Chapter 1 The Welfare Home of North Hollywood
"I'm sorry, Lu Ming, I don't want to do this either, if we continue to be together, my dad ......" The long-haired woman let go of the hand she had been holding for ten years, and walked into the distance without looking back, and finally disappeared.
"An Xin~"
The young man named Lu Ming opened the beer again in a whisper, it has been several months, whenever he thinks of the scene of the breakup, he still can't stop stinging in his heart, after all, ten years of feelings!
In fact, he knew that this scene would happen sooner or later, but he always had illusions, but reality still punctured the bubble of illusions.
He is an orphan who grew up on the streets and in a welfare home, after graduating from junior high school, he became a film projectionist through self-education, and she became a well-known music producer after ten years of struggle.
People who grew up in cold and loneliness, who have lost the only light of day, can only rely on alcohol to numb their nerves.
As soon as he heard the beer again, Lu Ming suddenly felt difficult to breathe and weak, and couldn't help but remember that he hadn't had an alcohol allergy for many years, and the last attack almost killed him!
Is it going to end? His eyelids can't be lifted anymore, but his heart is full of remorse, I'm also a marginal person in the entertainment industry, Weishenme doesn't know how to work hard? If you could become a glamorous star, would all this still happen?
……
"Wow~"
The baby's crisp cry sounded, Lu Ming opened his eyes, and found the fact that it was devastating, he became a baby, an abandoned baby lying alone at the door of the welfare home!
Don't...... Is it reborn? Back in the days of abandonment? Wouldn't it be possible for you to start all over again?
As soon as this thought crossed his mind, he felt dizzy and immediately realized that something was wrong, that the baby's brain could not support him to think too much, and now he was starved of oxygen.
Damn it! Do you have to hang up just after being born again? Before he lost consciousness, he saw an old white lady pick him up.
A certain great power of heaven made a joke, although he became an abandoned child born in 1980 for the second time, but the location was changed from the ancient country of the East to the Northton Welfare Institute in North Hollywood, Los Angeles.
Based on the flower carved on the necklace around his neck, he has a new name - Ryan? Jenkins!
I've become a little ghost? This is the reality that Lu Ming or Ryan must accept.
Life in the orphanage was cold and boring, and Ryan always had a desire in his heart to learn everything he could get his hands on, and thanks to his extraordinary talent for language and the careful teaching of the old dean, he was already fluent in listening, speaking, reading and writing English at the age of four.
Staying in the orphanage was not a long-term solution, but he didn't know what to do, so he had to immerse himself in studying and reading as much as possible, and before he knew it, the books in the library made him turn through them several times.
This year, in order to obtain more funding, the orphanage organized children over the age of four to participate in the Halloween parade in Hollywood, and it was only then that Ryan discovered that the famous Hollywood was just south of the orphanage.
The moment he stepped on the Avenue of Fame, the classic movies he had watched and the English songs he had heard in his previous life immediately flashed in Ryan's mind, as if they were engraved in his memory.
The march made him incredibly clear, and over time, Ryan discovered that he was far stronger than his peers, had an unusually clear mind, was particularly sensitive to music and rhythm, and possessed an extraordinary ability to construct images and words.
Although he didn't know if he had a talent for acting, from the moment he opened his eyes, he was performing, first as a baby, then as a child, and in the future as teenagers and young adults, even if some people thought he was a little eccentric, no one ever doubted it, and acting had become an instinct for him.
Could it be that God heard the wish of my previous life before I died, and wanted me to go to Hollywood to roll? Ryan understands what his heart desires - to become a glamorous superstar!
It's okay to see a few of your favorite stars in your previous life with your own eyes and become friends with them?
Although Ryan knows that Hollywood is a real vanity fair, not a dream theater of dreams, he still sets himself an unattainable goal, since he lives again, he must realize some delusions in his previous life, right?
With goals in mind, Ryan became more active in his studies, learning painting and music with students from the art academy who volunteered, and Chinese and Cantonese with Chinese staff — always finding an excuse for knowing Chinese.
In short, he studied everything related to art, and tried to paint the pictures in his mind with words, and after two years of repeated exercises, he gradually formed his own style and characteristics.
Dean Katie had long noticed Ryan and had always thought he was the smartest kid in the orphanage, but oddly enough, no one wanted to adopt him, and they all disliked his personality for being too withdrawn and eccentric.
Ryan also has some feelings, there is no shortage of millionaires or even multimillionaires among the people who adopt orphans, and he also fantasizes about becoming a spelling father in the future, but some things seem to be predestined at the moment of rebirth, and he still lives here until he is six years old.
Dean Katie is Ryan's only reader, probably because she is Jewish, and Ryan has a slightly Jewish relationship, but she only shows some surprise at first, and gradually gets used to the existence of a gifted child.
She collected all the boys' works for pen practice, picked out the best science fiction novels, mailed them to an old friend at the magazine, and to her surprise, they were published.
When Ryan saw the magazine handed over by the old dean, he understood that the hard work of the past few years had not been in vain, so let's start for the future!
In addition to his routine time of exercising and studying, Ryan devoted himself to writing, or plagiarism, and began adapting some famous children's films into novellas and short stories.
Novels and movies are different carriers, and it takes a lot of effort to change the movie into a text that can occupy creativity and not have a negative impact on the future, but it didn't bother him too much, with the help of Dean Katie, including short and medium-sized stories such as "Home Alone" and "Toy Story", which were successfully published, Ryan also received a remuneration, and the old dean also specially applied for a bank account for him.
None of this satisfied Ryan, he needed a heavyweight stepping stone to be able to knock on the door of Hollywood in the event of a bad future, and he set his sights on a hugely impactful work - "Jurassic Park"!
He had never read the original Jurassic Park novel, and could only adapt it to the content of the movie, placing the first protagonist on a young boy instead of Dr. Grant in order to match his age and identity as a six-year-old.
Although there is a movie as a reference, in order to hide people's eyes, Ryan asked Dean Katie to help collect a lot of information on dinosaurs and clones, and the novel of less than 250,000 words took nearly four months to complete in repeated revisions.
Whether it was the beginning of the pen or the publication of Zuihou, the old dean was a great help, this Jewish woman, with surprising social connections.
By the early winter of 1986, the novel had reached the top 10 of the national bestseller list after a tepid few months, earning Ryan a large royalty share.
At the same time, Dean Katie is retiring due to health reasons, and the new Dean is a black woman named Macy, and Ryan is keenly aware of it, and her eyes are full of disgust and greed when she looks at the orphans.
After the fat pig-like dean took office, the standard of living in the welfare home plummeted, and not having enough to eat gradually became a norm, and behaviors such as beating, scolding and insulting became commonplace, and even, she took advantage of the loopholes in the adoption system to get in touch with some adoption middlemen and started an 'adoption' business, and the orphans became humanoid goods.
After reading a reply letter from the magazine "Alien Body", the black dean targeted the boy, especially after using the guardian authority to search for accounts that belonged to him, and was directly stunned by one of the strings of zeros.
Such a large sum of money actually belongs to a child, what is this a godsend for her?
Things are not as simple as she thought, before leaving the old dean Katie, she realized that this money may bring trouble, and specially entrusted an old friend to find a reliable lawyer for Ryan, if you want to get this money without alarming the lawyer, it is almost impossible, the most haode way, is to obtain Ryan's absolute trust and support.
It's a pity that she doesn't understand that in the boy's body, there is a soul whose intelligence is only higher than her, not lower than her, and her means of flattery, seduction, and deception are as ridiculous as a circus clown in his eyes, but the boy's age and body that is not commensurate with his intelligence determine that he has no actual ability to resist.
Starving, scolding, swearing, and even beating may frighten other children, but Ryan has never been afraid, and in his previous life, he had experienced even harsher trials than this, and he had survived all the harder ones.
Dean Black Pig simply locked him in a cold room, and let two black helpers take turns to keep watching, as long as he didn't give in, he didn't want to be free.
Time slipped into 1987, Ryan ushered in the second seven years old, his sky has been covered by dark clouds, the boy began to look for opportunities, waiting and being at the mercy of others is not the fate he wants, although the number of times he has left the orphanage in the past seven years can be counted with one hand, but he still wants to break out of this cage, only the vast sky outside can withstand his soaring wings.
With continuous efforts, the door that locked the sky was finally removed by him, and he escaped from the welfare home while the black helper went to the bathroom.
Ryan's body trembled slightly when the morning light fell from the sky into his eyes, and he understood how precious freedom is to human beings.