Depressive screenwriter.

Chapter 109: The end of the summer season, the fans’ dispute
Your Lie in April ranked second in the quarter in ratings for two consecutive weeks, which directly attracted a large number of passers-by to flock to Raccoon.com to catch up on the show.

As a result, the paid views of Your Lie in April officially exceeded 10 million per episode.

Although the show has only aired up to episode 8.

But old fans have already noticed that something is wrong.

New fans are blindly optimistic, as years of following the drama have formed a psychological inertia in them.

Xiaguo's dramas generally have a lot of suspense in the early stages and a happy ending in the later stages.

What causes depression?
What a tragic ending?

Where is this?
New fans only see the youthful love plot of this drama.

I only saw the high-quality music scenes that made the work unique.

I only saw that the plot of this drama was different from those routine dramas in the Xia country market.

The heroine is just sick. Will the screenwriter really let her die? Don't be ridiculous.

Her final outcome is definitely to defeat the disease.

In movies and TV shows, it would be meaningless if the disease wasn’t as beatable as the villain.

New Xiaobai drama fans are very convinced by this point of view.

Therefore, in the comment section of Raccoon.com, there were a lot of verbal battles between new and old fans.

"Don't think too much. I guarantee that by the tenth episode, the heroine's illness will be cured."

"Too young! You can tell at a glance that he's just started watching Su Yan's drama."

"I just saw the first violin and piano duet between the male and female protagonists on Raccoon.com, so Miyazono Kaoru's fainting was actually due to illness rather than exhaustion?"

"I've watched the latest 8 episodes in one go. Can you tell me what other dramas with similar themes are there in Xiaguo? I want dramas with music and romance, and it would be best if the music in the drama is of the same standard as April."

"Then you won't find it. The music in April's play is really good. Other musicals don't seem to combine character emotions, stories and music competitions like this play."

"Su Yan is really amazing! But only a screenwriter like him who has a high level of musical skills can create such a play. Other screenwriters don't have that level."

"I watched all eight episodes on Raccoon.com in one go. I couldn't sleep all night. I had no idea when the two protagonists would confess their love! And when would Miyazono Kaoru recover from her illness."

"I say, why are you discussing things like whether Miyazono Kaoru is well and the two confessing their love? You should be worried that Miyazono Kaoru will be killed by the screenwriter!"

"It's this topic again. Why are you so timid to watch a campus romance drama? Just go watch a variety show. There's not a single minute of abuse from beginning to end."

"In a word, no normal screenwriter would write the most popular heroine of the whole play to death, unless the screenwriter does not want to continue working in this industry. You all say that this screenwriter named Su Yan has a bad past, but in my opinion, no matter how much he insists on being himself, he would not dare to kill Miyazono Kaoru and risk offending so many fans!"

"That's right. If you don't believe in Mr. Su Yan's character, how can you not believe in his desire to make money as the owner of a film and television company that just became independent from Sakura TV? Unless he wants to lose a lot of money in his next drama. Otherwise, no one will go against the audience and money."

"Yes, I support Teacher Su Yan. I support April. Are you people who say April is a tragedy all day long hired by Sakura TV to discredit Teacher Su Yan?"

"That's right. I've read about the feud between Sakura TV and Teacher Su Yan in the media. This group of people must be the Internet trolls hired by Sakura TV. So, how much does Sakura TV pay you for posting a smear post? Is it the market price of 50 cents? Is your conscience worth 50 cents?"

"Oh my god, you new fans are really stubborn even when you are about to die. You are even trying to defend old thief Su Yan? Fine, fine, based on my understanding of old thief Su Yan, after the last episode of this drama airs in April, if you don't turn from fans to haters on the spot, I will just eat it live."

"Another person is begging for food and drink online."

The influx of a large number of new fans has led to a significant increase in Su Yan's reputation.

Many of Su Yan's old fans woke up and found that they no longer dominated public opinion, and were labeled as Sakura TV's water army by new fans.

I really answered that sentence.

Su Yan is serious about filming TV dramas. Judging from the quality of the dramas in early to mid-April, as long as more people watch them, there will be great scholars who will debate for him.

This made Su Yan feel a little embarrassed.

Although I am somewhat touched by the innocence of these new fans and their belief in him.

And he is indeed preparing to shoot the second ending to be broadcast on the online streaming platform.

But the depressing ending of the TV premiere will probably backstab those new fans who believe in him.

If the cute newbie gets backstabbed too often, he will become an old fan who scolds him. Su Yan felt a little melancholy when he thought about it.

"Fortunately, I have sword skills, so I am not afraid of any unexpected accidents."

When Su Yan thought of this, he felt relieved.

At the end of August, the ninth episode of Your Lie in April aired.

If the first seven episodes of this drama are about the heroine Kaoru Miyazono's journey to save the hero Kousei Arima.

But starting from the eighth episode, the situation completely turned around.

It was Kousei Arima who set out to save Kaoru Miyazono's soul, which was tortured by illness.

At the same time, the plot of the ninth episode brings to the fore an important character, Nagi Aiza, who appeared in the previous episodes.

She participated in a music competition in which she performed a duet piano performance.

She invited the male protagonist, Kousei Arima, to the stage to serve as his accompanist.

The reason why Kousei Arima was willing to go on stage was to let his music reach Kaoru Miyazono who was still in the hospital, hoping that she could cheer up and face her illness.

It’s another music competition plot that the audience loves.

The end of the ninth episode ends with the two people meeting on the rooftop.

This drama in April is not complicated at all if we only talk about the plot.

A man and a woman save each other through music.

But its highlight lies in the extremely delicate psychological description of the male and female protagonists during the process.

The simple plot can make the audience who watch it carefully feel a strong sense of involvement.

Watching Miyazono Kaori suffering from illness in the TV series, most of the audience felt as if the girl they liked had suffered the same thing.

The feeling of depression that arises from deep within your heart makes you a little afraid to watch the next episode, but you are also looking forward to it, thinking that perhaps in the next episode, Miyazono Kaoru's situation will be reversed.

She was able to leave the hospital and stand on the stage again with Kousei Arima, she holding the violin and Kousei Arima playing the piano with her.

The ninth episode in April had a viewership rating of 4.56%.
Obviously, its growth rate is also declining.

But the drama starring Xia Fenghua, April's main competitor, is also showing signs of fatigue.

The ratings for the previous episode even broke the 4.6% mark.

The ratings for this episode dropped to 4.58%.

The ratings of the two dramas are now extremely close. Before the summer season started, fans of TV dramas all over the country did not expect April to reach this point.

But now that April's results have reached this point, fans, the creative team, TV stations, and news media are definitely all going all out.

If you don't fight when you are just one step away, then when will you fight?

After a week of arguing, Su Yan's old fans and new fans are now temporarily cooperating.

No matter what everyone thinks of Su Yan now, at least.
Everyone's love for April's drama is real. If you want to say that April's ratings are still several points behind Xia Fenghua, that's another matter.

But what if there’s only a 0.02% ratings difference?

Now is not the time for internal strife, we must unite to face the outside world.

It doesn’t matter whether Su Yan is a human or not.

But April must reach the top.

Miyazono Kaori must become the number one female character of this season!
On the four major online broadcasting platforms including Raccoon.com, Xingxia.com, Hongsong.com, and Sakura.com.

Because April's sudden rise affected Xia Fenghua's status.

April fans and Xia Fenghua fans are at war with each other.

On the popularity list of female film and television stars in Xia Country, Shen Liqian temporarily topped the list with a slight advantage over Best Actress Fei Meiya.

After all, Shen Liqian has a new drama airing this quarter, so it is normal for her to make a comeback from the 16th place on this list to the first place with the role of Miyazono Kaoru.

Similarly, on this list, thanks to her role as Igawa Emi in the April drama, Gu Qingyuan's ranking has soared from outside the top 40 before the show started airing in April to tenth place!
At the same time, on the popularity ranking of male stars in Xia Country.

Su Yan ranked second with a small gap after the male lead Xia Fenghua and the Best Actor Mai Huabin.

This popularity list is updated in real time and is compiled based on many factors such as popular terms about each star on the Internet, search volume, media comments, etc.

It does not represent the actual status of each person on the list in the Xia country's film and television industry. After all, it is normal for stars who have dramas aired to be popular this quarter.

But even so, the fact that Su Yan, Shen Liqian, and Gu Qingyuan all made it into the top ten in their respective categories on the list already explains a lot.

On the Internet, a war of public opinion broke out between April and Xia Fenghua fans on Wednesday.

The center of the public opinion dispute was a big fight among the fans of several leading actors.

"What a rubbish April, a mama's boy, a glass-hearted heroine whose music dream made you April fans cry, and you still want to top the ratings and surpass my Meiya sister, dream on."

"Fei Meiya is already 36 years old, and she's still playing an 18-year-old girl in TV dramas. Sister Meiya? I'm 15 years old this year, and my mom is only 34 years old."

"A screenwriter who doesn't work seriously. He can't be the best screenwriter, he can't be the best actor, he can't be the best violinist, he can't be the best piano player, but his fans want to be the best in everything. It makes me laugh to death."

"I should scold Su Yan, the old thief, but who are you to scold Su Yan? It is true that Su Yan is not the best in many things, but so what? Find someone in the acting circle who is better than Su Yan in violin, piano, violin, flute, guzheng, screenwriting, and martial arts. Of course, Su Yan's acting skills may still need to be honed. After all, his words in an interview that April would give our fans a satisfactory ending can no longer fool us, April', whose hearts are as cold as iron. But even so, you, Mai Huabin's fans, don't laugh at us to death. When Mai Huabin was 21 years old, he was still playing supporting roles, while Teacher Su Yan soon topped the quarterly ratings. It's the second time he has topped the ratings!"

"Want to top the ratings? Dream on!"

"If a traditional historical drama like Xia Fenghua loses to a pale, melodramatic love drama like April, it will be a tragedy for the Xia country's film and television industry."

"A serious drama? Where in the history of the Xia Kingdom did Emperor Xia Ming forcibly seize his son and his wife? That's unofficial history. How dare a TV series that includes this plot call it a serious drama? Your father and I are laughing to death. If April is a pale and bloody love drama, then isn't Xia Fenghua a masterpiece of self-entertainment and fantasy by a group of illiterate fans of unofficial history?"

"You fans of Xia Fenghua, just wait and see. This week, April's ratings will surpass Xia Fenghua's! Let's see if you can still be stubborn then?"

Fans of both sides were arguing fiercely on the Internet.

In reality, Xia Fenghua’s creative team was also panicked.

I maintained my ratings advantage for a whole quarter, so how come I was overtaken in the last two weeks?

The Xia Fenghua crew, who had previously been sitting back and watching April, The Simplest Love, Man of Hope, and Single Men and Women compete with each other, finally experienced the fear of these dramas being caught up by the ratings.

Who can bear this?
If Xia Fenghua's drama also loses to April in ratings, doesn't that mean all three major TV stations in Xia Country will lose to Su Yan and Qingkong TV?

That's not a matter of face.

It is a struggle for interests in the television industry.

No matter how Su Yan jumped out of the spotlight at Sakura TV before, or how he turned things around later, the ratings soared, which was only the business of the three major TV stations.

It is absolutely impossible for the companies in Xia Country to use this reason to lower the price if they want to invest in advertising.

But now, if the April ratings diagnosis really brings Xia Fenghua down.

The belief that the three major TV stations dominate the TV industry in Xia Country will be broken, which will directly affect the bargaining power of the three major TV stations for advertising fees in the next quarter.

So Sakura TV and Chuxia TV are now also starting to be generous.

He took the initiative to invite Xia Fenghua's crew to appear on his own TV station's variety show to help promote his competitor, Hudu TV Station.

Under the oppression of Su Yan and Qingkong TV, the foreign enemy, the three major TV stations actually united in a strange way.

But is there any point in this behavior?

The media found it boring.

Su Yan had a smile on his lips.

Xia Fenghua has always been the work with the highest ratings this season, and its exposure rate has always been very high. Even if Sakura and Zhongxia TV stations help it, the effect is very limited.

Moreover, starting from Wednesday, after the crew completed the filming of the eleventh episode in April, Su Yan temporarily put aside the filming of the if line ending, and brought together the main creative team including Gu Qingyuan, Shen Liqian, Shi Peihua, She Yuan, Chen Ji and others to carry out a crew roadshow in multiple cities in Xia Country.

The road show content is the fan meeting and
Live violin and piano performance by Su Yan and Shen Liqian!
In the TV series, the two of them played piano together only once.

But in reality, the two gave fans plenty to watch in April.

If you want to make your dreams come true, you can do anything in the real world.

Su Yan did not hide anything about this kind of live roadshow. He used the piano playing skills given by the system to his full potential. Although it was called a roadshow, a group of fans and passers-by eventually left the scene in a daze.

Su Yan's piano playing is so powerful and infectious.

It is a level that can truly resonate with the audience through music.

The outrageous playing skills that Su Yan displayed at the roadshow can be said to be the best news material for the media.

The four major online streaming platforms are full of clips of Su Yan and Shen Liqian’s ensemble performance during the roadshow.

They are good-looking and talented, and their past experiences of being suppressed by Akasaka Yoshitoki have resonated with a group of workers in Xia Country. Moreover, the subject matter of April's drama can be watched by men, women, young and old, while a costume historical drama like Xia Fenghua is definitely more selective in its audience.

From Wednesday to Friday, online public opinion reports have been suppressing Xia Fenghua since April.

Although the crew of Xia Fenghua felt something was wrong, the tenth episode of Xia Fenghua was successfully aired at 8 o'clock on Friday night.

The next day, the ratings for the tenth episode of Xia Feng Hua were released.

(End of this chapter)