Chapter 271 Faith!
The documentary "Graduation Years" tells the stories of people living in Yanjing.
4:30 in the morning.
Sanitation workers, young people who fell asleep while eating in restaurants after working overtime...
Exhausted but hurried figures...
Day after day, year after year, chasing the prosperity of this big city, eager to become a part of the prosperity.
In the documentary "Graduation Years", you can always find a shadow of yourself.
Heavy and depressing.
But you feel a sense of resonance from the bottom of your heart.
The fire of the song "In the Rain" is a kind of catharsis!
Heavy depression, lonely wandering, the gradual disappearance of dreams, gradually becoming unreal, even ridiculous...
Then!
Roar!
Roaring in despair, hoarse, heart-wrenching singing!
Let people immerse themselves in this melody and vent all negative emotions with singing.
And...
"Zhang Sheng's Day"!
It is a ray of light after the catharsis!
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“I told myself that I want to live. No matter what the environment is, I must live, and I must live a wonderful life!”
“I told myself that I am just a blade of grass. I grow on the side of the road. No one cares about me, and no one cares about me. Anyone can trample on me…”
“Of course I have failed. After failing, I certainly doubted myself…”
“…”
In the notebook.
The documentary “A Day in Zhang Sheng’s Life” is playing.
Liu Yingying watched it, over and over again.
From the early morning, she saw the rising sun.
Next to the video, the email [Comic Rejection] is still flashing.
This is the number of times Liu Yingying has been rejected.
In the Q dog group with “Struggle” written next to it.
The avatars of netizens who once aspired to surpass Japanese comics and make Chinese animations were extinguished one by one.
Since high school…
Liu Yingying has been obsessed with comics!
But…
Liu Kaili is not an open-minded person, or rather, he is like a dictator!
On the eve of the college entrance examination...
She had always listened to her father since she was a child and finally mustered up the courage to say that she wanted to apply for a university majoring in comics.
But...
Her father frowned and told her that the comics major had no future and it was better to study marketing and management.
She looked up a lot of information and kept explaining that her comics major was not so hopeless.
She said that Chinese animation was getting worse and worse, and that some people were needed to make some good-looking animations. She said that the Japanese comics industry and the surrounding animations were so prosperous, and China would not be too bad...
She even said that we grew up watching Japanese and American animations, and then, unknowingly, many people were influenced by the culture of other countries...
In her memory, that was the first struggle.
But in her memory, that was also the most painful failure of the struggle.
Before she finished speaking, her father Liu Kaili scolded her severely and forced her to change her major.
Even, she tore up her drawings and carefully prepared story outlines...
She finally went to a university she didn't like, studied a major she didn't like, and after graduation, she naturally worked in her own [Senran Integrated Stove].
During college, she also insisted on drawing, and worked hard to submit works again and again. She also joined comic groups one by one, while learning about the dynamics of domestic comics, and hugging each other for warmth.
One group after another, gradually died.
Some group members who once said that they wanted to be cartoonists and wanted to make animations finally couldn't stand the "novice" stage where no one cared.
Uploaded their own comics on the website again and again, but there were no clicks, no attention, and no one signed.
Finally, gradually changed their careers.
Many stages in this world are like the waves washing away the sand, brushing, brushing...
Three years...
In her free time, Liu Yingying has been insisting on drawing, submitting works, and studying...
Everyone knows persistence!
But how many people can endure the despair of persistence, the pain of doing useless work day after day, or the constant self-doubt?
Liu Yingying has tasted the bitterness of failure more than once.
Several years of persistence are completely in vain. In fact, it should be time to give up.
That can explain a lot of things, that is, no talent, no qualifications, and no efforts...
Later, in her senior year, she did give up for a while, and like those group members, she never went online again!
Later...
[Senran Integrated Stove] There was a Zhang Sheng and a Li Bin.
Then, she followed Zhang Sheng to run business...
As she got deeper, she saw Zhang Sheng's embarrassment, and also saw how much sweat was behind Zhang Sheng's smiling face.
But he is alive!
Live desperately!
Even though he was carrying a debt of two million, he was still alive and holding on...
His success shocked Liu Yingying!
Like a comet, it suddenly broke through the night sky!
Later...
Li Bin also left!
Li Bin and Zhang Sheng jointly supported the once heavily loaded [Hongyuan Decoration], now [NC Decoration]...
At this moment, that decoration company not only has more and more customers in Tianjin and is becoming more and more famous, but has also received orders in France in addition to cinemas!
She saw their success, witnessed it, and participated in it.
She was serving domestic clients of [NC Decoration]!
Overseas, she helped Zhang Sheng draw various posters, design logos, and plan activities...
Then, they were praised and unanimously recognized!
She had failed for too long!
Finally, she tasted the joy of success. She kept telling herself that she was not bad at drawing. Maybe she was in the wrong direction, but she was definitely not bad at drawing...
She boarded Q Dog again and picked up the dream she had persisted for four years. She was busy with [NC Decoration] business during the day and drew comics at night...
The reality is still cruel!
Rejection, rejection, rejection again and again!
Her confidence was hit again, and she was desperate again...
On the morning of March 10.
She finished watching the documentary "Zhang Sheng's Day" for the last time.
In the documentary...
There is power!
Zhang Sheng said that he was a grass!
He succeeded!
Climbed out of the abyss!
And she!
She is also a grass.
Anyone can trample on it, but she will survive!
She was in much better condition than Zhang Sheng. She didn't start with a lot of debts, nor did she come to Yanjing alone, feeling helpless as she drifted alone!
She should be better!
She looked at the rejection, and the trace of despair was suppressed again!
If it was rejected this time, she would sum up her experience and try again next time. If it was rejected next time, she would sum up her experience and submit again...
One day!
She would succeed!
She opened Qdog and privately sent the documentary "Zhang Sheng's Day" to every group member who had given up...
After sending it...
She went downstairs!
She saw a group of customers standing at the door...
Some were asking for advice, some were complaining, and some were paying.
She saw that the door of [NC Decoration] was open, and her mother, Chen Aiju, was already greeting customers.
Hongyuan Decoration, which had closed down and was scolded on the news, was now full of vitality and famous in this area!
She smiled and walked over, while following her mother to greet customers, she was thinking about her new comic in her mind!
This day...
She spent it in busyness and conception.
She was busy until half past ten.
After arranging the decoration work and sorting out the contract, she sat in front of the computer again.
She opened Qgou.
In Qgou!
Suddenly, many responses appeared.
"Ah, I didn't expect you to still insist..."
"Actually, I have been online all the time, but I don't have the face to speak in the group. I really can't draw anymore..."
"I have seen "Zhang Sheng's Story" on the Internet. It is really touching. Really, I can't say it. Just now, CCTV's "Struggle" also broadcast Zhang Sheng's story..."
"I thought about it and decided to stick to it!"
"..."
In the once silent Qgou group, some people actually came alive.
Although there are still not many people, there are many people discussing, and everyone is "unwilling" to fail.
It seems...
Infected by Zhang Sheng's entrepreneurial path!
Their deep desire and pursuit of dreams gradually surged again.
Liu Yingying looked at them.
After a busy day today, she is still very energetic and extremely excited!
"I want to create a story, I want to try again!"
Liu Yingying said this.
After that, she continued to watch the documentary "A Day in the Life of Zhang Sheng".
The documentary has been viewed over 200,000 times!
[Paramecium] and [Nangong Nan], two Weibo bloggers who are almost mortal enemies, are actually unanimously praising "A Day in the Life of Zhang Sheng" at this moment.
"After watching the documentary, I looked up Zhang Sheng's story online. I began to realize that the limit I had always thought of was actually a joke! I want to pick up my basketball dream again..." From the netizen "Spicy Apple"
"Ten years ago, I broke my leg, and then my lower limbs were paralyzed. Ten years later, I want to stand up..." From the netizen "Buffer"
"After watching this documentary, I couldn't calm down for a long time. I felt that Zhang Sheng's eyes had a touching power, especially his yearning for happiness in the film, his tenacious resistance and persistence to the downtrodden life. This is exactly what I lack. I need a force..." From the netizen "Zhu Mengting"
"I almost watched this documentary with tears in my eyes. The protagonist Zhang Sheng in the documentary insisted on facing the hardships of life, and others told about Zhang Sheng's entrepreneurial experience during that time. People couldn't help but burst into tears. What kind of faith did he live with!" From the netizen "Dark Knight"
"..."
The comments below them are full of various self-narrations from netizens and the energy they have absorbed!
This world.
Maybe it needs faith.
Faith can make you stand up again and again in the darkness after being defeated again and again.
Then, overcome despair, overcome all self-doubts, and persevere step by step towards the future.
Documentary "Zhang Sheng's Day"!
"Zhang Sheng's Story" on the Internet!
The first episode of "Struggle" just broadcasted by CCTV, Zhang Sheng's brief introduction...
This is a kind of belief!
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This day!
Zhang Sheng did not read the comments on the Internet.
Instead...
He stayed in the recording studio.
Zhang Sheng sat on the chair, listening to Ah K singing over and over again.
His face was stunned.
He thought of a melody.
That melody...
It was called "Chasing Dreams with a Childlike Heart"!