Chapter 6 Staying up late to catch up on the manuscript
"Yes, you have to look forward!" Zhang Xiao agreed with Zhao Hongbing's statement.
Although both of them are no longer young, they have not lost their desire to work hard and forge ahead, and with the encouragement of this strange boy, Zhao Hongbing plans to move towards the online drama industry.
On the other hand, after the teenager Zero hung up Zhao Hongbing's phone, he was naturally not idle.
In his small partition room in the slums of Shanghai, he quickly typed many words in his notebook.
In this partition of less than ten square meters, there is a single bed with a width of one meter and five meters, next to the single bed is placed a small wardrobe, next to the wardrobe is Zero's suitcase, and all corners of the room are full of various novels, mainly suspenseful mystery novels such as Ellery Quinn, of course, there are also professional books on movies, as well as some film journals and the quarterly magazine "Huaxia Investment Orientation".
In the corner of the room, a large golden retriever of about one and a half years old was curled up on the ground, looking at the boy from time to time, but most of the time he was asleep.
"Alas! I'm so tired! ”
Halfway through writing, Zero stopped typing and collapsed backwards onto the bed.
Looking up at the ceiling, he also had a lot of pressure in his heart.
Around him, the landlord's whispering messages from rent reminders came from time to time, and he didn't even bother to read them.
In order to be able to pay this month's rent, he has already sold the electric skate that he met with Zhao Hongbing at a low price of 5,000 Chinese yuan, you must know that when he bought this high-tech product from Didong.com, he spent a five-figure amount!
Originally, he hoped that after exchanging this money, he could relieve his survival pressure.
However, after settling last month's and last month's rent, he had very little money left.
However, even so, he did not forget to buy his dog "Yellow" dog food for half a year, and at the same time took him to the best pet store in the neighborhood to get the latest vaccinations and take a comfortable bath.
After meeting with Zhao Hongbing, he knew that the opportunity to prove himself had come, but if this script was not satisfactory to Zhao Hongbing, maybe he really had to move out of this place.
After all, the rent in Shanghai is so expensive!
"Yellow, do you want to hang out?" Zero barked at his dog.
The big golden retriever was very sensible, got up from the ground, came to Zero's side, and licked Zero's palm affectionately, acting very well-behaved.
From time to time, Zero comforted an old wound on the Golden Retriever's forehead, which was the scar from Yellow's three-month-old burns from other tenants' cigarette butts, and Zero even went to the point of hand-to-hand combat with a taller veteran than himself in order to protect Yellow.
Of course, the end was also miserable, and he lay in the hospital for two months.
However, Zero felt that it was worth it, and for Yellow, he would protect it even if he had to pay with his own life!
However, now that he and his dog have encountered an existential crisis, for a longer-term plan, he must come up with a web drama script that satisfies Zhao Hongbing within half a month.
The prototype of the online drama actor Chen Shuang is actually Zero himself, a college liberal arts student, because he does not have a graduation certificate, and the liberal arts are not too competitive in society, so after coming to Shanghai, Zero quickly became the poorest type of person.
But he didn't cry poor with his family, he relied on his dog for his life, worked hard to write scripts, and finally got the appreciation of his boss, stood out among a large number of screenwriters, and became one of the most popular screenwriters in China.
"Wang!" Seeing that Zero was a little sad, Yellow called out to his master.
Actually, Zero wasn't sad about the past, but he felt that he really didn't have much inspiration tonight, and that he would be tormented by everything when he stayed here.
The more he endured all this suffering here, the more he knew he had to adapt, and only by getting used to these things here, maybe Zero really wouldn't feel bad.
"Alright, let's get out!" Instead of basking in this sadness, Zero went out with Yellow and wandered around the neighborhood.
The moon on the horizon was missing a corner, and it was a rare night.
Usually, Zero is rarely able to go out for a walk at night in order to catch up with the manuscript, and he himself can't remember the last time he went out for a walk, so he seems especially comfortable when he stays here.
With this feeling of comfort, it is extremely wonderful for him to write.
"This is it! That's right, this is it! ”
Zero suddenly had an idea, and broke the previous thinking jam, so he quickly ran towards the neighborhood where he lived with Yellow.
Back in the partition, he quickly wrote down his inspirations, and based on the inspiration, Zero wrote a 3,000-word script that took eight hours in total!
When he came back to his senses, he noticed that the sunlight was shining through the window.
"It's already morning!" Zero stretched, lay down on the bed, and fell asleep.
During the day in Shanghai, it is the busy figure of urban men and women; The dark night in Shanghai is the figure of urban men and women venting wantonly.
Before you know it, two weeks passed quickly.
Zero's first draft is also more than half complete, and it is just one end away.
When he thought about the ending, he was a little sad, he didn't know what kind of ending he should use to end the story.
"What the hell is going to do?" Zero was a little crazy, he kept rubbing his hair, and the original Qi bangs became a "messy chicken nest", but he still didn't have any ideas.
Seeing that the agreed day with Zhao Hongbing was only one day, but he still hadn't thought of the end, which made him a little irritable.
The day of writing is like this, maybe I was excited when I got inspiration at the beginning, and I wrote like a god, but the middle of the Kavin was also painful, and I may be able to get other inspiration to solve the problem halfway, but it can't guarantee the perfection of the final ending.
At this time, Zhao Hongbing did not doubt Zero's ability, he had been waiting in the office building of Huaxia Entertainment, and even for this script, he had already contacted some film companies in advance, hoping to cooperate at that time.
However, due to financial constraints, Zhao Hongbing did not find a well-known film company in the industry, but only found some photography studios.
These studios were co-founded by some college students, who, like Zero, come from the grassroots, but because they are full of love for the film and television industry, they will gather together to start a business.
According to their words, if you don't really love the industry, you can't stick to it at all.
What Zhao Hongbing values is their enthusiasm and study of the film and television industry, so even if he knew that the first online drama was likely to lose money, he did it without hesitation.