Fringe artists in the entertainment industry

Chapter 207 205. Don’t believe in love!

The moonlight is beautiful tonight. The full moon hangs high in the sky, dotted with stars.

On the quiet street, the tall French paulownia trees were flourishing. Chen Li'an sent Liu Xiaoli downstairs to the apartment. The two of them stood under the eaves of the apartment door, with warm yellow light shining softly on them.

Chen Li'an took Liu Xiaoli's hand and squeezed it gently, then let go and handed the bag in her hand to her and said, "Thank you for being my female companion tonight. I wish you a good dream."

The hand that had been being held suddenly let go. Liu Xiaoli still missed the feeling just now. She took the paper bag handed over by Chen Li'an and hesitated for a while before saying, "Would you like to go up and have a cup of tea? You drank a lot tonight."

"convenient?"

Liu Xiaoli understood what Chen Li'an meant and said with a smile: "I live in a hotel apartment by myself, so there is no inconvenience."

"Then" Chen Li'an was about to agree when the phone rang suddenly, so he looked at Liu Xiaoli apologetically and took out the phone to answer the call.

As soon as the call was connected, Li Dabai's voice came.

"Mr. Chen, why haven't you come back yet? Did you drink too much? I just had a phone call with Sister Huang Gongli. She asked me to tell you not to drink too much. When will you come back? I'll prepare sobering tea for you."

After Li Dabai finished speaking quickly, he added uneasily: "Sister Gong Li said that you should go home and call her back."

Chen Li'an: "." If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have answered! When did Li Dabai rebel? Damn it!

Turning his head and glancing at Liu Xiaoli who was looking at him, Chen Lian's expression became slightly serious and he said to Li Dabai on the other end of the phone: "I know! Just wait until I go back to deal with it, I'm already on the way!"

After saying that, Chen Li'an hung up the phone, walked up to Liu Xiaoli and said very apologetically: "Sorry, something happened temporarily, I need to go back and deal with it quickly."

"It's okay, you can go back and get down to business." Liu Xiaoli had already guessed what Chen Li'an had just said, and felt a little disappointed but also relieved. After all, she hadn't gotten the divorce certificate yet.

Chen Li'an hummed, looked at Liu Xiaoli's scattered hair on her forehead, reached out and gently brushed it and said: "I will return to China tomorrow, when will you go back?"

Chen Li'an's sudden tenderness and initiative made Liu Xiaoli's eyes flash with panic, and she felt like she was back to the time when she was in love as a teenager.

After such a long period of ordinary days, in this romantic city, on this romantic night, it seems that the girl's heart that has been silent for a long time has been rediscovered.

Liu Xiaoli bit her lip and said softly: "I booked a flight for the day after tomorrow, and I still have some things to deal with tomorrow."

The amorous feelings of a mature woman coupled with the slightly girlish lip-biting movements made Chen Lian want to throw away the phone and follow Liu Xiaoli upstairs.

But now there is no chance. Chen Li'an put down his hand and looked at Liu Xiaoli and said: "Then we will meet in the capital. I will pick you up the day after tomorrow."

"No need, he will be the day after tomorrow"

Liu Xiaoli paused mid-sentence, but Chen Li'an understood what she meant and nodded: "Okay, you deal with your own affairs first. If you need anything, call me."

Facing Chen Li'an's good sense of proportion, Liu Xiaoli always felt strange, as if she were facing a man older than herself, who was obviously several years younger than herself.

Aren't men of this age supposed to be impulsive and domineering? Like a puppy guarding its food?

Perhaps it was because she and he hadn't developed to that stage yet. Liu Xiaoli looked at Chen Li'an and thought about whether to give him a reward, what if he ran away and became decoupled.

But Chen Li'an didn't give her that much chance to think, "I'm going back first, good night and sweet dreams."

Liu Xiaoli looked at Chen Li'an's back as he turned and left, showing no signs of nostalgia at all, which was completely opposite to the tenderness he had shown just now.

"Good night!"

Liu Xiaoli shouted at Chen Li'an's back, and couldn't help but mutter in her heart that she seemed to have been caught.

Little puppy! He's quite capable of indulging in lust! But this is not the time when teenagers fall in love. There is no ignorant love, only two people testing each other.

More than twenty minutes later, Chen Lian returned to the villa. He looked at Li Dabai, who was sitting cross-legged on the sofa and playing with the trophies. He sat opposite her and said, "Tell me, when did you rebel?"

Li Dabai was startled by Chen Li'an, and then he reacted and asked pretending to be stupid: "Mr. Chen, what's the rebellion?"

"Don't act stupid, did you report my whereabouts to Gong Li?"

"No! Sister Gong Li and I just hit it off! I just talked about you when I called you at night."

"Humph, you don't admit it, do you? You have the ability to ask Gong Li to pay you a salary, and your salary will be halved starting tomorrow!"

After Chen Li'an finished speaking, he went upstairs. If you don't trust your salary, you, a little money-crazed guy like you, can't handle it! I guess I'll come clean later.

Li Dabai scratched his head. You didn't pay me the salary. The beautiful girl Ji Fa paid me the salary.

Looking at Chen Li'an's back going up the stairs, Li Dabai murmured in a low voice: "Am I going to tell you that the Queen has also paid me a salary? Huh? The Queen has already paid me, can other concubines also be able to defraud me of their wages?"

"No, no, I'm so sorry for Teacher Chen."

Li Dabai sighed melancholy, what a good way to make money, after all, he is too conscientious, otherwise he would even sell Teacher Chen's underwear for money!

After going upstairs to take a shower, Chen Li'an was a little surprised that Li Dabai was not frightened, so he went downstairs with a straight face and watched Li Dabai packing the things he bought.

Chen Li'an sat next to him and picked up a bag and looked at it for a few times. Li Dabai raised his head and glanced at him and said, "Teacher Chen, the flight ticket has been booked. It will be at 9:15 tomorrow morning. Go to bed early and I will pack it myself." That’s it.”

Chen Li'an: "."

This girl is hopeless. She doesn't think that she is here to help her pack her things.

Chen Li'an threw the things in his hands on the table, looked at Li Dabai and said, "Forget what happened today, there won't be another time. Remember that you are my assistant, do you understand?"

"Understood!" Li Dabai raised his head and looked at Chen Li'an with a smile, then pulled out a small box from the bag on the table and pushed it in front of him and said, "This is the gift I bought for you. This bottle of perfume is so expensive."

Looking at the perfume box in front of him, Chen Li'an coughed unnaturally. Is this considered a female subordinate bribing a male boss?

After Chen Li'an went upstairs with the perfume, Li Dabai smiled proudly, the crisis was over! But you really have to pay attention in the future. No matter how powerful the queen is, she still has to listen to the emperor.

The next morning, Chen Li'an and Li Dabai boarded a plane back to China.

On the balcony of an apartment in Paris, Liu Xiaoli held coffee in her hand and looked up at the planes flying in the sky. Then she turned around and took her bag and went out. The dress from yesterday was hanging on the hanger in the room. It is particularly dazzling in the early morning sun.

On the plane flying at high speed, Li Dabai looked at Chen Li'an as if he was taking credit for it and said, "Teacher Chen, this is first class, are you satisfied?"

"Yes, Not Bad."

Chen Li'an put on his eye mask and prepared to take a nap. Li Dabai continued: "First class is so expensive. All the foreign exchange I brought this time has been spent."

"You can change some more when you return to the capital. You'll have to come back in a few days." Chen Li'an replied and turned over to sleep.

Li Dabai curled his lips when he saw Chen Li'an like this. He felt that he was too luxurious, and the economy class was not bad either.

However, when Li Dabai leaned back comfortably on the seat, he still showed an expression of enjoyment. The money was indeed worth it.

More than ten hours later, the plane landed in Beijing. However, it was past three o'clock in the morning at Beijing Airport, and there was still a hint of air-conditioning in the air.

Chen Li'an and Li Dabai did not stay in the capital for too long. After waiting at the airport for a few hours, they transferred to Nanjing.

The Christian crew in Nanjing have already arrived, and the plan is to officially start filming in five days. However, before starting, a lot of work needs to be prepared in advance.

Chen Li'an also had to meet with the director and creative team first. Whether it was script reading or communication about specific shooting plans, they had to be decided in advance.

Time is tight and tasks are heavy. Chen Li'an has to return to Cannes in a few days to attend the closing ceremony, and there is no time to stay in the capital.

At a roadside stall in Nanjing, Chen Li'an and Li Dabai were sitting at a small table, eating pot stickers dumplings and duck blood vermicelli soup. At this time, Nanjing had just started a new day.

Many office workers have breakfast here, and many people bring thermos buckets to pack for home.

Li Dabai took a bite of the pot sticker dumplings, but his eyes stayed on the belly noodle stall next door. People in the capital have a special liking for tripe.

But the duck blood vermicelli soup was also delicious. Li Dabai touched his belly and gave up the plan of eating another bowl of belly noodles.

Chen Li'an grabbed some roll paper, wiped his mouth and said, "Eat quickly, the crew is still waiting."

"Oh" Li Dabai looked away from the child's bowl next door.

In a mid-range hotel by the Qinhuai River, Chen Li'an successfully met the crew. What he didn't expect was that Cheng Shufen also came over.

"Sister Shufen, why are you here too?" Chen Li'an looked at Cheng Shufen and asked.

"My snow friend is holding a concert in Yangcheng. I'm not far away and I'm here to see you." Cheng Shufen said with a smile. In fact, she was a little worried that the crew would look down on Chen Li'an.

The entertainment industry in Xiangjiang has always been looked down upon by no one in the Mainland. The previous midnight singing had Zhang Guorong in it, and it was filmed at the Beijing Film Studio, which would give Chen Li'an face.

But this time we are not cooperating with a mainland production company, and there are no acquaintances of Chen Li'an on the crew. It would be bad if Chen Li'an is offended.

Cheng Shufen came here specifically to support Chen Li'an, so as to prevent those who didn't know what they were thinking from showing a superior attitude.

Cheng Shufen took Chen Li'an to the conference room provided by the hotel and introduced Chen Li'an's identity to the crew.

Directors Ou Dingping and Chen Li'an had already met him and knew his identity. They stood up and shook hands with Chen Li'an and said, "Master Chen, long time no see."

This sentence makes it a bit embarrassing for the master to call Chen Li'an, it is better to call him by his name.

Everyone in the conference room saw that the investors and directors were very polite to Chen Li'an, and they all knew it, and they all greeted Chen Li'an politely.

Several photography assistants sitting in the corner of the conference room whispered about Chen Li'an.

"Isn't he just a young actor from the Mainland? What is his background?"

"There must be a background, otherwise why would I be performing a midnight song with my brother?"

"Then why did the director call him Master?"

"I know this. The artist is here. What awards have he won before? I saw it in the newspaper."

No one paid attention to the gossip here. Li Dabai, who was standing nearby, vaguely heard it, but he couldn't understand Cantonese and had no idea what they were talking about.

At this time, Li Dabai's eyes were fixed on the heroine of the movie, the actress Yasuko Tomita from Japan.

At this time, Tomita Yasuko bowed to Chen Li'an very politely and said hello, but Chen Li'an did not understand a word of the Japanese he spoke.

The translator next to him immediately followed up and said: "Jingzi said that he likes your works very much. He didn't expect to be able to cooperate with an artist like you. I am very flattered. I am very happy to be able to cooperate with you. I hope you can give me some advice."

When he was a child, he liked to engage in such nonsense. Chen Li'an bets that Tomita Yasuko has never seen his works. Ji Fa has never taken his works to Japan for exhibition, and has been wandering around Europe and the United States.

Tomita Yasuko must have checked Chen Li'an's information and knew that he was an artist, so he was so polite. After all, in a social environment like Japan, writers and artists have a much higher status than actors and singers.

Faced with Yasuko Tomita's politeness and politeness, it is still very useful. Chen Li'an also politely replied: "That's so polite. I also look forward to future cooperation."

At this time, Yasuko Tomita was already 26 years old. She was not considered popular in Japan ten years after her debut. After all, when she debuted, there were the most beautiful women in the Showa era.

Even though the Showa era has passed, it still hasn't been her turn to come forward, otherwise she wouldn't have starred in this large-scale movie.

But after this movie, Tomita Yasuko became popular in Japan. There was no way, there were too many perverts in Japan, and they just liked this tune.

Yasuko Tomita looks very innocent, with a delicate and pitiful flavor. Later, she was hailed as the last representative of pure desire in the Showa era. I don’t know who made the comment, but Yasuko Tomita does seem to be the pure desire type. .

Tomita Yasuko fits the innocent Jinhua in the script very well, and director Ou Dingping will still choose the person.

After a brief exchange of greetings, everyone sat down and began to read the script. Hong Kong films normally do not conduct such readings, but the directors of literary films are different, and Ou Dingping has devoted a lot of effort to this film, and he attaches great importance to it. Also different.

Script reading is actually very simple, that is, the creative team sits together and goes through the script from beginning to end. There is no need to perform, but the actors have to read the lines with the emotions of the characters.

If you find something inappropriate, bring it up, and then everyone will discuss how to modify it.

This method is very beneficial to creation. It allows the actors to familiarize themselves with the script as soon as possible, and also allows them to become more familiar with each other. After the official filming, they will have a lot of tacit understanding.

Christ in Nanjing is a tragic story, and the atmosphere in the conference room was difficult to warm up and always had a depressing feeling.

Chen Li'an and Tomita Yasuko sit together, and when they read the scenes of their rivals, they watch each other empathize with each other's emotions more. However, the communication between the two can only rely on their eyes and expressions. One speaks Chinese and the other speaks Japanese. Language communication became an obstacle.

But fortunately, it was just a matter of reciting the lines, and each other knew what lines the other was saying, so the reading went smoothly.

The whole morning passed quietly, and the conference room was filled with mist. Most people smoked. Chen Li'an also lit a cigarette and clamped it on his finger. Although he had quit, the character in the script smoked, and now he has recovered. The feeling of smoking.

After a morning of reading, I only got through half of the script. During the lunch break, Yasuko Tomita took the initiative to sit next to Chen Li'an in the hotel restaurant and said hello to Chen Li'an in Chinese with a somewhat imperfect pronunciation.

Li Dabai wanted to laugh while listening, and quickly stuffed a piece of beef into his mouth, thinking that Chen Li'an would not be able to make a good friend this time.

How can we hook up if we don't understand each other? Should we rely on sign language?

Chen Li'an listened to Tomita Yasuko's greetings, smiled and replied in Chinese, and then said in English: "We can also communicate in English."

"Yeah" Yasuko Tomita hummed for a while before saying in English: "My English is not very good either, please forgive me."

Li Dabai really couldn't help but want to laugh. He even had difficulty communicating in English. Now he could safely report to the Queen.

Chen Li'an turned to look at Li Dabai who was suppressing a smile and said, "Why are you laughing? Are you good at English?"

Li Dabai: "." Go and learn now! So angry!

Tomita Yasuko couldn't understand the conversation between Chen Li'an and Li Dabai, but he could guess that Chen Li'an seemed to be speaking for himself, so he said in less fluent English: "Is my pronunciation too substandard? I'm sorry, I will practice more. of."

Chen Li'an turned around and said, "No, you are the Japanese with the most standard pronunciation I have ever seen."

This is not a lie. Chen Li'an has never met many Japanese in his life. Tomita Yasuko is indeed the best in pronunciation.

Hearing Chen Li'an's words, Tomita Yasuko felt a little dumbfounded. It sounded like a compliment, but in fact it was a complaint about the Japanese pronunciation of English.

But this is also true. There is indeed an accent problem in Japanese English. Tomita Yasuko did not struggle with this problem and still tried hard to communicate with Chen Li'an in English.

Chen Li'an also chatted with Tomita Yasuko very patiently. Li Dabai, who was sitting next to him, was angrily fighting with the ribs on the plate. He couldn't understand it at all, and he couldn't even make a small report.

Lunch time passed quickly, and the group returned to the conference room to continue reading the script.

As each person spoke one line, the sky outside gradually became darker. When the crowd read the end of the script, when the male protagonist burst into tears while holding the heroine who died on the railway, Chen Li'an's choked and sad voice made people laugh. The entire conference room fell silent.

Yasuko Tomita listened to Chen Li'an's lines and looked at his affectionate and sad eyes, and the emotions in her heart were aroused. Thinking of Jinhua's tragic life, tears fell from the corners of her eyes unknowingly.

Perhaps because Chen Li'an was a little invested, he unconsciously reached out his hand and gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

Ou Dingping looked at this scene, and his heart was filled with emotion. Although it was not a real shooting, the time, location and costumes were wrong, the feelings of Chen Li'an and Tomita Yasuko at this time were moving.

After Chen Li'an finished speaking all his lines and broke away from his emotions, applause suddenly broke out in the conference room.

Ou Dingping pressed the cigarette butt in his hand into the ashtray and couldn't help but said excitedly: "What you feel now is so right!"

The translator explained next to Yasuko Tomita. She turned her head and looked into Chen Li'an's eyes, showing an extremely innocent smile.

Chen Li'an looked at Tomita Yasuko's smile and suddenly had some thoughts in his heart. If he fell in love with someone like the male protagonist in the movie, would he also fall into pain and entanglement?

After all, it's not easy to be a scumbag. Chen Li'an can understand how painful Okazawa in the movie was at the end.

A good scumbag suddenly becomes deeply in love with a woman he shouldn't love. This is not a touching love, it will only lead to entanglement and pain.

Because a scumbag never loves just one person.

After the reading, Chen Li'an was not in a very good mood. Li Dabai followed him and asked softly: "Teacher Chen, haven't you acted yet?"

Chen Li'an hummed, then reacted and said, "No, I just thought of some questions."

Li Dabai snorted and said: "The script is very exaggerated. There are no people like Jin Hua anymore, and there is no such love anymore."

Chen Li'an paused for a moment, turned to look at Li Dabai, and suddenly said with a smile: "Yes, Dabai still understands love very well."

"I don't understand!" Li Dabai immediately shook his head like a rattle, then let out a long sigh and looked at Chen Li'an and said, "I have been with Teacher Chen for a long time, and I no longer believe in love."

Chen Li'an: "." Are you conceiving me? !