Chapter 2 The Story of the Story
S City is a city with a high acceptance of foreign culture, and you can see coffee houses with different characteristics from a few tens of meters apart. A cup of coffee every day has slowly become a habit for most people in S City since coffee was introduced to the city.
As the saying goes, you have to follow the customs when you enter the countryside, and after staying in S City for a few days, Lu Ling, who had never drunk coffee before, slowly began to get used to ordering a cup of coffee, and then sat by the window and looked out the window.
Lu Ling did the same today, he was busy with business, and he had nowhere to go for a while, so he habitually came to the coffee house that he often came to recently, and the decoration style was very much in line with his heart, it was still a cup of cappuccino with polysaccharides and milk so much that he could hardly taste the original taste of coffee, still sitting by the window, Lu Ling successfully spent all the time before dinner.
Seeing that it was not early, he packed a copy of the store's signature strawberry cake, Lu Ling carried the cake box and other things, and opened the glass door of the coffee house in the sweet voice of the little waiter welcoming him next time.
A slender and thin figure passed by him, and the aroma captured by his nose at that moment made Lu Ling subconsciously raise his eyebrows, this aroma just now happened to be the taste he liked!
Ruan Qingning, who passed by Lu Ling, didn't know that the man who had just walked by liked the perfume she had chosen for a long time this morning, and it was rare to be able to finish work early, so she had to hurry up and finish her coffee and go home to continue watching the horror movie she hadn't had time to watch the night before.
It just so happened that my sister was also there today, pulling her to watch it together, and at night I could hear her being so scared that she couldn't sleep, getting up to drink water, and repeatedly going to the toilet, just thinking about this scene, the corners of Ruan Qingning's mouth under the cover of the mask couldn't help but rise slightly.
I ordered the Americano and two strawberry cakes that I liked to drink recently, smiled gently at the shy clerk who looked over from time to time, and while waiting, Ruan Qingning skillfully signed her name dancing like a butterfly on the notebook that the clerk was embarrassed to hand over.
After taking the fresh coffee, in the slightly nymphomaniac thanks of the clerk, Ruan Qingning did not forget to nod politely at the clerk, and then walked towards the door with a light gait.
Sitting in his car parked on the side of the road, putting the coffee away, Ruan Qingning turned the steering wheel with one hand in a very chic way, started the car and drove in the direction of home.
Once upon a time, there was a girl who had a father and mother who loved him very much, an older brother who liked to bully her since she was a child but was always bullied by her in turn, and a sister who was nine years different from her and had the unanimous love of the whole family. Her life is ordinary and plain and full of joy.
Growing up in such a happy family, with the excellent singing talent inherited from her father, and the little girl who began to show her love for singing at a very young age, after years of training by the singing teacher specially invited by her father, she was successfully admitted to the largest music company in the country and became one of the ordinary trainees.
After a three-year career as a trainee, the girl made her debut as a girl group as a girl like several other girls who stood out from the layers of selection.
debuted, became famous, suffered setbacks, reloaded, fired, climbed to the top, and encountered downhill. In the past ten years, girls have experienced a lot, both gains and losses.
But overall, no one can deny their success. They are successful, just this sentence, no matter what difficulties and setbacks they have encountered behind the success, they can be forgotten and ignored.
However, this does not erase the imprints of difficulties and setbacks on them, even if these marks gradually fade and fade with time, but even if there is still a trace of it, it cannot be said that it has completely disappeared.
The girl was bothered by these shallow marks, she loved to sing, and singing was the only thing she had the confidence to do well enough. If she was just an ordinary team member and could make a career out of what she loved, she would be happy and satisfied.
It's a pity that she is not, life is always full of surprises. Captain, a position that is crucial for a team, is the surprise that suddenly befalls the girl.
Leading the whole team forward in the name of the captain is not only not in the girl's life plan at all, but also completely outside the scope of what she thinks she can do well. The position of captain, which many people can't ask for, brings girls unimaginable pressure and troubles.
Everyone is an independent individual, and no matter how compatible they are with each other, no matter how willing they are to tolerate and understand, conflicts will inevitably arise.
These big and small contradictions will eventually be resolved with the efforts of the parties and bystanders, but the psychological pressure and impact that these contradictions bring to the girl, the captain of the whole team, are not something that can be skipped in a few words.
The pressure that accumulates over time has made the girl gradually change from the girl who was smug and often liked to have convulsions when she debuted to a sensitive, silent, and likes to shrink herself behind the team members, and may even ignore it if she doesn't look carefully.
People always have to grow, and it is normal to keep changing in the process of growth. The girl is not unaware of the changes that happened to her, but she actually doesn't mind very much. As long as she can sing, as long as everyone is there, she is very satisfied.
The vitality of idol groups is very short, especially girl groups, and the girls' groups can come so far, in addition to their own efforts and the support of fans, the right time, place and people are really indispensable.
However, the right time, place, and people will slowly change with the passage of time. When the time and place are favorable, and none of them belong to them, the occurrence of certain times will be an inevitability.
Businessmen don't buy and sell at a loss, and when the benefits from them are already lower than the new combination that the company has just cultivated, both the company and them have to make a choice. What they lack is just an opportunity for both sides to make a choice.
The expiration of the contract in the first half of this year has become an opportunity for everyone to make a choice, unlike the fierce tugging and repeated discussions when you go back and forth when you renew the contract. In this renewal discussion, the company's performance has been very quiet, and they are also very quiet.
When the renewal contract was once again in front of them, there was not much hesitation, some people unscrewed the lid of the pen and signed, and some people closed the contract with a smile and walked out of the very familiar office.
Since the beginning of the year, they have talked deeply many times, and each other's choices have long been known, and the girl found that she was not as sad as she imagined for the result of the contract renewal. In other words, the damage caused by the renewal of the contract without all the staff is much shallower than she imagined.
They will still get together every now and then, and they will still have a lively chat in a group chat with only a few people. They will still share each other's joys and sorrows, happiness and pain, everything seems to have not changed.
When people are young, they always feel that if they like it, they must be together, and they can't be separated no matter what. However, after going through a lot of things, you will understand that if you are fine, it may not be a sunny day.
The girl did not choose to leave, her agency is the largest music company, it has the richest music resources, the best producers, the most advanced equipment and many staff who have worked with her for many years, clearly understand her preferences, and cooperate with her tacit understanding.
For her, a person who only wants to be with music and has no additional ambitions other than to pursue good music, whether from an objective or subjective point of view, staying is a far better choice than leaving.
However, choosing to stay does not mean that everything is business as usual, and the gap between having to consider many people and only being responsible for themselves is far away and terrible. took off the heavy shackles imposed on her by the name of captain, and the girl's change caught the agency a little off guard.