Bright Era of China Entertainment

Chapter 750 See you at the Civil Affairs Bureau

It was already afternoon when Chu Xuan woke up. He stared at the ceiling in a daze for a long time before waking up. He realized belatedly that it was a mistake to inform his friends of the marriage news at night.

Those night owls chatted endlessly, and the topic was all centered on him and Liu Yifei. People were happily chatting about their happy event, and he and Liu Yifei couldn't help but respond, so they had to chat with their friends for almost the entire night.

Basic social etiquette still needs to be maintained. Given his and Liu Yifei's identities, the news of their engagement and marriage certificate will spread sooner or later. If he neither invites nor informs his friends, then his friends will inevitably have negative thoughts about them.

Fortunately, he and Liu Yifei achieved their goal. They talked about the fact that the engagement banquet would be mainly a family banquet, and their friends understood and didn't say much. There was nothing strange about Su Chang and Ren Quan coming to celebrate as representatives, so he and Liu Yifei put their minds at ease.

Ren Quan also came over for a drink. As Ren Quan's business sector developed more and more smoothly, Ren Quan began to think about quitting the entertainment industry. At night, he accompanied Ren Quan to discuss this issue.

Brilliant Times has two major sectors: film and television media and the Internet, and film and television media is the core business. The Internet sector will definitely undergo business reorganization and separation in the future, and the expected online video sector is the top priority.

Since Ren Quan has the idea of ​​quitting the entertainment industry and going into business, it would be a good arrangement to hand over the Internet business of Brilliant Times to Ren Quan, who is close, trustworthy and has a business sense.

But Ren Quan can't retire all of a sudden. It will take time to sort out all the relationships in the entertainment industry, and Ren Quan himself will also need time to think carefully. This matter will take at least two or three years, and if Ren Quan has made a decision by then, we can discuss it in detail.

Ren Quan also chatted with him about things related to marriage, and they chatted and drank until seven in the morning.

"It's three o'clock!" Chu Xuan picked up his mobile phone and looked at the time, and was immediately shocked.

I went to bed at around seven in the morning and slept until three in the afternoon. It would be fine under normal circumstances, but today it would probably be a big deal.

Chu Xuan flipped through the address book and found dozens of missed calls.

When he informed his friends of the news of getting married yesterday, he knew he would be bombarded with phone calls, so he set his phone to silent mode in advance.

Chu Xuan ignored his friends' calls for the time being. When he saw the missed call from Liu Yifei, he immediately called back.

"Hey, you lazy bum, you just got up?" Liu Yifei's intimate voice came from the phone.

"I drank with Ren Quan until seven in the morning." Chu Xuan apologized.

"You guys are awesome!" Liu Yifei was speechless.

"When are you going to the consulate to get the receipt? I'll come over right away." Chu Xuan said. This is a big deal.

"Don't come over. Dad and I are already getting it. We've already told Mom." Liu Yifei replied. She was just going to get a document. She and her dad felt there was no need to let Chu Xuan and her mom make another trip. She had already told her mom in the morning, so she and her dad could just go get it themselves.

"Is that so?" Chu Xuan breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that getting up late would delay the matter. After hearing what Liu Yifei said, he felt relieved.

The next moment, he said, "Doesn't that mean we can't meet today?"

"Hmm." Liu Yifei responded.

Chu Xuan raised his eyebrows: "Then see you at the Civil Affairs Bureau tomorrow."

"Hmph." Concubine Liu Yi snorted twice, half shyly and half proudly saying, "What if I don't come tomorrow, how will you deal with it?"

Chu Xuan shook his head. His fiancée started to act naughty again. He said, "Then I'll wait at the door until you come."

"Ah." Liu Yifei sighed, "Forget it. It's so cold and you're standing at the door in the cold wind. You'll catch a cold easily. I'd better come. Who says I'm so kind?"

Chu Xuan burst out laughing. His fiancée’s playfulness was adorable and really touched his heart.

"Okay, okay, my dad and I have arrived at the consulate. You should go and accompany your grandma and aunt." Liu Yifei said.

Chu Xuan was surprised: "Grandma and the others are here?"

"It's noon already. You really slept so well..." Liu Yifei was completely speechless.

"That's it for now. Call me when you get the documents. Get up." Chu Xuan quickly threw off the quilt and got out of bed. It was impolite for him, the host of the house, to not even know that his grandmother and aunt had arrived.

After saying hello to Liu Yifei, he hung up the phone and went straight to the bathroom.

After quickly washing up, he returned to the bedroom to get dressed. Without even putting on his coat, he quickly walked out of the room, putting it on as he went downstairs.

After putting on his coat, he went downstairs and picked up his mobile phone to check the messages.

Among the many messages in the group chat, the news that Xia Yu and Yuan Quan successfully reunited was particularly eye-catching.

Chu Xuan sent his blessing: [@夏宇@袁泉, congratulations. ]

Yesterday they sent me blessings, and today I sent them blessings back. This is really interesting.

A text message arrived, which was sent by Xia Yu to Chu Xuan alone: ​​[Good brother, your cooperation yesterday was amazing, full marks! I will take your sister Yuan back to Donglin Villa in two days, and then I will treat you to a meal. ]

Chu Xuan smiled and replied: [OK, congratulations again.]

He put down his phone, pushed open the door of the big villa, and the cold wind blew in his face. His heart was filled with warmth: "It's fine."

If you don't live a good life, your negative mentality will more or less produce some negative thoughts that you hope others don't live a good life. This is a human nature that has existed since ancient times.

Chu Xuan should be thankful that Liu Yifei has provided him with a good living environment. Only when he sees his friends spreading light can he feel happy for it sincerely and establish a truly pure and distraction-free state of mind to yearn for a better life.

"Grandma, aunt, aunt, uncle, cousin."

"Sister, Brother Dong."

"Sorry, sorry, I went to bed a little late."

In the small villa, in addition to grandma and her family who rushed over from Wuhan, Wang Jinhua and Dong Zhihua also returned.

Liu Xiaoli was entertaining the whole family, watching TV and chatting with them.

"The phone kept ringing but no one answered."

"It's muted."

Facing his mother-in-law's complaints, Chu Xuan sat down on the sofa somewhat embarrassedly.

The family didn't care about Chu Xuan's late arrival. They heard from Liu Xiaoli that he and Ren Quan drank until dawn. As good things were about to happen and it was the Spring Festival, it was in line with the festive atmosphere to have some fun with friends.

"Xiaoxuan, we'll get the certificate tomorrow." Grandma said in a playful tone of an elderly person.

The family members looked at Chu Xuan with teasing eyes. Chu Xuan turned his eyes to the TV to hide his embarrassment of being teased, but he was excited in his heart.

"Ankang is the same. He deliberately doesn't let Xixi and Xiaoxuan stay together. As a father, he is really ignorant." The aunt complained about Ankang.

She came to Liu Xiaoli's place on behalf of the An family. They were already feeling uncomfortable due to the bad past between the two families. She thought it would be more comfortable if Xixi was here. However, she didn't expect that Xixi was taken away by Ankang. She felt very awkward facing Liu Xiaoli's family alone in someone else's home ground.

This is also the case with Ankang, he doesn't do good things.

"A father will be jealous when his daughter is getting married." Wang Jinhua said so, and her grandmother and the others nodded with interest.

When they arrived home at noon, Xixi was missing. They heard that Ankang had taken her away again. It was not enough to take Xixi away in Wuhan a few days ago, and the same thing happened again in Beijing. This behavior from the "jealous dad" really made them feel very amused.

"Sister, will it be held locally tomorrow?" Zhou Wenqiong asked.

"Local." Liu Xiaoli nodded, glanced at Chu Xuan and said, "My family's address is in Chaoyang District, and Xiaoxuan's registered residence is also in Chaoyang District. It will be more convenient to apply for it in Chaoyang District."

"There won't be any problems with Xixi, right?" asked the grandmother. They also learned about the current situation through Liu Xiaoli. Only if Xixi successfully obtains the receipt documents proving her identity and family situation can they get the certificate tomorrow. That's why the grandmother is worried.

"What's the problem?" Liu Xiaoli said, "Getting a marriage certificate is a common thing. Even if they are of different nationalities, it just makes the process more complicated. It won't affect the good result. Her father is using his connections to shorten the process..."

She picked up her phone and checked the time: "They should have left by now, wait for the call."

Some things cannot be said, because if you say them they will come true.

As soon as Liu Xiaoli finished speaking, Chu Xuan's cell phone rang.

"got it."

Liu Yifei received the receipt document, and Chu Xuan told his family the good news.

"That's great!" Grandma clapped her hands and laughed, extremely happy.

The family members were also completely relieved and their eyes were filled with relief.

Liu Xiaoli said it easily, but in fact she didn't know whether Ankang was reliable or not. When she heard the news from her daughter, the last stone in her heart fell.

"I'll go cook." She stood up and walked towards the kitchen.

"I'll help." The aunt volunteered.

"Just sit down, sit down. Why do you need my help? I've finally come here, and you go into the kitchen as soon as you enter the door. How can I feel comfortable doing this?" Liu Xiaoli kept trying to dissuade him.

"Well, what's the big deal? Let's talk about the wedding." The aunt-in-law said indifferently.

Liu Xiaoli also knew that her aunt-in-law was not comfortable in their family. She also understood that her aunt-in-law wanted to go into the kitchen with her under the pretext of wedding matters, thinking that with fewer people there would be less awkwardness and more relaxation.

She didn't say anything else and went to the kitchen to cook with her aunt-in-law, who was a first-time guest.

"Xiaoxuan, entertain the family members."

"it is good!"

In this way, the family has a clear division of labor, some are responsible for cooking, and some are responsible for entertaining.

With the good news brought back by Liu Yifei, the whole family atmosphere became relaxed, festive and active.

……

On the avenue, the company's car carried Ankang and Liu Yifei, father and daughter, from the consulate to the Shangri-La Hotel.

In the back seat, the father and daughter sat side by side.

Liu Yifei held the document in both hands and played with it gently by moving it up and down.

She tilted her head to watch the city scene quickly receding outside the window. Her posture looked calm and elegant, but her heart was pounding uncontrollably.

This document symbolizes the key to her marriage hall. With this key in hand, the door to happiness has been opened.

"Xixi." Ankang called out.

"Hmm?" Liu Yifei turned around and looked at her father.

"Very nervous?" Ankang asked.

Faced with this question, Liu Yifei smiled without saying anything and turned her head to look at the scenery outside the window.

At this moment, she didn't know how to describe her feelings specifically.

Tomorrow she will become an official couple with Chu Xuan, facing a major turning point in her life, and she is nervous about it.

After becoming husband and wife with Chu Xuan, she was worried whether Chu Xuan would still be as good to her as before.

There has been a change in their identities, and she is hesitant as to whether their love for each other can continue purely.

However, amidst all the ups and downs in her heart, she felt more excited and passionate about being able to work hand in hand with Chu Xuan to manage their love and career after becoming his and Chu Xuan's husband and wife.

My inner feelings are so complicated that I can’t calm down even if I want to.

After having dinner at the hotel with her father, she didn't have much space in her heart to chat with her father, so she went back to her room alone, lay on the bed, and stared at the ceiling in a daze.

Ankang, who was also in a complicated mood, drank a few glasses of wine, then sighed and got up to go back to his room to watch TV. However, no matter how good the TV program was, he couldn't watch it. The upset "jealous dad" finally became dazed.

I don’t know how long it took, but the moon rose above the branches.

Liu Yifei came back to her senses from her daze, she picked up her cell phone, and the shining screen shone a light in the dark room.

She looked at the time. It was already past eight o'clock in the evening. Chu Xuan should have finished dinner with his family, right?
She had wanted to call Chu Xuan for a long time, but she didn't disturb him because she knew he would have dinner with his family until very late. Now that the time was almost right, she called Chu Xuan.

[Hello, the number you dialed is currently in use...]

calling?
In the bedroom of the big villa and the hotel room, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei put down their phones at the same time and smiled at each other.

With the prediction of telepathy, the two of them immediately understood that they were calling each other at the same time.

Liu Yifei stared at her cell phone in the dark. She knew Chu Xuan would call again soon.

Sure enough, in less than ten seconds, the cell phone rang.

"Hey, are you guys done eating?"

"Well, I finished eating. I watched TV with grandma and the others for a while and then went back to my room."

Liu Yifei got out of bed and heard Chu Xuan's voice, which gave her confused heart some support.

"I suddenly feel a little scared." She pressed the switch on the bedside table, and with Chu Xuan's call, the whole room was bright.

"Then I'll come to accompany you." Hearing that Liu Yifei was scared, Chu Xuan came to the hotel to accompany her without saying a word.

"That's not the fear!" Liu Yifei didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She felt sweet because of Chu Xuan's favor, but also amused because Chu Xuan misunderstood her.

"Then what are you doing?" Chu Xuan was confused.

Liu Yifei opened two bottles of mineral water, poured them into the teapot to boil water, and poured tea leaves into the teacup, muttering: "Tell me, after we get married, will you still treat me as well as before?"

Chu Xuan was silent for a while, probably very speechless. It turned out that he was afraid of this.

"Why are you suddenly being hypocritical?"

When Liu Yifei heard Chu Xuan say this, she was so angry that she laughed.

"Isn't it normal to give more consideration to major events in life? You are so hypocritical!"

Liu Yifei poured the tea leaves with greater force, expressing her dissatisfaction.

Chu Xuan's laughter came from the other side of the phone: "Okay, okay, no need to be pretentious."

Chu Xuan added: "This question depends on you. Whether it is good for you or not is not up to me. You have the final say."

After Liu Yifei poured the tea leaves, she sat on the bedside and said, "What if one day I feel that you are not good to me?"

Chu Xuan replied: "Then you should remind me that communication is the most important thing between husband and wife. As long as they can communicate honestly, there will be no problem that cannot be solved. Isn't this what we have always been doing?"

Liu Yifei smiled and lay down on the bed, agreeing with Chu Xuan's words in her heart. It was precisely because they respected each other very much that their deep emotional foundation could be maintained until now.

Then, the couple started talking about similar topics.

As we chatted, it was soon eleven o'clock in the evening.

The TV in Ankang's room was still playing. He leaned against the back of the bed, half of his thoughts on the TV and the other half still stuck in the melancholy of his daughter's marriage.

Unlike Ankang, the family members in the small villa were playing mahjong and celebrating the arrival of the time to get their marriage certificate tomorrow morning.

In the bedroom of the big villa, in the room opposite Ankang, the couple were still chatting.

"It is said that when two people with strong ambitions are together, problems will arise. We have been living peacefully these years because my ambition has not yet taken off, or I do not have the foundation in all aspects to support my ambition. But now it is different. I am the boss's wife. If there is a conflict between us due to career in the future, what should we do?"

"Nothing is absolute. Couples who are ambitious about their careers often have conflicts because both of them want to be strong, but in different directions, which leads to conflicts."

"Yes."

"But we are different. Our careers are headed in the same direction, our goals are the same, and our dreams are the same. So even if we have conflicts in the future, are the direction and goals of the conflicts also the same? Are the purposes of our conflicts in the same direction? Then this is not a big problem. I think at most we will just have a cold war for a few days and then make up."

"Chu Xuan! You still want to have a cold war with me!"

Liu Yifei immediately sat up from the bed, her eyes bulging and she looked angry.

"No, I'm following your topic to think about the worst-case scenario. You see, even if we have some ideological conflicts in our careers in the future, it will only be a cold war for a few days at most. If you think about it this way, then this problem is not a big deal, right?"

"Humph."

Liu Yifei was speechless for a moment and couldn't win the argument with Chu Xuan.

She lay back on the bed and continued the conversation.

It is true that we talked about the past the day before yesterday when we returned to Beijing, and talked about the future the night before we got our certificates.

This couple treated their love life with a sense of ritual when it came to getting their marriage certificate.

However, it is useless to talk too much about such topics. Who can see through the future? Only by experiencing and feeling can we know what life looks like at each stage and know how to manage the relationship with each other.

But everyone has their own expectations and hopes for the future. If they cannot express them in time, they will feel a little uncomfortable.

Just like a couple who are about to get married, all kinds of things suddenly come to their mind, and they talk about the future that no one can guarantee. What matters most is to get psychological comfort and spiritual satisfaction.

We chatted until one in the morning.

The lights in Ankang's room were off, and the "jealous dad" with mixed feelings finally fell into a peaceful sleep.

In the small villa, grandma, uncle, cousin, and Dong Zhihua had already gone to bed, while Liu Xiaoli, Wang Jinhua, Zhou Wenqiong, and my aunt were still playing mahjong with great interest.

At her home in the community, Su Chang tore off the facial mask, set the alarm clock, covered herself with a quilt and went to sleep, waiting to accompany her sisters to get their marriage certificate in the morning.

At home in the villa, Ren Quan put down the book in his hand, turned off the bedside lamp, lay down and fell asleep, waiting to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau with Chu Xuan's family in the morning to witness the marriage of a newlywed couple.

It was late at night, and the couple was still chatting.

"There is something worth considering. If the film and television industry develops in the future, will our acting careers be delayed if we still focus on them?"

"That's easy. Either I direct your actors, or you direct my actors. We can focus more on looking at and dealing with industrialization issues in different aspects from different angles. Or you can lead a group of actors to create works, and I can lead a group of actors to create works. We can cooperate with industrialization development from two different directions. That's fine."

"Isn't that what we want to compete with? If my work performs better than yours, what will you say, Director Chu?"

"Director Chu expressed his willingness to admit defeat and led the entire crew to revolt, strongly supporting Director Liu's work."

Liu Yifei smiled and turned over on the bed. She felt happy about her vision of the future.

The freshness and anticipation for the future made the couple seem to have endless things to talk about, and they didn't realize it was five in the morning and dawn was about to begin.

In the small villa, the mahjong room fell into darkness, and the family members had already returned to their rooms to rest.

In the huge garden villa, the lights in the bedroom of the big villa were always on.

Also, the light was on in my mother-in-law's bedroom in the villa.

Liu Xiaoli was sitting at the desk, holding a pen and writing something on a piece of letter paper. The title was "A Letter to My Son-in-law Chu Xuan."

Perhaps the couple was going to get married. Although she, as a mother, had long been accustomed to the couple's emotional life and did not have as many unspeakable melancholy as Ankang, the father, she also had mixed feelings for a while.

The lives of both mother and daughter have changed because of Chu Xuan. At this moment, she always wanted to write something to give Chu Xuan a blessing from her mother-in-law.

Chu Xuan had no idea that his mother-in-law was still writing him letters late at night, and at dawn she was still tirelessly chatting on the phone with her "wife in a few hours".

"By the way, do you want to change into some clothes today? I'll bring them to you."

"Change clothes? We're taking wedding photos, or ID photos, not photos for the wedding ceremony. Why are you so particular about it? Chu Xuan, am I not pretty anymore in your eyes? Do I need clothes to support myself?"

"No, no, no, how is it possible that Fairy Sister is not beautiful? You must be kidding."

Chu Xuan said "no" several times, and he couldn't help laughing. Liu Yifei was really naughty tonight.

"Hmm, what are you wearing today?"

"A black suit."

"A black suit again. Is it true that you men have no other clothes to wear besides black suits? Then bring me my white suit for women. The black and white match well in my ID photo. Drive the nanny car over so I can change my clothes in the car."

"it is good."

Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei continued chatting. Chu Xuan turned over in bed and glanced out the window. He was surprised to find that the sun had come out.

"Oh my god, it's dawn!"

"Oh my god, it's already six in the morning!"

They are worthy of being a couple who are about to get their marriage certificate. One says "Oh my god" and the other says "I'm dizzy", and their exclamations also have to be appropriate.

"What time do you leave?"

"Have breakfast at seven and come back."

"Then I'll hang up first. Changchang said he would come to my place at 6:30. He must have gone out now. I'm going to take a shower and tidy up a bit."

"Okay, I'll go take a shower and change my clothes, and see you at the Civil Affairs Bureau."

"See you at the Civil Affairs Bureau."

(End of this chapter)