Chapter 514 Visitors from the Other Shore
12:8 am, December 6th.
After being awakened by the alarm clock, Liu Yifei sat up with the quilt in her arms, dazed for a long time, before she put on her slippers and turned off the alarm clock that her mother had specially placed on the floor at the door.
The mother and daughter had another big fight last night. Liu Yifei tossed and turned in bed feeling aggrieved until the early morning before she fell asleep. It was inevitable that she felt a little tired now.
She walked into the bathroom with a droopy face and lifeless eyes. She wanted to wash up simply, but she heard Liu Xiaoli calling her from outside the door: "Take a shower first, the makeup artist should be here at 6:45."
Then there was the sound of rummaging through drawers in the cloakroom.
As a mama's girl, Liu Yifei has long been accustomed to her mother's behavior, but now it sounds irritating and feels awkward no matter how she thinks about it.
She did not take a bath as her mother instructed, but just washed her face quickly and sat back on the bed, pouting and sulking.
After a while, Liu Xiaoli came out holding a princess dress. She spread it out on the bed first, and then took out a Victoria's Secret dress inlaid with jewels from under the dress.
Are you going to pack yourself up and send yourself out?
Liu Yifei secretly complained in her heart.
"What are you standing there for? Go take a shower."
While arranging the small piece of shiny cloth, Liu Xiaoli urged, "Even if you don't want to take the initiative to get close to Director Xu, you still have to attend the celebration banquet, right?"
"Humph~"
Liu Yifei's face was full of unhappiness. She twisted her two snow-white fists on the bed sheets and ignored Liu Xiaoli's urging.
Liu Xiaoli sighed helplessly, threw the Victoria's Secret in her hand aside, and pulled Liu Yifei and said, "Come on, let's go, let's take a shower together, and you can help rub my back too."
Liu Yifei hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not struggle hard.
Bathing together is a habit that mother and daughter developed since childhood. Even when Liu Yifei grew up, she would occasionally bathe with her mother.
But this time, she felt uncomfortable no matter how she looked at it. Liu Xiaoli's usual meticulous scrubbing seemed to have extra meaning in her eyes.
At this time, Liu Xiaoli stopped, glanced at her daughter, and quickly turned away, mumbling with red cheeks: "Why are you staring at me instead of washing yourself?"
Seeing her like that, Liu Yifei couldn't help but sigh secretly. It seemed that she was not the only one who was overly suspicious.
Perhaps because of her guilty conscience, Liu Xiaoli took a shower much faster this time than usual. By the time they had dried their hair and changed their clothes, the makeup artist was still seven or eight minutes away from arriving.
"Did you check the blog last night?"
Taking advantage of this free time, Liu Xiaoli took the lead in bringing up the topic: "The selection of concubines is getting bigger and bigger. I heard that students from the Central Academy of Drama and the Beijing Film Academy are all gearing up to compete for this role."
Liu Yifei twisted a strand of black hair around her fingertips and said without looking away: "What does that have to do with me? I graduated a long time ago."
"I'm talking about Director Xu's current appeal!"
Liu Xiaoli glared at her daughter, then couldn't help but complain, "But Director Xu is already the top director of commercial films, and he's suddenly going to make a TV series, which is really a bit of a self-depreciation."
She was quite dissatisfied with this matter. Instead of rushing out of Asia and entering Hollywood by making a billion-dollar movie, she lowered herself to make a TV series in order to give back to her fans. Isn't this putting the cart before the horse?
"Hasn't Chen Kaige also filmed a TV series?"
Liu Yifei, on the contrary, disagreed with this point. The main reason was that all the TV series she starred in were popular, but her foray into the big screen was a complete failure. If TV series are not worth mentioning compared to movies, then wouldn’t her achievements be insignificant?
"The TV series directed by Chen Kaige..."
When Liu Xiaoli heard her daughter mention the TV series directed by Chen Kaige, she showed an indescribable expression. However, Xu Kun himself is a TV actor and screenwriter, so there is no need to worry that he will fail.
Liu Xiaoli also didn't want to say anything bad about Xu Kun in front of her daughter, so she changed her tone and said, "No matter what, you have to be polite when you meet. You can't let your mother's sacrifice go to waste, right?"
Hearing this, Liu Yifei observed her mother out of the corner of her eye and secretly complained in her heart: Judging from the rosy and radiant skin of my mother these past few days, it doesn't look like she has made any "sacrifice".
But she finally nodded in agreement.
Because even if Liu Xiaoli didn't remind her like this, she would definitely maintain proper etiquette - it's okay for her to lose her temper with her mother at home, but she doesn't have the courage to give Director Xu a cold shoulder in public.
Not to mention the time spent on makeup and on the road.
However, when the mother and daughter arrived at the venue, they saw a crowd of reporters and fans in front of the main entrance, and even some blond-haired and blue-eyed foreign reporters. The popularity was almost as high as that during the Two Sessions.
Seeing that there were foreign reporters present, Liu Xiaoli subconsciously tidied herself in front of the dressing mirror, then got out of the car with her assistant to find the staff to coordinate.
Unlike a premiere, the celebration banquet does not have such a strong commercial purpose. Besides, with the success of Operation Kunpeng, there is no need to deliberately use the celebration banquet to raise its own status. Therefore, six red carpets were arranged for the guests to use, so that the situation of small stars arriving early and waiting for a long time would not occur.
Of course, the overall situation is still divided into different levels. The more central the channel, the more important the guest is, which basically prevents small stars from taking advantage of the popularity of the big guys.
Liu Yifei was assigned to the second channel from the left, which was not as good as the best but better than the worst.
This made Liu Xiaoli quite dissatisfied, but she also knew that it was a pipe dream to expect Director Xu to praise her just for being a side dish.
So we still have to urge Xixi to get closer to Director Xu!
Since it was not so formal, the mother and daughter did not separate, but walked together on the red carpet, second from the left.
Although Liu Yifei's popularity has been declining over the past year, she still attracted a lot of media reporters with her reputation as the Fairy Sister, but most of them asked about Liu Yifei's recent works.
The answer is of course no.
However, Liu Yifei has never been a prolific actress in the years since her debut, so she can still maintain her respectability in front of people - but if she has no output by next year, the decline will be quite obvious, which is one of the reasons why Liu Xiaoli is eager to change the status quo.
Just when the mother and daughter were walking to the second half, someone nearby shouted, and most of the reporters surrounding them on both sides left in a flash, making the mother and daughter, who were looking around, quite embarrassed.
So after entering the hall, Liu Xiaoli did not follow the waiter's lead and go inside, but stood there, wanting to see which big star had stolen her limelight.
As a result, when she saw a man and a woman walking in side by side from outside, Liu Xiaoli immediately put on a flattering smile. She didn't know the woman, but the middle-aged man was none other than Li An, currently the most successful Chinese director in Hollywood.
Liu Xiaoli was just hesitating whether to go over and say hello, when various big shots who had heard the news came rushing over and surrounded Li An, making it impossible to get through.
hum~
A bunch of sycophants!
Liu Xiaoli, who was half a step behind others, felt jealous. Seeing that she couldn't squeeze in, she was reluctant to leave, so she had to wander around with her daughter and several other second-tier stars.
At this time, a large group of people rushed out, led by Han Sanping, Xu Kun, Feng Xiaogang and the Er Wang.
Seeing the main character coming, the various celebrities surrounding Li An had no choice but to retreat to the sides and watch the "victorious meeting" of the two sides with envy.
Han Sanping shook hands with Li An first, then laughed and said, "If I had known that Director Li was coming, I would have waited at the door early in the morning!"
"You're too kind."
Li An hurriedly bowed slightly and said a few polite words. Then he subconsciously looked at Xu Kun, but Xu Kun did not take the initiative to step forward. Instead, he gently supported Feng Xiaogang from behind.
With just this one blow, the little cannon suddenly felt two ounces lighter. While greeting Li An with a grin, he couldn't help but reflect on his recent actions.
At the same time, he couldn't help but secretly sigh, no wonder this kid Xu Kun could be successful, his tolerance and tolerance of not being arrogant after winning was much better than himself when he was young.
Finally it was Xu Kun’s turn to be the third one.
When Li An shook hands with him, he stared at him for a long time, then shook his head and sighed: "Young people are really formidable. When I saw Mr. Xu, it was as if I saw the future of mainland films."
“It is the future of the entire Chinese-language film industry.”
At this time, the middle-aged woman who had been following Li An also spoke up, and then she directly replaced Li An, and shook hands with Xu Kun while saying: "I am Jiao Xiongping, the chairman of the jury of this year's Golden Horse Awards."
When people nearby heard Jiao Xiongping introduce herself, they became a little agitated.
Although not many people know Jiao Xiongping, she is quite famous in the Taiwanese film and television circles and is known as the godmother of movies - of course, influenced by her middle school syndrome, she is given various titles quite frequently.
In fact, Han Sanping knew Jiao Xiongping, but seeing that she didn't say anything and Li An didn't help introduce her, he guessed that she probably didn't want to have public contact with him as an official representative of the mainland, so he pretended not to see it.
Now seeing Jiao Xiongping taking the initiative to shake hands with Xu Kun, how could he not know that she was coming for Xu Kun?
So he smiled and said, "Ms. Jiao can take time out of her busy schedule to come to the mainland and communicate with us mainland colleagues. We sincerely welcome you."
The last paragraph has a lot of Chiang Kai-shek's flavor.
(End of this chapter)
