sanguine and depressive

On December 12, the second day of the holiday, I worked overtime.

When I arrived at the company, the large office area outside was empty, only Ba Tian squatted quietly on the stairs leading to the roof, and saw me "meow".Walking to the later office, Xiao Jiang turned on the computer in a separate room, obviously just arrived.He asked, "When will the director arrive?"

I replied: "Xiaolu said within half an hour." However, based on actual cooperation experience, none of them were on time.

The two of us were studying the new coffee machine in the tea bar, and we made a cup of hot latte. Lucy just came in with a bag on his back and said, "The one named Lu hasn't come yet? He hasn't woken up yet, has he?"

I clutched my cup and replied, "I got back the message, it should be on the way."

The director didn’t come, so Jiang Lin could only roughly cut out the original storyboard. I forwarded the bgm selected by the client and the newly added requirements for duration, resolution and file size of different delivery platforms to the four people’s working group. group.

While looking at her phone, Lucy suddenly asked me: "Is it tiring to move?"

"Huh?" I replied, "It's okay, it didn't make much trouble, and it went smoothly."

She said "Oh" and said after a while: "I feel like you look haggard recently, as if you haven't had a good rest. Is it because Jiffy is asking too much?"

I was stunned, and smiled at her: "There are too many things at the end of the year, and I can adjust them after a while."

"My dad and the others really want to win this client." Lucy stretched her waist, "Oh, but if there are really a lot of things to do, it will definitely be painful to cooperate in the future. The long-term pain is better than the short-term pain."

"Actually, it's okay." I said, "People are pretty good at communicating, and the requirements are quite clear. After all, this is the first cooperation, and there is this process."

Xiaolu was on time this time, so he came over with two bags of desserts in his hand: "Here, come, today is on time!"

"Why do you feel your nose buzzing when you speak?" Lucy looked up at him, "Have a cold?"

"A little bit, it's almost ready." Xiaolu replied, "Eat cake, eat cake."

I sat on the small sofa in the back, put the notebook on my lap, and started to deal with other things. Sure enough, Mr. Kotou Ma came to the news again.Hearing Xiaolu say that the third bgm is the best, Lucy immediately wailed: "I have to pay for membership first, it's so annoying!"

Xiaolu was also very wronged: "Then listen to the others, they are all the same as Papa!"

I looked down at the message on the screen and moved my fingers:

Jie Fei-Mr. Ma: "We still hope to use Xiao Shunzhi as the director. It is best to communicate with him in these two days."

Lino: "[OK] Let me start a group, is it convenient to have an online meeting tomorrow?"

Jiffy-Mr. Ma: "Thank you for your hard work."

I said to Lucy, "Good news, the director of Jie Fei has been confirmed, and Xiao Shunzhi will be used."

She was not surprised: "They don't need a few big directors, so it must be too expensive. The price of the surname Xu has doubled compared to last year. Xiao Shunzhi has just started filming cars, but he doesn't lack much experience in directing. Pick him."

"Well, bad news, there is a meeting tomorrow." I said, "Just use the team, I'll organize it, and don't come to the company."

Lucy complied and took a piece of cake out of the paper bag to eat. The two people sitting in front of the computer were having a friendly exchange.Xiaolu took a sip of the e-cigarette: "Look at the other shots that are not zoomed in."

Jiang Lin operated a few times and said, "It's only 30 seconds in total, and it feels like it's too late."

"No." Director Lu took a deep breath, "Every director who shoots commercials has a heart of being Wong Kar Wai." He said loudly, "We must put the lens of that fish tank in!"

An hour later, they sent me the first version of the finished cut, and I forwarded it to the client.

While waiting for the feedback, Xiao Lu ran to the sofa, sat back on the chair and asked, "Are you going to drink at night? Today is New Year's Eve."

Before I could speak, he said first, "Hey, you said 'next time will be' last time!"

Me: "Go, go." Occasionally a little alcohol is needed.

"I'm not going." Lucy said, "Someone will accompany me for New Year's Eve."

"Ah?" Xiaolu took another puff of cigarette, "Are you talking about someone? Fan Jiale?" Fan Jiale is a photographer who once pursued Lucy, who looks like a horse.

Jiang Lin also turned his chair around to participate in the quiz: "I guess with friends."

Then me too: "Jack."

"NONONO," Lucy waved her hand slowly, "I got back together with my ex, we just got back together for a few days, and today we go to New Year's Eve together."

"Ah, ah, ah." Xiaolu booed, "The broken mirror is reunited——"

"I haven't had much contact for two years. I feel smarter than before and not so stupid. Hey, what does your pod smell like? It smells sweet." Lucy grabbed the e-cigarette in Xiaolu's hand and looked at it. Xiaolu replied yes Mung bean smoothie, the topic changed elsewhere, and I laughed too.Then the customer sent feedback, saying: "It feels a bit too tight, and I can't see the story I wanted to express." So the smiles disappeared from everyone's faces, and they returned to their original positions to continue working.

At around 30:[-] p.m., the editing of the first story was completed. Since the time to put it on the platform was only [-] seconds, no matter how the editing was done, it was a bit tight. In the end, Xiaolu personally edited an extra five-minute director’s version for the client.

"Get off work, let's go, I'll drive everyone—" Lucy left first, Jiang Lin also had a girlfriend to pick me up, and then Xiaolu drove me to the bar, "I found a new bar with a good atmosphere."

While driving, he called someone on the phone: "Fan Jiale, you must be fine, come out for a drink..." After making three or four calls in a row, he suddenly said, "Damn wrong." But just when the red light turned green, he I had to start first, and the phone had already been connected.

I glanced at the mobile phone clamped on the bracket, and the displayed name was "Yu Lin".

"Hello, Teacher Lu." The voice on the other side was very young, respectful and obedient, "Good evening."

"Good evening." Xiaolu replied, "I'm sorry, I made a wrong number, and I want to ask someone to come out for a drink..."

"Want to drink? I can do it too." The other person immediately said, "Where is it? I'll be right there."

"You...?" Xiaolu sneered mercilessly, "Are you an adult? Do you drink alcohol?"

"College student, I'm twenty." Said the other person, "I've never been to a bar, so it's good to see the world."

"Oh, then you can come." Xiaolu responded casually and gave him the name of the bar. Yu Lin said, "I'll see you, teacher." He hung up the phone.

"Teacher Lu." I teased him.

"Hey, this is the little model who filmed COMMO, the contact information added after the filming that day." Xiaolu scratched his hair and smiled speechlessly, "He doesn't think that being a director is awesome, right? There are no resources available to him."

I replied: "Maybe he just appreciates your talent."

When we arrived, Fan Jiale and Chen Yu had already sat down, and Lao Bai and Yu Lin were left behind.Because it was New Year's Eve, the bar was very lively, and this spot was almost full.

Chen Yu pushed the menu over: "Dian Dian Dian, who else? Bai Dongmian must be here."

"Well, besides him, there is another young man, come and play with us." Xiaolu took it skillfully, "What would Lino drink? You order first."

Yu Lin arrived before Lao Bai, wearing a long down jacket and a scarf.I didn't pay much attention to his appearance during the last filming. I just remembered that he was very tall. Looking closely today, he really looks like a star. As soon as he sat down, someone came to the booth next door asking for his contact information.

Yu Lin politely refused, and then greeted everyone, his temperament was a bit out of tune, the rest of the people were old-fashioned, he was like a three-good student who broke into a bar by mistake.

"You..." Xiaolu looked at him hesitantly, "little comrade, why don't you stop drinking, drink something with low alcohol content or drink..." Yu Lin said yes immediately.

When the wine was served, the background sound was the low-pitched voice of the resident singer, and everyone said their own things. Chen Yu said that his son, who had just entered elementary school, had to do his homework until ten o'clock every night. "My wife and I can only use our left hands to help him write together!" After a while, Lao Bai arrived, sat down and said that his fund fell by [-] yuan a day yesterday, and Fan Jiale kept shouting: "Bad luck, bad luck." Tell him to hurry up Shut up.

"Oh, new year and new atmosphere—" Lao Bai said, "I hope the coming year will be prosperous."

After drinking for three rounds, Xiaolu sat next to me, took a couple of sips and asked, "New year...do you have nothing to look forward to?"

"Zhan Wang?" I thought for a while, "I hope my family is healthy."

"Ha, that's it? Don't want a relationship?" He laughed, and came to hook my neck, "I never asked you, but I can feel it. Are you gay too?"

I didn't answer, it was the default.

He said: "Since I met you two years ago, you have been single. Your vacant period is too long, right? Or have you never talked?"

"Talked." I glanced at him, "It's just a breakup."

"Huh?... Hiccup." Xiaolu is also the type with a very poor capacity for drinking, "Can't you forget after the break?"

"I've always wanted to forget it, but I don't know why." I rubbed the outer wall of the glass and smiled awkwardly at him, "Recently, something has reminded me of him."

"Then find him to get back together." He took it for granted, "Same as that one, Lucy."

"Too long," I said.

"Too long?" Xiaolu was a little tongue-tied, "A year or two will be fine."

After he said this, he suddenly moved away from me a lot, as if Yu Lin called him.Xiaolu said a few words to him before turning back.

"Eight years." I looked into his eyes and replied, "It's not one or two years, it's eight years."

"Damn... so long..." Xiaolu was suddenly taken aback, and seemed to be a little sober from the wine, "...it's strange, no wonder, I always feel that you can't see through it." He tilted his head and pointed with his finger Me, "What's that word called... alienation. Oh, of course, I'm not saying you're cold, you're nice, and it's comfortable to get along with you."

He pondered: "It just feels like I don't have much chance. Is that so?"

After understanding what he meant, I raised my wine glass and touched his: "Guide Lu, you can find better ones."

Amid the din, the phone in the coat pocket vibrated.I took it out to see that it was Mr. Ma who sent me a message to discuss the offer that was just sent to him today.I have changed the quotation four times.

The computer bag was just under my feet, I sighed and took out the laptop and opened it, looking for the quotation file, the rest of the people shook their heads when they saw it: "Nimma, you are still working after this point, who is exploiting you Lino— —” But their attention was soon diverted, a boy who was similar to the host stood on the stage and introduced the activities launched by the bar today to celebrate the New Year’s Eve.

"What do you like?" Taking advantage of this moment, Xiaolu asked in my ear, "It makes you never forget it."

I couldn't sum it up, so I simply shook the chat interface with President Ma on my phone towards him, and joked, "It's not like that anyway."

While revising the fifth quotation, I listened to the content of the New Year's Eve event: in a booth, as long as two people kiss mouth to mouth within ten seconds of the countdown to the New Year's Eve, the consumption of the entire booth today will be [-]%. [-]% off.

Looking around, it is basically friends mixed with couples. There are men and women at a table. It is rare that we are all men.

The people at the table looked at each other again.

Chen Yuxian said, "It's fine if it's [-]% off. But it's [-]% off..."

"It's close to half." Fan Jiale said, "That's really fragrant."

"I see that money has been opened." Lao Bai said, "The economy is in distress recently, and it is a little bit to save a little..."

I lowered my head and pretended not to hear, and quickly revised the fifth quotation and sent it to Mr. Ma, hoping that he would not bother me again today.Mr. Ma also responded quickly: "Got it, thank you, I wish you a happy New Year." I said in my heart that I would be happier without your news, but he also worked overtime to this point, so he can only talk about each other.

At this time, the host on the stage began to count down: "Thirty, 29..." The waiters scattered and stood in the middle of several tables to be witnesses, and the rest of the spectators happily counted down together: "Twenty... …nineteen……"

As the last ten seconds approached, I shrank back to the corner of my seat, preparing to witness Lao Bai and one of them passionately kissing for ten seconds.

To my surprise, when I counted to ten, it was Yu Lin who picked up Xiaolu, then held his face and kissed him gently.

Crowd: ………………

Me: "...nine"

Chen Yu: "Eight..."

Fan Jiale: "Seven..."

Lao Bai: "666..."

Counting down to one, the whole bar raised their glasses together and shouted: "Happy New Year——"

Amid the din of voices, I bit my lower lip and whispered: "Happy birthday." But the words were quickly drowned in the cheers.

The author says:

The cp I'm talking about is Yu Lin x Lu Pei Yi, but it's Xiao's No.1 perspective, so there won't be any words. It's probably green tea pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. .I haven't decided whether to write a new article or not.

Let's meet in the next chapter