Tao Mu has a slight mysophobia. So when he returned to the dormitory from the bar, even though it was already past twelve o'clock, Tao Mu still took a set of pajamas and went to take a shower.
Tao Mu's body was bruised and blue after being hung on the wire by the fire hose for an entire afternoon. The most serious part was even bleeding. The numerous scars look even more shocking against the fair skin. The warm water flowed down the shower head, and the bruises on my body felt painful under the hot water. Tao Mu was in so much pain that he didn't even dare to apply shower gel. He just rinsed off and came out.
Da Mao handed over the prepared cold granules, and Tao Mu drank the medicine while pinching his nose under the watchful eyes of his two childhood friends. With a white towel on his wet head, he sat in front of the small desk with an unhappy look on his face. He took out his diary and prepared to write.
Da Mao and Xiao Pang smiled and reminded him, "Don't scold us in your diary!"
People who are familiar with Tao Mu know that although he is venomous, arrogant, carefree and has a hot temper, Tao Mu actually has a very fresh hobby, which is keeping a diary. Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, this hobby is too literary and delicate. Only Tao Mu himself knew that there was actually no sadness in his diary. It was just to write down the things that happened every day, the people he came into contact with, and the various gossips or serious news that Tao Mu heard by chance that he thought might be useful in the future, so that when he came into contact with these people and things again in the future, he could give different reactions according to different people. To be more precise, it is to use these details to gain benefits for oneself.
For example, Tao Mu would write down the clothes and even the preferences that were accidentally revealed by every person he met who might be useful to him. The next time you meet, describe exactly what clothes and jewelry the other person wore last time and compliment them, or "accidentally" mention their preferences during casual conversation. This approach can instantly bring the two people closer together and make the other person feel that you really care about him.
This was taught to Tao Mu by a very popular gigolo when he was working in a nightclub. This popular gigolo believes that the key selling point to make yourself popular is not how handsome or young you are, but that you should do your best to straighten out every personal connection while maintaining your own taste and style, find out everyone's preferences and weaknesses, and tap into the value of each person and even every connection.
He suggested that Tao Mu should take seriously everyone he came into contact with. You should manage your personal connections carefully. After all, many people - especially men - may have a natural hostility towards handsome people of the same sex. But most people would not be hostile to a younger person who is handsome and admires them.
"Don't think that men don't have vanity. In fact, men are the most obsessed with looks and the easiest to please. Especially the customers who come to our nightclub, most of them are elites who have achieved success in their respective fields. These people have seen all kinds of scenes and battles. You think they are not easy to fool, right? You are wrong."
"If a person lives in a high-end environment, then no matter how high-end he is, he will not stand out in the crowd. But if he changes to another place, he may stand out like a crane among chickens. What you need to do is to make him feel that he is the crane in your mind."
"I know a little about your life story. To be frank, although it is tragic, it is also one of your selling points. Since the facts cannot be changed, you must learn to take advantage of it. There is nothing wrong with showing weakness appropriately. People admire the strong, but they naturally sympathize with the weak. This is very contradictory. If you take advantage of it well, you will be able to succeed in everything."
"They may know the little tricks I taught you. But even if they know them, it's better to have someone spend time on you than to have no one pay attention to you. We in the service industry rely on these little tricks. If you feel that your brain is not working well, write these things down in a notebook. Take a look at it when you have nothing to do."
"But you have to remember that these things are best kept to yourself. Don't show them to others. Otherwise, they might change their minds and the effect will be greatly reduced."
From then on, Tao Mu began to keep a diary.
After his rebirth, in addition to keeping a diary every day, Tao Mu also bought several notebooks to record major events that would happen in the next ten years - including gossip in the entertainment industry, box office records, award presentations, ratings, stock price fluctuations in the financial market, futures fluctuations, sensational social hot spots, and current political laws and regulations; domestic and foreign, no matter how big or small, according to the time limit and the content division of each major section, he would record as much as he remembered and occasionally supplement it. In order to prevent the contents of the diary from being leaked, Tao Mu also specially invented a set of coded texts that only he could understand.
With uninterrupted recollection, Tao Mu was pleasantly surprised to find that his memory seemed to be better. For example, Tao Mu could only roughly recall what happened at a certain stage before; but with the continuous integration of dreams, when Tao Mu recalled these things again, he could even accurately remember the specific time and details of the events, including the tone and expression of each person when they spoke. Sometimes I hear a few words unintentionally and can still recall them clearly after a long time.
Da Mao and Xiao Pang have long been accustomed to Tao Mu's literary behavior of writing a diary before going to bed every day. It was even more common for Tao Mu to have the sudden inspiration to invent cipher text when writing a diary - after all, everyone had not yet passed the second year of middle school, and it was very popular among classmates to chat in Martian text. As a leader in the middle school syndrome, it is not surprising that Tao Mu has to invent his own coded text to keep a diary.
On the contrary, in the eyes of Big Hair and Little Fatty, Tao Mu is very cool.
"Brother Mu, you are so awesome, you are worthy of being our Brother Mu." Da Mao gave Tao Mu a thumbs up: "By the way, Brother Mu, this is my birthday present for you."
Because of Tao Mu's mysophobia, Da Mao was forced to take a bath twice a day. After taking a bath, he gave Tao Mu the birthday gift he had prepared long ago.
It is a business notebook computer. The white metal shell is thin and stylish, and Damao thinks it is particularly suitable for their brother Mu.
Xiao Pang also took out the birthday gift he had prepared, which turned out to be the smartphone that Tao Mu had been dreaming about: "You've always wanted to change your phone, haven't you? And you dislike that the models and styles of smartphones in H Town are not as many as those in Yanjing. This is the latest model of the fruit phone that I asked my classmates to buy in Country M. How about it? It definitely suits your aesthetic taste, right, Brother Mu?"
Tao Mu was slightly startled, then smiled and said, "Thank you, I like them all."
"Hehe!" Big Hairy and Little Fatty scratched their hair and sat on both sides of Tao Mu. Da Mao took out a bottle of folk-style medicinal wine for bruises and injuries: "This was introduced to me by a martial arts brother in the crew. He said it is very useful for rubbing bruises. Brother Mu, can I rub some of the medicinal wine on you?"
Tao Mu was about to agree when Damao's cell phone rang suddenly.
Damao glanced at the caller ID and handed the phone directly to Tao Mu: "It's Dean Tao."
Tao Mu paused slightly while writing in his diary. He took the phone and went to the balcony.
"Xiao Mu, happy birthday." Dean Tao's kind voice sounded on the other side of the receiver: "Why did you leave your phone to Xiao Yuan when you left? I couldn't contact you anywhere, and I finally found Wang Ye's father and got Wang Ye's phone number from him. How are you doing over there?"
Tao Mu has been working outside since he was a child. Over the years, relying on his good looks, he has worked as a waiter in a nightclub or a western restaurant, a salesperson in a music store, and even a part-time model. In fact, he has earned a lot of extra money.
It's just that Tao Mu has always spent money lavishly, and he has to send money to the orphanage every month, so he didn't save much.
This time when he came to H Film and Television City, Tao Mu's idea was still to use his life experience to pretend to be pitiful. He had a good plan and wanted to meet some kind and compassionate directors or producers in H Film and Television City, who might be able to help him if given the chance. Even if you don't have the opportunity, it would be nice to become familiar to others and leave a good impression of being sensible and well-behaved. So in order to package himself to the maximum extent, Tao Mu didn't bring any brand-name clothes, and even gave the slider phone he had used for several years to Feng Yuan - smart phones had just come out on the market, and Tao Mu had planned to buy a new phone before school started.
Having grown up in an orphanage, Tao Mu did not deny that he was a scheming person and loved acting, but he would never put himself in a difficult position. But looking back now, his superficial calculations were so shallow and stupid. I guess many people have already seen through his performance, but they just don't say it out loud.
Thinking back to his previous life, when he was bribed by Shen Yu's admirers to dig up the internet's secrets and expose his true colors, all these little tricks were exposed to the public. Even the diary that was specifically used to smooth out interpersonal relationships was uploaded to the Internet for public display, which proved that he was scheming and two-faced.
Living his life over again, Tao Mu would certainly not continue these little actions that were so stupid that they could almost be used as a joke.
"I was planning to buy a smartphone, but when I got here I found that H Town is really small. The models of mobile phones are not good either. Fortunately, Xiaopang understands me and gave me a latest smartphone as a birthday gift. I will go to apply for a card tomorrow and I will send you my phone number then." Tao Mu said with a smile: "By the way, how is your health recently? The seasons are about to change again. Is your heart okay? When I get back, I will take you to the hospital for a check-up."
Tao Mu will never forget that in his previous life, Dean Tao was so angry that he suffered a heart attack and died tragically in the ambulance.
He would never allow this to happen again in his life.
"I'm in good health, don't waste this money." Dean Tao smiled warmly, "But you, remember to take good care of yourself. Don't sleep too late at night, and eat on time. I checked the weather forecast, the temperature in H Town is over 40 degrees, you have to be careful and don't get heatstroke."
After a pause, Dean Tao smiled and said, "And Old Song is also thinking about you. He even sent birthday peaches to the orphanage at noon today."
Tao Mu was startled when he heard this. The Old Song mentioned by Dean Tao is an old chef with a very stubborn temper. He was childless, alone and had a disabled right hand. He opened a small restaurant opposite the orphanage. When Tao Mu was six years old, he was sent back to the orphanage by his adoptive family. He couldn't get used to the big pot meals in the orphanage, so he ran to a restaurant and clamored to work as a dishwasher.
The owner of that restaurant and the only cook is Old Song. Maybe because Tao Mu was good-looking, or maybe because he was really too lonely, he didn't drive Tao Mu away. Instead, he let Tao Mu stay in the kitchen to help. Later, he wanted to formally pass on his skills to Tao Mu and let Tao Mu inherit his restaurant.
Unfortunately, when Tao Mu was twelve or thirteen years old, he reached his rebellious period. Coupled with the ridicule from his classmates, he hated the smell of cooking fumes and refused to enter the kitchen no matter what. Instead, relying on his good looks, he started working in Western restaurants and music stores. Later, he worked as a caddy and a part-time boxing sparring partner. When he was in high school, he worked as a waiter in nightclubs and clubs. He was handsome and sweet-spoken, and he coaxed the princesses, young masters and bartenders in the store to teach him. Even the lead singer of the band wanted to pull him on stage. However, he was stopped by the nightclub owner Brother Yao.
Later, Tao Mu worked as a part-time model for several times, and was inspired to be admitted to Kyoto University of Film and Television. After graduating from high school, he took his two childhood friends straight to H Film and Television City, under the pretext of gaining experience.
Tao Mu felt that he had a lot of ideas and plans for the future. But in the eyes of Old Song, Tao Mu's actions were not doing his job properly, and the relationship between the two became increasingly strained. By the time Tao Mu was reborn, they had not been in contact for many years. I heard that when he was notorious in the entertainment industry, a reporter went to the restaurant to interview Old Song, but was chased out of the store by the old man with a mop.
"The old man's birthday peaches are really delicious." It's a pity that I haven't eaten them in many years. Tao Mu paused and asked subconsciously: "Can you mail a few to me?"
"What nonsense are you talking about, kid? It's the dog days now, it won't go bad if you mail it." Hearing that Tao Mu, the stubborn brat, actually gave in, Dean Tao's heart moved, and smiled and reminded him on the phone: "You two are both hypocritical. You are thinking about each other in your heart, but your mouth is so hard. If you really miss him, just give him a call. You probably don't know that since you went to H Town, Old Song had someone install a landline in the restaurant. He also told me the phone number specifically so that I could order takeout when I had nothing to do. You said I'm not the kind of person who would order takeout. This is rare enough. For so many years, so many old customers have urged him to install a landline, and he refused to let the waiter deliver the takeout. Now for you, he has installed a landline instead."
Tao Mu was slightly stunned. He didn't even know that this happened in his previous life.
On second thought, yes. In his previous life, he had a big fight with his old man over the issue of applying to the Film and Television Academy. The old man thought he was daydreaming and it was not easy for an ordinary person to become a star. He also thought the old man was old-fashioned and stubborn. Neither of them could convince the other, and they were in a cold war. When he went to H Film and Television City, he was more focused on adapting to the new environment and had no energy to pay attention to the people and things in Beijing. Then came the accident, and his and Shen Yu’s life stories were exposed. He returned to the Shen family in great glory, and Shen Yu was kicked out of the house by him. Then there were the ten years when he was stubborn and fought Shen Yu to the death...
The past flashed by like a slide show, and Tao Mu came back to his senses: "Okay. I'll call him later."
Dean Tao was delighted when he heard this: "Oh, that's good. That's good."
Tao Mu called the old man with an inexplicable sigh about his past life. As soon as the call was connected, the person on the other end started swearing as soon as he heard his voice.
The Kyoto people's ability to curse is well known to the world, let alone an old man like this who has been immersed in it for more than sixty years. Tao Mu couldn't even get a word in. He just listened to the stand-up comedy on the other side, which was very mean and irritating. Tao Mu was so angry that he hung up the phone immediately.
It turns out that time filters and the like are quite deceptive even after a lifetime!
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