All the scenes of "Legend of Zhen Huan" are concentrated in Hengcheng. There is no trouble of long-distance transition of "Legend of Red Flame". The crew of "Legend of Zhen Huan" finished filming ten days earlier than "Legend of Red Flame".
After finishing filming, Cai Shaofen and Sun Li went home to rest for a while.
Last night, before going back to his room to go to bed after the closing banquet of "Legend of Red Flame", Chu Xuan contacted Cai Shaofen and the others again in the group chat.
After hearing that Chu Xuan's side was also finished, Cai Shaofen and Sun Li were almost done resting, so they rushed to the capital to meet up today.
It was originally discussed before each of them joined the group, and after the agreement was finalized, they would form a group to travel to New Haven.
However, the plan could not keep up with the changes. Wu Jin and Xie Nan were newly added to the traveling couple group.
Since Wu Jin came to Beijing in September and reached a preliminary cooperation with Bright Times Film and Television, the "Wolf Warrior" project was successfully approved.
Wu Jin temporarily put his acting career on hold and worked wholeheartedly on his "Wolf Warrior Dream".
I have been staying in Beijing for more than a month, spending most of my time discussing the script with the screenwriting teachers at the Bright Times Film and Television and the Ministry of Culture, and also making advance plans for investment, team building and shooting scenes.
During this period, I also communicated with Chu Xuan from time to time to seek advice. As we chatted, we joined the "Never Break Up Couple Group". This group chat with a very middle-class name also included the couple Wu Jin and Xie Nan. Naturally, they became friends.
Joined their travel plan.
"Damn it! Why are you so dark!"
"Chu Xuan, what are you doing!"
"I almost didn't recognize it."
"You went mining?"
"Isn't it an exaggeration to take advantage of it?"
As soon as Chu Xuan entered the box, he was greeted by all kinds of joking and surprised looks from his friends.
Even the waitress couldn't help but smile, feeling surprised and amused by Chu Xuan's changes.
After so many jokes like this, Chu Xuan became immune to it, bumped fists with Wu Jin, Zhang Jin, and Deng Chao, and said hello in a manly way.
He lowered his eyebrows and glanced at the wine box on the ground: "It's another 12-bottle Maotai. It's really scary to have dinner with you."
Moutai has a box of 4 bottles, 6 bottles and 12 bottles. For this kind of spicy throat-flavored liquor, he has only seen it at Wu Jin's place, who always brings 12 bottles in one piece. It seems like
It is Wu Jin’s signature dinner party behavior.
"How much you drink is another matter, you have to keep enough wine." Wu Jin said, looking at the waiter: "The food is ready to be served."
"Okay." The waitress closed the door and retreated.
Chu Xuan sat down on the empty chair next to Deng Chao, glanced at his friends present, and said, "What else happened recently? If nothing happens, you will leave in two days?"
He has nothing to do here. He only needs to spare half a day to come out to the company and sign the documents that need to be signed. It depends on whether all the matters of his friends have been dealt with. If so, he will leave in two days.
He had been separated from Liu Yifei for nearly two months, and he missed her very much.
"We are going to do an interview for "The Legend of Zhen Huan" on this Saturday." Cai Shaofen said while cracking melon seeds.
Sun Li said "hmm" and nodded.
Chu Xuan grabbed a handful of melon seeds. Although he was the boss of the company, he didn't have to know everything.
After hearing what Cai Shaofen said, he could probably figure out the situation of the publicity plan for "The Legend of Zhen Huan".
Leveraging Cai Shaofen's popularity to promote in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and leveraging the popularity of actors such as Sun Li to promote in the mainland, in order to prepare for the national broadcast of "The Legend of Zhen Huan".
He could also roughly guess the focus of the interview. "The Legend of Zhen Huan" had gained a lot of popularity in the "Korean Wave" public opinion. At that time, many netizens participated in fierce debates about the characters and historical background in it.
Based on his understanding of the company's marketing department, this interview is probably a rehash of old issues, asking actors such as Cai Shaofen to answer the points that netizens have debated in public opinion, thereby raising enough interest again before the broadcast in the hope that "
The premiere week of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" had the best start in terms of ratings.
This kind of publicity method was used by Sister Hua to take advantage of others. He didn't know if his guess was right, but he thought it was probably like this.
"We have nothing to do here." Wu Jin crossed his arms, leaned on the back of the chair, and sat with his legs spread like a horse.
"I'm going to shoot a commercial on the 27th," Deng Chao said.
"I also want to make an announcement on the 28th." Sun Li agreed.
"Are you all so busy?" Xie Nan cracked a melon seed.
"Then let's start at the end of the month. Can we set off on the 31st?" Chu Xuan said, and according to Sun Li and Deng Chao's schedule, the departure time was set at the end of the month.
Upon hearing this time, everyone looked at each other, touched each other and made their eyes clear.
"OK."
"Then the 31st."
"Can."
Chu Xuan nodded: "That's it."
After a brief discussion, the date for departure to New Haven was decided.
The waiter knocked on the door and came in to serve the food.
Wu Jin and Xie Nan took two bottles of wine and put one on each side.
After the dishes were served and the waiter left, and everyone was getting ready to take the first drink, Chu Xuan's cell phone rang.
Chu Xuan's cell phone was placed on the table. Deng Chao glanced at it subconsciously and said, "Qian Qian."
"I'll pick it up!" Cai Shaofen was in high spirits. He stood up and ran to Chu Xuan and picked up his phone.
Chu Xuan took a wine dispenser from the glass turntable and heard Cai Shaofen answer the phone and clicked on the speakerphone: "Sissy, guess who I am?"
Liu Yifei on the opposite side was stunned for a moment. She was probably caught off guard by someone else who answered the phone while calling Chu Xuan. However, she quickly reacted: "Do you think I'm stupid for being beaten? You still have to guess with your accent?"
Chu Xuan and everyone couldn't help but laugh. This Cai Shaofen was simply hiding her ears and stealing the bell. She was the kind of person who could just admit defeat when playing a game of listening and identifying people.
Hearing their laughter, Liu Yifei also guessed that they were having a dinner together: "Friends, when will you come over?"
Chu Xuan was about to say "the 31st of the month", but before he could say "month", Cai Shaofen said: "Come here in the middle of next month, just wait for us."
"Ah? It's still in the middle of next month?" Liu Yifei was surprised. Both parties have finished filming, so why does it take more than twenty days and nearly a month to come?
Chu Xuan was stunned, seeing Cai Shaofen deliberately deceiving Liu Yifei. He, Zhang Jin, Wu Jin, and Xie Nan looked at each other, and they were filled with fun for a while.
"Sissi, we have to make a few more announcements!" Sun Li spoke for Cai Shaofen in order to convince Liu Yifei.
"There are also interviews to help promote the show." Cai Shaofen continued, and she and Sun Li smiled at each other.
"Okay, let Chu Xuan answer the phone." Liu Yifei said.
Cai Shaofen handed the phone to Chu Xuan and gave Chu Xuan a wink to tell Chu Xuan not to expose it.
Chu Xuan took the phone and said, "It's me."
"You have nothing to do? Come here first." Naturally, the person Liu Yifei longs to see most in her heart is her boyfriend. If friends have something to do, they should deal with it first. The most important thing is that her boyfriend comes first.
Just when Chu Xuan was about to say something, Cai Shaofen came over again and said on the phone: "Chu Xuan came here first. What should we do? We can't find the way."
Cai Shaofen winked at Chu Xuan, asking Chu Xuan to cooperate.
Under the interesting eyes of his friends, Chu Xuan was helpless and funny, and said: "I'd better come with them."
Liu Yifei was silent for a moment, and said in a somewhat disappointed tone: "Okay, I'll wait for you. You can eat. I'll get up and wash up."
Chu Xuan hung up the phone. Liu Yifei's disappointment made him really not want to tell this lie, but Cai Shaofen told her everything, so he just followed Cai Shaofen's words.
He put down his cell phone and said, "You guys had fun cheating me, but I will be the one who gets scolded later. I'm really cheating."
"Hahaha..." Everyone laughed, and the two instigators, Cai Shaofen and Sun Li, slapped the table with joy.
They were happy here, but Liu Yifei on the other side of the ocean was a little depressed.
--Los Angeles.
The morning sun is giving off a bit of coolness, and the temperature here is starting to drop.
In Zhou Wenqiong's villa, Liu Yifei was brushing her teeth in the bedroom and bathroom on the second floor.
In the mirror, the toothbrush in her mouth was swinging feebly, her eyes were a little downcast, and her face looked puzzled.
The time when Chu Xuan and the others arrived was very different from what she had imagined.
I thought we would meet soon, but I never thought it would take so long.
The happy mood that I was originally going to visit my aunt's clothing factory today suddenly changed and became very unhappy.
But what can we do? We can only wait patiently for a while.
"Sissi, it's time to eat." My cousin's voice came from outside the door.
"Come right here!" Liu Yifei put her mind in order, washed up quickly, went out and went downstairs to have breakfast with her aunt and her family.
After taking some time to finish breakfast, she got into her aunt's car and followed her family to her aunt's clothing factory.
She originally wanted to call Ailande and ask Ailande if she wanted to go play with her. Ailande's family was also in the clothing business, and she would probably be interested in her aunt's clothing factory.
But after thinking about it, she let it go. If she was with Chu Xuan, she wouldn't want anyone to disturb her. If she thought about it from their perspective, it would be better not to disturb the world of Ellen and Jack.
When the aunt and uncle arrived at the clothing factory, they went about their business. The cousin took her around to look around.
Los Angeles is closely connected with entertainment culture, and fashion elements are naturally one of the symbols of this city.
My uncle took a fancy to this, and he and his aunt opened a clothing company in this city.
But business is difficult. Over the years, I have relied on the limited low-cost market. I have launched my own mid-to-high-end designs but no one is interested in them. I don’t have the channels and guides to promote them in the upper-class fashion circles. I want to make customizations for Hollywood studios.
It can't take orders, and it can't compete with big manufacturers.
If we can't develop and expand, we can only follow the fashion trend and drink some soup. It is not easy to maintain the customer circle that seems to have reached its peak. Now my aunt's family is far from being rich and wealthy, but they have no worries about food and clothing.
Being rich means being safe and quite happy.
After my cousin graduated, she joined the company to help her aunt and uncle. She is the kind of person who inherits the family business.
Seeing how busy the employees in the factory were, Liu Yifei had a sudden idea.
If the Macrons accept her proposal and connect Grande's clothing business to Macron's film and television clothing industry chain, can their aunt's clothing factory also join in?
Huh?
This seems to be feasible to a certain extent!
But there is another problem. Macron helps the Alander family because Alander can become Macron's daughter-in-law. They are a family.
She wanted her aunt's family to get involved, but there seemed to be no reasonable reason.
The main reason is that my aunt's business is not film and television costume production. If I want to change my career, I completely rely on Macron's leadership and help. But why should Macron help my aunt's family?
Her friendship with Grande alone was not enough to achieve this cooperation in interests where the class gap was too large.
Unless Bright Times can clearly cooperate with Macron, she or Chu Xuan take the opportunity to bring this matter up.
If the two parties can reach the strategic cooperation under negotiation, helping my aunt's family is just a small and convenient thing.
If it really happens, then my aunt's family will be very happy, and her mother, grandmother, uncle, and others will definitely praise her and Chu Xuan.
Liu Yifei took this matter to heart and set a small goal for herself.
…
"Auntie, goodbye." At the Los Angeles Airport, Liu Yifei and Grande waved goodbye to Zhou Wenqiong and Jack respectively.
After playing at my aunt's house for a few days, class will begin tomorrow, and Liu Yifei and Ailand will also return to New Haven.
For Liu Yifei, the purpose of this trip has been successfully achieved, and she will just wait for the call from Macron and his wife before proceeding with the next step of negotiations.
But when she thinks about it, the next step of negotiation should be no problem. All the terms she negotiated are very sincere, and Bright Times is also capable of cooperating with Macron.
From a capital perspective, Macron might as well be in Brilliant Times.
Judging from their respective statuses, Macron's status in Hollywood is far inferior to that of Brilliant Times in China's entertainment industry.
Under such circumstances, even with Kim Jae-hee as a competitor, she is confident in the next negotiation.
For Grande, this trip was perfect. With Liu Yifei's help and advice, when I went to Jack's house these days, the attitude of the Macrons towards her has obviously changed, and their prejudiced eyes have gradually changed.
disappear.
If you can be with the one you love and get recognition and support from the elders of both parties, what could be happier than this?
All these changes made Grande and Jack very grateful to Liu Yifei.
As Old Jack said, Liu Yifei is their true friend.
"Mom, I'm back!" After getting off the plane from New York, Jess drove to greet Liu Yifei, Grande, and Caitlin and returned to New Haven from New York smoothly.
Ailand got off the car and returned to the apartment on the way. When Liu Yifei got home, she called her mother, announcing that her precious daughter had returned safely.
Liu Xiaoli wore an apron and walked out of the kitchen. When she saw her daughter coming home, her heart dropped.
Because of her doting on her daughter, Sissi said something like "you have to do things alone when you grow up", which made her lose her judgment. After talking to her sister Zhou Wenqiong, she was scolded before she realized that the safety factor in Los Angeles is not very high.
She put her hands on her hips, shook her head and sighed: "Bring the team with you when you go out later, or your aunt will scold me for being stupid again."
Liu Yifei made a "puff" sound, ran over and threw herself into her mother's arms, squinting her eyes to feel her mother's breath: "I will never let you worry in the future."
After returning to my warm home, this trip to Los Angeles is completely over.
She is also looking forward to her next trip to Los Angeles and wonders what it will be like.
She recorded it on her laptop and wrote down her feelings about the experience.
The confusion when I first got off the plane in Los Angeles, the discomfort when I arrived at the luxury hotel, the surprise when I met the two big bosses Zhang Yimou and Jiang Zhiqiang, the tension when I went to the Macron couple’s house, and the happiness and relaxation after the conversation...
Every bit is worth recalling.
Finally, she wrote: "Chu Xuan, I'm going to catch up with you."
She looked at everything she had written, then ctrl-selected them all and pressed the back key to delete.
No serious person would write a diary. She was just reviewing it with interest because of this rare experience.
However, Chu Xuan could not arrive as expected, which still made her feel disappointed.
And this loss gradually turned into full of expectations when returning to campus life and under the circle on the calendar that was getting closer and closer to Chu Xuan's arrival.
…
"That's it for today's class. We've had another wonderful morning. The weather is getting colder and colder. Please keep warm, students. We'll see you next week."
In class, Teacher Sijia gently announced that get out of class was over.
A dozen students packed up their textbooks and stood up to leave.
"Sissi, you are going to my house for dinner today. I understand the hot pot you are talking about. All the utensils are available, just waiting for you and me to buy the ingredients." Ailand put the book into her satchel, zipped the satchel, stood up, and put the bag
The bag is hung on the right shoulder.
Ailande was confused about the difference between boiled meat in a large basin and hot pot. Through Liu Yifei's explanation and some research on her own these days, she understood the difference between the two and how to make hot pot.
Liu Yifei said that it is really difficult to explain Chinese cuisine to foreigners. The main reason is that the Chinese names for some things are not well translated in English, and foreigners cannot understand the concept.
After being pestered by Ailand for more than ten days, she finally taught Ailande a lesson.
"Okay, I'll come over in the afternoon." Liu Yifei held the textbook in her arms and walked out of the classroom with Ailande.
"Okay, come early, take me to buy ingredients, and tell me which ones are delicious." Ailande and Liu Yifei turned around and walked towards the exit of the teaching building.
"OK." Liu Yifei agreed. After leaving the teaching building, a breeze blew, making her feel chilly and she put her hands in her pockets.
Today, October 31st, is about to enter November, and the weather has completely changed in New Haven, with the temperature dropping below ten degrees.
"Hello, Caitlin." Ireland greeted Caitlin.
Sissi's female bodyguard is already famous in this teaching area. There are many bodyguards in the school, but none of them are as cool as Caitlin. She is as sassy as the black widow. This is also Caitlin.
Charm.
Caitlin folded her arms and leaned slightly, leaning her shoulders against the tree trunk. She wore a yellow-green military cap on her head and a pair of black sunglasses on the bridge of her nose.
This is Caitlin's signature move and her commonly used appearance.
What makes Liu Yifei a little puzzled is that in the past, when she came out of class from the teaching building, Caitlin would retract her movements to join her.
But now she was only a few steps away from Caitlin, but Caitlin didn't react at all. She still kept her movements and had no intention of leaving her, which made her feel a little strange.
Caitlin took off her sunglasses, looked behind Liu Yifei with a smile in her eyes.
"Hey."
Liu Yifei was stunned for a moment when a voice came from behind her. The voice was so familiar that she turned around to take a look.
Ailande didn't react at all. Liu Yifei quickly pushed the books in her arms into her hands. She was caught off guard and dropped two books on the ground with two "snaps".
Ireland was confused when she saw her sister rushing into the arms of a man with an oriental face like a gust of wind.