion To the Moon brought him was definitely top-notch.

The original work of To the Moon is not a TV series, nor an anime, not even a novel, but a text game.

It is a game with extremely low production costs, pixelated graphics, almost no gameplay, and playing it is like reading a text novel.

Galgame games have welfare pictures and welfare plots. But To the Moon even has pixelated graphics.

Evaluating the original To the Moon from a gameplay perspective, it is garbage.

But evaluating To the Moon from a storytelling perspective, it is a masterpiece.

In the year of its release, it defeated Catherine, Portal and other large-scale games and won the Best Story Award of the Year.

And the game author was also invited to CCTV for a program interview because of the sensation caused by To the Moon moving too many domestic and foreign game player groups.

Before Su Yan transmigrated to Xia Guo, To the Moon had already been approved in Hua Guo to be made into an animated film, but unfortunately, no character posters have been released for several years.

It is not clear whether it is a funding problem or some other reason.

Su Yan, who returned home, looked at the words "To the Moon" typed on his computer script format document.

Taking a deep breath, after a few years, Su Yan still felt a little nervous when he saw these three words.

After all, he couldn't sleep all night after watching the plot of this work in his previous life.

But when he thought that he could spread this depressing emotion to the residents of Xia Guo,

Su Yan became excited again, and the motivation to write the script immediately rose.

Two more days passed, Sunday.

The eleventh episode of Gu Xiangsi Qu premiered.

Shen Buyan's fourth time travel began.

This time, all the broken jade pieces were fused into one, and it was also brought back by Shen Buyan to the era when Lu Yuan was 18 years old.

Even the jade pendant has traveled through, indicating that this is really the last time.

And this time, Shen Buyan understood what fate cannot be violated.

He constantly tried to change Lu Yuan's fate, but in the end, all his actions only brought greater harm to Lu Yuan.

He looked at 18-year-old Lu Yuan and his younger brother Lu Shi, who had not yet escaped the slave status of the local powerful family in Nanmeng Lake.

So the only thing Shen Buyan wanted this time was to help Lu Yuan's family escape their slave status, and to teach this girl, who he met for the first time in this time travel and didn't know him, more knowledge.

Hoping that in her future life, which was already destined, she could rely on this knowledge of military affairs, strategy, politics, and economics, and suffer less grievance in the struggle with Li Yong.

This episode was not as abusive as before in a strict sense.

There were only some details, such as when Shen Buyan helped Lu Yuan pick the leaves from the top of her head, Lu Yuan took half a step back.

Just like in the first episode, when 36-year-old Lu Yuan helped Shen Buyan tidy his clothes, Shen Buyan took half a step back.

At the moment in one's life when one loves the other the most, one encounters him/her who first met him/her.

One also tasted once the harm that one's unintentional behavior once brought to the other party.

How uncomfortable 36-year-old Lu Yuan felt when she saw him.

How painful Shen Buyan's interaction with 18-year-old Lu Yuan was.

The sense of fate in this drama is reflected to the extreme in this episode.

But Su Yan's previous remarks became the only inner support for this group of viewers.

"Don't be afraid, screenwriter Su Yan said.

When the ending comes, Shen Buyan and Lu Yuan's dreams will all be realized.

This drama must have a happy ending."

Thanks for the reward from Super Electromagnetic Fireworks Light Music! Thank you, boss.