Depressive screenwriter.

Chapter 26 Cross Wound

Monday, August 12th.

Rurouni Kenshin is gaining popularity on Sakura.net.

The online drama category ranked first in the hot search list ahead of time.

The first episode of this drama has now received 274 million paid views.

The second episode received 203 million paid views.

It has been exactly one week since the third episode was aired, and its first-week paid broadcast volume hit a new high of 149 million.

If this were a web drama with more than a dozen episodes, many media outlets would have dared to predict that the average paid broadcast volume of the final episode of Rurouni Kenshin would exceed 400 million by the end of the summer season in September.

But alas, Rurouni Kenshin ends tonight.

Within two weeks, its popularity will wane, paid views will grow sluggishly, and eventually stagnate.

Although the paid playback data of the first three episodes of Rurouni Kenshin performed better than Qingfeng.

However, the media generally predict that Qingfeng will still be the ultimate winner among all the online dramas in Xiaguo this quarter.

And Rurouni Kenshin will come in second.

The paid playback volume will most likely hover around three million per episode.

But this speculation is by no means to belittle Kenshin.

A low-budget drama with four episodes and a production cost of more than one million yuan would have an average paid viewing volume of three million per episode.

That is 12 million in sales, and the money directly distributed to the producers is more than 6 million, plus Kenshin can get some copyright fees and other income.
This work can already lock in a profit margin of over 700%.

Coupled with Kenshin's score of 9.4, even the most picky film and television critics cannot find any flaws in it.

At this time, the comment section of Rurouni Kenshin on Sakura.net was already full of various opinions.

"I have finally waited for this day."

"Tonight I finally know the final outcome of Kenshin and Tomoe Yukishiro. This plot was so unresolved that it made me feel uncomfortable for the whole week."

"I look forward to Kenshin's attack on the mountain tonight! What hostile forces, what disgusting schemes? They are all nothing in the face of absolute strength."

"Kenshin is definitely going to explode tonight. There wasn't a single fighting scene in the third episode, and I always felt like something was missing. In the fourth episode, Kenshin will start killing!"

"Kenshin just promised Yukishiro Tomoe last episode that he would not kill anyone easily in the future. How come you are all more murderous than Kenshin?"

"You have to think about it. Yukishiro Tomoe is still in the hands of Kenshin's enemy forces. How could he think so much? If my wife is in danger, I don't care about promises or not. Besides, Kenshin promised not to kill after the new era comes. It's still early now."

"A martial arts romance drama always needs a gorgeous fight to end. I can already predict the plot of tonight's fourth episode. Kenshin goes up the mountain to fight. The process may be a little dangerous, after all, the enemy will definitely have an ambush, but what is Kenshin's strength? In the end, Kenshin is seriously injured and saves Yukishiro Tomoe. The two talk to each other about their secrets, untie their knots, and finally live happily until the new era arrives."

"Yes, the scar that Kiyori left on Kenshin's face has been dripping blood since the first episode. Although I think the setting that a knife wound with resentment cannot be healed unless the resentment is resolved is too superstitious. But since it's a film and television drama, I will accept this setting for now. The key to resolving Kiyori's resentment must be Tomoe Yukishiro, and this setting must be made clear in the fourth episode."

"Brother, Kiyosato's resentment is definitely not easy to resolve. Think about it, although Kenshin and Yukishiro Tomoe are indeed in love with each other. But what if you put yourself in Kiyosato's perspective?

He came to Kyoto with high spirits. The situation was going well for him. He had the support of a high-ranking official and was just waiting to go home and marry his beautiful fiancée at the beginning of the year after achieving success. But then he was killed by Kenshin.

His fiancée Tomoe Yukishiro then vowed to die to help Kiyosato get revenge, but she fell in love with Kenshin in the process and did something with him. Kenshin even made a vow that he would not kill anyone again when a new era comes. Kiyosato is so miserable. He is definitely the biggest victim of the whole show, Minotaur! How can he eliminate his resentment? "

"what?"

"This"

"Hearing you put it that way, I'm Kiyosato, and I'm probably so resentful that I'm about to become a ghost king."

"The worst in the whole show, absolutely terrible."

"Does Tomoe Yukishiro have to use love to ease Kiyosato's resentment?"

"I'm Kiyosato, and now I just want the world to end quickly. I'm tired."

"No, this is too much. The only way to eliminate the resentment of Kiyori's sword wound is for Kenshin and Yukishiro Totoro to part ways forever."

"Hahaha, how is this possible?"

"Could the screenwriter be so stupid as to offend millions of Rurouni Kenshin fans by coming up with this kind of plot?"

"Whether it's Kiyosato or the grudges and scars, they're just fictional things in the TV show. But the grudges of our millions of Kenshin fans are real, and I don't believe the screenwriter has such an idea."

"But the producer of Rurouni Kenshin is that Shinozaki Ikumi! The same Shinozaki Ikumi who produced Sakurajima Koika!"

"Shit. Don't remind me of that crappy drama Sakurajima Love Song! I'm scared!"

"Don't say it's impossible. It's absolutely impossible. If that kind of plot really happened, Shinozaki Yumi and Su Yan would be on my drama blacklist. I will hate them for the rest of my life!"

Gao Mengwen was browsing her phone on the way home from get off work, looking at the comments of Rurouni Kenshin fans on Sakura.com, a happy smile appeared on her face.

The greatest pleasure of following a drama is not the plot itself, but discussing the future development of the plot with a bunch of fans afterwards. This week, she was thinking about how Kenshin and Tomoe Yukishiro would end their story and live happily ever after.

Yes, it is blissful and fulfilling.

She didn't believe the predictions made by those people on the Internet that the fourth episode would turn out to be tragic.

If Rurouni Kenshin was a drama filmed in one go, that wouldn’t be certain.

But why does Xiaguo shoot TV dramas while writing the script?

That is to give the screenwriters time to consider the direction of the market and what kind of plot the audience wants to see so that they can make timely modifications.

Could it be that Su Yan would deliberately write a ridiculous plot to disgust the audience?
how is this possible.

Su Yan has the ability, time, and full market feedback to fully consider the direction of the plot of the fourth episode.

How could he, a new screenwriter who had just debuted, dare to be so literary and come up with a tragic ending?
No matter how the screenwriter hinted at the end of the third episode, there will be a big wave in the fourth episode.

Gao Mengwen knew that it was just a feint to whet the appetite.

I saw through this girl at a glance.

After returning home, Gao Mengwen took a shower, blew her hair, and then listened to music to relax her body and mind, waiting for the release of the fourth episode of Rurouni Kenshin in the most perfect condition.

Soon, the time came to eight o'clock in the evening.

Gao Mengwen smiled, opened the computer web page, and took a look at the title of the fourth volume of Rurouni Kenshin.

[Rurouni Kenshin Volume 4: Cross Wound]

Cross injury?
what is that?
The title of each episode of Rurouni Kenshin is full of meaning.

The murderer, the lost cat, Yoriyama
All of them imply the mental journey of the two protagonists, Kenshin and Yukishiro Tomoe.

The cross wound in episode 4.
Oh, I’m too lazy to guess.

Gao Mengwen took a deep breath and clicked the play button.

The scene continues from the end of the third episode.

"The traitor is Tomoe Yukishiro. She and her accomplices are in the Buddhist temple on the opposite mountain!" Iizuka said to Kenshin.

"Get rid of her!"

Gao Mengwen has a God's perspective, so she naturally knows that Iizuka is the traitor, and she can't believe a word he says.

But what about Kenshin?
This was the first order given to Kenshin by the organization behind him after he escaped from Kyoto.

Or let him return to his original job and continue killing people.
Moreover, the person he killed was the one he loved the most, Tomoe Yukishiro.

The fourth episode is not dragged out at all. The first two sentences introduce the plot to a dilemma for Kenshin.

Was it the traitor "Yukishiro Tomoe" who disobeyed the organization's orders, let the traitor go, let the one who exposed the hiding place of the organization members go, and then caused chaos in Kyoto, everyone scattered and hid, and countless deaths and injuries?
Or end her life with your own hands.

It was snowing heavily, and the blood on Kenshin's face kept dripping, running down his cheeks and chin and soaking his collar red.

Kenshin had a sword on his waist.

In his hand was the scarf that Xue Daiba had once put on him, but he said at the time that he couldn't bear to let it be stained with blood.
Kenshin's eyes were dull as he walked on the snowy mountain road, each of his steps sinking deeply into the snow.

In his mind, the scene of killing Kiyosato and the scene of when he first met Yukishiro Tomoe, when she was alone and without a smile on her face, echoed each other.

The plot atmosphere became depressing and sadistic.

The scarf on Jianxin's hand slipped off unconsciously, and he looked back.
Hallucinations appeared, and he saw the scarf as Qingli's body lying in a pool of blood.

"This mental pressure is too great." The smile on Gao Mengwen's face disappeared.

She saw it.

Kenshin went up the mountain not because he wanted to obey orders to kill Yukishiro Tomoe.

Instead, he wanted to apologize to Tomoe Yukishiro for killing Kiyosato and ruining Tomoe's happiness.

Kenshin lowered his head and picked up the scarf.

Blood dripped onto the scarf.

He cherished it so much that he even said that he couldn't bear to let the scarf be stained with his blood and wanted to return it to Yukishiro Tomoe, but for the first time, it was stained with.
The blood dripping down his cheek from the knife wound inflicted by Kiyosato with resentment.

This shot is full of irony and symbolism.

Gao Mengwen had a bad feeling.

(End of this chapter)