RBCT Chapter 414 If Only I Had Learned Less About Love Back Then
Chapter 414 If Only I Had Learned Less About Love Back Then
at the same time.
The studio, which should be a calm, professional, and even somewhat "God's-eye view" control room.
At this moment, however, they fell into an even more eerie silence than the audience seats outside.
Wang Dazhong stared intently at the girl in the yellow dress on the monitor, her eyes filled with a melancholy like autumn water. He felt that he had never been so sad and heartbroken in his life.
The bittersweet singing, carried by the current through his earpiece, felt like slender silver needles, precisely piercing his nerves.
"Bai Zhi is such a talented child..."
Wang Dazhong murmured something, his voice hoarse.
Looking at Jiang Baizhi's slightly lowered profile in the picture.
That kind of regret, that unspoken bitterness, it's as if the word "regret" has been given a vivid, living soul.
His eyes welled up with tears without him even realizing it!
With trembling hands, Wang Dazhong fumbled around for a long time before finally managing to pry a Honghe cigarette out of the crumpled cigarette box.
He shakily pulled out his lighter, and with a few clicks, the flame flickered in the dimly lit control room, but he couldn't get it to light.
In the end, it was the assistant director next to him, who was also wiping his nose, who couldn't stand it anymore and grabbed the lighter to help him keep the flame burning.
"call--"
Wang Dazhong took a deep drag, letting the pungent smell of tobacco fill his lungs.
It was as if only this stinging sensation could suppress the urge to dial a certain number, which arose from listening to music.
"Director, you...you were also captivated by this song?"
The assistant director next to him asked in a muffled voice.
He was clutching a tissue he had used to wipe his nose, his eyes filled with a sense of shared suffering.
"Hey, who hasn't been seventeen at some point?"
"Everyone has their own story, right?"
"You smoke so heavily, your regrets from back then must be a poignant and unforgettable story, right?"
The surrounding staff members also cast sympathetic glances at them.
In their eyes, Director Wang at this moment was like a lonely old man who had been ravaged by life a thousand times and could only find solace in Jiang Baizhi's songs.
Wang Dazhong remained silent for a long time.
Through the thick smoke, it felt as if I had truly traveled through a time tunnel.
I'm back to that summer when I wore blue and white school uniforms and the air was filled with the smell of cheap laundry detergent.
"yes."
Wang Dazhong slowly exhaled a smoke ring, his eyes glazed over.
"Back in the day, I was quite stubborn."
"For the sake of that pitiful amount of pride, for the sake of an apology that neither of us was willing to say first, we had a huge fight with that girl."
"Back then, I always felt that the world was vast, and I could live without anyone, stubborn as a mule..."
"Why......."
A chorus of sighs echoed in the control room.
"And then what happened?"
A young stagehand asked expectantly.
"Is that girl the biggest regret of your life?"
"Did he... really disappear into the crowd?"
Wang Dazhong shook his head, a strange, even slightly boastful, wry smile suddenly appearing on his lips:
"Disappear my ass."
"She's probably doing square dancing downstairs in my building right now."
The entire audience was left bewildered.
The melancholy atmosphere was instantly shattered by Wang Dazhong's blunt truth.
The assistant director froze, dropping the tissue in his hand to the ground.
"Director...Director, you mean, your first love, the one you argued with and who made you so stubborn, has become your wife?"
"hold head high."
Wang Dazhong took another drag of his cigarette, seemingly justified.
"I regretted it the day after we had that argument."
"So I spent all my allowance for a month on a piece of chocolate and went to wait for her downstairs in the dormitory."
"Back then, chocolate was a super popular imported snack."
"Then, when she saw that I had brought chocolate, she ran down from her dorm without saying a word."
"She ate the chocolate I bought, and we made up."
"Look, we've been married for twenty years, and our son is old enough to go to Lanxiang Vocational School."
"Then why are you sighing?"
The assistant director almost couldn't hold back and threw the walkie-talkie next to him at the director's face.
"Director, this is called a perfect life, a match made in heaven!"
"What are you doing, pretending to be a sentimental big shot while reciting Jiang Baizhi's 'Later'?"
Are you mocking us, these unloved, balding middle-aged men?!
"That's outrageous, Director!"
"Exactly! Can't you please have some understanding of us!"
Just as everyone was about to be filled with righteous indignation.
"You guys don't know anything!"
Wang Dazhong suddenly showed a look of regret and slapped his thigh hard.
His heartbroken expression was even more desolate than when Jiang Baizhi sang the chorus earlier.
"Is that what I regret?"
"My regret is that I didn't tame my wife when I was young and ignorant!"
"So now, even though I've become the director of 'The Voice of China,' she still holds all the power in the family!"
Wang Dazhong became increasingly indignant as he spoke, even launching a tirade against his wife, who was dancing in the square far away:
Do you know how much pocket money I have right now?
"One hundred yuan a day! That includes not only gas and water, but also lunch!"
"Now I have to think twice before buying a pack of decent cigarettes!"
"When I heard Jiang Baizhi sing 'Later, I finally learned how to love,' I thought to myself, if I had learned less about love and more about how to hide money from others back then, I wouldn't be in this situation where I have to borrow a lighter from someone else!"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
A burst of insane laughter erupted in the control room.
The oppressive, almost suffocating feeling I had just experienced was completely washed away by Wang Dazhong's "regret for not learning more about love."
The assistant director laughed while wiping away tears:
"Alright, Director Wang, let her handle it if she wants."
"Although the allowance is a bit less, at least your first love didn't let anyone else have it, and you didn't miss out on your love. This is already the most luxurious Versailles in all of China!"
Wang Dazhong chuckled as he listened to everyone's commotion.
Although he complained, the undisguised tenderness in his eyes betrayed him.
Yeah, let's just do it.
As long as that girl I once stubbornly fought with is still by my side, I will have no regrets in this life!
Wang Dazhong stubbed out his cigarette and looked seriously at the screen.
Jiang Baizhi was still standing on the stage, her yellow dress shimmering with a sacred glow under the lights.
"This time, I really just got lucky, like a blind cat stumbling upon a dead mouse!"
He had initially agreed, for the sake of the show's effect, that he would sing a traditional Chinese style song due to the song ban.
That's perfect, let's ride the wave of popularity from that Shanghai Theatre Academy charity gala.
But Wang Dazhong never expected that Jiang Baizhi hadn't fallen for his trap at all!
Not only did she not sing her signature ancient-style songs, but she also underwent a major personality change and started singing sad love songs!
She directly brought all the judges, including the director, into a dream world called "Youth Memorial Service," giving their souls a thorough baptism!
Although it didn't capitalize on the popularity of the charity gala.
But Wang Dazhong believes that this sad love song called "Later" will generate just as much buzz and traffic after it is broadcast!
"If we're lucky, we might even boost the ratings again!"
"After all, this completely overturns Jiang Baizhi's previous sweet goddess image!"
"If the preview goes something like, 'Jiang Baizhi seems to have broken up with her boyfriend, and sheds tears during the semi-finals,' then tell me, which viewer wouldn't be excited!"
Wang Dazhong chuckled; he had already imagined the storm that the song would cause across the entire internet!