A taxi stopped on the side of the road. The driver turned around and said to Ye Zimei: "Miss, No. 4, Repulse Bay Road, is ready!"
Ye Zimei handed the driver two 10-yuan Hong Kong notes. She was now a star after all, and said very generously: "No need to look for it."
The taxi driver secretly glanced at Ye Zimei's chest, swallowed his saliva and asked, "All the rich people live around here. Miss, are you here to visit your friends?"
Although Ye Zimei's exposure has increased significantly some time ago, as long as "The Lover" is not released, she is just a third-rate actor, and few people know her when walking on the street.
"Yes, I'm here to visit a friend." Ye Zimei got out of the car, took out her luggage from the trunk, dragged the suitcase and walked towards the door of the villa.
The taxi driver glanced enviously at the wall of the mansion in the distance, spit out the car window, and stared at Ye Zimei's pert buttocks in the distance and said disdainfully: "Tch, you're still visiting friends, and you look like you're attracted by a rich man.
The mistress you kept.**! Such a big**, I don’t know which bastard got a better deal!”
Zi Mei didn't know that she was being looked down upon. She looked for the doorbell outside the villa's door for a long time, and finally saw a phone. She tried to take off the phone and pressed it a few times.
"Hello, hello." The sudden voice on the phone startled Ye Zimei.
"Hello... hello, I'm Ye Zimei from the crew of "Love Saint"…" Ye Zimei was a little unsure whether she was in the wrong place.
"Ms. Ye, please wait a moment..." The other end of the phone said and hung up.
More than half a minute later, the big iron door of the mansion was finally opened. A wizened old man smiled at Ye Zimei and said, "Miss Ye, please come in. Mr. Kang said that the crew will only come in the afternoon. I didn't expect you to arrive early, Miss Ye."
Zi Mei said embarrassedly: "I came early. I didn't have any filming in the morning, so I thought of coming over early."
The main filming location for the movie "The Lover" was in a large mansion. Kang Jianfei finally chose No. 4, Repulse Bay Road, the most luxurious villa in his name, for filming.
Since most of the cast and crew live in Kowloon, it is quite far from Repulse Bay, so it is very inconvenient to drive there every day. Therefore, in the next half month, Wu Yusen, Li Lichi, Zhou Xingchi, Mao Shunyun, Huang Xia,
Miao Kexiu, Ye Zimei and other creative staff all stayed in Kang Jianfei's villa.
This kind of thing is very common. For example, when Zhong Chuhong was filming with Xu Anhua, he once slept in the mountains for several nights. The crew didn't even prepare a tent at that time.
"Miss Ye, please come with me." The wizened old man walked in front and led the way.
"Thank you," Ye Zimei dragged her luggage in with the old man and asked politely, "What's your surname, sir?"
The old man said: "My surname is Jin. Miss Ye can just call me Lao Jin. Thanks to Mr. Kang for giving me a bowl of food and letting my wife and I look after the house here. If Miss Ye has anything to do, she can always come to me or my wife. She
You have to go out to buy groceries every day. If Miss Ye wants to buy anything, you can ask my old lady to bring it back to you."
It turned out to be the housekeeper of Mr. Kang's family. Ye Zimei's impression of rich people was still in TV and movies, and she felt that housekeepers were all close confidants of the master. She immediately respected Lao Jin particularly, and said: "I'm sorry for the trouble, housekeeper Jin."
Lao Jin smiled and waved his hand: "Don't call me Butler Jin, Mr. Kang rarely lives here. I just help him look at the house."
Ye Zimei thought to herself: It’s good to have money. You can buy such a big house and leave it empty. You can even hire someone to look after it.
Lao Jin took Ye Zimei around a small road, and his field of vision suddenly broadened. Ye Zimei raised her eyes and took a breath of cold air.
Ye Zimei’s ideal is to become a star and make a lot of money, drive a nice car, wear famous brands, and live in a big house, so she went to apply for an actor training class and deliberately changed her name to “Ye Zimei” because her real name, “Yip Suqun”, looked very different.
Rustic.
But the big house in Ye Zimei's dream is just a high-end apartment with an area of 3,000 square feet (about 300 square meters). She has never even thought about the mansion in Repulse Bay in front of her.
Looking at the swimming pool, gardens, lawns, sculptures in the distance... Ye Zimei feels like she is in a fairy tale in a movie.
It would be great if she could live here for the rest of her life, Ye Zimei thought to herself, but it's a pity that she can only live here for half a month, and most of the time she has to spend filming.
When Kang Jianfei bought this house, it was at the time when rumors of war between China and Britain were spreading most intensely. At that time, the stocks of major groups had plummeted, and the bosses whose net worth had shrunk severely were looking for money to fill their holes. Hong Kong really didn't have any
A few rich people have spare money to buy houses everywhere. After all, it takes several years to buy a house and wait for the value to appreciate, and once the company's capital chain is broken, it is over. Therefore, many people are selling houses at low prices for cash, so that Kang Jianfei only used 3 million Hong Kong dollars.
Just buy this mansion.
Repulse Bay was developed into a resort area 60 years ago, and the nearby beaches have been carefully paved, and a bus line has been specially built from the city of Hong Kong Island to here.
Such a beautiful environment naturally makes Hong Kong's rich flock to this place, so there was a trend of buying luxury homes in Repulse Bay. But the real residences of the rich are still on Victoria Peak, and the houses in Repulse Bay are at most their holiday villas in their spare time.
No. 4, Repulse Bay Road, purchased by Kang Jianfei, was built at that time. The land purchase and construction costs alone cost more than 2 million (2 million at that time was equivalent to more than 20 million today).
However, in the past 20 years, the prosperity of Hong Kong's industry and the increase of population have caused the environmental quality of Repulse Bay to decline rapidly. The water quality of Repulse Bay beach has long-term E. coli exceeding the standard. This situation has caused the top wealthy people in Hong Kong to greatly reduce their interest in Repulse Bay.
The house prices of villas in Repulse Bay have also fallen. However, the small wealthy people who have made their fortune in recent years are very interested in this place and have built some new villas one after another. Now the villas in Repulse Bay have been built to over 40.
It was not until the 1990s that the environment of Repulse Bay gradually improved due to the vigorous improvement of the Hong Kong government. Repulse Bay beach was also rated as a "good" beach by the Environmental Protection Department, and houses in Repulse Bay started to sell like crazy again.
For example, the No. 4 Repulse Bay mansion that Kang Jianfei bought at a bargain price of 3 million was quoted at HK$1 billion in 2010. Even now, although the Hong Kong real estate industry is still in a sluggish state, the economy has recovered a lot since the Hong Kong government stabilized the exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar against the US dollar.
, the Hang Seng Index has rebounded to around 900 points again (more than half of the 2,000 points three years ago), but the house price of the villa at No. 4 Repulse Bay Road has also risen to 6 million, doubling in value in less than two years.
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Once the Sino-British negotiations are concluded and Hong Kong's economy fully recovers, the price of Villa No. 4 in Repulse Bay will rise to more than 10 million in a short period of time.
Of course, except for Kang Jianfei, no one in this era knows how many years the Sino-British negotiations will last. Even Kang Jianfei doesn't know the exact time, but only estimates that it will take about one or two years.
For most people in Hong Kong, the end of Sino-British negotiations is still far away. Some pessimists even believe that the two countries cannot reach an agreement at all, and there will definitely be a fight when the deadline is 1997.
But no matter whether the price of the villa is 1 million, 3 million, 6 million, or 10 million, for a young actor like Zi Mei who just debuted, the nature is the same, because she simply cannot afford it.
Zi Mei was sitting on the sofa in the living room. She felt bored after sitting alone for a while, so she got up and walked around, looking at the decorations in the house. Through the huge floor-to-ceiling glass, Zi Mei looked at the swimming pool not far in front of the building, and just felt that the swimming pool was
The crystal inside was so crystal clear that I had the urge to take off all my clothes and jump out.
"Ms. Ye, your room has been tidied up. Please come with me." Lao Jin's wife came down from upstairs, followed by a young Filipino maid.
Zi Mei carried her suitcase and followed the Filipino maid into a room, which would be her bedroom for the next half month.
After the Filipino maid closed the door and left, Ye Zimei put her suitcase next to the cabinet, jumped on the luxurious bed, rolled over several times, and said to herself comfortably: "This bed is so soft!
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Zi Mei closed her eyes and enjoyed the comfortable feeling. She fell asleep soon after and didn't wake up until the Filipino maid called her to have lunch.
Before the meal was finished, there was a sudden noise outside. Ye Zimei put down her bowl and stood up to take a look. She happened to see Kang Jianfei coming in with Zhou Xingchi, Mao Shunyun and other crew members.
"Wow, this house is so big!" Mao Shunyun looked up and around in the living room and sighed involuntarily.
Miao Kexiu was much calmer. She had not spoken since she came in. She only nodded and smiled when she met Ye Zimei.
As a newcomer who just debuted, Ye Zimei is full of infinite longing for her future, while Miao Kexiu has a muddled mentality at this time, without much thought of working hard to make progress.
When Miao Kexiu was at the peak of her acting career, her brother, friend and partner Bruce Lee suddenly passed away, causing Miao Kexiu to run away to Taiwan to avoid public opinion. However, her career development in Taiwan did not improve, and she fell into even greater criticism because she
She has been in love with a married man, Ke Chunxiong, for many years - that is to say, Miao Kexiu returned to Hong Kong with the reputation of being a mistress behind her back.
After joining Oriental Entertainment Company, Miao Kexiu also filmed a TV series and two movies, but they were all minor supporting roles. This time she was roped in by Kang Jianfei to play an important role in the crew of "The Lover", and Miao Kexiu did not have too many expectations.
, as long as she is given enough remuneration.
By the time everyone had packed their luggage, Ye Zimei had already finished her lunch, rested for a while, and was ready to start shooting.
In the afternoon, there were only three scenes between Zhou Xingchi, Mao Shunyun, and Huang Xia. Ye Zimei and Miao Kexiu just sat aside to watch and get familiar with the script.
"Hey, this one is great!" Three hours later, Kang Jianfei stood up from behind the camera and said, "Let's take a rest first and start working again after dark." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to
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