Wang Mani, one of the three protagonists of "Thirty Only", is very representative, representing the experience of many girls in small cities and rural areas who work, struggle, wander and tangle in big cities through their own hard work.
Wang Manni comes from a quaint small city in Zhejiang, an ordinary family with no worries about food and clothing, and is the only daughter of the family.
She graduated from college and stayed in Shanghai, with a good appearance, working as a teller in a luxury store, working hard, excellent performance, and earning fifteen thousand a month.
This is commonly known as Shanghai Drift!
At the beginning of the film, Wang Manni works hard, because she is afraid of going to the toilet to delay her work, often holding urine and getting nephritis, and no one to take care of the sad picture.
Mom had called and wanted her to come home, find a fixed job, and live a peaceful life.
Wang Manni said, when I am 30 years old, if I have not yet decided, I will go home.
Such a Wang Manni circle of countless fans: has a clear life goal, in order to achieve the goal of hard work, not afraid of hardship, positive, hard work, upward.
Wang Mani is the favored woman in the play, and she has a trump card in her hand - beauty.
The screenwriter opened the gold finger for her again and again, but in the end she did not use it to turn stones into gold.
In an age when beauty is justice, she could use this trump card to win the entire game, but she lost again and again.
Beauty ace in hand.
Let's take a look at how Manny Wang used this trump card.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >01 First chance: Jiang Chen, coffee shop owner</h1>
Working-class boy Jiang Chen fell in love with the beautiful Wang Manni at first sight.
As a teller in a luxury store, Wang Manni has seen too many rich people, so in the face of the poor boy Jiang Chen, she is condescending and can't look at it.
She was going to give him a disembarking and make him retreat.
She took him to the luxury store and swiped his card—look, I want something that you can't afford even if you swipe your credit card.
Jiang Chen really retreated in frustration.
A few years later, they were reunited.
At this time, Jiang Chen was the owner of a specialty coffee shop, and what remained unchanged was his admiration for Wang Manni as before.
However, Wang Manni is still the same Wang Manni, or the cabinet sister of the luxury jewelry store, or as always, worship gold.
She once again rejected Jiang Chen's love.
Refuse to be one of the majority of people living in Shanghai: husband and wife support each other, earn money together, provide housing and cars, and raise children.
Ordinary chai rice oil and salt, warm lights waiting!
Wang Manni despises this ordinary and warm life!
Warm male Jiang Chen.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >02 Second chance: Neptune Liang Zhengxian</h1>
Because of her outstanding work performance, Wang Manni won the company's award for cruise ships.
Wang Manni took out all her wealth, tiptoed up, climbed the ladder of the rich class: bought brand-name clothes and shoes, even borrowed Gu Jia's clothes, endured the pain of meat to upgrade the credit card, and went to the top restaurant to pay for her own meals.
Here, still with her trump card, beauty, met her ideal boyfriend.
Rich and interesting Leung Cheng-hyun.
Wang Manni's heart is to catch a golden turtle son-in-law.
But she herself was not sure if she could catch the Golden Turtle Son-in-Law.
So when the sea king Liang Zhengxian went to Shanghai to find Wang Mani, this unexpected surprise made Wang Mani completely fall.
The perfect boyfriend, Leung Jeong-hyun, is a little imperfect – he doesn't want to get married.
At this time, if Wang Manni can recognize the reality and analyze the pros and cons, either she and Liang Zhengxian will completely break off and continue the original life; or, use Liang Zhengxian's connections and resources to make her career go to a higher level (Liang has this strength and this willingness).
What Wang Manni is best at is asking the other party for things that the other party can't give: for example, Jiang Chen, who originally asked the working class, to spend thousands of dollars; now asking the unmarried Liang Zhengxian to turn back to her prodigal son and be single-minded.
The most frightening thing about people is that they can't recognize themselves and want things they can't get, including the most expensive and dirty self-esteem in the world.
At this time, Wang Manni's IQ is completely zero, she knows that in her own industry of eating youth rice, she has almost no advantage in her nearly thirty years and dares to be willful and impulsive, and resigns.
She rejected or gave up the connections and resources that Liang Zhengxian could give her in the workplace.
Rich and interesting unmarried Liang Zhengxian.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >03 Third chance: Civil Servant Zhang Zhi</h1>
Wang Manni, who had lost her love and job, had to return to her hometown.
In Bo's words, she did not want to go back willingly, she fled back.
This is the ostrich mentality – escape.
Her trump card once again opened her life to a blind date, and she met a high-quality male, the civil servant Zhang Zhi.
As the director of the planning department, Zhang Zhi needed a woman with an open façade to hold up his face, so he was very fond of the beautiful Wang Manni who returned from Shanghai, and quickly arranged a decent job for her, and actively talked about marriage.
Here is very out of touch with reality, as a former me who was a bit similar to Wang Manni, I have fully experienced the chain of marriage and contempt in the small city blind date market: in small cities, a decent, institutional job can almost "cover up the ugliness in white": a good job can withstand the shortcomings of appearance, education, family background, height and so on.
At that time, my cousins and cousins almost all worked in the power supply bureau, customs, government, hospitals, schools, they were very popular in the marriage market, almost excellent boys were at their disposal, and they were all highly married.
And even if my education, appearance, and height are not worse than theirs, I have no market at all, and those seven aunts and eight aunts who are willing to be matchmakers do not hide this contempt at all: who said that you do not have a good job.
In the end, I was sad and indignant, and went to Nanjing alone and became a daughter who was married far away, and the center of which was not to be mentioned.
To paraphrase an abusive phrase to describe Wang Mani: Shanghai can't accommodate her body, and her hometown can't house her soul!
She returned to Shanghai with the encouragement (I would like to say that she was encouraged) by her girlfriends Gu Jia and Zhong Xiaoqin, and once again ran alone with nothing.
She never thought about where the gap between herself and Gu Jia and Zhong Xiaoqin was: Gu Jia and Zhong Xiaoqin were both Shanghai natives, and they were both married, they already had a house in Shanghai, and they had roots in Shanghai.
And she has no roots, like duckweed, fluttering, nowhere to live!
Unable to recognize the cards in her hand and the situation she was facing, she lost the stable and comfortable life in her hometown.
Civil servant Zhang Zhi.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >04 Fourth opportunity: boss Wei, an investment tycoon</h1>
Wang Manni, who came to Shanghai alone again, found that she had no advantage when she was looking for a job, and she could not even afford to rent a house for a monthly salary of 5,000 yuan.
She thought of Boss Wei, a friend of the sea king Liang Zhengxian, the man who had seen her in her hometown and given her a business card, and she went to ask for help.
Why should Boss Jingwei, a person who is in the shopping mall and investment circles, help her?
What does she have? Or the only trump card – beauty.
Boss Wei wanted to make the line longer so that the fishing would have a sense of accomplishment: he assigned Wang Manni a task that was almost impossible to complete, and if it could not be completed, he would have to commit himself to him.
It wasn't that Manni Wang didn't know what that meant, but she was already on the table and had only one chip.
The screenwriter once again opened her gold finger, chased debts in a hundred ways, and successfully demonstrated his ability in front of Boss Wei.
Boss Wei made good on his promise to make her the manager of the luxury jewelry store where she worked.
And just over a year ago, she did her best to compete for the supervisor, even at the expense of her body.
Supposedly she should have won, but she would never play her cards according to common sense.
She refused, refused, refused!
The reason for the refusal was that she wanted to go to school, to Edinburgh to read design.
Before that, she hadn't planned it at all, and she hadn't revealed that she had a hobby or talent for it.
Suddenly this inexplicable decision was made!
Wang Manni is like a wayward child, facing colorful candies, this one also wants, that one also wants.
And once you get it, you don't care to throw it away.
Mr. Wei, a business tycoon.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > written at the end</h1>
Fable "The Greatest Ear of Wheat": Socrates asked his disciples to pick the largest ear of wheat from a field of wheat, and the disciples picked and chose, always feeling that the largest ear of wheat was behind, and as a result, they remained empty-handed until the end of the wheat field.
Life is a one-way journey, youth is like water, beauty is a delicate flower, never to return.
When beauty is your only trump card, you should play it discreetly and accurately when it is at its best, and win beautifully!
And if you always think about the biggest ear of wheat in front of you, and consume the only trump card you have again and again, how many times can the table of life make you willful?