Chapter 384
This is the real easy part
Chen Hui's business plan is simple. She plans to sell vegetable buns.
When modern young people order takeout, they may encounter pre-prepared dishes, but they find it troublesome to cook by themselves. The meal packs she sells have all the ingredients and raw materials prepared, and they just need to be poured into the pot after opening. They are fresh and convenient, and can use "healthy living" as a marketing point.
The script sets up Shen Hui's character as a capitalist with real skills, rather than a young lady who just eats and waits for death. There is nothing wrong with her plan, but she is good at decision-making and planning. Even when it comes to execution, she is considering how to manage the team, not how to complete specific tasks.
She had chosen a good store location, but her sister Qian Cheng failed to negotiate the rent. She asked her brother Qian Guangzong to look up some information online to decide on the menu, but he assumed that the customer was a professional chef and chose all the restaurant's signature dishes.
Arranged the eldest sister Qian Ju to go to the vegetable market to select products, she just thought the cheaper the better; asked Qian's mother to take Qian's father to do some work, but Qian's father ran away as soon as she let go, without saying a word. She was used to this, but it seriously slowed down her work efficiency and affected Shen Hui's plans.
It would be fine if she didn't do anything good, but rather than hoping that her business plan would succeed, the Qian family cared more about the 100,000 yuan she earned. They found all kinds of reasons to ask her for money, which made Shen Hui so angry that she wanted to teach them to take a long-term view. Just a mere hundred thousand dollars makes this family not even want to install it? !
Chen Hui, who grew up among elites, found it hard to imagine that there existed such a makeshift team in the world. Her ideas were shattered one after another, and when she had to roll up her sleeves and do these things herself, her resentment as a worker grew stronger and stronger, and she was no longer as gentle and elegant as when she first appeared.
Chen Yuening felt that his description was quite accurate. When Chen Hui and Qian Lan first appeared, he felt from the bottom of his heart that the two were parallel lines that would never intersect. Who would have thought that as the plot progressed, their expressions and demeanor would become more and more like each other?
Having said that, it is no wonder that people always say that Ling Sui's acting skills are often amazing in the details, as he can perform this with such subtle changes.
Seeing this, the audience has already understood that "Easy As Pie" is a satirical movie.
Shen Hui, the arrogant daughter of a wealthy family, firmly believes that she can do anything. Qian Lan, whose life is a mess under the pressure of reality, is not taken seriously by her at all. She believes that the suffering of ordinary people comes from their incompetence, but when she leaves the Shen family, leaves the wealthy family that supports her, and loses the resources available to her, she will also lose her proper demeanor in trivial matters.
Shen Hui had to both work and manage her employees - the Qian family, including the husband of her eldest sister Qian Ju. Although there were many problems, they were not enough to make her back down.
This is the positive charm of Shen Hui’s personality. When the audience sees her serious look, they naturally believe that she will succeed in everything she does.
Chen Hui is pursuing her career, and from a certain perspective, so is Qian Lan.
Qian Lan's goal is to conquer Jia Ming and make him fall in love with her, or, as a second best option, get something from him, even if it is something like hush money. She must try to use her identity to gain more benefits for herself before Chen Hui gets tired of playing with her.
It was not until the film was released that Chen Yuening discovered that a lot of his scenes had been deleted. This made him a little sad, but he could also understand Tang Bing.
After all, the movie is already over 160 minutes long, not to mention before the cuts and cuts. Moreover, if we calculate the proportion of each character's roles that were cut, he actually had the least cuts, since his only opponent was basically Ling Suisui.
Although they have collaborated many times, it was not until the filming of "Easy As Pie" that Chen Yuening and Ling Suisui filmed a kissing scene for the second time.
Moreover, the kissing scenes in "Perfect Life" are only superficial and far from being as intimate as the rivalry between Qian Lan and Jia Ming.
During the filming, Chen Yuening dared to say that he was absolutely focused and immersed in the role, everything was for work. After all, he was surrounded by so many cameras, and he and Ling Sui's 24-year-old teacher Tang Bing were still watching in front of the monitor, so it was really hard for him to have any other thoughts.
But in the dim environment of the cinema, Ling Suisui sat next to him. There was romantic background music in his ears and ambiguous breathing sounds coming from the screen... When all these elements were stacked together, Chen Yuening's body stiffened and he didn't know where to look.
——In the screening room, his attention still returns to the movie.
Chen Yuening said that he was very dedicated when filming, and it was not just a humble statement. Because in this scene, Jia Ming was wearing a blindfold and he couldn't see anything.
During the filming, Chen Yuening thought that even if he couldn't see, he could still cooperate well with Ling Suisui. But after watching the actual film, he realized... he seemed to have become a toy for her to manipulate.
From Jia Ming's perspective, Chen Hui said she wanted to play role-playing games with him. Not only did she let him pretend to be a blind person, she also gave herself a nickname, Xiaolan, and only allowed him to call herself by this name.
As long as Chen Hui spoke, he was always very cooperative. He did as he was told and was pushed onto the bed. Shen Hui took off his clothes, ran her fingers over every corner of his body, and lowered her head to listen to his breathing.
Every time he called Xiaolan, he would get a kiss. Having found a pattern, Jia Ming kept calling her name, and their kisses became more and more frequent, until he could no longer hold back and pressed her under him, moving his hot and lingering kisses to her neck.
Chen Yuening's face turned red and his ears were also very hot. At this moment, he was very grateful for his habit of not turning on the lights in the screening room.
...To be honest, the panting sounds were recorded separately at the back. They really weren't like that on the set...they weren't so greedy.
"Ah Hui, Ah Hui."
The name that Jia Ming calls out when he is emotional in the movie is still his fiancée Chen Hui.
He kissed the woman under him obsessively. Even if he felt her momentary rejection, he kept saying "Ah Hui" in a lingering and flattering tone, looking for her lips to kiss, and then burying his head in her shoulders to kiss and suck her obsessively.
The camera gave Qian Lan a close-up.
She looked at the ceiling above her head, her confused eyes were misty and tears lightly brushed across her cheeks.
She had no resentment, nor was she unwilling. She just wanted to be a doll with her soul sucked out, leaving only an empty shell.
——But everything she has now, for a short time, is not due to this face that is exactly the same as Shen Hui’s?
This close-up was so sad that even Chen Yuening threw all his romantic thoughts behind him. For a moment, he really wanted to hold Ling Sui's hand and pass this warm power to her.
Of course, he was only in a trance for a moment. After all, the actors and the roles are separate, and Ling Suisui is also the actor of Shen Hui... ahem, so this scene is even more subtle and exciting.
Tang Bing has a good grasp of the film's narrative rhythm. After experiencing lows, the two characters each reach a turning point where they can make progress.
But as expected, the next turning point is coming.
Chen Hui's vegetable bun business has taken off and the revenue performance is pretty good. Qian Cheng still had to go to work, so Chen Hui chose between hiring a professional store manager and handing the store over to Qian's mother to operate.
According to Ling Suisui's analysis, when Shen Hui made this decision, she might not have much trust in Qian's mother's ability. She should have been more inclined to reclaim her time and energy and focus on continuing to expand her business territory.
Moreover, Shen Hui knew very well that the current earning power of cooking vegetable buns was only temporary. She just picked the right business location and filled the market gap in this area. But there is basically no threshold to enter this industry. Once competitors enter the market, their market share will immediately shrink and their revenue will drop significantly.
But it didn’t matter, she must have made some quick bucks before that. The cooking vegetable buns are just a tool she uses to attract customers to her store. Even if they don’t sell well, she can still launch other products, or simply renovate the store and change to another industry.
As long as the shop is popular and the private traffic built up by cooking vegetable buns is still in her hands, Chen Hui will not worry about not making money.
However, she really overestimated the Qian family's vision.
Chen Hui thought that as long as the arrangements were made properly, Qian's mother would do the job that she thought had no technical content as required, but the reality was not the case.
Under the instigation of Qian's father, Qian's mother passed off inferior products as good ones and cut corners. She thought that if the dish was a little better or a little rotten, or the portion was a little more or a little less, the white-collar workers in the office would not be able to tell the difference at all. As long as the costs go down, won’t the profits go up? Naturally, all the extra money went into Qian's father's pocket.
Qian's mother destroyed her own reputation and opened the door for her competitors.
The rapid drop in revenue once again caught Shen Hui off guard and disrupted her overall plans. She realized that once she took on Qian Lan's identity, her plan would have a 100% chance of failure.
Chen Hui felt extremely tired, but the "surprise" waiting for her was still to come.
The eldest sister Qian Ju was abused by her husband. She beat him up and wanted to call the police but was stopped by Qian Ju. She refused to divorce him, but the next time the scumbag attacked Qian Ju again, she cried and begged Shen Hui to help her and support her.
Her younger sister Qian Cheng was sexually harassed by the company boss. She mustered up the courage to fight back physically, but was instead threatened that she would be banned from working in the entire county. She was fired without any compensation, and no company of a certain size dared to hire her. In a small county town where human relationships are important, "saying hello" is particularly useful.
Shen Hui took her to arbitration and used legal means to resolve the issue, but she herself ended up becoming the target of retaliation by the "big boss".
Although a society ruled by law cannot really do anything to her, blocking her various business procedures is enough to make her anxious.
As for Qian Ju, she didn't want to care but she couldn't really just leave her alone. As for Qian Cheng, Chen Hui was extremely angry about what happened to her sister.
A local tyrant from a small county town can actually bully her? Did this place get missed during the nationwide crackdown on organized crime? !
——Chen Yuening felt that the furious Chen Hui at this moment must have forgotten that she once ignored the city management regulations and flew a drone recklessly.
These things took up a lot of Shen Hui's time and energy, and the other people in the Qian family were also busy.
Because her business start-up procedures were stuck and her new company had no place to go for the time being, Shen Hui invested the money she had previously earned into stock funds. She happened to catch a bull market and made a fortune.
This terrifying earning ability made Qian Guangzong very excited. Although he had never been exposed to stocks, it did not prevent him from feeling that this job was suitable for him.
From his perspective, this is a great way to make money without having to think. Since "Qian Lan" can do it, then he can definitely do it too.
He offered to help Shen Hui manage her stocks. Even if Shen Hui no longer cared about the tens of millions of dollars in income, she had learned enough lessons and would never believe Qian Guangzong's promise again.
She refused, but this did not dampen Qian Guangzong's enthusiasm for stocks. He just felt that "Qian Lan" was too selfish, only thinking about making money for herself and not willing to let her family benefit from it.
So he did something that once again exceeded Shen Hui's imagination. He borrowed all the online loans he could from various platforms, and then invested all of it in the stocks that Shen Hui bought.
Anyone who knows a little about stocks knows that higher returns mean higher risks. Even Shen Hui, who has been involved in the financial market since childhood, does not dare to guarantee that every investment she makes will make money. How dare he borrow money to trade stocks?
——If Qian Guangzong had been bolder and more resolute, things would not have deteriorated to the worst point, because Shen Hui has a good vision and she has only selected blue chip stocks. Even if there are short-term fluctuations, she will definitely make money in the long run.
But Qian Guangzong obviously didn't have the courage. He sold the stocks that were losing money, and because he didn't dare to ask "Qian Lan" for help, he bought stocks blindly on his own.
He rushed to buy when he saw the price was rising, and sold fearfully when he saw the price was falling. His wealth management ability was simply not able to handle such a large investment, and before long, he was reduced to despair by repeated losses.
When the repayment date arrived, he could only ask Qian's mother for help. Qian's mother did not dare to tell Qian Lan, so she went to do odd jobs and took on all kinds of heavy work. Her body, which was already ill from overwork, could not withstand such high-intensity labor. She suddenly fainted during the transportation of goods, was hit by a heavy object, and was admitted to the hospital.
After entering the hospital, Shen Hui realized that Qian's mother had no medical insurance and had never bought any insurance. Qian's mother needs treatment not only for this injury, but also for multiple serious illnesses in her body. Even if you use up all the money that "Qian Lan" currently earns, it still won't be enough.
Chen Hui thought that fate had cleared her progress bar until the debt collectors came to her door and Qian Guangzong knelt on the ground and slapped himself, begging her to help pay back the money first. Only then did she realize that there was no limit to the difficulty of life.
She leaned against the wall of the hospital hallway, sighed and closed her eyes.
Ling Suisui stared at Chen Hui on the screen, and his thoughts returned to the time when he was studying the script.
As long as Chen Hui makes a phone call, gets her identity back, and uses money to pave the way, all problems will be solved.
This is truly a piece of cake.
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