In the next few days, with Avril as the guide, the two of them traveled all over Los Angeles...actually, they mainly visited Hollywood.
As a world-renowned film center, this is the first time Chang Sheng has come into contact with this place, whether in his previous life or in this life. He is full of curiosity about this place.
So when Avril Lavigne asked him if there was anywhere he wanted to play, Chang Sheng blurted out "Hollywood."
Avril is wearing a peaked cap and sunglasses, and since she is not very famous yet, no one will recognize her at all.
She can play around with Chang Sheng without being disturbed.
They took photos on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, watched movies at the Chinese Theater, watched movie shootings at Paramount Studios, and went to drink at the bar on Sunset Terrace Commercial Street in the evening...
Every day is just playing, but Chang Sheng feels very fulfilled - he has never played so crazily like this time, without thinking about anything, just playing, going to different places, seeing different scenery, meeting different people
People eat different things and drink different wines - this life is a bit decadent, but I really put aside all worries and other distracting thoughts and just play.
Chang Sheng doesn't think about how to lead Valencia to defeat Real Madrid in an away game, and Avril doesn't think about the problems that occurred during the recording...
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In a few days, they visited all the places they were interested in, and the vacation ended in one day.
Chang Sheng will return to Spain, and Avril Lavigne will also enter the recording studio again to record.
On the last day, I didn’t seem to know where to go.
"Why don't we just take a stroll." Chang Sheng suggested.
Avril readily agreed.
This time they did not deliberately go to a tourist attraction or gather in a crowded place.
They just wandered aimlessly on the street.
When I see an interesting store, I go in and browse around, but I don’t buy anything. I just admire it and then come out.
Sometimes, it's fun to enjoy this kind of casual shopping.
Chang Sheng used to go shopping with someone who hated shopping - although he had no experience of going shopping with his girlfriend, he had the experience of going shopping with his mother. In his opinion, women only have no generation gap when it comes to shopping. Regardless of age,
They all like shopping. Women naturally like beautiful things.
They are interested in all the beautiful, fun, novel, interesting, colorful and colorful things.
Just like the dragon in Western fantasy novels.
Chang Sheng felt that if he kicked his legs and walked briskly for an hour, he might not feel as tired as if he walked slowly and went shopping with his mother for half an hour.
But I don't feel that way today.
The two of them were walking like this, chatting.
It's like driving on the road in China. It doesn't matter the destination or how long it will take.
When you are tired from walking, find a place to rest, just like other tourists.
When they passed a place where street performers performed, the black singer's singing attracted Avril's footsteps, and she stopped and listened quietly.
Chang Sheng was also there to accompany her.
Pedestrians were rushing around, and they were the first audience of black singers.
Since they stopped here to listen, other tourists gradually stopped to enjoy the black singer's performance like them.
This brought the black singer a lot of popularity and money.
When he finished singing, there was a burst of applause from the crowd. Then everyone came up and threw money into the black man's guitar box.
Chang Sheng looked at the black man who was singing and thought of his own experiences. When he was in college in Beijing, it was when all kinds of messy thoughts filled his mind. At that time, he had many ideals, many longings and hopes for the future.
planning.
For example, it was his dream to be a street singer, so he studied guitar hard for two years, and when he was about to graduate, he went to sell songs in the subway passages of Beijing, hoping that one day someone would discover his talent and then walk on the Avenue of Stars.
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But unfortunately the reality is cruel. He sings better than those who are tone deaf. He plays guitar better than those who are tone-deaf, but that’s it. Among people who play music, he is not worth mentioning at all. He only entertains himself.
Okay, but it’s difficult to make a living on this.
So of course he failed later.
In fact, after graduation, he worked many jobs and had many ideals, but none of them belonged to being a football coach - he called it a fantasy, not an ideal, because he could only do it in the game, but it was absolutely impossible to pay for it.
All implemented.
What would you do if you weren't reborn?
In fact, he was not a homebody at all in the beginning. He learned guitar, he set up a street stall, he did door-to-door sales, did jump drills, distributed flyers... He did all kinds of jobs. In the end, he accomplished nothing, so he finally accepted his fate and worked in an advertising company.
The company found a job with a meager income that didn't even provide social security. Apart from going to work every day, I would immerse myself in FM's virtual world when I went home, leading the virtual stars to win one championship after another, fantasizing about it.
He is a world-famous coach, and he can scold those big-name players here and there.
He didn't even bother to go out to find a girlfriend. When his parents introduced him to blind dates, he turned them down for various reasons.
——If you don’t even have a house, how can you find a girlfriend?
——I only have so little money a month. I can’t even support myself. How can I support my wife and children? Forget it!
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Over time, he became what others saw as an otaku. Of course, the people in the family compound where they lived were not so trendy yet, so they used another word instead - "good-for-nothing".
He thought again of a Japanese TV series he had watched. There was a short story in it about a kind of lollipop. People who eat it will discover their own potential. The loser protagonist ate a lot and discovered a lot of his potential, but
None of them are suitable for making money and living. One of them has a talent for playing football, but what professional team would want a player who only knows how to throw the ball? Only then does the protagonist discover that his greatest potential is actually his talent for crime...
For Chang Sheng, rebirth may be like a lollipop. It made him know what his greatest talent is. Without this experience, he might not have known that he could actually be a football coach and work as a football coach until his death.
Not bad... His life may remain unchanged, going on calmly until the end of his life.
Sometimes when he is addicted to games, he will think of such a future, and then feel panic and fear.
Then he would go to sleep and get up again. It would be the same as before.
He is now in college without time travel, and he wants to practice guitar and become a singer. He never imagined that he would be able to walk on the streets of Los Angeles with a star like Avril Lavigne. With this exotic feeling in his heart, he watched other people's busking performances on the street.
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This is where my destiny diverges.
Chang Sheng, who was thinking deeply, took out the change from his pocket, walked forward, and put the money into the other person's guitar case.
After the black artist thanked Chang Sheng, he pointed at Avril, who was traveling with Chang Sheng: "Hey, girls. You are the first one to come to hear me sing today. As a thank you, I can invite you to sing a song."
Avril, wearing a peaked cap with a low brim, smiled: "Well, I'm tone-deaf and can't sing. But I have a suitable candidate!"
After saying that, she pushed Chang Sheng out hard.
"This is a pop singer from China! He sings beautifully!" she announced loudly to the people around her.
These tourists are people who like to watch the excitement and are not afraid of big troubles, so they started making noises one after another.
"Chinese singer? Oh my God! I have never heard a Chinese singer sing!"
"Are they singing in Chinese?"
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Chang Sheng was pushed out by Avril. He was stunned for a moment, and then realized what happened. He turned back and glared at Avril, who smiled brightly at him.
The black man was also cheering: "Come on, man! Don't be shy! There's nothing difficult about performing in public!"
He thought Chang Sheng was shy and nervous.
The onlookers also whistled and applauded, encouraging Chang Sheng to go up.
Chang Sheng naturally wouldn't be nervous about performing in public. He went to the underground tunnel to sing before he was in college. Now he is the head coach of a La Liga team. What big scene has he not seen?
Now this is considered a small audience.
So he didn't show any pretense and stepped forward to take the guitar handed to him by the black man.
"Brother, can you play the guitar? Ah... I forgot that you are a Chinese pop singer!" This black man is quite enthusiastic, but he is a talkative person and talks a lot of nonsense.
I gave the guitar to Chang Sheng. He walked aside and sat down to rest.
Chang Sheng hung the guitar on his shoulder.
As he held the guitar, he took a deep breath.
It’s been a long time since I touched this thing…
He plucked the strings casually, listened to the sound, and then began to tune the strings.
Seeing his skillful movements, the black singer whistled to express his surprise.
Avril Lavigne always kept smiling while looking at Chang Sheng.
She was not surprised at all, because the first time they met, they had talked about music and Chang Sheng had sung for her.
Chang Sheng had finished auditioning, but he hadn't decided what to sing yet.
He was stunned for a moment, and then a song appeared in his mind.
So he plucked the strings and began to sing.
The slightly hoarse voice instantly attracted the ears of the listeners like a magnet.
At first, everyone was just joining in the fun, and no one thought that a Chinese tourist could sing so beautifully.
But after Chang Sheng sang the first line, many people's faces changed.
The cheerful smile disappeared and was replaced by a serious expression.
His originally expressionless face raised his eyebrows and revealed a delighted smile.
In fact, they had no idea what the lyrics sung by this Chinese person meant.
But the language of music is universal. The charm of good songs is that you don’t need to understand the lyrics. You only need to listen to the melody and the sound, and you can seem to hear the emotions sung by the singer.
Chang Sheng, on the other hand, really sang with great concentration this time.
Because his own experience and his experience of seeing "brother" merged together at this moment, and they both became his experience, and he felt them all.
"When boredom meets hesitation, it is not easy to achieve your ideal..."
Even if you have confidence, your fighting spirit is suppressed.
Whoever determines whether I go or stay determines the universe in my heart.
I just want to wave to my ideal with both hands!
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Avril has never heard this song before, and her uncle never sang it to her before.
Although she thought the song "Sea, Sky, Sky" sung by her uncle was very nice, this one also had a different flavor.
"When you ask how high the sky is, your ambition is higher than the sky. Live to old age with an invincible attitude of self-confidence!"
As he sang, he thought of two past episodes of his own. Due to his emotions, he suddenly roared: "Oh - oh - oh - I have a story from my heart! I wrote every gain and loss, joy and sorrow with my own hands.
Meng'er!"
"Oh - oh - oh - don't shy away from the trauma. Your dreams will come true one day, and you will finally see the world you dream of in your heart!!"
Yes, you can finally find the dream world in your heart!
I traveled to this world myself just to realize my dream.
Now we are walking on the road to the dream world. Although the road is tortuous and full of thorns, there are even no roads in some places. You need to chop with a knife to make a way.
But walking on this road, I can see scenery that I have never seen before in my life.
Become the head coach of a professional team, become one of those people who could only be seen in front of the TV, in newspapers, or in games before, and lead the professional team to fight and win in this battlefield without the smoke of gunpowder, and compete with legendary stars.
Play against a famous coach from a wealthy club and win the cheers of the fans. When the whole stadium is filled with voices shouting your name, you will be trembling with excitement. When you lead Getafe to overcome the economic crisis and finally win the championship,
Chang Sheng really feels like "the whole world is at my feet"...
This journey has only just begun. Although we have encountered various difficulties, and although we are always ridiculed and questioned by others, we have no regrets and no hesitation.
Because he is convinced that this path is the best path for him!
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Seeing Chang Sheng singing with such devotion below, Avril was also a little touched.
Although she couldn't understand what Chang Sheng was singing, she thought the song must be related to her uncle's experience, otherwise he wouldn't have sang so emotionally with his eyes closed.
The melody sounds so exciting and progressive, but it doesn’t sound like a love song...
She thought of the stories her uncle told her about his past.
Maybe it has something to do with those past experiences.
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After singing the song, a burst of warm applause and whistles broke out from the crowd watching.
Obviously, Chang Sheng's performance exceeded their expectations, so their response was even more enthusiastic.
Amid everyone's applause and whistles, Chang Sheng returned the guitar to the black man.
The black singer jokingly said: "Hey, man, don't sing again, otherwise I will have no business!"
Chang Sheng laughed and returned to the crowd: "Let's go."
