bookbashuk Chapter 311 The World She Lives In
Chapter 311 The World She Lives In
"Our daughter is really thoughtful."
Jiang Baige's words touched her mother's heart: she felt relieved after confirming that her daughter still wanted to get married.
Although she didn't know why she was worried before, and why she was relieved now.
However, in Bai Yunqing's world, marriage does have many benefits and no disadvantages.
Because marriage brought her a daughter that made her proud.
She also controls the family's finances, and has both her and her husband's salary cards in her hands, so when she thought her daughter wanted to stay at home and write full-time, she could decisively offer financial support.
And the husband she chose is a good partner in the Lord.
These "benefits" can make her ignore: her proud daughter, who does not have the same surname as her - but she feels better when she calls her "White Dove"; and the time she spends on her marriage and husband - but anyway, she has no "pursuit" in her life, so she doesn't feel uncomfortable with the 50-50 split between work and family.
Jiang Baige understood everything, and she never thought of changing anything about her mother.
She just needs her mother to stand by her side and support her dreams.
Even if it requires a brief moment of deception...but what does it matter?
Isn’t it because she has proven that she can do it that she can get her mother’s support in her writing now?
This is the world she lives in.
The boy's behavior can be rationalized in advance without him having to achieve anything. At the very least, people will just say that he is still a child in his thirties or forties and has not grown up yet, and everything will be fine once he grows up - even if that growth is a long way off and he will have to be buried in the ground.
But girls have to be very outstanding before a small number of people will acknowledge that they deserve their choices and lives.
Until she is unable to change it, she can only follow the rules.
And this operating rule is also fully applicable in her family.
Therefore, if you want to choose writing as a career without severing ties with your parents, you must first prove to them that you can make a living from writing.
Similarly, if you want to buy a house, you have to give them a reason they can accept: not for your own life, but to increase her added value in the marriage market so that she can better marry into another family.
She felt that all this was so ridiculous, but she still had to obey.
But she had some expectations in her heart.
What kind of expression would her parents have when they found out that she had no interest in getting married and only had endless ideas about writing and exploring life...but by then she would have been completely financially independent and had her own residence and career?
Should you realize you’ve been cheated, or should you say… “Daughter, I’m so proud of you”?
She didn't know, but she thought it would be the latter.
After all, no one wants to cry over spilled milk. But a "promising daughter" is a real thing.
But now, we are far from that point.
Jiang Baige agreed with her mother and said, "Yes... Some of my classmates who went on blind dates told me that boys nowadays are very snobbish. Especially in a big city like Anjing, who doesn't want to marry into a rich family? Few people are willing to work hard anymore. Most of them hope to find a rich woman and work 20 years less..."
Her words really resonated with Bai Yunqing and Jiang Huatao.
The two of them also echoed, saying that young people nowadays are like this. Boys are spoiled by their families and cannot endure any hardship.
Then she talked about the stories of people around her. The smart ones found good husbands and lived a happy life. The stupid ones, who were married to poor husbands, not only did not have a peaceful family, but also had a messy relationship with their parents...
Jiang Baige was listening nearby and felt a little annoyed.
She thought that she really needed to have a house of her own where she could be herself.
However, it is a good thing that we have reached a temporary consensus now - we can have a peaceful and stable new year.
In order to support her plan to buy a house, she flew directly to a film crew two days after the Chinese New Year.
Make some quick money.
The shooting location this time is in another film and television city, which is closer to Anjing.
The filming will take more than a month and is expected to be completed in early March.
In the second semester of her third year of graduate school, Jiang Baige only planned to take her supervisor's discussion class, so she reported it in advance.
Professor Gui Hongyan supported her in gaining experience everywhere, but still reminded her not to forget to revise her graduation thesis according to previous feedback, as she would have to prepare for the defense in April.
It is important to pursue a career, but you must also not neglect your studies.
This time the crew filmed a short drama - I can only say that Yang Ziyu's vision is indeed extraordinary. When everyone else was still figuring out how to make online dramas, she had already started working on short dramas.
However, the format of this short play is different from the vertical screen short plays that became popular later.
Although its shortness is also reflected in the length, that is compared with traditional dramas, so each episode is still more than ten minutes.
The number of episodes is also much shorter than that of vertical screen short dramas, about a dozen episodes.
However, if you count the length of each episode and the number of episodes together, it is almost the same as a vertical screen short drama, except that the pace is not as fast, the plot is not as exaggerated, and the conflict is not as intense.
So it is already considered a relatively "pioneering" attempt.
Jiang Baige joined the crew under the pretext that she was not involved in the film and television industry, so she stayed with the producer. She worked as a production assistant, and occasionally helped write some script pages or take some behind-the-scenes photos...
Anyway, I just do a little bit of everything and have to come into contact with all kinds of people.
It was tiring, but the benefits were also obvious: it helped Jiang Baige get through the final stage of writing articles about the entertainment industry...
This article had been serialized for almost a year, and before it was finished, Jiang Baige received good news from the editor: it seemed that a film and television company was interested in this article.
Jiang Baige was a little excited: Is it finally her turn to have the good fortune of selling the article before it is finished?
Because of this possibility, she hoped that the ending would be beautiful.
The so-called beauty is that although everyone knows the ending of the story, the heroine overcomes the siege of countless men and reaches the height of the director.
But if it were just this, it would be a bit thin.
Because Jiang Baige did not write about the heroine's life. When the story ended, she was less than 50 years old and should not be able to win the Lifetime Achievement Award.
She also thought about writing about the heroine's life, which would increase the number of words.
But she immediately rejected it: she didn't want to end the heroine's life with her own story. She hoped that after her story ended, the heroine would still live freely in her world.
When she was on the crew, in addition to working and revising her graduation thesis, she focused all her attention on finishing the novel.
She can see the shadow of her heroine in everyone in the crew...
Almost crazy.
Until one morning, she was too excited because she had stayed up all night with the team and drank a lot of coffee.
When she could rest, she was no longer sleepy at all.
She simply walked to the river.
In the cold morning mist, she saw a girl with a ponytail and a down jacket, curled up into a ball and shivering...