Bright Era of China Entertainment

Chapter 808 Little Romance

After returning to Beijing, Chu Xuan rushed to Century Culture and handed the high-definition digital camera to the technical director of the film and television editing department.

The 50 photos of his mother selected by him and Liu Yifei are all in this camera and will be further operated by technicians.

His plan is to enlarge the photo and display it on an LED screen to give his mother a surprise.

But enlarging photos is not that simple. It is not as easy as just dragging the mouse pointer to enlarge the image in computer graphics software.

There is only one result of doing this: the image becomes blurrier the more it is enlarged.

The reason for this result is the problem of pixels.

If a photo has 100 pixels and is a one-inch photo, if you want to enlarge this one-inch photo to eight inches and ensure the clearest image quality, then according to the original ratio, the photo must have 800 pixels.

General computer software does not increase the pixels when enlarging an image. This is why the image becomes blurrier and more distorted the more it is enlarged.

Software that can increase pixels is usually a feature available only in paid software.

Watching the technician operating the software, enlarging the photo of his mother in the software and using the mouse to fill in the pixels and restore the distorted parts after enlargement to normal, Chu Xuan was not idle either, sitting aside and watching and learning like a primary school student.

As a director, in the post-editing stage, he often does not need to do it himself. He can just pass on the ideas and let others do it. However, if he can learn more about technical things and operations, it can at least reduce his time cost in communicating with others in the future.

The technicians seemed to be very familiar with the process and finished seven or eight photos in just one afternoon. I think such operations should be basic skills in the editing field.

At this rate, it will probably be done in two or three days.

Chu Xuan was also calculating the time. Perhaps after arranging everything, he could go to America a few days earlier to accompany his wife.

In this way, the photos were processed by technical personnel, and the editing team of "You Who Came From the Stars" was also proceeding step by step.

Chu Xuan went home and rested for a night. After waking up, he turned around and arranged the rest of the things.

In addition, he called two helpers, Su Chang and Jiang Xin.

"Wow, Xiaoxuanxuan, you look even more handsome now."

"Are you lonely in America, Sissi? Do you need me to accompany you?"

Under the sun, at the doorstep.

Su Chang stopped in her red convertible sports car, the kind with only two seats. Jiang Xin sat in the passenger seat, and both of them wore a pair of sunglasses.

The weather is hot, and the two girls are dressed quite fashionably, revealing where it should be exposed and wrapping up tightly where it shouldn't be exposed. They are worthy of being Liu Yifei's sisters. Even though their looks and figures are very good, they both have the gracefulness and conservatism of classical beauty.

However, whether it is graceful or conservative, that is only under the premise of not speaking.

Look at the way these two women greeted each other when they met. One said "Xiao Xuanxuan" and the other said "Are you lonely?". The high-quality synonyms of gracefulness and conservatism were shattered from them.

As expected, making trouble is the nature of these two women.

Chu Xuan wanted to cry but had no tears: "Come in quickly, don't block the way!"

Su Chang glanced at the rearview mirror and saw a large truck coming from behind, also heading for Chu Xuan's house. She stepped on the accelerator and with a "buzz" sound, a light dust flew up and hit Chu Xuan.

Chu Xuan was disheveled in the wind. He turned his head and looked at Su Chang, who was driving straight to the parking lot. The speed at his house was probably 40 mph, which made him shake his head and complain, "Too wild."

No wonder Liu Yifei likes to drive a sports car and drive so fast. He sincerely suspects that she was led astray by Su Chang.

Chu Xuan opened the gate and directed the truck to drive in. There was a corridor connecting the two villas, and vehicles could not pass through. So the truck turned the corner from the small villa and stopped on the road between the back of the villa and the lawn.

The third season of "I Am an Actor", a collaboration between Star Culture and Tianyu Media, has already been recorded and will be broadcast during the summer vacation. The LED screens and lighting devices in the Brilliant Times Variety Show Park have been idle.

He contacted Wang Zhengyu, the chairman of Star Culture, and asked Wang Zhengyu to send someone to deliver the equipment he needed.

He walked towards the corridor between the two villas and met Su Chang and Jiang Xin who had parked their cars.

"Isn't Auntie's birthday on June 618? There's still some time. Why are you in such a hurry?" Su Chang said.

She and Jiang Xin did not film any movies this year, or take on endorsements. She has been staying in Beijing most of the time, mainly accompanying Jiang Xin to look at houses and buy houses, and running around and playing.

They received a call from Chu Xuan yesterday, and heard that he wanted them to help with Aunt Liu's birthday, so they rushed over today.

"Xixi will graduate on June 615, and I want to go there early to accompany her, so there are only a few days left." Chu Xuan said.

"Tsk tsk tsk, what a good man." Jiang Xin joked: "Then you must be feeling quite empty these few days before you go to accompany Xixi, how about I come to accompany you?"

Su Chang blinked and fanned the flames, "If you're not satisfied, can we go together?"

"You guys are too extravagant, really." Chu Xuan shook his head, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and walked forward on his own.

Su Chang and Jiang Xin were smiling and teasing Chu Xuan as the sisters Xixi, which was also quite fun.

Meet up with company staff, including someone who specializes in installing equipment.

How to arrange 50 screens and some special lighting equipment requires advance planning, including switching some wires, which also requires advance measurement and planning.

"If you put 50 screens in one row, it won't look good. If you put them in two rows, the front row will block the back row, which is not nice."

"How about hanging the screen and creating a staggered layout?"

"If the screen is to be hung up, it will require a bracket, which we need to get from the park."

“You can put out some flower baskets, or get some small decorations like balloons.”

"..."

The group of people were discussing and planning, and the staff even used pen and paper to draw rough sketches of the plan.

For a birthday party, I have to draw the layout on paper. This is really unheard of.

But in Chu Xuan's opinion, it's all worth it to make his mother happy on her 50th birthday.

During the discussion, Sister Hua came over from her company to take a look and also participated in the discussion on the layout.

After everyone reached a consensus, the staff also made a simple diagram.

In the next few days, some people were pulling wires, some were installing brackets, some were arranging screens, and Su Chang and Jiang Xin also went to the street to buy some small decorations or found some small decorations in the villa's storage room to decorate and tidy up the place.

The Century Culture Film and Television Editing Department worked for three days and finally processed all fifty photos of my mother.

That night, the imaging was tested on the LED screen on the lawn. After the enlarged photo of my mother was displayed perfectly on the large screen that was one meter long and one and a half meters high without losing its beauty, Chu Xuan was very satisfied and relieved.

"Auntie is so beautiful." Su Chang and Jiang Xin praised her repeatedly.

Chu Xuan reached into his pocket and said, "Okay, the photos and equipment are fine. I'll trouble you guys next."

He took out the house key from his pocket and handed it to Su Chang: "I turned off the electronic lock, just use the key to open the door."

Su Chang took the key and said, "An early morning flight?"

"Yes." Chu Xuan nodded.

"You're so eager to go and accompany her. You're spoiling her too much. Be careful of the backlash in the future." Jiang Xin teased.

Chu Xuan said, "It's the 10th. She will graduate in a few days. I don't think she will have the chance to go to New Haven again after graduation. It would be quite memorable to accompany her for a few more days."

“Eh——” Jiang Xin was caught off guard by this wave of dog food, and looked at Chu Xuan with a joking look: “You weren’t so romantic before, you were really trained by Xixi.”

Chu Xuan couldn't help laughing, and just as he was about to say something, his cell phone rang.

"Shh! Xixi." He made a "hush" sound. It was Liu Yifei calling.

Su Chang and Jiang Xin quieted down, waiting for the couple's conversation with cunning looks.

"Hello, dear wife, what are your instructions?"

Su Chang and Jiang Xin looked at each other. They were smiling, but they were defeated by the word "dear wife". Their faces immediately fell, as if they were overwhelmed by sweetness.

"Have you made arrangements? When will you come over?" Liu Yifei's voice came, her tone full of longing for Chu Xuan.

Chu Xuan exchanged glances with Su Chang and Jiang Xin, and told a white lie: "I'll be busy for a few more days. It's troublesome to arrange these things. I may have to come over on the day of your graduation or the day before."

"Aren't Changchang and Da Xinxin here? Just let them watch over it. You can come earlier." Liu Yifei said, hoping that Chu Xuan would come earlier to accompany her.

"Hey!" Jiang Xin pretended to be unhappy and said dissatisfiedly: "You are preparing a birthday surprise for your mother, but no one in your family is here, and you let us outsiders stare at you. How can you be so embarrassed!"

"Da Xinxin is here too?" Liu Yifei was surprised. She didn't know Jiang Xin was next to Chu Xuan. When she heard Jiang Xin's dissatisfaction, she smiled and said, "Are you an outsider? How could an outsider call my mother godmother before? How could an outsider stay in someone else's house late at night and be next to a married man, and the man's wife doesn't mind? You are embarrassed to say you are an outsider? Where is your face!"

"Did you see that?" Jiang Xin pushed Chu Xuan down and complained, "Don't say I'm sharp-tongued in the future. I learned that from your wife. You're a great woman at scolding people."

"Hahaha..." Chu Xuan and Su Chang laughed out loud, finding it very interesting.

……

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New Haven, America.

What is evening for Chu Xuan is morning for Liu Yifei.

Eli community, in front of the desk in the upstairs bedroom of the villa.

Hearing Jiang Xin's words, Liu Yifei laughed, then pretended to be indignant and raised her voice a little, "Jiang Xin! You're saying bad things about me in front of my husband again! You'll be dead when I come back!"

"Come and beat me to death! I'll be waiting for you." Jiang Xin said in a mean way.

Liu Yifei lay on the table, laughing uncontrollably. She was both having fun and speechless, and had no idea what to do with Jiang Xin.

"I'll be here in a few days. Just focus on writing your speech. I'm also going to take a break. Let's talk on the phone tomorrow." Chu Xuan's voice came.

"Well, good night then." Liu Yifei said "good night".

"Good morning." Chu Xuan sent back a greeting that seemed out of place in time.

Liu Yifei hung up the phone, gently put the phone down with her left hand and placed it on the table, raised her right hand to support her right cheek, looked up at the sky outside the window slightly, her eyes full of longing.

It has been more than twenty days since I last separated from Chu Xuan. The longer the time goes by, the more I miss him.

This is very strange.

Isn’t it said that the longer you are apart, the weaker your feelings become?
Moreover, in the past stages of their relationship, she and Chu Xuan had been apart for longer periods of time, but her heart was never filled with him as much as it is now.

The reason can only be the changes brought about after getting married.

If falling in love is like a not very stable string tied by the matchmaker, then getting a marriage certificate is like twisting them into a solid rope under the witness of heaven and earth.

If the rope is looped and the two ends are connected together, it will be stronger and more perfect.

If we go our separate ways, the connection between our hearts will only fill us with attachment.

A gust of wind blew. The temperature in New Haven in June was only about 10 degrees. The cool breeze made Liu Yifei feel a little cold. It also brought her back to her senses from her thoughts. She got up, leaned over, and closed the window.

"Xixi, come down to eat!" Mom's voice called downstairs.

"Coming!" Liu Yifei turned around and walked out of the room, clacking down the stairs.

Liu Xiaoli came out of the kitchen, put the dishes on the table, looked at her daughter who was coming downstairs and said, "Who did you just call? You sounded so angry."

Liu Yifei pulled out a chair and sat down, smoothing her hair: "With Jiang Xin, don't you know her? She always likes to tease me, so I scolded her a few times."

Liu Xiaoli nodded slightly. Su Chang, Jiang Xin and Zhao Liying, once they get familiar with someone, they speak without restraint and like to joke around with people. Of course, this is also a manifestation of being lively and cheerful, and it is only limited to the circle of friends of the same age as her daughter and son-in-law. They are all very fun.

"Xiaoxuan, have you decided when to come?" She handed her daughter a pair of chopsticks.

Liu Yifei took a bowl of rice and took the chopsticks from her mother's hand, a little disappointed: "It will take a few days."

Hearing this, the corners of Liu Xiaoli's mouth unconsciously curled up, but soon disappeared. She looked at Zeng Ni and Lu Tao, and the three of them looked at each other, as if they had some common secret.

Lu Tao glanced at Liu Yifei secretly, and seeing that she seemed to know nothing, he lowered his head and took a bite of rice, feeling amused.

Chu Xuan will come here at early morning tomorrow morning China time, and will arrive in New York at about early morning tomorrow morning here.

He called them in advance to inform them that he would go to the New York airport to pick up Chu Xuan early tomorrow morning.

If I returned to my home in New Haven from New York in the early morning, it would probably be dawn by then.

In other words, Liu Yifei will be able to see Chu Xuan when she wakes up tonight.

The timing was perfect, and Chu Xuan deliberately wanted to give Liu Yifei a surprise.

"Mr. Chu, it's amazing how a cross-border trip can be made so romantic." Lu Tao smiled secretly.

Liu Yifei didn't notice the little expressions of the three people at the table at all. Recently, she and Chu Xuan had been in secret contact to prepare a surprise for her mother, and they were very open with each other. Since Chu Xuan said that he would come back in a few days, she subconsciously believed it, and had no idea that her husband was going to give her a little romance.

After lunch, she watched TV in the living room for a while, took a short break, and then returned to her room to prepare for her graduation.

During the time she was away from school, she would receive video courseware via email for both the refresher courses and the private tutoring management courses, and she studied every course one by one.

During the days since she came to New Haven, under the arrangement of her mother, both the private tutor and the advanced class teachers have patiently checked her homework and provided her with one-on-one re-teaching to fill in the gaps.

The professional acting classes and elective courses on the film industry are fine. I have practical experience with Chu Xuan in both acting and the film industry, so the theoretical knowledge based on the textbooks seems a bit superficial.

Moreover, I don’t know whether the American education system does this intentionally or not, but the textbooks always intentionally or unintentionally promote some ideological brainwashing passages. Textbooks should objectively describe some knowledge or cases, but there are very subjective things in American textbooks.

She hadn't noticed it before, but after experiencing Zhang Shaohan's public opinion incident and gaining a deeper understanding of the media situation with Chu Xuan, perhaps her cognition had improved, so when she returned to school this time and read the textbook carefully, she made this different discovery.

"Art always has national boundaries, and even textbooks have to be wrapped in a layer of politics." She has a new understanding of this.

Therefore, she also changed her way of reading books. She simply ignored the brainwashing paragraphs and only read some objective descriptions of theoretical knowledge and corresponding case studies.

In other words, she only looks at the process, not the results.

Those summary texts always contain some Western influences on her thoughts.

While she was reading quietly, a plane from the capital of China to New York, America took off smoothly.

Once a person calms down, time will slip away quietly and pass quickly.

Before I knew it, I had finished reviewing the lessons that the teacher would give me privately tomorrow, and it was already evening.

After having dinner with her mother, Zeng Ni and Lu Tao, she took a walk outside to digest the food and then returned to her bedroom to be the quiet and beautiful girl she was.

Without Chu Xuan, her liveliness, playfulness and coquettishness seemed to have disappeared from her. Perhaps without Chu Xuan's presence, her liveliness and playfulness no longer had any meaning to her.

She lay on the bed reading extracurricular books to kill time, and Lu Tao drove away in the night without her noticing.

"Hmm..." After reading in the same posture for a long time, she opened her arms, stretched, and yawned.

I picked up my phone and checked the time. It was already ten o'clock in the evening.

"Snap~" the lights went out and the moon shone, and the bedroom fell into darkness.

There was a rustling sound; it was her moving the quilt to get ready for bed.

After some time, she fell asleep with soft and even breathing.

But she didn't know how much time had passed before she sat up groggily. She didn't know what time it was in the middle of the night, and she didn't know why she woke up suddenly. As if there was some kind of induction in her, Lu Tao in New York successfully picked up Chu Xuan who had just got off the plane.

She fell back to sleep and fell asleep quickly.

When she opened her eyes again for no apparent reason, the sky outside the window had already revealed the first rays of morning light.

In this gloomy sky, a car stopped at the door of her house just before she woke up, so she didn't hear any sound.

"What happened today? I woke up twice in the early morning and I'm still restless."

Liu Yifei felt depressed. Without an alarm clock, she seldom woke up so early. It wasn't even six o'clock yet, right?

Moreover, it feels very unpleasant to have your sleep quality inexplicably affected.

She was a little upset, but she calmed down her inner irritation and closed her eyes to sleep again.

Just two minutes after she closed her eyes, a figure tiptoed up the stairs, quietly passed through the corridor, and came to her bedroom door like a thief...

(End of this chapter)