Chapter 439 What did Godfather do?
February 2008, 1.
On that day, the total box office of "Assembly" reached 2 million, surpassing the 8235 million of "Transformers", temporarily ranking third among mainland films and TV series.
The only ones ahead of it were "Curse of the Golden Flower" with million yuan and "Titanic" with million yuan.
However, the box office potential of "Assembly" has reached its limit. It is estimated that it will take around million yuan at most when it is released - the original box office was million yuan. The addition of Xu Kun and Huang Xiaoming has increased the box office by about 3500 million yuan.
It’s not that Huayi doesn’t want to make it the second best film in history, it’s mainly because it has already been watered down before. If it were to be watered down again, Zhang Yimou would agree, but Zhang Weiping would not.
Rather than causing a big quarrel, it is safer to quit while the going is good.
On the morning of that day, Xu Kun held a personal press conference at Huayi’s headquarters building.
Upon hearing the news, various media outlets flocked to the scene, and even many reporters from Hong Kong and Taiwan flew to Beijing overnight.
They looked murderous and ready to fight, and they didn't seem to be here to attend the press conference. Instead, they seemed to be here to hunt down Xu.
It was also on this morning that Liu Xiaoli drove Liu Yifei to Huayi headquarters.
When Liu Xiaoli got out of the car, she was gritting her teeth and was furious, because her purpose in coming here today was not anything else but to ask for her daughter's salary.
In the past six months since Liu Yifei joined Huayi, in addition to filming "The Forbidden Kingdom", she has also shot more than a dozen commercials of various sizes, but she has not received a penny so far.
It just so happened that Liu Xiaoli had never worried about money before, and had never thought that there was such a thing as malicious wage arrears in the entertainment industry, so she did not restrain herself at all in the past six months, and continued to spend money lavishly according to her original habit.
In order to take care of her daughter more conveniently, she even bought a two-story house near Jiuzhaigou.
As a result, by the time she realized something was wrong, she only had about 100,000 yuan left.
For ordinary people, this is enough to cover their living expenses for two or three years, but for Liu Xiaoli and Liu Yifei, mother and daughter, it makes life difficult at the end of the year.
That's why Liu Xiaoli hurriedly dragged her daughter here to ask for her salary.
"mom."
Liu Xiaoli stretched out her long legs, which were in perfect proportion, and was about to walk inside in her high-heeled boots when she was stopped by Liu Yifei.
"what?"
Liu Xiaoli turned back in confusion.
"Calm down first."
Liu Yifei tried not to show any emotion when reminding him, "Otherwise, when we meet Mr. Wang, I'm afraid we'll quarrel again."
"Who wants to argue with them? I just want to get back what we deserve! They owe us money, how dare they argue with us?!"
Liu Xiaoli retorted sharply, but stood still and did not go in. Instead, she began to adjust her emotions with difficulty - after experiencing the wasted six months, the only thing left of her was her tough mouth.
Liu Yifei breathed a sigh of relief when she saw this.
Her emotional intelligence is not very high, but it is still much better than her mother's temper of offending people everywhere, especially after she has recently witnessed the fickleness of the world.
Moreover, she recently accepted the guidance of her godfather - just the afternoon before yesterday, she went to the detention center to visit a prisoner without telling her mother.
Because of her involvement with 'Mainland Xiang Huaqiang', Chen Jinfei, who was only imprisoned for half a year in the original time and space, was sentenced to six and a half years in the first instance this time. She is currently appealing, but based on the current conditions, the possibility of upholding the original verdict is the greatest.
This was naturally a big blow to Chen Jinfei.
When Liu Yifei saw him, he had become extremely thin, with a lot of gray hair on his temples.
When he saw Liu Yifei, Chen Jinfei was so excited that he leaned against the glass wall and cried until the prison guard came out and scolded him. Only then did he sit down on the chair obediently.
Seeing this, Liu Yifei also burst into tears.
When Chen Jinfei recovered, the first thing she asked about Liu Xiaoli.
When Liu Yifei heard her godfather asking about her mother, embarrassment and indignation immediately appeared on her face. In fact, she had proposed to visit Chen Jinfei a long time ago, but Liu Xiaoli kept putting it off, making it clear that she did not care about their old friendship.
But as a well-educated girl, she couldn't say bad things about her mother in front of her godfather, so she hesitated and didn't know how to respond. Chen Jinfei sighed and said that she didn't blame Chen Xiaoli, and said that she felt sorry for them.
Liu Yifei didn't think much about it at the time, but instead felt even more ashamed of her mother's behavior - but when she thought back on it later, there was obvious guilt and shame on her godfather's face when he said that.
Could it be that godfather did something to let mother down?
The first thing Liu Yifei thought of was a third party, but the relationship between godfather and mother didn’t seem to fit this description.
"Mother."
After hesitating for a moment, Liu Yifei asked quietly, "Did your godfather do anything to let you down before he went to jail?"
"Um?!"
Liu Xiaoli, who was trying to adjust her mood, heard this and her peach blossom eyes suddenly widened. She blurted out, "You, you already knew?!"
"Know what...Yes, I already know."
Liu Yifei almost didn't react.
Fortunately, Liu Xiaoli has never been one to read other people's faces. She immediately sighed dejectedly and said, "That old thing..."
"Huh~"
At this moment, someone suddenly called out from behind: "Yifei, Aunt Liu, what are you doing outside?"
Liu Yifei turned around and saw that it was Huo Siyan.
Because Huo Siyan had just played the role of the White-haired Witch in "The Forbidden Kingdom", they had some acquaintance with each other.
Although Liu Yifei was curious about what her godfather had done, she could only smile and greet him, "Sister Si Yan, how come you have time to come to the company today?"
"Brother Kun is holding a press conference, can I not come?"
After Huo Siyan finished speaking, she wondered, "Aren't you here for this?"
Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli looked at each other in wide eyes, having no idea that this had happened.
Even after listening to Huo Siyan's explanation, I realized that people in Hong Kong were collectively throwing dirty water on Xu Kun and even labeled him a pedophile.
Liu Xiaoli hurriedly asked: "Then how is Director Xu going to deal with this?"
Liu Yifei and Huo Siyan were both a little surprised by her attitude, but Huo Siyan still answered truthfully: "The matter of the young trainee was clarified in the newspaper yesterday, but I'm not sure what Brother Kun is going to say today - how about we go in and listen together?"
Huo Siyan said this and pointed in the direction of the hall.
Liu Xiaoli was about to agree, but Liu Yifei said first: "No, we came here today to discuss something with Mr. Wang."
"Oh."
Huo Siyan suddenly realized: "Then you guys go ahead and do your work. I'll call the actresses in the company later and we can get together so we can get to know each other."
The three of them walked into the office building together.
When passing by the hall, Liu Xiaoli subconsciously glanced around and found that it was crowded with people, about two to three hundred people, all of whom were either holding a microphone or a camera. They were obviously reporters who came to attend the press conference.
Liu Xiaoli was secretly amazed, thinking that after the huge success of "Assembly", Xu Kun's popularity had become even higher - and this was also one step closer to the path she had imagined.
Should we find an opportunity to test whether he has any idea of entering Hollywood?
Normal people must have this idea, right?
This is Hollywood after all!
"Mom~"
She entered the elevator absent-mindedly. Seeing that there was no one around, Liu Yifei couldn't help but pull her aside and ask, "Where is my godfather..."
As a result, just as the elevator started, it stopped on the third floor. A clerk holding documents greeted the mother and daughter, then stood carefully next to them.
Liu Yifei had no choice but to stop talking.
(End of this chapter)
