Chapter 392

"Leisurely Slow Life" has been filming at the school for the past two days.

Because they need to edit a video related to youth, only a campus can truly embody it.

For example, the male students definitely have memories of playing basketball, while the female students naturally have memories of watching people play basketball on the court.

Just filming the basketball-related footage alone took up an entire afternoon for everyone.

But often, filming videos coincides with the essence of workplace bosses, which is—

When filming the first take, substitute director Chen Lin felt it could be even better, so he had Sanyuetian continue playing basketball.

Consequently, the others could only grunt and continue playing for another ten minutes or so; Chen Lin followed along, and only when he felt it was about right did he call cut.

He ran over to check the footage, still felt unsatisfied, and said, "How about we play a complete basketball game?"

The others looked at each other; Yan Xingdong wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Xiao Lin, we've already used up some of our stamina earlier; why don't we play a half-court game first to see?"

Chen Lin: "Fine."

After finishing the half-court game, Chen Lin looked at the footage with a solemn expression. After several minutes of deep deliberation, he finally said, "Forget it, let's just use the footage from the first version."

The others:...

Are you saying we just played for nothing?

My fists are clenched!

During the basketball filming in the afternoon, the production team turned on the live stream during breaks. The netizens watched Chen Lin's operations almost entirely and kept posting comments to mock him.

【Chen Lin, you're here to be a director, not to torture the production team, but to torture your teammates!】

【How similar this is to my boss. Clearly, the A-plan he made was already perfect, but he just felt it could be done better, so we had to make a B-plan, and later he even asked for a C-plan. After tossing and turning for a week, the boss finally felt that the A-plan was the best after all, so we went back to using the A-plan.】

【Just listening to this makes me feel suffocated...】

Not only was Sanyuetian dragged off to play a basketball game, but Jin Li and Qiguan Mingzhu were also dragged by Chen Lin to play a game of badminton.

Although the youthful days of the past are gone forever, everyone always wants to grasp a tail of their youth.

Chen Lin said righteously that everyone is still young, and since this season is themed around campus life, they should film it properly!

So, he openly had everyone relive their student days, dragging everyone along to experience music class, craft class, debate competitions, and various club activities, such as the drama club, street dance club, cooking club...

While recording the club segments, they even ran outside to do roadshows, attracting the public to act as "student audience members" to vote for the students they liked.

The segment that left the deepest impression on Jin Li was when they came to the "Time Mailbox" set up on campus; every guest needed to write a letter to themselves from ten years ago.

Usually, these time mailboxes are for the current self to write to the "future me," but the production team did the opposite, letting them write to their past selves.

This is both a summary and nostalgia for the past, as well as a longing for future life.

What was the self of ten years ago thinking, and has the self of ten years later grown into the appearance that the self of ten years ago wanted?

The reason Jin Li is very interested in the Time Mailbox is that this body was at a major turning point in life ten years ago, facing the choice of whether to continue school or go out to work.

The live stream version cut off when the guests were writing their letters. After each guest finished writing, they would randomly draw letters from the mailbox to read aloud in the evening.

After everyone finished writing, no one's mood could be called relaxed; instead, it was a bit heavy.

The production team had already turned off the cameras and stopped recording, but the guests didn't immediately return to the hotel to rest.

Chen Lin said, "When I first got the script, the Time Mailbox segment was actually for us now to write letters to our future selves 10 years later.

I don't know what I was thinking at the time; I felt that writing to a future self was too common, and relying on the fact that I was the substitute director for this season, I waved my hand and demanded it be changed to writing to our past selves."

Speaking of this, he spread his hands helplessly: "I don't know what the production team was thinking either. Although my identity this season is director, I have great authority over the overall program planning.

But I have self-awareness; it's impossible for me, an outsider, to completely guide them, the insiders. They could have rejected my suggestion, but the production team just happened to pass it."

He let out a long sigh: "Only now do I know the production team's sinister intentions; they wanted to trigger a nostalgia attack!"

Chen Lin pounded his chest: "If it were writing to a future self, I could say a lot of things, describe many things I want to do in the future, and hope that the self ten years later won't forget to realize them one by one.

But now that it's become writing to the past self, I keep recalling the embarrassing things I've done over the years. It was really not easy at the time. I suddenly realized that being able to live to the way I am now is already quite good."

Chen Lin's words were somewhat melancholy.

The expressions on the others' faces were about the same.

There is a saying—regrets make people remember more, and what you can't get is always the best.

The past self had missed many opportunities and had also wasted many opportunities; these all turned into regrets.

Looking back at the past, if life could be rewound and restarted, would you make different choices and grasp every turning point?

They didn't know.

Jin Li and Qiguan Mingzhu didn't know either.

Life is not a game that can be paused and restarted at any time; every step they take will determine their future.

Now, thinking back carefully, the past self had many shortcomings. Although she also wasted and missed many opportunities, but—

That naive self walked step by step to grow into the appearance of today, enough to let the current self proudly say: The past me was great, well done!

The recording of "Leisurely Slow Life" ended quickly.

Because they had to rush to promote "Assassination," the production team specifically changed the schedule, temporarily airing this episode and breaking the habit of "one episode per month."

The title of this episode was specifically set as "'Leisurely Slow Life': Young at the Time (Sponsored by the TV series 'Assassination')."

But because it was a temporary additional recording, it was already good enough to squeeze out time to record it; everyone couldn't find time to open a live stream to complain, so it was only broadcast through variety show channels.

But even if it was only promoted on a single platform, the popularity of this episode of "Leisurely Slow Life" was very high, even higher than the previous two episodes filmed.

Just this name alone made netizens keep posting comments, overjoyed.

【I finally got how to make "Leisurely Slow Life" add episodes: let all the members go and work hard. When their careers are booming and they need to do promotion, they will naturally think of recording "Leisurely Slow Life"!】

【What a loss, how many opportunities for additional episodes have we missed?!】

【Wake up, among the guests, only Jin Li is filming long-term; the others don't step into film and television. This time it's just a coincidence that Gu Cheng also filmed this drama, otherwise, just relying on Jin Li, I'm afraid everyone wouldn't have specifically recorded it.】

【Whatever, today's sugar is given to me by "Assassination." I dropped it after watching two episodes before, but today I'm going to watch three more!】

Because the name was tagged as sponsored by "Assassination," all netizens were prepared for this episode to be entirely an advertisement for "Assassination" after entering.

But when they actually watched it, they found it wasn't like that at all.

Although it wasn't entirely without ads, the production team focused more on content rather than form, maintaining their original standard.

So although this episode was sponsored by "Assassination," "Leisurely Slow Life" was still that "Leisurely Slow Life," with production standards and content all online.

Netizens observed carefully and found that the drama "Assassination" was only specifically mentioned by Jin Li and Gu Cheng when the program was nearing its end, and it only got five minutes of advertising time.

The situation at the time was that the guests were preparing to read the letters they wrote to their past selves, and before that, they had a short chat, with everyone reliving their past campus days once again.

While reliving, Jin Li and Gu Cheng also mentioned that not everyone's campus time is worth remembering; instead, it can become a lifelong nightmare.

Jin Li: "Bullying phenomena on campus are actually very common, starting from small verbal disputes, then exclusion between students, and then escalating to bullying."

Gu Cheng added: "Some people might feel that pushing and shoving is just horseplay between students, but it often becomes the beginning of bullying. Whether it's horseplay or intentional targeting, only the student being pushed can feel it."

Jin Li: "Adopting cold violence and an indifferent attitude will also affect the physical and mental health of teenagers, especially boarding students."

She paused and said: "Many people feel that students are immature and too childish, and some small things that cause tempers are just trivial matters, and young people are hot-blooded and can't stand a little provocation... but I think these are two concepts.

You cannot demand that others think it's just a trivial matter just because 'in your eyes, this is just a trivial matter.' You are not him, you cannot feel his emotions, you cannot be in the same environment as him, so you cannot become him.

Even many people go to college, and by the time they are in college, they are already adults, yet they still can't handle conflicts with roommates. Social news occasionally reports on students poisoning and killing people in water...

So, if even adults can't handle interpersonal relationships well, why demand that high school students, middle school students, or even elementary school students be able to handle relationships between people well?"

Gu Cheng agreed and said: "So we took on 'Assassination' because we also wanted to let everyone see another campus, a campus that might not be known to everyone, but also exists."

Chen Lin couldn't help but raise his hand and ask: "I'm following this drama, and a point I'm very curious about is, why doesn't the female lead fight back?"

Jin Li asked back: "How do you want her to fight back? Find a teacher to complain? She found one, but the teacher was indifferent. If they really intervened, perhaps the bullying of the female lead by that group of people would become even more severe.

Find parents? Parents work in other places all year round and don't see each other a few times a year. Even if she found them, what could the parents do? Can the parents help her transfer schools? No. Can the parents follow along to supervise on campus? No."

"Finally, it's what others say about finding the police. When the director was designing this plot, he actually referred to some real cases, but because of censorship issues, it wasn't filmed specifically."

Jin Li paused and sighed softly: "I can only say that reality is not a novel where you can get a solution by reporting it upward—in fact, whether people will care and how they will care depends entirely on their conscience."

Gu Cheng thought of the recently aired plot and said: "We cannot reveal the subsequent plot, but combined with what has already been aired, I can only tell everyone:

Li Feifei being forced to this point is not only the reason of the students, but also the reason of the school, the reason of the teachers, and the reason of the parents.

We also hope that through this drama, we can let more people pay attention to the image of campus bullying, improve the school's learning environment, and at the same time promote the improvement of relevant rescue channels."

The five-minute advertisement ended, and everyone began to enter the recitation segment of writing letters to their past selves.

Netizens also began to ponder the drama "Assassination" while Jin Li and Gu Cheng were advertising.

【I have a friend who was bullied who told me that the plot in "Assassination" is quite realistic; it's only those who haven't been bullied who would think it's exaggerated.】

【It seems to be a very meaningful drama. Sigh, it's hard for good dramas to stand out now!】

【The editing of this drama is quite chaotic. I heard it was edited by a rookie director? It feels like it wasted Jin Li and Gu Cheng's acting skills!】

【Agree with what Jin Li said. We cannot replace others' thoughts with our own. There are many things we think are just trivial matters, but in that person's eyes, it is a big deal.

Everyone has a past they don't want to mention to others. Perhaps it's just a very small thing that will detonate all emotions.】

【Adults often can't learn emotional management, yet they want minors to learn it? Isn't that asking too much?】

【Thirty years old this year, working overtime until ten at night, getting home already in the early morning, eating crayfish while watching the drama, I suddenly collapsed. I feel that the crayfish is like my life—squeezed from beginning to end, not a drop left.】

"Leisurely Slow Life" is worthy of being "Leisurely Slow Life." Even for the letter-writing segment, netizens all thought it would be a tear-jerker, but the production team made it fresh and refined.

The guests drew them with heavy hearts, but after seeing the letters, they read them out with smiles.

Chen Lin drew Qiguan Mingzhu's, specifically looked at her, and said: "If I had known that my temper would become so good in the future, I should have thrown more tantrums when I was young."

Qiguan Mingzhu drew Yan Xingdong's and couldn't help but chuckle: "Actually, you can really try more milk tea, coffee, and staying up all night; don't set limits for yourself."

Yan Xingdong drew Luo Yi's and said: "Life has many excitements; you really don't have to be an artist; being a dancer is also quite good."

Luo Yi drew Chen Lin's, opened it and looked at it for several seconds, somewhat not wanting to say it, but had to say it:

"Sleep more, eat well, play, play, play, play every day, because you won't have enough time to play in the future!"

Luo Yi commented: "I think this is the letter with the least gold content; it's completely trying to corrupt the past self!"

Chen Lin laughed until his stomach hurt, laughing so hard that tears were about to come out: "But this is my biggest wish at the moment. I can't take a vacation, so I can only let my past self take more vacations."

I don't know if it was specifically arranged by the production team or if it was just such a coincidence, but Jin Li and Gu Cheng both drew the letters written by each other.

After seeing the content, a flash of interest crossed Jin Li's eyes, and she recited: "When you can raise your eyebrows, raise them; in the human world, how can one have the longevity of gold and stone?"

The others turned to look at Gu Cheng, and Gu Cheng said slowly: "This is Huang Tingjian's 'Yu Lou Chun,' meaning life is short; it's better to laugh to your heart's content when you can, and live out your true self."

He added: "I feel that the past me was actually a bit repressed and not very good at expressing thoughts."

And when it was Gu Cheng's turn to read Jin Li's letter, he couldn't help but smile: "The sky is wide and the earth is vast, and I am free; with such satisfaction, what more can I ask for?"

The others turned to look at Jin Li again, and Chen Lin couldn't help but complain: "Did you two agree on this? How come it makes us look so uncultured?"

Jin Li shook her head with a smile: "No, I brushed up on this poem while doing Chinese papers before. I thought it was quite good, so I wrote it down, also wanting to gift it to my past self."

She said in a gentle tone: "This poem comes from Wang Yan's 'Thin Wine,' meaning the world is vast, and freedom is already the greatest happiness; there is no need to bind oneself with the regrets of the past.

I had no choice at the time and left behind many regrets. I hope she can find a world of freedom with these regrets, instead of holding onto regrets and feeling remorse."

The person from the past has already left, and the current her personally makes up for the regrets for her.