Depressive screenwriter.

Chapter 106 Part Two
On Sunday night, The Simplest Love, April, and the sixth episode of Scarlet Love were broadcast one after another.

The next day, the ratings were announced.
The sixth episode in April had a viewership rating of 4.41%, continuing to rank third in the ratings.

The sixth episode of The Simplest Love had a viewership rating of 4.48%, continuing to rank second in the ratings.

The ratings for "Scarlet Love", which premiered in the same time slot in April, were 2.01%, just a little short of falling below the 2% mark.

The plot of the sixth episode in April is relatively smooth, after all, the piano competition just ended in the fifth episode.

The sixth episode was more of a transition, and the musical plot that the audience expected was missing.

Instead, the focus is on depicting the emotional development between Miyazono Kaoru and the male protagonist Arima Kousei.

Under the moon, the two of them watched the sky full of fireflies by the lake.

Kousei Arima looked at the girl in front of him and confirmed his feelings. He wanted to walk side by side with the girl.

Of course, at the end of this episode, because of Kaoru Miyazono's performance at the previous concert, she and Kousei Arima were invited by the organizer of another music competition to participate in the competition that day.

However, the plot of the sixth episode only came to the moment when it was Miyazono Kaoru and Arima Kousei's turn to go on stage, but Miyazono Kaoru did not show up and the plot came to an abrupt end.

Whether the plot is ups and downs can directly reflect the ratings.

If the plot is smooth, the increase in ratings will naturally be small.

But this week's April ratings maintained third place, which made a group of peers in the television industry breathe a sigh of relief.

Especially the employees of the three major TV stations.

Normally, they always looked down on their peers who were not among the top three. A genius like Su Yan who emerged out of nowhere was already enviable, and in their eyes, Su Yan "seeked death" by leaving Sakura.

Then it was launched on Qingkong TV in April and the results were so good.

Although Su Yan did not target them, they also felt embarrassed.

The TV station they were proud to work for was forced into this state by the work of a screenwriter in his early twenties. The top management of the station recently used Su Yan as an example in a high-level meeting to belittle them as worthless.

The hatred between people often comes from inexplicable reasons.

"That's what I said, it's not that outrageous!"

"No matter how great April's drama is, Blue Sky TV has its limits. It's impossible for its ratings to rise indefinitely, right? It's already at 4.4%, it can't go up any further."

"It only held up in the sixth episode, what about the seventh? In the seventh episode of The Simplest Love Story, can it still maintain its second place in the quarter?"

"I've never seen anything like this before. One day I'm actually worried that Sakura TV's dramas will be overtaken by Aozora TV."

"The simplest love, hold on! Don't let April overtake you! It's embarrassing enough that one of the three major TV stations was dethroned by Qingkong TV. It's really a shame to have two of them dethroned."

"I'm from Zhongxia TV. I hope the ratings will top the charts in April. We three TV stations will be embarrassed together. No one can escape!"

When the employees of the three major TV stations had a recent offline dinner, the most talked about topics were always about Su Yan and April.

It is obvious that Xia Feng Hua is the drama with the highest ratings this season.

But both the audience and the media report on April more frequently than the former.

Everyone acknowledges that Blue Sky TV has its limits.

It is already very difficult for a drama to have a viewership rate of over 4%.

If you want to push for 4.5%, 4.8% or even 5.0% ratings, that would be too outrageous.

How can it be so easy to change the audience's viewing habits?

A drama with this level of ratings will only be broadcast on the three major TV stations.

But it just so happens that the ratings of these three dramas, including April, Xia Fenghua, and The Simplest Love, are in this range.

It seems that if this drama in April can just put in a little more effort and have some explosive plot in one episode, the ratings will soar.

And this is the breaking point.
It appeared on another Sunday, when the seventh episode of April was aired.

At the end of episode 6, Miyazono Kaori did not show up at the agreed time.

This violin and piano ensemble only had Kousei Arima's piano solo left.

With the encouragement of Miyazono Kaoru, the male protagonist broke through his inner demons and learned from his mother's friend the reason why his mother forced him to learn the piano so cruelly before her death.

This is because Arima Kousei's mother only knew how to play the piano, and she wanted to teach him all these skills.

In this way, even if she died, her son Kousei Arima would be able to live well in this world by relying on the piano.

Strong love leads to extreme behavior.

The mother who desperately wanted to teach Arima Kou to have more children before she died ended up causing her son to collapse.

Until this concert
Arima Kousei breaks through all his inner demons and learns the truth from his mother's friend.

The music he played produced a tone that warmed the hearts of the audience in front of the TV.

As always, the piano playing is very touching.

This is what the audience of this drama has been looking forward to since the first episode.

but
The highlights of the seventh episode don’t end there.

The music, plot and memories about the mother in the first half of the episode made a lot of viewers cry.

But the second half of the story...
The heroine, Miyazono Kaori, is in the hospital.

She lay on the hospital bed and told Arima Kousei with a gentle smile that she was fine.

At this time, the narration of the plot is Kousei Arima's inner monologue.

[You won't leave me like my mother did! ]

After this kind of plot appeared, fans of the show in April had already sensed something was wrong.

I got sick?
So in the second episode, when Kaoru Miyazono fainted at the venue after her performance, that was due to illness, not exhaustion?
and also
Why does the protagonist's inner monologue seem more like setting a flag the more he thinks about it?

Arima Kousei's mother died of illness.

The girl he likes now, Kaori Miyazono, is also hospitalized due to illness.

Oh, this doesn't look like a coincidence, does it?
On the night when the seventh episode was aired, April's fans were furious and rushed into the comment section of Su Yan's account on raccoon.com to speak crazily.

"Su Yan, you old thief, are you starting over again?"

"Please be a human being. In the next episode, the plot will be set to be that Miyazono Kaoru has a minor problem of low blood sugar due to lack of physical strength. In this way, Teacher Su Yan and I can still be good friends!" "Brothers, why do I feel something is wrong! Su Yan is not going to kill Miyazono Kaoru, right?"

"No, no, no, no, no matter what, this is a campus urban love musical! Is it really necessary for the heroine to get sick and die? No matter how wild and imaginative Su Yan is, he can't be so heartless, right? Miyazono Kaoru is a female character he created, so he must have some feelings for her, right?"

"Then Xue Dai Ba, Lu Yuan, and Xiao Xi are also characters created by him!"

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"I'm so great, Su Yan, you old thief, if you dare to write Gongyuan Xun to death, then I really have to go fight you in person."

"No way, does anyone know the old thief Su Yan? Go and persuade him?"

"He doesn't even give face to Yoshitoki Akasaka, the director of the production department of Sakura TV. Who will he listen to?"

"Don't panic, everyone. It's only the seventh episode. Miyazono Kaoru is just in the hospital, not dying. There's still a chance to make amends."

"The main thing is that Su Yan is a thief with a long history of bad deeds! If it was someone else's drama, I wouldn't worry if the heroine got into a vegetable after a car accident, because I'm sure the screenwriter would have made her wake up if she didn't die. But Su Yan, the thief, he made the heroine's hand get pierced by a nail. I was afraid that she would die of tetanus later."

"Indeed, I have a psychological trauma. Su Yan, you can see this, right? If you can cure Gong Yuan Xun's illness in the eighth episode, I will forgive you."

"No, there's no point in looking for Su Yan. We have to look for Su Yan's partner, Shinozaki Ikumi. No matter what he says, he won't ignore the opinions of his partners!"

"By the way, there are also Gu Qingyuan and Shen Liqian. Please go to their accounts and make comments."

Late in the evening, Ikumi Shinozaki was still watching the audience's comments on April on the Internet.

But her certified account on Raccoon.com quickly saw hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands of private message comments.

They were all putting pressure on her, hoping that she would use her power as a producer to restrain Su Yan from playing with fire with the plot again.

It would be perfect if this drama ended in April according to the rhythm of the first six episodes. Why come up with a plot where the heroine gets sick?
"What can I do! I used to be the producer and he was the screenwriter. He still considered me a little and waited until the very end to release the ending of the work. Now he is the boss and I am the general manager, and he doesn't even bother to pretend." Shinozaki Ikumi sighed.

Su Yan's fans are already suspicious.

"But fortunately, I persuaded Su Yan to create a second ending."

When Shinozaki Ikumi thought of this, she felt a little more at ease.

If Su Yan hadn't agreed to this, she couldn't imagine what the scene would be like when the last episode was aired in April.

Su Yan has a strong mentality and is not afraid of being scolded.

She, Ikumi Shinozaki, is a bit fragile.

The next day, during the lunch break, the April crew.

All the senior executives of the crew gathered together and stared at Shinozaki Ikumi.

Although everyone was chatting about everything, in fact, all their attention was on Shinozaki Ikumi's phone.

After all, the April ratings results have always been given to Shinozaki Ikumi by Aozora TV.

Soon, her cell phone rang with a text message.

Everyone's eyes turned at once.

Shinozaki Ikumi opened her phone with a somewhat nervous mood.

When the first two lines of text appeared on the screen, her expression froze, and it took her several seconds to recover. Her voice became a little louder than usual.

"Your Lie in April Episode 4.46 had a viewership rating of %."

"Sakura TV's The Simplest Love Episode 4.45 had a viewership rating of %."

"Xia Fenghua Episode 4.59, Rating %."

"This week's top three ratings: first, Xia Fenghua. Second, April. Third, The Simplest Love."

Shinozaki Ikumi looked at Su Yan, Shi Peihua, Gu Qingyuan, Shen Liqian, and the actors who played important supporting roles such as Sawabe Tsubaki and Watari Ryota.

"We've advanced to second place in the quarterly ratings!"

A burst of cheers broke out in the studio.

"I knew it."

"Second, it feels like a dream."

"It's really second. Can it be second in ratings if it's broadcast on Blue Sky TV?"

"Everyone, stay after work tonight. Let's have a dinner together to celebrate!"

Su Yan, as the chairman of the company, also spoke with joy at this time.

Although I had expected it, I still felt indescribable joy when it came true.

“But don’t relax too much. This is just the result of the seventh episode. In the following episodes, "The Simplest Love Story" still has a chance to catch up in ratings.” Su Yan said in a deep voice while looking at everyone on the set.

"However, since we are already ranked second in the ratings, maintaining this position and not being overtaken is definitely not our first goal. I'm sure everyone understands our next goal!"

"In the competition, the second place is the biggest loser!" Su Yan said.

"There are still four episodes to be aired in April. I hope everyone can perform at their best in the filming of this final episode. Let this drama in April bring some small shocks to the summer season and the three major TV stations! We will take first place."

Su Yan has made such speeches many times in the past period of time.

But only this time, Su Yan mentioned that April is the month when Your Lie will reach the top of the ratings.

No one in the entire crew would feel funny.

Rather, it should be so.

Seven weeks.

It jumped from sixth place in the first season to second place.

It was broadcast on Blue Sky TV and it defeated the three major TV stations. It was an A-level drama.

If you don't get first place, it would be against youth, against everyone's expectations, and against common sense.

Dark horse, how can you give up halfway?

A dark horse is meant to be dark all the way!

(End of this chapter)