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Yiming: Yang Yiming, a tall man over 2 meters, is a rookie player of the NBA Rockets. The English level is acceptable, good at observing words and feelings, and the emotional intelligence is very high.

Xiaochun: Yu Xiaochun, Yang Yiming's agent and life assistant, is also employed by the Rockets. He has the experience of studying in the United States and is basketball through. Looks ordinary, not good at words, but has a resolute personality, and always seems to have a way to achieve his goals.

Jose: José Rodriguez, the chauffeur of Yang Yiming and Yu Xiaochun, a Mexican. He is sleek and snobbish.

Nina: A mysterious hypnotic masseuse who successfully cured Yang Yiming's dislocated shoulder and his whereabouts are uncertain, but he seems to have a unique sensitive sense of smell for money.

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Scene: Cozy Cottage Motel, Room 307

(knocks on the door)

Nina: (alertly in the dark) Who?

Koharu: (greeting through the door) Nina?

Nina: (Silence)

Xiaochun: I'm Yu Xiaochun. We've seen it in New York.

Nina: I know who you are.

Koharu: Is it convenient? I'd like to talk to you.

Nina: It's too late, I want to rest. You come tomorrow.

Koharu: The front desk said that you had made an appointment for a wake-up call at 6:30 a.m., and we thought you were going back to New York.

Nina: Next time, then.

Yiming: Just a few words. It's over, I can ask Jose to take you to the airport.

Nina: You're here too, big man.

Yiming: (laughing) Yes, you hypnotized me, my injuries are healed, I will thank you in person.

Nina: Paid service, you're welcome.

Yiming: At least let's take you to the airport, and I'll call Jose too.

José: I'm here, ready to go!

Nina: (hesitantly) It's all here... You're trying to hold me hostage.

Koharu: It's purely voluntary. We are here to propose a cooperative initiative, you listen, it doesn't matter if you accept it or not.

(There is a long silence in the room)

Nina: (sighs, unbolts) Come in.

(The three of them enter the house one after another.) Room 307 was so clean that there was little sign of occupancy, except for a quilt that had been lifted, the corners of which were neatly tucked under the mattress. Nina's luggage was only an MCM backpack, which looked like it was packed and placed on the bedside table. ）

Koharu: Nina, good evening.

Nina: (laughs) It's late at night, so I guess it's morning.

José: (in Spanish) Good morning, beauty!

Nina: (still laughing) Hello, I saw you looking at me all the time in the rearview mirror when you picked me up.

José: I can't help it, I'm sorry, haha.

Nina: (smiling at Yang Yiming, who was the last to enter the house) Ah, I didn't realize you were so tall at the time. This room is too low to fit a big guy like you.

Yiming: I'll just sit down, it's okay. In fact, it wasn't so tall, thanks to your "hypnotic massage", I grew 1 centimeter, and the room just couldn't fit it.

Nina: (laughs more and more happily) Then sit down. (Pointing to the open space in the room, he gestured an invisible circle with his hand and jumped on the bed) Use this as a negotiating table, let me hear what kind of unpleasant initiatives you have spent so much time on.

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Scene: Outside room 307, in the hallway

Yiming: (takes out a Red Bull drink from the vending machine) Are you sure that the cooperation plan we proposed is worth it for her?

Koharu: (Stuffing coins into the vending machine and buying a packet of potato chips) You can feel the effect yourself.

Yiming: It's really amazing.

Koharu: Yes, not only to treat injuries, but also to improve physical function, isn't this what all players dream of?

Yiming: That's true, but...

Koharu: Don't worry, if we convince her to join the gang, we will only let her help recover from her injuries, but shorten the recovery period, and it won't seem too amazing. For example, the injury was originally a month, but now it only takes a week to heal, and even then the entire NBA players will rush to it.

Yiming: That's right. There is no need to include the part of physical function improvement, after all, there are opponents on the court...

Koharu: Well, but for a small range of players, you can use it as a means to woo them – just a slight boost – so that they don't have a reason not to sign with our agency.

Yiming: (pats Koharu's shoulder hard, leans up and takes a sip of Red Bull) It's too powerful, this layout, or you think long-term.

Koharu: (slightly distressed) But I wonder if Nina will be willing to join the gang...

Yiming: I think she seems to be a little embarrassed.

Koharu: She must be unwilling to give up the free life of the idle clouds and wild cranes. After all, in New York, she can work as she wants, disappear as she wants, come and go without a trace, all according to her preferences...

Yiming: What is the bottom line in your heart of the conditions you gave her?

Koharu: Ten percent of the shares, plus the income from hypnotic massage, she can share fifty-five points with the company.

Yiming: (nodding) In this matter, I listen to you.

Koharu: I also wanted to make a "pay as you wish" gimmick. Nina's hypnosis service, I don't want to set a fixed amount of fees, but let her provide the service first, and then let the players pay according to their feelings and moods after it is over. In the NBA circle, there are too many people who spend a lot of money and love to compare, as long as they can really help them, income should not be a problem.

Yiming: Anyway, my $500 that time, if it were replaced by the boss Harden, I don't think it would be a problem to give 50,000.

Koharu: Hmm. (looking at room 307) I don't know how Jose's 500-block experience went. You won't really be hypnotized...

(In the middle of the conversation, the door of the room is suddenly opened, and José rushes out)

Jose: (shouting as he runs) It's so refreshing!

Yiming: (grabs Jose, but is freed) Jose!

José: Don't stop me, I don't think I can run out, I'm going to run, I'm going to swim, I'm going to heaven and earth - vent!

Yiming: Jose?!

José: Let's talk first. (Runaway)

(Nina walks out of the room)

Koharu: (to Nina) What's wrong with him?

Nina: (wrapped in a bathrobe) What a $500 experience you offered.

Koharu: What are the effects of hypnotic massage?

Nina: Well, he himself said that he was too tired to drive and needed to regain his strength...

José: (Remotely) I'm going to explode...

Yiming: (confused) He?

(Background sound of water entry)

Nina: It's okay, let's go see him.

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Scene: Cozy Cottage Motel, outdoor poolside

(Jose keeps paddling)

Yiming: (gesturing to Jose) This is the effect of physical recovery?

Nina: (laughing) Haven't you experienced it too, what's wrong, surprised?

Yiming: No, but I still think it's amazing.

Nina: Mysterious forces of the East, you are also from the East, you should believe in this.

Yiming: (jokingly) Well, the person who didn't believe it just now is estimated to be swimming until dawn all at once.

José: (as he travels) I believe it now! Leave me alone, you guys talk first!

Koharu: So how did you think about our partnership proposal?

Nina: Of course I'm interested, otherwise I wouldn't have let you into the house and talked to you all night. Don't blame me for keeping you out in the first place - women are like that, they pretend to be cold before they accept it.

Koharu: So you're going to accept it?

Nina: Think about it. But agreeing to a date and getting married are two different things.

Koharu: Hmm...

Yiming: (Breaking the siege) Women's topics are not his area of expertise.

Nina: (suddenly, solemnly) If I agree to join the house, can you meet the conditions I have proposed?

Koharu: For the work visa part, Jose can figure it out.

José: (excitedly raising his hand as he swims) yes, I know people, my friends back home in Mexico, that's what they do.

Koharu: We completely agree with the question of how often you work.

Yiming: (flatteringly) Yes, once a week, you also need plenty of rest.

Nina: Hmm...

Koharu: We have also considered the conditions for moving in. (Yu Xiaochun explained in detail the conditions just discussed and the idea of "paying according to wishes").

Nina: Sounds tempting.

Koharu: (urgently) What do you think?

Yiming: (Stretches out his right hand) Shake hands in agreement?

Nina: (Takes off the bathrobe draped over her body, reveals her underwear, walks to the pool, and looks back at the pool) After telling me so much at once, people's brains are a little hot. Maybe I need to take a swim to cool off.

As she spoke, Nina jumped into the pool as well.

In the distance, the sky is already slightly lit, and the blue pool lights under the pool and the reflection of the red Arby's street sign are mixed into a colorful color on the water. It's as if this pool, and the woman who wanders in it, is a strange belonging that doesn't belong to any world.

On the recliner by the pool, Yang Yiming and Yu Xiaochun looked at each other.

The negotiation table that was still in front of me just now seemed to have been suddenly withdrawn and disappeared out of thin air?

Is there really no way to talk about this?