Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 126 Date?

Is that a date?

Li Qiutang didn't think so. Of course he had his own selfish motives, but a date was a meeting between two people who knew each other well. Now it was just Li Qiutang's wishful thinking. Liu Yifei must have thought that this was just a meeting between a director and an actor.

But even so, Li Qiutang still took a shower, shaved and changed his clothes before going out.

On the other hand, Liu Xiaoli learned that her daughter was going to meet Li Qiutang tonight to discuss roles and scripts, so she specifically told her: "Go wash your hair. You haven't washed it for a few days. You don't mind the oiliness."

"I went there to discuss work, not dating." Liu Yifei continued to argue.

Liu Xiaoli smiled and said, "Talking about work and talking about dating are sometimes the same. You have to leave a good impression on people, right?"

"I already know him." Good impression? He's seen me drunk, how could he have a good impression of me?

"Daily life is daily life, work is work. Do you want to meet the director with a greasy hair? There's still time. I'll get you some water." Liu Xiaoli didn't care and went to get some water to wash her daughter's hair.

After washing and drying her hair, Liu Xiaoli wanted her daughter to put on some light makeup, but Liu Yifei didn't want to: "I look good even without makeup."

Then ran away.

Liu Yifei drove to the agreed restaurant by herself.

"Hello, do you have an appointment?"

"Li Qiutang."

"Okay, please follow me."

The waiter brought Liu Yifei to the seat reserved by Li Qiutang, but Li Qiutang was unexpectedly late.

"Give me a glass of warm water first, and order the food later."

"alright, please wait."

Liu Yifei had drunk half of the glass of water when Li Qiutang came over and apologized, "Sorry for being late. Something happened on the set."

"It's okay, I just arrived too." Liu Yifei smelled the faint scent of shower gel on Li Qiutang's body.

They ordered some food and chatted. Li Qiutang talked about what happened after he returned to China, and Liu Yifei talked about some new things that happened to the mother and daughter in Australia after he left.

Li Qiutang could smell the fragrance of the girl opposite her.

"Your food is here," the waiter added. "Would you like something to drink?"

Li Qiutang glanced at Liu Yifei with amusement. Liu Yifei knew why he was looking at her and felt embarrassed to be stared at. She said to the waiter, "No need. We can just drink water."

"Okay, enjoy your meal." The waiter walked away.

Li Qiutang smiled and said, "Drink less in the future." While they were abroad, the two never talked about what happened that night.

Liu Yifei had nothing to say because she was indeed extremely drunk that night.

"If you can drink ten or eight bottles, I won't say anything. Good girl, you can drink one bottle with great enthusiasm." Li Qiutang has no prejudice against girls drinking, as long as they don't drink excessively.

Liu Yifei's ears almost blushed, and she quickly changed the subject: "Didn't you ask me to talk about work?"

"Oh, yes." Li Qiutang put down his chopsticks, took out a stack of scripts from his bag and handed them to Liu Yifei, "Take this back and read it first."

Liu Yifei opened the script, and Li Qiutang said, "Don't read it here, eat first, and we can talk while we eat."

Liu Yifei also obeyed, covered the script, and continued eating and chatting.

"I saw that you had just written the story outline. You've only been back in China for a few days, and the script is already out." Liu Yifei said.

"When writing a script, once the concept is in place, it's quick to write. In fact, I worked on this story with five other screenwriters for 10 months. I had this idea before the filming of The Whistleblower started." Then, Li Qiutang told Liu Yifei a series of stories about eating noodles with Jiang Wen, watching Stealing an Official in advance, and then associating Stealing an Official with In Time. "You're amazing, you can associate a completely different story with that story." Liu Yifei was impressed by Li Qiutang after hearing this.

Seeing that there was no water in Liu Yifei's cup, Li Qiutang reached out and took the cup from her, and with one hand held the kettle to add water to her cup.

"Thank you." The girl thanked him softly.

"Director Qiutang!" a female voice came.

Turning around, she saw that it was none other than Fan Bingbing, accompanied by a short man whom Li Qiutang did not recognize.

"Hey, Bingbing, are you here to eat too?" Yanjing is so big and there are so many restaurants. How could it be such a coincidence that we meet here.

"Yes, I'm having dinner with friends." Fan Bingbing said, "What are you doing?"

At first, Fan Bingbing also thought that Li Qiutang and Liu Yifei were dating, but when he saw a stack of manuscript paper on Liu Yifei's desk, Fan Bingbing quickly glanced at the cover, "In Time".

Probably talking about work.

Li Qiutang actually asked Liu Yifei to film a movie!

"You guys are talking about work, right? Haha."

Li Qiutang didn't want to get to know the man next to Fan Bingbing, but he wanted to get to know Li Qiutang: "Bingbing, why don't you introduce me to him?"

Fan Bingbing introduced them with a smile: "This is director Li Qiutang, who directed last year's hits "No One" and "Famous"; this is Liu Yifei, even if you haven't seen her you should have heard of her.

"Qiutang, Yifei, this is Mr. Hu, in..." Fan Bingbing glanced at the man next to him hesitantly. Mr. Hu interrupted and said:
"Hu Jin, I work in the propaganda department." Mr. Hu was very polite and shook hands with Li Qiutang and Liu Yifei respectively. "I also like watching movies. We can communicate more in the future."

Li Qiutang smiled and said yes.

"We won't disturb you anymore. You guys eat and we'll be there soon." Without saying a few words, the two left.

The chance encounter with Fan Bingbing was just a small episode in their dinner. But Fan Bingbing's appearance interrupted the conversation between the two, and they couldn't continue for a while.

It was Liu Yifei who continued: "You just said this is the most expensive movie you have ever made."

"Ah, yes." Li Qiutang continued, "The budget for this movie is 1 million, almost twice that of The Sound of Wind."

Liu Yifei smiled and said, "You have a heavy responsibility on your shoulders, Director."

"That's why I asked Sister Shenxian to help me. I hope you can boost the box office. This movie is going to lose money. My first two years of work were all for nothing. I have to sell myself to pay off Mr. Han."

Liu Yifei was modest and said with a smile: "I'm a new actor, I don't have such a big role."

After dinner, Li Qiutang paid the bill and the two walked out. It was still very cold in Yanjing in early spring. After discussing business matters, Li Qiutang wanted to talk about personal matters: "Yifei, do you have anything else to do later?"

"No."

"Then I'll treat you to a movie." Li Qiutang didn't dare to look at Liu Yifei's eyes when he said this, but he was looking forward to her answer.

"Okay, what movies are there to watch?" Liu Yifei agreed readily.

"'Crazy Racing' should still be showing, but I don't know if the cinema has any screenings yet." The two talked as they walked towards the parking lot.

"Did you drive here?" Li Qiutang asked.

"No, I took a taxi." Liu Yifei didn't know why she said that, as her car was clearly parked diagonally opposite Li Qiutang's car.

"Come on, I'll take you."

Liu Yifei sat in the passenger seat, and Li Qiutang took the girl and disappeared into the early spring night in Yanjing.

(End of this chapter)