Depressive screenwriter.

Chapter 32 Ancient Love Song
"Ancient Love Song?"

Ikumi Shinozaki looked at the three episodes of scripts that Su Yan placed in front of her with curiosity.

"What a strange name."

“What type of work?”

"Ancient costumes, love, and then." Su Yan replied.

“Add some patriotism.”

"Isn't this very similar to Rurouni Kenshin? Is it also a theme with the ancient background of Sakura Island?" Shinozaki Ikumi became excited.

After all, Su Yan became famous because of Rurouni Kenshin. If the sequel is a work with similar elements to Rurouni Kenshin, it will naturally attract the attention of Kenshin fans.

"It's a costume drama, but not the one set in Sakurajima. It's a traditional costume drama from Xia Country. And the male lead is not as powerful as Kenshin Himura, but..." Su Yan thought for a while and said.

"He is the kind of guy who is brave and smarter than Kenshin, but at heart, he is still an ordinary person."

"Not a martial arts drama?" Shinozaki Ikumi frowned when she heard that.

After all, although Rurouni Kenshin took off with the depressing plot in the fourth episode, the early martial arts plots were also extremely important. If there were no martial arts scenes, would Kenshin fans buy it?

"Then, is the ending of this drama tragic?" Shinozaki Ikumi spoke up when she suddenly remembered the experience of being scolded by angry Kenshin fans for half a month.

"It doesn't count!"

Su Yan thought about it. Both the male and female protagonists realized their biggest dreams.

Before dying, see each other again.

How can it be a tragedy if the dream has come true?
"That's good." A smile broke out on Shinozaki Ikumi's face.

"I told you, Su Yan, you are a normal person. Depression is just an accident. In fact, the market trend is still leaning towards a happy ending with truth, goodness and beauty."

Su Yan had a weird expression.
Since you asked this, why don't you just ask whether this drama is depressing?

The male and female protagonists are one modern person and the other a woman who has died thousands of years ago in history.

They fell in love across a history of one or two thousand years. Because of the protagonist's irregular time travel, they only met six times in their life but they remembered each other for the rest of their lives.

Is this considered depressing?
After asking this question, Ikumi Shinozaki sat opposite Su Yan, took a deep breath and picked up the script.

The script begins.

It's an ancient dynasty.

In the imperial capital, a grand trial and punishment scene
The onlookers, the former evil queen who controlled the fate of the country for decades and made the people live in misery through war, and the look she gave to the male protagonist Shen Buyan in the crowd before she was executed.
A look of surprise, complexity, and then sadness.

The protagonist Shen Buyan, a writer who dedicates himself to writing historical novels, wakes up from his dream.

That dream, which seemed almost like a personal experience, aroused his great interest in the Sheng Kingdom in his dream, and he wanted to write a novel about the rise and fall of this dynasty.

Next, the foreshadowing of the early stage of the drama comes into play.

Legend has it that this ancient tree can grant wishes.

An old woman selling strange jade fragments.

After telling a bunch of incomprehensible riddles, he tricked Shen Buyan into buying the broken jade.

then
One night, Shen Buyan was thinking about how to write his novel and researching the truth about Sheng State's history.

He crossed.

Traveled to the Sheng Kingdom, the era when the demon queen Lu Yuan still existed.
Shinozaki Ikumi's eyes widened.

Things like time travel are basically non-existent in the Xia country's film and television drama market.

In Su Yan's previous life in China's online novel market, this was a very common setting.

In the film and television industry, the concept of time travel became popular only 10 years later with works such as Startling by Each Step and Palace.

But in Xia State, there was no such concept before this.

What is a cliché in one world is innovation in another.

When Shinozaki Ikumi saw this, she became interested.

Watch all the way
As a young man of the new century, Shen Buyan traveled to the era when Lu Yuan, who was in his thirties, existed.

And as soon as he came through, he was in the palace.

But in this era, Sheng State was facing a crisis of national extinction, enemy troops were at the gates of the city, and the prime minister Li Yong was ready to betray his country and surrender to the enemy.

As the mother of the young emperor, Lu Yuan represented the empire and was also known as the Demon Queen.
There are too many background settings like this in history.

In Su Yan's previous life in China, Zhao Feiyan and Sun Ruowei were famous historical figures known as the Demon Queen.

There are also many empress dowagers who hold power, such as Lü Zhi, Cixi, etc. Shinozaki Yumi accepted the background setting without much resistance, after all, there were a lot of such characters in the history of Xia Kingdom.

As for the setting of Sheng State, there are too many unclear small dynasties in the history of Xia State, so there is nothing to complain about.

But the weird thing about the plot is that when Shen Buyan traveled to ancient times for the first time, he met a palace maid who seemed to have known him for a long time.

And the maid brought him to a beautiful woman.

And this woman was none other than the Queen Mother of Sheng State, Lu Yuan.

But she seemed to have known Shen Buyan for a long time, as if she had known that he would come to the palace on this day, and she prepared suitable clothes and a crown for him, and celebrated the festival with him, with willow branches brushing dew and washing away disasters.
Then, when attacked by the traitorous Prime Minister Li Yong, he risked his life to block the fatal blow for him.

Shen Buyan watched Lu Yuan, who was in her thirties, die. Why did this woman risk her life to save a stranger like him?

With doubts, Shen Buyan’s first time traveling ended.

Two of the five broken pieces of jade pendants he bought were fused together.

After reading the script for the first episode, Ikumi Shinozaki felt dizzy.

What is Lu Yuan, this mysterious woman, going to do?
She died? Why would she risk her life to save a man she met for the first time?

Why is it that in the script, it seems like she has been preparing for a long time for this day and this night to meet the male protagonist?

Didn’t Su Yan say that this drama is not a tragedy?
Ikumi Shinozaki couldn't wait to pick up the script for the second episode and continue reading.

The setting that shocked her all day appeared again.

After returning to the present, the hero still couldn't forget the history of Sheng State and the demon queen Lu Yuan who saved him, so he traveled through the jade pendant for the second time.
She traveled back to a time ten years before the first time she traveled back in time, when Lu Yuan was not yet the empress dowager, but just a female official in her twenties.

what?
Shinozaki Ikumi looked even more dizzy.

How will this plot develop?

It has changed from a time-travel drama to a brain-burning drama.

The first time he traveled through time was when Lu Yuan was in her thirties.

The second time he traveled through time to when Lu Yuan was in her twenties?

this.
What is this setting?
What about Lu Yuan who is in her thirties?
Someone died while saving you, and you just leave it like that?
The main plot of the play thus emerges.

After the male protagonist Shen Buyan met the young Lu Yuan, he learned the historical truth that Sheng State did not exist in history books.

In order to change Lu Yuan's fate of dying while saving him at the age of more than 30, he began to make various efforts and attempts before the earlier time period, hoping to change history.
After reading three consecutive episodes of the script, Shinozaki Ikumi blinked and looked at Su Yan.

"Any more?"

"That's all. I've only written three episodes of the script in the past few days." Su Yan said.

"How was it? Did you find it interesting?"

"Of course." Shinozaki Ikumi became excited when talking about this topic.

"What's going on with that Lu Yuan? Has she known the hero Shen Buyan for a long time?"

"And that Prime Minister Li Yong, he was clearly a traitor to his country, so why was he still called a wise prime minister in history? Also, why did he treat Shen Buyan, who had traveled through time for the first time, as if he had seen the murderer of his father, and why did he try his best to have his men kill Shen Buyan?"

"Lu Yuan. Did she really die at the age of thirty-something?" Shinozaki Ikumi said this in a low voice.

"I haven't thought about the plot yet." Su Yan's expression was calm.

He doesn't like spoilers, because there is no point in spoiling the subsequent plot to producer Ikumi Shinozaki. Su Yan will not change the script, nor will he be influenced by her. In this case, he can just say "I haven't thought about it yet" and save himself from all worries.

"Do you think that if these three episodes are submitted to the TV station's production department, they will be approved for investment?"

"Of course." Shinozaki Ikumi said confidently.

"This script is much more interesting than those workplace dramas and campus love comedies that are all over the place on TV. With the time-travel setting thrown in, I can hardly imagine the production team giving up on this script?"

"but"

Ikumi Shinozaki thought of Sanji Kiyota's uncle.

Ah.
It is Su Yan's job to write a good script.

And resolve these difficulties.

This is exactly the responsibility of Shinozaki Ikumi.
She stood up and looked at Su Yan.

"Give me the scripts for these three episodes, and I will ask the production department to approve the project and allocate funds for the scripts."

　Thanks to Super Electromagnetic for the reward for the tags "Hanabi Kotono" and "Moonlight Funeral Song".

　　Thank you, giants.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)