Huayu: From charlatan to great entertainer

Chapter 54: Crew Conflict
Chen Guanxi was like a big rooster, posing and acting cool, and frequently chatting and striking up conversations.

"Hello, two beautiful ladies. My name is Chen Guanxi. You should know me, right?"

He put on his signature smirk and thought it would be no problem to charm these two mainland girls.

Especially this tall girl with fair skin and delicate figure, she gave him a completely different impression from the young models in Hong Kong who were heavily made up.

If those slutty girls are the delicacies from land and sea that you are tired of eating, then this one is the simple and elegant bok choy.

After more than half a month of round-by-round banter with Lu Kuan, Liu Yifei has fully mastered the art of using language to confront people.

"Brother Guan Xi, your mouth seems to be crooked!"

Well, the Hong Kong version of Zhao Si.

Su Chang tried hard to hold back his laughter. Concubine Liu Yi was becoming more and more like Lu Kuan. How mean.

Damn it! This is my style, you know?
Chen Guanxi was a little embarrassed, but fortunately everyone was toasting and no one was paying attention to him. He slightly adjusted his facial expression and launched an offensive again.

"Infernal Affairs will premiere in the second half of the year. It's ten times better than mainland Chinese movies! You should go see it. I play Liu Jianming in it."

Concubine Liu Yi wanted to roll her eyes when she heard this. She thought, "You think you're so great just for playing a supporting role."

Suddenly I thought of the way Lu Kuan teased her that day.

"Liu Jian what?"

"Liu Jianming."

"What Jianming?"

"Liu! Jianming."

"Liu what Ming?"

Chen Guanxi was so angry that his face turned blue. He became famous at a young age and his family was very powerful.

My father, Chen Zeming, is an industrialist and member of the Legislative Council. He is good friends with Li Shoucheng and Fang Long. How could he have suffered such humiliation!

He slammed the wine glass onto the table, breaking it into pieces, and immediately started to yell at this chubby-faced mainland girl.

Country boy! No knowledge!
Lu Kuan looked at Concubine Liu Yi, whose face turned pale with fear, and scolded her, "What are you doing?!"

Huo Wenxi's eyebrows also raised: "Guanxi, what are you doing?"

The Hong Kong entertainment industry is not that big, and she is highly trusted by her boss, Li Shoucheng. This time she was the team leader in the mainland, and she immediately took control of the situation.

Although Chen Guanxi was used to being arrogant, this was not Hong Kong after all. He knew he was in the wrong, so he looked at Lu Kuan and Liu Yifei hatefully, muttered something in a low voice, and turned to leave.

Liu Xiaoli hurried over to comfort her daughter, looking at his skinny back with dissatisfaction.

Concubine Liu Yi took a deep breath. She was indeed frightened by his sudden brutality just now. She said with some lingering fear: "Mom, I'm tired. Let's go back."

Su Chang also glared at the Hong Kong people present with a sense of shared hatred, and left with the mother and daughter.

Huo Wenxi picked up a glass of wine and drank it himself, saying apologetically: "I'm sorry, Lu Sheng, young people have no sense of propriety, please forgive me."

Nicholas Tse just wanted to stand by his good brother, but when he heard Huo Wenxi being so humble to this young man whom he looked down upon, he stood up and left decisively.

"Sister Mani, I'm tired today, let's go first."

Yu Wenle has the lowest status among the three and has to keep up with the leader.

To put it bluntly, Nicholas Tse was extremely dissatisfied with Lu Kuan from the beginning. His close relationship with Mei Yanfang, his undisguised insults regarding his salary, and his accurate prediction of his punitive sentence of community service.

Lies don't hurt people, the truth is a sharp knife. Each and every one of these things made him very embarrassed.

He and Edison Chen, a wave of popular young actors in Hong Kong, rose to prominence too quickly, and had a ridiculous sense of superiority towards mainland actors, directors and even investors.

This is a prejudice that is ingrained in our bones and will take time to reverse.

Now the restaurant truly fell into deathly silence.

Li Dawei looked at the young director who had just put together a crew with sympathy. These days, Hong Kong and Taiwan artists and directors are all arrogant and powerful, and those in the industry are well aware of this.

When Jet Li was filming "Shaolin Temple", his daily salary was 90 yuan, while the Hong Kong supporting actor in the same group was paid 5000 yuan a day.

When Liu Xiaoqing became famous in mainland China, she participated in the filming of "The Burning of the Old Summer Palace". She was treated the same as other extras, sleeping on the floor and eating steamed buns and pickles. Hong Kong actors were greeted and seen off by a special dining car.

Chen Kun didn't react much. He had always been critical of Liu Yifei, believing that her immature acting skills affected the crew's progress and the quality of the TV series, but he still admired Lu Kuan.

"Director Lu, come here and let me toast you!"

The two clinked glasses, and the crew all understood each other, and the atmosphere gradually became lively again.

Boss Lu had weathered many storms in his past life, so he didn't take a few twenty-somethings seriously. He just wanted to think carefully about how to deal with these troublemakers...

After the dinner, everyone went back to the crew's hotel to rest. Lu Kuan called Ning Hao to tell him to go to Tian Zhuangzhuang to get a note and go find Qiu Yuanxu, the director of Qingying Studio. Suddenly, someone called him from behind.

"Director, are you feeling okay?"

Her voice is as gentle as water, her figure is as slender as a willow in the wind, and her expression is pure and quiet.

Lu Kuan was stunned for a moment. This level is quite high!

At first glance, I really thought it was a water lotus that was shying away from the cool breeze!
Dong Jie is the closest to Chen Kun in the crew. Apart from them, there are Liu Guoquan and his mother. All other people are ignored.

However, starting from today's press conference, she became interested in this new young director who was disguised as a small-time actor with some connections.

Unexpectedly, such a press conference that was tried to be as low-key as possible still made Lu Kuan like Tang Monk's meat, and various female demons began to frequently try to attack.

"Oh, that's good. A little wind and waves, nothing to worry about."

Dong Jie doesn't believe his nonsense. He is just trying to show off. Young film and television practitioners know their own situation.

Just like herself, Zhou Xun, who was injured while filming a movie at the age of 19, appeared on the Spring Festival Gala and played the bride with the then-famous Nicholas Tse.

Zhao Benshan, who performed on the Spring Festival Gala that same year, took him to find Zhang Yimou and they collaborated on "Happy Times".

Everyone looked at her with envy and jealousy, thinking that she would soar to fame with the identity of a "Mou Girl", and even she herself thought so.

Unexpectedly, she insisted on her own way and ignored Zhang Yimou's advice and starred in Hunan Radio and Television's "White Collar Apartment", but it didn't make any waves.

This year's "The Story of a Noble Family" can be considered a turning point in her acting career. If it had not been successful, she would have been forgotten by everyone.

Later, thanks to the hit drama "The Legend of Zhen Huan", she successfully switched to the Hong Kong circle in 2003, signed with Wang Jiawei's company, and was taken care of by Liang Chaowei and others.

Dong Jie knows how to take care of a man's self-esteem. She covered her mouth and chuckled softly, saying, "Although the director is young, he is very mature and steady."

Seeing her like this, Boss Lu suddenly felt a little tired.

(End of this chapter)