After returning home, Liu Xiaoli cooked a meal as usual, and Chu Xuan and Liu Xiaoli also had a tacit understanding not to talk about the birthday.
Liu Yifei had no idea what would happen in the next few days. After finishing her meal as usual, she took Chu Xuan to the sofa and chatted about her thoughts about [Immortal].
Chu Xuan listened and smiled, but when he thought that Liu Yifei's birthday would be in a few days, his thoughts were racing.
Liu Xiaoli was keeping an eye on the layout of the hotel lobby, Cheng Hao and Su Chang were helping with the layout of the hotel rooms, and Wang Jinhua and the lobby manager were controlling the banquet process, so it was none of his business.
This was also done deliberately by the mother-in-law and Sister Hua, who asked him to accompany Liu Yifei during these few days, so as not to let Liu Yifei see the flaw, so as not to reduce the degree of surprise.
Since Liu Yifei still doesn't know what's going on, it's better to keep her in the dark.
Under such circumstances, the surprise for Liu Yifei can be maximized.
The moon was setting and the sun was rising. Liu Yifei came up with some wonderful ideas from time to time in the company office the next day. She made gestures with her hands while talking.
That cute and confident look made Chu Xuan smile.
Everyone who works hard for their career and dreams, regardless of age, deserves respect.
Liu Yifei's attitude of devoting her mind 100% to the script these days also encouraged Zhao Jian, Huang Lei and other teachers and listened attentively.
At this point, Liu Yifei felt a sense of accomplishment.
However, Chu Xuan was a little distracted while working at work. The idea of the coming-of-age ceremony was his, the proposal of the banquet was also his, and the preparation of the surprise was also his.
It was the first time for him to do all kinds of things, and it was also the first time in his life that he had experienced such a thing.
The closer it was to the banquet, the more distracting thoughts he had.
The real owner acted like a normal person next to him, but he, the person behind the scenes, was a little nervous.
"You're a little absent-minded today."
"Sister Hua and I were doing something very important, and we were a little distracted."
"Really? You usually do things very seriously. This is not like your style."
Liu Yifei's suspicion left Chu Xuan speechless.
What kind of experience is it to lie to the person you know best and have her suspect you?
Like a lump in the throat, like sitting on pins and needles, like a thorn in the back.
This "three-like" feeling suddenly arose, and when Chu Xuan faced Liu Yifei again, he suddenly felt a little panicked and a little funny.
The most important thing is that he hasn't practiced guitar for a while. As Liu Yifei's birthday is approaching, he always thinks about what if he messes up?
Will you be laughed at?
Will it be embarrassing?
My mentality suddenly collapsed.
In order to stabilize his mentality, he stayed with Liu Yifei for two more days, and then decided to go to the all-night rehearsal alone.
——August 24th.
At ten o'clock in the evening, under Liu Xiaoli's strict request, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei went back to their rooms respectively.
But after a while, Chu Xuan opened the door and poked his head out. It was pitch black outside, and the lights in the room cast a small fan-shaped light that reflected on the floor and walls of the corridor.
Chu Xuan took advantage of the light and glanced outside a few times. Seeing no movement, he quietly walked out and knocked lightly on Liu Xiaoli's door.
After a while, Liu Xiaoli opened the door. When she saw it was Chu Xuan, she smiled and said, "I was about to tell Qian Qian."
"Then I'll take the first step." Chu Xuan said softly.
"What's wrong? Where are you going?" Liu Xiaoli was slightly confused.
"I'm going to stay in a hotel today. I have to direct the waiters' arrangements, and I'll also rehearse them." Chu Xuan smiled slightly.
"Didn't you leave it to Su Chang and the others?" Liu Xiaoli said softly.
"No, I just gave them part of it." Chu Xuan said suddenly.
Hearing this, Liu Xiaoli said happily: "You are still hiding it from them. You have done a good job in keeping secrets. Do you want to use a car?"
Chu Xuan shook his head and said, "Ask someone from the company to come and pick him up."
Liu Xiaoli nodded, she glanced at the door of Sissi's bedroom at the end, and said with a smile in her eyes: "You go out first, I will go to her room and tell her, and she will definitely come to you after explaining the situation, but wait a moment
Don't answer her call so she can't find you, and you'll show up again tomorrow night."
Chu Xuan was startled for a moment, then said with a smile on his face: "Auntie, your idea is very good, but I'm afraid I'll be beaten if I don't answer her call."
Liu Xiaoli waved her hand slightly and said, "I'm here to help you. What are you afraid of? Go quickly."
Chu Xuan nodded and turned back to his room.
Liu Xiaoli leaned against the door with her hands folded. Under her smile, Chu Xuan changed his clothes, opened the door and walked out. He made an "OK" gesture to her, and then walked towards the door with brisk steps.
After a while, there was a "click" in the darkness, and then a "bang". The sound was very small. She could hear it clearly if she concentrated on it, but her daughter in the bedroom definitely didn't know.
.
Seeing this, Liu Xiaoli let go of her arms, went back to her room, took out a document, and walked towards her daughter's bedroom.
In Liu Yifei's bedroom, she was wearing black and white pajamas, lying on the bed and humming softly. The temperature was warm in summer, and she was not covered with a quilt.
Liu Yifei's feet were swinging gently up and down, and the script was placed on the pillow. She was writing and drawing with a pen, deleting, modifying and modifying, just like a little artist.
Suddenly there were two slight knocks on the door. Liu Yifei lay on the bed and turned her head to look. Liu Xiaoli opened the door and walked in.
"Mom." Liu Yifei called out. Seeing that her mother was holding a document in her hand, there was some confusion and curiosity in her eyes.
Liu Xiaoli walked to the bed and sat down with a smile.
Liu Yifei also sat up. She glanced at the document and was slightly startled.
Artist contract?
What is mom doing with the contract this late at night?
There was a murmur in her heart.
However, in front of her eyes, her mother opened the contract and pointed at the expiry date.
She glanced at the date and frowned.
Expires August 24th?
She looked forward again and was confused for a moment.
August 24, 2005?
Liu Yifei was stunned for a moment, and suddenly she seemed to think of something. She quickly picked up the mobile phone beside the bed and opened it to look at it.
Today is August 24, 2005!
"My contract expires today!" Liu Yifei said in surprise.
"That's not right." She said immediately, as if she had thought of something.
The next moment, Liu Yifei's eyes widened slightly, "Tomorrow is my birthday!"
She reacted completely.
When people temporarily forget something and then suddenly think of it again, people often find it a bit incredible and very surprising.
At this point, Liu Yifei repeated to her mother: "Mom, tomorrow is my eighteenth birthday!"
Liu Xiaoli smiled and looked at her daughter jokingly, feeling very interesting.
My daughter has never forgotten birthdays in the past, but she suddenly forgot her eighteenth birthday.
The production of "Zhu Xian" came about very strangely, which made everything arranged by Chu Xuan even more surprising.
"Mom, why didn't you tell me!" Liu Yifei frowned, holding her mother's hand, with a faint smile on her lips.
Tomorrow is your eighteenth birthday?
Why did you forget it?
Liu Yifei pursed her lower lip. She may have been too immersed in working on the script of "Zhu Xian" with Chu Xuan these days. To be honest, she didn't even know what day of the week it was during this period.
But, mom will definitely remember her birthday!
Why didn't you tell her?
This is not in line with the style of my mother who loves her so much.
has a problem!
Liu Yifei looked at each other with her mother who was smiling. She looked at the contract and remembered that her contract expired today.
She suddenly grasped the key point.
Liu Yifei took the contract from her mother. She stood up from the bed and said with anger and laughter: "Why does my artist contract expire on August 24, 2005? I signed the contract in December 2004! How can there be any artist?"
The contract period is less than one year!”
Liu Xiaoli had a thick smile on her face and looked at her daughter with great interest.
Liu Yifei wrinkled her nose and said angrily: "Mom, why didn't you tell me! Chu Xuan and Sister Hua must have known about it! Where is Chu Xuan? Let Boss Chu come over and explain it to me!"
Seeing her daughter looking like this, Liu Xiaoli put her hands on the bed, lowered her head and was so happy.
Boss Chu?
He has run away.
Seeing her mother laughing non-stop, Liu Yifei bent her legs and knelt down beside her mother. She put her arms around her mother and acted coquettishly. Her pink lips were slightly opened, but she said in a dull voice: "Mom, what are you hiding from me?"
She doesn't understand the entertainment industry, and she also knows that no artist's contract is for less than one year. This is like a joke, but that's exactly what her contract is.
But she knew that there was only one person who could do this to her, and that was Chu Xuan.
And why did you set the expiration date of your contract on August 24?
Regarding this point, Liu Yifei thought about it and already had an answer in her mind, but she wanted to get the answer in her heart clearly from her mother.
Liu Xiaoli put her arms around her daughter's waist and said kindly: "You celebrated Chu Xuan's 20th birthday, and he said he would remember it forever. When you were 17th birthday, he didn't prepare well and felt a little sorry for you. From then on.
From that moment on, he has been thinking about your 18th birthday."
She smoothed her daughter's hair and continued: "Chu Xuan has been preparing for your 18th birthday for a year since you signed the contract. He has been preparing for 9 months. If he told you in advance, what surprise would it be?
It’s all gone.”
Liu Yifei arched her eyebrows and smiled softly.
She left her mother, got out of bed, put on her slippers, and ran out.
She ran a few steps in the corridor, opened Chu Xuan's door, and pressed the switch. The lights turned on, but there was no one on the bed.
"Mom, where is Chu Xuan?" Liu Yifei asked, turning her head to look at her mother.
"He just ran away." Liu Xiaoli folded her arms and said with a smile on her face.
"Run away?" Liu Yifei smiled sweetly.
She closed the door of Chu Xuan's room, returned to her room, picked up the mobile phone on the bedside, and made a call to Chu Xuan.
The phone rang for dozens of seconds, but no one answered.
Seeing this scene, Liu Xiaoli covered her mouth at the door of the room to hold back laughter.
Liu Yifei glanced at her mother, and when she saw her mother in such a state, she immediately thought of something.
"He was there just now, but now he's gone."
"As soon as he leaves, mom, you will come."
"You guys have agreed to work together to bully me, are you embarrassed?"
Concubine Liu Yi asked pitifully, with a hint of smile in her eyes.
"You can see him tomorrow. Let me tell you the procedure for tomorrow."
Liu Xiaoli came over.
Liu Yifei sat on the bed and dialed Chu Xuan's number again in disbelief.
After dozens of seconds, there was still no answer.
Liu Yifei bit her pink lip and threw her cell phone on the bed pretending to be annoyed.
She looked around and picked up a doll from the desk. It was a pink pig with thick hair.
There are many dolls in her room, but Chu Xuan only likes this pig.
So she tugged on the pig's ears and muttered something hateful.
"Boss Chu, you can do it. You tampered with my contract and lied to me for nine months!"
"If there's no surprise tomorrow, then you're screwed, I'll tell you!"
Liu Xiaoli looked up and smiled happily.
She got into her daughter's bed, leaned on the back of the bed side by side with her daughter, and told her daughter about tomorrow's events.
Of course, she wouldn't say anything about the surprise Chu Xuan had prepared.
At this moment, Chu Xuan was also rehearsing the surprise he had prepared.
--Shangri-La hotel.
Under the guidance of Chu Xuan, a group of waiters carried objects out of the elevator and went in and out of various rooms on the floor. After a while, they moved objects out of each room and took the elevator to the rooftop.
This was repeated several times, and at midnight Chu Xuan finally stopped, and the waiters stopped panting on the rooftop.
"Brother, please move back here again. After you move back, please disperse. Thank you all." On the rooftop, Chu Xuan said to the waiters while blowing the summer evening breeze.
Hearing this, the waiters breathed a sigh of relief.
"Mr. Chu, please call me anytime if you need anything," the head waiter said.
"Okay, thank you for your hard work." Chu Xuan nodded slightly.
The waiters gradually dispersed, leaving Chu Xuan alone.
In addition to him, he is accompanied by various props.
The 100-meter-high hotel rooftop, the boundless and deep moonlit night.
Chu Xuan was holding a guitar and wandering around here alone. While playing the guitar, he sang the song he prepared for Liu Yifei.
The guitar sound is sometimes broken and sometimes chaotic. It sounds unprofessional, but it also sounds like a different kind of emotion.
The singing is low and steady, with no technical vibrato or transposition. It sounds flat, but maybe some people will be moved if they understand it.
Singing can only be called Chu Xuan's hobby and has absolutely no professional orientation, let alone the guitar, which he has no interest in at all.
A person playing guitar and singing on the rooftop late at night?
This is something he has never done.
It was something he would never even think about before.
He never imagined that one day in his life he would do something seemingly absurd for a girl.
If it were him in the past, he would refuse.
For him now, everything is because of love.
This is also the only answer in Chu Xuan's heart.
"Buzz." The guitar strings broke again. Chu Xuan frowned and stopped plucking the strings.
It’s been a while since I played the guitar, so my technique is a bit rusty.
It seemed that he was destined to have no sleep this night.
However, he was not the only one who had sleepless nights, but also the girl who made him do this ridiculous thing.
——In the bedroom.
It was pitch dark, with only a little bit of moonlight coming in from the balcony, shining on the end of the bed.
It's already three or four in the morning.
Liu Yifei was covered with a thin quilt. She was lying on the pillow with her eyes open. Her lively eyes suddenly moved slightly. It seemed that she was not at peace now.
Ever since she learned about tomorrow's birthday from her mother at night, she couldn't sleep.
signing ceremony?
Coming of age ceremony?
Chu Xuan, Mom, Sister Hua, Changchang, Da Xinxin, Sister Hao, Sister Tao, Brother Zhang, Brother Lei... They knew their birthdays, but they didn't tell them, just to give themselves a surprise.
These days, she is immersed in her own thoughts, using the wild imagination that grew up with her as a decoration, using her own superficial experience and the inspiration she got from communicating with Chu Xuan as inspiration, trying to decorate her dreams, hoping that
Hope to construct a world.
Her mother's words suddenly woke her up, causing her eyes to jump out of her own world. She had forgotten her birthday for a moment and smiled bitterly in her heart.
But suddenly I looked back.
She discovered that the world outside was all about love.
The source of this love comes from Chu Xuan.
"Brother Xuan." Liu Yifei said softly to the ceiling, her eyes moving, showing a hint of affection.
On Chu Xuan's 20th birthday, she celebrated Chu Xuan's birthday alone.
On her 17th birthday, she still remembered that Chu Xuan was not prepared and felt guilty.
She really didn't want any gifts at that time, Chu Xuan's presence was enough.
I just didn't expect that Chu Xuan had been thinking about her 18th birthday for a year and preparing for nine months.
What does it feel like for a boy to spend nine months creating a surprise for a girl?
A tear cut into the corner of her eye, Liu Yifei stretched out her hand to wipe it, her eyes were filled with smiles and touches.
She is not a crybaby, but since meeting Chu Xuan, Chu Xuan has changed her.
Every time I cry, it's because of Chu Xuan.
This is true in drama, and it is true in life.
But she knew that it was all because of love.
This is also the only answer in Liu Yifei's heart.
