Night, capital.

The early spring nights in the north are very cold, and the wind is not strong but cold and piercing.

Open the door and hurry into the house.

Buying a pack of cigarettes, I feel like my body is about to stiffen...

It's a suite, the kitchen is boiling soup, and the living room has nothing but a table, a few chairs...

Chen Dong took a puff of cigarette, took off his coat, and looked up at the window...

It's quiet...

It's hard to imagine that this is actually a courtyard house in the North Second Ring Road, and it's even harder to imagine that the rent is only 800 yuan a month!

The renminbi is really strong!

No wonder Master Ji Xianlin would give up life in the United States and return to China...

After thinking about it for a while, Chen Dong suddenly thought that he had no money...

It can't be said that there is no money, and there is still a small 30,000 yuan in the bank account, but that is the money to buy a house, and it can't be moved!

I've got to pick up some play...

A month ago, he went to Hengdian to audition for "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", waited for more than 20 days, and then the crew said that he was not suitable...

What's out of place?

Looks or acting?

I didn't say it, I just said, 'I'm sorry to let you run for nothing... Hope to cooperate next time!'

Chen Dong really wanted to slap the assistant director's face over the phone at that time, why didn't he say it earlier?

For Ouyang Ke in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", he pushed "Ping Tracer Film" directed by He Qun...

Two plays, one didn't catch it!

also stepped on a horse and stayed in Hengdian for more than 20 days in vain, isn't this a trick!

I had to pay for room and board, and I had to do some public relations work, which cost no less than 10,000 yuan!

Gotta be unlucky!

Spit out another cigarette, Chen Dong was very angry!

He is recognized as the most promising newcomer in the 97th class of Beiying, and it has been almost two years since he graduated, so he can only shoot a small advertisement and play a small supporting role...

Huang Haibo, who is in the same class, has already won the Huabiao Award for Best Newcomer!

The most important family has already bought a house!

……

There are many things in life that can only be described by metaphysics, such as rebirth...

Without warning, Chen Dong returned to the autumn of 2001...

The original owner is an actor, and he is the kind of actor who is very well-behaved, very obedient, he will do whatever the teacher says!

For example, the teacher said, 'Except for Spielberg, only Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou's dramas can you go out to film', and he really honestly rehearsed dramas in school for four years...

In a blink of an eye, when it was time to graduate, Chen Dong went out to shoot a TV series, but when it was broadcast on TV after filming, he was stupid - how could it be so bad?

The TV series is called "Bitter Cauliflower", and he plays the male number four...

Turning his head to look at his classmates, Huang Haibo filmed "The Day of Burning Passion", and Huang Yi took "Jade Guanyin"...

He understood the value of an actor!

So, in the first year of graduation, he pushed eight books in a row...

You have to pick up a good movie and a good script!

Isn't this neurosis, you say?

Why don't you compare yourself with Zhang Ziyi? As soon as they graduated, they filmed "My Father and Mother" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"...

The poor are almost unable to eat, and there is still an arrogance of an artist!

After taking over the body, Chen Dong immediately contacted some people he knew, received a lot of small advertisements, and finally successfully passed the most difficult period.

So, what to do?

Trade?

Engaging in the Internet?

Doesn't it mean that standing in the limelight, pigs can fly?

In the original time and space, Chen Dong has never done business, he is a worker in a state-owned enterprise, assembly line, working eight hours a day, five insurances and one housing fund, his wife who met on a blind date, the two have a daughter, life is very dull, the only advantage is to write something, published in the factory newspaper, two hundred words in a thousand words...

The people I know around me are not very rich.

Yes, standing in the limelight, pigs can fly, but who knows what a tuyere is?

All he knew was the first snow of 2002, which came a little later than usual...

Let's be an actor, the salary for an episode is 8,000 yuan, 8,000 yuan...

He was thinking about taking on a fifty-episode TV series, and the money for the down payment would be available...

Then I know, that's not how the salary of TV series is calculated!

The usual algorithm in the industry is the time when the actor actually appears, and then checks out according to the time!

Chen Dong is a rookie actor and a supporting role, in half a year, he took over the four dramas of "Unaware of the Flowing Water", "Case Investigation", "Sunshine Representative", and "Military Song Loud and Bright", all of which are small supporting roles, each play has about 40 minutes of appearance time, anyway, after the three plays, the pocket is close to 30,000 yuan!

Hurry up and save the death period and buy a house after two years!

His acting skills are not bad, the price is cheap, he is not ugly, and he graduated from the class, and he is also very respectful in front of a bunch of seniors, so naturally, he has become a fragrant sweetheart...

If it continues to develop according to this law, maybe a drama, he will become popular, no matter how bad it is, he can also mix the name of an old drama bone in the uncle circle...

But he was greedy, at the beginning of the year, Zhang Jizhong's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was casting, and then he went.

Of course he knew that Guo Jing and Yang Kang would definitely have no drama, they were all protagonists!

Ouyang Ke, it should be fine, right?

I specially rented a white gown, according to the original description: the eyes are flying obliquely, the face is handsome, but the heroic is compelling...

Zhang Dabeard, including director Yu Min, liked Chen Dong's appearance very much, and auditioned three times...

It's a pity that it was eliminated ...

……

"Knock knock!"

"It's coming!"

Someone knocked on the door, Chen Dong opened the door, it was Zhang Jiayi...

This guy was an actor in "Unaware of the Flowing Age", "Case Investigation", and "Sunshine Representative", and the two have worked together three times, in fact, they have known each other before, they are both from Xi'an, and they have a good relationship...

In fact, at this stage, their group is eating with Zhang Jian, and they are considered to be people in a circle...

Zhang Jian used to be a person from Xi'an Film Studio, but later went to the sea to do real estate, made a fortune, and changed careers to re-shoot TV series...

In short, he is a well-connected and powerful boss!

Taking the liquor brought by Zhang Jiayi, Chen Dong beckoned him to sit down, turned around to make tea: "Brother Zhang, why are you here?"

Zhang Jiayi looked around: "... I heard you failed the audition?"

Chen Dong replied casually: "It's spread so fast?"

Zhang Jiayi smiled, took the tea, and took a sip: "The circle is so big, what do you say... Yo, Hanzhong Xianhao, new tea?"

“… I just thought that I could show my face on CCTV, and it was best to be an instant hit!" After sitting down, Chen Dong continued: "My sister came to see me some time ago and brought me two cans of Hanzhong Xianhao..."

“… And then what?"

"What, then?"

"An instant hit, and then what?"

"Buy a house and bring my parents from Xi'an..."

"You've only been graduating for a year, so that's all you want?"

"I don't want to do so much... I'm the only man in my family, and I have to be filial to my parents..."

"Filial son!" Zhang Jiayi gave a thumbs up and suddenly snorted: "What are you stewing?"

“… Oops, I almost forgot, I still have salted duck stewed in the kitchen!"

"Salted duck?"

"My sister brought it to me, can you taste it?"

"Good!"