CHAPTER 61: CHAPTER 61: PSYCHOLOGICAL MAKEOVER, "TWILIGHT CITY"!

If there’s a place in Los Angeles that’s safer at night.

Santa Monica’s beach definitely counts.

Dr. Zhou remembers that movie.

Gump ran here.

He ran to the pier and looked at the sea.

Then he turned around and started running again.

Now, of course, there’s no Gump on this pier.

You can only see him in the Bubba Gump Shrimp Restaurant not far away.

The pier is brightly lit.

Zhou Mo Sen leans against the railing.

Watching the bright moon and few stars, listening to the rolling waves.

Beside him, also leaning on the railing, is a tall beauty.

Anne Hathaway, holding her high heels, is gazing out as well.

The two seem to be in a standoff, seeing who will speak first.

In the end, Anne couldn’t hold back.

"When you say that, are you still planning to mock me?"

This ’still’ is quite accurate.

Zhou Mo Sen said Anne wasn’t perfect in the bar, which is almost a replay of Dr. Zhou’s show.

But it could also be worlds apart.

Zhou Mo Sen laughed, "Do you care so much about my opinion of you?"

A sharp jab indeed, straight to the heart.

Anne seems a bit used to it, being jabbed so often, her shell has thickened.

"But I can tell that you seem like you want to help me."

The two exchanged glances, both smiling.

This tacit understanding is quite amusing.

Yet, Zhou Mo Sen is still quite ruthless.

"I just think, when you’re drunk, you act like a real bitch."

Any girl hearing this would explode with anger.

Yet Anne still smiled, "I admit, getting drunk is my fault. But if you say that again, I’ll throw you into the sea."

Smiling, she uttered the harshest words.

Zhou Mo Sen patted his chest, "I admit, you really scared me."

Anne burst into laughter, "Mo Sen, do you or do you not want to tell me something?"

English-to-English: She wants advice.

This time Dr. Zhou was very straightforward, "I want to give you a cosmetic surgery."

Anne was taken aback, but not to a great extent of surprise.

"Haven’t you said before that I don’t need cosmetic surgery?"

Zhou Mo Sen said, "I did, but what I mean now is, I plan to ’cosmetically’ enhance you on another level."

This sentence left Anne speechless.

What does cosmetic enhancement on another level mean?

But before Anne could think more, Zhou Mo Sen threw out a series of questions.

"You’re an actress, so you’ve seen ’Forrest Gump,’ right?"

"Yes, I’ve seen it."

"Then you’ve also seen ’The Shawshank Redemption’?"

"Oh, do you want to talk to me about that Oscar battle?"

"No, what I want to ask is, do you like Gump or Andy?"

Gump is the main character in ’Forrest Gump,’ Andy is the main character in ’The Shawshank Redemption.’

Zhou Mo Sen’s question seems fan-oriented.

But at this moment, Anne seemed to be in a standstill!

Her brain was racing, she was thinking not just about the answer to the question.

Zhou Mo Sen saw this and knew his goal was achieved.

She really is a smart girl, she’s already understood my point.

It seems whenever you mention these two movies.

You inevitably touch on the year’s Oscar Awards battle.

Many people would think it was a hard-fought battle.

But Zhou Mo Sen dared to assert.

’Forrest Gump’ against ’The Shawshank Redemption’ was absolutely an effortless kill.

Comparable to a King of Glory going to fish.

The reason he dared to assert this is because he knew some details.

The Oscars Awards are decided by voting.

The base of this voting is large, around 5,000 Oscar members voting.

What it really compares is which one members like more.

And Gump and Andy, these two main characters.

In the United States, surely more people would like Gump!

Let’s set aside movies and take a closer look at these two leading characters.

They actually represent two types of people in American society.

Gump is a guy with low intelligence but straightforward actions.

While Andy is a smart banker, he is the social elite.

Zhou Mo Sen knows these two movies have many implications, but right now he just wants to talk about these two characters.

They are two extremes, exactly representing what Zhou Mo Sen wants to say.

Gump is the one who would definitely be liked by more Americans.

The United States is just such a country.

In ordinary schools, students would ostracize the good students.

Good students even have a dedicated term.

Egghead.

One could imagine how severe bullying is.

While in school, the popular ones are those with a good physique.

Those who can run and jump, excel in basketball and football, can get the girls.

Which is... anti-intellectual!

Not even just in schools, this country is an anti-intellectual country!

There’s a scientist named James Watson.

Nobel Prize in Medicine winner.

But you must know, he’s a thorough racist.

James Watson conducted DNA research, intending to prove that white people are the smartest.

He pretty much succeeded, and his conclusion was.

White people are smarter than black people.

But, the highest average IQ is held by Chinese people!

Let’s not rush to flaunt our intellectual superiority, although every single Chinese person could reasonably shout at Americans, "You bunch of big idiots."

This theoretical basis was even researched and developed by you Americans.

But.

People are inherently foolish, and then you promote anti-intellectualism!

When a professional mage in yellow rubber shoes and cropped pants sees this, they can’t help but feel indignant...

WTF!

However, in such an anti-intellectual society, there are still elites.

Like Andy.

And Anne Hathaway.

This girl is now studying at Vassar College in the U.S.

This college is quite impressive, one of the small Ivy League and one of the Seven Sisters institutions, with a long history.

And what’s more, her major is literature.

If we compare Anne Hathaway to China, it’s as if she got into a university that requires 600 points, and she’s studying Chinese Language and Literature.

However, Americans don’t really like people like Andy.

So, they wouldn’t like Anne much either.

Because this country is too anti-intellectual, there are too many idiots.

Zhou Mo Sen’s proposal of these two movies can be said to hit the nail on the head.

So, what’s his purpose?

"Are you planning to ’transform’ me into Gump?"

Anne understood Zhou Mo Sen’s words, yet didn’t understand them.

Dr. Zhou smiled, "A smart person playing a fool is bound to give themselves away. Besides, do you want to play Gump all your life?"

Without thinking, Anne shook her head vigorously.

"No way!"

Zhou Mo Sen nodded at her response.

Anne pressed on, "Then what do you mean by transformation?"

There’s another level to it.

Zhou Mo Sen was quite certain, the girl in front of him already followed his every word.

"Didn’t I just say? You’re not perfect in my eyes."

Has the topic returned to the starting point?

Anne felt a surge of anger and pounced, hugging Zhou Mo Sen tightly.

"Talk! Or we’ll jump down together!"

One might have thought he caught a big fish, but turned out it was a piranha.

Zhou Mo Sen remained calm and composed.

"Have you ever considered a certain situation?"

"What situation?"

Anne was full of anticipation, she really needed Zhou Mo Sen’s advice.

"The situation is... let them keep hating you all they want!

And you can still make movies, still live on the stage.

No matter how much they hate you, they can’t do anything to you!"

Translation into English: Just love seeing you hate me and can’t touch me!

Anne obviously didn’t know this was later our Chinese netizens’ counter to the U.S.

Upon hearing it, her mind was instantly filled with many images.

Awesome!

Just awesome!

Just to irk those guys!

Even Anne felt a hot surge in her stomach.

Luckily, she was smart, regaining her composure once the excitement passed.

"But what should I do? This reality show is great, but what follows is that my movies will be terrible, and by then, they will definitely hate me more.

Then I’ll get no roles, I’ll be doomed..."

That was her specific anxiety point.

But Zhou Mo Sen was very dominant, grabbing her chin forcefully.

"From now on, don’t think about things like that!"

Dominant CEO literature?

Anne understood.

I’ll do as I please, without thinking about failure!

Dr. Zhou plans to give Anne Hathaway a ’transformation’ from a psychological perspective.

Of course, he also had a specific plan.

"You studied literature, I’ve seen your profile."

"Mm-hmm."

"Then why not consider writing a novel? If the novel gets popular, are you still afraid of not getting roles?"

Anne Hathaway’s eyes widened!

Write her own novel and play the main role herself?

Is that even possible?

But, it was indeed a potential way out.

However, Anne knew that novels weren’t that easy to make popular!

At the moment, Anne certainly didn’t know that Zhou Mo Sen’s idea actually came from our domestic entertainment.

A particularly beautiful girl with a 3D modeled face.

But, as soon as she speaks, she has a strong Northeastern dialect.

This girl once thought about writing a novel and then acting in it herself, but unfortunately, no one read her novel.

Zhou Mo Sen was different, though. He knew what Americans liked to watch.

Under the moon, by the dock.

Zhou Mo Sen tilted Anne Hathaway’s chin.

"An ordinary girl, when promoted to high school, meets a very strange guy. He’s handsome, but also very cold, yet actually...

He’s a vampire!"

Anne Hathaway was deeply intrigued just by the story summary.

Zhou Mo Sen was extremely confident.

Twilight City, Americans are crazy about it.