Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

Quentin Tarantino, the director who made Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, and Kill Bill, discovered her by watching films in video stores just like I did. She will be the next Quentin Tarantino!

......

The idea is good.

Reality is skinny.

Yutenji Wakami discovers that he is a super idiot [beep] .

What on earth could she possibly want to do? She actually had the sudden urge to film the sci-fi blockbuster script that she had been writing for years as a hobby?

To shoot those kinds of blockbuster movies with super special effects?

Which Hollywood special effects team would you hire to shoot a blockbuster entirely with CGI?

She still has 500 million yuan left after spending money on cars and houses.

Five hundred million yen.

Converted to US dollars, it's only a little over three million dollars. Let alone a movie, it wouldn't even be enough to film five minutes of footage. Even if Miao Meng bought her two extra apartments, she could only film a maximum of four and a half minutes.

Okay, she counted the stars all night, thinking, what if she could use this four-and-a-half-minute film (Part 2) as a sample and get investment?

She spent the money the next day.

Then she took the four-and-a-half-minute half-finished product to the bidding process.

Nobody wanted to give money to this idiot who appeared out of nowhere.

Are you kidding me? Are you Cameron or Spielberg? Are you trying to make Avatar or Star Wars? What are you doing getting involved, you little blonde girl who's not even twenty yet?

Ruomai's dream of making movies has been shattered.

The money is gone, and everything is back to square one.

Ruomai lay on the bedding on the rooftop, counting the stars one by one.

"If only I had wished for a credit card that could never be maxed out when I made that wish."

This guy thought to himself, unrepentant.

The next day, after waking up, she restarted her cheap beauty blogger account and started making a living again.

She started asking people to call her Miaomeng instead of Ruomai, even though the two names sounded almost the same, but it was cuter when written in Chinese characters.

Ruomai, oh no, Miaomeng's life has been so boring that she has reached the age of twenty-one.

During this time, Meow Dream found a way to make money in the magical girl world that she hadn't paid much attention to.

Meow Dream found a witch named "Money". This witch, whose name seemed to fit her perfectly, lived in a secluded corner and painstakingly managed her little barrier.

Meow Dream once hid on the beam of the barrier and witnessed a magical girl who walked into the barrier turn into a witch, and was then cruelly killed by money that crawled out of the palace.

After killing newly born witches, Money places their seeds of lamentation in its treasure vault. And it's very clever, extremely clever; it knows that if its traps are too conspicuous, they will be surrounded and hunted down by powerful magical girls, so it controls its aura, only allowing lone magical girls to enter.

Then eat the poor, lonely girls one by one and collect their seeds of lamentation.

It is said that there was a very chaotic period before the gathering was established, when all the witches were killed and magical girls began to raise familiars to become witches. Money was probably raised during that period, specifically to collect soul gems.

When Meowmon discovered the treasure vault containing money, it contained a Seed of Sorrow that Meowmon could use for two hundred years.

Seeds of Sorrow can be exchanged for money at the [Reed Plains Magical Girl Gathering], and quite a lot of money at that.

Haven't we made a fortune?

Miao Meng once again became well-off and lived a luxurious life.

This time, she didn't get carried away again. Instead, she lived a peaceful life, occasionally sneaking into the money's world to steal a little money to spend.

Looking at the Seed of Lamentation in her hand, Meow Dream inexplicably recalled the time some time ago when she was dragged into the witch's barrier.

She clearly remembered the huge face that had collapsed in front of her; even though it was so big that it created the uncanny valley effect, she could still recognize whose face it was.

She's the magical girl who tried to snatch the Seed of Lamentation from her own hands.

She did indeed turn into a witch.

But instead of being killed by money, it ran outside, created a larger barrier, and even briefly pulled Meow Dream inside.

After seeing the giant white humanoid figure, Miao Meng would never forget that face, nor that witch's name.

Nirvana

Yesterday, she happened to see Roselia's message about collecting information on the witch's barrier in the pine forest, so she sold all the information she knew to Roselia.

I hope you'll just die a peaceful death.

Miao Meng put away the Seed of Sorrow, opened her movie blogger account which hadn't gained any followers in a long time, and felt a surge of frustration.

During the same period, while Miaomeng's beauty blogger account was still steadily gaining followers, her newly opened movie blogger account couldn't make any waves, only receiving a pitiful few useless comments like "Go for it," "Fire tongs Liu Ming," and "I believe in you."

[Go away, what kind of wild girl from some backwater wants to make movies?]

[What kind of work have you done? Do you have any special skills? Or do you want to be a producer? This amount of money isn't enough to be a producer; you'd be better off investing the money from a sample video.]

With such a slow pace, and only one dramatic conflict appearing every four pages, do you expect the audience to give you money?

[Pfft—Did you write this notebook?]

[Ms. Ruomai, your script is very good, but it doesn't quite align with our company's direction, so regarding investment... I'm sorry.]

[This is too avant-garde, very risky, sorry.]

"I've fucking had enough! A bunch of idiots who don't know how to appreciate things [beep]!"

Miao Meng angrily threw the script she had written onto the wall.

But seeing the title "Counting Stars" on the script cover made her even angrier.

That was her magnum opus, written over several years, and she even spent all her money to have Industrial Light & Magic make a sample video of less than five minutes, but surprisingly—not a single investor was willing to give it a second glance!

What kind of talk is that!

"Aaaaaaahh ...

I want money!

I want to click!

I want numbers!

"I want to be Quentin Tarantino! I want to be Charlatan! I want to be Akira Kurosawa! I want to be the most fucking awesome director! I want to be famous all over the world! I want to make all you idiots who look down on me look at me with new eyes!"

Miao Meng vented her anger at the wall, but eventually calmed down, walked over, picked up the script of "Counting Stars," and dusted it off.

Miao Meng stood with her hands on her hips, the script tucked between her waistbands.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve played drums.” Miao Meng sighed. “I should buy an electronic drum set. It’ll be good for venting my frustrations.”

It seems like he hasn't played the drums since he received the billion; his skills have gotten rusty.

If I play drums... maybe I can earn some views by recording short videos or vlogs of my practice?

Seems pretty good.

Ok, deal.

drip.

My phone received a message.

"Ok?"

Miao Meng took out her cell phone.

"Who's looking for me?"

The Tale of Nirvana: Keep Your True Self: Chapter 46 There's a Ghost!

To Miaomeng's surprise, it wasn't someone looking for her on social media. The message came from her YouTube account, a private message from a movie blogger account that didn't get many views, from an account called 【clair de lune】.

"Debussy's 'Clair de Lune'? What a pretentious ID."

Miaomeng muttered as she opened the private chat.

[Moonlight]: Hello, Ms. Ruomai.

[Moonlight]: I am a producer who is looking for collaborators. Today I read all the film analysis notes and short films you shot on your account. I can feel your passion for film and your unique insights into camera movement. In your short film "Money", you tried to replicate the long take used by Damian Charesze in the opening of "Babylon", which was very bold and required patience. In this era of fast consumption, it is hard to see someone as meticulous and serious as you.

"Such a sweet tongue." Miao Meng snorted and continued scrolling down.

To be honest, the fact that I could tell she was imitating "Babylon" in her short film already made Miaomeng quite fond of her.

Even Miao Meng herself knew that the video was actually not very well made.

But what does this mean?

The other person is a kindred spirit! She understands her!

[Moonlight]: In addition, it's clear that you have a certain understanding of narrative tricks. In your video analysis of the masterpiece "Memento" (10,000 words), you didn't spend a lot of time and effort retelling the plot like most film bloggers. Instead, you meticulously listed the protagonist's behavior patterns in a table and described the script structure as a "U" shape. This is the most brilliant analysis I've ever seen. The "U" shape is such a clever description. The two completely parallel storylines in the early stages begin to accelerate the pace of cross-cutting montage after a certain point, allowing the film's time to be presented in terms of emotional escalation rather than chronological order. How many people didn't notice this?

"..."

Miaomeng straightened her droopy chin.

Memento is a very obscure film. Because it is so obscure, even the plot explanations are rarely watched, let alone the technical analysis.

However, the other party actually grasped the core of the deconstruction: their own understanding of the U-shaped narrative structure.

Unbelievable.

Could he really be a professional?

Who was this big-name producer who came down to inspect the business and took a liking to it?

Is she about to soar to great heights?

really?

Miao Meng's mind was filled with all sorts of unrealistic fantasies. Even though she desperately told herself that 99.9999% of them would not become reality, the release of dopamine still made her so excited that she really wanted to pop champagne at halftime.

Miao Meng wanted to see how many jaw-dropping messages the other party could send.

She started chatting with this "moonlight" for a long time, until she forgot to eat dinner.

They discussed the lineage between spaghetti Westerns and samurai films, the cross-cutting montage narrative of *Once Upon a Time in America*, the gangster elements in *Once Upon a Time in America*, *The Irishman* which marked the end of the gangster film era, and then *Green Book*, which won the Oscar that same year...

The two exchanged a lot of information, which is why Miaomeng trusted the other more and more. Miaomeng learned that the account was backed by a girl who was not very old, but came from a very wealthy family and was the kind of rich young lady who wanted to pursue her dreams.

Judging from the polite and elegant manners that the other party always exuded, it didn't seem like a lie.

The family is probably a big player in the industry, with plenty of money and resources.

These kinds of bosses often have a lot of drive, although the success rate is very low. Most of them are just dabbling in their so-called "dream-chasing" activities, with small goals like 5 billion yen or aiming for the Nebula Award.

But Miao Meng couldn't care less about that anymore; her subconscious told her that the other party was hiding something bigger.

So they continued to cultivate a good relationship, subtly trying to get information out of each other.

The two hit it off immediately and chatted until late at night.

Finally, the big news that Meow Dream has been waiting for has arrived.

[Moonlight]: I have a project where I will be the producer. I can get the daughter of the Wakaba family, Wakaba Mutsu, and the popular group Sumimi's Mitsumi Hatsuka. Are you interested in joining?

Finally, two photos were attached to the message.

One is a selfie of a girl whose face has been erased and Mitsukazu Mikazu, and the other is a photo of the same girl whose face has been erased and Wakaba Mutsu.

Although her face had been erased, Miao Meng felt like she had seen her somewhere before.

But the excitement of being recognized completely overshadowed the slight sense of unease. And then there were Mikasa and Mutsuka, celebrities upon celebrities! Even if she just got them to film a short video or commercial together, she could earn a huge amount of traffic, and this movie blogger account would take off!

What's there to hesitate about, Yutenji Nyanmu? Aren't you going to agree?!

【MeowDream】: What type of project is it?

Miaomeng, being cautious, replied.

【Moonlight】: Band.

The other party replied.

"Huh?" Miaomeng raised an eyebrow. "What does the band project want with me?"

The other person seemed to know what she wanted to ask.