Aesthetics of Violence [Entertainment]

The first day in Pingjing City.Ge Qiao turned 22 years old.

Twilight was approaching when the taxi parked in front of the three-story villa with its trunk lid open.The driver opened the door and got out of the car and unloaded two huge pieces of luggage from the trunk. From the corner of his eye, he couldn't help but glance around at the quiet and elegant community environment.

"Young man, it's fine. I'll live in such a high-end place as soon as I come here." His eyes were full of envy, and his tone was also friendly and teasing.

Ge Qiao pursed his lips. This young man who had just walked out of the campus and faded from his youthfulness was still a little shy, but he couldn't hide the excitement in his eyes.On the first day he came to this big city, he could be envied by the locals. He thought it was a good omen, as if this situation could bring him good luck.

As soon as he graduated in July, he couldn't wait to leave the place that frightened him in Shanghai. With the contract signed during the school recruitment, he went north to Pingjing City and joined a newly established entertainment company.Ge Qiao wholeheartedly wants to do work related to music. In this newborn calf's construction of his future, although this company is not enough to satisfy the glutton named ambition in his heart, he wants to get a foot in the door first. Step in, and then step on this stepping stone and slowly climb up.

From the very beginning, he didn't regard this place as his end.

He was assigned to the media group, and three months later became the only one of the five graduating interns to become a full-time employee.

At that time, the company was preparing to launch its first idol group, so all employees were asked to brainstorm a name for them.A few activists moved chairs and formed a circle. The company's four groups with a total of more than [-] people huddled together like this, and then started to come up with ideas in a hurry.Everyone's enthusiasm is very high, but they are always talking, and the topic goes off the rails. Either they start discussing which star is the hottest recently, or they talk about who is gossip on Weibo recently, and the last few Colleagues who were actively speaking went to the fun place, held up their mobile phones and began to organize everyone to add WeChat to each other.In two and a half hours, although no name was discussed, all brothers and sisters were recognized.

But Ge Qiao was excluded.At that time, he was still a novice in the workplace who entered the industry purely out of enthusiasm. He didn't know how to restrain his edge, and he still had an arrogance brought out from key universities.

He sat far away, thinking uprightly about the central theme of this meeting, typing on the keyboard to find the meaning of various beautiful words, without distraction, and then he untimely broke the happy atmosphere with bursts of laughter: "Excuse me What do you think of the word 'Grimm'? 'Grimm' in Grimm's Fairy Tales can be interpreted as this combination is like a beautiful fairy tale, bringing the audience a fantastic sensory experience..."

The whole office suddenly fell into silence.

The few people who were chatting happily didn't have time to take back the wanton smiles on their faces, and the rhythm of talking and laughing was suddenly interrupted by a cold and indifferent voice.Following the voice and looking sideways, they saw a young man sitting in the corner, because the dim light in the office could not take care of that place, so no one noticed Ge Qiao's existence.But even under this shadow, his facial features were as vivid as if they had been deliberately drawn, and there was still a layer of shallow student air.

"Can you?" He blinked his beautiful eyes and asked again.

Of course, no one took issue with his idea.

This male idol group has a name - Grimm.It was Ge Qiao who gave meaning to this combination.

The next spring.Ge Qiao's ninth month in the company.

There are only five trainees under the company, which can just form a group.The youngest member among them is only 16 years old. According to the rookie development team, this kid is very talented, and he is the material to be an idol.

16 years old, not only the youngest member in the group, but also the youngest child in the entire company.

That year, the company held a rather grand birthday party for him to celebrate that he finally reached the age to debut.Unfortunately, on the day of the birthday party, Ge Qiao was late for an hour in order to finish a pre-heating draft for the Grimm group.The birthday party auditorium was remodeled from a dance practice room. A string of "Happy Birthday" decorations were pasted on the floor-to-ceiling mirror that occupied the entire wall. The surroundings were covered with colorful colored films, some of which were not glued firmly. , fluttering down.There were some red balloons scattered on the ground, and two of them were almost exhausted, lying shriveled at the feet of several female colleagues.By the time Ge Qiao slipped in along the wall, the two most important processes, the leader's speech and the singing of birthday songs, had already been completed inside. People gradually relaxed their nerves, became more and more lax, and began to chat and laugh together in twos and threes.

The little birthday boy was surrounded by everyone, and his usual serious colleagues seemed to have turned into a group of strange uncles and aunts eating children, pinching his face for a while, stroking the top of his head for a while, and from time to time A few words of teasing made the child pursed his lips and blushed without saying a word.

The birthday cake had been cut into pieces, and everyone had almost finished their portion. Ge Qiao planned to eat a piece of cake to be happy, but he couldn't find clean plates and cutlery, so he had to give up.He thought again, since no one knows him anyway, he should just slip away first.

But before he could take a step, a leader gave an order, and everyone turned around and left the venue like birds and beasts. The birthday party probably ended hastily like this.The door of the practice room became crowded in an instant, and someone who hadn't finished his entertainment even dragged another person there to continue chatting.Ge Qiao couldn't get out, so he just stood there and played with his phone.

"This teacher?" A somewhat immature voice came from beside him.

Ge Qiao turned his head, and a hand holding a paper plate suddenly came over. There was a fairly complete cake on the plate. The hand didn't grasp the distance well, and almost hit his nose, which scared him to the ground. He leaned back, and only then did he focus on the person in front of him.

Isn't this the little birthday star who was molested just now?

At this moment, Kong Qingshan was still blushing slightly, and hadn't fully recovered from the harassment at the birthday party.In fact, he saw a new face suddenly appearing here early in the morning. It was so beautiful that he couldn't ignore it. This person stared at the table where the cake was placed for a long time, but in the end he didn't move at all.

"Want to eat cake?" He smiled brightly, and two dimples appeared on his cheeks that had not yet lost the baby fat, making him even more harmless.

"Ah," Ge Qiao realized, stood up quickly, carefully took the paper plate with both hands, looked back at Kong Qingshan, and smiled back, "Happy birthday."

"Thank you teacher." It was still a sweet voice.Except for the four members who get along day and night, Kong Qingshan calls everyone in the company "Teacher", which shows respect and is not easy to make mistakes.

But Ge Qiao didn't know this, and thought that Kong Qingshan had misunderstood his identity. He was just a new employee, not any of Kong Qingshan's teachers: "You can call me Ge Qiao, my name is Ge Qiao."

Kong Qingshan was taken aback for a moment, then smiled again: "Okay, Brother Ge Qiao."

Late summer of the same year. Grimm officially debuted.

Ge Qiao never expected that in his first workplace, his best friend turned out to be a 16-year-old idol. It was unbelievable that such a magical and realistic thing happened to him.Kong Qingshan often teased and joked with Ge Qiao that the two of them got married because of a piece of broken cake.

Grimm was not as popular as the company expected, but it also attracted a group of solid fans. They spontaneously formed support groups and fan communities, and expressed their passion on various media platforms every day, which was very lively.

Ge Qiao still has a selfish feeling that the most popular member of Grimm is Kong Qingshan.

In the idol circle, his name is Aqing, simple and cute.

In the fan circle, his name is Xiaodiwo, because of the two dimples brought out by the baby fat.

Although the number of their fans is not too many, they are also growing steadily.An investor who often dealt with the entertainment industry took a fancy to their brand value and planned to fund and arrange a solo concert for them in the Great Hall of the People in Pingjing City, a place that can accommodate nearly 2 people.

Everything looks so beautiful.

During that time, Ge Qiao was promoted to the head of the media group, and happily chatted with Shen Yan and Zhu Zan for three or four days. He even almost decided to stay in this company forever.

In the deep winter of the same year.Something is starting to go wrong.

First, a large number of Grimm's scheduled announcements were cancelled, and there were no new invitations to variety shows or commercial performances.Later, the employees went to the leader with the contract documents that needed to be signed and sealed, but they could not find anyone. Various tasks that required approval could not be carried out. The longer the delay, the fewer and fewer customers went. Ge Qiao was even told For a period of time, there is no need to contact advertisers, and there is no need to update official Weibo, official blogs and various drafts.

You must know that in the ever-changing entertainment industry, even if there is only a one-minute pause, you may be blocked forever.

And just like that, without any surprise, Grimm slowly disappeared.

It wasn't until the commissioner from the tax bureau came to the door that the twenty or so people in the office who had been kept in the dark knew that the boss had already run away and fled abroad with all the working capital.At that time, everyone thought that this was just a result of one person's greed and evil thoughts. They were still lucky, imagining that someone would stand up to take that position at this time, like a hero, leading everyone together Get out of the slump.But not long after, another representative of the company[Note]—also the boss’s younger brother—did suicide at home by taking medicine, and the suicide note accused his elder brother of using power for personal gain and doing bad things.A simple case of absconding with money eventually turned into a murder case.

The company was forced to declare bankruptcy.Listening to this cruel fact, the little girls in the office wept one after another, mixed with the low sighs of the men, and occasionally there were a few silent sobs.

This is a farce staged by businessmen at the top of the pyramid in order to snatch assets, but in the end it did not make any substantive progress in the story, and let it go.It's just dragging down more than 20 innocent ordinary people. They gathered together the day before to discuss whether to eat Malatang or Haidilao at night, and they are still looking forward to waiting for the first male idol group launched by the company to become popular. They should be given a new personality.

Only overnight.

Grimm disbanded.Kong Qingshan is not yet 17 years old.

In other words, his light only existed for half a year.

Ge Qiao resigned (though it didn't make any sense), so he thought he might as well take Kong Qingshan with him, as a way of repaying the favor of the cake.

After all, it was the first time he received a favor from a stranger, and it was rare that there was no malice.

Later, Yangli suddenly contacted him. He was the boss of an entertainment company that Ge Qiao met at a media charity gala. Although his tone was a bit greasy, he was indeed an interesting and smart person on the whole. We can talk.Yangli heard the wind and was going to poach Ge Qiao under his banner.But Ge Qiao has his own plans, he feels that he can't use his fists here in Yangli, he wants to enter a bigger platform and a stronger company.

At 23 years old, he is young and confident enough to be fearless.

Taking advantage of that meeting, he recommended Kong Qingshan to Yangli, and Yangli readily agreed to accept Kong Qingshan, but he needed to be a trainee again, starting from scratch, and there was no guarantee that he would make his debut soon .

Kong Qingshan quietly listened to Ge Qiao's report, his face was as usual, without any hesitation, he just nodded slowly, with a familiar smile on the corner of his mouth: "Thank you, Brother Qiao."

But at that moment, Ge Qiao suddenly felt that something was missing.The person in front of him was no longer like a child under 17 years old, and he didn't even look like the Kong Qingshan he knew with two small dimples.

Ge Qiao wanted to know, what was Kong Qingshan thinking at that time?

The author has something to say: [Note] Representative: The setting in this article is equivalent to half the boss, the second in command of the company.