Depressive screenwriter.

Chapter 122 Winter and the Start of Broadcasting

In late December, trailers for four A-rated dramas in the winter season were released one after another.

The trailer of "Shanghai Rain: The Sequel", which has a super popular predecessor, has received over 10 million hits in two days, proving its popularity in the market.

After the trailers of the two dramas "The Burning Sun" and "Mystery of Time" were released, the quality of their pictures and dramas also received praise from many viewers.

But the trailer of "Life is Strange", which attracted much attention before the broadcast, made many film critics and TV viewers confused.

"From the trailer, it looks like a detective crime drama."

"Time goes back. Damn, old thief Su Yan has a really wild imagination!"

"Isn't this similar to Ancient Love Song and Me? Another one of those dramas that manipulates the timeline?"

"I'm super interested. I just hope that old thief Su Yan will come up with a drama like Ancient Lovesickness that plays with time and history."

"However, this drama doesn't have a male lead. Is it focusing on the friendship between the two female leads?"

"Forget it, let's wait and see!"

"Let me take a look at the elements in the trailer. Gangs, murders, school bullying, psychopathic killers, time travel, detective puzzles. Su Yan has never created this kind of drama before. Can he control the plot?"

"You're going to doubt Su Yan, the old thief? Although his previous dramas were mostly romance-oriented, it doesn't mean he can only create romance dramas."

"It doesn't matter what. As long as the show isn't too sad."

"Yes, but the previous dramas of Lao Zei were all about the separation and death between lovers as the sad point. This drama doesn't have a male lead, hey. I guess there won't be any sad points."

"What you said makes sense! When I think about it carefully, I am easily tortured by the separation and death between lovers. For the friendship between two women in the trailer, even if one of them died, I should be indifferent."

"Okay, I feel relieved now that you said that. Let's go."

Soon, in the expectation of Xiaguo TV drama audience.

December ends and January arrives.

There are four A-level dramas this quarter, a total of sixteen B-level dramas from the three major TV stations plus other medium and large TV stations, and several C-level dramas.

Friday, January 3
First of all, the first episode of "Shanghai Rain.Continuation" on Sakura TV was aired.

That night, a large number of fans of the previous work waited in front of the TV with anticipation.
The plot of the first episode of "The Rain in Shanghai" did not disappoint the fans.

It's a very interesting development. The life of the hero and heroine in the first episode of the previous work after they fell in love is indeed... just like the first season, full of ups and downs.

The final sudden sweet ending shot.

The first episode of this drama received a viewership rating of 4.43%.

Then there are the two dramas "Mystery of Time" and "The Burning Sun" which will be aired on Saturday night.

Because the 8pm Sunday slot for "Life is Strange" was publicly announced in October.

If the A-level dramas of the three major TV stations were to be broadcast during this period, they would inevitably compete with Su Yan's new drama for ratings, and the result would be that everyone would just blow themselves up.

Although the people in the production departments of the three major TV stations were very angry, due to the remaining influence of April, no one dared to come to this time period to expose themselves with Su Yan.

Su Yan was so arrogant that he dared to criticize Akasaka Yoshitoki before leaving Sakura TV.

Just by cooperating with Qingkong TV, the target is directly aimed at Ji Guan.

He insists on staying in this period now, who can do anything to him?
Su Yan is not afraid of other dramas exploding with him. At most, both sides will suffer losses and fail together.

But who among the employees of the production departments of the three major TV stations dares to gamble with their future?
To put it bluntly, those with bare feet are not afraid of those who wear shoes.

In the past, Su Yan had no fame and no achievements, so he would take the initiative to avoid the broadcast time of A-level dramas on the three major TV stations.

But if he still avoids it now, he would have wasted more than a year in the industry.

In the end, Zhongxia and Hudu TV stations compromised.

Among them, "Lie Yang", which had the weakest presence among the four A-level dramas before its launch, took the initiative to schedule it at 9 pm on Saturday.

However, the three major TV stations are not prepared to just sit there and do nothing to endure this.

The three major TV stations have begun rebroadcasting their own classic TV series and movies at 8 o'clock on Sunday night. The purpose is obvious, which is to cause trouble for Life is Strange.

The previous B-level drama "Scarlet Love" in the summer season ended so badly that the production departments of the three major TV stations did not dare to schedule it in the same time slot to compete with Su Yan.

But it doesn't cost much to rerun some popular old dramas to disgust Su Yan's new drama.

On Sunday at noon, the ratings for the first episodes of the two dramas, Mystery of Time and Lie Yang, were released.

4.23% and 4.39%
The result was beyond everyone's expectations.

On the contrary, Lieyang, which had a worse launch schedule and even less presence before its launch, had much better ratings than expected.

However, the drama with the highest ratings is still Sakura TV's "Shanghai Rain: Continuation".

So the media did not pay too much attention to Lieyang.

The feud between Su Yan and Sakura TV is well known.

This quarter, the work with the highest ratings is from Sakura TV, and the only A-level drama that has not yet been broadcast is Su Yan's Strange Life.

Nowadays, this topic is at its peak.

At noon, on the set of Life is Strange.

Su Yan, Shinozaki Yumi, Gu Qingyuan, Shen Liqian and others gathered together.

"It seems that our number one opponent this time is Sakura TV." Su Yan said with a smile.

"From the perspective of word of mouth and performance, Sakura TV's "Shanghai Rain: The Sequel" is currently ranked first."

4.43%
Everyone present felt a sense of pressure about Hudu Zhiyu's continued performance.

This is just the opening ratings. Who knows what the ratings will be when the show ends.

"Okay, we understand the situation of our opponents. Tonight is the first show of Life is Strange." Su Yan said with a smile.

“Although my works have always been developed in the later stages, I hope tonight will have a good start!”

Starting at 7pm, Su Yan posted a comment in the comment section of his account, and his fans who were starving for dramas could not hold back. Discussion topics and posts appeared one after another.

Cen Jia took a deep breath, looked at the comments of fans on the forum, and counted the time waiting for the start of Life is Strange.

Qingkong TV will naturally not see much increase in traffic just because of a drama that starts airing in April.

However, when Su Yan's new drama was aired, the vast majority of Xiaguo TV drama viewers still bought into it and were willing to temporarily change their viewing habits and switch to Qingkong.

Since the end of April, there has been no drama on Blue Sky TV with a viewership rating of over 4%.

And tonight
When the time just came to eight o'clock.

In fact, the real-time ratings have officially exceeded the 4% mark.

The theme song of Life is Strange sounded on TV.

Soon, the scene enters the plot.

At the beginning, it is about a young girl struggling to move forward in stormy weather.

A very strange deer was leading her forward.

She went up the mountain alone, dodging trees that had been blown down by the storm.

Suddenly, a huge tree fell down, blocking her way.

Her eyes fixed, and the time and space on the TV screen seemed to be distorted and blurred. When she opened her eyes, time had come to the time before the tree fell.

She also accelerated and sprinted, rushing through the uphill road before the tree fell down again.

Having watched the trailer, Cen Jia understood what this scene meant.

The heroine Xiaomai used her ability to go back in time to before the tree collapsed completely.
She came to the top of the mountain and saw the devastated city ravaged by a huge tornado, and then the lighthouse on the top of the mountain collapsed and hit her.

Next, the scene changes.

The heroine Xiaomai wakes up from a nightmare.

She is a college student majoring in photography and was taking classes at school. But just now she fell asleep.
The dream just now was too real, and she moved too much when she woke up. The photography teacher criticized her and called on her to answer questions.
Cen Jia blinked.

Dream?
Is that a dream?

But the following plot quickly attracted Cen Jia's attention.

After waking up, Xiaomai found that she seemed to be just like in the dream, and she could activate the ability to go back in time as long as she wanted.

She did not answer the teacher's question clearly in the photography class, and was punished by the teacher, who asked her to stay after class for a talk. However, the teacher later told her the answer to the question.
Then she activated her ability.

After going back in time, the question was answered perfectly.

"My super... cheating artifact!" Cen Jia was suddenly delighted.

Isn't this a magical skill if it can be used to buy lottery tickets or do bad things?

Next is the key plot of the first episode.

After Xiaomai solved a bunch of problems, he came to the school toilet. Here.
She first took a photo of a blue butterfly in the toilet with a camera she carried with her.

Here's a close-up of the photo.

However, Cen Jia and the audience in front of the TV could not understand the meaning of this shot.

Next, Xiaomai encountered a shooting case at school that neither she nor the audience could have imagined.

Li Sen (Nathan), the son of a wealthy man who is hated by everyone in the school, had some disputes with a girl from another school about contraband.

And this girl.
It is the other female lead, Xiao Yi, played by Shen Liqian.

The negotiation between Xiao Yi and Li Sen broke down.
The two began to argue fiercely and even pushed each other.

With a bang, a gunshot rang out.

In the toilet, Xiao Yi fell in a pool of blood.

Li Sen looked at the gun in his hand with a frightened expression, and his face no longer had the previous ferocity.

Xiaomai, who was hiding in the deepest part of the school toilet, witnessed this scene with her own eyes and also recognized Xiaoyi, her best friend a few years ago.

There was fear mixed with a hint of determination in her eyes.

Cen Jia instantly understood what she was going to do.

The gears of fate began to turn.

It was also the beginning of the ultimate tragedy.

At this moment, out of fear and the desire to save her former friend, she activated her ability to recall the past.
Cen Jia’s eyes widened.

This is how this ability is used.

Unlike Su Yan’s previous dramas, the plot of Life is Strange was very interesting from the beginning, and the development of the story directly drew her into the drama.

This development is much more interesting than other fantasy dramas in Xia Country.

Although the background setting is the nationally famous crime city of Xia Country decades ago, the development of private college students secretly carrying guns to school and daring to shoot is indeed very different from the style of dramas on the market now.

Moreover, the setting of the ability to go back in time really attracted her attention.

At least, the plot after Life is Strange premiered was completely different from what she had imagined.

　I feel like many readers don't understand Life is Strange. I decided to let the protagonist do this work because of my hobbies. After all, novels are about things that are unlikely to exist in reality and the development of things. But today I thought about it carefully and it seems that this is not very friendly to novel readers, after all, the author's writing is down-to-earth.

　　Although I think this work is really good, if you don’t know about it, I will try to write faster and jump to cyberpunk and The Garden of Words.

　　Most of the readers of this book are probably Japanese comics fans. Although the original game is from an island country and is quite famous among plot-oriented games, it would be meaningless if it is not famous among my novel readers.

　　I'll write faster.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)