Rebirth 2004: A lone figure in the literary world

Chapter 193 Zhang Chao became “Zhang Chao”!
At present, Zhang Chao has no ill feelings towards Hua Yi and Wang Zhongjun, so he agreed. After all, now is now, and the future is the future. If he really thinks they are "bad guys", he just needs to be on guard.

The previous collaboration on "Better Days" was quite pleasant, especially in the award operation of the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, Huayi made great efforts, and it was really a surprise that I won the Best Screenwriter award.

Wang Zhongjun must have taken a fancy to one of his novels, perhaps "Dwelling Narrowness"? This book has sold very well, it is a phenomenon, and it is very suitable for film and television adaptation, but almost all film and television companies that have contact with Zhang Chao have deliberately avoided it.

Maybe we really have to wait until that point in the previous life before someone will take a picture.

However, the meeting between the two would have to wait until the weekend, and Zhang Chao made it very clear to Wang Zhongjun - "I don't want to interrupt my current writing ideas." If this reason was given to someone else, Wang Zhongjun might think it was pretentious, but when Zhang Chao said it, he felt it was natural.

Now in Wang Zhongjun's eyes, to some extent, Zhang Chao has become a person of equal importance to himself.

Zhang Chao was not making excuses. For five days, he stayed in his study, typing away. When he was tired, he didn't even go back to his bedroom, but lay on the floor of the study to rest.

He only answers calls from his parents. If anyone else needs to contact him, they can only send him an email or come to his house.

In this state, paragraphs of text flowed out from beneath his fingers like running water, covering page after page of documents.

The character of "Captain Cheng" has become more full-bodied and is no longer the Cheng Bing in the previous life's "Third Squadron" movie or TV series.

In the process of chasing the fugitive, he was no longer simply trying to make up for his regrets or trying to catch the shadow of himself as a criminal policeman. The experience of being in prison divided his life into two halves, which were no longer coherent.

The moment he was released from prison, he was like a sleeper who suddenly woke up from a dream. Looking back on the first half of his life, he could see the scenery of his flying ideals and brightly lit home, but in between was separated by vast white fog and iron chains across the river.

He didn't know how he suddenly came to the other side and set foot on a strange road that was not in his plan. He walked on this road for a long time before he realized that the first thing he had to learn was how to live.

To some extent, Zhang Chao began to resonate with the character "Captain Cheng" in his own writing - this was an experience he had never had in his previous creations.

At the beginning of his rebirth, Zhang Chao also tried to follow the path of life he had experienced before, but in the end, the development of things was far beyond his expectations. What "become a king by hiding", what "low-key development", what "decisiveness in killing"...

In the end, it all comes down to three words - go with the flow and stay true to your heart!
Captain Cheng's imprisonment divided his life into the first and second halves, and Zhang Chao's rebirth allowed him to re-enact the first half of his life.

Captain Cheng can never be the captain of the criminal police team again, and his first and second halves are destined to be two different dramas; and Zhang Chao can never go back to being the mediocre person he used to be. His life drama has already had a completely different and wonderful opening, so how could it end so dull?
Sometimes, he uses the experience and knowledge accumulated at the age of 40 to deal with complicated affairs; sometimes, he uses the recklessness and impulsiveness at the age of 20 to experience a completely different life.

Most of the time, he was also relearning how to live. Confusion and fear would creep into his emotions from time to time in the dead of night, but Zhang Chao could usually drive them away in time and then face the new day with a normal face.

A famous young writer, a multi-millionaire, the founder of a literary agency, and a celebrity girlfriend who could only sleep with him if he stuck her to the wall before his rebirth...

Huayi Wang Zhongjun, who I could only see in the news in my previous life, now took the initiative to ask me out, but I casually postponed the invitation for several days, and I felt nothing at all.

Zhang Chao is getting more and more used to wearing the identity of "Zhang Chao"; Captain Cheng is getting more and more used to letting go of the identity of "Captain". This novel is a record of the rebirth of both of them, "Captain Cheng" is the A side, and "Zhang Chao" is the B side... Zhang Chao feels more and more when he writes, and in the end, it seems as if he has experienced the feeling of "God holding my hand and writing".

When Zhang Chao opened his eyes again on the study floor, Song Jia was standing above his head, staring at him with her big eyes.

Seeing Zhang Chao wake up, she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I'm glad you're okay!"

Zhang Chao got up from the ground and asked, "Why are you here?"

Song Jia said, "You said you wanted to concentrate on writing these few days. It's been 6 days now, and you didn't respond to my text messages or emails, and you didn't answer my calls. I was really worried, so I came to see you."

Zhang Chao scratched his head and said, "I was really absorbed in writing." He found that he couldn't scratch his hair at all, and it was all tied into small clumps. He touched his face again, and the stubble was so hard that it could be sharpened with a knife. He probably looked like a wild man in the mirror.

Song Jia pinched his nose in an exaggerated manner and said, "You haven't taken a shower in the past few days? It stinks!"

Zhang Chao said embarrassedly: "I forgot...I think, you have washed it?"

Song Jia pulled him out of the living room, pushed him into the bathroom, stuffed a towel into his arms, and said, "Take a shower quickly! I'll make you a bowl of noodles! The takeaway boxes you left in the living room are all smelly, I just threw them away!"

Zhang Chao had come back to his senses by now, and he grabbed Song Jia and said with a smile, "It's been too many days, I can't wash it clean by myself, I need someone to help me!"

Song Jia glanced at him coquettishly: "You are thinking of doing something bad again..." But she couldn't resist Zhang Chao's strength and was pulled into the bathroom by him...

After a long time, Zhang Chao wrapped in a bath towel, stood in the kitchen, looking refreshed and cooking noodles. Each serving had double eggs and double sausages, sprinkled with chopped green onions, and the aroma was fragrant.

Song Jia had just said that she wanted to cook noodles for Zhang Chao, but now she could only lie on the bed with her whole body limp, unable to move - if she had known earlier, she would not... have come earlier!
After eating a few mouthfuls of noodles, Song Jiacai asked worriedly, "Isn't my coming here interrupting your train of thought?"

Zhang Chao smiled and said, “In fact, I had just come out of my trance before falling asleep. This writing experience was so wonderful. I finally understand what drives writers to keep creating.

In the past few days, I seemed to be the character in my writing, experiencing his joys and sorrows. But my rationality would occasionally pull me out of the character, observing him from a third-person perspective, or even cruelly dissecting him..."

Song Jia listened attentively and couldn't help saying: "This is a bit like the empathy we actors have after we completely enter a character. When I was acting in "The Cliff", especially the scene where I hid in the crevice of a big rock, holding a grenade in my hand, ready to die with the enemy at any time.

I feel like when I light a cigarette and wait for the enemy to come and arrest me, trembling all over, I am Gu Qiuyan..."

The two of them ate and talked, and before they knew it, the moon was already at its zenith and the stars were like lanterns.

(End of this chapter)