As a staff member of the third group of the planning department of a medium-sized foreign trade company, 27-year-old Nan Dongjian put away the things on his desk, sorted all the documents neatly, looked at the table below, and then looked at the already dark sky outside the window, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it was another day of habitual overtime.

The pressure and competition among the employees of Peninsula Company are really great, especially the personnel in several positions at the grassroots level are very involuted with each other, staying up late and working overtime, and it is normal for the boss to reprimand them.

Nandong Ken, who was not originally from a prestigious university, has almost completely wiped out his former vigor and naivety in his work in the past few years, and his words and deeds have devoted himself to the small social dye vat of the workplace.

At this time, it was already past the end of work, and many people had already left first, and when Nan Dongjian packed up his things and was about to leave, a burst of laughter came from not far away to attract his attention.

When I looked over there, I found that a few female employees who had just joined the company were laughing with a few male employees, and I couldn't hear what was said from afar, but Nan Dongjian could probably guess some.

These girls who have not been in the company for a long time have been promoting a TV series called "Unborn" among familiar employees since a few days ago, Nan Dongjian once heard them talk, several of them seem to be fans of the artist Ji Jingyuan who plays the male lead in this TV series, in order to support his idol in his own place of work and help him promote it so hard, and he is really very loyal to Aili.

In fact, some employees are quite disgusted with this kind of thing, after all, they have long passed the age of chasing stars, and they are still so busy at work every day. However, these female employees look young and beautiful after putting on makeup, and people can't hate it, and one of them is a relative of the department head who has a backstage.

And they just introduced Amway to the same group of colleagues they knew, and the others could only laugh and let it go after seeing it.

Nam Dong Ken glanced over there a few times, shook his head, left the office and went to the parking lot, driving his Hyundai back to his apartment in a jam on the road.

Thanks to the day before yesterday, the section chief organized a drink, and he needed to slow down in the past two days, otherwise it is estimated that there will be another one, two or three drinks today, and he will be unconscious before he can come back to rest.

I bought a mixed sauce noodle pad and put down my stomach, after washing clothes, he sat on the sofa and felt a little bored, turned on the TV and flipped through several stations and didn't see the TV series I liked.

Of course he has heard of the name Chi Jingyuan, after all, it has been really popular enough in the past two years, and communicating with little girls EXO and Chi Jingyuan are good common topics, even if they are not interested in the men's group at all, people like Nan Dongjian sometimes go to learn about it.

EXO He is completely insensitive, but he has watched some of the two TV series filmed by Ji Jingyuan because they are too popular, but with his vision, he thinks that "The Heirs", a drama that is popular all over Asia and is blown into the sky, is very ordinary, and plots such as chaebol Cinderella love are not his appetite at all, and his impression of this most popular idol actor can only be said to be bad or bad.

The golden local drama "Unborn"? Workplace drama?

After thinking about it for a while, today happened to be the premiere on Friday, and he was idle anyway, so Nandong Jian simply changed the channel with a scrutinizing eye.

Thanks to him, he is also a cable N subscriber.

The Golden Soil Opera starts playing every Friday and Saturday at 10 o'clock in the evening, and when he sits here, it is already 9:50, and he doesn't wait two minutes for the change of channel, and enters the broadcast time after a burst of commercials.

After a burst of melodious BGM, an office scene and an overhead shot of Seoul's busy traffic, the word "unborn" with a rain curtain effect appeared on the screen. "Unborn" officially began broadcasting.

The melodious BGM is accompanied by the panning camera of the wilderness stone wall, and at the same time, the deep narration of Chi Jingyuan's voice sounded in his ears:

"The road is not made out of the way, but created for the purpose of going out."

"A road that can't be walked out is not a road."

The picture of the ruins and broken walls, plus just the right one

The accompaniment and the narration of static magnetism at the beginning of an indescribable sense of desolation arises spontaneously, but Nandong Jian feels that this paragraph is very redundant, so he makes a mistake:

"Pretending."

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Kelai played by Chi Jingyuan appeared in the camera, and the picture slowly moved from behind him to the front of him, giving him a close-up of his whole body, wearing a straight suit, with a superior body shape and specially designed forehead makeup, a confident workplace elite image jumped on the paper, and the first appearance of the male protagonist at the beginning was really eye-catching.

Even if he was a little unaccustomed to it, Nandong Ken, who was looking at his attitude, couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "This kid is really good-looking, no wonder many of those employees who graduated from college are his fans."

But soon I was a little disdainful of this casting, and I felt that it was an old-fashioned and omnipotent handsome protagonist of the Peninsula idol drama, saying that it was a workplace drama, it was just an idol drama in skin.

In the reality he knows, such a good-looking person will definitely be jealous of others in the workplace, and if it's a girl, it may become an advantage, but it's really not necessarily true for a man.

Unless it's relationship and backstage.

Although he complained a little in his heart, the texture of the shots in this section made Nandong Jian admire in his heart, and he felt that the picture and lens were very cinematic in style and quality.

At the beginning, these are the scenes that Chi Jingyuan filmed in Jordan before, that is, the plot of the last two episodes was placed in the first episode to cause suspense.

The whole opening scene is to show the spirit of Zhang Kelai, who has grown up, and the decisive maturity in handling things from all aspects.

Although I was watching it with a critical eye, the tight and intense street chase scene at the beginning made Nan Dongjian quickly integrate into it, watching Zhang Kelai and Xu Jin chase me on the street in the old city of Jordan with a very distinctive style, and with the tense BGM, it really gives people a bit of an action movie feeling.

"Bang!" There was a loud bang, and the sudden crash made Nan Dongjian startled, looking at Chi Jingyuan, who staggered up after being knocked away, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

He was really shocked by this sudden crash.

Jordan's foreplay ended when Zhang Kelai jumped out of the roof and entered the feature film of the first episode, and many viewers in front of the TV were a little unresponsive for a while.

After entering the feature film, Zhang Kelai, who was still in high spirits just now, was beaten back to his original form at once, and the first scene at the beginning was a picture of him working part-time in a bathhouse and seriously brushing the glass.

After brushing the glass, he quickly put on his uniform and ran to work as a substitute driver, panting and running quickly on the street, while using his mobile phone to contact customers.

"Give, reward you."

In front of sending the drunk customer to the door, he bent down and picked up the banknote that the other party threw on the ground like a handout, and found that it was a face value of 50,000 won The other party gave more, and quickly chased after him to tell him, but the other party waved his hand casually and closed the door without looking, leaving only Zhang Kelai, who was silent outside the door, quietly looked at the money in his hand, and the expression on his face was silent and complicated.

A few simple small plots show the family background and task character of the male protagonist Zhang Kelai, because the family is very difficult, he does all kinds of part-time jobs, cleaning, driving and other jobs, and it is very hard every day.

However, although Zhang Kelai is a single-parent family, but the family is very warm, the mother saw that her son was about to go to the "All International" for some special reasons for the internship of the well-known general trading company, but there was no new close-fitting suit, while cheering him on, she decided to buy a new suit for her son, so that he could wear a little more face.

As an intern to "All International", Zhang Kelai was assigned to the third sales group, he just joined the company and sat there doing nothing, like a visiting guest with a stunned face, but soon he was called to the rooftop by Jin Daming, the agent of the third sales group, and began to touch his bottom.

"Your name is Zhang ......" On the rooftop, Jin Daming knocked on the cigarette box, popped out a cigarette clip in his hand, but did not light it, and did not mean to smoke, so he put the cigarette case in, looked at the other party and asked with a smile.

「

Zhang Kelai, my name is Zhang Kelai."

"How old are you?"

"26 years old."

"I see that you haven't studied since you passed the college entrance examination?"

"Yes." The smile on Zhang Kelai's face played by Chi Jingyuan just now suddenly froze, his eyes wandered, and he responded softly.

"Is it a high school dropout? Still don't want to go to school, or what's going on?"

"I didn't go to school......

"Why?"

「……」

"Do you have any work experience?"

「……」

"Do you speak English or other foreign languages?"

"Won't ......"

A few very simple but straightforward questions revealed Zhang Kelai's self-esteem layer by layer, so that he didn't know how to answer, so he could only respond with silence.

With a few simple words, Jin Daming figured out Zhang Kelai's background, suddenly lost interest, and left first after casually greeting him.

Zhang Kelai, on the other hand, squatted down and picked up the cigarette that had been dropped without smoking and threw it into the trash, standing on the rooftop and quietly looking into the distance, but in his heart he was deeply self-reflective because of his speechlessness just now.

"What have I done in the past 26 years......

Seeing this scene, Nandong Jian, who had been holding a somewhat condescending posture before, suddenly set off a wave in his heart.

In the screen, Zhang Kelai's shame, self-esteem, sadness and sadness under Jin Daming's questioning are indescribably complicated, although he is through the screen, he clearly feels it from Chi Jingyuan's eyes.

Just a few glances and expressions, as well as a whispered self-torture, made Nan Dongjian instantly realize Zhang Kelai's complex emotions at this time.

After being silent for a long time, Erlang's legs, which he had been cocking, were lowered at some point, and his waist was slightly straightened, and he continued to look more seriously.

Before he knew it, Nam Dong Ken began to really devote himself to this TV series.

The competition between the sales teams is fierce, and in order to increase performance and busy work, each sales team is also short of people, but the lack is all highly educated, highly capable employees who can play a role as soon as they come.

An intern like Zhang Kelai, who has no experience and doesn't know anything, and a high school degree is directly regarded as a burden and a relation, and no one is looking at him.

It's no wonder that other people are like this, everyone in the workplace needs to show their ability and value, but Zhang Kelai, who has just broken in, doesn't know anything like a newborn ignorant child, whether it is answering the phone, sorting out documents or even copying materials, he can't do it at all, standing there with a blank face, and the busy environment around him seems incompatible.

As if he was just a superfluous person.

At the same time, she transferred to the role of An Yingyi played by Jiang Sula, she is also an intern who has just joined the company for a short time and is currently in the second sales group, but An Yingyi is proficient in business, very fluent in foreign languages, and also very bold and creative, all the work is handled in an orderly manner, and she has completed an order of ASE not long after entering the company, she is an employee that all section chiefs want, and she is also the most eye-catching one among the interns.

Zhang Kelai and An Yingyi form a very sharp contrast, which highlights the loss and frustration of the male protagonist.

Because of a coincidence, An Yingyi helped Zhang Kelai answer a customer's call, so that Zhang Kelai had an idea, and when he encountered any problems, he would lick his face and ask An Yingyi for help, even if he was coldly treated, he would put down his self-esteem and plead sincerely, and at the same time follow her every move and how to deal with it.

No matter how unwilling or impatient the other party is.

Zhang Kelai's inner narration seems to indicate his thoughts and psychological changes at this time:

"I don't have time to care about face, dignity or self-esteem, and for me those things are insignificant now."

At this time, the news that he had no experience in high school also spread, and many of the interns who graduated from famous universities and came to intern during the same period were very dissatisfied, feeling that they had worked hard for so many years and worked with a high school student, which was extremely cheap.

Under the initiative of some people, whether it is during meals, also

When taking the elevator, Zhang Kelai will be attacked by yin and yang weird language and squeezed out of the workplace on the surface.

Even if he actually knows these things, Zhang Kelai, who has not yet reflected his value, can only cheer up and face it with a somewhat reluctant smile.

Only Zhang Baiji, who is also an intern, has no prejudice against him, and he took the initiative to help him defend and defend two sentences.

The first day of internship ended like this, and the male protagonist who returned home in the evening wanted the audience to show his past experiences and family changes through memories.

He has been a very fond of Go since he was a child, and he is also quite talented, very serious and hard-working, but because of family changes, his father had an accident and needed money, so he has been doing various part-time jobs for a long time, and he didn't even go to college after graduating from high school.

At the same time, he was hesitant and distracted by his part-time job, which led to his failure to pass the entrance exam of Go, and after the deadline for his graduate school at the Peninsula Chess Academy arrived, he gave up the game he had always loved and worked hard for.

The next day he was late because of a traffic jam with section chief Wu Shangzhi, and Zhang Kelai used Go to retain the foreign customers he was scheduled to meet with at the behest of Jin Daming, which was the first small credit after joining the company.

It's just that this kind of trivial matter can't make other people change their opinion of him at all, Wu Shangzhi, the head of the third sales group who has just returned from an overseas business trip, said bluntly to Zhang Kelai in the car: "Our group doesn't need promising rookies...... After I go back, I may return you to ...... What is your selling point? Try to impress me with it."

"I'm trying." After thinking about it a little nervously, Zhang Ke said that he thought his greatest strength, and it was also his only strength.

It's just that Wu Shangzhi shook his head a little ridiculously after hearing it: "There is no one here who does not work hard."

After arriving at the company, Wu Shangzhi didn't have time to say anything, and just handed Zhang Kelai a task to sort out and summarize the documents in the computer, and then received a call from Jin Daming, saying that there was a problem with the supply of a batch of Youyu goods, and the original goods should be pure Youyu, but now it is found that the supplier is likely to be doped with frozen squid in it.

This is not a trivial problem, once this batch of fish is made into food, if there is a squid mixed in, it will greatly affect the purity.

Because it is an automated factory and there is a lack of manpower, Wu Shangzhi decided to take people directly to the manual inspection after thinking about it, and go to the place where the goods are put to find out whether there is any doped fish in the bottom.

And when Wu Shangzhi answered the phone, Zhang Kelai's mother took the brand-new black suit that she had just bought with gritted teeth and sent him to the company, handed the suit to her son in the hall, and pointed to her eyes when the other party saw that the suit was a little confused: "You will know when you become a parent in the future, if you see that your child is not dressed decently, your eyelids will be like they are glued, and you can't do anything all day."

After leaving a touching quote, his mother waved his hand handsomely and left the company, leaving Zhang Kelai, who was speechless for a while, looking at his back.

Changing into a new suit in the bathroom, Zhang Kelai, who had just returned to the third sales group, was arrested by Wu Shangzhi, and all the new interns were taken to the factory by him to check You Yu.

Because there were not enough work clothes, Zhang Kelai, who had not been allocated, could only wear a new suit, and at the same time, the working environment was still very cold, and he couldn't take off his clothes.

And there are a total of 9 interns in five refrigerated trucks, in groups of two and two, no one wants to be with him when they are grouped, and in the end only Zhang Kelai is left, and he can only complete the workload of two people alone, one person's inspection of a car weighing 3.5 tons of You Yu.

When people are unlucky, nothing goes well, when Zhang Kelai checked You Yu in the frozen car, he splashed a lot of water, and his mobile phone was dropped in the big bucket containing You Yu.

In the end, when he finally found the squid mixed inside, he found that Wu Shangzhi had called to inform him that he didn't need to look for the squid anymore and could leave. And the people who came with him had already left in a special car to return to the company.

Among them, the two interns who were sent to call him hated him the most, and deliberately withdrew without informing him.

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Later, the employees of the factory found out that he was still working inside, and shouted twice in great surprise before he knew about it.

When he knew that he was abandoned, the dazed and lost face when he knew that he had been abandoned, and the loss and anger that had accumulated for a long time in his heart were vividly displayed in Chi Jingyuan's expression.

When I saw the close-up of Ji Jingyuan's stiff and frozen face on TV, combined with his hair that was a little messy because of work, and a lot of dirty suits and faces, I don't know how many viewers after seeing this scene, including Nandong Jian, who had already sunk into it, all trembled in their hearts, and for some reason a feeling of empathy came to their hearts.

Because the factory is far away from the city and it is difficult to take a taxi, Zhang Kelai finally got a ride back to the city and came to the place where the interns celebrated and ate.

These early returns at the same time have finished eating and chatting at the door. Get ready to go home and rest.

Just when they were talking and laughing, it happened that Wu Shangzhi, the section chief, also arrived at the door, and they saw Zhang Kelai walking over from the side, embarrassed and covered in a fishy smell.

Ignoring the ridicule and yin and yang weirdness of these people, and did not obey Wu Shangzhi's suggestion to let him go back to rest first, after bowing and saluting the section chief, Zhang Kelai turned around alone, ready to go back to the company to work overtime, and complete the task given to him by Wu Shangzhi in the afternoon to summarize the files on the computer.

As he gradually moved away with his back to the crowd and gradually approached the camera, his inner monologue also sounded:

"Say I'm too serious?"

"No, it's because I'm not serious enough that I have to go to society to temper myself."

"Because I wasn't serious enough, I was abandoned."

In the end, Zhang Kelai pursed his lips and froze with a firm expression, the OST sounded, and the first episode of "Unborn" officially ended.

Looking at this last picture in a daze, Nan Dongjian fell into silence for a while.

Obviously, I looked at it with a scrutinizing eye, and I was obviously indifferent to this idol actor named Ji Jingyuan and even hated it, but I was a little disappointed at first, and I was very picky about the actor and this drama.

But why did he sit on the sofa for an hour and a half without even going to the toilet?

Why did he empathize with Zhang Kelai, a rookie in the workplace, and a role played by an actor with such a superior appearance.

Why is the rhythm of this first episode so slow, there is no emotional drama, the protagonist is not only not a chaebol child or a workplace elite, but has been frustrated and abused, but the more he watches, the more he devotes himself, and the more he watches, the more immersed he becomes.

Why was the string in his heart touched when he saw the close-up of Zhang Kelai at the end, and suddenly he was inexplicably associated with himself?

Thinking about it, Nan Dongjian found that except for complaining in his heart at the beginning that the actor's appearance was too eye-catching, he never had this feeling after officially entering the plot.

Even in the middle, he had several times because Chi Jingyuan was very good, and he couldn't help but applaud secretly because of his shocking and evocative facial expression.

"This drama ......"

Nam Dong Ken was stunned for a few minutes when he looked at the commercial that entered the TV after the end of the first episode, picked up his phone and clicked on the search website naver, and after a dull moment, he typed two words.

Unborn.

…………

The first episode of "Unborn" is a special 90-minute broadcast, which is longer than the 60-minute duration of the average Peninsula TV series.

But after watching it, many viewers still have a feeling that they are still unfinished and not enjoyable.

After the first episode was broadcast, there was a heated discussion on the Internet that night, and after a night of fermentation, it had already caused a lot of impact on the second day.

"It's really great, I watched the promotion before yesterday, and I was bored and wanted to watch it casually, but before I knew it, I finished watching it, and it was very well shot."

"I don't want to comment on anything else after watching it, I just want to say that Chi Jingyuan is worthy of being the best actor in the 20th generation, I watched the whole process yesterday, when he played Zhang Kelai, a workplace novice who has been deflated, his overly superior appearance did not have a bit of a sense of dominance, which makes people really feel very natural, as if he is the little staff

The same. In the end, the close-ups of his several close-up expressions in it are really shocking, especially in the scene where the cold motor car knows that he was abandoned, and the close-up of the picture at the end I really blow it up, Kim Won-seok PD is right, he is the best actor of the younger generation.

"Indeed, I re-watched "The Inheritors" not long ago, and I don't feel like a drama at all when I watch "Unborn" today, from Jin Si to Zhang Kelai, I don't know how big the gap between the two roles is, the acting skills are really good, and the crew really has a hand in casting."

"After watching it, I think it's really real, including the handling of various work things in the three sales groups, the getting along with interns and various competitions and exclusions, there are many similarities with what I have personally experienced, there is no ambiguity about kissing me, this is the workplace drama I want to see."

Ji Jingyuan picked up a bun and stuffed it into his mouth with a fast child, while looking at the enthusiastic comments on "Unborn" on the Internet, he was in a much better mood just after getting up.

"What are you looking at so happy?"