At seven o'clock in the evening, Feng Yuanyuan came home from get off work with a tired face. Regardless of the cold weather, she took out a can of Coke from the kitchen cabinet and gulped down most of it.
She is about to graduate from college in the summer, and just after the Spring Festival she was able to intern at Hunan Television Station as a variety show director.
Hunan Television is the most powerful local TV station in the country, and it is a rare opportunity to intern here.
Feng Yuanyuan cherishes this opportunity very much and hopes to get an outstanding internship report, or even be hired as a full-time employee.
However, although the platform of such a large TV station is good, the workload is more and the pressure is also greater.
Especially these interns, who are thinking about becoming regular employees, do not dare to slack off at all. The regular employees also like to push the hardest and most tiring work to them, so that Feng Yuanyuan feels exhausted every day when she gets off work.
Feng Yuanyuan was lying on the sofa and didn't want to move. At this time, the door opened and her roommates Chen Fang and Chu Jiao came in carrying two plastic bags.
"Working overtime again?"
"Your leader is a piece of shit. Why don't you apply for a transfer to our company?"
Chen Fang and Chu Jiao are also employees of the Hunan TV Station, the former a makeup artist and the latter from the administrative department.
The three of them worked in the same unit and were all girls, so they rented a three-bedroom apartment together and had a pretty good relationship with each other.
Feng Yuanyuan works the hardest among the three and often has to work overtime, so one of the great pleasures of the three is to help her complain about her boss.
After scolding her, Feng Yuanyuan felt better and recovered a lot of her energy. Chu Jiao even took out the sugar-coated rice cakes and stinky tofu she had bought to share the joy of food with her.
Feng Yuanyuan was a little envious, but when she looked at her figure which was beginning to develop towards her name, she decisively refused.
"No, I want to lose weight!"
"I've already had the Coke, so I don't mind taking this one sip."
Feng Yuanyuan hesitated for a moment, but still couldn't stand the test: "Then this time."
The atmosphere instantly became cheerful, and several people ate snacks happily and turned on the TV.
"Watch the arts channel. I saw the preview. Wei Yang's new drama is about to air."
Chen Fang was a little confused: "Who is Wei Yang?"
"It's Lu Xinghe from The Best of Us. He wrote the popular drama Chasing the Light. Our director is even thinking about inviting him to be on one of our shows."
As a variety show director, Feng Yuanyuan still needs to understand the entertainment industry. Chu Jiao doesn’t care about that, she only looks at faces.
"This Wei Yang is so handsome, looks clean and fresh, and is talented. He can write scripts and songs. He is unlike Huang Xiaoming, who always tries to look cool on purpose. It's annoying."
“Oh, haha, I feel the same way.”
“…”
The TV was turned to the arts channel. It was still commercial time, so a few people were chatting about gossip while waiting for the show to start.
Hunan TV station has a strong variety show program and many celebrities come and go. Their staff also know some inside information and even get to know the inside story through some details.
They seem to be on good terms with each other on the surface, but they don't talk to each other at all in private.
If someone is having an ambiguous relationship with someone else and is making eye contact, they may be secretly together.
Who is making things difficult for the staff and acting like a big shot again?
Wait, wait…
With all the anonymous revelations from Tianya and Douban, these staff members can be said to be holding up half the sky.
…
As we were happily chatting, the commercial break finally ended and "Twinkle Twinkle Star" came on TV. The theme song was "Light Chaser" sung by Wei Yang.
The song was a hit and the three recognized it immediately.
Chen Fang commented: "This male version is also good, it has a different flavor."
Feng Yuanyuan keenly discovered the blind spot: "I remember this song is the theme song of another TV series, is it just to take advantage of the popularity?"
"No, no."
Chu Jiao, who is considered a half fan of Wei Yang and knows the most about the drama, explained it briefly.
“I read in the news that the song ‘Light Chaser’ was originally written for ‘Twinkle Twinkle Star’. Later, Wei Yang felt that both songs were about secret love, and ‘Oranges Born in Huainan’ was also suitable, so he also used it.
It just so happens that these two dramas tell the secret love stories of boys and girls respectively, so there are two versions, one male and one female. "
Feng Yuanyuan's eyes lit up: "This is clever, one song can serve two purposes, and can also be used for interactive promotion."
"This song is so popular that several of us makeup artists sing it every day, and I can even hum it."
"I saw online reports that she was going to be on CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, but she didn't make it. However, she did make it on Shanghai Satellite TV's gala."
"I had a crush on a girl before, so I don't think there will be another crush on a boy this time."
“…”
A few people were watching and chatting. The opening song played and Liu Shishi's beautiful face appeared on the TV screen.
In the year 2020, the heroine Lin Beixing, who is about to turn 30, is still like a heartless girl. She is woken up by the alarm clock on time in the morning, and goes to work on an empty stomach despite her parents' nagging.
On the bus, Zhan Yu, her boyfriend of many years, suddenly proposed to cancel the engagement before the wedding.
Lin Beixing was sad, but facing her parents' expectations, she sent a text message to her boyfriend, asking him to show up at the high school as promised tomorrow and take wedding photos together as planned. She would pretend that what happened before never happened.
The next day, Lin Beixing came to high school wearing school uniform and took out his high school cell phone. Due to a system failure, he accidentally deleted a message.
In an instant the sky darkened and heavy rain poured down.
When Lin Beixing was in a panic, a black umbrella was opened from behind her, and it belonged to a boy who looked familiar.
Before she could open her mouth to apologize, Lin Beixing suddenly saw her boyfriend. Thinking that he was here to win her back, she excitedly went up to him, only to find that he had no idea what she was talking about.
"Damn, has she traveled through time?"
"You know what, this TV show's props are really well made. The phone screen is so big, but it doesn't seem to have any buttons."
"You're stupid, it's just an iPhone that's been magnified, but it looks pretty good."
"The screenwriter is quite bold to write about traveling from the future to the present."
“It’s already 2020, and buses haven’t been phased out yet!?”
"This heroine is pretty. I didn't have any impression of her before. Where did she come from?"
"Liu Shishi, the young actress from Tangren, didn't you watch Hu Ge's The Legend of the Condor Heroes? She played Mu Nianci."
"This boyfriend Zhan Yu is such a bad guy, let's not be together again."
“…”
"Twinkle, Twinkle Star" introduced the characters' background in the first few minutes, and then directly threw out the setting of time travel, which immediately attracted the audience's attention.
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Time-travel themes have been filmed a long time ago.
Not to mention movies, the most famous ones should be Hong Kong's "A Step into the Past" and mainland China's "Love Across Time and Space".
"Magic Phone", which was quite popular not long ago, has made time travel a real pleasure. "The Myth", adapted from the movie of the same name, is also about to start filming.
Audiences still find time-travel themes fresh, but they are no longer unfamiliar with them.
However, most of the above-mentioned TV dramas are about time travel from ancient times to the present or from the present to the ancient times, while the modern rebirth-style time travel like "Twinkle, Twinkle Star" is still extremely rare.
There is no doubt that this kind of time travel that fits the times will make the audience feel more involved.
For example, Tang Yuanyuan and others are very curious about what the heroine Lin Beixing is going to do after she realizes that she has traveled through time.
But the TV series is not an online novel after all, and it is a TV series about idol love. There is no need to think about punching Shuangma and kicking Baidu.
So after the heroine experienced some twists and turns and realized that she could travel through time, the first thing she faced was the college entrance examination.
"A folk philosopher once said that most people reach their peak intelligence when they graduate from high school. When they go to college, their knowledge will slowly be returned to their teachers. When they graduate and enter society, their knowledge level in various subjects is not even enough to defeat a high school student."
Accompanied by the narration of the heroine Lin Beixing, she failed miserably in the college entrance examination.
Feng Yuanyuan and a few others were very excited and agreed deeply with what was said.
"Indeed, by the time I was in my sophomore and junior years, I couldn't understand the high school questions at all."
"Hahaha, I can't even understand my cousin's grade 9 questions."
"I'm actually fine, but my energy and thinking level are definitely not as good as when I was in my third year of high school. That was really the peak of my life."
"Which philosopher said this? I don't think I've heard of it. Was it made up by a screenwriter?"
"Folk philosopher, probably original, haha, I'm going to write this sentence down and send it to my classmates."
“…”
Several people were chatting happily, and the heroine also found that she did not travel back to the past, but to a parallel time and space. Then she looked up the answers to the 2009 college entrance examination, ready to try again.
"Haha, this screenwriter is really good at having fun."
"'The Crow and the Pitcher'. It would be fun if he actually guessed the answer to this year's college entrance exam."
"But seriously, if I were the heroine to memorize answers to the college entrance exam, I would memorize the lottery numbers first."
“I remember both.”
“…”
Along with the first wave of excitement of traveling through time and space, the heroine slowly adapted to the time travel.
The plot also began to unfold, and Zhang Wansen, played by Wei Yang, constantly appeared in the heroine's perspective.
This boy died accidentally on the day of the college entrance examination in the original time and space and did not leave any impression on the heroine. However, he often appeared by her side in her many time travels, and seemed to be silently caring for her and accompanying her.
Every time the heroine was forced to end her time travel, it was because of Zhang Wansen's death.
It also aroused the heroine's curiosity about him and she wanted to find out the cause of his death and the secret of time travel.
The plot of the first two episodes came to an abrupt end as the heroine took the initiative to contact the hero for the first time.
Feng Yuanyuan and a few others who were watching the show with great interest were suddenly disappointed and started to complain.
"Are you kidding me? I stopped at the critical moment. I still wanted to see Zhang Wansen's reaction."
"The screenwriter cut the story like this, I curse him to go out and do the splits."
"No wonder he's called Yang Wei."
However, despite the complaints, the novel plot structure and the suspenseful development of the relationship between the male and female protagonists made the three people anxious and looked forward to the next part.
The next evening, the three people appeared in front of the TV on time. Even Feng Yuanyuan, who was determined to get a permanent job, took a rare sick leave and avoided overtime, just to see how the plot would develop.
In Xingcheng and even in the entire Hunan Province, there are many cases like Feng, Chen and Chu.
"Twinkle Twinkle Star" has been aired for less than a week, and its regional ratings have exceeded 8.2, with a market share of 39%. It has remained in first place in the ratings during the same period, and the data is almost equivalent to the sum of the second, third and fourth places.
The show once made it into the top ten on Baidu's real-time TV drama search list. In less than 10 days, four satellite TV stations and more than a dozen local TV stations came to inquire about the price.
When Tangren Cai Yinong called Wei Yang to report the news, his voice was trembling with excitement.
"I'm telling you, you and Shishi are going to be famous. Extremely famous!"
(End of this chapter)