Chapter 17 Is it Mercury retrograde or is life just so shameful?
At eight o'clock in the evening, the plane landed in Beijing.
Shen Qingqing hadn't gotten off the plane yet, but she had just turned on her phone when she received a message from Wang Shu. Wang Shu told Shen Qingqing that he was waiting for her at the exit. Shen Qingqing spread out the interface and showed it to the two girls on her left and right.
Sasa asked, "Is your husband here to pick you up?"
"He said he was waiting for me at the airport."
"I don't want to go. Can I stay at your house?" Shen Qingqing suddenly turned her head, put her chin on Sun Ziyi's shoulder, and asked flatteringly.
Sun Ziyi quickly pushed her away and said, "You should go back and have a good talk with him. Actually, there's nothing serious going on between you two."
The cabin door opened and passengers had already started to get off the plane. The three of them sat in their seats and waited for everyone else to leave.
Sasa actually held the opposite opinion from Sun Ziyi. Sasa said, "You can ignore him for a few days, but you can't let him feel that you are always at his beck and call."
Sun Ziyi quickly said, "What a stupid suggestion! You don't know what kind of person his boss Wang is."
Starting from the golf incident, Sun Ziyi knew that he could not treat Wang Shu the same way as normal people. With Sun Ziyi's stupid thinking, he thought: it is very difficult to guess the intelligence of a top student with high IQ.
What's more, Wang Shu is a young and promising man who comes from a poor family and studies hard.
Sasa said "oh", knowing that it was inconvenient for her to interfere in other people's family affairs. Seeing that Sun Ziyi was indeed not going to take her in, Chen Qingqing curled her lips, sighed, stood up, and said, "Let's go."
The three of them said goodbye at the luggage carousel. Chen Qingqing walked very slowly, as if she really didn't want to face Wang Shu.
The two of them watched Chen Qingqing's slowly leaving figure, and Sasa said, "I used to think Qingqing had a good life. She had luxury goods and spas in her circle of friends. During the Chinese New Year last year, the salesgirl at Hermès personally sent her a New Year's greeting on WeChat. Who would have thought that she also had troubles?"
Sun Ziyi said, "You have a great circle of friends. You get to see celebrities up close, take beautiful photos and have afternoon tea with them every day. You look like a sophisticated urban beauty. Some people envy you."
Sasa nodded. "Social networks are so fake. No one would have thought that someone who chatted face-to-face with a celebrity last week would be going to collect a debt this week, and even resorting to throwing a tantrum."
Sun Ziyi suddenly realized that he had opened up a bad topic and turned to look at her. She was indeed distracted. Although the issue of the money was half resolved, Sasa still looked depressed and in a bad mood.
Thinking of his long-time friend, and the fact that they were both from other places in Beijing, Sun Ziyi put his arm around Sasa's arm.
Ask, "Do you want to sleep at my house? I don't have anything to do recently. You can bring your computer to my house to do some writing. The Fifth Ring Road is quieter than Da Wang Road. I can cook for you."
Sasa is not as brave as Sun Ziyi and Shen Qingqing, two northern girls. In fact, she was a little scared when the commotion happened in the office, and she is still a little scared now. When the plane was landing in the wind, she was wondering if she would lose the remaining money.
Sasa herself also felt that she couldn't be alone these days. If she was alone, she would definitely think of a lot of things, which would greatly affect her work efficiency.
Sasa was not polite, nodded and said "OK."
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There are many snack shops downstairs from Sun Ziyi's house. One of them sells fish cakes and rice cakes. The owner rarely sets up the stall, but on this day the signboard happened to be lit.
Sun Ziyi pulled Sasa over and bought two skewers of fish cakes. Sasa was still a little reluctant to stand on the roadside and eat from a dirty stall, so she said shyly that she was not hungry, but her stomach suddenly growled.
Sun Ziyi clicked his tongue and handed her a skewer. Sasa took it. She took a bite of the fish cake and said, "It's delicious." But after she said that, she couldn't eat any more.
Sun Ziyi advised her, "Don't worry about these difficulties. In fact, everything will be resolved in the end."
She held the fish cake skewers in both hands and gently bumped her shoulder against Sasa's. "Don't feel embarrassed that we know all this. We're good friends. There's no need for empty talk between us. Chen Qingqing may look delicate, but she's actually quite clueless. She won't look down on you because of these things."
Sasa hurriedly explained, "No, I don't feel that way."
She forced herself to smile, but in Sun Ziyi's eyes it was uglier than crying.
Sun Ziyi couldn't bear it. She knew that Sasa was a person who always cared about face, so she decided to use her own embarrassing story to comfort her.
Sun Ziyi said, "Everyone has their own difficulties to overcome, and I have too, but I just haven't told you."
Sasa asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Sun Ziyi recounted everything that happened with Youyou in detail, which inevitably led to mentioning his project that was in imminent danger.
Sasa listened to her patiently, then asked, "I don't understand the routines of your film and television industry. Do you mean that there is a possibility that Youyou will write this project together?"
Sun Ziyi shook his head and said to Sasa, "What I mean is that there is a possibility that he will replace me and continue to create this project."
Sasa opened her mouth into an O shape, unable to believe it. "Don't you own the rights to the content you wrote?"
Sun Ziyi looked at her as if she was listening to a big joke, and said, "Screenwriters are all commissioned to create. If the client doesn't like the commissioned creation process, of course they can replace you."
"I used to think your industry had good incomes, but I never imagined there were such dark secrets."
Sun Ziyi said calmly, "It's not dark. Every industry has its own rules."
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After arriving home, they first collapsed on the sofa for half an hour. Sun Ziyi went to take a shower. When Sun Ziyi came out, Sasa looked at her solemnly and said, "Look at Stella's circle of friends."
Sun Ziyi dried her hair, wrapped herself in a bath towel and went to look for her mobile phone. Water droplets from her hair fell onto the screen, so she took out a corner of the bath towel to wipe it.
She watched it over and over again and asked Sasa, "Did Stella hit her chin?"
Sasa was a little angry and raised her voice and said, "Look at her latest interview video..."
Sun Ziyi continued to scroll, but no interview videos came up. She checked on her phone and saw that the latest post on Stella's phone was a photo of her and a celebrity during an interview. She looked glamorous and even had an Hermès bag visible.
Sasa realized that Stella had blocked Sun Ziyi and handed her her phone.
It turns out that Stella shared a new video on her Moments titled "True Screenwriter Story."
Sun Ziyi clicked on it with Sasa's mobile phone, and the webpage jumped directly to a video platform. He clicked the triangle play button and a female voice came out.
"As a screenwriter, I really don't like this industry anymore."
"All the projects on hand are suspended. It must be because of the staff."
"We make 60,000 to 70,000 per episode, so it's no problem to make over a million per year."
At the end, this video would like to give special thanks to Sun Ziyi.
Sun Ziyi threw Sasa's phone far away and hugged his legs, saying, "It's over. The film and television industry is so sensitive now, and the interview manuscript is so outrageous and... it deserves a beating."
Sasa asked, "Are all these contents from your interviews?"
Sun Ziyi looked at Sasa with a pale face, "None of these were said by me..."
Sasa stood up and began to walk around the living room anxiously. "Did you sign the contract during the interview?"
Sun Ziyi looked at Sasa numbly, "Why sign a contract for just an interview..."
Sasa was angry and made a voice call directly to Stella.
The phone rang for a long time, but Stella didn't answer.
Sasa turned off Sun Ziyi's cell phone and said to him, "Go to bed."
Sun Ziyi couldn't sleep, so she eavesdropped on Sasa's phone calls in the living room all night. Sasa kept asking Stella to delete the video, but Stella told her to go to the legal department if she had any problems. However, since they didn't have a contract, the legal department wouldn't handle the matter.
Sasa seemed to have been cursing in the living room until three in the morning, and finally fell asleep on the sofa.
Sun Ziyi took advantage of Sasa's sleep to steal his mobile phone and read the comments under the video.
"Is this screenwriter mentally ill? She has no love for the industry, and yet she expects it to treat her well?"
"She's still so confident that she's been stuck in the past five years, but she doesn't realize why?"
Sun Ziyi continued to scroll down. "You still dare to say you envy others? What a waste of money to give to someone like her!"
"If you write something like this, don't come out and harm the audience."
The more Sun Ziyi scrolled through the phone, the heavier her heart felt, so she threw the phone away.
Sasa woke up in a daze when she heard the noise, snatched Sun Ziyi's phone and pressed it under her body before continuing to sleep.
Sun Ziyi felt that after this night, she and Sasa had suddenly switched positions. In the past, it was Sasa who cried and she came to comfort her, but at this moment, she suddenly felt that friends really were each other's safe haven.
The next day, enthusiastic people had dug up the live recording of Sun Ziyi's bad-mouthed talk show and kept cursing in the comment section.
The comment section cursed, "You're so venomous when you criticize others during stand-up comedy. So it's because being a screenwriter is tough?"
The boss of Bad Mouth called her frantically and asked her to cut off all ties with Bad Mouth.
Sun Ziyi didn't reply, so any reaction now would be wrong.
On the third day, Sun Ziyi didn't dare go out, for fear that she would be pelted with rotten eggs. She really didn't understand why this matter had escalated to this point.
In the evening, Sun Ziyi received a call from the client of the Maibai web drama project. They wanted to talk to Sun Ziyi.
These days, Sasa has been accompanying Sun Ziyi, cooking for her, comforting her, and preparing to go with her. Sun Ziyi is too busy to care about anything else, not to agree or refuse. When Sasa said she wanted to go with her, she could only send the address to Sasa and let Sasa take a taxi. When Sun Ziyi went out, it was even Sasa who buttoned up her coat.
Party A's location was in Wangjing, so Sasa bought Sun Ziyi a large Frappuccino at the Starbucks downstairs and told him, "If you feel nervous or uncomfortable, just take a sip of Frappuccino."
Sun Ziyi took it, then nodded heavily. He walked out the door and faced the cold wind. Sun Ziyi felt that all the Mercury retrograde in the world was coming towards him.
She went upstairs alone. Her colleagues were quite polite to her. They led her to the office to wait for the producer and still called her Teacher Sun.
The producer's name was Li Bei. She sat in the conference room and waited for half an hour before he arrived, accompanied by five planners. Li Bei acted as if nothing had happened and sat down across from Sun Ziyi with a smile. "Ziyi, you're here so early! I was just in a morning meeting. Sorry."
Sun Ziyi smiled and took a sip of coffee. "It's okay."
Li Bei said, "I came here today mainly to talk to you about the content of the script. We feel that some of the content is not up to standard."
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