Reborn as a comedic artist

Chapter 119 Trinity

Filming is over, but the work isn't finished yet.

To capitalize on the trending topic, the editing task had to be completed overnight.

In a hotel room in Yucheng, Li Feng sat in front of his computer, his fingers flying across the keyboard.

Cheng Ming sat beside him, staring at the screen and offering suggestions for improvement from time to time.

"Here, let's flash back to Wang Shuo's comedic version for comparison? No, don't compare."

Cheng Ming rejected his own idea: "It has to be pure. It has to make the audience feel like they've been stabbed in the heart unexpectedly after they've finished watching the joke."

"clear."

Li Feng pushed up his glasses, his eyes burning with fervor: "Leave the song transitions and the timing the editing to me."

On the screen, the timeline is moving rapidly.

Li Feng skillfully edited Wang Lei and Tong Liya's performance footage into the melody of "Sending Off the Bride."

A few hours later.

Export the entire video.

Li Feng let out a long breath and clicked play.

The screen lights up, and a mournful guitar melody serves as the prelude, as the image slowly unfolds.

There is no narration, only a story about "missing out" woven together by songs and visuals.

The scene begins with the unique gullies and ravines of northern Shaanxi, with sunlight shining on the loess slopes, bright yet tinged with a sense of desolation.

The song began, Cheng Ming's slightly husky, story-filled voice flowing gently:

On the hillside in front of your house

Wildflowers are blooming again.

I long to pick one and wear it.

Your jet-black hair

The camera cuts to the hues of memory.

Two toddlers wearing open-crotch pants were running on the hillside.

The little boy held a handful of unknown wildflowers, clumsily trying to tuck them into the little girl's pigtails.

The little girl smiled, her eyes crinkling, a pure and innocent joy between childhood friends.

Just like us, childhood sweethearts.

Playing house

[Sculpt a clay doll]

I'll be the dad, you be the mom.

The images flow.

They played with mud on the loess soil, sculpted two ugly little figures, and placed them together to worship heaven and earth.

In the setting sun, the two small shadows stretched long, as if this were a lifetime.

However, in a subsequent shot, the tone became cold and hard.

Time flies, and the children of yesteryear have grown up.

Wang Lei plays a young man wearing a tattered undershirt, squatting on the edge of a cliff herding sheep.

His eyes, burdened by the weight of life, were no longer clear; only silence remained.

Meanwhile, in the courtyard at the foot of the mountain, the girl played by Tong Liya is being pulled and pushed into a black car by her family.

.

You didn't say goodbye when you grew up.

[Left home in a hurry]

And I'm still on that hillside.

[Shepherd riding a horse]

Wang Lei stood up, looking at the commotion below the mountain, his hand gripping the whip tightly.

He wanted to shout, but he couldn't open his mouth.

Reality is like a huge chasm, standing between the shepherd boy and the girl who is about to go to the city.

[We originally thought we were]

Two melons on the same vine

[The melon ripens and falls, but you...]

The prosperity that falls outside the wall

The car started, kicking up a cloud of yellow dust.

The girl sat in the car, desperately looking back.

The vines that I once thought would entwine me for life were ultimately severed mercilessly by the scissors of reality.

She went to the bustling world outside the walls, while he could only stay inside, guarding this barren land.

The scene shifts again, showing a reunion after many years.

Or rather, it was a final farewell.

It was on this hillside, and in this same car.

This time, however, the car was decorated with large red "double happiness" characters.

When I see you again

You still have that same head of jet-black hair.

[It's just that you can't hide it in your eyes]

What you want to say to me

Tong Liya wore a red wedding dress, her makeup was exquisite, and she was breathtakingly beautiful.

But in her eyes, there was no joy of a new bride, only a stagnant sorrow.

She looked out the car window at the man standing by the roadside.

The man who once said he would pick flowers for her now has a full beard and looks as old as a stranger.

The two looked at each other.

A thousand words are contained in those silent eyes.

I said I'd wait for the day you get married.

Let me take you there.

You nod without saying a word.

Tears streamed down her cheeks.

The camera zooms in on Wang Lei.

He forced a smile that looked more like a grimace and waved at the car window.

That was a promise he made: "I will give you a ride when you get married."

Tong Liya could no longer hold back her tears, which streamed down her cheeks and dripped onto her red wedding dress, spreading a deep sense of pain.

She nodded, her movement subtle yet weighty.

What woke me from my dream was...

[The suona music played during the wedding procession]

The person who should have been welcoming the bride

[But he became the fool who escorted the bride.]

At this moment, the suona in the background music suddenly rose to a high pitch, mournful and soaring, reaching straight into the sky.

That was a unique kind of sorrow in northern Shaanxi.

Wang Lei mounted his horse and followed behind the wedding procession.

He is not the groom.

He was the most foolish person to send off his loved ones.

The sound of horses' hooves resonated deeply in the hearts of every spectator.

The suona, which is supposed to be a joyous instrument, sounds like a dirge for a lost love.

Holding wildflowers from the mountain in her hands

Riding a lonely horse

You rolled down the car window and said it to me.

Leave it here.

The convoy stopped at the village entrance.

This also marks the end of their relationship.

Tong Liya rolled down the car window and looked at the man on horseback one last time.

The wind ruffled her hair and also the bunch of wildflowers in Wang Lei's hand—wildflowers he had picked from the hillside, exactly the same as they had been years ago.

The flowers remain, but the people are gone.

"Leave it here."

Her lips moved, but no sound came out, yet everyone understood her meaning.

Wang Lei reined in the horse, and the horse kicked restlessly.

He watched as the car window slowly rose, obscuring the face that haunted his dreams.

The car drove away.

All that remained was the vast expanse of yellow dust, and that figure on horseback, holding wildflowers, frozen like a sculpture.

The image freezes at this moment.

black screen.

Only the lingering echo of that lyric still reverberates in the empty room.

Leave it here.

That night, the entire internet was sleepless.

If the previous "Rotten Wild Goose Pagoda" was a viral satire!

The release of two versions of "Sending Off the Bride" is a prime example of collaboration between internet celebrities and stars.

In the first half of the night, netizens were laughing their heads off at Wang Shuo's "red clothes, green pants, and bright red lips" rich woman look. Bilibili's parody video creators held a team-up meeting overnight, and all kinds of derivative videos sprang up like mushrooms after rain.

Wang Shuo's "twisting waist and looking back" GIF has dominated the meme battle scene and is hailed as a "god-tier meme that can ward off all love-struck people".

However, before everyone could finish laughing...

In the middle of the night, Cheng Ming promptly released the "serious version" featuring Wang Lei and Tong Liya.

There are no lines, only the extremely mournful sound of the suona, and two figures torn apart by fate on the Loess Plateau.

This extreme tug-of-war, first making you laugh like an idiot, then making you cry like a dog, directly broke netizens' emotions.

"I'm here to have fun, not to die!"

"One second I was laughing at Wang Shuo's rich wife, the next I was crying like a fool in my blanket. Is this art?"

"I'm going to Qinbei! I'm going to that mountain! Nobody can stop me!"

Overnight, that nameless mountain valley in northern Qin became a new pilgrimage site.

The land of Shaanxi was in complete uproar.

Cheng Ming kept his word. After settling things in Qinbei, he immediately headed south to Qinnan.

Compared to the desolate and rugged Qinbei, Qinnan is completely gentle and graceful.

Cheng Ming no longer used the dramatic and tragic route, but instead played with "ancient style martial arts".

Filming took a week in Qin Nan. Dressed in plain clothes, with a sword, a man, and a horse, combined with the theme of "not a hero," the film managed to capture the essence of "the true nature of a wanderer, the true essence of Yang Guo."

This is the end.

The profound history of Guanzhong, the wildness of northern Qin, and the elegance of southern Qin.

The three puzzle pieces fit together perfectly, appealing to both refined and popular tastes.

The data display screen of the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism broke through the upper limit of the coordinate axis.