Bright Era of China Entertainment

Chapter 774 With a wife like this, what else could a husband ask for?
Liang Datong, director of the production team, saw that Liu Yifei had left and didn't know where she was going, but he thought she would be back soon. After all, the director had to work overtime to shoot the night scene, and the logistical arrangements still needed instructions from Liu Yifei, the producer.

But half an hour passed and there was no sign of Liu Yifei returning. Liang Datong couldn't help but walk to the director team to ask the teachers about the situation. When he learned that Liu Yifei had returned to the hotel for something, Liang Datong was a little stunned.

The production team is responsible for managing everything on the crew and is under the overall management of the producer.

Since the planning stage of “My Love from the Star”, he, as the director of the production team, has been following orders from producer Liu Yifei. Liu Yifei’s current weakness is her lack of long-term planning ability, but her advantage is that once she gets the plan, she can quickly adjust her status and arrange things in detail.

Perhaps it was this advantage, or perhaps it was her status as the boss's wife, or perhaps it was Liu Yifei's personal charm, but after several months of cooperation between the superiors and subordinates, this man in his thirties felt that he was obedient to Liu Yifei, a woman in her early twenties.

If it were usual, with Liu Yifei's serious attitude towards the crew, she would have arranged her work even if she had to leave for something. But today she left without even saying goodbye, which surprised Liang Datong.

"Maybe it's something important." Liang Datong just thought that there was something important happening at the hotel, so Liu Yifei forgot to take care of this side.

He looked around the set. Director Chu Xuan was fully focused on directing the show, so it was not a good idea to disturb him.

He looked at the director team. These teachers were like giant Buddhas, focusing only on creation and not on other matters.

He then picked up his phone to call Liu Yifei, but unexpectedly Liu Yifei called him.

"Stage staff, props, and makeup artists should stay in one group each, and the rest of you can go first."

"I'll ask the hotel to send some midnight snacks over later, and you can have someone go downstairs to receive them."

"Teacher Liang, you can decide the rest on your own. Those who are fine can go back to the hotel first."

At this time, Liu Yifei had arrived at the hotel. She hung up the phone, put the phone in her pocket, and walked into the lobby with a normal expression.

I was so angry that I forgot my responsibilities as a producer.

Now that she had calmed down a bit, she made up for her responsibilities in a timely manner and took care of the logistics for Chu Xuan's big night shoot.

I can only say that no matter how angry I am, my love is still strong.

On the crew side, Liang Datong breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the instructions, and hurriedly proceeded to act according to Liu Yifei's words.

If there had not been Liu Yifei's instructions, he, as the director, could have arranged everything, but he didn't dare.

Although Chu Xuan is young, he is very authoritative in the internal ecological environment of Brilliant Times. He has worked in the group for several years and knows that Chu Xuan's ability cannot be judged by age. Like many people, he is still a little afraid of Chu Xuan.

What's more, Chu Xuan, who has been in the crew these days, has been very serious. As a new director, our President Chu also has a strong aura. If the tasks he arranged do not satisfy Chu Xuan, he is afraid of being held accountable.

Now that Liu Yifei had spoken, he seemed to have a golden body, because he knew very well that Chu Xuan would never lose his temper with Liu Yifei no matter what.

Compared to dealing with Chu Xuan, who is usually gentle but very rigorous and serious at work, he prefers to hang out with Liu Yifei, who is gentle and kind to others.

This is also the workplace environment of the crew centered around the couple. Director Liang Datong can be said to have seen through who is the black face and who is the red face.

On the set, Chu Xuan, Lu Chuan and Huang Lei were directing and explaining the play, while Zhang Ruoyun, Li Xin, Song Qian, Zhu Yillong and several special extras sat in a circle and listened attentively.

"I've said before that your characters reflect the star-chasing group of the current era. It seems normal but irrational star-chasing behavior, but the connotation is the relationship between star-chasers and their families, and their living conditions..."

In Chu Xuan's opinion, every character in a film or TV series must have his own meaning.

For example, the fan characters of Song Qian and others show the sense of fan characters that exist in reality, and allowing some audiences to have a basic sense of substitution, which is the most basic value of the existence of such characters.

But the most basic existence value is not enough, because this value is incomplete, it only reflects the state of star-chasing, and then there is nothing else? Such a character is missing.

The script is designed following a three-act framework structure. Under the three-act structure, minor supporting characters will also have complete character arcs.

【“It’s so late, why aren’t you asleep yet?”

"Oh, don't worry about it, just go to sleep."】

Chu Xuan said to Song Qian, "You have to act very impatient here and make the audience feel disgusted. We have to reflect the phenomenon of people chasing after celebrities to the point of being so rude to their mothers."

Chu Xuan said to the aunt in the extras, "Auntie, just act as usual. At most, you can sigh a little to show that you can't control your child. This will make a lot of mothers in the country sympathize with you."

Chu Xuan flipped through the script and continued to talk about the play.

[“I’m going out shopping, do you want to come with me?”

"go with!"

"Hey? Are you a changed person today?"

"No way, the things on the Internet are not interesting, whether they are true or false. It's more practical to spend more time with you."]

Chu Xuan said to Song Qian, "You have to be relaxed here. Let the audience believe that you have changed. You are no longer a fanatical fan, but have become rational. In addition, you have a change in your friendly interaction with your mother to convey the positive energy of rational fan pursuit."

Chu Xuan said to the extras: "Auntie here, just show your relief and happiness."

Several actors and extras were thinking about the direction of the performance, especially Song Qian and others, who learned a lot from Chu Xuan's explanation of the play and had a more understandable logical thinking about Chu Xuan's three-act theory.

Just like the character arc design of their characters, they first present the star-chasing side, then the impatient life with their family, and finally the transformation to rational star-chasing and harmonious living with their family. The character's growth idea is very clear.

No matter which of these three stages it is, it will trigger corresponding resonance in society, so that their characters have meaning from beginning to end and their emotional value is complete.

The three-act style emphasizes completeness. Under the subtle influence of Chu Xuan's ideas, the way of thinking of these new generation actors in understanding characters and performances is gradually taking shape, gradually forming an artistic concept called the three-act style.

"Where's Xixi?" Chu Xuan returned to the director's team to prepare for filming, but he didn't see Liu Yifei so he asked.

"Your mother-in-law has something to ask her, so she has returned to the hotel and asked us to tell you." Tang Jili replied.

Something happened to the mother-in-law? Something about the wedding house? ... Chu Xuan frowned. Regardless of whether it was this matter or not, Liu Yifei should have said hello to her before leaving.

Chu Xuan took out his cell phone and prepared to make a call to ask about the situation. When the screen lit up, a text message sent half an hour ago immediately made him smile bitterly - [Brother, sister is angry, remember to comfort her when you come back. ]

Even if there was no text message from Gulina, when he saw that Liu Yifei was not in the director team, he already had a hunch that Liu Yifei might be angry.

In fact, when he and Lu Chuan decided to shoot the night scene, he was a little afraid to face Liu Yifei.

Yesterday he promised Liu Yifei that he would take good care of himself in the next few days. Liu Yifei also said in the morning that he should not focus on his career but think about his family. How could he forget what just happened?

It's just that the filming of the scene today was indeed not going smoothly. With the actors and the set still available, they shot it all night long in one go. He thought that any director would do the same to avoid delaying the filming process and thus wasting manpower, material and financial resources.

Although there were reasons for everything, he ultimately broke his promise and slapped himself in the face, so he chose to stay away from Liu Yifei temporarily and went to the set to immerse himself in talking about the play, hoping to use time to kill the embarrassment and hoping that Liu Yifei could understand.

But now it seems that I was just wishful thinking and my wife seems angry.

Chu Xuan called Liu Yifei: [Sorry, the number you dialed is currently unanswered, please call again later...]

The phone rang for forty or fifty seconds before there was an electronic response. It was obvious that Liu Yifei deliberately did not answer the call.

"Damn it, I'm really angry." Chu Xuan smiled helplessly.

But he was also unhappy. Was it necessary to be angry about such a small matter? As a producer, couldn't he understand that he wanted the crew to catch up with the filming schedule?
Although he was the one who spoke out of turn first, he couldn't quite understand why Liu Yifei was so angry and just walked away, and he couldn't figure out what Liu Yifei was thinking.

He called a second time, but still no one answered.

Chu Xuan also got a little angry. He wanted to answer the phone and have a good talk. He was ready to admit his mistake and apologize, but what did it mean that he didn't answer the phone?
He stopped making phone calls, put away his cell phone, picked up the walkie-talkie and prepared to direct the play. He didn't care what happened until the filming was finished.

……

In the bedroom of the hotel room, Liu Yifei took a shower and leaned against the head of the bed. She stared at the mobile phone in her hand with her brows lowered, and the screen showed two missed calls from Chu Xuan.

She is feeling very complicated and conflicted right now.

In the morning, out of concern for Chu Xuan, she asked Chu Xuan to finish work on time and have a good rest, and Chu Xuan agreed. Out of the idea of ​​family being the most important after marriage, she hoped that Chu Xuan would not just focus on his career, and Chu Xuan agreed to her request, which made her feel very happy.

I was happy the whole day, but who knew something like this would happen in the evening.

On the one hand, it was Chu Xuan’s promise, and on the other hand, it was the crew’s shooting progress that prompted Chu Xuan to shoot late at night.

If Chu Xuan were to keep his promise, the filming progress of the crew would be delayed.

If she supported Chu Xuan in filming Big Night, then what Chu Xuan promised her would become a joke.

But she proposed an idea to have the best of both worlds. Can't we get up early tomorrow to make up for the scenes? If tomorrow is not enough, there is still the day after tomorrow. Anyway, the office building has been rented for several days. It's not like we can finish shooting today and leave tomorrow.

But Chu Xuan disagreed, thinking it was too troublesome.

"Then this is Chu Xuan's fault!" Liu Yifei threw the phone aside, clasped her arms, and thought so stubbornly.

This is the difference between men and women. In career, men like to save trouble and will never put off until the next day if they can finish a task quickly. But in life, men will put off family affairs until the next day and will never finish them on the first day.

Women are just the opposite. They are well-organized in their lives, but prefer a slower pace in their careers.

Although this situation is not absolute, many men and women in society follow this theorem.

This is also a change after Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei got married. Chu Xuan used to be with Liu Yifei. In order to wait for Liu Yifei to grow up and pursue their dreams at the same time, Chu Xuan had a slow pace in both life and career in the past few years.

Now that they're married, both their relationship and career are secure. The couple is in sync, and Chu Xuan's career pace has begun to accelerate.

This was the first change that was exposed after the couple got married, which made Liu Yifei uncomfortable, and thus led to the conflict tonight.

But Liu Yifei was conflicted again. Chu Xuan, standing on the director's standpoint, chose to shoot late at night to catch up with the shooting progress, which was not wrong.

It's just that women's emotions often prevail, and they can easily suppress the rationality of looking at things. Seeing that Chu Xuan turned a deaf ear to what he had promised in the morning, Liu Yifei finally got angry and returned to the hotel in a huff.

"Sigh~"

After wearing high heels for a few days, her heels felt a little sore. Liu Yifei reached under the quilt and rubbed them. The pain made her hiss softly, and then she became angry again.

"He also said he would wash and massage my feet at night. Men, ah, you are full of nonsense!"

Liu Yifei suddenly remembered that Chu Xuan had promised to give her a foot massage in the morning. Now it seemed that all the promises had been dashed, and the beauty of the morning had completely vanished.

The more she thought about it, the angrier she got. She threw off the quilt, got out of bed, walked to the door, and locked it with a click: "If you don't keep your promise, then you can sleep on the sofa."

Once a woman's temper flares up, she may seem a little unreasonable sometimes, but as long as she is given some time to calm down, she will soon recover.

This is what happened to Liu Yifei. She lay in bed for an hour and couldn't fall asleep, but her emotions were largely calmed down.

She suddenly felt that her behavior was not the way to solve the problem, so she opened her eyes in the dark and picked up her phone to seek help.

She found her mother's number and stopped. She had just gotten married to Chu Xuan and they had encountered a conflict. What would her mother think of them then?
Liu Yifei was not going to tell her mother about this. Instead, she found her father's phone number and sent him a text message explaining everything that had happened, hoping that her father could give her a solution to the problem.

【This is your fault.】

[Why is it my fault? He was the one who didn't keep his promise! ]

Liu Yifei never expected that her father's first reply would be to declare it her fault, which made her angry.

[Whether to keep the promise or not is your own business as a couple, you can deal with it privately, but in a work place like a film crew, you should first be patient and accompany him to shoot all night, encourage him, let him get the job done in the best condition, and then you can deal with the issue of whether to keep the promise or not.

Otherwise, if you left in anger like this, although you didn't get angry on the spot and gave Xiaoxuan face, it was not enough. What would Xiaoxuan think when he saw that you were not there and didn't answer the phone? You also added a burden that he shouldn't have.

This burden may make his job as a night shooter difficult, and you, as his wife, are also angry with him, which means both ends are in chaos, and your career and life, which were originally normal, have been added with contradictions and troubles. 】

Liu Yifei was startled, her eyes flickered and she pursed her lips.

I thought I had already taken Chu Xuan's face into consideration by not saying anything at the scene, but after listening to my father, who was an experienced person, it seemed that I had not done enough.

[What should we do now? ]

[Go find him, bring him a midnight snack, and accompany him to finish the shoot, and he will be completely relieved. As for why he didn't answer the phone, it depends on what excuse you come up with. ]

Liu Yifei frowned. Still need to go find him? Still need to bring him midnight snacks? Still need to accompany him to shoot all night?
It was obviously him who broke his promise first, and she had already left, but now he is trying to please her. Doesn't she have any face?
[If you believe in dad, go ahead. If you don’t, handle it on your own. ]

Liu Yifei bit her lower lip, not understanding her father's solution to the problem.

She was already angry, and the fact that Chu Xuan didn't answer the phone meant that she must have known that she was angry. Now she had to put aside a little bit of her self-esteem and try to please him, which was a little hard for her to accept.

"I'm your biological daughter, and you just watch your daughter suffer injustice?" she said indignantly.

Liu Yifei was extremely conflicted, but after a few minutes she finally chose to believe her father.

This was the first time in her life that she talked to her father about her love life, and it was also the first communication between her and her father after they restored their sincere father-daughter relationship during the Chinese New Year in order to prepare for their marriage.

Although she didn't understand why her father asked her to do this, she still gave him trust.

She threw off the quilt and got dressed. Just then the hotel was arranging a midnight snack for the crew, so she decided to go and deliver it in person.

……

"stop!"

"Take a break and come back."

Nearly one o'clock in the morning, the high floors of Shenzhen's landmark office building were lit up, one of the few lights in the building.

Chu Xuan is still directing the play and the crew is still busy.

The filming was not smooth. I don't know what's going on with Liu Yifei. This is the first time such a situation has occurred in all the years I've been with Liu Yifei. Chu Xuan feels uneasy and uneasy when he looks at the camera.

A short scene had to be shot more than ten times in a row. The actors only thought that the director was strict, and the teachers only thought that they were striving for perfection. But in fact, there was a crack in the mentality of director Chu Xuan, and he could not fully focus on the filming.

"Has the midnight snack not been delivered yet?" Chu Xuan asked Liang Datong.

"On the way." Liang Datong replied.

Chu Xuan nodded, and while the crew was taking a break, he picked up his phone and looked at it. When he was hesitating whether to call Liu Yifei again, a call came in from a number marked "Dad".

dad?
Why is his father-in-law calling him at this time?
Chu Xuan raised his eyebrows the next moment and realized that it was one o'clock in the morning here, but only around five o'clock in the afternoon in France.

But what did his father-in-law want to call him about?

Chu Xuan was curious, so he picked up the phone and went to an empty area to answer it.

"dad?"

"What's going on with you guys? Sissi is crying so hard, did you make her feel wronged?"

Chu Xuan's face was dull. Was his wife crying?
Chu Xuan seemed to be shocked by this incident and remained silent for a long time. An Kang on the other side of the phone continued: "She cried as soon as she called me, saying that you didn't keep your promise and didn't do what you promised her."

"She also said that it was obviously for your own good. It's so tiring to direct and act all day long. If you don't adjust your work and rest schedule, you might have health problems one day. She thinks she cares about you a lot, but you don't take her care seriously, so she feels wronged. Is that right?"

Chu Xuan pursed his lips: "Well, that's the situation, but... this... there's no need to cry, I think she should understand. In order for the crew to catch up with the filming schedule, I'm not..."

Chu Xuan didn't know what to say. Hearing Liu Yifei crying, he was instantly confused.

The temper I had at first was completely gone, and the unhappy feeling I had at the beginning was also gone.

All he wanted now was to see Liu Yifei, apologize and comfort her. He couldn't bear the thought of Liu Yifei crying because of him.

"I understand you from your perspective. It's okay to do this to complete the work. This is your duty to the entire crew. This is your duty as a director."

"But from Sissi's perspective, I understand her. After all, you made the promise first. If you can break it at will because of something, then from a man's perspective, your promise is worthless. From Sissi's perspective, how can she trust you in the future?"

Chu Xuan was silent for a few seconds: "Dad is right."

"So this matter is not easy to handle. Both sides have valid reasons. I called you because I saw that Xixi was upset and as a father I felt sorry for her. Logically speaking, your husband and wife's affairs should be handled by yourselves."

"But since the call has already been made, Xixi seems to be more hurt. Let me stand on her side and tell you this: Don't overuse her care for you. If one day the limit is used up and she no longer cares about you, then your relationship will be over;"

"Perhaps this concern will restrict your freedom, but this is the natural result of your choice to get married and become husband and wife. Since you have chosen this result, you as a husband should also have the responsibility and obligation to bear it."

"That's all I have to say. I'm busy here too, so I won't say any more. When you get home from work, have a good talk with her. Everything between husband and wife depends on honesty and sincerity to maintain their relationship. I hope you're all right."

"Okay, Dad, you go ahead." Chu Xuan said, "I'll remember what you said. We'll have a good discussion. When I'm done, I'll rush back to comfort her and won't let her suffer any injustice."

"Okay, handle it yourselves." Ankang hung up the phone.

Chu Xuan put down his phone, dialed Liu Yifei's number, and slowly walked to the floor-to-ceiling window.

Chu Xuan looked at the bustling night scene outside the window, his eyes full of heartache caused by hearing that Liu Yifei was crying. He didn't know whether Liu Yifei was asleep or not. He just hoped that she could answer his call at this moment. He wanted to apologize first, and then go back to the hotel to talk it out.

"Hey, what's wrong?"

Hearing Liu Yifei's voice, and finally answering the phone, Chu Xuan's heart was a little throbbing, but he realized his mistake after hearing Ankang's words. At this time, facing Liu Yifei, he felt a little embarrassed, and he didn't know how to start the apology he had prepared.

"Aren't you asleep yet?"

He asked a nonsense question, Liu Yifei answered your call, do you think she is asleep or not?
"No, I'm on my way to bring you a midnight snack. The hotel restaurant has two large lobsters, your favorite. I brought them here. Wait, they will be here soon. You can ask someone to come down to pick them up. There's a lot of food, so call more people."

Liu Yifei's words surprised Chu Xuan. Was Liu Yifei delivering midnight snacks to the crew? She even brought him two large lobsters? Wasn't Liu Yifei angry?

After hearing the call was hung up with a smile, Chu Xuan fell silent, feeling very unhappy.

Liu Yifei was angry at first, then cried to her father about her grievances, but now she pretended nothing had happened and sent them midnight snacks. She even brought his favorite food. Was she afraid that he would be unhappy, so she tried to please him in return?
Silly girl, don’t you feel more wronged by doing this?
Chu Xuan suddenly felt extremely guilty, but also very relieved, and shouted in his heart: With a wife like this, what else could a husband ask for?
He put himself in a good mood and came to the set happily, calling everyone, "Hurry, hurry, the midnight snack is here, follow me down and get it."

A dozen people all followed him, just wanting to get a midnight snack out of curiosity, so why would the director have to come out in person?
Naturally, everyone didn't know that their director and producer, a couple, had had a conflict that night, and now the producer came with a grievance suppressed and a desire to reconcile, while our director came with a heart of guilt and doting.

(End of this chapter)