Life, just like that, is back on the right track of busyness. The refresher course is intense, starting at 8 a.m. and continuing until 7 p.m.

When I was alone, I habitually neglected breakfast. Coffee and cigarettes have become staple foods again. After the day's study, when I returned home, I usually continued to ponder my professional knowledge on my own, or leaned back on the couch and drank a few beers to find inspiration that had been much weaker.

A few days ago, Taeyeon and the others came back from a trip, and this girl came to me on the phone several times, nothing more than clamoring to come to me for dinner. She doesn't have a schedule for the time being, and it is estimated that she is lazy to play with her own building blocks or coloring books at home every day. It is obviously impossible for such a laid-back guy to think that he wants to come to me and let me cook for her. So she accepted me very simply and ruthlessly refused.

After a little mood for a long time, she later changed her tone and said that she would buy the ingredients and cook for me, but of course this proposal was also vetoed by me. On the one hand, in the past two days, I guess I have to be busy with the formation of a team, and maybe the free time in the evening will be squeezed out. On the other hand...... Looking at the food that Tai Ben made for half a day, you said that it was not delicious, and it was not good to say that it was not delicious.

After sending Kim Taeyeon away, I took the empty one day and drove the SLSAMG to the company and returned it to him. In addition, the formation of a team was immediately put on the agenda, and Jiang Xijun, who gave me the green light in this regard, said that the people in the company can be chosen at will. People outside the company, you can communicate with each other yourself. The company will also help to fight for it.

The time fell with a two-show snow until the beginning of January.

There is a statutory holiday on New Year's Day. The refresher class was suspended, but I didn't let myself rest. Lonely spent a busy day alone.

Actually, Taeyeon called me that morning, and she knew I was alone. So on the phone, she was very tactful and said to him: "Anyway, you're fine, how lonely it is to be alone in a different place." Or, go back with me. ”

The deliberately noisy radio waves and inaudible intonation could not obscure the meaning of her words. She asked me if I wanted to go back with her and have a meal with her parents and brother.

After a moment of silence, I finally declined with the same tactful expression.

In addition to Kim Taeyeon, there were many people who called to greet him. Sunny was the second to call, and the third to call Pani was a bit small to my surprise. Even Kang Seok-joon went back to the family party. Zhang Bo had no one to accompany him like me, but the tragedy was that he caught up with overtime, and we originally agreed to have a meal and two glasses of wine together in the evening, but in the end we had to give up. As for Zheng Xiujing, there was no phone from her all day. But at about ten o'clock in the evening, she called.

In the three or two sentences of chatting slightly, I can still hear a little emotion from her. But it's not as strong as it used to be, in her words. also has the meaning of Gu Zuoyan's companionship.

Too many people know that I am alone, living in a distant place.

That's it, I spent the whole day in a warm but not too angry home. Spend two hours chatting with the parents on a long video call. The rest of the time, I'm thinking about the right person for the team.

So, I put a lot of thought into forming a team. Finally, the first target to start with was determined. That's the writer.

On the second day, the evening after the reopening of the refresher course. I came to work again in a K5 that suddenly felt a little dropped. At the door of the office, I bumped into Kang Seok-jun, who was about to have a third meeting, and he said just right. And they tore me away.

The other staff in the small conference room moved back a position like this, and Director Xu, who was originally sitting in the third room of the Entertainment and Propaganda Department on Jiang Xijun's right hand, saw me and Jiang Xijun coming in, nodded to me and said hello, and then got up naturally. I sat down in his place with a little bit of thought, and then Jiang Xijun straightened his collar and said, "Let's start." ”

Tonight's meeting didn't last too long, and it was mainly about the company's recent TV series "Healer" to discuss schedule adjustments. Director Lee Jung-hyuk, who is in charge of this drama, had something to do temporarily and couldn't come to the meeting.

I have roughly read the outline of the script for the drama "Healer", and the starring roles are shared by Ji Chang Wook and Park Min Young. Whether it is from the perspective of the protagonist's appearance, acting skills, or the quality of the script, with my usual sensitivity. This drama, which has huge ambitions for the entire SK Entertainment, will be a blockbuster player and completely open up the situation for the company's current difficult situation in TV dramas.

In addition, after some detailed discussions with screenwriter Song Ji-na on the filming of "Healer", Director Xu, who was in charge of the promotion of my two MVs, began to analyze the feedback given by the market and the Internet to a certain extent.

I haven't paid attention to my MV for nearly a week, and the data has changed again. Overall, the upward momentum has slowed. After experiencing an explosion of 11 million views, the number of Youtube views has entered a state of steady growth. At this time, the Chinese Yinyue V list ranked first for two consecutive weeks, Billboard's "K-POPMV Ranking" won the first place in November, Billboard's "WorldAlbums Chart" weekly list ranked first, and Taiwan's top five gold lists in Japan and South Korea ranked first in the 47th week.

This achievement is gratifying, but what really pushed my name as a new PD to the front of the screen is the credit of Director Xu of the Propaganda Department and those entertainment editors.

Although the reports of online and physical publications cannot be described by the four words of arrogant rave reviews, at least there are not too many targeted bad reviews.

A few days ago, Zhao Xiuxian's PD pointed out to me that the problems were all in-depth professional aspects, and for the public, the perception of being quite good still occupies the main position. For me, the rest is just a matter of excellence.

In South Korea, a territory where IDO is everywhere, no matter how well-known the director is, he will be weaker in comparison. Just like director Yoo Ha who is preparing to shoot "Gangnam 1970", as a palace-level director who won the Baeksang Art Award and directed three films with tens of millions of viewers, "Despicable Street", "Frost Flower Shop" and "The Cruel History of Ma Congee Street", the ordinary people who know him are definitely not as many as those who know Lee Min Ho.

Whether it is a big movie director or a MV director, their names are usually only in the Jongno area, and they are widely spread in the industry.

I don't know how many people in the industry know about me as a novice. But for me to bury my personality in the mud, it didn't matter much. I just have to shoot my work well, and I am happy that there are many people who know me. There are few people who know, and I will only redouble my efforts.

Director Xu, who was standing in front of the projector, should have a set of good PPT in his hand, and the results of the two MVs about me were exposed to the dark curtain in the conference room from beginning to end.

This time I still didn't listen so carefully, and in the end I only heard the conclusion of the sentence from the mouth of Director Xu:

The more enthusiastic response has written a footnote for the improvement of popularity, and at the same time, it has also broadened the market for the company in terms of MV, and I believe that the company will be able to get more first-line MV invitations in the future. After a preliminary analysis of comprehensive sound sources and record sales, Superjunior is expected to be shortlisted for this year's Golden Disc Record Book Awards, and become a strong contender for the Popularity Award and the Best MV Popularity Award. At the same time, several awards with full gold content, such as the Seoul Music Awards, also have a lot of hope. If nothing else, the MV directed by Yoo Seung-woo PD this time will win the Soompi Awards' Best MusicVideo beautifully. The original intention of this award is to set the tone and focus on cutting-edge music video directors, which can be said to be the best recognition of the strength of cutting-edge music video directors.

Personally, I have a lot of confidence in Liu Chengyu PD!

At the end, Chief Xu's sentence was quite a little loud. I, who was sitting in my seat and looked at him, glanced down at the nine fingers I had placed on the table.

I don't know if there will be a utilitarian flavor in Director Xu's words, and now the whole company knows that I am Jiang Xijun's "confidant"? Or some other adjective, red?

In any case, I'm not used to speculating on others with the greatest malice. True and false affection, I will just follow it, and I will screen it in the future, that is a matter for the future.

After a meeting, Jiang Xijun and I were the first to walk out of the room, he walked straight to the smoking area with a smile on his lips, I twisted my neck and began to pull a cigarette out of the pocket of my clothes.

"How about it, are you very happy, Director Xu generally doesn't talk empty words, he is an out-and-out data study party actual faction."

Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling giant screen next to the SK Entertainment smoking area, Kang Seok-joon took my cigarette and put it in his mouth, and said vaguely as he lit it.

While waiting for the lighter, I put the cigarette between my fingers, looked at the thousands of ants and the winding car river at my feet, smiled faintly, and did not respond.

It wasn't until after a cigarette was smoked that I raised my chin at him.

"If you're a writer, I'm going to pick it up in-house. In this regard, there are still many good people in the company's remaining resources to be mobilized. ”

The embers of the last soot were extinguished, and the formation of the team was imminent, and I, who was planning to start at this moment, had endless light in my pupils, shining and shining. (To be continued.) )