Depressive Screenwriter

"That day you asked me, if you knew someone would die in ten days, would you choose to tell them?"

"Now I ask you, if you were to part with the person you love in ten days, would you choose to leave on the first day, or would you spend the remaining nine days with her?"

The twelfth episode of Gu Xiang Si Qu ends with Lu Yan's question to Shen Buyan.

Shen Buyan's lost and frozen expression has already told the audience his answer.

The eleventh and twelfth episodes together tell only one story.

That is, through the previous time travels, Shen Buyan understands that his actions are part of history. Whether he is willing or not, Lu Yan's ending of dying at the age of 36 is already set.

He can't change it when Lu Yan is 26 years old.

He can't change it when Lu Yan is 21 years old.

His series of actions to resist fate and change history are themselves a part of history, the direct cause of Lu Yan's death at the age of 36.

If he had realized this earlier and done nothing, Lu Yan might not have died at 36.

Having understood this, Shen Buyan came to Lu Yan's 18-year-old era, just to meet her one last time, teach her a lot of knowledge, and then use a trick to help Lu Yan's family escape their slave status before preparing to leave.

He was still fantasizing that if he hadn't made Lu Yan fall in love with him this time, perhaps Lu Yan's future fate would change.

But it was in this process that the 18-year-old Lu Yan fell hopelessly in love with this person who she met for the first time, but who cared about her so much, taught her so carefully, helped her family get rid of their slave status, and saved her younger brother Lu Shi.

And at the moment when Shen Buyan taught her many things and prepared to leave, she asked this question.

Having experienced the depressing nature of the previous time travels, the audience of Gu Xiang Si Qu thought that their tear threshold was already very high.

But after the twelfth episode was broadcast, a group of people still opened the comment section of Gu Xiang Si Qu with tears in their eyes.

"So this is why the 36-year-old Lu Yan didn't tell Shen Buyan anything. Because Lu Yan is such a person, she knows that Shen Buyan will constantly meet with her in the past, until he finally sees her at 18. The result is not important, the process is the most important."

"If the person you love will die in ten days, Lu Yan would not choose to tell the other person, because the unknown future will be full of possibilities and hope. If she has to part with the person she loves in ten days, then Lu Yan will not hesitate to love the other person for ten days, and then accept the separation on the tenth day without regret. This is Lu Yan."

"This female lead is really well-written."

"I'm tearing up again. This drama has been tricking me out of my tears every week since the seventh episode."

"Actually, what touched me the most in this episode was Li Yong. At this time, he is still an honest official. Facing Lu Yan's report, he did not protect his subordinates, did not protect each other, but enforced the law impartially, and even felt so guilty after being blinded by corrupt officials and wrongly killing an ordinary person."

"When I saw Li Yong's face full of grief after Lu Yan presented the evidence of the report and said, [No, I'm just thinking, why would I wrongly kill a good person? I, Li Yong, was the top scorer in the imperial examination at the age of twenty, and I have been promoted seven times in ten years, skipping ten levels. The vision in my heart has never changed. What I hate the most is this group of national parasites.] I really felt that the character of Li Yong came to life. He was once a good official with dreams, wanting to make the Sheng Kingdom strong!"

"No one is bad from the beginning. If Li Yong had never been good, why would Lu Yan be willing to follow him for three years, helping him to do things and gather information? In fact, if Shen Buyan hadn't interfered in the 21-year-old Lu Yan era, Li Yong might not have really betrayed the country because of jealousy."

"This drama only has two episodes left, so when will the plot that the screenwriter said about Shen Buyan and Lu Yan realizing their dreams appear?"

"Maybe it will be in the last episode. For example, Shen Buyan suddenly discovers some loopholes that can circumvent the rules of history and save Lu Yan's fate?"

"I don't understand, but no matter what method is used, the screenwriter must make these two people happy together."

"Suddenly I have a premonition that the thirteenth episode may be very虐."

"呸呸呸, don't be a crow's mouth. It is obvious that the thirteenth episode is the sweet plot of Lu Yan and Shen Buyan falling in love. It's虐! It would be best if Shen Buyan found a way or prop to change his fate when Lu Yan was 18, and then lived with Lu Yan in this era, until 21, until 26, until 36, until they grew old together. As long as the screenwriter follows this direction, this drama will definitely be a god!"

"Yes, yes, yes, that's it. The screenwriter must be thinking the same way. How can there be an unchangeable fate? Whether it can be changed or not is just a matter of the screenwriter's pen?"

The next day at noon, the ratings data for the 12th episode of Gu Xiang Si Qu was released.

3.53%

Compared with the ratings of the previous week, it has risen again.

This result, if compared with the results of each drama in the 11th week of the autumn season, can directly make Gu Xiang Si Qu among the top 5 in the quarterly ratings ranking.

Only second to the 11th episode of the three A-level dramas of the three major TV stations, Painting in the Middle of the Person's 4.09%, the 11th episode of the Lone Doctor's 4.05%, the 11th episode of the Gilded Person's 3.95%, and the 11th episode of the B-level fantasy love drama "The Mind Reader" of China Central Television this quarter, 3.63%.

At this time, the attention and discussion of the Xia Country film and television industry on the drama Gu Xiang Si Qu is already unprecedentedly high.

It is already outrageous for a Sunday midnight drama to make it into the top ten of the quarter.

Now it's in the top five?

Even if the Xia Country TV drama market this quarter is recognized as poor in quality, it shouldn't make a small-cost midnight drama explode like this, right?

If Gu Xiang Si Qu was broadcast on the prime time slot from the beginning, wouldn't the ratings of Gu Xiang Si Qu be crazy this quarter?

However, on the other hand, the increase in paid views of Gu Xiang Si Qu on Sakura.com has slowed down a lot.

The increase in ratings of Gu Xiang Si Qu every week is basically formed by people who have supplemented the previous plot on these online broadcast platforms to keep up with the update progress of the TV station.

Once the increase in paid playback data of Gu Xiang Si Qu on Sakura.com slows down, it means that there is no increase in new viewers, and the growth rate of the drama's ratings will also slow down.

Quarter fifth

It should be the final result of this drama.

At most, Gu Xiang Si Qu will squeeze out the fourth place in the ratings of "The Mind Reader" before the finale and become the fourth place itself.

And it is unlikely to pose a threat to the three A-level dramas in this quarter.

This is the unanimous idea of a group of practitioners in the TV industry, and even the production department and screenwriter department of Sakura TV.

But this definitely does not include Su Yan.

In the crew, he and Yumi Shinozaki were warming themselves in the office.

After all, it is approaching winter and the set is cold.

"If Gu Xiang Si Qu is like many fans on the Internet say, let Shen Buyan find a way in this era in a bland way, so that he can transcend the limitations of historical time, change Lu Yan's fate and grow old with Lu Yan in this era, then I admit that the ratings of Gu Xiang Si Qu will indeed stop at fourth or fifth," Su Yan said.

"The ratings of works that are bland, stable, meet the audience's expectations and end smoothly are bound to be bland and stable, without any waves."

"But Gu Xiang Si Qu is not like that. Until the last episode, the last moment, its plot is full of ups and downs, beyond the audience's imagination. This also means that its final ratings are likely to have large fluctuations."

"In other words, Su Yan, you actually think that the ratings of Gu Xiang Si Qu can rely on the last two episodes to launch an impact on the top three A-level dramas?"

Yumi Shinozaki's voice became a little strange, she took a deep breath, she didn't even dare to think about this kind of thing.

"I'm not sure," Su Yan said with a smile.

"But I think there is a chance. At least... I think, or rather, I hope... that Gu Xiang Si Qu will surpass Gilded One in ratings once before the finale."

Yumi Shinozaki blinked her eyes, in fact, Su Yan's words made her very dizzy.

I still think Su Yan, you dare to think!

This quarter belongs to the collective crotch of the TV drama market, and the ratings of all dramas are very average, and even the ratings of Sakura TV's Gilded One have never broken 4% so far.

Moreover, the theme of Gu Xiang Si Qu is too novel in Xia Country, the score is high, the plot is controversial, and the popularity has attracted a large number of passerby audiences, so that Gu Xiang Si Qu has the current ranking.

Further up...

It's actually very reluctant.

"It's up to people to make things happen. The fact that Gu Xiang Si Qu has this result actually exceeded my expectations," Su Yan said.

"Gu Xiang Si Qu is currently the fifth in the quarter, and the second-ranked TV series in the ratings of Sakura TV's internal self-made dramas. So in the end, what I expect is that Gu Xiang Si Qu will squeeze down the third in this quarter, the first in the ratings of the station's self-made dramas, Gilded One, before the finale. Let Gu Xiang Si Qu replace it.

Even if this result only lasts for a week... it's enough for us."

Yumi Shinozaki's heart was pounding.

The current ratings of Gu Xiang Si Qu are still 0.4% away from Gilded One.

She didn't dare to think so much at first, but now...

Su Yan's words are really the devil whispering.

If Su Yan's goal was set as the top three in the quarter from the beginning, exceeding Gilded One internally, she would definitely treat Su Yan as a fool.

And now...

She started to feel dizzy, but she also started to fantasize about that scene.