Standing in the Time Episode 26
How is Wu?
We need his help in this proofreading.
Can you leave the third-time proofreading of Book on Enamel to me?
I think he's becoming more like someone.
Who?
Zeng Jun.
Don't judge others' lives easily.
That's his life.
Learn from him later.
I told him that you'll be his assistant.
Hello, Zimo.
Hello, Xiao.
I have two invitations of a fashion wine party.
I want you to go with me.
Many masters of the fashion circle will join this fashion gala, right?
I'll rush there as soon as I finish my work.
If you go there now, it should be in time.
It is at the Bund.
I won't go.
I didn't make up.
Moreover, I have no clothes for that occasion.
I should attend it in evening dress.
Never mind.
You're beautiful without dressing up at ordinary times.
No, Zimo.
I mean it.
If I attend it without dressing up, it's impolite.
Next time, OK?
I'm going back to work tonight and have to get up early tomorrow morning.
I won't go.
OK.
Zhou Zimo, we're ready.
Xiao, I'll hang up first.
OK. Go ahead.
The fashion celebrity is coming back.
Did you drink?
Why do you read it?
Do you want to dig at me again?
Don't be petty.
Anyway, you're a celebrity now.
Mind your words.
You always talk to me ironically.
Don't blame me.
How about the topic selection of the new book?
I've been waiting for it.
I'll do it as soon as possible.
I've been too busy lately.
I wonder if you still want to write a book.
I think your state now is somewhat…
What's wrong with my state?
Nothing.
No doubt it's important to work as a model.
But if you can't calm down,
I'm afraid it'll be hard for you to write.
I don't mean to ask you to give up anything.
I think you should make a choice and arrange well.
If you're not ready to write recently, it's fine.
We can take a long view.
Back then when Xia Fan asked me to work as a model,
you gave her some advice, right?
What?
Now you think I'm not doing honest work.
What I thought back then was simple.
I just wanted you to have income to support yourself like an adult.
I can support myself now.
However, I don't want to just work for money.
Do you mean you want to keep working as a model?
I don't think so much,
but I think at least I should be serious to it.
Wait. Wait.
Are you still Zhou Zimo whom I know?
You realize something too suddenly.
In fact, for the longer time I stay with Li Xiao,
the more I find that I'm like a willful child.
I see.
Li Xiao is your tutor.
Don't mock.
Here is the simplest thing in my mind.
First, I can't always stay here with you.
At least, I have to earn for myself a decent house.
Second,
if I can earn money by working as a model,
perhaps someday I can work with an editor I like
and publish books l like without suffering from others' temper.
It makes sense.
I respect your ideas.
But there is only one thing I want to remind you of.
Don't make decisions on a sudden whim or be impulsive.
Think carefully and clearly.
Make a good plan for modeling and writing.
I also want to discuss with you
the second edition of A Footless Insect.
I know.
I said it, right?
It has nothing to do with my writing.
Because
I'm a model,
I accept this comment.
Whether you like it or not,
at least it's a way out.
I come to get a door card.
Are you the new colleague?
Yes.
Welcome to the big family of Dongfan.
Thanks.
If you have any questions, please ask me at any time.
OK.
Good morning.
Good morning, Liang.
Good morning.
A new colleague?
Which office is he in?
The Literature Editorial Department.
What's wrong?
He is in Literature Editorial Department.
Liang, are you alright?
Did I say anything wrong?
You have a loose tongue.
What happened?
You should not tell him though you know it.
Look at him.
Liang, what's wrong?
Tell us to see if we can help.
Editor-in-Chief.
What's up, Wu Yu?
Editor-in-Chief,
why does a new colleague instead of Liang join our office?
Liang has been waiting for so many years.
He waited for a vacant position here.
You know that, right?
As to that…
As you've been busy lately,
I have no time to tell you.
Sun just graduated as doctor.
I'm satisfied with him after the interview.
It's great that he can join the Editorial Department.
He just graduated, so he has no experience.
Liang Yujie has been working here for 3 years.
He must be more qualified than the new colleague.
Wu Yu, you're somewhat a leader in the Editorial Department.
How can you judge others with bias?
What's wrong with Sun being young?
Youth represents vitality.
Once you were young men.
But Liang is…
Wu Yu, I see.
There will be more chances.
It's special with Sun.
He is a doctor who graduated from a famous university.
I have no chance to get someone as excellent as him.
Liang is a senior, but he is mainly experienced in proofreading.
Teach Sun more things later.
Editor-in-Chief.
OK. OK.
I'll keep that matter of Liang in my mind.
Editor-in-Chief, what you did is thoughtless.
Hello, Editor Wu.
Mr. Lu.
Wu Yu.
Why do you go to get material benefits as a director?
Too much work pressure recently.
I'm very tired.
Moreover, whoever go to get them, it'll be the same.
As a director, I should serve the colleagues.
Where are you going?
I…
The Proofreading Section?
Yes.
Let's go.
Go.
A new colleague joins the Editorial Department.
A curve wrecker.
Well.
Who should go to tell him, you or me?
In the call this morning,
Emmy told me that Liang knew it.
OK.
So I'll tell him.
OK.
Colleagues.
Come on, colleagues.
It's almost the end of the year.
Here are the material benefits from the Publishing Press for us.
Take them after work respectively.
All are here.
Liang, here are the material benefits.
Don't forget to take them.
Liang, I want to talk to you.
Talk here.
OK.
Well.
This morning the editorial office…
A new editor joined you.
I knew it.
Yes. I know you knew it.
Liang, listen.
Our Editor-in-Chief thinks that
the editor with higher educational background is younger, so…
I also joined the Publishing Press when I was young.
Without enough manning quotas in the Editorial Department,
I was asked to learn more in the Proofreading Section back then.
They promised to transferred me back
when there were manning quotas.
I have been working here for 3 years.
And then?
Now there are manning quotas,
but I'm abandoned instead.
Liang, no. You aren't abandoned.
What you said…
Who abandon you?
When I got material benefits just now,
administrative personnel told me that they commend and award you as an excellent employer.
The awards ceremony should have been held inside the Proofreading Section.
As we're so busy that I cancel it.
Well, fill this sheet.
Later when the bonus is transferred to your card,
enjoy a delicious meal with your family.
Right.
Well, listen to me.
Liang.
I should celebrate it as I will never join the Editorial Department.
Liang Yujie,
It is one of the most common staff arrangements in the house.
Must you be so?
Well, come on. Sign it.
As it doesn't happen to you, certainly you don't care.
I don't understand.
Is there such a big difference between the Editorial Department and the Proofreading Section?
Must you be so dispirited?
Am I dispirited?
Yes.
You aren't dispirited.
Shouldn't he be angry?
Liang, you look forward to bonus at ordinary times.
Now you get it.
Be happy.
Anyway, the Editorial Department doesn't want me.
It has nothing to do with you whether I'm dispirited.
Look, Mr. Lu.
What you did is in vain.
The harder we try to pacify him, the more furious he is.
Nonsense.
They are my men.
I'll praise them if they deserve it.
No. Liang, don't you know that
there is no difference between various division of labor in publishing industry.
What's wrong with the Proofreading Section?
Is it shameful to work as a proofreader?
Quit as editor and join the Proofreading Section.
Director Lu offered to work in the Proofreading Section back then.
If he stayed in the literary office, he would have been a Editor-in-Chief.
But he didn't.
Don't get me involved.
No.
I think…
Liang, you have a low consciousness.
You have a high consciousness.
You review manuscripts casually and then leave them to us.
You just chat over a cup of tea with writers,
while we have to work overtime here.
Liang.
If you have consciousness,
can you be more careful so there will be less errors in manuscripts?
What do you mean?
I'm careless.
Make it clear.
Liang.
Just end it here.
If you have consciousness,
can you think about your promise before arranging the new colleague?
Liang, calm down.
Wu Yu must have his own reason.
I don't care if you did it out of your own will.
However, we have to keep our word as human.
Anyway, my conscience is clear over the Editorial Department and the Proofreading Section.
Now that you don't care about me, I don't even want to join you.
Liang, mind your words.
Let go off.
You are not going to let it go, right?
All is over.
I won't join the Editorial Department in the future, OK?
Liang Yujie, you…
OK. Stop quarreling.
Well. We are distributing material benefits instead of provoking anger.
Wu Yu, go back first.
Leave Liang to me.
Go. Say no more.
Go now.
Liang, calm down.
Have some water.
Alright.
The first-time proofreading begins.
Emmy, when do you leave work?
Go to a great place with me later.
There will be an event in my friend's shop tonight.
I'm busy.
Go by yourself.
No. There shouldn't be so much work for you at the reception.
No.
I don't mean that.
I'll wait for you here.
By the way,
the scallion pancake you bought this morning was very delicious.
Let's try it again tomorrow morning.
What's wrong?
You mean breakfasts I bought before tasted bad, right?
No, I don't mean that.
I was just a little surprised.
Because I liked eating it since childhood.
Do you know?
You like it, right?
Buy by yourself.
No.
What's wrong with you today?
Whatever I said, you talked back.
Ella.
Emmy, are you still angry at me over the matter before?
Didn't you forgive me?
No.
I'm not angry.
Everything is fine with me.
Then what's wrong with you?
Hello, I'll be there soon.
You guys, take time to enjoy yourselves first.
Enjoy yourselves first.
Fine. OK.
I'll hang up.
Fine. Go now.
I don't know when I will be free.
Are you sure that you aren't angry?
No.
OK.
Then I'll go first.
I'll call you when it's over.
Call me.
See you.
Emmy, we are about to leave work.
What are you busy with?
None of your business.
Get off work now.
We have found many mistakes that we didn't find before.
We have to read more from the third-time proofreading to checking red marks and characters.
All?
Writing?
Can you write?
If not, eat some fruit.
I just bought it.
Sugar can inspire thinking and is good for writing.
How ungrateful!
Mr. Lu.
You are here.
Why do you call me here so late in the evening?
Well.
It's almost the end of the year.
The Publishing Press prepared us some material benefits.
I applied one more for Mr. Wu.
Take them to him with mine tomorrow.
By the way, he likes drinking tea.
I bought some tea for him.
Take all these things to him tomorrow.
OK.
And this one.
Money?
The Director Xu and I applied for some welfare allowances for him.
How is your work?
Is everything going well now?
Yes. Very good.
That's fine.
Listen.
Study hard from Mr. Wu.
By the way,
I found that Shi Lei seems to have found something recently.
Keep it secret.
Don't tell others?
Why should we keep it secret?
Mainly for respecting Mr. Wu's will.
Is it because he's disabled?
Though he's disabled, he's so capable.
Back then he was an editor of
Oriental Ancient Books Publishing Press.
He was a famous editor
and was rated as model worker at the municipal level.
In this case, did things go wrong with him later?
Yes.
It happened 10 years ago.
There was also Southern Book Fair.
He worked intensively without resting
for editing books in his charge
for the then Southern Book Fair in time.
Perhaps due to excessive mental stress and the lack of good rest,
he got high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis.
He fell down when he was working.
Though he was saved, he lost his hearing.
Later, he even couldn't talk.
This serious illness changed his life.
Back then the Director Xu was proofreading.
A book on porcelain.
She referred to a book edited by Mr. Wu back then.
Naturally, she consulted him when she met many problems.
So she visited an antique shop run by Mr. Wu back then.
Thus, they knew each other.
In the long run, the Director Xu convinced Mr. Wu
to provide external assistance in proofreading for the Proofreading Section.
However, Mr. Wu didn't want his name
to be listed publicly in any publications or meet people in the circle.
Maybe he was greatly affected by the previous changes.
Of course, the Director Xu respected his will.
She hid it for him to protect him well.
After I took office, she left him to me.
I also have to hide it.
Now I'll leave him to you.
To me?
Mr. Lu, how will you tell Mr. Wu that his name is in the list of the third-time proofreading?
I have to discuss it with the Director Xu.
I haven't thought of a solution for the time being.
Don't hurt him with what we try to give him.
If it makes him unhappy or even leads to ambiguity,
that's not worth it, right.
Yes.
If that doesn't work out,
Mr. Wu remains to be an unknown hero.
Yes.
Well, it has been so many years.
He has past his prime.
I don't want it to be a sad ending.
But he firmly believes that he is envied of his talent.
I can do nothing.
There are many words that can't be told.
We have to deal with our emotional entanglement by ourselves.
I'm back.
Xiao, why do you carry so many things?
These are material benefits from my company.
How great the material benefits are!
So many things.
Besides mine, there are Mr. Wu's.
Who is Mr. Wu?
He is a legend.
I'll go up first.
Would you like something to eat?
I have had dinner.
Don't work too late.
Go to bed early.
OK.
Mr. Wu, I know you'll be very angry after reading this letter,
but it's all what I want to say.
I learned your story from Director Lu.
At the Southern Book Fair 10 years ago,
you were an editor of Oriental Ancient Books Publishing Press back then.
You became deaf due to a serious illness and had to leave Ancient Books Publishing Press,
so you missed the book fair that year.
After that, you started to avoid publishing,
books, and everything related to books.
You are out of touch with your former colleagues and hiding all books you were responsible for publishing before.
I wonder if you feel inferior
and avoid all these due to the sudden deafness.
But I think you are never a disabled person.
I even think that now you're better than before
when you worked as an editor.
As I studied from you during this period of time,
you taught me to be quiet and let me know how to calm down
and realize that the strictness of proofreading
is achieved with efforts little by little.
All efforts will be rewarded.
I heard that now just two people are left
in the Proofreading Section of Oriental Ancient Books Publishing Press
and the Proofreading Section of Huning Press was canceled last month.
While in our Publishing Press,
the Proofreading Section gets less manning quotas than before.
There are more books but less proofreaders.
Some proofreading in the Editorial Department even starts to be outsourced.
Publishing Press leaders have also been discussing the Proofreading Section,
but they haven't reached an agreement until now.
Nobody knows what will happen to the Proofreading Section later.
But if it is canceled, will they be forced to leave the Publishing Press like you back then?
Mr. Wu, it may be a chance now.
I will tell you a secret.
Director Lu wants to list you as a proofreader very much this time,
but he is afraid that you may be sad, because you keep avoiding.
However, I've already regarded you as a member of the Proofreading Section in my heart.
So I really hope that you can go with me to the Proofreading Section
to meet colleagues who have worked hard with you
but never met you and tell them your story
to boost the morale of our Proofreading Section.
You were an editor ten years ago.
Ten years after that, as a proofreader,
you are still dealing with words and books.
But if you keep avoiding everything,
your talent will never be known.
You can't just sit here like the antiques in your shop.
I know what I said will offend you,
but I can't help it anymore.
Mr. Wu, I beg you again.
Could you please go with me to the Proofreading Section and meet us?
When the side of this brand saw Zhou Zimo at the wine party of the fashion gala,
they were deeply impressed by him.
Shoot with him.
I see.
Zimo, this is the shooting topic for the next issue.
If you want to be a professional model,
you must be compatible with clothes with all kinds of temperaments and styles.
I know it's a challenge for you.
But you have to know that this shooting
is not for ordinary models.
It shows that your career has reached a higher level.
I suggest that you put off some events and wine parties
to concentrate on preparing for the shooting.
I think you are a little tired recently.
Don't worry.
I can handle it.
Are you sure?
No success can be attained with one single effort.
You arrange the announcement.
Now that I've decided to work hard,
I will try my best to achieve my goal.
What's your goal?
Become a famous model.
Then work hard.
Mr. Wu, we're here.
Thank you, Sir.
Mr. Lu.
This is Mr. Wu Weimin.
I've been studying from Mr. Wu all this time.
I've learned a lot and read more than a dozen of books on enamel,
almost turning myself into an expert on enamel.
I come here with Mr. Wu to let you know the unknown hero of our Proofreading Section.
Colleagues, in fact, Mr. Wu have worked with us in proofreading several books.
Look.
Encyclopedia.
Thanks to Mr. Wu, we have achieved zero error.
At the check of red marks and characters, he found many errors.
Shi Lei,
he did the check of red marks and characters found
in the third-time proofreading of Encyclopedia for you.
He picked up many errors.
And the misunderstanding before wasn't your fault.
The reason why I kept it secret was that I had to consider his feelings.
Check red marks and characters. Low error rate. Quiet.
Is there enough time for you to check so many errors?
I have plenty of time.
What would you like to say?
Proofreading is the last red line in publishing industry.
I've been staying up late and working overtime every night lately, and my face has been wrinkled.
You can try Xiaomihu Mask.
It's super moisturizing and known as small reservoir of skin.
By the way, the shop we often visit has arrival of new dresses.
I'm too busy to go shopping recently.
I have no time either.
I saw them on subscriptions.
Look.
They are beautiful.
How beautiful they are!
I have no suitable dresses for events recently.
Where is the shop you often visit?
Zhou Zimo, are you also interested in this?
He is a model boyfriend.
By the way, please send me the address later.
Calm down.
Check these photos.
We are busy with your shooting every day.
Should you give each of us a dress?
Well, ask Amanda.
You're stingy.