Chapter 41 Xiao Sun, What Kind of Person Do You Think I Am?
Sun Ziyi felt that after returning to Tianjin, the blood of "dare not" was flowing in his bones.
Thirty-year-old Shen Qingqing is confused about her marriage. She has just realized that she is a kindergarten girl who was sent to her husband by her father. Twenty-nine-year-old Sasa is confused about her relationship with friends with benefits. She cannot handle whether the investment is too light or too heavy, and she cannot control herself with ease.
Sun Ziyi is 27 years old, which is an age that cannot be mentioned. In the future, he will be 30 years old and independent. In the past, every two years after graduation, most people would make their first decision after graduation in this period: return to their hometown, start a business, or join a stable unit.
But in fact, girls have different areas that they "cannot mention" at different ages.
After returning to Beijing, Sun Ziyi specially found a screenwriting teacher and wanted to learn from him while working as his assistant.
The teacher is quite famous in the industry, and is the kind of person whose name would make the entertainment industry tremble when people talk about him.
She also used a lot of connections to successfully get the job as an assistant. To put it bluntly, an assistant's job is to revise manuscripts and correct punctuation.
But the teacher tortured her to the point of being broken. Sometimes she would send a draft of the script at three o'clock in the morning. Sun Ziyi would be startled when she saw the other party send the message: Give it to me before eight o'clock.
She got up with her computer and started revising the manuscript, correcting typos, arranging scenes, and adjusting punctuation.
The teacher was also a freeloader and often asked Sun Ziyi to find things for her that were not available in Beijing. Sun Ziyi felt that she was even serving as a family assistant, but apart from being qualified to read her scripts in advance, she did not learn anything she should learn.
After a month, Sun Ziyi felt that his heart was about to break, as if a Nezha made of lotus root had grown out of his chest, turning the world upside down.
Three months later, Sun Ziyi wanted to resign. It would not be appropriate to say that he was resigning, after all, he was doing this for the love of his life without asking for any money.
She became more and more irritable and often posted some emo words on her Moments.
The teacher called her on the last day, but she didn't answer. When she saw the call again, the teacher sent her the address directly at two o'clock in the afternoon.
The meeting was held in a coffee shop on the Fourth Ring Road. Sun Ziyi originally wanted to take a taxi, but for some reason he couldn't get one in Daxing that day, so he walked to the subway station and took the subway.
By the time she reached the entrance to the box, it was already 2:15. She could already hear the conversation inside, and her heart sank as she gripped the door handle.
"My assistant and I have gone through the project case you gave me, but today is the first time I have talked with her, and I haven't discussed her speech with her in advance. If you think she is good, I hope she can work with me this time. She is still young and has a lot of physical strength. I am almost fifty years old, and it is a bit difficult for me to write a complete TV drama script of hundreds of thousands of words." said the teacher.
Sun Ziyi felt so moved that he almost burst into tears.
Then, a male voice said, "Of course, that's no problem. Your creativity is the most crucial factor supporting this project. As long as the idea and the framework are yours, I don't think it matters who edits the script. However, at the end, we definitely hope that you can give it another go. Of course, if you're short of manpower, I can also recommend a screenwriter for you."
......Sun Ziyi wondered if she had overstated her age when she was born. Was this her zodiac year? She was so unlucky.
Because that voice was Li Bei.
When she pushed the door open, Li Bei, who was originally in high spirits, fell silent.
She greeted the teacher and nodded to Li Bei.
Sun Ziyi said, sorry, I'm late.
The teacher still spoke to her sternly, saying that she had no concept of time and could not do things well.
She was silent and didn't say anything.
At the brief meeting, she heard clearly what Li Bei's new project was, which was about the relationship between family and women. The teacher had two children, a boy and a girl. The boy was studying medicine abroad, and the girl was attending a private junior high school in Shanghai. For the existing big screenwriters in the country who were still willing to write about family ethics, she was indeed very suitable.
Of course, if we analyze it from the perspective of young people's gossip, her teacher had some gossip that made the news when she was still in high school. What made her even more interested was that this time Li Bei was the executive producer and she was the assistant screenwriter. She actually had a dark thought: "When we meet again, we're both weakened."
Li Bei originally wanted to suggest having dinner together, but was rejected by the teacher.
The teacher lived in Moma, and she drove her teacher's Volvo to take her home.
The teacher said slowly from behind, "Next time, don't stand at the door and listen to people talking. It will be very embarrassing and clumsy if you are caught."
Sun Ziyi was used to her "abusive" education, and tried to remain cheerful and said, "I know!"
The teacher asked again, do you have any grudges with this executive producer? You didn’t have meetings like this before.
Sun Ziyi thought about it and said nothing.
The teacher opened the car window to get some fresh air and said, "Just tell me the truth."
Sun Ziyi tried very hard to restrain himself from getting angry, telling himself that people with high social status are impolite and he should learn to be tolerant.
Sun Ziyi said gloomily: I had a project with Li Bei before.
The teacher frowned and looked at her in the rearview mirror and asked, "Who is Li Bei?"
Sun Ziyi said awkwardly:...It's the boy you were chatting with just now.
The teacher said, oh, go on.
Sun Ziyi deliberately slowed down his car to have a good chat with the teacher. "At that time, Li Bei wanted to create his own content without the platform, and the platform was very unhappy. A lot of things went wrong at that time, and we didn't cooperate anymore."
Sun Ziyi suddenly realized that when he brought up the incident that had made him cry with anger, he couldn't even recall the general situation in full. He felt that he was really not suited to being a bad guy.
The teacher said "oh" and said calmly, "Isn't that normal? Working on a project is very uncontrollable."
When you talk to a big shot, no one will agree with you and they will only speak the truth.
Sun Ziyi's voice faded away and he said, "Well, it's normal."
The teacher said, then do you want to cooperate with him? If I take this project, you two will meet many times in the future.
Sun Ziyi thought the teacher would say the second half of the sentence, if you don’t like Li Bei, I won’t cooperate with him.
As a result, the teacher said, if you don’t like Li Bei, I will work with other screenwriters.
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Sun Ziyi quickly said hypocritically: Then I will definitely obey your choice, teacher. If you want to cooperate with them and need me, it will be my duty to do my best.
The teacher nodded and said: Do it.
The car parked in the underground parking lot of MOMA, and the teacher asked her for the first time, how are you going to get home later?
Sun Ziyi said, Dongzhimen subway station.
The teacher didn't get out of the car, and said hesitantly, "I have been having nightmares these two days. My husband is not at home and my aunt is on vacation. You can come to my house and sleep with me. I have four rooms."
Sun Ziyi felt that this moment was like Voldemort saying, I'm scared, can you please pat me to sleep?
She also found it very funny that this screenwriter who earned hundreds of thousands of dollars per episode was afraid to sleep alone!
Of course, after going upstairs, the teacher started saying that she was hungry and began to torture her, saying that she wanted to eat Shanghai greens fried with bacon, and it would take after ten o'clock for the errand to be delivered. She thought about it and said to the teacher, I will go buy some Shanghai greens.
She found the nearest Dingdong Maicai store nearby. The riders were coming in and out. Sun Ziyi walked in, placed the order in front of them, and then began to beg them to sort it for her quickly so that she could take it away.
When she returned with the Shanghai greens and bacon, the teacher seemed to have fallen asleep and did not open the door for her, so Sun Ziyi sat at the door holding the Shanghai greens and bacon.
Sun Ziyi was tired at the moment and had no emotions.
Half an hour later, the teacher came out and asked, "Why are you back so soon? I just went to take a shower."
Sun Ziyi bowed his head and began to cook for his teacher.
After the dish was served, the teacher took two bites and put it down.
She started to clean up the kitchen again. When she was done, she saw the teacher watching a TV show on the sofa. The teacher thought for a moment and said, "Don't be busy. Come here and watch TV."
They watched a popular TV series recently. When she was drowsy, the teacher asked her to repeat what was just said from the perspective of the third female character.
Sun Ziyi was stunned for a moment and said, Teacher, I haven't watched this drama before. From what I've seen so far, the third female character seems to be quite ambitious.
The teacher asked, "That's all?" I think the third female lead has a lot of personality in it. She's ambitious, outspoken, and capable of some shameless things, but she also has her own cute little side. Most importantly, her existence drives the development of the second male lead and the second female lead. The third female lead is the emotional anchor of the second male lead. The second male lead's bad mood directly affects the first male lead, and ultimately drives the emotions and actions of the main female lead. Their existence is to serve the main female lead.
Sun Ziyi thought to himself, you are awesome, I remembered two characters after watching one episode.
The teacher also said that you should think about these things when you watch the drama, otherwise it will be difficult to gain enlightenment.
The word "enlightenment" woke Sun Ziyi up from her dream. She thought, after working like a slave for three months, could it be that I can finally start learning something useful?
The teacher also said that this screenwriter is actually very good at theory, but she is not very good as a person. Many of the plots and dialogues are not real. The background of this TV series is in northern Jiangsu, but many of her starting points are from the Northeast.
Sun Ziyi was filled with awe in his heart and asked tentatively: Teacher, you can see this.
The teacher said, "Oh, that's not the case. I know this screenwriter. He is from Northeast China."
Sun Ziyi's servile behavior was pushed back again. Tonight, she just wanted to be mute.
The teacher put his legs on the coffee table and said, "But when watching a play, you have to consider it from many perspectives, just like being a person. A screenwriter may not know how to be a person, but he must know how to be a person. Writing is about writing feelings. When five people sit at a table to eat, consider the feelings of the people around you, learn to change your perspective to look at the topic of the meal. When you are talking, look at the four people other than you, what are their actions, what the passing waiter is doing, guess what she is thinking, read more biographies, maybe you can't remember your feelings sometimes, then learn to remember the scenes, when the scenes are reproduced, maybe it can help you create a play."
Sun Ziyi leaned on the armrest of the sofa, stretched out one hand, supported his face, and stared blankly at the TV in front of him.
The lights in the room were a little dim, and the light from the TV was reflected on two people, one was energetic, and the other looked like he had just sold blood.
The teacher looked for a while and asked again, "According to your circle of friends, you used to work in a factory?"
Sun Ziyi nodded. She really wanted to exchange pleasantries with the teacher on his WeChat Moments, but she suddenly realized that he had always blocked her from the social media, so she could only smile and continue to scowl at the TV.
The teacher changed the channel and asked if you got to know more people.
Sun Ziyi shook his head and said awkwardly that he hadn't thought about it so much.
In fact, what she was thinking was, staring at others every day, isn’t that perverted?
The teacher said that without this ability of observation, you can’t be a screenwriter, but you are quite patient. Most of my assistants can’t wait more than three months.
Sun Ziyi said with some emotion, Teacher, do you let me accompany you to work on the Li Bei project because you think I am good?
The teacher shook his head and said, "No...it's just because you happened to catch up. Doing a project still depends on luck. It has nothing to do with how good you are."
Sun Ziyi thought, I'd better sew my mouth shut today.
Then the teacher asked a very scary question. She said, "Xiao Sun, what kind of person do you think I am?"
When Sun Ziyi was silent, the teacher said, "Humans are very strange animals. When I asked you this question, I actually already had the answer I wanted to hear."
Sun Ziyi sat up straight, looked at the teacher, and cold sweat broke out on his back.
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