Chapter 37: A Better Self
There is heaven above, and Suzhou and Hangzhou below.
Tang Wei was born in Hangzhou, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and God gave her a beautiful face with great love, but also gave her an ordinary mind fairly and justly.
Her family conditions are very good, her father is a famous oil painting master, and many well-known propaganda posters are from her father's pen in special eras.
So Tang Wei has lived a carefree life since he was a child, and he is favored by his parents.
Because of his average academic performance, after graduating from junior high school, Tang Wei was not admitted to high school, but followed his father's advice and went to a local art vocational school.
If she follows this life trajectory, Tang Wei should become an oil painter like her father in the future, and then live her life step by step.
But last summer, an unexpected experience completely changed Tang Wei's arranged life.
That day, Tang Wei was returning home from class as usual, and was suddenly stopped on the way, and a middle-aged man asked her if she wanted to make a TV series.
This was something that Tang Wei had never thought about before.
After asking for the consent of his parents, Tang Wei starred in the TV series "Chinese Women's Football Team", in which he played the role of a goalkeeper.
I thought it was just an attempt in my life.
Unexpectedly, it opened another door for Tang Wei.
She may like to paint, after all, she has been exposed to it since she was a child, but when it comes to acting, she finds that she loves it from the bottom of her heart.
However, how can she tell her parents that she is going to give up the life she has arranged and choose another path?
It was the director of "Chinese Women's Football Team" who helped her strengthen her confidence, Tang Wei still remembers that Director Yu Dongdong said to her in an irrefutable tone at the time: "Tang Wei, conditions like yours are simply born to learn acting, if you go to the examination room, don't say anything, China's next Gong Li is you!" ”
Tang Wei, who was in a state of hesitation, was ecstatic.
Once a person's heart is moved, he can no longer suppress the restlessness in his heart.
After repeated comparisons, Tang Wei chose the Beijing Film Academy, which was her ideal school.
Then, after some hard work, Tang Wei finally persuaded her parents, and then she went on the road with confidence.
After arriving in the capital, she bought the brochure of the Beijing Film Academy, and in addition, she didn't even read the brochure of Chinese opera, let alone Nanjing University of the Arts, Tianjin University of the Arts, Sichuan University of the Arts, and other second- and third-tier ordinary art universities.
It's a pity that the professional examination of the acting department of Beijing Film Academy is not as simple as she imagined.
The first time he walked into the door of Beijing Film Academy, Tang Wei was dumbfounded.
For the performance department alone, nearly 7,000 people applied for the examination, and the endless stream of people bought brochures and filled in registration forms, coupled with parents who came from all over the country to escort students who rushed to take the exam, crowded the small Beijing Film Academy at No. 4 Xitucheng Road.
Of the nearly 7,000 people, the majority are women.
Tang Wei took the brochure and stood in the crowd for a while, and his self-confidence dropped to the bottom little by little.
When she arrived in the capital, Tang Wei knew what the world was big and what was the frog at the bottom of the well, and she had a deep understanding that day.
There were young girls everywhere who were about the same as herself, or even more beautiful than her, and even if she was also a girl, she couldn't help but feel dazzled.
Fortunately, the Beijing Film Art Examination was held in winter, and everyone wore thick clothes.
Otherwise, I can't imagine that if the Beijing Film Academy was taking exams in the summer, there would be hundreds of top beauties dressed in cool clothes gathered here.
I'm afraid there are boys everywhere covering their noses and looking up at the sky.
What girl doesn't like flowers and halos, and what girl hasn't had the dream of flying up a branch and becoming a phoenix?
School-age girls from all over the country who are a little confident in their appearance are flocking to this small place in Haidian District, Beijing, at the same time.
Girls with all kinds of luck psychology have dreamed of stepping into the door of Beijing Film Academy and standing out from then on.
It's a pity that out of the thousands of girls here, only thirty at most can become the final winner of the smile.
Tang Wei stood in the crowd and compared it repeatedly, weighing it carefully, it seemed that no matter how he looked at it, he didn't have much chance of becoming the lucky one among the thirty.
Even in terms of appearance alone, he doesn't seem to be in the top 30.
But since you're here, how can you not take chances?
So she filled out the registration form anyway.
It was also on that day that Tang Wei met her first boyfriend, a sunny boy from Shanghai, who came to Beijing to take the art exam.
However, the boy is not as stubborn as Tang Wei, and Jingying and Chinese opera are ready for both.
At that time, the other party asked Tang Wei to borrow a pen, and learned that the purpose of coming to the capital was the same, so he chatted for a while.
That's how the two met.
Young men and women who come to Beijing every year to take the art examination are the easiest to meet, become friends, or go further as long as there is a suitable opportunity.
Because they are dealing with a completely unfamiliar, mysterious, and very exciting field, they need to have a companion who takes care of each other.
During the time they were waiting to take the exam, the two people stayed together all day except for sleeping and going to the toilet, so it was natural for them to be attracted to each other, so they came together.
The goal of the two is clear, pass the exam, and then stay in the capital.
Sure enough, as Director Yu Dongdong said, Tang Wei gave it a try very easily.
In the first hurdle alone, 80 percent of the candidates were eliminated, and after the first test, there were only more than 1,000 people left.
But the competition faced by Tang Wei is still severe, because among the remaining 1,000 people, about 800 are girls.
If there are still extremely narcissistic and self-aware girls who come to apply for the examination during the first test, then this group of girls screened out after a trial is simply a large collection of young Chinese beauties of the right age.
After the sharp eyes of the senior teachers of the Beijing Film Academy, the girls who stayed, except for a very few monsters recruited in the direction of special actors, are all beauties.
Stand in a row, and the emperor can be dazzled.
Tang Wei's boyfriend also successfully passed the first test of Chinese opera and Beijing Film Academy.
Before the start of the second test, the relationship between the two also improved by leaps and bounds.
Unlike Tang Wei, who doesn't understand anything, just because he listened to the encouragement of others, he ran dizzy to take the art exam, his boyfriend had already attended many professional training schools before coming to Beijing, and the process of the art exam was simulated many times.
The boyfriend didn't hide it and taught Tang Wei everything he knew.
Both of them knew very well that if they wanted to stay together, they both had to stay in the capital.
But it backfired, and the second test was released, and Tang Wei's name was not on it.
At that time, although Tang Wei was disappointed, his feelings were not very strong.
It's just an attempt, she's still young, and there are still plenty of opportunities ahead.
Originally, after falling off the list, Tang Wei was supposed to go home immediately, but for the sake of her first boyfriend, she chose to stay.
She firmly believes that if she takes the test again, she will definitely be able to do it.
But her boyfriend didn't want to wait for her.
After getting the professional examination certificate of Chinese opera, the boyfriend returned to Shanghai, and the relationship between the two naturally ended without a problem.
Tang Wei returned home in despair, and it took half a year to come out.
Seeing that she really likes acting, her parents also mentioned that she should enroll in a training class, polish her foundation first, and then go to the capital to take the art exam.
But Tang Wei, who has always been stubborn, refused, and her dream should not be paid by her parents.
So, in July this year, Tang Wei returned to the capital, working to make money, while waiting for this year's art exam.
Few people who have taken the art exam and failed the list are willing to experience this kind of blow again.
Every year after the art exam, there are always girls who commit suicide because they can't stand the blow, and it is difficult for people who are not in this circle to understand this phenomenon.
A beautiful girl who has never been denied by others, her inner desire for something has reached the extreme, and she suddenly fails, and then she is told that she is very bad, and her psychological tolerance is poor, and she can collapse in an instant, and it is normal to not be able to think about it.
It is already very rare for Tang Wei to have the courage to do it again.
It's just that her luck is still a little worse, this time, she didn't stubbornly anymore, and made preparations with both hands, but the blow also became double.
The last blow to Tang Wei was not too big, but this time, she had made full preparations, in order to increase her bargaining chips, she did not hesitate to put down her self-esteem and borrow money from Zhang Chu to participate in the training.
I thought it was foolproof, but the result was ......
Maybe I'm really not fit for this path?
The reality made Tang Wei suffer a great blow, and finding a man with a good impression in frustration and offering his most precious things is just a relatively normal way of catharsis.
Tang Wei couldn't help but confide that from birth to the present, he did not hide any details from Zhang Chu, even including her short relationship with her first boyfriend.
"Do you still have the test?"
Tang Wei shook his head slightly: "I don't know, maybe I'm really not suitable for this path, so I should go down according to my parents' arrangement." ”
"In that case, you'll regret it!"
Zhang Chu has no dreams, he didn't have it before, and he doesn't have it now.
In the past, he only thought that he could live one day at a time, climb up if he could, and live a life of licking blood with a knife, but he was always confused.
Now it seems to be about the same.
Is being an actor a dream?
If there is an emperor now, he is still the sixth grade of Jinyiwei, and he may not move that mind at all.
Tang Wei has dreams and has been working tirelessly, which even makes Zhang Chu a little jealous.
That being the case, you shouldn't give up lightly.
"As long as you still want to take the test, I will make money to send you to training, if you don't work once, twice, and if you can't do twice, three times."
As soon as the words came out, Zhang Chu was stunned, he couldn't understand how he could be so impulsive.
Tang Wei was silent for a long time and never spoke.
Just when Zhang Chu couldn't help but want to ask, Tang Wei suddenly said, "I'll think about it again." ”
Neither of them spoke, and after the frantic catharsis, it was accompanied by deep exhaustion, and after a while they fell asleep.
When Zhang Chu woke up, he found that the jade man beside him was gone.
After fumbling for a long time to find the mobile phone, looking at the time, it was just six o'clock in the morning, and was about to get up, Zhang Chu suddenly saw a folded paper on the pillow.
Picked up, a bank card slipped out of it.
There was only one line written on the paper - I'm gone, and next time we meet, I'll be a better version of myself!