A driver came to pick them up. Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei got into the business car and headed east to Farewell Garden.
They could have gone back with Sister Hua by the way, but Sister Hua had to go to the company, so they decided to go first.
"Master, just stop here and let's go in."
When the commercial vehicle drove to the entrance of Donglin Villa, Liu Yifei stopped.
She had just had some drinks in the hotel and wanted to take a walk and enjoy the breeze.
Chu Xuan also had this intention, so he opened the door with her and prepared to get out of the car.
"Mr. Chu, I'll drive back to the film company, then drive your Daben home. I'll pick you up in your Daben tomorrow afternoon, and then you can drive the Daben back." The driver said.
Since he had to have a dinner and drink together, Chu Xuan did not drive to the hotel in the afternoon, and his car was still parked in the company parking lot.
"Okay, trouble." Chu Xuan responded, getting out of the car and slamming the door shut.
The driver drove the car back to the company, and Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei walked into the community hand in hand with the permission of the guard.
Late at night, the cold wind howled.
The community was silent, and most of the nearby villas were in darkness. There were only flickering lights and the rustling sound of TVs coming from scattered villas.
Under the dim yellow street lights, accompanied by the occasional sound of waves from the artificial lake, two people walking close to each other cast long shadows on the ground.
"You're a little weird today."
"Why?"
"You talk too much today."
"That's it?"
Chu Xuan was stunned, unable to laugh or cry.
Liu Yifei bit her lip and nodded with a smile. She let go of her bitten lip and said, "I don't know you yet? You never tell outsiders about your ambitions and dreams easily, and even if you do, you will have reservations.
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"Your personality is that you don't say much about things you are unsure about. But making long and predictive remarks like today is something you have never shown outside before."
Chu Xuan glanced at her and said, "Go and take the police exam and enter the investigation department."
Liu Yifei raised her head and smiled, patted Chu Xuan and said, "Tell me honestly, what are you thinking?"
Chu Xuan pulled Liu Yifei and walked slowly, with the cold wind blowing on his face, he said: "The television industry and the film industry are different."
"Movies require huge investment, and once there is a market, money will come in quickly. Therefore, many big investors have a gambling mentality when it comes to movies."
"However, there are only a few good schedules in a year, and there is only one king in each schedule. The other movies in the same schedule are basically stepping stones."
"So, the more promising a movie is, and the more actors can drive a movie's box office, the more they will be hated by investors who are not involved."
Chu Xuan let go of Liu Yifei's hand, raised it and put his arm around her shoulders, saying: "So, once we represent the Brilliant Era and officially enter the film industry, and step into countless movies to make one of our movies popular, like
The more viewers we have, the more people will hate us."
Liu Yifei was silent. Like Chu Xuan, she could always think long-term, but what Chu Xuan said made her feel that the road they were going to take was very difficult.
"What does this have to do with your performance today?" She leaned on Chu Xuan's shoulder and asked, walking slowly with Chu Xuan under the street lights.
Chu Xuan said slowly: "Huaying Group is a shareholder of Bright Times and has nothing to do with Third Brother. As far as Bright Times is concerned, Third Brother is an outsider."
"Because of the development concept, the third brother supports the brilliant era."
"But this support is overall and in the general direction."
"And this support is for the company, not for us personally."
"If we encounter problems due to personal matters, for example, if we are jealous of capital and capital uses means to mess with us, causing public opinion to blackmail us, the third brother will probably not help in view of the overall situation."
"And we have to solve the capital competition issues ourselves. Without foreign aid, it will be very troublesome."
Liu Yifei looked at the empty road ahead, thought for a while and said: "Then what you said to the third brother just now, about your ambition, will he help?"
Chu Xuan shook his head and said: "I created micro-entertainment. I want to industrialize film and television, so my third brother is very interested in me."
"I told him so much today and acted very well, which further deepened his interest in me."
"As he becomes more and more interested, the more we are able to achieve something, the more he will appreciate us and support us, and maybe we can become lifelong friends."
"The reason why I did this is just to let the third brother not only stand behind the company to support the company, but also let him stand behind us to protect us sincerely."
"In this way, we will have less and less trouble in the film industry in the future."
Liu Yifei looked stunned, shook the hand she held with Chu Xuan, wrinkled her nose and said, "Your thinking is becoming more and more complicated."
Chu Xuan stopped, looked at her softly, reached out and pinched her nose, just like Li Xiaoyao pinched Zhao Ling'er's nose, he said: "Didn't I say before, you are responsible for your innocence, and I am responsible for protecting your innocence.
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Liu Yifei looked at Chu Xuan in a daze. Chu Xuan's words made her heart skip a beat. She couldn't help but stand on tiptoes and kissed Chu Xuan's lips. Then she took Chu Xuan's hand and shook it and said, "No, I have to protect you too."
Protect my innocence."
The tongue twister made Chu Xuan laugh: "Then I will protect you, I will protect your innocence."
The more he talked about it, the more complicated it became, which made Liu Yifei couldn't help laughing: "It's a Russian matryoshka doll!"
She smoothed her hair that had been blown away by the wind, and then changed the topic: "The industrialization of film and television is already very stressful, but now you have added another one to fight against cultural invasion."
Liu Yifei raised her lips, narrowed her eyes slightly and said, "So passionate."
Chu Xuan was stunned for a moment. He thought Liu Yifei was saying that she was under greater pressure, but unexpectedly she felt even more passionate.
"What do you want to do? Make science fiction movies to defeat foreign blockbusters?" Liu Yifei asked, tilting her head cutely.
Chu Xuan shook his head and said: "Special effects rely on computers. Computer core components and graphics software are controlled by Western companies. It is impossible for them to share the latest and most cutting-edge components and technologies. So in terms of special effects, in terms of visual effects
, we can’t surpass them, this is a fact.”
Liu Yifei nodded. This is indeed a fact. From her experience as a producer, many things in terms of special effects are much more advanced in foreign countries than in China.
"Special effects blockbusters are a new thing in China, just like the short film "Hope". Most viewers only pay attention to the special effects. How many people will carefully observe the acting skills of the two of us?"
Liu Yifei pursed her lips. She felt disappointed for a moment when she talked about this. When "Hope" was promoted, netizens' comments were almost only about the special effects scenes, but the performance for which she and Chu Xuan put a lot of effort was...
Few people discussed it.
"Based on this situation, in the early and mid-term period when special effects blockbusters are flooding into the Chinese market, the better the special effects of the movie, the more popular it will be with the audience."
"And our special effects technology is not as good as that of foreign countries, so it is naturally impossible for us to compete head-on with foreign blockbusters and put them in the same schedule to fight. This may seem very passionate, but this is irrational behavior, and the company's shareholders will not agree to it.
Do something stupid like this."
"Based on this, my way to fight against cultural invasion is to, with the help of my third brother, keep our science fiction movies on schedule with foreign science fiction movies."
"If foreign blockbusters are released during the Lunar New Year period, we will release them during the National Day period. If foreign blockbusters are released during the Spring Festival period, we will release them during the Lunar New Year period."
"Let every special effects blockbuster appear every year, and the first special effects blockbuster watched by the audience will always be our movie."
Chu Xuan was walking, and because of the cold wind, he couldn't help but tightly follow the hand held by Liu Yifei, and said: "This is also based on the theory of subconscious propaganda, such as the BMW advertisement and the Mercedes-Benz advertisement one after another.
If the quality difference between the two advertisements is not big, people will subconsciously be more impressed by the advertisement they see at first sight."
"Similarly, if there is not much difference in quality between our movies and the movies released after us, the audience will be more impressed by our movies."
"Over time, after ten or eight years, when the audience becomes tired of the word 'special effects' and has a correct understanding and expectation of our country's science fiction, then our science fiction movies with story as the core will
, maybe it can beat Western movies with special effects as the core head-on."
"That moment may be the time when our country's science fiction movies will completely rise."
Liu Yifei blinked at Chu Xuan: "No matter what you said is right or not, but it sounds very logical and makes sense. I just want to ask, why are you so smart?"
Arriving at the gate of the villa, Chu Xuan opened the door and pretended to think: "I used to be stupid, but someone improved my IQ."
"Who is it?" Liu Yifei was very interested and was led into the villa by Chu Xuan.
"I don't know who she is." Chu Xuan said deliberately, looking at Liu Yifei with a joking look: "But I know that she is the wife of a man named Chu Xuan."
Liu Yifei was stunned, then twisted Chu Xuan's waist arrogantly, and said: "Who is your wife? Did you propose marriage? Did you prove it?"
Chu Xuan smiled and said: "Did I say it was you?"
Liu Yifei's face froze, she felt her hand loosen, and a figure quickly passed by in front of her eyes. She was angry and funny, and pointed her hand out: "Chu Xuan! Stop! I'm going to beat you to death!"
She started to chase him, the smile on her face did not diminish, and she chased him all the way to the small villa.
Liu Xiaoli was sitting on the sofa watching TV, watching the two children running around the sofa and chasing each other with a puzzled look on her face.
"What are you doing?" she asked curiously.
Liu Yifei stopped chasing. She held one hand on the sofa behind the sofa and put her other hand on her waist. She was panting and accused in a delicate tone: "Mom, he bullied me."
Chu Xuan stood in front of Liu Xiaoli, with his hands on his hips, also panting: "Auntie, do you believe I will bully her?"
Liu Xiaoli turned to look at her daughter and then at Chu Xuan. Although she didn't know what happened, she was happy to play with the two children. She shook her head: "I don't believe it."
Hearing this, Chu Xuan smiled brightly and spread his hands towards Liu Yifei.
Liu Yifei was stunned. She didn't expect her mother to say that. She said angrily: "Are you my mother? The most basic trust is gone! I want to run away from home!"
Seeing how angry she was, Chu Xuan and Liu Xiaoli were overjoyed.
"Sleep!" Liu Xiaoli picked up the remote control and turned off the TV. Seeing that the two children were back safely, she felt relieved.
"Let's go." Chu Xuan said to Liu Yifei, wanting to go back to the big villa to rest.
Liu Yifei still looked angry, deliberately looking at Chu Xuan with hateful eyes, but said to her mother: "Mom, I will sleep with you today."
After saying that, Liu Yifei raised her eyebrows at Chu Xuan proudly, telling you to make me angry!
Unexpectedly, Liu Xiaoli said in a disgusting tone: "Why are you sleeping with me? I'm not your boyfriend."
Chu Xuan let out a "puff", held his belly in his hands and bent down to laugh. His mother-in-law was a god assist.
Liu Yifei's face was dull for a moment. She looked at the back of her mother walking up the stairs with a joking look on her face. She then looked at Chu Xuan who was still smiling. She was hopeless for a moment.
Chu Xuan straightened up, walked to Liu Yifei, held her face and kissed her lips, saying: "I was wrong, let's go."
Liu Yifei had a cold face and said like a little dragon girl: "Wash my feet."
"Okay." Chu Xuan agreed immediately.
"Give me a massage." Liu Yifei said.
"OK." Chu Xuan made an "OK" gesture.
The two requests didn't seem to satisfy Liu Yifei's venting. She blinked mischievously and thought of another idea: "Tell me a bedtime story."
Chu Xuan looked confused and couldn't laugh or cry: "What the hell is the bedtime story? Can we have a good rest? It's twelve o'clock."
Liu Yi returned to the posture of Xiao Longnu and said coldly: "Do you agree or not?"
Chu Xuan shook his head and sighed: "Do you think I brought this upon myself? Why did I recruit you?"
Liu Yifei raised her eyebrows and said: "You just know? Don't mess with me, you are destined to lose."
Chu Xuan raised the corner of his mouth and looked at Liu Yifei.
Looking at each other for a few seconds, the two of them couldn't help but smile.
Immediately, Chu Xuan took Liu Yifei back to the bedroom of the big villa.
Following Liu Yifei's instructions, Chu Xuan washed her feet and massaged her feet.
As soon as she lay down on the bed and turned off the light, Liu Yifei did not forget her last request: "Hurry up and tell a story."
Liu Yifei rested on Chu Xuan's arms and looked at Chu Xuan with great interest. In the dark bedroom, her eyes flickered.
Chu Xuan had no choice but to rack his brains to think of the so-called story in order to coax her back.
"There was a very beautiful girl who lived with her big sister."
Liu Yifei blinked, girl and big sister? What kind of story is this?
She asked Chu Xuan to tell a bedtime story on a whim. Chu Xuan had never told any bedtime stories before, so she would be very interested in whatever story Chu Xuan told her.
She huddled under the quilt, leaned in Chu Xuan's arms, and listened quietly.
"The eldest sister doesn't want this girl to be disturbed by the world and be trapped by the world, so she is well protected by the eldest sister and has always been simple and innocent."
"But there is always a time when a girl grows up, and when she faces some things independently, she really feels the difficulty of walking in society."
"She always faces difficulties when looking for a job. Some jobs that look good are based on her beauty, but she rejects them because she doesn't like them."
"My eldest sister's education has worked. She understands the difficulties of society and the ways of the world in her heart, but externally she shows the simplicity and innocence she has always had. She only hopes to live the purest life and live according to her own ideas."
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"However, there is always a conflict between ideals and reality. Others are not willing to give her what she likes, and she never does anything she doesn't like."
"Gradually, she lost her job. Strictly speaking, she lost the job she loved, because the job she loved would never be her turn."
"It's so miserable." Liu Yifei muttered, arched her arms in Chu Xuan's arms, and found a more comfortable place to rest her head.
"In this way, several years have passed, and she has always had a good relationship with her eldest sister. Through hard work and persistence, she has bought a house, a car, a vacation home, etc."
"If she has a job she likes, she does it; if she doesn't like a job, she just plays around."
"Although her peers gave her countless strange looks, she was fearless and ignored them, just because she followed her inner thoughts: whatever I do, as long as I like it."
"So individual? I like it." Liu Yifei smiled slightly.
"The conflict between ideal and reality has not been resolved, and her past experiences have brought darkness to her. Under such circumstances, she is full of vigilance and wariness about society, and does not show color to people in the industry, and she is maverick
Even when she was in her thirties, she was still dependent on her eldest sister and lived a family life between the two of them."
"But even so, she also lived her own life and lived her own wonderful life."
"Then what?" Liu Yifei asked.
Chu Xuan looked at her in the dark and said: "Some media interviewed her and asked her what motivated her to persevere over the years. She said: Women's independence makes the world wider."
Liu Yifei stared, then returned to normal and lay on top of Chu Xuan.
This sentence is her motto, and it actually appears in Chu Xuan's story.
Girls and big sisters?
Me and mom?
Liu Yifei stretched out her hand to caress Chu Xuan's face, and said with a smile: "What you said...are your guesses about my future without you? I remember that you have guessed about such a situation before."
Chu Xuan did not answer, but said with a smile: "One day, time jumped, and the girl and her eldest sister returned to the time when she was 15 years old, and they met a boy."
"The boy asked them what their names were. The girl said: My name is the Witch. The eldest sister said: My name is the Demon King. The boy said: My name is the Knight."
Liu Yifei smiled broadly and said: "Then, the witch, the knight and the female devil began their stories."
Chu Xuan held her in his arms, pressed her forehead and said: "Demon girl, the story is over, go to sleep."
Liu Yifei nuzzled Chu Xuan's nose with her nose, closed her eyes and said, "When you tell this story, do you mean that we will face many difficulties in the future? You hope that I will be independent and strong and not forget my original intention?"
"No." Chu Xuan closed his eyes and said slowly: "I want to tell you that as long as I am here, I will not let you get any harm and you will always be happy."
Liu Yifei opened her eyes and looked at the face in front of her. She slowly closed her eyes again: "Don't forget, I am the queen. If you want to protect me, I will protect you."
Chu Xuan raised the corner of his mouth and said softly: "Okay, you protect me."
Liu Yifei smiled lightly and put her arms around Chu Xuan's neck: "Go to sleep. We will go to the company tomorrow afternoon to discuss the screenwriter. Let's consolidate our ideas in advance tomorrow morning."
"Well, sleep." Chu Xuan said.
After a while, two even and weak breathing sounds intertwined, and he fell asleep.
