The Director's Road of Airflow

The wind in Beijing's winter night is howling, shaking the few remaining yellow leaves on the sycamore trees on the street.Zhang Tianyi braved the cold wind and headed forward. Of course, she could choose to drive home. If she drove the car out of the basement 15 minutes ago and did not hand it over to the assistant, she would be home by now, but she Now walking in the cold wind, it will take at least another 20 minutes before I can go home.

She needs to be conscious.

She always felt that she was being pushed and pushed forward by many things recently, stumbled, and was very embarrassed, unable to see the surrounding environment and herself clearly.

She needs cold wind now, just like when she needed to sit on the back seat of her mother's battery car to blow the wind every night after class in high school, she needs cold things to wake up her numb senses and let her walk away from the beautiful illusion Come out, look in the mirror and see who you are.

She doesn't like cats.

This dislike doesn't mean disgust, it's just that she can't empathize with any animal that is treated as a pet, and she respects their living territory, and that's it.She was indifferent to all kinds of funny cat videos. She didn't think petting a cat would bring her any pleasure.

But she decided to save the poor little girl in front of her.

It was a lame cat, which was struggling to get into the grass beside the road. When Zhang Tianyi saw the cat in front of him, what flashed in Zhang Tianyi's mind was that she came out of the library at ten o'clock before the final exam in her freshman year. , Walking to the dormitory, I saw a cat with a broken leg running fast and hiding in the fallen leaves.She thought to herself at the time: This cat has adjusted well to her disability and is still alive and brave, in the cold of winter.And she seems to be much cowardly, all she thinks now is "What if I fail my high school course?", "Then I will die", this is the answer in the heart of 18-year-old Zhang Tianyi.

The sensitive and slender nerves tortured by the pressure of the final exam made her feel more melancholy than usual. She really wanted to take this cat home. The coldest winter in Shanghai has not yet arrived. During the Spring Festival, where should the cat settle down?At that time, her high math results should also come out.

But before she could make a decision, the cat had disappeared.And she hesitated because she didn't have the right to make a decision. She couldn't decide whether their family had a cat or not. Her mother had the final say on this matter.

It’s different now, she’s working and financially independent, and in winter in Beijing at the end of 2021, she can save the cat in front of her, so she picks it up and prepares to take it home.

It was this scene that was photographed by the paparazzi, and it was posted immediately and became a hot search.

When Zhang Tianyi came home with the cat in her arms, she didn't know that she was on the trending searches, she just walked forward.

After debuting for two years, she doesn't know if she is used to facing public evaluation.Sometimes, she felt that she didn't care about those bad reviews anymore, but when she woke up from the nightmare in the middle of the night, she knew that she didn't really digest the bad reviews.

She also thought about whether debuting was the right choice.

So far, every time she gave herself the answer: This was indeed the best choice I could make at that time, and I don't regret it.

Deciding to join a talent show is a split second.

In October 2019, Zhang Tianyi was walking on the campus of Shanghai Jiaotong University. She spent more than three years getting familiar with the campus at the edge of Minhang. Now she is struggling to find the next foothold, planning how to get to the next one higher platform.

When the results of the college entrance examination came out, Zhang Tianyi was not satisfied, it could even be said that he was extremely disappointed.From the moment she saw the score, she threw herself into her mother's arms and began to cry loudly. It had been too long since she had cried so heartily.She didn't fall asleep that night, repeatedly calculating which school she might go to according to her city ranking.

She finally got into Jiaotong University through early approval, majoring in pharmacy in the biochemical material platform.This is already a blessing in misfortune. That year, the scores of the natural science experimental class approved in advance were 15 points lower than those of the ordinary batch.

So even though the college entrance examination score was about 30 points away from her expected score, she finally went to a school that was within the acceptable range.

Whether you plan to work in a research institute or go to a pharmaceutical company, the pharmacy major basically requires a master's degree or above.Zhang Tianyi spent two years trying to make herself fall in love with pharmacy. I have to say that in the basic courses of her freshman and sophomore majors, she also had a few moments of joy because of the success of chemical experiments and physical and chemical experiments. The professor shared her own experience, and she was very motivated when she participated in outstanding alumni lectures. There were also a few times when she thought about applying directly for a PhD in pharmacy, embarking on the road of scientific research, with the goal of becoming a star.

But she had to be honest with herself. When she was writing lab reports and term papers at night, she clearly realized that she was mass-producing academic garbage. It was just that she kept the bottom line of academic integrity, but academic integrity is only the most basic. For a paper, you have to clarify some points of view, overthrow some past theories, or propose a preliminary verified theoretical model. If it is just a word game, what is the point of writing a paper?Is this what she wants?

Zhang Tianyi's family is not well off financially. Her mother is a kindergarten teacher and her father is an engineer in a design institute. In addition to the one-room house for the family of three, there is also a 100-square-meter house in the suburbs that was demolished by her grandfather's house.Although their family was not poor, it was not easy for Zhang Tianyi to go abroad.Originally, Zhang Tianyi would be fine if he applied for the Doctor of Pharmacy program. Usually, he would be able to apply for a scholarship, and the family burden would not be too heavy, but she proposed to apply across majors in the first semester of her junior year.After thinking about it, she felt that it would be too suffocating for her to be working in pharmacy for the next 40 years. She didn't like the major she was studying at all. The top 10% of her grade point was based entirely on her grades. I have become used to caring naturally.

She plans to apply for a two-to-three-year American business program across majors, and business programs not only have high tuition fees, but it is generally difficult to apply for a full scholarship, which is undoubtedly a money-burning program.It's not that their family is completely unable to send her abroad. Her parents told her that they still have about 50 yuan in deposits at home. They can sell the three-bedroom house in the suburbs and set aside 100 million yuan for her to study abroad. The extra money Add the savings, and then buy a husband's house in the city center and rent it out.

Her parents have worked hard to provide her with the best living conditions and educational resources since she was born. Whether it is a bilingual kindergarten, a private elementary school or a private junior high school, it is not necessary. There is an objective economic pressure, but her parents never complained or emphasized anything in front of her, they just silently supported her with all their strength.

After the results of the college entrance examination came out, seeing that the results were not satisfactory, her parents comforted her immediately, and never asked her why she failed the exam.

Later, when the relatives got together, her cousin said deliberately: "Oh, Xiaotian didn't pass the most important exam this time. We all thought that she would be safe to enter Tsinghua University. That day my colleagues in my unit asked me... ...."

Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Zhang Tianyi's mother: "Students who are at the level of Qingbei's resumed diplomatic relations will enter Qingbei if they perform normally, and if they make a mistake, they will be admitted to Qingbei. Students who get this score have prepared themselves psychologically in advance. For students who have no self-enrollment bonus points, who dares to say that they have entered Tsinghua University before the college entrance examination? Those who have this kind of misunderstanding are because they are too far away from this score. , who don’t understand the situation.”

All of a sudden, he blocked the words from the mouth of his son's cousin who only accepted a second-year college entrance examination from another place.

Zhang Tianyi usually browses Weibo and Douban after school. Sometimes she thinks: When you are standing on the cusp, you must seize the opportunity to take off.

So what if the current trend is the traffic economy?Internet celebrities can make money through promotion, Taobao can make money by selling goods live, and becoming an idol debut can make money. The return brought by the traffic is far higher than her hard work in a research institute or investment bank for a year.

With this thought in mind, she began to consider whether to sign up for a talent show that was recruiting people.When she officially signed up, she didn't think that she could really make her debut. She just thought that she had already completed her credits and had no classes in the next semester of her senior year. Instead of going for an internship, she might as well give it a try, take a risk, and count it for her college life Leave a strong stroke.Who would have thought that as a personal trainee, she would debut as a good student in the traditional sense who has not experienced any singing or dancing practice in advance, and has been dealing with numbers and words for the first 20 years?