Chapter 390 Broken Dream
at the same time.
Liu Yifei was sitting on her open-air balcony, holding a toy doll and daydreaming.
"Sissi~"
Following the call, Liu Xiaoli, who had just finished yoga, showered, and applied a facial mask, pushed open the sliding glass door and walked out, urging, "Hurry up and go to bed. You have to be on a variety show in two days. Don't get dark circles under your eyes."
As she spoke, she twitched her nose and said in surprise, "Hey, why did you apply the floral water? Didn't I tell you that the mosquito repellent floral water that my mother asked someone to buy from the United States is effective..."
"mom!"
Liu Yifei turned around and glared at her mother with some dissatisfaction: "Don't you worry about your godfather at all?"
After saying that, she shrank her neck again and hid her swan neck behind the doll, leaving only her nose and eyes exposed, like a lonely and helpless little girl.
"Of course I'm worried about him."
Liu Xiaoli said this insincerely. In fact, she didn't think there was anything wrong with Chen Jinfei's sudden arrest. Instead, she was secretly relieved.
Recently, Chen Jinfei had been urging her to go to the United States to follow up on the progress of the project in Hollywood. Liu Xiaoli had some idea of what Chen Jinfei was planning.
Naturally, Liu Xiaoli was extremely disgusted and repulsed by this.
But as her dream of taking her daughter to Hollywood was within reach, she really couldn't make up her mind to part ways with Chen Jinfei.
This was originally a situation of boiling a frog in warm water, but Chen Jinfei was suddenly arrested, and unlike in previous years, he will most likely be sentenced to three to five years.
This made Liu Xiaoli see the dawn of a win-win situation.
The anxiety she showed in the morning was entirely because she was worried that Huayi would take the opportunity to replace the heroine. Now that she found out that Huayi wanted to take the opportunity to win over her daughter, what else did she have to worry about?
As long as she can stabilize Huayi, she can take Xixi back to the United States after "The Forbidden Kingdom" is released. Chen Jinfei and the Wang brothers will not be able to touch her daughter.
Oh, by the way, there is also Xu Kun!
hum~
What a billion-dollar director? His earnings are less than 1500 million USD, which is nothing in Hollywood!
As for people like Jiang Yiyan and Cai Yinong, once Sissi has established herself in Hollywood, they will be no different from clowns.
Liu Xiaoli thought about the future prospects and smiled unconsciously. Fortunately, she was covered by the mask and did not reveal her smile in front of Liu Yifei.
But she just said this in a dry way and then didn't say anything else, which made Liu Yifei roughly guess what she was thinking.
So Liu Yifei buried her head deeper and asked in a muffled voice: "So what is going on between you two?"
What kind of?
Of course Chen Jinfei was attracted by her beauty!
And now he wants to take advantage of his goddaughter. He is simply a beast!
However, Liu Xiaoli did not want her daughter to be exposed to these things. She was even more worried that her daughter would notice her attitude of sitting back and watching Chen Jinfei do something to her.
So in the end, he didn't break the window paper, but just sighed and said: "It's not that I don't care about him, it's just that I really can't think of a way to help him - so instead of worrying about your godfather, we might as well do our own things first."
After listening to her mother's explanation, Liu Yifei was silent for a while, then asked: "What if I failed to break into the Hollywood circle after filming "The Forbidden Kingdom"..."
"Pooh, pooh, pooh, children's words are blown away by the wind!"
Liu Xiaoli hurriedly stopped her daughter from speaking in frustration, and then said, "What nonsense are you talking about, kid? Two Chinese superstars, Jackie Chan and Jet Li, have teamed up to make such a big splash, so how could it not be a hit?"
Liu Yifei questioned, "But the real protagonist is an unknown white actor. Even Cheng Long and Li Lianjie can only..."
"Hey, why do you think so much!"
Liu Xiaoli interrupted her daughter again. Hollywood was something she had thought about and dreamed about all her life, and she could not tolerate anyone bursting this bubble, not even her beloved daughter.
But seeing Liu Yifei sinking a little further, with only a pair of white eyes looking at her, Liu Xiaoli hesitated for a moment, but decided to tell her the way out she had in mind.
"If something unexpected happens, we should go to Hong Kong Island first. It's more open, freer, has more opportunities, and is closer to Western society. Don't worry, I've met some people there in the past two years."
After hearing this, Liu Yifei finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Because her mother constantly instilled in her all kinds of dirty rumors about Huayi, she had a deep fear of Huayi, so she would be fine as long as she didn't end up signing with Huayi.
But thinking of the recent rumors, Liu Yifei hesitated again: "But I heard that people who go there from the mainland are increasingly discriminated against."
"Oops~"
Liu Xiaoli rolled her eyes speechlessly, reached out and rubbed her daughter's head, and said, "Girl, you have been in the mainland for too long. Have you forgotten that you are American? There is discrimination against mainlanders over there, what does it have to do with us? When the time comes, you can just use English directly, and they will look up to us." After saying that, she pulled her daughter again and urged her to go back to the room and go to bed.
After Liu Yifei went back to her room and lay down obediently, Liu Xiaoli took off the mask on her face, did some other maintenance, and then returned to her room.
Lying on the large double bed, she felt a little lonely when she thought of Chen Jinfei, but she was more grateful - if everything could really be as she wished, she would wake up laughing in her dreams.
…………
The next morning.
Liu Xiaoli was reading an English magazine in the living room when she suddenly received a call from Wang Zhonglei.
Liu Xiaoli didn't want to have any contact with the famous double-plug Mr. Wang, but for the sake of "The Forbidden Kingdom", she had to pretend to be nice.
Of course, in the eyes of others, her hypocrisy was just being arrogant.
"Is such that."
After the pleasantries, Wang Zhonglei got straight to the point: "The company just held a meeting, and the shareholders all felt that it would be best to sign the contract first, so that everyone will be family in the future, and it will be more convenient if anything happens."
"This……"
Liu Xiaoli was caught off guard. Everything was clearly agreed upon yesterday, so how could it change so suddenly?
After calming herself down, she used her old excuse again: "Boss Wang, if our Xixi signs now, it will definitely be different from signing after "The Forbidden Kingdom" is released. I don't think there is any need to be so anxious. When you signed Xu... when you signed Director Xu, didn't you also wait until the movie was released before signing?"
Chen Jinfei helped draft this set of rhetoric, and it did have a delaying effect yesterday.
But today Wang Zhonglei was not so easy to dismiss: "Don't worry about this. We will just count on the box office success. We will also discuss the division of labor with Yifei at the American agency. I guarantee that the conditions we offer will satisfy you."
"This……"
Liu Xiaoli was a little embarrassed, but she still bit the bullet and pretended to be unhappy and said, "Boss Wang, do you not trust me? Or do you not trust the strength of your Huayi?"
"No no."
Wang Zhonglei quickly clarified: "It's mainly because of those rumors on the Internet that have made some shareholders suspicious. Anyway, we have to sign it sooner or later, so let's just tighten all the clauses."
"Rumors on the Internet, what rumors?"
"It's just some groundless rumors..."
"Well, Mr. Wang, let me take a look at what the rumor is, and then we can talk, okay?"
After hearing what she said, Wang Zhonglei had to give up for the time being.
After hanging up the phone, Liu Xiaoli lost her composure and hurriedly called out to Liu Yifei, asking her to search for relevant information on the Internet using her laptop.
As a result, Liu Yifei quickly found a bunch of news and posts exposing Liu Xiaoli on the Internet.
The contents of these news reports and forum posts are all similar. They infer that Liu Xiaoli is a woman with a yellow skin and a white heart, and she is determined to return to the United States in glory through her past experiences and some of the things she has said.
As for everything in the mainland, not only does she not take it seriously, but she will regard it as a burden.
So no matter how hard Tang Ren tried at the beginning, Liu Xiaoli still took her daughter to trick Tang Ren without hesitation.
And now it’s Huayi’s turn.
Although Huayi is the most influential private entertainment company in the mainland, they look down on the country. No matter how big you become, you are just a stepping stone in their eyes.
Finally, the articles all called on Huayi to open their eyes and at least sign the contract first before doing anything else, otherwise it would be a waste of time.
After reading this, Liu Xiaoli felt as if she was struck by lightning.
Although there were some exaggerations in it, it really hit the nail on the head about what she was thinking.
In particular, the arrangement of her experiences and remarks is clear and well-reasoned, and it is obvious at first glance that they were not something that was done on the spur of the moment, but had been planned for a long time.
who is it? !
Who is it? !
(End of this chapter)
