Zhang Sheng hung up the phone.

The midday sun shone on his face.

He sat in a chair in a makeshift office in Starlight Future, overlooking the crowd below.

He didn't chat with Zhang Panpan directly, but he also knew what Zhang Panpan looked like when he chatted with Lin Xia.

Probably gnashing of teeth, or ......

You want to kill yourself, right?

Zhang Sheng inevitably showed a smile on his face, and while he felt interesting, he also had a little regret in his heart.

Zhang Panpan probably didn't know that that day, he had told her that among the people he knew, she could rank in the top 500......

That's not a disparagement, but a compliment from the heart.

Pity......

She didn't understand.

But it doesn't matter to Zhang Sheng.

On the mind, on the pattern, on the upper limit of the future......

The current Zhang Panpan is no longer ranked 500th in Zhang Sheng's heart.

can barely line up more than a thousand, and it is nothing more than the looks, family, and voice carried by birth......

That's all.

However, these external things, in this magnificent era, are not absolute.

"Seventh, soon sixth!"

In a temporary office.

Du Hui stared at the rankings on the Internet with some nervousness, as if his soul had been hooked.

It's early November, and the weather is not as hot as October, and sitting in the temporary office on the twelfth floor, the gust of wind is blowing, and it is even a little cool.

But Du Hui was sweating profusely, and his eyes didn't even blink.

The rise of every click and the decline of the number of broadcasts in every time period affect Du Hui's heart, making him both full of hope and frightened.

Zhang Sheng doesn't need to look at the data, just by looking at Du Hui's face, he knows how the overall sales of the album "In the Rain" are!

"Our album, under the huge popularity of [Shiny Girl], tore a hole!"

Five o'clock in the afternoon.

Du Hui gasped heavier.

The assistant kindly brought dinner, but Du Hui didn't eat a bite, his eyes were bloodshot, and his mood was sometimes high and sometimes lonely.

"Brother Sheng...... Ah K: This ......"

The assistant's name is Shen Xiaoxi, a graduate of Yan Petrochemical, after Du Hui signed [NC Studio], Shen Xiaoxi was sent by Chen Mengting to be his temporary life assistant.

The current job is quite simple, just help him buy breakfast, prepare some change of clothes, similar to babysitting and the like.

Shen Xiaoxi looked at the beginning of noon today, Du Hui stared at the computer screen in a daze, not only did he not eat lunch, but even after he didn't eat dinner, his face inevitably became a little worried.

"He has been floating in Yanjing for so many years...... has suffered too much wind and frost, and now it is difficult to find a chance to emerge, he naturally attaches great importance to it, and after a few days and the data stabilizes, his mood will also stabilize, of course...... If you want him to recover sooner, you can just slap him. Zhang Sheng looked at Du Hui's appearance, but didn't feel strange, but said with a smile.

"Forehead ......"

Shen Xiaoxi hesitated for a moment, looked at his hand, and then at Du Hui, and was instantly startled by his own thoughts

She almost believed in Zhang Sheng's evil.

"You stay with him here, it's time, Director Ke is almost done with it."

"Okay."

[Starlight Future] personnel changes are very large, and there are many vacant offices accordingly.

Xu Shengnan fought a little hard, and won half of the position on the twelfth floor of the Starlight Building.

This half of the position is divided into two project groups, the project team of the movie "That Summer That Year" and the project team of the music of the album "In the Rain".

Zhang Sheng walked out of the office and saw the staff coming and going......

Among these staff, there is the data analysis department of "In the Rain", the external publicity and marketing department, and the brand docking department......

Each of these people stayed in the great change of [Starlight Future].

Zhang Sheng simply glanced at it and knew that these people were the core team of [Starlight Future], and they were all among the elites who were screened and eliminated layer by layer.

The album "In the Rain" can rush to the top ten of the major music new song charts in a lightning-fast way, in addition to its own musical attributes can resonate with some people, these people are definitely indispensable.

……………………………………

After the turn of the millennium, China is actually changing with each passing day.

High-rise buildings rising from the ground, gradually advancing technology, medical care, overseas trade, more and more cars, more and more people......

Under the torrent of the times......

There are a lot of people who are being dragged forward.

On the street, you can see pedestrians everywhere, their steps are hurried, their shapes are hurried, they are overwhelmed by the turbulent torrent of the times, but they have no way to tell......

They're struggling, they're exhausted, they're miserable, they're depressed......

From a literary point of view, music is a kind of spiritual sustenance, which can make some people find resonance.

Don't talk about it......

They seem to like to listen to such songs that are in despair, hysterically high-pitched, and then vent everything.

"In the Rain" was born in such an environment.

"I don't know how long I'll last, but I'm sure I'll make it someday!"

After Ke Zhanyi finished the casting work materials of "Midsummer That Year", he couldn't help but take a look at the MV of "In the Rain".

The MV part is an excerpt from "The Years of Graduation", but it is being filmed from Du Hui's perspective.

There is a personal confession of Du Hui, which is not considered powerful, and even reveals tiredness and forced laughter.

Even Ke Zhan Wings can feel it through the screen.

A confession kicked off the prelude to the MV, and after the prelude, there was a dim flyover.

It was Yanjing at four o'clock in the morning.

Du Hui sang a ballad that no one cared about, singing it over and over again......

Pedestrians are in a hurry, and occasionally people stop to stop, but they only stop to take a look and leave.

Ke Zhanyi stared at Du Hui's face.

Du Hui's face was not disappointed, only loneliness, and numbness that he had long been used to, under the light, it seemed to be a fragmented shell.

It was day after day, year after year, with no change in hope.

Although he followed the shooting, after really staring at the MV, Ke Zhanyi still nodded, and his psychology also had some feelings.

He loved the song "In the Rain".

When he first heard the sample of this song, he felt a kind of spiritual resonance.

He has also drifted north, been deceived, oppressed, and betrayed......

The dream was out of reach, and I once wanted to give up and change careers, but I felt that I couldn't support it several times.

That kind of unforgettable pain is probably only understood by those who have really experienced it!

When he heard the song "In the Rain" when he saw the MV again, he was still very touched......

The MV continued to play, and from the middle onwards, he didn't participate anymore, it was all shot by some students.

Very unexpected......

It's hard to believe that these are not Yanying majors, and a few college students who have only trained with themselves for less than a week can continue the feeling at the beginning of the MV.

Du Hui was pulled to the side of the electric car and sang......

The bustling crowd, full of noisy shouts, still sang songs that no one cared about......

Then, there were bursts of doubts in the crowd, questioning what bird song he was singing, and questioning why the store invited such a living treasure......

Then, in a few words of questioning and muttering to the dealer boss, Du Hui finally sang some vulgar and rotten street ballads......

Like a singing, extremely low-level, even a little sad little person.

In the close-up in front of the camera, Du Hui is very painful, without any trace of acting.

Ke Zhanyi understood that it was Du Hui's instinctive emotion.

To live!

In order to survive, many times, it is normal to bow your head.

Then, in the second half of the MV, it's night.

He moved away with the electric car, and while his guitar was moving, he was accidentally hit on the ground.

He looked down at the guitar and just looked at it silently.

The melody gradually deepened.

Then the screen slowly darkened.

Faintly in the darkness, it was noisy again.

Voices......

Mixed with shouting, mixed with a series of advertising sounds from the horn of the battery car.

And then......

It gradually subsided.

After Ke Zhanyi watched the MV, he was immersed in the emotions brought by the MV and was silent for a long time.

Subsequently......

He closed his eyes.

When he recovered from his immersed emotions, he seemed to think of something, and his whole person was stunned, as if something was wrong.

Subsequently, I watched it again by staring at the MV seriously.

I didn't find any problems, it seems that the emotions are rendered, and it's all okay.

When he slowed down, he listened carefully to some of the noises around the MV.

At last......

The more he listened, the more wrong he became, and then he took another serious look at the MV.

He found ......

In the MV, although the focus of the shooting is Ah K, the camera often inexplicably gives a close-up of the [Bosch] battery.

Even, after watching the MV twice, in addition to sympathizing with the difficulty of "Ah K", you will even inexplicably echo the advertising slogan of the [Bosch] battery.

[Buy a battery, choose Bosch!] Buy a battery, choose Bosch! Change to a high-quality battery, choose Bosch! 】

[Bosch battery, a bottle is stronger than a bottle!] 】

[We are all using Bosch batteries!] 】

Ke Zhanyi was shocked!

It was at this moment that he heard a knock on the door.

He shook his head violently, throwing some of the brainwashing sounds out of his head.

"Come in!"

"Director Ke, are you done?"

"I'm done."

After Ke Zhanyi watched Zhang Sheng come in, his face couldn't help but look at Zhang Sheng with some complexity: "Mr. Zhang, I hope you can tell me some truth!" ”

"Director Ke, what do you want to know the truth?"

"This MV, in essence, is not a battery advertisement! The brainwashing sound in this background keeps circulating, and I am so brainwashed to buy Bosch batteries! ”

(End of chapter)