The world of film and television begins with Zhou Bingkun in the human world.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Zhou Zhigang left with his luggage, looking rather disheveled, giving the impression of slinking away in disgrace.

Zhou Zhigang simply wasn't comfortable staying at home.

First, there was the conflict between him and Zhou Bingkun. After Zhou Zhigang tried to shift all the blame onto Zhou Bingkun, Zhou Bingkun never spoke to him again.

In fact, Zhou Bingkun would leave almost whenever he was home during the day, and he didn't even want to stay in the same room with him.

Secondly, he took care of Li Suhua; Zhou Zhigang was always the one being taken care of at home.

His wife, Li Suhua, would bring him water to wash his feet, cook for him, and mend his clothes. Although he worked very hard outside, he was the one being taken care of at home.

But now, when he stays at home to take care of Li Suhua, he feels very tired and can't even get proper rest.

So, right after the New Year, he couldn't wait to leave Jichun City and go to the Third Front to continue supporting construction.

Zhou Bingkun did not see Zhou Zhigang off. In fact, after Zhou Zhigang left, Zhou Bingkun went directly to Zhao Chun's house and invited Zhao Chun back.

Although it's only the third day of the Lunar New Year, Zhao Chun didn't mind at all, and even happily followed Zhou Bingkun back.

Upon arriving at the Zhou family's residence, Zhao Chun immediately went to take care of Li Suhua, washing and massaging her.

After taking care of Li Suhua thoroughly, Zhao Chun began cleaning the Zhou family's house, sweeping the floor and wiping the windows. He was incredibly diligent, and Zhou Bingkun didn't even need to urge him.

Seeing Li Suhua being taken care of so comfortably by Zhao Chun, Zhou Bingkun couldn't help but laugh at the previous Zhou Zhigang.

After Zhou Zhigang ran back, he seemed to care a lot about Li Suhua, and even felt that he could take better care of her, so he directly chased Zhao Chun away.

But in reality, his level of care for Li Suhua was nowhere near that of Zhao Chun.

Professional matters should be left to professionals. Don't interfere with things you haven't done before. Otherwise, you might think you're taking good care of Li Suhua, but in reality, you're no match for Zhao Chun.

After Zhou Zhigang left, Zhou Bingkun should also go to work.

The soy sauce factory has already started operations, and Zhou Bingkun has resumed his work as a slag remover.

After a few days of rest during the Chinese New Year holiday, Zhou Bingkun returned to work and found himself even more tired than before.

It took several more days to adjust before things returned to normal.

Zhou Bingkun's life also began to become rigid and routine again.

During the day, he worked at the soy sauce factory removing slag. After get off work, he would go home to study and write. On weekends, he would go to the vicinity of the movie theater to buy candied hawthorns from Zheng Juan and chat with her.

As for the work, it's just slag removal, pure physical labor, and there's no skill involved.

As for his studies, although the pace of learning was not fast, it was still a slow but steady increase, and everything was going according to Zhou Bingkun's plan.

However, as time went by and the number of articles he wrote increased, his writing style and ability improved considerably.

Especially after the New Year, when Zhou Bingkun's third article was published in the Jichun Daily, the newspaper even gave him two jin of grain coupons as payment—or rather, as encouragement.

Although it was only two jin of grain coupons, it made Zhou Bingkun especially happy.

After all, writing articles for the newspaper was finally paying off.

After receiving the two jin of grain coupons from the newspaper, Zhou Bingkun immediately ran to the movie theater.

"Give me a skewer of candied hawthorns," Zhou Bingkun called out cheerfully to Zheng Juan.

Hearing Zhou Bingkun's voice, Zheng Juan looked up and saw him. A flicker of surprise crossed her eyes, but it vanished in an instant, replaced by worry: "Hey? Bingkun, why are you here at this hour? Shouldn't you be at work by now? Did something happen?"

"Haha, I'm so happy today, look." Zhou Bingkun took out two jin of grain coupons and showed them to Zheng Juan.

Zheng Juan looked at the grain coupons, somewhat bewildered, wondering why Zhou Bingkun wanted to show them to her.

"This is the payment the newspaper gives me for writing articles! It wasn't easy. I've been writing for the newspaper for so long, and I'm finally seeing a reward," Zhou Bingkun said with a hearty laugh.

"Really? Congratulations, Bingkun! You really got your royalties! You're a real writer now!" Zheng Juan was genuinely happy for Zhou Bingkun, and the admiration in her eyes grew even stronger as she looked at him.

"Hahaha, calling him a great writer is a bit of a stretch, a bit of a stretch." Zhou Bingkun grinned, laughing heartily.

"They've all received food stamps; what else could they be but a great writer?"

"Hehehehe... Well, it's getting late, I have to hurry up and go, otherwise I'll be late for work." Zhou Bingkun said, waved goodbye to Zheng Juan, and then turned and started running.

Watching Zhou Bingkun run away, Zheng Juan's smile never faded.

Zheng Juan knew that when Zhou Bingkun first wrote an article for a newspaper and it was published, he didn't receive a single penny or even a single newspaper. Zhou Bingkun complained for a long time and almost gave up writing.

Now that Zhou Bingkun has finally received two jin of grain coupons, Zheng Juan is truly happy for him.

Zhou Bingkun was still late for work!

This was also the first time he was late, and his perfect attendance record for the month was gone!

Even though he lost his perfect attendance record, Zhou Bingkun's smile didn't disappear. He was cheerful all day, which made many people in the slag removal workshop look at him strangely.

"Bingkun, you found some money? Why are you so happy today?"

"Hehehe, something good has happened."

"What good news? Tell me!"

"Hehehe!"

"Bingkun, you seem so happy. Did someone introduce you to a potential wife?"

"No, no, I'm still a year shy of twenty, I'm not old enough to get married yet."

"That's about right. Let's agree that we'll get our marriage certificate when we turn twenty."

"Hehehe."

Zhou Bingkun chatted casually with the people in the slag removal workshop.

Cao Debao, however, felt depressed as he watched Zhou Bingkun laugh uncontrollably all day.

Cao Debao is a vengeful person. Back then, Zhou Bingkun beat him up and made him lose face in front of Secretary Qu Xiuzhen. He still holds a grudge against Zhou Bingkun to this day.

Since then, he has never spoken a word to Zhou Bingkun on his own initiative.

Seeing Zhou Bingkun so happy now, he felt a tightness in his chest and muttered a lot of complaints about Zhou Bingkun in his heart, even secretly cursing Zhou Bingkun to have bad luck.

But his silent curse was utterly useless.

Zhou Bingkun remained cheerful and happy, and even ate an extra steamed bun at lunchtime.

On the contrary, Cao Debao lost his appetite as a result, ate one less steamed bun at noon, which made him lack energy when working in the afternoon, and he was scolded by the team leader for it.