"I'm sorry, Lu Ming. I didn't want this to happen either. If we continue to be together, my dad..." The long-haired girl released the hand that she had held for ten years and walked away without looking back. Eventually, she disappeared.
"Anxin..."
The young man called Lu Ming muttered to himself as he opened another can of beer. It had been a few months, but every time he recalled the scene of the breakup, he could not help but feel a stabbing pain in his heart. After all, it was a relationship of ten years!
In fact, he knew that this scene would happen sooner or later, but he always had a fantasy. However, reality still pierced the bubble of fantasy.
He was an orphan who grew up on the streets and in an orphanage. After graduating from junior high school, he self-taught to become a film projectionist. She, on the other hand, after ten years of hard work, became a well-known music producer. The status of the two grew further and further apart. One only knew how to muddle-headedly indulged in movies, while the other was famous and had a lot of money every day. It was normal for them to break up, wasn't it?
He grew up in coldness and loneliness, lost his only hope, and could only rely on alcohol to numb his nerves.
As soon as he heard the beer, Lu Ming suddenly felt breathless and weak. He could not help but think of the alcohol allergy that had not acted up for many years. The last time it acted up, it almost killed him!
Was it going to end? He could no longer lift his eyelids, but his heart was full of regret. I am also a marginal person in the entertainment industry. Why didn't I know how to work hard? If I could become a dazzling star, would all this still happen?
...
"Wah..."
The crisp cry of a baby rang out. Lu Ming opened his eyes and found a shocking fact. He had become a baby, an abandoned baby lying in front of the orphanage!
Could it be... that I was reborn? Back to the time when I was abandoned? Then wouldn't I be able to show my skills and start all over again?
As soon as this thought came to his mind, he felt dizzy and immediately realized that something was wrong. The baby's brain could not support too many thoughts, and now he was hypoxic.
Damn it! Was he going to die so soon after he was reborn? Before he lost consciousness, he saw an old Caucasian woman pick him up.
God had played a joke on him. Although he became an abandoned child born in 1980 for the second time, the location was changed from an ancient country in the East to the Norton Orphanage in North Hollywood, Los Angeles.
According to the English engraved on his necklace, he had a new name — Ryan Jenkins!
I've become a little kid? This was the reality that Lu Ming or Ryan had to accept.
Life in the orphanage was cold and boring. Ryan always had a desire in his heart, urging him to learn all the knowledge he could come into contact with. Thanks to his extraordinary language talent in this world and the old director's careful teaching, he could already speak, read, and write English fluently at the age of four.
Staying in the orphanage was not a long-term solution, but he did not know what to do. He could only immerse himself in studying and reading. Before he knew it, he had flipped through the books in the library several times.
That year, in order to get more funding, the Welfare Institute organized children above the age of four to participate in the Hollywood Halloween Parade. It was only then that Ryan discovered that the famous Hollywood was just south of the Welfare Institute.
The moment he set foot on the Walk of Fame, the classic movies and English songs he had watched in his previous life immediately flashed in Ryan's mind, as clear as if they were carved into his memory.
The parade made him extremely clear-headed. As time passed, Ryan realized that his body was much stronger than his peers. His mind was unusually clear, and he was especially sensitive to music and rhythm. He also had an extraordinary ability to construct pictures and words.
Although he did not know if he had talent in acting, from the moment he opened his eyes, he had been acting. First, he acted as a baby, then as a child, and in the future, he would also act as a teenager and a young adult. Even though some people thought he was a little strange, no one had ever doubted him. Acting had become part of his instinct.
Could it be that God had heard his dying wish from his previous life and wanted him to roll around in Hollywood? Ryan understood what his heart wanted — to become a dazzling superstar!
That was good too. He might even be able to see his favorite celebrities from his previous life with his own eyes and befriend them.
Even though Ryan knew that Hollywood was a vanity fair in reality and not a theater of dreams, he still set an unreachable goal for himself. Since he had been reborn, he should at least fulfill some of his dreams from his previous life, right?
With a goal in mind, Ryan became more proactive in his studies. He learned painting and music from the art students who volunteered, and he learned Mandarin and Cantonese from the Chinese staff. He always had to find an excuse to speak Mandarin.
In short, he learned everything related to art and tried to depict the pictures in his mind with words. After two years of repeated training, he gradually formed his own style and characteristics.
Director Katie had long noticed Ryan. She had always thought that he was the smartest child in the Welfare Institute, but strangely enough, no one was willing to adopt him. They all thought that he was too eccentric and unsociable.
Ryan also felt a little emotional. Many of the people who adopted orphans were millionaires or even multimillionaires. He also dreamed of becoming a family of people who depended on their parents, but some things seemed to have been decided the moment he was reborn. He was still living here until he was six years old.
Director Katie was Ryan's only reader. Perhaps because she was Jewish and Ryan had some Jewish characteristics, she was only a little surprised at first, but gradually got used to the existence of a genius child.
She collected all of the works that Ryan used to practice writing, picked out the best sci-fi stories, and mailed them to an old friend at the magazine. Unexpectedly, these stories were published.
When Ryan saw the magazine that the old director handed him, he knew that his years of hard work had not been in vain. For the future, it was time to start!
Other than his routine exercise and study, Ryan devoted himself to writing, or rather, plagiarizing. He began to adapt some famous children's movies into medium-length or short stories.
Novels and movies were different media. It took a lot of effort to adapt a movie into a novel that could be creative and wouldn't have a negative impact on the future, but it didn't cause too much trouble for him. With the help of Director Katie, medium-length and short stories, including Home Alone and Toy Story, were published smoothly. Ryan also received a sum of money, and the old director specially applied for a bank account for him.
However, these did not satisfy Ryan. He needed a heavyweight stepping stone. If the future was not smooth, he would be able to knock on the door of Hollywood. He set his goal on a work that would have a huge impact – "Jurassic Park"!
He had never read the original novel of Jurassic Park, so he could only adapt it according to the content of the movie. In order to match his six-year-old age and identity, the first protagonist was the little boy, not Dr. Grant.
Although he had the movie as a reference, in order to hide the truth, Ryan asked Director Katie to help him collect a lot of information about dinosaurs and cloning. It took him nearly four months to finish the novel, which was less than 250,000 words.
Whether it was the beginning or the final publication, the old director helped a lot. This Jewish woman had amazing social connections.
In the early winter of 1986, after a few months of tepid popularity, the novel entered the top ten of the American bestseller list, which brought Ryan a large share of royalties.
At the same time, Director Katie retired due to health reasons. The new director was a black woman named Macy. Ryan keenly noticed that her eyes were filled with disgust and greed when she looked at the orphans.
After the director, who was as fat as a pig, took office, the standard of living in the orphanage plummeted. Starvation gradually became a norm, and beatings, curses, and insults became a common occurrence. She even took advantage of the loopholes in the adoption system to get in touch with some adoption middlemen and started an adoption business, turning the orphans into human-shaped goods.
After reading a reply from Alien magazine, the black director had her eyes on Ryan. She used her authority as a guardian to check his bank account, only to be stunned by a string of zeros.
Such a large sum of money actually belonged to a child. For her, if this wasn't a godsend, what was it?
However, things weren't as simple as she thought. Before Director Katie left, she realized that this money might bring trouble, so she specially asked her old friend to find a reliable lawyer for Ryan. It was almost impossible to obtain this money without alerting the lawyer. The best way was to gain Ryan's absolute trust and support.
Unfortunately, she didn't understand that in Ryan's body, there was a soul whose intelligence was no lower than hers. In his eyes, her fawning, tempting, and deceiving methods were as laughable as a circus clown. However, Ryan's age and body, which didn't match his intelligence, determined that he didn't have the ability to resist.
Starving, scolding, cursing, and even beating might make other children afraid, but Ryan had never been afraid. In his previous life, he had experienced much harsher trials than this in his childhood, and he had survived all the more difficult ones.
The black director simply locked him in a remote room and asked two black helpers to take turns to monitor him. As long as he didn't give in, he wouldn't be able to obtain freedom.
Time slipped into 1987, and Ryan welcomed his second seventh birthday. His sky was already covered by dark clouds, and he began to look for opportunities. Waiting and being manipulated was not a fate he wanted. Although he could count the number of times he had left the orphanage in the past seven years with one hand, he still wanted to break out of this cage. Only the vast sky outside could support his soaring wings.
After continuous efforts, he finally removed the door that locked the sky. Taking advantage of the black helper going to the bathroom, he escaped from the orphanage.
When the morning light shone down from the sky and reflected in his eyes, Ryan's body trembled slightly. He understood how precious freedom was to humans.
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