As a director famous for his artistic films, Zhang Meng's prolific output is a bit outrageous.

After filming the director's debut film "Blessed Ears" in 2007, it was 4 years before "The Piano" was released with the help of Qin Hailu.

After that, his output was as fast as cheating, almost one film a year!

And the quality is stable and not ugly.

No, this year he received a script from Yuan Yuan, and it was still Qin Hailu who produced it for him.

It is also a literary-themed movie called "The Little Princess".

Li Xiaoxiao is a cleaner who charges 200 yuan a time. She likes whiskey and cigarettes. However, the prices of cigarettes and alcohol have increased, and unfortunately the rent has also increased, but her salary as a part-time worker has not changed at all. She naively wants to be a cartoonist.

Her boyfriend was also poor, and living in a factory dormitory could not provide her with a roof over her head. Facing the increasingly high cost of living, Li Xiaoxiao packed up her things and quit the rent. Her plan was,

I took turns staying at the house of several friends who were in a band in college until I could save enough to pay the deposit for my next rental.

Qin Hailu got this script in the middle of the year and worked on it with Zhang Meng. Due to her age limit, she was no longer suitable to play a college graduate like Li Xiaoxiao.

So I asked Zhang Yuqi, whose price was not high, to star. Although Zhang Yuqi didn't have "Mermaid", she still did well. She still got "Legend of the Demon Cat", but without the 3 billion box office gilt of "Mermaid", she

The commercial value and remuneration are indeed not as good as before.

Zhang Yuqi promised well in August that she would join the cast of "Little Princess" by the end of the year, but now that filming is about to start, Zhang Yuqi suddenly regretted it.

He said that he was not feeling well and could not join the group as scheduled.

The crew said they wanted to visit, but she said she got sick abroad, so she didn't bother the crew running around.

And for fear that Zhang Meng and Qin Hailu wouldn't believe him, he even made a video call with the two of them, and his condition was indeed very bad.

Qin Hailu asked her to have a good rest, "We can only cooperate next time."

Zhang Yuqi returned the deposit she had received to the crew, Qin Hailu didn't ask her for liquidated damages, and the matter was over.

There's only one week left until the filming starts, and the heroine is sick and can't come. What's the deal?

Zhang Meng was heartbroken and suggested to Qin Hailu: "How about asking Yifei to come over."

Qin Hailu's heart trembled: "Can she come?"

Qin Hailu didn't doubt Liu Yifei's warm-heartedness. As long as she asked, Liu Yifei would definitely come to help. What she was worried about was whether Liu Yifei's professional skills could play a role like Li Xiaoxiao.

Zhang Meng also has his own ideas. He wants to rely on Liu Yifei to earn more box office for himself. His previous films have a good reputation and have won many awards, but in terms of box office results, they have always been disappointing.

Liu Yifei is the actress with the strongest appeal at the box office, and everyone in the industry knows that Liu Yifei has always wanted to break through in a literary film. If Liu Yifei can be invited to participate, it will definitely be beneficial to both parties.

"Try it." Zhang Meng urged Qin Hailu to call Liu Yifei.

Unexpectedly, Qin Hailu told Liu Yifei the matter, and Liu Yifei immediately agreed: "I'll come right away."

Then, Liu Yifei drove to the preparation team alone.

"Sister Hailu, director, what's going on?" He couldn't explain clearly on the phone, so Liu Yifei asked about the situation when she saw the two of them.

"No problem." After hearing this, Liu Yifei agreed to star in the film without even reading the script.

Zhang Meng was not so eager to recruit Liu Yifei to join the team. Instead, he first sent her the script and the makeup photos Zhang Yuqi had taken.

Liu Yifei read the synopsis of the story and the scripts of the two scenes and liked the script very much.

"I'm good at drinking, but I don't know how to smoke." Liu Yifei said with a smile, but then she tried to make up for herself, "But it doesn't matter, I can learn if I don't know how."

Qin Hailu was very sorry: "Yu'an is easy to deal with. He will definitely not say anything if he learns to smoke for the new drama. Qiqi is still young. If I ask you to learn to smoke, it will be difficult for you to see the little guy in the future."

"It's okay, I'll just avoid her." After Liu Yifei finished speaking, she was still worried that Qin Hailu wouldn't give her the role. "I'm here now. You can't give this role to anyone else. Come on, let's sign the contract."

With that said, it was time to sign the contract.

It’s all here, and it’s not appropriate to not sign a contract.

Liu Yifei left the set with satisfaction. She liked the script of "The Little Princess" the first time she saw it.

She is happily married and has a happy family, but she doesn't know what went wrong. She has always wanted to play a character who has a miserable family, is helpless, and preferably has some mental illness.

She felt that such a role would be particularly enjoyable to play.

…………

Cheng Yuan brought her daughter back very early in the afternoon.

Liu Yifei happily went up to pick up her daughter. Unexpectedly, the little girl didn't want her mother to hold her: "Mom stinks."

"Nonsense, how can mom stink?" Liu Yifei said.

"Smelly." My daughter didn't want Liu Yifei to hold her.

Cheng Yu'an came close to his wife and smelled it: "You smell of cigarette smoke. Who could it be?"

Cheng Yu'an didn't expect Liu Yifei to smoke at first.

Liu Yifei also just walked down the slope and said: "Ah, yes, I talked to a few producers this morning. They smoked, maybe they got it on me."

But she knew it wouldn't be easy to hide it like this.

So that night, Liu Yifei honestly told her husband that Qin Hailu wanted to film with her, and at the end she added: "I have signed the contract."

Cheng Yu'an smiled and said: "Look at what you said, can I still prevent you from taking the role?" Cheng Yu'an now doesn't care about Liu Yifei taking the role. Her own aesthetics have improved, and there are also old screenwriters and producers in her team.

The grasp of the text is already very good.

"Is that why you learned to smoke?"

"Yeah." Liu Yifei admitted, and then took out a pack of 18 Yellow Crane Towers from the bedside table.

"I want to move out and experience life for a while." Liu Yifei is an experientialist and a serious disciple of Stani.

"Okay." Cheng Yu'an agreed, "You can experience life well, I will take Qiqi with you."

He knew that in order to pass the censorship of the play "Little Princess", the text was written very softly and the criticism was not too strong, but it still had the necessary warmth.

It's a good script. In fact, Cheng Yu'an also wants to see what the result will be if Liu Yifei, the current A version, acts in an art film without "The Night Peacock" and "Feng Huo Fang Fei".

Cheng Yu'an was lying on the bed reading a tablet, while Liu Yifei was reading the script in Cheng Yu'an's arms.

It was late, Cheng Yuan was sleepy, and turned off the tablet to go to sleep.

"Do you sleep like this?" asked the wife next to me.

"Otherwise?" Cheng Yu'an asked, "Didn't I hand it over yesterday?"

"I will move out tomorrow to experience life, and you won't be able to see me for a month."

"Don't worry, I will go to the crew to visit your class."

"No," Liu Yifei pulled her husband's quilt, "I won't be here for a month, so you have to advance all the repayments to me."

As she spoke, she turned over and sat astride her husband.

An hour later, Cheng Yu'an came out of the bathroom and saw Liu Yifei lying on the bed smoking.

"When I watch TV, they always smoke like this. It turns out that this is what the smoke tastes like afterwards."
Chapter completed!