Zou Hanqiu smiled and said nostalgically, "I was young back then, and I don't know how I got through it. If I were to do it like this now, I would definitely kill someone."

"Me too, I can't take it anymore, time waits for no one!" Zhang Zhengrong sighed deeply.

However, given their current status, they are the ones choosing the scripts; it's impossible for anyone to force them to act. Besides, it's already 1998, and the situation in Hong Kong has changed a lot. The situation of simultaneously producing six or seven films is basically no longer seen.

But Hong Kong cinema has also begun to decline, and it's estimated that it will be difficult to reproduce the glory of the past few years!

"You should do the right thing at the right age. If you suffer when you are young, you can enjoy life when you are old. That is the right way. If you do the opposite and enjoy life when you are young, you deserve to suffer when you are old."

Ye Qingqing removed the needles from Zhang Zhengrong's needles, disinfected them, and put them back into her needle case.

"You're such a young girl, you don't look like you're only eighteen. You're more mature than many twenty-eight-year-olds. When I was eighteen, all I knew was how to play. I didn't care about tomorrow and just lived day to day." Zhang Zhengrong said with some surprise.

I really think this girl is too precocious. She doesn't seem like she's only eighteen years old at all. Many people live most of their lives without understanding these things, but this girl has already figured them out at such a young age.

"That's because you had a comfortable life when you were eighteen, so you didn't have to worry about the hardships of life. That's why they say children from poor families mature early. Qiu-ge must have been sensible when he was eighteen, right?" Ye Qingqing asked.

Zhang Zhengrong comes from a middle-class family and studied abroad when he was young. Unlike many stars who became actors because of poverty, he did it purely out of interest. He was also bored at the time. There happened to be a singing competition, and a series of coincidences led Zhang Zhengrong to accidentally enter the entertainment industry and grow into a superstar.

Zou Hanqiu is different. His family was very poor, and he started working when he was just over ten years old. He did many jobs and suffered a lot of humiliation. So even though he has money now, he lives very frugally, which is completely different from Zhang Zhengrong's spending habits.

“I started as an apprentice at a watch shop when I was twelve. I washed clothes and cleaned for my master and mistress. I ate leftovers. My master would beat and scold me when he was unhappy, and he refused to teach me his real skills. I endured it for two years and then left. I changed jobs many times. Once, I played a dead person in a film crew and realized that my true love was acting. So I enrolled in an acting training class.”

Zou Hanqiu spoke of the past with a nonchalant air, as if he were talking about someone else's story. In fact, the suffering he endured was far more than that. During those years of working odd jobs, verbal abuse was commonplace. Some customers would slap you or even kick you if they were unhappy, and then give you a small tip and pretend nothing happened. The boss would not speak up for you. After being slapped for the first time, he secretly vowed to make something of himself and never let his children live such a humiliating life again.

Madam Zou, lying on the couch, sighed softly, her face filled with heartache. She didn't know much about her husband's past, as he didn't like to talk about it. She had occasionally heard her mother-in-law mention some things, and it was truly a bitter experience. She regretted not having met her husband sooner, so that she might have been able to help him.

Ye Qingqing had heard some of Zou Hanqiu's history of hardship, so she comforted him, saying, "Suffering when you're young is actually a gift from life. Those hardships will become your wealth, something that money can't buy."

If she hadn't experienced those dark times in her past life, she wouldn't be able to see things so clearly in this life, nor would she know how to read people's hearts. However, she is an exception; not everyone has the opportunity to be reborn.

Zou Hanqiu smiled and said, "You're right. Those hardships are all material for my acting, so I'm very grateful for that period of my life."