After going downstairs, Lai Yang walked towards the gate of the community, his mouth twitching with anger: "You are so talkative, aren't you? Why didn't you win the argument just now?"
"Leaving so soon? What about the theater? You're wasting such a great opportunity!"
"Tell me, why don't you beg her? Bah, I gave you a chance but you didn't use it! What the hell~"
The security guard at the door looked at Lai Yang talking to himself with a complicated look.
Lai Yang's expression changed when he noticed it, and he slowly straightened his face, quickened his pace, and clicked his tongue.
“Tick-tick-tick~”
"Eight hundred standard bearers ran to the north slope, and the artillerymen ran side by side to the north. The artillerymen were afraid of..."
…
The next day at noon, backstage at the theater, Lai Yang pulled Li Dian and Yuan Sheng together for a meeting.
A blackboard was set up in the backstage. Lai Yang, with a cigarette in the corner of his mouth, wrote on the blackboard with a marker.
"Let's have a good meeting today and analyze who our customer base is."
Yuan Sheng yawned loudly, crossed his long legs and said nonchalantly: "The crowd? Those are the people who bought the tickets."
"Why don't you say it's human?"
Lai Yang angrily said: "Can you please be more careful? Analyze the crowd, are they white-collar workers or students?"
Li Dian took a sip of his drink, opened a bottle and handed it to Yuan Shengda, then looked at the blackboard and said dully, "We have everything."
“…” Lai Yang went crazy.
After a while, he wrote the word "target" on the blackboard again and said, "Okay, we can't analyze the crowd, so we have to set a target for the theater now."
Yuan Shengda raised her head and drank the drink. The yellow water stains flowed down her pointed chin and wet her collar.
She tugged at the collar of her shirt. Lai Yang glanced at her with lowered eyebrows, then turned his head away deliberately with a blushing face.
"Ahem..."
After Lai Yang looked away, he turned his head and glanced at him twice more casually, and said in a weak voice: "Tell... Tell me, what is our goal?"
"The goal is definitely to make money. Is there any need to ask?" Yuan Shengda wiped away the drink and said with his big watery eyes.
Lai Yang was so angry that he raised his leg as if he was going to kick, which scared Yuan Shengda so much that he quickly shut up. Li Dian sighed at this moment.
"Laiyang, I think we should not talk about the goal for now. Right now, the attendance rate is not good, the content is not good, the traffic expansion is not good, the retention is not good, the repurchase rate is not good, and the actors are not good. These problems are the key. Do you understand?"
“Oh… your analysis is really detailed…” Lai Yang lowered his eyebrows and glanced at Li Dian with a gloomy expression.
As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
Li Dian's face turned red and pale, looking very unnatural. Yuan Shengda hurriedly tried to smooth things over: "Lai Duidui, are you angry today? Why are you so angry?"
"I was born with a stick, but you don't have one if you want one!"
After Lai Yang finished his retort, he lifted the curtain and strode away, leaving the two people stunned and looking at each other in astonishment.
…
It was too much, and Lai Yang also knew that he had gone too far.
But he felt that no one could understand his bitterness, not even Gu Qian, Li Dian, and Yuan Shengda...
In the afternoon, he walked alone along the street to distribute performance flyers. It was a cloudy day and even the sunlight could not penetrate the thick clouds.
Lai Yang's legs felt numb after a long while, and he sat on a bench in a daze, looking at the various cars running on the street. His sight passed through the traffic and then fixed on the towering buildings across the street.
Although Shanghai is a bustling downtown, Lai Yang feels extremely depressed and adrift. His confused and helpless heart is like duckweed on the sea, constantly rising and falling.
Lighting a cigarette, Lai Yang recalled the time half a year ago when his father came to Shanghai to see him.
Because he had never told his family that he had quit his formal job, every morning when his father was around, he would put on his suit and go out, then find a bench to sit on all day, and then go home and say, "Dad, I'm off work."
Thinking of this, he began to feel depressed again. He hadn't told his family about Gu Qian's matter yet, but he couldn't escape it.
…
In the blink of an eye, it was night and the number of spectators was no more than thirty. Although it was better than yesterday, these few people could not even make back the rent of the store.
Unexpectedly, tranquility came again.
He still left after Lai Yang stepped down.
It's really hard to understand.
Originally Lai Yang wanted to chase her out to chat for a while, but the sudden ringing of Gu Qian's exclusive ringtone instantly made him lose his mood.
She said that a Laiyang ID card was required for property transfer, but if he was worried, he could go back to Xi'an to handle it himself.
Once the transfer was completed, she transferred the down payment at the market price, a total of 500,000.
Looking at the text message, Lai Yang felt mixed emotions.
It is said that when God closes a door for you, he will open a window.
But he felt that whether the window was opened or not was not the point for the time being, but what was certain was that when God slammed the door shut, he pinched Lai Yang's head.
"I'm very busy this month. I'll go back and do it at the end of next month." After saying this, Lai Yang hung up the phone.
After the evening performance, another part-time actor said he could not come again and asked to settle the performance fee.
There were five part-time actors in the theater, but now there are only three left.
If this continues, the theater will be closed before the shop is taken back.
The theater was in turmoil. Lai Yang, who had regained consciousness, immediately apologized to Li Dian. Everyone talked it out and lay down on the stage exhausted.
Li Dian told Lai Yang to find a part-time job with Yuan Sheng during the day. This did not mean that they had to give up the theater and look for a way out, but that they had to ensure they had enough food and clothing before pursuing their ideals.
Lai Yang understood it in his heart, but still acted numb.
Lai Yang returned to the house in despair, and suddenly remembered the 500,000 yuan that Gu Qian mentioned.
Most of this money was borrowed by family members from relatives, and he will definitely have to pay it back, so only about 100,000 yuan will be left in his hands. But under the current circumstances, would he still dare to invest in the theater
After a night of sleep, the autumn wind outside became even more depressing. The next morning, Lai Yang went to a library to seek cooperation, hoping that they could promote the tickets to members and give rebates.
The library staff politely declined and asked Lai Yang to become a member and read more books on operations management when he has nothing to do.
The wind in late autumn was like a razor blade, causing dull pain when it scraped against one's face. After a whole morning passed, he still had nothing to show for it. After returning to his room in disappointment, Lai Yang fell headfirst into bed, completely losing motivation.
He was a little confused, was it really because of his own inability or was it because talk shows had no market in China
Why is it so difficult? Even my two partners have started to work part-time.
Although Lai Yang didn't say anything, he was still very sad in his heart. He could understand that they were all compromising for life, but life had never understood them, let alone himself.
As I thought about it, a wave of sadness came over me.
I have been working hard over the years since I graduated, trying to integrate into society, trying to give my lover a happy and warm home, and trying to realize my dreams.
To love the right person, do the right thing.
But how ironic the current situation is.
Lai Yang is not a fragile person, but at this moment his tears quietly soaked the bedding.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door. He didn't want to open the door, but the knocking became louder and louder.
After rubbing his eyes, Lai Yang stood up and pushed the door open.
In an instant, a cold breeze blew over with a few strands of hair, and at the same time a faint smell of perfume also penetrated Lai Yang's nose.