Chapter 41
Act VI: The Little Prince (3)
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Shang Xiaorui attended a well-known animation school, it was within the top 3 in the United States. They had strong teachers and specifically hired well-known figures in the digital animation industry as visiting professors of the school.
Miranda Ikeda, the No. 1 boss of the Blizzard Animation Department, would fly to New York, a short distance away, on the 5th and 20th of each month to give students of the academy of animation two big lessons.
The 500-person classroom was so crowded that even the aisle was full of people.
Immediately after the bell rang to signal the end of class, Ikeda closed her notebook and walked away quickly from the podium.
Her high heels collided with the marble floor, echoing in the corridor. However, no matter how fast she walked, she couldn't get rid of the enthusiastic group of students behind her.
There were many people who wanted her, those who needed guidance, those who handed over a resume, and those who were simply her fans and wanted a signature... Ikeda was very perplexed, and with her stern face, an invisible wall was built on her aura.
Turning around the last corner, Ikeda was startled by the man who was "ambushing" her here.
It was a handsome young man with dark hair and pale skin. Because of his Asian descent, Ikeda subconsciously gave another glance at the man.
At this glance, Ikeda concluded that he could never be a student of the academy of animation.
The academy of animation had a strong artistic atmosphere, and the students were dressed up in eccentric ways, with various hairstyles and hair colors, and various piercings and tattoos ... This young man was dressed neatly and cleanly, his white shirt was tucked into casual black pants, and his hair is well managed, neat and tidy.
He began to introduce himself, and his voice had a unique timbre: "Hello, Professor Ikeda, I am ..."
"It doesn't matter who you are." Miranda Ikeda interrupted him. "You are not a student of the academy of animation, are you?"
"...?"
Ikeda said more with her poisonous tongue: "Look at your clothes, you look like a stock manager who just came out of the bank!"
The young man couldn't decide whether to laugh or cry.
Without waiting for him to say another sentence, Shang Xiaorui, who rushed back to get her school bag, finally caught up with them.
"Professor Ikeda!" Shang Xiaorui was out of breath from running in order to get rid of the other classmates. "You, hello ... I'm Shang Xiaorui, a first-year graduate student of the academy of animation. This is my friend, Tan Yiming."
"Shang Xiaorui?" Ikeda's beautiful eyes flowed, and her red lips raised in an arc. "I know you. You won second place in the National Student Animation Contest last year, right?"
Shang Xiaorui was flattered and hurriedly said yes.
This introduction was going much better than they expected!
Professor Ikeda was famous, but what was more famous, was her bad temper. Shang Xiaorui was just one of the thousands of students in the academy of animation. If they rushed to ask for a recommendation letter, they would definitely not get it.
Tan Yiming could only block her on the way from work, and desperately try his luck with courage.
Unexpectedly, Professor Ikeda had actually seen their work!
"Your work left a deep impression on me," Professor Ikeda said. "It's true that the script is a bit simple, but I really like your expression of homesickness. The picture had a strong oriental style, and the soundtrack and dubbing could also mobilize the audience's mood. Very good work. "
"Thank you, thank you!" Shang Xiaorui was beaming, and hurriedly dragged Tan Yiming over. "He is the voice actor of that short animation!"
With this paving the way, Tan Yiming immediately picked up, giving a brief introduction of himself, and then speaking out his request.
"Young man, you are so brave." Ikeda raised her eyebrows and asked sarcastically, "One of the opening characters is a Japanese female scientist. You can never guess how much I have to deal with this time. My compatriots who came to network... I didn't even write their letters of recommendation. Why would you think that I would set this precedent for you? "
Japan's animation industry was developed, and it was a well-known seiyuu [T/N: voice-acting] country. There were hundreds of seiyuu agencies nationwide. How were the ten recommended places enough? Ikeda didn’t know how her personal inbox was leaked, but, during this time, she was very disturbed. Many people who wanted to dub were not “little fresh meat” but famous seniors in the voice acting industry, who dubbed thousands of works.
Ikeda asked, "Since you can come for a recommendation, you must be very confident in yourself. Then tell me, do you have more work experience compared to them? Is your voice more variable? Or is your ability better?"
"..." Tan Yiming only remained silent for a few seconds and immediately answered, "I just want to be on that planet more than everyone else."
"What did you say?"
Tan Yiming's tone was sincere: "I know that I still have a lot of shortcomings compared to my predecessors. They can take out any resume, and it will be beyond my current ability. They have dubbed international films, and famous animated works... They have witnessed all the glory, all the starlight, or in other words, they are the glory themselves, they are the starlight.
"—Compared to them, I have nothing in my hand. But because I have never landed on that planet, I desire to more than anyone else."
That planet referred to Mars that the astronaut character failed to set foot on; it also referred to dreams and success.
Tan Yiming said slowly: "A friend once told me that the easiest way to get the moon is to catch the moon in the water; he also told me that the moon caught in the water is fake after all, and only after paying a thousand times the effort will you really land on that planet."
That was why he stood there and summoned the courage to stop Professor Ikeda. He pushed himself forward, hoping to let the other party see his determination and his perseverance.
In his hand, he held the CD that he had prepared, which contained his resume and collection of works. In the past six months, he had successively received a lot of works, many of which had been released, but most of them made no splash.
However, he knew that as long as the star was still hanging in the sky, his effort could not go in the wrong direction.
"..." Ikeda looked at the young man in front of her, and her gaze fell on the CD disc in his hand. This disc held the dreams of Tan Yiming. Her lips moved slightly. "Take it back, I won't take it."
Tan Yiming was startled for a moment, revealing a bitter smile.
He hadn’t thought that this proud lady hadn’t finished what she was saying.
"What day and age is it to still be using a CD disc?" She took out a business card from her wallet and placed it on that CD, her bright red fingertips knocking on the case and sending out a crisp click. "This is my work mailbox. Prepare a one-minute self-introduction, a one-minute recitation, and a three-minute dubbing performance, which should be sent here before tomorrow evening."
Her initial expression and arrogant tone subsided. "Of course, I will listen to your work first. If your work is not up to my standards, then too bad, I will not waste a valuable recommendation on you."
Tan Yiming understood immediately after a brief shock—his words had somehow moved Miranda Ikeda, and she agreed to give him a shot at obtaining a written recommendation letter from her!
He took the business card with both hands, bowed, and sincerely thanked her.
Before meeting Professor Ikeda today, he did not give himself the opportunity to consider what would happen if he failed. But when success really came, his happiness was countless times more than he expected.
This opportunity was very hard-won, it was difficult, yet went smoothly.
Witnessing everything by the side, Shang Xiaorui was crying with excitement, and she covered her mouth so as not to disturb them. However, because she held her breath for a bit too long, she opened her mouth with a loud hiccup!
Ikeda: "..."
Tan Yiming: "..."
The female professor finally smiled and turned to leave.
...
Obtaining a recommendation letter from Miranda Ikeda was just the first step. After a long wait of half a month, in April, Tan Yiming finally received a call from Blizzard Entertainment to inform him that he had passed the preliminary examination and the interview time would be announced separately.
After getting the good news, Tan Yiming immediately shared the incident with his friends.
In addition to George and Shang Xiaorui, he also told the friends on the Internet about this.
The second son was very happy for him, and now started to yell "going rich, don't forget each other".
Tan Yiming didn't forget his little swan—if it wasn't for fishing the moon in the water, Tan Yiming wouldn't have figured out what to do, let alone impress Professor Ikeda with it.
Yiming Qingyun: Cai Cai, do you remember what I mentioned to you before?
Yiming Qingyun: I received the interview notice, and I finally got one step closer to the moon.
guess: !!!!!
guess: Congratulations, Yun Da!!!
guess: When you fly to the moon, you must tell me whether the moon looks good with swans.
Yiming Qingyun: When I fly to the moon, I will definitely invite Cai Cai to be a guest on the moon.
guess: [meng goose shy].jpg
Xiang Cai didn’t know if it was a misunderstanding, but he always felt that Wang Qingyun seemed to be teasing him.
He shared his life with him, he let him know about his work ... Xiang Cai had Wang Qingyun, who's private life wasn’t well known to the other fans, and was complacent about it.
However, he read a sentence of poisonous chicken soup on the Internet, and it said that the most common illusion in the world was "he likes me too".
Xiang Cai was cautiously and cautiously guarding this little ambiguous feeling, and only wandered along the boundary line, tempted. He sometimes thought that he should be brave enough to speak his mind, but he could only stop at the thought that Wang Qingyun had no reason to like him, after all, he was just a "little boy" created by so many lies.
His troubles and gains and losses, of course, were known to Tan Yiming.
In Tan Yiming's eyes, the Guess on the internet was a good friend, with whom he had a better relationship with, compared with other friends... but that was all.
Tan Yiming was there for Guess when he cried and Guess was there for Tan Yiming when he needed encouragement —these things left traces in Tan Yiming's heart, but these traces were too shallow, like a humble chapter in a novel. It did exist, but it was not deep enough to make an unmissable dent.
Yiming Qingyun: By the way, did the Little Prince thesis I passed on to you last time help you?
guess: [Meng Goose nodding].jpg
guess: Helpful, helpful! It was especially helpful!
guess: I'm already doing my homework, and it will be done soon!
guess: Thank you Yun-sama! !!
—Poo!
Xiang Cai lied again.
He felt that there was really no one more hypocritical than him in this world.
Tan Yiming passed him the thesis he wrote when he was an undergraduate for him to use as reference notes. However, it was not until Xiang Cai received the paper that he found that the paper was actually written in English!!!
The original work of The Little Prince was in French, so Wang Qingyun's thesis would also contain some original vocabulary.
To Xiang Cai who could hardly understand the literature, felt dizzy upon just the mere sight of it. If he looked it in the eyes, he would not be able to withstand the weight of the knowledge. He could only close it!
Xiang Cai became more aware of the gap between himself and his male god—the male god was a golden university man, while he was an unsophisticated kid that could not even comprehend the Chinese translation.
His shameless vanity had risen again, and he would never admit his shortcomings before the male god.
But the homework was due after all.
Xiang Cai, Qi Ji, and Chen Ziran made an appointment to go to the school library for the weekend.
He didn’t know where Qi Ji and Chen Ziran downloaded a research paper on The Little Prince. They made a whole process, one person copied the front and one person copied the back. They also decided to leave the middle to Xiang Cai.
Xiang Cai: "... No need, thanks."
He was a good student, and he really didn’t have the heart nor the courage to copy homework.
Qi Ji and Chen Ziran copied assignments, while Xiang Cai put on headphones, and watched the musical The Little Prince again.
He skipped to the encounter between the little prince and the fox. He felt that this was the most romantic and poignant part of the whole musical.
The fox taught the little prince what was unique with a sense of ritual, and how to look at something with the mind instead of the eye.
It also taught the little prince what was called “apprivoiser”.
There were various nuances to this word......according with different translations. To tame, to calm, to domesticate ...But here, in this context, it was not a subordinate's obedience to the superior, but the fox's attachment and dependence on the little prince.
He heard the lingering and gentle "apprivoiser-moi" echo in his ears, and wondered whether he had been unknowingly tamed by Wang Qingyun.
Every time he saw the list of voice actors at the end of a TV series, he felt proud; he read about the United States and New York in English books; he couldn’t resist poking the egg yolk to let it flow down when eating poached eggs...
These once meaningless things, because of Wang Qingyun, suddenly became meaningful.
Xiang Cai thought, if this was considered "to tame", then he must have been successfully tamed by that man.
However, Wang Qingyun wasn't aware he had performed this kind of unilateral domestication.
Xiang Cai raised a pen, and silently wrote the line of the fox on his dissertation.
"Don't forget," he wrote as he said, "You will always need to be responsible for what you tame."
He thought, how could the fox say this? After all, although the little prince domesticated it, he eventually left it.
...
Today's Xiang Cai still did not understand the little prince.
However, he understood the fox.
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The author has something to say: Soon, Xiang Cai will understand the little prince, soon.
The day he understands the little prince, it will be time to part.
----------
Shang Xiaorui attended a well-known animation school, it was within the top 3 in the United States. They had strong teachers and specifically hired well-known figures in the digital animation industry as visiting professors of the school.
Miranda Ikeda, the No. 1 boss of the Blizzard Animation Department, would fly to New York, a short distance away, on the 5th and 20th of each month to give students of the academy of animation two big lessons.
The 500-person classroom was so crowded that even the aisle was full of people.
Immediately after the bell rang to signal the end of class, Ikeda closed her notebook and walked away quickly from the podium.
Her high heels collided with the marble floor, echoing in the corridor. However, no matter how fast she walked, she couldn't get rid of the enthusiastic group of students behind her.
There were many people who wanted her, those who needed guidance, those who handed over a resume, and those who were simply her fans and wanted a signature... Ikeda was very perplexed, and with her stern face, an invisible wall was built on her aura.
Turning around the last corner, Ikeda was startled by the man who was "ambushing" her here.
It was a handsome young man with dark hair and pale skin. Because of his Asian descent, Ikeda subconsciously gave another glance at the man.
At this glance, Ikeda concluded that he could never be a student of the academy of animation.
The academy of animation had a strong artistic atmosphere, and the students were dressed up in eccentric ways, with various hairstyles and hair colors, and various piercings and tattoos ... This young man was dressed neatly and cleanly, his white shirt was tucked into casual black pants, and his hair is well managed, neat and tidy.
He began to introduce himself, and his voice had a unique timbre: "Hello, Professor Ikeda, I am ..."
"It doesn't matter who you are." Miranda Ikeda interrupted him. "You are not a student of the academy of animation, are you?"
"...?"
Ikeda said more with her poisonous tongue: "Look at your clothes, you look like a stock manager who just came out of the bank!"
The young man couldn't decide whether to laugh or cry.
Without waiting for him to say another sentence, Shang Xiaorui, who rushed back to get her school bag, finally caught up with them.
"Professor Ikeda!" Shang Xiaorui was out of breath from running in order to get rid of the other classmates. "You, hello ... I'm Shang Xiaorui, a first-year graduate student of the academy of animation. This is my friend, Tan Yiming."
"Shang Xiaorui?" Ikeda's beautiful eyes flowed, and her red lips raised in an arc. "I know you. You won second place in the National Student Animation Contest last year, right?"
Shang Xiaorui was flattered and hurriedly said yes.
This introduction was going much better than they expected!
Professor Ikeda was famous, but what was more famous, was her bad temper. Shang Xiaorui was just one of the thousands of students in the academy of animation. If they rushed to ask for a recommendation letter, they would definitely not get it.
Tan Yiming could only block her on the way from work, and desperately try his luck with courage.
Unexpectedly, Professor Ikeda had actually seen their work!
"Your work left a deep impression on me," Professor Ikeda said. "It's true that the script is a bit simple, but I really like your expression of homesickness. The picture had a strong oriental style, and the soundtrack and dubbing could also mobilize the audience's mood. Very good work. "
"Thank you, thank you!" Shang Xiaorui was beaming, and hurriedly dragged Tan Yiming over. "He is the voice actor of that short animation!"
With this paving the way, Tan Yiming immediately picked up, giving a brief introduction of himself, and then speaking out his request.
"Young man, you are so brave." Ikeda raised her eyebrows and asked sarcastically, "One of the opening characters is a Japanese female scientist. You can never guess how much I have to deal with this time. My compatriots who came to network... I didn't even write their letters of recommendation. Why would you think that I would set this precedent for you? "
Japan's animation industry was developed, and it was a well-known seiyuu [T/N: voice-acting] country. There were hundreds of seiyuu agencies nationwide. How were the ten recommended places enough? Ikeda didn’t know how her personal inbox was leaked, but, during this time, she was very disturbed. Many people who wanted to dub were not “little fresh meat” but famous seniors in the voice acting industry, who dubbed thousands of works.
Ikeda asked, "Since you can come for a recommendation, you must be very confident in yourself. Then tell me, do you have more work experience compared to them? Is your voice more variable? Or is your ability better?"
"..." Tan Yiming only remained silent for a few seconds and immediately answered, "I just want to be on that planet more than everyone else."
"What did you say?"
Tan Yiming's tone was sincere: "I know that I still have a lot of shortcomings compared to my predecessors. They can take out any resume, and it will be beyond my current ability. They have dubbed international films, and famous animated works... They have witnessed all the glory, all the starlight, or in other words, they are the glory themselves, they are the starlight.
"—Compared to them, I have nothing in my hand. But because I have never landed on that planet, I desire to more than anyone else."
That planet referred to Mars that the astronaut character failed to set foot on; it also referred to dreams and success.
Tan Yiming said slowly: "A friend once told me that the easiest way to get the moon is to catch the moon in the water; he also told me that the moon caught in the water is fake after all, and only after paying a thousand times the effort will you really land on that planet."
That was why he stood there and summoned the courage to stop Professor Ikeda. He pushed himself forward, hoping to let the other party see his determination and his perseverance.
In his hand, he held the CD that he had prepared, which contained his resume and collection of works. In the past six months, he had successively received a lot of works, many of which had been released, but most of them made no splash.
However, he knew that as long as the star was still hanging in the sky, his effort could not go in the wrong direction.
"..." Ikeda looked at the young man in front of her, and her gaze fell on the CD disc in his hand. This disc held the dreams of Tan Yiming. Her lips moved slightly. "Take it back, I won't take it."
Tan Yiming was startled for a moment, revealing a bitter smile.
He hadn’t thought that this proud lady hadn’t finished what she was saying.
"What day and age is it to still be using a CD disc?" She took out a business card from her wallet and placed it on that CD, her bright red fingertips knocking on the case and sending out a crisp click. "This is my work mailbox. Prepare a one-minute self-introduction, a one-minute recitation, and a three-minute dubbing performance, which should be sent here before tomorrow evening."
Her initial expression and arrogant tone subsided. "Of course, I will listen to your work first. If your work is not up to my standards, then too bad, I will not waste a valuable recommendation on you."
Tan Yiming understood immediately after a brief shock—his words had somehow moved Miranda Ikeda, and she agreed to give him a shot at obtaining a written recommendation letter from her!
He took the business card with both hands, bowed, and sincerely thanked her.
Before meeting Professor Ikeda today, he did not give himself the opportunity to consider what would happen if he failed. But when success really came, his happiness was countless times more than he expected.
This opportunity was very hard-won, it was difficult, yet went smoothly.
Witnessing everything by the side, Shang Xiaorui was crying with excitement, and she covered her mouth so as not to disturb them. However, because she held her breath for a bit too long, she opened her mouth with a loud hiccup!
Ikeda: "..."
Tan Yiming: "..."
The female professor finally smiled and turned to leave.
...
Obtaining a recommendation letter from Miranda Ikeda was just the first step. After a long wait of half a month, in April, Tan Yiming finally received a call from Blizzard Entertainment to inform him that he had passed the preliminary examination and the interview time would be announced separately.
After getting the good news, Tan Yiming immediately shared the incident with his friends.
In addition to George and Shang Xiaorui, he also told the friends on the Internet about this.
The second son was very happy for him, and now started to yell "going rich, don't forget each other".
Tan Yiming didn't forget his little swan—if it wasn't for fishing the moon in the water, Tan Yiming wouldn't have figured out what to do, let alone impress Professor Ikeda with it.
Yiming Qingyun: Cai Cai, do you remember what I mentioned to you before?
Yiming Qingyun: I received the interview notice, and I finally got one step closer to the moon.
guess: !!!!!
guess: Congratulations, Yun Da!!!
guess: When you fly to the moon, you must tell me whether the moon looks good with swans.
Yiming Qingyun: When I fly to the moon, I will definitely invite Cai Cai to be a guest on the moon.
guess: [meng goose shy].jpg
Xiang Cai didn’t know if it was a misunderstanding, but he always felt that Wang Qingyun seemed to be teasing him.
He shared his life with him, he let him know about his work ... Xiang Cai had Wang Qingyun, who's private life wasn’t well known to the other fans, and was complacent about it.
However, he read a sentence of poisonous chicken soup on the Internet, and it said that the most common illusion in the world was "he likes me too".
Xiang Cai was cautiously and cautiously guarding this little ambiguous feeling, and only wandered along the boundary line, tempted. He sometimes thought that he should be brave enough to speak his mind, but he could only stop at the thought that Wang Qingyun had no reason to like him, after all, he was just a "little boy" created by so many lies.
His troubles and gains and losses, of course, were known to Tan Yiming.
In Tan Yiming's eyes, the Guess on the internet was a good friend, with whom he had a better relationship with, compared with other friends... but that was all.
Tan Yiming was there for Guess when he cried and Guess was there for Tan Yiming when he needed encouragement —these things left traces in Tan Yiming's heart, but these traces were too shallow, like a humble chapter in a novel. It did exist, but it was not deep enough to make an unmissable dent.
Yiming Qingyun: By the way, did the Little Prince thesis I passed on to you last time help you?
guess: [Meng Goose nodding].jpg
guess: Helpful, helpful! It was especially helpful!
guess: I'm already doing my homework, and it will be done soon!
guess: Thank you Yun-sama! !!
—Poo!
Xiang Cai lied again.
He felt that there was really no one more hypocritical than him in this world.
Tan Yiming passed him the thesis he wrote when he was an undergraduate for him to use as reference notes. However, it was not until Xiang Cai received the paper that he found that the paper was actually written in English!!!
The original work of The Little Prince was in French, so Wang Qingyun's thesis would also contain some original vocabulary.
To Xiang Cai who could hardly understand the literature, felt dizzy upon just the mere sight of it. If he looked it in the eyes, he would not be able to withstand the weight of the knowledge. He could only close it!
Xiang Cai became more aware of the gap between himself and his male god—the male god was a golden university man, while he was an unsophisticated kid that could not even comprehend the Chinese translation.
His shameless vanity had risen again, and he would never admit his shortcomings before the male god.
But the homework was due after all.
Xiang Cai, Qi Ji, and Chen Ziran made an appointment to go to the school library for the weekend.
He didn’t know where Qi Ji and Chen Ziran downloaded a research paper on The Little Prince. They made a whole process, one person copied the front and one person copied the back. They also decided to leave the middle to Xiang Cai.
Xiang Cai: "... No need, thanks."
He was a good student, and he really didn’t have the heart nor the courage to copy homework.
Qi Ji and Chen Ziran copied assignments, while Xiang Cai put on headphones, and watched the musical The Little Prince again.
He skipped to the encounter between the little prince and the fox. He felt that this was the most romantic and poignant part of the whole musical.
The fox taught the little prince what was unique with a sense of ritual, and how to look at something with the mind instead of the eye.
It also taught the little prince what was called “apprivoiser”.
There were various nuances to this word......according with different translations. To tame, to calm, to domesticate ...But here, in this context, it was not a subordinate's obedience to the superior, but the fox's attachment and dependence on the little prince.
He heard the lingering and gentle "apprivoiser-moi" echo in his ears, and wondered whether he had been unknowingly tamed by Wang Qingyun.
Every time he saw the list of voice actors at the end of a TV series, he felt proud; he read about the United States and New York in English books; he couldn’t resist poking the egg yolk to let it flow down when eating poached eggs...
These once meaningless things, because of Wang Qingyun, suddenly became meaningful.
Xiang Cai thought, if this was considered "to tame", then he must have been successfully tamed by that man.
However, Wang Qingyun wasn't aware he had performed this kind of unilateral domestication.
Xiang Cai raised a pen, and silently wrote the line of the fox on his dissertation.
"Don't forget," he wrote as he said, "You will always need to be responsible for what you tame."
He thought, how could the fox say this? After all, although the little prince domesticated it, he eventually left it.
...
Today's Xiang Cai still did not understand the little prince.
However, he understood the fox.
----------
The author has something to say: Soon, Xiang Cai will understand the little prince, soon.
The day he understands the little prince, it will be time to part.
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"The day he understands the little prince, it will be time to part." - how ominous :(
ReplyDelete"The day he understands the little prince, it will be time to part."
ReplyDeleteBeen waiting for that day... But ahhh
author sama .....u are scaring me !!
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