On a sunny morning, the couple slept until they woke up naturally. After washing and dressing up, they packed their luggage. However, Chu Xuan was helping his wife to pack. Liu Yifei sat on the edge of the bed like a little girl, with her hands on both sides of the bed.
, legs rising and falling gently swaying back and forth, watching her husband busy with herself.
Accompanied by her constant warnings.
"You have to take good care of yourself. Don't just be busy with things while you are in the hotel. Take the time to go out for a walk and exercise in the gym downstairs. The same will happen after you get back. You also need to go to Sister Hua's house for meals. Eat less fast food. It is not healthy."
"Why are you acting like mom now?"
Chu Xuan took out the clothes from the closet, bent down and packed them into the suitcase. While bending down, he raised his eyebrows and looked at Liu Yifei sitting in front of him with a joking look.
The words he just said were "nagging" that only mothers would have in the past, but hearing these words from Liu Yifei made him really uncomfortable.
It can only be said that Liu Yifei's attitude towards him and life changed significantly before and after she testified.
The former is his boyfriend who is in love, and the latter is his lifelong husband. This change in his wife's perception of him also makes him feel more deeply.
"I care about you, but you still dislike me?"
Hearing Chu Xuan's reply, Liu Yifei immediately raised her eyes, looking unhappy.
"How can you dislike it?"
Chu Xuan packed the clothes in the suitcase, stood up and kissed Liu Yifei on the lips, then did the discharge technique he learned from Liu Yifei, and blinked his right eye.
This skill is a natural talent. Chu Xuan, who does not have this talent, cannot learn it completely. Originally, the discharge mode of opening the left eye normally and blinking the right eye has become a discharge mode of blinking the right eye and the left eye blinking at the same time.
He half-squinted unconsciously.
The embarrassment displayed by such a half-hearted person really made Liu Yifei laugh. She put a finger on Chu Xuan's forehead and pushed him away pretending to be disgusted.
"If you don't know how to do this, don't do it. It will cause great embarrassment."
Chu Xuan and her looked at each other and smiled, then turned around to help her pack the clothes in the closet into her suitcase.
I heard the wife behind me say again: "When you stay in a hotel alone, you should also pay attention to your personal safety. For example, there are small cards under the door in the middle of the night. These are all endangering your personal safety, so be careful."
Chu Xuan froze, holding the clothes in his hand, and turned around with a face that didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "What the hell!"
One night during filming, he and Liu Yifei returned to their room after finishing work on the set. When they opened the door, they accidentally discovered a small card under their feet.
You can understand the little card in the hotel and what the picture is on it.
Moreover, the small cards of five-star hotels are so high-end that even Liu Yifei can’t tear them apart.
In the end, I don’t know who Liu Yifei went to get a lighter, and burned the small card to ashes in front of him.
This was just a joke, but now that Liu Yifei had brought it up again to tease him implicitly, or to warn him, this made him feel quite funny.
Liu Yifei looked at him with a smile on her face and looked at him without saying anything, with a sly look on her face.
She didn't know why, even though she had 100% trust in Chu Xuan, she was always subconsciously wary of things like this.
She attributed this mentality to the fact that the more she loved Chu Xuan, the more possessive she became towards Chu Xuan.
She doesn't think there is anything wrong with such a mentality. After all, Chu Xuan is her husband who will stay with her for a lifetime, and there are no impurities in it. Isn't this kind of mentality normal? Any normal woman will have this.
manner.
Especially after talking to Chu Xuan, she finally found where she belonged, and this attitude became clearer in her heart.
Even though the separation this time was only nearly a month, which was not as long as the previous separations of several months for study purposes, the change in mentality triggered by becoming a wife after the testimonial made her become even more possessive of Chu Xuan.
So I followed my heart and gave Chu Xuan a sentence.
Even if she believed that Chu Xuan would not do anything sorry to her, the complexity in her heart would always make her hesitant.
This can only be said that people are a combination of contradictions.
Vice versa, a conflicted heart is a person of flesh and blood.
"It's done, let's go."
Chu Xuan zipped up the suitcase and lifted it up.
Liu Yifei got out of bed, picked up another packed suitcase, and walked out of the room with Chu Xuan.
After the couple went to the next room to meet their mother, Zeng Ni, and Lu Tao, the family took the elevator down, and the crew was waiting in the nanny car in the parking lot.
In the hotel's underground parking lot, the wheels of suitcases mopping the floor made a gurgling sound, accompanied by Liu Xiaoli's nagging: "Have a good time alone. This time I have solved Sissy's academic issues. I can return to China next month."
It will be completely stable. It would be better if the nationality matter can go smoothly, and your wedding..."
For Liu Xiaoli, there are several big events this year.
The first is the matter of Sissi's graduation. If this matter is resolved smoothly, Sissi will no longer have overseas ties, and she will save a lot of worry.
The second is the matter of Sissi's nationality. If this goes well, that would be even better. Not only can their family be fully stabilized, but the couple can also freely pursue their dreams.
The third is the wedding of the young couple. If the first two things are solved smoothly, and then the big event of the wedding is solved, then all this can only be described in two words, that is perfect.
Being a mother seems to worry about the lives of her children. She considers almost everything about her children, except that she did not remember her 50th birthday next month.
Maybe this is mother. Even if she forgets her own affairs, she will never forget the happiness and joy of her children.
Listening to my mom's chatter, it seemed like everything was planned very carefully, but there was no mention of my birthday next month.
So Liu Yifei, as a daughter, glanced at Chu Xuan, and Chu Xuan looked at her. There was warmth and emotion in the eyes of the couple. They also silently and tacitly made up their minds to give their mother 50 years old next month.
It was a birthday surprise that brought unexpected joy to my mother, which also fulfilled the filial piety of both of them.
"Xiaoxuan, please go back. Don't send me off. It's troublesome to come and go." Liu Xiaoli walked to the car door and said.
"What's the trouble? I'll see you off." Chu Xuan picked up the suitcase and got into the car.
"There's no need to send it off. Director Jay Chou is still waiting for you to process the video. Hurry up and we can go to the airport ourselves." Liu Yifei persuaded, pulling Chu Xuan behind.
Lu Tao took advantage of the situation and grabbed the suitcase from Chu Xuan's hand, also preventing Chu Xuan from seeing it off.
Chu Xuan laughed and shook his head. In the past, Liu Yifei would be nostalgic and sentimental when parting like this. From an objective point of view, she was a bit squeamish. After experiencing the incident of testifying, she has changed, and she will still remain the same in the private world of the two.
A little bit of coquettishness to show interest, but no more in public, no more pretentiousness.
Girlfriends and wives are different. No matter how deep the relationship is with the former, the tolerance and understanding are limited to a wide range, but with the latter, the width will be expanded and a depth will be sublimated at the same time.
He said nothing more and stopped at the door of the car to watch them get in the car.
"Xiaoxuan, let's go." Liu Xiaoli said goodbye.
"Honey, bye." Liu Yifei waved her hand.
"Bon voyage." Chu Xuan raised his hand and waved.
When Liu Yifei closed the car door, she raised her right hand and made a "phone call" gesture.
Chu Xuan smiled slightly, raised his left hand and gave an "OK" gesture.
Seeing the crew member driving the nanny car away and turning the corner and losing sight of him, Chu Xuan turned around and walked towards the elevator entrance.
Maybe it’s because it’s an established fact that we’re getting married, or maybe it’s because we can foresee the beauty of the wedding. In the past, when we parted, we always felt sad and had too much reluctance, but this time the reluctance was gone.
More or less, it is more about the expectation and longing for my daughter-in-law to return to China and settle into a stable family after graduation.
After taking the elevator back to the corresponding floor, the corridor was empty. Only the camera crew and production crew were left in the entire crew. Without the bustle of many people during filming, the hotel also returned to its usual deserted state.
The text message sounded, and Chu Xuan picked up his phone and looked at it.
[Chu Xuan, I arrived home safely. Please wish me safe and come to my house to play when you have time.]
Sisters Zhang Shaohan, Wu Qingfeng, and Lin Longxuan caught a flight back to Baodao early in the morning, and they arrived home safely just before noon.
【Take good care of your health, get well soon, and get together when you have time.】
Chu Xuan replied with a blessing, put his phone back in his trouser pocket and opened the door to the suite where the camera crew was located.
"Auntie and Xixi are gone?" Zhou Jielun opened the door. Apart from him, Liang Datong, Fang Wenshan, chief cameraman Long Fei, team members and several members of the production team were all in the room, on the long table assembled
They set up several computers and were busy with work. When Chu Xuan showed up, they all called "director" to say hello.
"Let's go." Chu Xuan responded and saw Liang Datong coming over with a report.
"Mr. Chu, financial accounting." Liang Datong handed the report to Chu Xuan.
Chu Xuan took the document and looked at it roughly while turning the pages.
Liu Yifei had already done the calculations, so he only needed to see if the total financial figures for each project were correct.
Before the shooting started, the total investment was 40 million and sponsorship was 38 million.
After the filming started, a total of 16 million was spent on costumes, equipment consumption, scene construction, labor costs, actors' remuneration, etc., including 3 million in wages to be paid.
"It cost 16 million to shoot an urban drama in more than two months. Do you think it's more or less?" Chu Xuan asked.
"Just looking at the shooting part, judging from the current market situation, it's a lot." Liang Datong said honestly.
Chu Xuan nodded and said: "The total salary of Producer Liu and I is 6 million, which accounts for almost 40% of the expenditure. This is a problem. Also, I am not proficient in the business of being a director for the first time, so I wasted some money.
This is the second issue, and both need to be changed and improved."
Liang Datong smiled and said nothing, Chu Xuan came up with "three provinces in a day", which made him feel interesting.
The shooting cost of urban dramas is not high, and it is not difficult to attract investment. However, the salaries of big stars will account for a large proportion of the low cost. This is why urban drama crews in the market cannot hire big stars or do not want to hire big stars at all.
The reason is that unless the big stars are willing to lower their salary, this is also the reason why no big stars are willing to act in urban dramas, because no one is willing to lower their salary.
It's just that "Star You" is different. It is Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei's own work, so it can ignore the rules of this urban drama market.
But in general, this is indeed a problem. Too high a proportion of actors' remuneration may damage the accuracy of production, which is not a good thing in the long run. But he can't say anything on this matter. It only depends on whether Chu Xuan can do anything in the future.
Set an example.
As for the waste of funds caused by being a director for the first time, this is a normal thing. Even a senior director cannot guarantee that he will not make mistakes, let alone a new director? This is not a big problem in his opinion.
Chu Xuan turned the page and continued reading. The estimated post-production cost was 4 million, and the publicity and distribution costs were estimated at 6 million.
"The publicity fee is higher than the post-production fee." He shook his head.
"It's not a big production with a lot of special effects. The post-production of urban dramas is not expensive. "Star You" still has a science fiction background. We only estimated 4 million, otherwise the cost would be less. As for the publicity and distribution expenses..." Liang Datong sighed with emotion.
Said: "The cost of Internet publicity channels is getting more expensive year by year. It is already far more expensive than offline paper media. It will only become more outrageous in the future."
A few years ago, print media was still the main publicity channel. Now the media environment has changed drastically, and the Internet has become a proper media benchmark.
What follows is increasingly outrageous advertising costs. From a four-digit cost in 2005 to a good publicity effect, now any online promotion point can reach five figures, such as Weiyu
For large platforms, good promotion and recommendation will cost six figures.
And if you spend a sum of money, you can only promote it for a short period of time.
If you want the publicity effect to last, you need to keep investing money.
The publicity cost of 6 million is an estimated high-profile result due to the close relationship between the company and Micro Entertainment. If other companies were to publicize this result, it would only cost more money.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Chu Xuan also understands the market situation and does not delve into it too much. He only looks at the established expenditure of "Star You" of 16 million, and the subsequent expenditure is estimated to be 10 million, compared to 40 million
The total investment, the real cost is only 26 million.
The remaining 14 million needs to be returned to the original route and returned to investors in proportion.
However, this ratio is not the investment ratio, but the agreement ratio signed in the contract.
For example, if the company invests 40% of the 40 million yuan, which is 16 million yuan, but the agreement ratio is 50%, then after the 14 million yuan is returned, the company will recover 7 million yuan according to the agreement.
Then, those investors whose proportions have been reduced will suffer a pure loss.
Looking at it from another perspective, those investors are properly sending money to the company.
When Li Heding raised the total investment bid for an urban drama "Star You" to 40 million, he had the purpose of defrauding these investors.
Of course, investors are not fools, and they will not jump one by one if it is really a scam. They naturally know that the cost of a 40 million urban drama is unreasonable, and the reason why they are willing to follow up is for the future profits and effects of this drama.
Including the 38 million sponsorship, the company has recovered its capital and earned 3 million. Adding the 7 million, it equals that the company has earned 10 million.
Seeing that the company was making a lot of money before the show was aired, he should be happy just looking at the profit, but Chu Xuan knew that there was also a drawback.
It seems silly for investors to give away a lot of money, and returning some of it now seems like a loss. But what if some investors have the purpose of laundering money?
Dirty money comes in and clean money goes back. Even if there is a loss, it is still a profit compared to the high handling fees of underground banks in the black market.
Other people's dirty work has nothing to do with him, but if it involves his own work and company, he has to guard against it.
"Let's go back and remind Sister Hua." He thought so.
Then he signed and stamped the document and returned the document to Liang Datong: "Implement the wages to be paid as soon as possible, don't let people wait."
"Okay, I've already made an appointment with the bank. I'll go there in the afternoon." Liang Datong agreed, waved to several people from the production team, and left together.
Chu Xuan stepped to Zhou Jielun's side, folding his hands as well as him, watching the camera teachers operating video editing on the computer.
Seeing Chu Xuan coming, Zhou Jielun glanced at him and said: "The song "Star" confirms that Zhang Shaohan will sing the female voice, but there are not many matching male singers who can sing high notes with Zhang Shaohan. I just thought
Wang Lihong and Lin Junjie."
"Star" by Vitas is used as the ending theme of "Star You". The Chinese lyrics have been revised based on Chu Xuan's original version. As for the arrangement, it is necessary to return to the treasure island after confirming that Zhang Shaohan will be the female vocal part.
The company took Zhang Shaohan's voice and singing as a reference for further consideration.
Zhang Shaohan's public opinion has reversed. Now he regularly returns to Taiwan to recuperate at home. It is not far from Taipei, and his Jewelry Company is in Taipei. It will be very convenient for him to record songs with Zhang Shaohan after he returns to Taiwan.
communication and try to finalize the song before post-production is completed.
But before that, there is still a small problem, that is, I am not sure who the male singer is looking for.
In his opinion, the only male singers who can create sparks with Zhang Shaohan's dolphin music are Wang Lihong and Lin Junjie.
It's just that friends are friends, and they have to negotiate in business. The appearance fees for these two products are not generally high, and there may be major financial issues involved, so he will naturally discuss it with Chu Xuan.
"Male singer..." Chu Xuan muttered, thought about it for a while, then suddenly realized, "Do you know Zhang Jie?"
"Zhang Jie?" Zhou Jielun frowned and thought for a moment, then asked, "That boyfriend of Xie Na?"
"Yes." Chu Xuan nodded.
"Can he do it?" Zhou Jielun was suspicious.
Chu Xuan shrugged: "It's up to you if you can. I'm not a professional. Qianqian and I have a good time with Teacher He and the others. Xie Na is also very affectionate. She spends all her time promoting Zhang Jie as her boyfriend.
Sissi and I are also considering asking Teacher He and Xie Na to come to the wedding next year to help create an atmosphere. If we can help her... that would also be nice."
Zhou Jielun understood. It turned out that there was such a relationship. He nodded: "Then I will contact you when I return to Treasure Island, but agree that if it doesn't work, it won't work. If it works, it will work. This is the ending theme of your drama."
"You make the decision." Chu Xuan responded. In the domestic version of the song "Stars", it seems that it was sung by Zhang Jie in my memory, but it was Zhang Jie ten years later. Does Zhang Jie have this ability now?
How well this song can be controlled is unknown. Let’s see how Zhou Jielun decides. It’s quite tragic for a good singer to be inexplicably raped online because of his love. It’s just a small effort to help him if he can move his mouth.