As a staff member of the third team of the planning department of a medium-sized foreign trade company, 27-year-old Nan Dongjian packed up the things on his desk. After sorting all the documents, he looked at the table below, and then looked out the window at the already dark sky in his heart. I couldn't help but sigh, it was another day of habitual overtime work.
The pressure and competition among Peninsula Company members in the workplace is really great, especially at the grassroots level, where employees are very involved in each other. It is common for them to stay up late, work overtime, and be reprimanded by their superiors.
Nan Dongjian, who was not originally from a prestigious university, has almost completely lost his former vigor and naivety in the past few years of work, and has devoted himself wholeheartedly to the small society of the workplace in his words and deeds.
It was already after get off work hours, and many people had already left. When Nan Dongjian packed up his things and was about to leave, a burst of laughter came from not far away, which attracted his attention.
Looking over there, I saw that a few female employees who had just joined the company were joking with a few male employees. It was hard to hear what was said from a distance, but Nan Dongjian could probably guess some of it.
These girls, who have just joined the company, have been promoting a TV series called "Misheng" among familiar employees for the past few days. Nam Dongjian once heard them talk about it, and several of them seemed to be interested in it. I am a fan of the artist Chi Jingyuan who plays the male lead in this TV series. In order to support my idol, I actually work so hard to help promote him at my workplace. I am really loyal to Aili.
In fact, some employees are quite disgusted with this kind of thing. After all, they have long passed the age of chasing stars and are still so busy at work every day. However, after putting on makeup, these female employees look young and beautiful, which is hard to dislike. I heard that one of them is a relative of the department head, so she has some backing.
Moreover, they only introduced Amway to their colleagues in the same group, and others could only smile and let it go.
Nam Dong Gun looked there for a few times and shook his head. He left the office and went to the parking lot. He drove his Hyundai back to his apartment after being stuck in traffic jams.
Thanks to the section chief who just organized a drinking session the day before yesterday, I need to take a break in the past two days, otherwise today I would probably have to drink one, two or three games until I am unconscious before I can come back to rest.
He bought some miscellaneous noodles to fill his stomach. After washing his clothes, he sat on the sofa and felt a little bored. He turned on the TV and flipped through several channels but didn't see any TV series that he liked. After looking at the table below, Nan Dongjian's mind Suddenly I remembered the "Misheng" that Chi Jingyuan's fans in the company had been promoting at Amway these days.
Of course he has heard of the name Chi Jingyuan. After all, it has been really popular in the past two years. EXO and Chi Jingyuan are good common topics to talk to little girls, even if they are not interested in boy bands at all, like Nan People like Dongjian sometimes go to find out more.
He has no interest in EXO at all, but he has watched some of the two TV series produced by Chi Kyung-won because they were so popular. However, from his perspective, he feels that "The Heirs", a drama that has become popular all over Asia, is highly praised. It's very ordinary, plots such as chaebol's Cinderella love are not to his liking at all, and his impression of this most popular idol actor can only be said to be good or bad.
Jintu drama "Wei Sheng"? Workplace drama?
After thinking about it briefly, today happened to be the premiere on Friday. Anyway, he had nothing to do, so Nan Dongjian simply changed the channel and watched it with a critical eye.
Thanks to him being a cable N subscriber.
Jintu Drama starts broadcasting at 10 o'clock every Friday and Saturday night. It was already 9:50 when he sat here. He didn't wait for two minutes after changing the channel. After a burst of commercials, it entered the broadcast time.
After a pleasant BGM, an office scene and an overhead shot of Seoul's busy traffic, the word "Misheng" with a rain screen special effect appeared on the screen. "Misheng" has officially started broadcasting.
The melodious BGM is accompanied by the panning shot of the wilderness rock wall, and at the same time, Chi Jingyuan's deep voice narration rings in his ears:
"The road is not walked out, but created in order to go out."
"A road that cannot be taken out is not a road."
The scene of ruined walls, coupled with just the right
With the accompaniment and the calm and magnetic narration, an indescribable sense of desolation arose spontaneously at the beginning, but Nan Dongjian felt that this paragraph was very redundant and made it mysterious:
"Pretending."
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Kelai, played by Chi Jingyuan, appeared in the camera. The screen slowly moved from behind to in front of him, giving him a close-up full-body close-up. He was dressed in a straight suit, with a superior figure and a specially designed exposure. With the makeup on his forehead, the image of a confident workplace elite emerges vividly on the page. At the beginning, the male protagonist really shines when he appears on the stage for the first time.
Even though he couldn't stand it, Nan Dongjian, who was looking at his attitude, couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "This guy is really good-looking. No wonder there are many employees who graduated from universities who are his fans."
However, I soon became a little disdainful of this casting. I felt that it was just the old-fashioned omnipotent handsome guy protagonist from the Peninsula idol drama. It was said to be a workplace drama, but it was just an idol drama wearing skin.
In the reality he knows, someone who is so good-looking will definitely be jealous of others in the workplace. If it is a girl, it may be an advantage, but if it is a man, it is really not necessarily the case.
Unless there are connections and background.
Although I complained a lot in my heart, the quality of the footage in this section really impressed Nam Dongjian. He felt that the pictures and footage had the style and quality of a movie.
These are the scenes that Chi Jingyuan and the others shot in Jordan before. They placed the plots of the last two episodes in the first episode to arouse suspense.
The entire opening scene is to show the grown-up Zhang Kelai's spirit and decisiveness and maturity in handling things from all aspects.
Although I watched it with a critical eye, Nan Dongjian quickly got involved in the tight and intense chase and escape scene in the street at the beginning. He watched Zhang Kelai and Xu Jin go up and down the streets of Jordan’s old city with a very distinctive style. You chase each other, and the tense BGM really gives people the feeling of an action movie.
"Bang!" There was a loud noise, and the sudden collision made Nan Dongjian startled. Looking at Chi Jingyuan who staggered up after being hit, he was speechless and didn't know how to evaluate it.
He was really shocked by this sudden collision.
Jordan's foreplay ended with Zhang Kelai leaping off the roof of the building and entering the main episode of the first episode. Many viewers in front of the TV did not react for a while.
After entering the main film, Zhang Kelai, who was high-spirited, mature and reliable just now, was suddenly brought back to his original form. The first scene at the beginning showed him working part-time in a bathhouse and diligently cleaning windows.
After washing the glass, he quickly put on his uniform and ran to work as a driver. While panting and running quickly on the street, he used his mobile phone to contact customers.
"Here, I'll reward you."
Before sending the drunk client to his home, he bent down and picked up the banknotes that the other party had thrown on the ground as if he were giving alms. He found that it was a banknote with a face value of 50,000 Korean won and the other party gave him too much. He quickly chased after him and wanted to tell him, but the other party He waved his hand casually and closed the door without looking, leaving Zhang Kelai silently looking at the money in his hand, with a silent and complicated expression on his face.
A few simple plots show the family background and work character of the male protagonist Zhang Kelai. Because the family is very difficult, he works various part-time jobs, such as cleaning, driving, etc., every day. All very hard.
However, although Zhang Kelai is a single-parent family, the family is very warm. Her mother saw that her son was about to go to "Quan International", a well-known comprehensive trading company, for an internship for some special reasons but did not have a new and close-fitting suit. While cheering, he decided in his mind to buy his son a new suit so that he could wear it more decently.
When he came to "Quan International" as an intern, Zhang Kelai was assigned to the third sales team. When he just joined the company, he sat there doing nothing, just like a visiting guest, with a dazed look on his face. However, he was soon assigned to the third sales team. Jin Daming, the agent of the team, called him to the rooftop and started to feel his bottom.
"Your name is Zhang..." Jin Daming knocked on the cigarette case on the rooftop and popped out a cigarette. He held it in his hand without lighting it, and without any intention of smoking, he put the cigarette case in and looked at the other person with a smile on his face. asked without smiling.
「
Zhang Kelai, my name is Zhang Kelai. "
"how old are you?"
"26 years old."
"I see that you stopped studying after passing the college entrance examination?"
"Yes." The smile that had appeared on Zhang Kelai's face just now, played by Chi Jingyuan, suddenly froze, his eyes wandered, and he responded softly.
"Did you drop out of high school? Or just don't want to go to school, or something happened?"
"I didn't go to school..."
"Why?"
"..."
"Do you have any work experience?"
"..."
"Can you speak English or other foreign languages?"
"Won't……"
A few simple but straightforward questions revealed Zhang Kelai's self-esteem layer by layer, leaving him not knowing how to answer, so he could only respond with silence.
Jin Daming found out Zhang Kelai's background with just a few words. He immediately lost interest and casually greeted him before leaving first.
Zhang Kelai, on the other hand, squatted down, picked up the cigarette that had been thrown away without smoking it, and threw it into the trash can. He stood by the rooftop and looked quietly into the distance, feeling deeply self-conscious because of his speechlessness just now. Reflect.
"What exactly have I done in the past 26 years..."
Seeing this scene, Nan Dongjian, who had always had a condescending attitude before, suddenly felt a wave of excitement in his heart.
On the screen, Zhang Kelai's shame, self-esteem, sadness and sadness were indescribably complicated under Jin Daming's questioning. Although he was across the screen, he could clearly feel it in Chi Jingyuan's eyes.
Just a few looks and expressions, as well as a low-pitched self-torture, made Nan Dongjian instantly understand Zhang Kelai's complex emotions at this time.
After being silent for a long time, he lowered his legs that had been crossed at some point, straightened his waist slightly, and continued to read more seriously.
Unknowingly, Nam Dong Gun really started to get involved in this TV series.
Competition among sales groups is fierce. In order to increase performance and busy work, each sales group is also short of people. However, the shortages are employees with high education and strong work ability who can make a difference immediately.
An intern like Zhang Kelai who has no experience, knows nothing, and has a high school degree is directly regarded as a burden and a connection, and no one takes him seriously.
It’s no wonder that others are like this. Everyone in the workplace needs to show their abilities and values, but Zhang Kelai, who just broke in, is like a new-born ignorant child who doesn’t understand anything, whether it’s answering the phone, organizing documents, or even He didn't know how to copy materials at all. He stood there with a confused look on his face, which seemed out of place with the busy environment around him.
As if he was just a superfluous person.
At the same time, the role of An Yingyi, played by Kang Sora, was transferred. She is also an intern who has just joined the company and is currently working in the second sales team. However, An Yingyi is skilled in business, fluent in foreign languages, and also very courageous and creative. The work is handled in an orderly manner, and an ase was completed not long after joining the company. He is the employee that all section chiefs want, and he is also the most eye-catching one among the interns.
Zhang Kelai and An Yingyi formed a very sharp contrast, which increasingly highlighted the loss and frustration of the male protagonist.
Because of a coincidence, An Yingyi helped Zhang Kelai answer a call from a client, which gave Zhang Kelai an idea. Whenever he encountered any problem, he would lick his face and ask An Yingyi for help. Even if he was looked down upon, he would put down his pride and sincerely plead, and at the same time, he would learn from her by his side. Every move and approach.
No matter how unwilling or impatient the other party appears.
Zhang Kelai’s inner narration seems to indicate his thoughts and psychological changes at this time:
"I have no time to care about face, dignity or self-esteem. Those are insignificant to me now."
At this time, news spread that he had a high school diploma and no experience. Many interns who had graduated from prestigious universities at the same time were dissatisfied. They felt that after working hard for so many years, they were working with a high school student, which seemed extremely worthless.
Under the initiative of some people, no matter when eating or
Even when riding in the elevator, Zhang Kelai would be subjected to strange verbal attacks and explicit workplace exclusion.
Even though he knew these things well, Zhang Kelai, who had not yet demonstrated his own value, could only cheer up and face it with a reluctant smile.
Only Zhang Baiji, who was also an intern, had no prejudice against him and even took the initiative to defend him.
The first day of internship ended in this way. The actor returned home in the evening and showed the audience his past experiences and family changes through memories.
He has been a very fond of Go since he was a child. He is also quite talented and is very serious and hard-working. However, due to family changes, his father had an accident and needed money, so he has been working various part-time jobs for a long time. After graduating from high school, Didn't even go to college.
At the same time, he was hesitant and distracted due to his part-time job, which caused him to never pass the entrance examination of Go. When his deadline to become a graduate student at the Peninsula Chess Academy came, he gave up the Go game that he had always loved and worked hard for.
The next day, section chief Wu Shangzhi was late because of a traffic jam. At Jin Daming's request, Zhang Kelai used Go to retain the foreign client he was scheduled to meet, which was considered his first small achievement after joining the company.
It's just that such a small thing can't change other people's opinion of him. Wu Shangzhi, the section chief of the third sales group who just returned from an overseas business trip, said bluntly to Zhang Kelai in the car: "Our group does not need promising rookies...after returning , I may return you... What is your selling point? Try to impress me with it."
"I work very hard." After some nervous thinking, Zhang Kelai said what he thought was his greatest advantage and his only strength.
But when Wu Shangzhi heard it, he felt a little ridiculous and shook his head: "There is no one here who doesn't work hard."
After arriving at the company, Wu Shangzhi didn't have time to say anything. He had just given Zhang Kelai the task of organizing and summarizing files on the computer, and then he received a call from Jin Daming, saying that there was a problem with the supply of a batch of yuyu goods. The original goods It should be pure squid, but now it is found that the supplier may have adulterated it with frozen squid to make up for it.
This is not a small problem. Once this batch of squid is made into food, if squid is mixed in, the purity will be greatly affected.
Because there was an automated factory and there was a shortage of manpower, Wu Shangzhi decided to take people directly to manual inspection after thinking about it. He went to the place where the goods were stored to personally find out whether there was adulterated eucalyptus in it.
And just when Wu Shangzhi answered the phone, Zhang Kelai's mother brought the brand new black suit she had just bought to the company. She handed the suit to her son in the hall. The other party was a little confused when she saw the suit. While talking, she pointed at her eyes and explained: "You will know when you become a parent. If you see your child wearing immodest clothes, your eyelids will feel like they are stuck and you will be unable to do anything all day long."
After leaving a touching quote, my mother waved handsomely and left the company, leaving Zhang Kerai speechless as he stared at his back.
Changing into a new suit in the bathroom, Zhang Kelai had just returned to the third sales team when he was raped by Wu Shangzhi. He took all the new interns to the company to the factory to inspect Yuyu.
Because there were not enough work clothes, Zhang Kelai, who was not assigned, could only wear a new suit to go into battle. At the same time, the working environment was still very cold and he could not take off his clothes.
Moreover, there are a total of 9 interns in the five refrigerated trucks, and they work in pairs. When they were grouped, no one wanted to be with him due to obvious exclusion. In the end, only Zhang Kelai was left, and he could only complete the work of two people alone. The workload is such that one person can inspect a car of 3.5-ton fish.
When people are unlucky, nothing goes smoothly. When Zhang Kelai was checking the squid in the refrigerated truck, he splashed a lot of water, and his cell phone also fell into the big bucket of squid.
When he finally found the adulterated squid, he discovered that Wu Shangzhi had called to inform him that he didn't need to look for the squid anymore and could leave. The people who came with him had already left in a special car to go back to the company.
Among them, the two interns who were sent to call him were the ones who hated him the most. They deliberately withdrew without notifying him.
most
Later, an employee of the factory discovered that he was still working inside, and he shouted twice in great surprise before he found out about it.
The confusion and confusion on his face when he knew he had been abandoned, and the loss and anger that had accumulated in his heart for a long time were clearly shown in Chi Jingyuan's expression.
When I saw Chi Jingyuan's frozen face close-up on TV, with his hair a little messy due to work, and his suit and face splashed with a lot of dirty water, after seeing this scene, I don't know how many viewers, including early Nan Dongjian, who had already sunk in, trembled in his heart, and for some reason a feeling of empathy came to his heart.
Because the factory was far away from the city and it was difficult to take a taxi, Zhang Kelai finally got a ride back to the city alone and went to the place where the interns were celebrating their meal.
Those who came back early had already finished eating and were chatting at the door. Prepare to go home and rest.
While they were chatting and joking lively, section chief Wu Shangzhi happened to arrive at the door, and together they saw Zhang Kelai walking from the side, looking embarrassed and smelling fishy.
Ignoring the ridicule and weirdness of these people, and not obeying Wu Shangzhi's suggestion to go back and rest first, Zhang Kelai turned around alone after bowing to the section chief, preparing to go back to the company to work overtime and complete the work that Wu Shangzhi gave him in the afternoon on the computer. The task of summarizing documents.
As he gradually moved away from the crowd and gradually approached the camera, his inner monologue also sounded:
"Are you saying I'm too serious?"
"No, it's just because I'm not serious enough, so I have to go out into society to train myself."
"I was abandoned because I wasn't serious enough."
Finally, Zhang Kelai's firm expression with pursed lips froze, the OST sounded, and the first episode of "Wei Sheng" officially ended.
Looking at this last picture in confusion, Nan Dongjian fell into silence for a moment.
Obviously I looked at it with a critical eye, I was obviously indifferent to the idol actor named Chi Jingyuan and even a little disgusted with it. I was obviously a little disappointed at the beginning and found all kinds of faults with the male protagonist and this drama.
But why did he unknowingly sit on the sofa for an hour and a half without moving or even going to the toilet?
Why did he have empathy with the character played by Zhang Kelai, a rookie in the workplace and an actor with such a superior appearance?
Why is it that the pace of this first episode is so slow and there is no emotional drama? Not only is the protagonist not a son of a plutocrat or a professional elite, but he has been frustrated and abused. However, the more he watches, the more he becomes more and more immersed in it.
Why was it that when he saw the last close-up of Zhang Kelai, something in his heart was suddenly touched, and he suddenly thought of himself inexplicably?
After thinking about it, Nan Dongjian found that apart from complaining about the male protagonist's eye-catching appearance at the beginning, he never felt this way again after officially entering the plot.
He even couldn't help but secretly applaud Chi Jingyuan several times because of Chi Jingyuan's shocking and memorable facial expressions.
"This drama..."
Nan Dongjian was stunned for a few minutes while watching the advertisement that appeared on the TV after the end of the first episode. He picked up his mobile phone and clicked on the search website naver. After a while, he entered two words.
Not born.
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The first episode of "Misei" is a 90-minute special broadcast, which is much longer than the 60-minute duration of ordinary Peninsula TV series.
However, after watching it, many viewers still feel that they are not satisfied.
After the first episode was aired, there was a heated discussion on the Internet that night. After a night of fermentation, it had already caused quite an impact the next day.
"It's really great. I watched the promotion yesterday and wanted to watch it casually because I was bored. I finished it without even realizing it. It was very well shot."
"After watching it, I don’t want to comment on anything else. I just want to say that Chi Jingyuan is indeed one of the best acting actors in the 20s. I watched it all yesterday. When he played the role of Zhang Kelai, a novice in the workplace who has always been frustrated, his appearance was too superior. But there is no feeling of overestimating the guest. It makes people feel very natural, as if he is the little clerk.
Same. The close-ups of his expressions at the end were really shocking, especially the scene where Leng Dongche knew he had been abandoned, and the close-up at the end. I really blew it. PD Kim Won-seok was right. Yes, he is the best actor among the younger generation.
"Indeed, I just rewatched "The Heirs" not long ago, and today I watched "Misheng" and I didn't feel that it was a drama at all. From Jin Tan to Zhang Kelai, I don't know how big the gap between the two characters is. The acting skills are really Very good, the crew is really good at casting."
"After reading it, I felt that it was really quite real, including the handling of various work matters in the third sales group, the interactions between interns, and various competitions and exclusions. There are many similarities with what I have experienced personally, and there is no such thing as a close relationship. My ambiguity, this is the kind of workplace drama I want to see."
Chi Jingyuan picked up a bun with a kuaizi and stuffed it into his mouth. While looking at the enthusiastic reviews of "Misheng" on the Internet, his mood suddenly became much better after he had just woken up.
"What are you looking at that makes you so happy?"
