Depressive screenwriter.

Chapter 46: Rising Grades and

noon the next day.

The ratings for the second episode of Ancient Lovesickness are out.

“It’s increased by 1.59%. It’s really increased.”

In the producer's office of the Ancient Love Song crew, Shinozaki Yumi had dark circles under her eyes, and her previous nervous expression instantly turned into a smile.

After the second episode of Ancient Lovesickness was aired last night, she spent the entire night reading audience comments on Sakura.com.

Throughout the entire night, I rarely saw any audience members giving negative reviews to the show.

"Su Yan, why don't you look happy at all?"

Shinozaki Ikumi looked at Su Yan.

"I'm happy too, but not that happy. After all, there's still a long way to go to achieve the goal we set at the beginning." Su Yan said.

"Teacher Su Yan, don't be too rigid. Even if we haven't achieved the final goal yet, this result is definitely worth our celebration. Do you know what 1.59% means? This is the highest ratings for a single episode of the dramas aired on the three major TV stations, Zhongxia, Hudu, and Sakura, at midnight on Sundays this year." Shi Peihua's serious face was also full of smiles.

"This shows that Ancient Love Song has at least been recognized by late-night audiences."

"If the situation continues like this, it's possible that The Ancient Love Song will have a viewership rating of over 2% during the midnight slot!" Shinozaki Ikumi said with a dazed look on her face.

Indeed, she also agreed with Su Yan's goal of surpassing Yeying in the final results and at least entering the top ten of the quarter in terms of ratings.

What's wrong with having dreams?

But no matter how big your goals are or how emotional your speeches are, most of the time they don’t feel realistic when implemented.

If you discuss with a penniless person how to make a million dollars, he will talk to you with great interest.

If you talk to him about how to make a small profit, he will just think you are crazy, even though he may have such a dream himself.

The same goes for producers like Ikumi Shinozaki. When the ratings of your work start to rise from 1%, you will feel excited about the possible 2% ratings.

When the ratings really reach the 2% level, Shinozaki Ikumi will be really excited about the upcoming 3% and the top ten quarterly ratings, and will think day and night about how to achieve this goal.

Now, Shinozaki Ikumi can feel her heart beating faster.

Although this idea is too idealistic.

But the ratings increased by about 0.2% from the first episode to the second episode.

"If the ratings can increase by 0.2% every episode, or even 0.1% every episode, by the time the show is finished, the ratings of Ancient Lovesickness will indeed increase to more than 3%. Being in the top ten of the quarter is not a dream!" Shinozaki Ikumi said excitedly.

"How can there be such an ideal rise?" Su Yan said.

“Arithmetic progressions do not correspond to reality.”

"That's right." Shinozaki Ikumi looked a little disappointed.

If the ratings could grow according to the arithmetic progression model, the Xia country's TV drama market would have been filled with hit dramas.

"Since the ratings increased by 0.2% from the first episode to the second episode, the ratings may increase by 0.4% or 0.6% later on!" Su Yan said.

With film and television dramas, the ratings often remain stable for a long time after they are aired, and then suddenly some explosive plot appears in a certain episode, and the work goes viral, and the ratings start to soar.

What the hell is an arithmetic sequence?

too slow.

"?" Ikumi Shinozaki.

“?” Shi Peihua.

The two of them had already thought beautifully, but they didn’t expect Su Yan’s thoughts were even more beautiful.

"Ancient Love Song" broke the highest ratings of Sakura TV's Sunday midnight slot this year, which caused quite a stir among the scriptwriting and production departments.

As of today, the first week results of the Xia country’s film and television drama market have all been released.

The performance of dramas on the three major TV stations this season was average.

The drama with the highest ratings is "The Man in the Painting" on Zhongxia TV, with a rating of 3.98%.

The second place is "Doctor Lone" on Shanghai TV, with the first episode having a viewership rating of 3.91% last night.

The third is Sakura TV's A-level drama "The Gilded Man" this quarter, with a viewership rating of 3.89%.

Then, because "The Lone Doctor" was broadcast last night, Kiyota Sanji's "Yozakura" was squeezed out of the top ten with a viewership rating of 3.01%, ranking eleventh in the ratings this season.

It can be said that this quarter’s film and television dramas can be regarded as a quarter with poor performance in this market in the past two years.

Forget about any hit dramas or blockbuster dramas, there isn’t even a standard A-level drama with a first-episode viewership rating of over 4%.

Among the top ten dramas in terms of ratings in the first week, only two were produced by Sakura TV.

In this seasonal market where everyone is bad, "Ancient Love Song" at least helped Sakura TV win the first place in the ratings of the Sunday midnight slot, which is indeed an outstanding result.

Everyone in the screenwriting department also started discussing it at this time.

"During the same period, the ratings of the dramas on Zhongxia TV and Hudu TV in the midnight slot were only 0.87% and 0.76 respectively. They were severely squeezed by Gu Xiangsi Qu!"

"Of course. There are only a few viewers in the midnight slot. How can Ancient Love Song suck the audience's blood from a 1.59% rating? It can only suck the audience of Zhongxia TV, Hudu TV and other small and medium-sized TV stations in the same period!"

"It's a pity that this drama was aired at midnight. If it was scheduled at a better time, it would probably have a viewership rating of over 2.3%. For a C-rated drama to have such a result is extremely impressive."

"That's not necessarily true. Midnight slots have their own competitors, and the second-best and regular slots have their own elite competitors. Ancient Love Song has moved to a different slot, and its competitors are stronger, so it may not be able to stand out in the same slot."

"It's no use talking about it now. Although I feel sorry for Su Yan, his background and connections also show his strength. The ratings of Kiyota Sanji's new drama broke 3% at the beginning of its broadcast. Although it ranked only 11th in the first week, it is possible that it will squeeze into the top 10 in the future. If Kiyota Sanji can really achieve this with a [C-level] drama, then the TV station will probably do its best to support him in the future." "[C-level]? Those who understand understand. It's a Saturday night at o'clock time slot, with so many famous stars participating in the show for low pay. How can that drama be considered C-level?"

"So background is also strength! Hahaha, if I give you 1500 million, you can't put together this lineup, but others can do it. You have to admit it. TV stations only look at the rate of return."

Some of the heated discussions by the scriptwriting and production departments about the first week's film and television drama market in Xia Country and the many dramas on the station will also be passed on to Kiyota Sanji's ears.

The second episode of Ancient Love Song had a viewership rating of 1.59%, which did make him lose a lot of attention, but that was all.
"This is the limit of that schedule." Kiyota Sanji comforted himself.

On Tuesday, the first episodes of a number of film and television dramas that will be aired in the fall season were released one after another on the four major online drama platforms.

These include the ancient lovesickness song.

The biggest advantage of the online streaming platform is that if a drama is only released in the middle or late stages of its broadcast, viewers who want to get into the show can catch up with the latest episode on the website and then directly join the TV station's army of viewers who watch the drama.

However, because there were no hit dramas in this year's autumn season, even if the first episodes of these dramas were released on online streaming platforms, they did not make much of a splash.

Time flies and another weekend is here.

On Friday and Saturday, the ratings for the second episodes of two A-rated dramas, The Painted Man and The Gilded Man, were not much different from the first week, and still did not break 4%.

The second episode of Night Sakura slightly increased by 0.01%, and the second episode ratings were 3.02%.

However, the ratings ranking dropped one place, from 11th to 12th, which made Kiyota Sanji very anxious. The next day, he lost his temper on the set and cursed at the second female and male actors.

By Sunday, although the second episodes of several dramas such as "Doctor Lone" had not yet aired, the ratings of these dramas broadcast on the three major TV stations on Sunday night were all among the top 15, so it did not affect the ranking of "Gu Xiangsi Qu".

Therefore, the ratings ranking of "Ancient Love Song" in the second week of its broadcast was determined, and it quietly rose from 27th to 23rd.

But after all, it didn't make it into the top 20, so it is still inconspicuous.

It was a little after midnight on Sunday night.
The third episode of Sakura TV's Ancient Love Song is aired on time.

The plot of this episode marks an important turning point.

The focus is on introducing the current military and political situation of Sheng State.

Because in the second episode, Beilie's assassin was preparing to assassinate Shengguo's Emperor Yuanqi, and Shengguo's once lost strategic location Huofeng Fort was still in Beilie's hands.

The people of the whole country were filled with anger, and public opinion and court officials all demanded that General Lu Shi go to Huofeng Fort to recover the lost territory.

Of course, the Huofeng Fort in this drama can be understood as a strategic location like the Hangu Pass of the Qin State during the period of the six kingdoms' contention in Su Yan's previous life.

Moreover, in this episode, Lu Yuan showed the audience her outstanding talent in guzheng.

And Lu Yuan's guzheng playing in this drama is by no means just for show.

Only Shen Buyan, who entered the palace with the token given to him by the emperor, could hear that Lu Yuan, without leaving the palace, was discussing with her how to conceal the assassination of the emperor and how to settle the matter peacefully without arousing public anger while Prime Minister Li Yong was still discussing with her.

Lu Yuan demonstrated her talent to Li Yong by deliberately playing the wrong notes, allowing Yihua outside the palace to decipher the information based on the wrong sound code. Overnight, through the city's spies, the news that the emperor was assassinated by the Beilie people spread throughout the city, prompting her brother Lu Shi to gain the support of the people and the court, so that he could lead the army to attack Huofeng Fort.

As for why Shen Buyan knew that Lu Yuan played the wrong notes, it was a secret code.
It's a small foreshadowing.

Shen Buyan also saw from Lu Yuan's behavior that she and Li Yong were pretending to be obedient on the surface, but in fact
She had noticed that something was wrong with Li Yong a long time ago, but she had no choice but to pretend to work under him.

Her goal is to help Sheng State become stronger, but she has no choice but to serve under treacherous officials for the time being.

Shen Buyan saw through Lu Yuan's purpose and wanted to use the information he knew about history to save the 36-year-old Lu Yuan.

So he went with the army, just to change the ending of Lu Shi's death in Huofeng Fort in history, and to prevent Lu Yuan from entering the palace and becoming the empress of the foolish emperor.
Lu Yuan would not die ten years later.

The logic is correct, and it is the same as what many viewers think.

In fact, because of his research on this period of history, Shen Buyan knew all the details of the Battle of Huofeng Fort, and even gave key suggestions on information such as weather during combat.

Because he knew the history and knew that Lu Shi would be ambushed and killed in the battle of Liuli Valley, Shen Buyan took advantage of the situation and proposed that one person wear Lu Shi's general mask and pretend to be Lu Shi as bait to lead the feint attack army into the valley, and then the others would go around and attack the ambushed Beilie enemy army from behind.

And proposed to be the bait himself.

This kind of bait can only be given to trustworthy people.

Because he felt that if he was really ambushed and killed, there was a chance that he would only return to the modern era and would not really die.

He really wanted to save Lu Shi and change Lu Yuan's fate.

The plot of the third episode was peaceful and soothing, and almost all TV viewers felt that the development was logical.

But when the third episode started to air in the middle and later part.
There came a turning point.

Because Shen Buyan discovered during the implementation of the plan that after the second time travel, the 26-year-old Lu Yuan actually knew him from the beginning.

Or rather, it was not him who discovered it, but Lu Yuan who exposed it on his own initiative.

Because Lu Yuan didn't want him to be the bait, he wrote a letter explaining everything, knocked Shen Buyan unconscious, put on a mask and armor pretending to be Lu Shi, and went to be the bait and die.

And in the letter, she told it all.

Knowing that he is a time traveler, I know that everything he said is true.

She deliberately pretended not to know Shen Buyan.

She didn't want Shen Buyan to be involved in her fight with Li Yong and put himself in danger.

This plot development completely confused the audience.

That night, a group of viewers who were waiting in front of the TV late at night had their mouths wide open.

Why is this development digging another hole?

Lu Yuan, how much do you know?
(End of this chapter)