Chapter 1: Back to 1996
Lu Chong felt that he had not lived in vain in his life!
The year before last, his eighth album sold a total of 100 million, setting a Guinness record for Chinese records.
Last year, his tenth film he wrote, directed, and acted in grossed $2 billion worldwide, and the Oscars gave him three little statuettes.
This year, the total market value of his entertainment company exceeded $200 billion, surpassing Disney and becoming the world's No. 1.
Tonight, he and his nth celebrity girlfriend are competing in Simmons......
"Wake up, sir, we're closing soon."
Lu Chong woke up from his dream and looked at the bar waiter: "Let me ask you a question, if you choose the wrong industry and the wrong wife, what will you do?" ”
The waiter grinned: "What else, if you are wrong, you will be wrong, can you turn back time and let you choose again?" ”
"Will it be wrong?" Lu Chong picked up a glass of wine and drank it all: "I really don't want to go down anymore." ”
Twenty years ago, he was a typical literary teenager, liked to watch movies, obsessed with female stars, dreamed of being admitted to Peking Film Academy, expecting to become an actor, and at the same time he was extremely disgusted with mathematics, physics and chemistry, but his relatives and teachers ignored his dreams and forced him to choose science, study hard every day, only sleep three or four hours, and finally was admitted to Jiangcheng University of Science and Technology, and entered the boring mechanical design, manufacturing and automation.
He had no interest in the mechanical major, couldn't learn, hung up a lot of courses, and desperately retook it before he got his graduation certificate.
After graduation, he was engaged in technical work, his professional foundation was not solid, and he had no interest.
The downturn in his career made him have no self-confidence, and he once suspected that he could not find a wife, and then there was a woman who was willing to marry him, and he accepted it with gratitude, not caring at all that the other party's appearance, figure, and personality were far from his ideals.
He worked hard during the day and wrote hard at night, bent on giving each other a good life, but his income couldn't keep up with the soaring housing prices in Pengcheng, the woman was impatient, and her original character was revealed, even if Lu Chong rented her a big house of 100 square meters and invited a nanny with a monthly salary of 4,000 to take care of her, but in her opinion, other men were a hundred times stronger than Lu Chong, and Lu Chong was wrong in everything he did, and he scolded Lu Chong every time.
After pouring another glass of wine, Lu Chong sighed deeply: "Men are afraid of entering the wrong industry, and they are even more afraid of marrying the wrong wife." In this life, I made mistakes again and again, and I lived in vain! ”
"What would I do if I could turn back time......" The mournful song of the Faith Orchestra resounded in the bar.
Lu Chong fell into a fantasy, what if ...... At the beginning, I insisted on my original dream of going to the film school (science students' college entrance examination Times Art Science), even though it was still a dead trick in the end, but watching my face-showing works on the big screen, working with beautiful female stars, and getting along with each other day and night, is definitely much more fulfilling, interesting, and happier than the current dull life.
What's more, there are so many beauties in the entertainment industry, you should be able to meet women with good looks, good figures and good personalities there, such as ......
If...... Life can come again, when choosing a future and choosing a woman, he will definitely obey the call of his heart and will never be at the mercy of others!
The mournful singing of the Faith Orchestra poured into his ears again: "Think about if, it is the loneliness of powerlessness......"
That's it, that's it, at this age, don't dream anymore.
More than a dozen empty wine bottles fell on the table, and Lu Chong staggered through the stormy streets.
A gentle female voice came from the street: "Pengcheng Meteorological Bureau reminds all citizens that there will be heavy rain in our city today, and there will be 8 thunderstorms and strong winds in some areas......"
A bolt of lightning that seemed to tear through the sky struck down......
Lu Chong woke up with a familiar melody ringing in his ears: "Our big China, such a big home......"
The old song from twenty years ago, the original singer has long since died, why is it still playing?
He opened his eyes and was startled, cramped and low buildings, dilapidated and narrow streets, messy and scattered shops, and a group of people dressed ridiculously old-fashioned, standing in front of the rented bookstore, with their necks hooked, like a flock of ducks, looking at him curiously.
He looked down at himself, a shabby blue sports school uniform wrapped around a thin figure, and a pair of pull-back shoes that almost showed their toes were stained with mud, ah, what's going on, he hasn't been so thin for more than ten years, aren't these sports school uniform pull-back shoes worn in high school?
The owner of the bookstore pressed the brick-sized tape recorder, the tape stopped turning, and the singing stopped abruptly.
"Hey, the ambulance hasn't arrived yet, it's been more than an hour." The boss asked Lu Chong: "Are you okay?" ”
Lu Chong was stunned, and glanced at the rented bookstore, where there were a lot of novels by Jin Yong, Gu Long, and Qiong Yao, and there was not a single novel by Sanshao, Potato, and Tomato, hey, no, wasn't this rented bookstore demolished nineteen years ago?
He glanced at the wall calendar on the wall again, 1996! Why is the wall calendar from 20 years ago still there?
The onlookers saw Lu Chong looking around with a blank face, and began to talk nonsense: "This kid won't really be stupid by thunder!" "Hey, it's pitiful, it's more pitiful to be stupid than to die!"
Lu Chong suddenly felt that this scene was familiar, as if it had happened on a certain day, and asked the owner of the bookstore in a low voice: "What year is this year?" ”
The boss seemed to be looking at the idiot: "In 1996, you were really stupid, hey, why hasn't this ambulance arrived yet." ”
Lu Chong's mouth opened so wide, 1996! Oh my God, it's 20 years ago! I can't believe it!
There was a mirror hanging on the facing wall, and in the mirror was a boy with messy hair, thick glasses, clear eyebrows, ignorant eyes, childish looking, very thin, like bean sprouts.
Lu Chong reacted, the boy in the mirror is not himself in his third year of high school, this year, it is 1996!
Looking at himself in the mirror, Lu Chong was at a loss, hey, with such an image, he was admitted to the Peking Film Academy, just kidding!
The enrollment of film schools should examine the voice, stage, shape, and table, the voice is vocal music, you must be able to sing, the stage is the lines, you must be able to recite in Mandarin, the form is the body, you must be able to dance, the table is the performance, and you must have acting skills or acting potential; In addition, Nortel attaches great importance to the appearance and height of candidates.
Engaged in technical work for many years, Lu Chong is accustomed to quantifying all the attributes of a qiē, and if those attributes are measured on a 100-point scale, it can be said that he not only fails, but may also be at the bottom:
The five tones are incomplete, there is no pitch, full of sound idiot, and the vocal singing skills are 0 points.
The accent is very strong, not magnetic, not infectious, and the voice of the lines is 0 points.
Stiff limbs, poor coordination, no sense of movement, and 0 points for physical dance skills.
Straightforward, not good at lying, with a wooden expression, and 0 points for acting potential.
The eyebrows are delicate, but the eyes are short-sighted, the skin is slightly dark, and the appearance is barely 40 points.
is 1.7 meters tall, and is considered a third-class disability in the entertainment industry where long legs are prevalent, with 20 points.
His conditions can't be said to be ordinary, it should be said that he is very ordinary, so ordinary that if he is thrown into the crowd, he will never be able to find it back, even if he goes to be a trickster, people think he is not distinctive, let alone Nortel, the Whampoa Military Academy in the entertainment industry.
Lu Chong now finally understands why he always kept the dream of becoming a big star in his heart and didn't put it into his heart, in the final analysis, it is not because his qualifications are too poor, the gap with his dream is too big, and the probability of his dream coming true is infinitely close to zero, so he can only think about it in his heart.
Thinking of this, Lu Chong couldn't help muttering to himself: "Is it destined that I will never be a big star?" Do you want to repeat a boring technical career? ”
When someone in the crowd heard Lu Chong's words, he opened his mouth and laughed: "I was really stupid by thunder, and I don't pee to show what kind of virtue I am, just like you, I still want to be a big star, wishful thinking!" ”
The duck-like spectators couldn't help but laugh when they heard the man's mockery.
Lu Chong raised his head, he recognized this person, it was a distant relative, the one who should be called his cousin was named Li Wentang, and the famous dog looked down on people.
Before being reborn, Li Wentang said that Lu Chong would definitely not be admitted to the key middle school, but Lu Chong was admitted to Jiangcheng No. 1 Middle School, a key middle school in the city.
Before the college entrance examination, Li Wentang said that Lu Chong would definitely not be able to get into a good university, and as a result, Lu Chong was admitted to Jiangcheng University of Science and Technology, which ranks among the top ten science and engineering universities in the country.
After graduating from university, Li Wentang said that Lu Chong would definitely not find a job, and as a result, Lu Chong entered a Fortune 500 company.
Now that he has been reborn, how Lu Chong hopes that this Li Wentang effect can be effective again.