The Birth of the Best Director

Chapter 378 The Battle for Fourth Brother: Sister Niu is Joining Too!

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"David, can you tell me about the concept behind the movie you want to make called 'The Killer'?"

Lu Zhiyuan had seen another movie called "Hitman: Agent 47".

He thought the movie was quite interesting.

Upon hearing this, director David Fincher immediately perked up.

If we can get investment from Lu Zhiyuan, what is $1.5 million?
Lu Zhiyuan earns approximately 4 to 5 million US dollars for each film he makes.

In addition, Lu Zhiyuan also owns a special effects company, a drone company, and a robot dog company. These companies earn him a lot of money every year.

Lu Zhiyuan's investment in his own film is tantamount to poverty alleviation.

“Lu, here’s my idea: an assassin who never misses a shot, accidentally misses while trying to assassinate a key target.”

"Then, he calmly dealt with everything, changed several escape routes, and cleaned up all traces of himself. Finally, he returned home safely."

"But then he suddenly discovered that his wife had been severely attacked and was almost dead."

"Therefore, he began a frenzied revenge."

Hearing this, Lu Zhiyuan thought it was alright.

He seemed to have seen several different versions of this kind of story.

Each version is pretty good.

It looks really cool.

The assassin failed his mission and was then treated as trash by the organization, who planned to eliminate him. However, the assassin, who was merely a tool, was unwilling to accept his fate and began a frenzied revenge.

If handled well, this could be a very sharp R-rated film!

"So, I guess the final outcome is that the assassin wiped out the entire organization by himself? And even uncovered the mastermind behind it all?"

Thinking of this, Lu Zhiyuan suddenly joked, "Wait a minute, isn't the person this assassin is trying to kill some big shot?"

Because Eddie Redmayne starred in a similar TV series called "Days of the Jackal," which has a similar theme.

As a viewer, Lu Zhiyuan really enjoys watching this kind of movie.

Because this kind of movie is something he will never encounter in real life.

Through movies and immersive experiences, he can portray the cold-blooded killer as someone who teeters on the edge of adventure and death.

This would be very exciting for Lu Zhiyuan.

And it's very safe.

"Do not."

"That's too cliché."

"My idea is to let the killer stick to his principles and not do anything extra, and he will eventually let the employer go."

"That makes sense, doesn't it?"

"After all, unless an assassin is insane, they won't assassinate world-class figures or the world's richest people. Because they would be wanted worldwide and relentlessly hunted by the police."

Director David Fincher wanted to make a killer movie, and everything was based on realistic feasibility, not wish fulfillment.

“Sorry, David, let’s delete this conversation and pretend I never asked.”

Lu Zhiyuan thought David Fincher's idea was really bizarre.

A movie is a commodity.

Director David Fincher clearly only wanted to satisfy his own desire for expression, rather than to turn this product into a bestseller that could be sold worldwide.

Upon hearing the ending, Lu Zhiyuan said he had lost all interest in the film.

He changed the subject: "David, how about we talk about the French red wine tonight? Did you like it? I have a house in Spain near the Mediterranean. If you ever need a vacation, you can ask me for the key."

Director David Fincher understood what Lu Zhiyuan meant; he had absolutely no interest in investing in the film.

Clearly, this is not a commercial film.

It seems he still has to go and fool Mr. Reed Hastings.

At least, Netflix will invest some money in him, considering how hard he has worked for the company to produce TV series over the years.

Even if it flops at the box office, at least this movie can become a Netflix exclusive.

“David, a killer movie shouldn’t be this calm. As a drama, the final twist is important. You can’t just let it end so blandly.”

"I advise you to rethink it."

Like Lu Zhiyuan, director David Fincher is not good at crafting scripts.

Most of his works are adaptations of his existing famous novels or comics.

In short, he didn't write the script himself.

In this respect, Lu Zhiyuan is slightly better than David Fincher.

He is very good at helping the female lead to portray that perfect character.

Director David Fincher, on the other hand, only portrays characters as villains so dark they could descend into hell at any moment.

It lays bare the evil in human nature for the audience to see.

From the perspective of artistic expression, there is no difference in their skill level.

But audiences go to the cinema to have some fun, not to be lectured.

After all, the audience who go to see the evil in human nature is a minority.

Therefore, Lu Zhiyuan's box office revenue is almost 10 times that of David Fincher!
"Lu, I will carefully consider your opinion. I'm very happy to be sitting here with you tonight, chatting about movies."

Director David Fincher lightly clinked his glasses with Lu Zhiyuan's.

After finishing his drink, he made an excuse and turned to leave.

Lu Zhiyuan and Gulnazar also got up at the same time. After seeing director David Fincher into his car, another executive sedan immediately picked them up.

……

"Brother Yuan, I feel like David Fincher might not be the best director."

Sitting in the executive sedan, Nazha was certain the driver couldn't understand Chinese, so she directly complained to Lu Zhiyuan about director David Fincher's ideas.

"Nazha, you're wrong."

Lu Zhiyuan smiled and decided to tell Nazha a little-known fact about the directing industry: "Actually, David knows that this movie won't do well at the box office, but he can't resist making it. So, he just wants to find a sucker willing to invest in him."

The key point is that David Fincher, the director, didn't invest any money himself.

Just like the movie "The Great Wall," Lu Zhiyuan didn't invest any money in it.

While money cannot guarantee the success of a project, it at least indicates whether the director believes the project is feasible.

Although Lu Zhiyuan had put in a lot of effort to make the movie "The Great Wall", he was still unsure.

If you're not confident, then don't invest.

"Oh, I get it."

Naza nodded thoughtfully: "Director David Fincher is very talented, but he just wanted to be a little capricious."

Just like Lu Zhiyuan always couldn't help but want to portray a female protagonist as very beautiful in the early stages, and then let her die in a tragic aesthetic at the end.

fortunately.

Lu Zhiyuan always manages to stop the car at the crucial moment.

For the sake of box office success, they forcefully suppressed this urge to express themselves.

Director David Fincher, knowing he couldn't resist, sought other investors to fund his artistic creations.

“Brother Yuan, once I’ve saved up enough money, could you make a movie for me? I’ll be the female lead, it can be a tragedy, a silent film, an art film, a crime film… anything is fine. Make whatever you like, you can let your imagination run wild, you can make it however you want.”

Director David Fincher is looking for a sucker to pay for his artistic creations.

Nazha felt that she could also pay a small price for Lu Zhiyuan's willfulness this time!
Lu Zhiyuan turned and looked at Nazha for a long time, finally smiling: "If the leading lady I need isn't you, would you still be willing to invest in my movie?"

what?
How could you be so mean?
She only wants my money, but doesn't want me to be the leading lady?

How abominable.

At this moment, Nazha was caught in a existential dilemma.

Finally, she slowly nodded, almost gritting her teeth as she said, "Even so, I'm willing."

If I lose money, consider it my dowry.

At this moment, Lu Zhiyuan looked at Nazha intently.

Two sparks seemed to flicker in his pair of dark pupils.

After a moment, he turned his gaze back to the night sky and said slowly, "I don't lack money."

Also.

Naza sighed. She realized that she couldn't earn as much money in a lifetime as Lu Zhiyuan could in one or two months.

If Lu Zhiyuan wanted to make a movie, why would he need to invest his own money? He could just take out a little pocket money and indulge himself.

I'm really useless.

Just as Nazha was lamenting that she was a useless little piece of trash, she suddenly felt someone put their arm around her shoulder.

That hand was very warm and very strong.

At that moment, Nazha looked over in disbelief, her head spinning.

what's the situation?
What did I just say? How did I suddenly get a reward?
"Nazha, you need to work hard for the next two years, because we don't have many opportunities left."

What Lu Zhiyuan is trying to say is that in two years, the world as a whole will tend to be more conservative, rather than more inclusive and open.

For them, it will become increasingly difficult to achieve success in Hollywood.

For Chinese actresses, successfully penetrating the North American or European markets will be 10 times more difficult than before.

"Brother Yuan, I know your difficulties. Don't worry, I will definitely work hard."

Naza was thinking that Lu Zhiyuan had three other women in his family, and she needed to deal with them one by one.

If I can't handle this in the next two years, then this opportunity will never come again.

……

After finishing his trip to North America, Lu Zhiyuan returned home.

After resting for a few days and adjusting to the time difference, Lu Zhiyuan went back to work at Black Hole Event Horizon, repeatedly tweaking the special effects he needed.

At the same time, Black Hole Vision and Qinling Investment Co., Ltd. jointly established a real estate service platform, [LT Find House], which was officially launched.

This company has brand-new VR online house viewing technology, which makes renting or buying/selling a second-hand house more intuitive and convenient for users.

Before long, they had achieved a devastating victory over ordinary real estate agencies.

This forced small intermediary companies to sign cooperation agreements with them and register corporate accounts on their software.

Implement unified management.

Initially, LT Find House only charged these real estate agencies a service fee, without taking a cut, providing them with online services to make it easier for them to acquire customers.

However, Taobao has set an example for all platform companies.

For a platform company to grow, the first step is to serve merchants.

Once the value of merchants has been largely extracted, these platform companies will likely make a 180-degree turn, starting to serve their customers and, in turn, suppressing and filtering the merchants' data.

This traps these businesses within the algorithm.

Want more traffic?
can.

He paid for the featured spot himself.

Merchants also know that these platform companies have ulterior motives, but if they don't join the platform and use the platform's data to serve their current business, they will be in trouble.

So, it won't be long before they are eliminated from the industry competition.

For these merchants, it's simply a matter of choosing to die a little later and make more money before these platform companies completely monopolize the market.

To die now, or to die in a few years? It's a very simple choice.

All businesses will choose to focus on the immediate needs first.

Let’s talk about the next thing later.

Perhaps, different types of business models will emerge in the future?

This is the tragedy of ordinary companies.

……

Within a month, LT Find House had secured cooperation agreements with almost all real estate agencies in first- and second-tier cities.

Because this software is just so convenient.

In just one month, the software was downloaded in the tens of millions.

After all, the period from the end of 2015 to the beginning of 2016 was a period of explosive growth in the real estate market.

Housing is being discussed all over the country.

Some people want to buy houses, some want to sell houses, and some want to see how houses are decorated...

The software 【LT Find a House】, powered by Black Hole Vision's technology, even allows customers to freely select furniture and place it in their own houses for simulated interior design.

of course.

These furniture pieces all come from established partner manufacturers.

Only those regular partner manufacturers who pay advertising fees can have their furniture listed in the [LT Find House] database.

This threw the other furniture companies into a panic.

For furniture companies, the most difficult thing is customer acquisition.

In order to acquire customers, these furniture companies have no choice but to passively participate, paying advertising fees to the platform and sending their furniture data into the software.

After eating at the real estate agency, they ate at the furniture company.

Before long, lighting companies and bathroom fixture companies will likely be doomed and become sponsors of this software.

……

At the end of 2015, LT Find House dropped a bombshell on the internet platform.

This software platform is incredibly versatile.

This can be described as a game-changer for the entire real estate brokerage industry.

No one expected that a special effects company would venture into the real estate service platform industry and cause panic among all real estate agencies.

In the past, some people in real estate agencies have thought about whether it would be possible to create a unified platform that packages selling, buying, and decorating a house into a single software application.
The problem is that it's technically difficult to achieve.

Because cloud rendering technology and 3D application technology sound simple, just a few words, but the underlying algorithms are very complex.

In this era, only super internet companies can master this technology.

To develop such software, at least a thousand programmers would need to be hired. The salaries of these programmers alone could amount to hundreds of millions of yuan a year.

Who can afford to play this game?

Large companies wouldn't consider it, and such an investment wouldn't be worthwhile.

Small companies lack resources and technology, so even if they wanted to, they couldn't afford to play the game.

For Lu Zhiyuan, these technologies are the company's accumulated experience and a byproduct of his filming of super special effects movies.

Staying with the company is of no value.

It would be better to leave it to Jing Tian, ​​so she can feed the group of people behind her... to prevent them from coming to her again, wanting to come up with some kind of cultural tourism plan.

Those old-fashioned methods of making money are really tiring.

What era are we living in?

Are you still using this method to make money?
That's so outdated.

Making money is too slow.

……

【LT Find a House】, this company is located right downstairs from the Starlight Plaza building.

The shareholders behind both companies are basically the same group of people.

As the year draws to a close, Starlight Brilliant held a shareholders' meeting.

Originally, Mr. Li wanted to announce the company's business performance for the year. However, the shareholders of Starlight Group had no intention of listening to Mr. Li's nonsense.

Because Starlight Entertainment didn't make much money this year.

We lost quite a bit of money.

The AMC Theatres, which was acquired in partnership with Wanda, suffered enormous losses, with no end in sight.

In the conference room, General Manager Li explained in detail the development expectations for next year.

Several shareholders below were getting impatient and kept taking out their phones.

Even Zhao Shanshan's older brother stood up: "President Li, may I interrupt you? How long are you going to keep going on? Last year's business was so bad, and you still have the nerve to go on and on? Without A Yuan, our company is just an empty shell."

Instead of wasting your breath here, why don't you go downstairs and buy some gifts, then take a bus to the China Film Digital Shooting Base in Huairou, visit our great director, and ask him if he's going back to Xi'an for the Chinese New Year this year?

"We can prepare some special programs for him."

If it weren't for the fact that Starlight Entertainment also owns the copyright to the "Real Steel" series, which can continuously generate cash flow for the company, all the shareholders would have sold their shares long ago.

The Real Steel series is just a huge pie in the sky, keeping the shareholders and retail investors in the secondary market hanging on.

Without this, the market value would have plummeted long ago.

Although Lu Zhiyuan laid a solid foundation for the company, Mr. Li's management skills are truly worrying.

The main reason is that cultural and entertainment products are a part of art products, and it is very difficult for laymen to understand the logic behind them.

We need a content expert.

But why should content experts bother working for these glamorous stars?
Why not become a director yourself and create a sensation around the world? Wouldn't that be better?

"Mr. Zhao, please be patient. There are only two pages left. Let's just go through the motions. After all, the meeting minutes need to be copied to everyone."

Mr. Li told Zhao Shanshan's older brother to calm down.

That's just how the rules are.

After all, they are a publicly listed company. The minutes of shareholder meetings are required to be disclosed.

Most importantly, he also goes downstairs after the meeting.

"Then hurry up. I'm afraid Tian Tian will wait too long downstairs and go straight home. Right now, Tian Tian is our cash cow. We can't afford to offend her."

Mr. Zhao was joking.

"Correct."

"Tian Tian is our great source of wealth; no one can afford to offend her now."

Everyone else smiled politely.

……

Mr. Li is a man of his word.

Three minutes later, he finished reading the script and turned to the company secretary sitting next to him: "You take care of the rest."

……

After handing over the final tasks to the company secretary.

Mr. Li and the other shareholders quickly took the elevator downstairs.

【LT Find a House】This company's sign looks very simple, much worse than Starlight Brilliant, and there aren't many people in the company.

The office was empty, not even full.

However, the conference room was packed with people.

After arriving in the conference room, General Manager Zhao changed his arrogant demeanor and put on a fawning expression towards Jing Tian: "Tian Tian, ​​you are really amazing! You have changed the old man's opinion of us."

"Did you know? Right now, outside investment firms are valuing our company, [Laotou Finds a House], at 50 billion US dollars!"

From the preparation stage to the company's launch and operation, it only took half a year.

The company's valuation skyrocketed fivefold!
If this company could be sold directly, each of them present would receive at least tens of millions of US dollars, and some would receive hundreds of millions of US dollars.

How much money did they invest?

This is a huge windfall; I could retire right now.

It's much better than making a movie.

It's much more promising than developing any cultural tourism projects!
“Tian Tian, ​​this company is great in every way, except for the name ‘Old Man Finds a House’… Our Empress Dowager had a lot of objections after hearing it.”

An old man looking for a house—it didn't sound like a legitimate company.

When the older women in the family first heard the name of this company, they thought it was a shady business that catered specifically to middle-aged and elderly men.

It sounds like a company specifically set up for the old man in the family.

This is a huge misunderstanding.

Mr. Zhao made a harmless joke, and everyone else burst into laughter because they had encountered similar problems.

However, this company may have become popular overnight precisely because of its name.

An old man looking for a place to live?

That sounds interesting.

This piqued the curiosity of many, who downloaded their software with ulterior motives, eager to see what it was all about.

This caused their software to be downloaded like crazy.

As a result, when these people came in, they found that it was an online home-finding platform, and they could even assemble their own furniture. The rendering effects were also very good, just like the real thing.

Suddenly, many young people who wanted to buy a house started playing home decoration and layout games on their apps.

They don't offer memberships, allowing these free users to play as they please.

How much money do members actually make?
There's a saying that goes, "What's free is often the most expensive."

The advertising fees they collect from home improvement companies far exceed these figures. And when these free users want to buy a house, they can earn another source of traffic fees.

In short, this company has a very promising future.

This has shown countless people the potential of another type of platform company. "The company's business is currently growing at an extremely rapid pace, and we need a large number of people and a lot of data support."

“I won’t get involved in this. You should find professional managers to handle it. You can poach all the management teams from those large real estate agencies.”

"I think they should understand that times have changed."

"He who knows the current affairs is a hero."

Jing Tian sat at the head of the conference room, speaking eloquently and arrogantly, just like Miss T.

She is a major shareholder of this company.

She invested $2 million in this company and acquired a 20% stake.

In addition, Jing Tian himself holds a 20% stake in Black Hole Vision by contributing his technology, of which 4% belongs to him.

The remaining 16% of the shares, which Lu Zhiyuan himself did not need, were transferred to Hanikezi.

Hanikezi and Jing Tian signed an agreement to act in concert.

In other words, the voting rights of Hanikezi's 16% stake also belong to Jing Tian.

This is Hanikezi's pledge of allegiance to her elder sister, Jing Tian.

Therefore, Jing Tian has 40% of the voting rights, which is essentially equivalent to being the largest shareholder of the company.

"Don't worry, Mr. Jing, I'll handle these matters."

Zhao Shanshan's older brother is very knowledgeable about real estate; he used to work in this field back in his hometown.

Among my friends are many former coal mine owners.

After these coal mine owners switched careers, they also entered the real estate industry.

Now, Jing Tian has created a platform company, which is exactly what they want.

Most importantly, this company has changed the current state of the industry through technology.

That's awesome.

It would be so prestigious to tell anyone.

Who would believe that these country bumpkins are getting into technology?

That's the kind of contrast we're looking for.

"Mr. Zhao, before I came here, Brother Yuan asked me to pass on a message: you should stay away from film-related industries, such as cultural tourism projects, film and television city attractions, which have low profit margins but high risks."

"He's afraid you'll suffer huge losses."

Jing Tian actually knew that the many people behind her had helped Lu Zhiyuan a lot and shielded him from a lot of trouble to a certain extent.

However, in many cases, these people are more likely to cause trouble than to accomplish anything.

However, she couldn't do without the help of these people.

She can't just think of these people when she needs help, and then kick them aside once she's successful.

This is against the rules of the martial arts world.

Moreover, these people will not give up easily.

To help her with her funeral arrangements, Lu Zhiyuan racked his brains and came up with a completely new industry for her.

Moreover, this industry can satisfy these people's appetites.

Lu Zhiyuan really loves himself too much.

Even one's own father wouldn't do this much in this world.

"With such a treasure trove right here, who would even think about developing any cultural tourism projects? I'm not out of my mind. Don't you all agree?"

Mr. Zhao looked at the others.

The others nodded in agreement: "That's right. Laotou Find House, such a small app, is valued at $500 billion. And we're still in the early stages. If we continue to grow, reaching $50 billion isn't a dream."

How promising is the real estate industry?

Is it comparable to the film and television industry?

"Let me say it again, it's LT looking for a house, not old man looking for a house!"

Jing Tian found it extremely annoying to hear these people say that the company was called "Old Man Finds a House".

Customers might say that, and netizens might say that too.

Because saying it this way would indeed make it easier for this startup to gain fame and attention from netizens in a short period of time.

But why do these freeloaders say that?

If it weren't for my brother Yuan being willing to give you people a bite to eat, who knows where you'd be messing around somewhere right now?

What gives you the right to mock this company's name?
……

After a half-hour meeting upstairs, Jing Tian briefly explained the company's future development and its strategic decision to abandon smaller cities with populations under one million.

We will concentrate our limited resources on developing customer resources in major cities.

Users in smaller cities can use the "home decoration simulation" function in their software for free, but no other services are provided.

After all, Lu Zhiyuan said that the liquidity of real estate in small cities will dry up in the future.

Although Jing Tian didn't understand why the real estate market in small cities was experiencing a liquidity crunch,

But since Lu Zhiyuan had said so, as Lu Zhiyuan's woman, she could only obediently listen to him.

"I'm exhausted."

After the meeting, Jing Tian got into her car.

The driver didn't start driving immediately, but instead asked, "Miss, are you going home?"

Come back home?

Go back to what home?

That damned guy is living at Hongluo Temple now, which sounds like he's about to become a monk. Besides, that's Reba's house. What would I do at Reba's house?
What bad luck.

Jing Tian thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to Liu Yifei's house."

"Okay, miss."

The driver was quiet and seemed like a reliable person. This was arranged specifically for Jing Tian by her uncle.

……

Half an hour later.

The driver drove the car to a very large villa in Shunyi.

"Miss Jing, you're here as a guest? That's quite a rare sight."

When Liu Yifei saw Jing Tian visiting her home, she could hardly believe her eyes.

She held a black cat in her arms, pinched its paws, and taught the cat to greet Jing Tian: "Come on, Antonio, say hello to Miss Jing."

The black cat had a cool look in its eyes, seemingly carrying a hint of world-weariness.

Why does he look a bit like Lu Zhiyuan?

Jing Tian stared at the black cat for a long time, and then heard Liu Yifei call the black cat Antonio. She was speechless: "Why did you name your cat that?"

Is it illegal to choose this name?

Liu Yifei snorted and then shouted into the yard, "Zhizhi, Yuanyuan, you stinky artist, art student, failed exam, robot, come eat..."

Suddenly, seven or eight cats ran out from the corner of the yard.

"You naughty painter, today is your birthday. Mom has prepared this super freeze-dried chicken for you."

"Come here quickly."

In front of Jing Tian, ​​Liu Yifei tore open a bag of freeze-dried chicken for one of the tortoiseshell cats, which is known as the most beautiful cat in the world.

"Meow~~"

The tortoiseshell cat instantly ran to Liu Yifei's side, rubbing against her and trying to snuggle into her arms.

Liu Yifei felt the cat's affection and was immediately overjoyed.

"You naughty artist, you did a great job today, you didn't embarrass Mommy. Mommy loves you."

Liu Yifei hugged and kissed the cat, then beckoned to Jing Tian: "Do you want to hug him? He's very well-behaved. He loves me so much. He purrs at me every day. I even wonder if he were a human, would he want to sleep with me every day?"

Ha ha.

Jing Tian chuckled coldly, showing absolutely no interest in the cat.

Liu Yifei didn't care and continued, "That day I was strolling around the Great Wall and saw him being bullied by other cats. I felt very sorry for him, so I took him in and fed him good food every day, gave him baths, and took him out for grooming. I feel that he has fallen in love with me."

nerve!

Jing Tian felt that Liu Yifei had probably gone mad.

"By the way, what brings you to my house today?"

Liu Yifei hugged the "Stinky Painter" cat, constantly stroking its chin and occasionally pressing her cheek against its head, revealing a satisfied smile.

At the same time, she looked at Jing Tian curiously, like a cat, with a hint of doubt in her eyes.

“Brother Yuan considers you a friend, so I can’t have never even been to a friend’s house, right? That’s why I came to visit you today.”

Jing Tian casually made up an excuse for herself.

"hehe."

Liu Yifei smiled, raised her eyebrows slightly, and said nonchalantly, "To tell you the truth, I want to have a child for him. Do you agree?"

In that instant, Jing Tian clenched her little fists tightly, wishing she could give Liu Yifei an uppercut and knock her out!
However, she couldn't lose her composure.

At this moment, Jing Tian chuckled lightly, her tone indifferent, as if she were talking about someone else's business: "I have no objection if you want to have a child for him. It's your belly, you can have the child if you want. As long as you have the ability to win him over, anything is possible."

But Liu Yifei thought for a moment, then pretended to be troubled and said, "But I heard that his health isn't very good. You ruined his health by exploiting him a few years ago."

Your uncle's!

What does it mean to be ruined by your own exploitation?
I'm not a juicer!
But upon closer examination, Jing Tian realized it wasn't impossible.

Recalling her actions from a few years ago, Jing Tian suddenly felt uneasy. Could it be that she had gone too far back then?
Jing Tian recalled those years when she would make soup for Lu Zhiyuan every day, afraid that Lu Zhiyuan's energy would not be enough.

Is it really a case of exhausting one's resources to catch all the fish?

"Haha, I was just kidding. Why are you angry?"

Seeing Jing Tian's uncertain expression, Liu Yifei was in a very good mood. She went up and hooked her arm around Jing Tian's, and to anyone who looked at it, it was a picture of sisterly affection.

"Afi, you have no chance."

"If he were interested in you, it's impossible that he wouldn't have shown it for so many years."

As Jing Tian spoke, she glanced at Liu Yifei's thick legs: "As for the reason, you're so smart, you'll definitely be able to guess it."

Depend on!
Is it because they think my legs are too thick?

"Miss Jing, I don't think so."

Suppressing her anger, Liu Yifei prepared to stab Jing Tian in the back. She said with a smile, "I guess you came to see me today because you want to know what happened when Liu Shishi, Hani, and I went to Spain that day, right?"

"Say what you want to say."

Jing Tian pretended not to care, but her ears were secretly perked up.

"Actually, it's no big deal to tell you. Hani told Liu Shishi a story that drove her crazy. She thought she was that stinky painter's sweetheart, but she was just a little too late."

Liu Yifei told Jing Tian about "Las Meninas," a world-famous painting that is on par with "Mona Lisa," and the film "The Coffin in the Mountain," and the artistic connection between the two.

“I know. He told me.”

Jing Tian was not surprised at all and remained calm.

After a while, she seemed to belatedly realize something and turned around, saying with a face full of sympathy, "What, you're only finding out now?"

Depend on!
Your acting was amazing!
At this moment, in Liu Yifei's mind, Jing Tian's acting skills were simply Oscar-worthy.

"Hmm, I just realized how good your acting is. You must know that he painted a portrait of Liu Shishi in the style of Morimoto Sosuke."

Liu Yifei responded in kind.

You keep acting, let's see how long you can keep it up.

boom!
At that moment, Liu Yifei felt as if the floor of her house had slightly trembled, as if it had been trampled by the Minotaur chieftain during a war.

From now on, who will dare to call me a minotaur?

Let's see who the real Cowboy is?

"Who doesn't have a past?"

After stomping on the ground, Miss Jing Tian slowly exhaled a breath of stale air and chuckled softly, "In the end, I still won. Didn't I?"

Although she said that, Liu Yifei found Jing Tian's clenched teeth expression very cute.

At this moment, Liu Yifei continued to stab him in the back: "Actually, you haven't been winning for very long. I remember, he lives near Hongluo Temple now. His yard is full of grapevines."

enough!

shut up!
I hate grapes more than anything in my life!

Seeing that Jing Tian seemed about to lose her temper, Liu Yifei immediately grabbed Jing Tian's hand: "Big sister, you can't win alone, let's join forces. I will definitely stand by your side unconditionally."

Who are you calling "big sister"?
At that moment, Jing Tian looked at Liu Yifei with disbelief: "Is this funny? Don't you think our house is messy enough?"

Liu Yifei said in a serious tone, "Chaos is the ladder to advancement. Isn't that right? I've been watching Game of Thrones lately. I think that statement makes a lot of sense."

Jing Tian looked at Liu Yifei and found her increasingly strange.

"No, no."

"In the end what happened?"

“You weren’t like this before. You used to be so calm and aloof, almost like our deadbeat husband. Why are you acting like you’ve been poisoned?”

Liu Yifei probably wasn't poisoned just now.

She has so many cats at home, and the name of each cat is somewhat related to Lu Zhiyuan.

Clearly, Liu Yifei has been eyeing their deadbeat for quite some time now.

Liu Yifei smiled gently: "These past two years, since my godfather went to jail, I've had a terrible time. There are people all over the internet making sarcastic remarks about me."

"Seeing too much of this almost gave me depression."

“During that period, Yuan Ge often took Reba to art exhibitions, and I would wait for him to come over in Lisa’s gallery.”

"I'm very curious about him. What kind of works can a young director, a painter who switched careers, make?"

"You know what happened next."

"How could he make such a wonderful film? In my eyes, he is already the best director in history."

"My curiosity about him turned into complete adoration in just a few years. After he finished filming 'Art Students,' I realized I was completely addicted to him."

"Antonio, you're so cool!"

“However, Antonio doesn’t belong to me, he belongs to Hybna…that makes me jealous!”

“I’ve heard from people that he originally wanted to cast me in ‘Upgrade’, but later, for some inexplicable reason, he didn’t stick to the idea.”

Liu Yifei felt that she could have been the leading lady in Lu Zhiyuan's story.

But someone ruined her chance.

This relationship has been ruined!
Otherwise, what would be the point of having a mountain like Altay?

She became the female lead in "Upgrade," playing the role of Alita, the battle angel.

Naturally, she would become the most important woman in Lu Zhiyuan's life.

It is his most perfect work of art!

Liu Yifei believes that in terms of temperament, appearance, and even popularity, she is better than Dilraba in every way.

But sometimes, fate is something we have absolutely no control over.

A small mistake may seem insignificant at first, but over time it can become as big as an insurmountable barrier.

“Miss Jing, did Reba tell you that I stole a kiss from that stinky painter once at your house? Reba was secretly watching from the side, and she only came out after I left.”

"What do you think that brat was thinking back then?"

Liu Yifei looked at Jing Tian and blurted out her secret.

Jing Tian's brain was completely shattered from the shock today. Right now, she was just staring at Liu Yifei blankly, as if she were looking at a stranger.

Is Liu Yifei this crazy too?

At this moment, Liu Yifei sneered: "That brat is just waiting for me to get scolded. She knows perfectly well that the lousy painter doesn't like this kind of approach."

Lu Zhiyuan disliked surprise attacks.

He likes everything to run smoothly, like a computer program.

Unexpected events can disrupt his work rhythm.

"I know, that stinky painter must be a believer."

"He wrote a theme song for the Real Steel series called 'Believer'."

“I didn’t know that at first. Hanikezi casually chatted with Nazha and revealed that, according to the definition in a certain scripture in their hometown, a man can marry four wives in his lifetime.”

"Hanikezi always felt that she would definitely be the fourth one."

"That's what Liu Shishi thought too."

"However, I think anything is possible. Don't you think so, elder sister?"

Liu Yifei's simple address of "elder sister" allowed Jing Tian to understand her inner thoughts.

Jing Tian couldn't help but feel speechless: "Don't call me 'big sister.' You're a year older than me."

Liu Yifei readily agreed, smiling as she said, "Okay, you can call me Big Sister. I'll call you Little Sister Tian Tian. We can be best friends for life."

"Who are you calling 'sister'?"

At this, Jing Tian immediately lost her temper: "Don't even think about it!"

Liu Yifei calmly replied, "Big sister, this is fate. It has nothing to do with whether I want it or not."

"You kissed him."

"Dilraba also kissed him."

"Gao Yuanyuan also kissed him."

"I kissed him too."

"Besides the four of us, no other woman has ever kissed him. Kissing on the cheek doesn't count."

Liu Shishi originally wanted to film a kissing scene with Lu Zhiyuan during the filming of the movie "Art Students", but Lu Zhiyuan refused.

This is fate.

Heaven had already written the script in secret.

“Afi, I know that you acted in a movie called ‘The Night Peacock’ earlier this year, where you played a female sea queen. Everyone liked you. I think you probably got too into the role.”

Jing Tian gave Liu Yifei an excuse, telling her not to always play the role of a female playboy, lest she ruin her image.

Although everyone is almost 30, as a woman, Jing Tian still hopes that Liu Yifei will be more reserved and not make it seem like actresses can be kissed by anyone at will.

……

After leaving Liu Yifei's house.

Jing Tian grew angrier the more she thought about it, and sent a message to Hanikezi: "Hani, you have really disappointed me."

Hanikezi has been given so much time, but she still hasn't risen to power.

Jing Tian completely lost her patience.

Fortunately, she had a Plan B.

After thinking it over, Jing Tian finally sent a message to Nazha: "Nazha, you should be free lately, right? Yuan Ge is working at the company and needs someone to take care of him. I can't leave here, could you please help me out?"

If there has to be a fourth child, Jing Tian hopes that this fourth child can be controlled by her, rather than by an outsider like Liu Yifei.

Hanikezi really disappointed her.

"Okay, Sister Tian Tian. I'll go right away. But I'm a bit busy here, so I might be a little late."

Nazha replied to Jing Tian's message with great restraint.

Meanwhile, she rushed to Lu Zhiyuan's company and brought him a loving lunch for today.

"Brother Yuan, the lamb naan is fresh out of the oven and it's super delicious. I also have a glass of very refreshing pomegranate juice."

Pomegranate juice symbolizes many children and abundant blessings.

Wasn't Lu Zhiyuan suspected of being unable to have children?
Nazha felt that those women must be the problem, and she could help Lu Zhiyuan dispel the outside world's suspicions!
"Have some with us. You've gotten so thin lately. There's no need to push yourself like this. You used to have a great figure, and you looked great on camera."

Lu Zhiyuan is becoming more and more satisfied with Nazha.

During dinner, Nazha casually mentioned, "Brother Yuan, Faye Wong filmed a movie called 'The Night Peacock' earlier this year. I heard she played a female player who had romantic relationships with many people. Why would Faye Wong play such a role?"

Naza looked innocent and bewildered, her eyes filled with a hint of confusion.

In her heart, she was thinking, "Liu Yifei is willing to play this kind of female playboy? And she seems to be doing a pretty good job."

Liu Yifei's acting skills are usually so poor, yet she was able to perform so well in a challenging role like a female sea queen?
It's highly likely that he'll just play to his true nature.

Naza also had her own little schemes. At this moment, she subtly sowed discord through this topic, telling Lu Zhiyuan that Liu Yifei was not as innocent as he imagined.

"You should take care of yourself first."

Lu Zhiyuan tapped Nazha's forehead, telling her to hurry to Los Angeles after the New Year to find director David Fincher and catch up on her studies.

"I'm sure I'll be fine playing a cool and aloof alien princess."

Naza felt that playing a cold, aloof alien princess was a natural fit for her, and Liu Yifei playing a female sea queen was also a natural fit for her.

They both have their own paths.

What man would like a woman who's a player?
They must like her because she's an alien princess who appears aloof on the outside but is cute and clever on the inside.

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This is truly frustrating. The chapter is blocked, and no matter how I edit it, I can't post it. Reposting it works fine. But it's made me stop updating.

(End of this chapter)