Time flies. February 9th is the Spring Festival in 205. The most important festival of the Ye family throughout the year. Ye Wei, who celebrated in Toronto in late lunar month, returned to Los Angeles one day early to reunite with his family for the New Year. Everyone was wearing new clothes, and Toto also wore a blessing red jacket to pray for good luck this year. Duoduo, who received red envelopes, smiled and made a crackling sound.

Festivals are always one after another, including public festivals and private festivals. The next day, the 10th day, Emma's birthday is also here. However, the 10th of this year is Thursday, and the Spring Festival and birthday are not federal or California holidays, so I go to school and work as usual.

It's really boring to work in the New Year, but as the filming date of Sunlight Little Beauty is getting closer, Ye Wei has less and less free time.

Even for independent films, various meetings are still endless. Some meetings are necessary, and some meetings Ye Weizhen thinks it is a waste of time, but he cannot get some decisions if he is not open. It is not that he is unable to make up his mind, but that he needs to persuade and coordinate all parties.

He has really tasted the pain of producers and directors in the Hollywood machine. He had little experience and qualifications, but was too young, so there were more problems. This is called "the smaller the power, the more meetings." If the budget of 600,000 is all his investment... the disadvantage is that the risk is huge, and the advantage is that there is no useless meeting, which not only saves time, but also helps physical and mental health.

Whenever the meeting is in a depressed time, Ye Wei will think of John Woo and what he said, "I held a meeting for B months before the filming of "Face Change", which is really a waste of time."

In addition to the meeting, the substantive work is also underway. Today we will conduct a scene survey, but the survey is only the second candidate site. The first candidate is in New Orleans, Louisiana, where there is a tax policy. Only when a very bad situation occurs, if you cannot shoot in Toronto or New Orleans, you will be able to switch back to Los Angeles.

Although it is convenient for anyone to shoot in Los Angeles, the taxes and labor costs are high. If this happens, either the budget will be added or the shooting day control budget will be shortened. By then, the first one will be big.

Early that morning, with the heads of various departments of the crew, Ye Wei started his day's inspection work.

Harvard-West Lake Junior High School, the half-hour activity time arrives on time at 9:2 in the morning, and the entire campus is like a wave. Students either go to their club activity sites or hang out and chat.

As Asian students account for 2% of the school, the Chinese New Year is highly valued here. Although there is no holiday, the school has corresponding speeches to celebrate. Yesterday, the first day of the Chinese New Year, the Asian American Cultural Club and other clubs also organized celebrations.

On the second day of the Chinese New Year, the lively atmosphere has not been reduced much, because today is the activity day of the Dream Chasing League Club. A group of young people who have taken over power have not lost their traditions. If it were not for the teacher to stop it, they would almost set off firecrackers in front of the academic center.

Many clubs are also in activities. In a typical classroom on the second floor of the Academic Center, on the blackboard in front, the beautiful English "uruaIItttuv" was written in colored chalk, and the lower part was a line of "HauteNr", with festive firecracker patterns around it, and a line of square and simplified Chinese characters "Happy New Year".

This is the activity site of the Journalism Society.

There were more than a dozen desks in the middle of the classroom, forming a small circle of semicircles, and there were about a dozen young men and women students sitting. The desk in front of the semicircles was the president's position. A girl wearing a red and black plaid jacket, a white wide T-shirt and light blue jeans stood by the table, with a stack of documents on the table.

At the beginning of the "Maggie, Finn, everyone, Happy Chinese New Year" event, Lily smiled and congratulated her. The two Asian members and everyone laughed. Lily looked back at the blackboard, "I didn't write a wrong word, right? New words are too difficult to write."

"No." Maggie shook her head, everyone chuckled, and Lily laughed.

In fact, since last year, she has been elected in Chinese in the "World Language" subject, and she has accumulated a lot of accumulation, so she wrote quite well, right? Lily turned around and knocked on the documents on the table, saying, "I made a plan to create an annual publication for our club. This year is the first issue of the founding of the publication."

"Okay", "Support" everyone was very excited to hear it. Joining the Journalism Society had this wish.

Lily assigned the stack of plans, and finally only one was left in her hand. She leaned halfway down on the president's desk and looked through the plans while saying her thoughts: "Now there are five student publications in the junior and senior high school departments, including two weekly and two monthly and only one annual publication, which is the "Yearbook".

Everyone nodded slightly, and she glanced at everyone and said, "The Yearbook is a collaboration with the school's official content. The content is very formal, our photos, achievements, comments, etc., but it is very lacking in our daily lives. So my idea for the founding of the issue is that we will fill the gap in this area, and the content is more casual, which can be interesting or gossip."

She turned around and walked to the blackboard, picked up the white chalk and wrote down Ameut, In, and stopped the pen. She circled the gossip and turned to everyone, "I know you really want to see Ye Wei's gossip in the annual magazine, but the answer is no." She made a rabbit-ear gesture with both hands, "That guy has already been on the blacklist of this magazine."

"Hahaha" everyone laughed without any scruples, because Lily was obviously joking.

"Haha." Lily smiled with a crooked mouth and said seriously: "Gogle can be found, but the length is very small. It can only be healthy gossip. You can't just do it to attract attention, and you can't hurt anyone. Not only gossip, but all other news materials should be selected like this. This is one of the tenets of our annual magazine."

Triste, one of the members, asked: "Will that be different from the Yearbook?"

"Good View" Lily pointed to her best friend and said confidently: "The Yearbook is actually a display and record, but what about us, 'interesting,..."

Dada, she wrote "Puu" on the blackboard.

“This is our purpose too”

Toronto, Wexford Art School also has no Spring Festival holiday, and both Asian and non-Asians go to school as usual.

Since she fell in love with Yunik and then starred in Exorcist Video, Nina has become more interested in performing arts than other arts, so she only studied comprehensive arts for one fall semester. In the winter semester, she applied to change to performing arts-drama major.

It is fun to learn to perform. The most interesting thing is to train with Yunik, rehearse and star in school stage plays together. In late January, she and him joined forces to perform "Romeo and Juliet", which was very fun.

Nina found that she had a great advantage in performance, and her hard work since childhood finally paid off. All physical movement courses, such as muscle relaxation and control, dynamic stretching, etc., were not difficult for her. Because she learned dance, she started practicing movements when she was a few years old.

However, acting is not just about the body, you have to learn too much, such as the details of expressions, on the set of the Exorcist Video, which is the biggest reason for her NG. Sometimes it is less, sometimes it is more, sometimes it is too lifelike, and sometimes it is too dramatic.

What was in the middle was a live performance class. In the empty performance room, there were more than 20 students sitting on the floor. Teacher Rochelle was teaching the class. While listening attentively, Nina took notes in the brown notepad in her hand with a ballpoint pen, and wrote in a dense manner.

Now she has really put a lot of effort into studying and studying. The idiot can't be Yunick's girlfriend

"We often say that if you put real life on stage, no one would believe it. Why? Because what is unusual in life, once presented to the audience, they will feel incredible, it cannot happen, even though life is always more dramatic than drama, no one would believe it

Teacher Rochelle paused so that several students who wrote notes could write and let everyone digest it.

"But when you use the word magic to tell them in the form of drama, the audience will still enjoy the story of the stage and screen even if they don't believe that the content of your performance will happen in life. This is the key, if it is possible, what we say is credibility and persuasive.

How can we present a convincing performance? It is very ironic, it is precisely to avoid excessive lifestyle. Not living is more real than living."

Looking at the smiling faces of the students, Teacher Rochelle continued to smile and said, "We should use some interpretations, reactions and details that we will not have in life to build the credibility that the audience needs."

The students were both interesting and thoughtful, and Nina nodded in agreement, which attracted the attention of Teacher Rochelle, "Nina, what do you think?"

"I think..." Nina was asked a little suddenly and replied while thinking: "It's like being unhappy. We may face expressionless and dazed in life, but then the audience can't see it, so we have to show unhappy." She frowned and glared, "Relax out the emotions in our hearts so that the audience can see it clearly." That's what Yunik said.

"That's the reason." The teacher clapped and praised, "We need to release the emotions of the characters. Don't ask, "What will I do in this situation?", and ask, "What will my character do in this situation?, but this is still a manifestation of life, and there is a way to be less life-oriented."

The teacher's words made everyone stunned. Nina wrote notes repeatedly. What?

"We are unhappy in the contrasting performance, but we have a smile on our faces; we are happy but have no expression on our faces. This form of performance has a greater space for performance.

Today we are going to do a role practice method. When you think the character should say or feel something, perform the opposite words and feelings, and bury the character's true words and feelings into your heart. This can help you understand the character's subtext and motivation more.

If the angle of your question is reasonable, there will be infinite possibilities and unlimited performance space. This will shape your character with your interpretation. A villain may be full of lovely charm, and a person who looks fierce may actually be just shy.

Now it is divided into two teams, one is the person who is happy but not smiling, the other is the person who is unhappy but smiling, two people in a group, let's perform."

After Teacher Rochelle said that, everyone took action, and Nina was assigned to a happy but not smiling team.

Before the performance, she thought, she was really happy, why didn’t she express it with a smile? The contrast, the opposite...

Nina slightly flattened her mouth and turned her eyes, looking relaxed and angry, she shook her head a little, as if she was humming a song, proudly.

"Happy birthday"

On the night of the 10th, Ye Wei attended the 14th birthday party held by Emma at home. He had to go to this party in person and work. Of course, Julia Roberts's family attended. The two fat babies were very healthy, which made him feel relieved. The babies were healthy and not sick, so that Roberts would not suddenly withdraw and the shooting would be smooth.

The protagonist today is Emma. In recent months, Emma's enthusiasm for him has obviously declined, and there are fewer phone calls and text messages, and it is getting less and less. "The Mermaid", one of the stars, is about to start filming, and she has not asked him any questions about building a role.

Maybe I've dated a boy, but Ye Wei's shoulders are really loose. The little girl, just don't make trouble like this. I don't want to kick it away at the end.

However, it seemed that something was wrong. Just as he was grimacing and teasing the two babies, they made them giggle. In full view of everyone, Emma grabbed him and said, "Come with me", and pulled her room from the lobby of the room on the second floor. He didn't want to go in...

"Don't you look at my collection?" Emma grinned. Her adolescence grew so fast. After only a few months, her figure and face became more mature. At this time, she was wearing a lake blue semi-formal evening dress and her blonde hair tied up, and the little girl turned into a small beauty.

"Uh, OK." Ye Wei didn't want to be wary of anything. He walked into her boudoir like a normal friend. It was bright and neat. There were many things for girls but not messy. He should have been sorted out first. Several rows of bookshelves stood against the wall, filled with various books, most of which were novels, and most of them were girls' novels.

He glanced a few times and praised, "It's not bad, more than mine."

"There are still in the study." Emma followed her, smiled and suddenly said, "But, I want another birthday gift, your kiss." She pouted, not a joke.

"I'll give it to you." Ye Wei shrugged. A kiss was nothing, so he was about to kiss her left cheek.

Emma dials her lips with pink lipstick on her own, "Here."

"Haha" Ye Wei looked around with a giggle, "No paparazzi hiding in the room, right?" Emma suddenly opened her eyes, "No, no." Ye Wei leaned towards her expectant face, and kissed her left cheek ritually. Although she let out a piss, she actually almost never touched her skin. "Happy birthday.

"This doesn't count..." Emma was helpless and anxious. She remembered the lesson she learned last time and walked towards the desk over there with a fist. "You must be in Toronto in a few days in Valentine's Day, right?"

Ye Wei nodded and continued to blow her enthusiasm, "Of course, I'll live with Nina." He raised his lips, "Nina has prepared a lot of celebrations...hehe."

"I don't want to hear it. This is the chocolate I gave you, qj friend, love." Emma picked up a box of exquisitely packaged chocolates with a sweet smile. "I made this myself. I'll eat it that day. Don't give it to others. You have to eat it all by yourself."

"Oh...Okay." Ye Wei took the big box in his hand, afraid it would be a pound. "I can't eat it alone... OK OK, I'm afraid of you, I'll eat it."

On February 14th, Valentine's Day, this day of every year, a large amount of chocolates must be eaten around the world.

This year is Monday. Ye Wei, who has returned to Toronto, was treated like a superstar at school. Almost every student will congratulate him. Men and women have greeting cards, and girls will also send chocolates and flowers. This was the case at Harvard-West Lake last year, and this year it was the case at Wexford. It was really happy and lucky.

"If I were a dog, I would have to die many times today." Ye Wei chewed the endless chocolate while making this strange sigh.

Before going to school early this morning, Ye Wei and Nina had exchanged greeting cards on the lawn of the house. The couple's love was written on Nina's greeting card: "I originally wanted to write a lot of words, but after thinking about it, the most sincere words I can think of are, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you."

Three I love you, one in English, one in Bulgarian, and one in Chinese, he couldn't help but laugh: "I love you too, I write well in Chinese and have talent."

"I have practiced it." Nina said proudly. She started learning Chinese since this year. In fact, she grew up in Toronto and Scarborough. She is no stranger to Chinese. However, she has not learned it systematically before, but now she is very interested. Yunik also takes time to learn Bulgarian. How could she not learn Chinese?

Inter-ethnic love has a cultural side of learning from each other.

Nina opened the greeting card he sent, and saw it read: "You have 100 million reasons why I say I love you, and only one reason why I say I hate you, I hate you, you love me more than I love you, in this regard, I will be an eternal loser, thank you, I love you."

"Haha" she couldn't help laughing, and rushed over and hugged him tightly, and kissed him emotionally.

The sweetness of this day is destined to be all-weather. After school during the day, after the gymnastics training on Monday, the two drove out to date and enjoy a wonderful Valentine's Day night

Los Angeles, Brentwood, it was still almost evening in the afternoon, and the sky was orange-red at dusk.

At a bus stop on Sunset Avenue, Lily got off the school bus and walked home. She flipped through her handbag, which contained the greeting cards, gifts, etc. she received today. She was filled with them. She took out a few greeting cards casually and took out a piece of square chocolate, opened the handmade wrapping paper, and ate it.

"Well... so sweet, good chocolate." She wanted to see the brand, but it was not written on the wrapping paper, like homemade chocolate, and she praised it even more: "Who gave it? The craftsmanship is good." Then she looked at the name without the name written, strange

At this time, the phone suddenly rang. She took it out and looked it up and connected: "Hi...I'm free, "The Enemy of the People"? Haha, it seems quite interesting, no need, wait in the theater, okay, wait for a meeting."
Chapter completed!