Su Hyun-jung was stunned when she received the call, she began her career as a TV drama writer in 1999 when she won the Best Drama Award at the MBC Screenwriting Competition. In the past ten years, she has written five works, and with these five works, she has stepped into the ranks of B-level writers.

Don't underestimate B-level writers, there are only more than 300 writers registered in the Writers Association in South Korea, 15 super-grade writers, 20 A-grade writers, 70 B-level writers, and the rest are assistant writers, which shows that the number of Korean TV drama writers is very small.

Moreover, TV drama writers have the greatest status and power in TV drama production, and their salaries are also the highest, higher than many top actors.

After two years of polishing, Su Xianjing finally completed a TV series script that she felt very satisfied with. She has a feeling that as long as this drama can be a big hit, she will be able to break through the bottleneck, and even rise to the position of an A-level writer with this drama.

But the problem now is that there is no money to produce this drama, and last year she sent the plan to the three major TV stations, and only SBS TV was interested in it, but because of the economic crisis, there was no money to produce it. The other two TV stations didn't even watch it.

It's been a year, and this year SBS TV has the heart to do this TV series, but the funds are still insufficient, Su Xianjing is now thinking about whether to do this TV series, SBS TV has sent a new director, and the funds are not enough to even invite a little famous actor

Just when Su Xianjing was sighing, Chen He's phone came, and he was still in a hurry, did he hear that mean that he had found funds?

Li Chong and Chen He asked for a private room, after all, when discussing for a while, no one next to them was better.

"Director Chen He, who is this?" Su Xianjing still came.

"Director Li Chong, this is Su Xianjing's writer." Chen He saw Su Xianjing, who had already come up, and introduced.

"Writer Su, this is the director of "The Chaser", directed by Li Chong." Chen He let Su Xianjing sit inside.

"The Chaser? Director Lee Chong? "Su Xianjing is a little confused, isn't she seeing investors?

"Director Li Chong has his own film and television production company" Chen He also learned later that Li Chong even has a film and television company.

"Director Li Chong, hello, I'm Su Xianjing." Su Xianjing came to her senses at this time and greeted Li Zhong gently.

Li Chong looked at the woman in front of him, who was obviously old, she looked in her forties, because she was not a star, so she didn't have the maintenance to become like a star, and she looked very gentle

"I'm Li Chong, writer Su, hello! Originally, I asked Director Chen He for a "role" today, but I didn't expect things to develop in this direction. Li Chong himself felt magical.

"Writer Su, did you bring the script?" Chen He really wanted to direct the TV series independently, so after knowing that Li Chongneng had invested, he was more anxious.

Su Xianjing took out a dozen scripts from her bag, and Li Zhong took it and took a look, "Splendid Heritage", author Su Xianjing.

Li Zhong opened the outline of the story, this TV series tells the story of a series of unfortunate events such as the death of her father and the decline of the family, the heroine Gao Eunxing obtained the inheritance of the male protagonist Xian Yuhuan's grandmother by chance, and the twists and turns of the story towards success, and then turned down to the script of four episodes.

Li Chong watched quietly, he has been writing movie scripts, although the scripts of TV series are not unfamiliar, but he has never written them, but from the scripts of the first four episodes of Su Xianjing, Li Chong can't stop watching it, this is not an easy thing.

"Writer Su, the script is great." Li Zhong said after closing the script.

"Thank you!" Su Xianjing kept looking at Li Chong.

In South Korea, the status of TV drama screenwriters is generally higher than that of film screenwriters, because screenwriters have a very large voice in TV drama production, and some screenwriters can even affect the replacement of directors, not to mention the selection of actors. The film screenwriter is different, the film is a director-led creative work, in the process of shooting, the director can change the plot at will, as long as he thinks it is appropriate, which makes the status of the film screenwriter decline rapidly, so that there are few big-name movie screenwriters, most of the film screenwriters in South Korea are directors themselves, just like Li Chong, Kang Hyung-cheol, they all find a film and television company to shoot after writing the script, but Li Chong did not find funds, and Kang Hyung-cheol met Li Chong, who had money.

"Writer Su, how much budget do I need if I want to shoot this TV series?" Li Zhong gently placed the script on the table, and then asked.

Su Xianjing is very satisfied with Li Chong's move, the script is like a child to a writer, so people who respect their children will leave a good impression.

"Of course, I want to budget as much as possible, but I also know that the economy is not good right now, so as long as I can get an A-lister." Su Xianjing replied with a smile.

The production cost of Korean TV dramas is generally about 300 million won per episode of miniseries, and if it is a historical drama, add 100 million won, unless it is a top production of a super-grade writer, and the top actors are invited, and the production fee can reach 600 million won, which is unique for an episode like "IRIS" to reach 1 billion won.

And the miniseries that Su Hyunjing said has first-line stars participating in the performance, which is generally a production fee of 300 million won, but those are two first-line stars, male and female.

"Does Su have any actors you want to work with?" Li Zhong asked again.

A series of first-line male stars flashed in Su Hyunjing's mind, and finally froze on the three of them, "So Ji-sub, Hyun Bin and Kang Dong Won." ”

"So Ji-sub is filming our TV station's Mizuki drama, and it will start broadcasting next month" After Chen He listened to the actor Su Hyunjing wanted, he was the first to exclude Su Ji-sub.

"Jiang Dongyuan is filming our company's movie, and it is estimated that there will be no time in the first half of the year, and Jiang Dongyuan may not be willing to take on the TV series." Li Chong went on to say that Jiang Dongyuan is the starring role of "Tian Yuzhi".

"Then only Hyun Bin is left, I'm not familiar with him, let's try to invite it first, but I don't know if I can do it. It is best for Su writers to have several spare candidates. Li Chong recalled that he and Hyun Bin were really not familiar with each other, and it seemed that he could only ask others what Hyun Bin meant.

"Well, I know this, I can invite the best, it doesn't matter if I can't invite you, after all, it's too difficult for such a TV series to attract an actor like Hyun Bin." Su Xianjing also said self-deprecatingly.

"Director Chen He, I decided to invest in this TV series, do you see what procedures you have to go through, or do you go back and ask the SBS TV Production Bureau what process I need to go through?" Li Chong suddenly said to Chen He.

"Ah, Director Li Chong is really going to invest, then I'll go back and make a budget, and then Director Li Chong can negotiate with the production bureau, as long as the production bureau doesn't get all the funds, the normal subsidy is still no problem." Chen He was really ecstatic, and a very tangled matter was solved in this way