Depressive screenwriter.

Chapter 45 Atmosphere
I thought it was just a simple time-travel drama, but why did it make me want to cry for no apparent reason?

Can't the combination of Su Yan and Shinozaki Yumi be a little more normal? Why are the dramas they make always like this?

Cao Huan tried to calm down, but immediately realized something.

No, it’s only the second episode!

First of all, in history, Lu Yuan died in her later years because her adopted son Chu Tongshang settled accounts with her when he grew up.

Then, during the first time she traveled through time, because the protagonist was messing around, Lu Yuan died at the age of 36 in order to save the protagonist from an arrow.

Now the protagonist travels back to the time when Lu Yuan was 26 years old. That’s ten years. It’s impossible for Lu Yuan to die in that night, right?

Maybe we can also deal with Li Yong, the corrupt official and treacherous minister.

At this point, Cao Huan has almost realized the main plot of the play.

On the surface, it is a military and political struggle between the ancient Queen Lu Yuan of Sheng State, the powerful Prime Minister Li Yong, and several countries around Sheng State, such as Beilie, who besieged Sheng State.

In fact, it was the modern male protagonist Shen Buyan who saved Lu Yuan and changed Lu Yuan's journey through time and space from being nailed to the pillar of shame in history and being called the Queen of Demons.

What a novel drama.

In fact, Cao Huan never thought that Ancient Love Song was more interesting than Rurouni Kenshin. He only followed this drama out of his love for Kenshin and Yukishiro Tomoe.

But now, I am really attracted by the plot and setting.

The next plot broadcast by the TV station will explain why Shen Buyan was assassinated.

It turns out that the idiot that Shen Buyan helped is the current ruler of Sheng State, Emperor Yuanqi.

The assassin had learned that Emperor Yuanqi had gone out incognito for a walk on the night of Shangsi, so he came to assassinate him.

But Emperor Yuanqi gave the important token to Shen Buyan because Shen Buyan helped him, which led the assassin to mistake him for the emperor when he saw the token.
Then Lu Yuan, who was not yet the queen but only a palace lady, and General Lu Shi came forward to rescue Shen Buyan.

After the assassination plot, it’s time for the sweet plot.

But it's not the male and female protagonists, but the sweetness between Yihua and Lu Shi.
It's obvious that these two are at that stage where they like each other but haven't expressed their feelings yet.

Although Cao Huan felt that it was a bit exaggerated that Lu Shi, a man in his early twenties, could be promoted to the position of general in Sheng State and control a small part of the country's military power.

But considering that there are many similar examples in the ancient history of Xia State, it is acceptable.

On the other side, Shen Buyan in the play finally spoke and asked Lu Yuan many questions.

[Empress, I would like to ask what year of Yuanqi is it now? ]

【What do you think? 】

【The fifteenth year of Yuanqi? 】

When Lu Yuan heard the answer "the fifteenth year of Yuanqi", her expression was obviously dazed.

There was a long silence before he answered.

[It is now the fifth year of Yuanqi. Also, I am currently serving as the head of the palace, not the queen.]

Shen Buyan confirmed his guess. What he did was the same as Cao Huan and the audience in front of the TV.

Wasting your time?
Just come clean, don't dither.

Shen Buyan directly revealed all the facts about Li Yong's betrayal in ten years, his escape from the East Gate with the country's military secrets on Shangsi Night, and his taking Lu Yuan's adopted son away as a threat.
"Yes, that's right, this is how a normal person thinks." Cao Huan was pleased.

The protagonists of the dramas I watched before were always dithering. There were some things that could obviously be said out loud to avoid a lot of trouble, but they just kept it to themselves. To put it bluntly, it was because the screenwriters were not good enough, and they had to lower the protagonist's intelligence in order to advance the plot and achieve the development direction that the screenwriter wanted.

Lu Yuan had her back to Shen Buyan and her expression could not be seen clearly. After a long time, she turned around.

[What are you talking about? I don't have an adopted son, and Prime Minister Li will not defect to the enemy.]

Lu Yuan's expression was calm, without a trace of emotion.

Cao Huan opened his mouth. He realized that not only would Lu Yuan, an ancient man, believe such words, but he, a modern man, would not believe it either.

If someone in the real world came up to him and told him that his son would be hit and killed by a truck in ten years, would he take it seriously?

Cao Huan would definitely beat up the beast who cursed his son.

The fact that Lu Yuan didn't react and beat Shen Buyan up severely shows that she has a very high quality.

Or maybe it was because Shen Buyan had just helped the foolish Emperor Yuanqi and obtained the token bestowed by Emperor Yuanqi, so Lu Yuan, as the head of the palace, was so nice to Shen Buyan?
Then at the end of this episode, the most explosive plot came out.

After Lu Yuan left Jinghua Tower, she got on Li Yong's carriage. Lu Yuan was a female official promoted by Li Yong as prime minister.

Lu Yuan's younger brother Lu Shi is Li Yong's adopted son.
The ed song of the second episode sounded.

Cao Huan was confused.

what?
In the first episode, the 36-year-old Lu Yuan and Li Yongshi are at loggerheads.

In the second episode, the 26-year-old Lu Yuan and Li Yong, together with Lu Yuan’s younger brother, are actually in the same group?
Good fellow, he is in charge of the political power, and his adopted son is in charge of the military power.
Is this Li Yong a traitor?

Emperor Yuanqi was an idiot, wasn't he the de facto Emperor of Sheng?
Also, why did the plot end at such a tense moment?

Cao Huan felt a little uncomfortable with this plot.

Opened the official forum page of Ancient Acacia Song on Sakura.net.

Only then did I realize that there had already been a quarrel in the forum.

"I almost cried after watching it. The words 36-year-old Lu Yuan said, 'We'll meet again,' really made me sad."

"For Shen Buyan, it's goodbye, and for Lu Yuan, it's a farewell."

"It was only after watching the second episode that I understood where Lu Yuan's feelings for Shen Buyan came from in the first episode. It must have been a relationship that was established during this second time travel."

"What did Shen Buyan do to the 26-year-old Lu Yuan during his second time traveling that made the 36-year-old Lu Yuan, who was already the queen, willing to take the knife and die for him?"

"So why did Lu Yuan marry that stupid emperor? It feels a little weird."

“There are more and more pits.”

“I hope screenwriter Su Yan can do his best to change Lu Yuan’s fate in the second time travel so that she can avoid dying at the age of 36.”

"I have a question. Didn't the 26-year-old Lu Yuan in the second episode not believe Shen Buyan's words? Why did the 36-year-old her believe it in the first episode? And she actually ambushed the city defenders at the east gate."

"People do change. The protagonist is obviously going to stir up trouble after traveling through time this time, to make Lu Yuan believe that he is a time traveler. This may be the plot of the third or fourth episode."

"My brain has exploded. Since 36-year-old Lu Yuan believed the protagonist's words, why was she killed?"

"Is it possible that it was because she believed the protagonist's words and had an intersection with the male protagonist that she was killed at the age of 36 while saving the male protagonist. This is the butterfly effect. If she didn't believe the protagonist at the beginning, her ending would be the orthodox historical ending of being liquidated by her adopted son after she grew up, and she could live many more years."

"It feels like putting cause and effect before effect. But if that's the case, the "result" of Lu Yuan's death at the age of 36 has been determined. No matter how unwilling the protagonist is, no matter what he does to the 26-year-old Lu Yuan, it can't change it, right? Or, everything he did was just right, leading to Lu Yuan's death ten years later while saving her?"

"Damn it, isn't this drama just a complete tragedy? I don't want to watch a tragedy! Rurouni Kenshin is already very sad, why is Ancient Love Song going to be sad again!"

"Not necessarily! These are just your guesses. At least Lu Yuan is not the queen now, and her brother Lu Shi is not dead. As long as Shen Buyan's next plot can change the course of their history, it means that history can be changed."

"First of all, there are five pieces of broken jade, which means the hero has four chances to travel through time. If history cannot be changed, why would the screenwriter set these up?"

"Why are there only four chances to travel through time with five pieces of broken jade? You didn't learn math well in elementary school, so it's obviously five times?"

"Well, this kind of question is hard for me to answer. If you don't understand, then don't talk. Pay attention, these pieces of jade will eventually be pieced together into a ring!"

"Breaking history, changing history, saving those who cannot be saved, this is the hero. I thought it was just a late-night drama, but I didn't expect it to be so exciting in the second episode. I haven't watched Rurouni Kenshin, but you guys recommend it so much. It's just the right drama to kill time when I'm on night shift."

"That's right. Only those who can easily do things that we can't do can be called the hero. On the surface, Lu Yuan's death in this drama is a foregone conclusion, and it's a tragic ending. But I believe that Teacher Su Yan will not let Lu Yuan sacrifice like this."

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"Believe Su Yan? Have you forgotten how Xue Dai Ba died?"

Once a drama starts to stir up brainwaves, the amount of discussion will definitely be high.

Although not many people are watching the drama "Ancient Love Song" in the late night party nowadays, a good atmosphere for discussing the plot has been established.

Moreover, most of those who have watched Ancient Lovesickness feel that this drama is more interesting than the A-level dramas on the three major TV stations.

The tropes of those dramas are so old-fashioned that they are only supported by the cast and the quality of the series.

To put it bluntly, these are the only things available on the market, and you can only pick the slightly better ones to eat.

The setting of time travel, or even reverse time travel, in "Ancient Love Song" is the first time in the Xia country's film and television drama market.

The plot and setting are novel, and it is hard to guess what the next episode will be about.

Although it is a niche drama for now, its reputation is much better than other dramas in the same period.

(End of this chapter)