Bright Era of China Entertainment

Chapter 809 Enjoyable Time
In the corner of the closet near the door, Chu Xuan poked his head out in the dim environment. Seeing Liu Yifei still sleeping soundly on the bed, he walked towards the bed quietly and slowly.

He had specially designed the trip to America, just so that Liu Yifei would see him the moment she woke up and opened her eyes. This could be considered a little romance and surprise.

Fortunately, the flight was not delayed and he arrived here at just the right time, so his surprise could be delivered smoothly.

Liu Yifei was sleeping on her side, facing the side he was walking towards.

Chu Xuan came to the bedside, smiled gently, slowly squatted down beside the bed and looked at Liu Yifei, less than ten centimeters away from her sleeping face.

I wanted to wake up Liu Yifei and give her a surprise, but seeing her soft and cute sleeping face, I couldn't bear to tease her.

Just like that, Chu Xuan looked at Gu Wang with both cunning and longing.

What he didn't know was that Liu Yifei had just woken up and had only closed her eyes for a minute or two, and was in a state between half asleep and half awake.

Moreover, Liu Yifei had a very sensitive sense of smell. She could usually smell cigarette smoke, fragrance, betel nut and the like from a distance. At this moment, a masculine scent that did not belong to the bedroom mixed in, causing her to frown slightly with her eyes closed.

But this breath is so familiar...

A woman's sixth sense made Liu Yifei open her eyes suddenly, and there was someone in front of her. She was startled and screamed "Ah--" and jumped up from the bed. She subconsciously lifted the quilt to wrap herself to protect herself, and then curled up on the pillow on the other side.

This series of actions only took one or two seconds, and Chu Xuan was really scared.

Chu Xuan was also startled by her scream "Ah", and he bumped into the cabinet and then sat on the ground due to inertia.

Liu Yifei bulged her eyes and was very alert, but when she saw clearly that it was Chu Xuan, her eyes widened in disbelief.

"Huh?" she asked in surprise.

Chu Xuan looked at her with a teasing look: "Huh?"

"Huh?" Liu Yifei loosened her grip on the quilt and smiled at him.

Chu Xuan stood up and said with great interest: "Huh?"

The couple said "eh" four times in a row to cover up the embarrassment of the unexpected situation, and also to express their excitement about the unexpected surprise.

"You're a big liar!" Liu Yifei threw back the quilt, jumped up from the bed excitedly, and threw herself on Chu Xuan.

With a slight "bang", Chu Xuan was hit against the wardrobe. He steadily caught Liu Yifei who was rushing towards him and held her in his arms.

At the door of the room, Liu Xiaoli, who had just gone downstairs to pick up her son-in-law, looked out. She felt warmed by the scene and then gently closed the door and walked out.

"Didn't you say you'd be here in a few days?" Liu Yifei coiled her arms around Chu Xuan, her arms around his neck, facing him, and pouted with an indignant look, "You liar!"

Chu Xuan couldn't help laughing: "Aren't you surprised?"

The moment Liu Yifei saw Chu Xuan, she knew what was going on. Even though it was normal for her to see her husband as soon as she woke up in the past, it was very sweet for her to receive such a surprise from someone so far away in New Haven.

Even if she was sweet, she couldn't show it too much, so she hummed tenderly, leaned her head on Chu Xuan's shoulder and smiled, enjoying the happiness brought by this surprise as if she was trying to cover up her mistake.

"No wonder I was so restless when I slept at night and woke up twice for no apparent reason. It turns out that you, the ghost, were influencing me."

"You didn't sleep well? Do you still want to sleep?"

"Yes, but you have to accompany me."

When the couple, who had been separated by the sea, suddenly met each other, they couldn't help but cling to each other. Hugging each other in the familiar and warm arms again, Liu Yifei felt very comfortable for a while.

There was no conversation. One was sleep deprived, the other had traveled a long distance, and both were sleepy. They flirted for a while, and soon fell asleep in each other's arms as the sun rose.

……

At noon, Lu Tao was watching TV on the sofa while Liu Xiaoli and Zeng Ni were cooking in the kitchen.

At this time, there was still no movement from Xixi. If it were usual, Liu Xiaoli, as a mother, would go upstairs and knock on the door.

But today, her son-in-law Chu Xuan is here. Some things are understood by those who know, and they should not be told to outsiders. She can't go upstairs and knock on the door as usual.

"Good afternoon, Brother Lu."

"Brother Lu, you are so despicable. You two worked together to deceive me."

The sound of a couple greeting Lu Tao could be heard outside the kitchen. As the footsteps got closer, Zeng Ni turned her head to look.

Chu Xuan changed his clothes, and Xixi obviously looked like she had just taken a shower, but she didn't know whether her rosy complexion was due to the shower or something else.

At this, Zeng Ni looked at him with a strange look and jokingly asked, "Are you willing to give it up?"

This was obviously a veiled tone, which made Chu Xuan feel a little embarrassed.

Liu Yifei also glanced at her shyly, then looked at her mother. Fortunately, her mother was busy cooking and had no time to pay attention to them. As elders, it was not appropriate to discuss this issue, so it could avoid unnecessary embarrassment.

But just as she was thinking this, she saw her mother turned her head to look at her and Chu Xuan, then turned back to continue cooking and said, "You can consider not using safety measures."

Chu Xuan was stunned, and immediately pulled up the shy Liu Yifei and turned to run away: "Let's go, let's not play with these two, it's poisonous."

"Hahaha..." Zeng Ni couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Liu Xiaoli, who was cooking on the side, also smiled and called out to Chu Xuan: "Xiaoxuan, come here."

Hearing his mother shouting, thinking she was going to tease them again, Chu Xuan pulled Liu Yifei to stand at the door and asked warily, "What are you doing?"

Liu Xiaoli turned around and saw that her son-in-law didn't dare to come in. She thought he might have misunderstood her intention, and she felt it was interesting.

"What did you mean when you asked me what I liked to eat the other day?"

"Nothing, just asking. Xixi and I are going to take a walk in the garden. I'll call you for dinner."

"Hey!"

When Liu Xiaoli turned her head again, the two guys had disappeared. She looked out the window and saw that the two children had run into the garden.

Her son-in-law's avoidance of the topic made her feel that the brat was definitely up to something, but she couldn't figure it out no matter how hard she thought, so she had to put the matter aside for the time being.

In the garden, Liu Yifei jumped a few steps, holding Chu Xuan's hand and walked in front, then turned to Chu Xuan and muttered, "It's over, it's over. Mom asked you this question in person. With her wit, I'm afraid she must have guessed something, right?"

"Probably not." Chu Xuan shook his head: "She has always been tactful to the outside world and insensitive to her own affairs. She would never have thought that I, who have never cooked before, would cook for her."

Liu Yifei walked backwards and shook the hand she held with Chu Xuan: "I want to cook for my mother too. Have you learned everything from your aunt? Teach me when the time comes."

Chu Xuan was pulled away by her, and said face to face: "When we go back, we will first trick mom into going to the company and let Sister Hua hold her back. We will go back and prepare with our family members, and then we will cook the four dishes together."

"This is a good idea!" Liu Yifei said happily, jumping back to Chu Xuan and walking side by side with Chu Xuan.

The sunshine at noon is just right, and the temperature is around 15 or 16 degrees, which is neither too cold nor too hot.

Hand in hand, the couple walked along the edge of the small garden, comforting each other with the longing for each other after not seeing each other for more than twenty days and expressing their love for each other that was just beginning to blossom.

"Grandpa, grandma and grandma, are they all right?"

"It's okay... it's just that my mood changed a little when I visited them this time. Before we got married, I just wanted to escape from them. Maybe the more passionate they were, the more awkward they were. But after getting married, I finally understood the true warmth of home when I visited them this time. I wonder if you have felt this way."

Hearing Chu Xuan's slightly profound words, Liu Yifei tilted her head and thought in a very cute way.

In the past, I would miss my family members when I hadn’t seen them for a long time, but when I saw them, I would feel awkward, or uncomfortable under their enthusiasm.

And after getting married with Chu Xuan and establishing their own family with the witness of their family, this feeling seemed to have changed, but he couldn't tell what kind of change it was.

Perhaps, as Chu Xuan said, I truly felt the true warmth of home.

"I understand what you mean. Please take time to visit the old man more often in the future." Liu Yifei said.

"Yeah." Chu Xuan nodded.

"Oh, right." Liu Yifei stroked her hair, remembering the interesting things Chu Xuan said, and asked with great interest: "You said that there was an uncle from the cultural center who was a former suitor of mom?"

"Yes." Chu Xuan looked at her: "The surname is Yang, and she was once my mother's dance partner. You should know her, right?"

"Last name Yang?" Liu Yifei thought for a moment and shook her head: "If we had met, I would have remembered her, but it's been so many years, I can't remember it now."

Chu Xuan said: "Seeing that he looked like he really wanted to see my mother, I don't know if he just wanted to meet her or if he had some evil thoughts. Anyway, with his beard all over his face, he looked like a smaller version of Zhang Jizhong. I ran away before he could even finish his words, and stopped him from thinking about it."

Evil thoughts? A smaller version of Zhang Jizhong? ... Liu Yifei patted Chu Xuan and laughed with great joy. She was amused by Chu Xuan.

Chu Xuan laughed with her and changed the subject: "You've been here for a while, haven't you gone out to play? Every time I called you, you were at home."

Liu Yifei let go of Chu Xuan's left hand, and instead put her right hand around Chu Xuan's arm, walking and kicking lightly, looking very comfortable: "Ailander is still filming Twilight in Hollywood, and will not come until graduation day. My only friend here is not here, where can I go to play alone?"

Chu Xuan nodded slightly. "Twilight" is still in the process of filming. Almost all of the film is made up of special effects scenes. Even though Hollywood's film industry is powerful, it cannot be completed in just four or five months.

Li Qiaoqiao's scenes have been completed and he seems to have returned to China, but the scenes of the heroine Ai Lan De have apparently not been completed yet. According to the news I learned from the company a few days ago, it may take another month or two to wrap up.

"What about the He family's daughter? Didn't you make friends with her?" There is a Chinese restaurant in New Haven opened by a family of three from China named He. He had eaten there several times. His mother also often went to this restaurant to buy some ingredients. Liu Yifei also knew and became friends with the daughter of the He family, so he asked this question.

"Oh, he left, was robbed, and then returned to his country." Liu Yifei sighed.

"Ah?" Chu Xuan was stunned. Being robbed? This was something that rarely happened in real life.

"My mother and I heard it from others. On the day we arrived in New Haven, we planned to eat at the He's Chinese Restaurant, but when we got there, it was closed. We only found out about it from the owner of the small supermarket next door," Liu Yifei said regretfully.

"This..." Chu Xuan was speechless for a moment, and shook his head after a while: "New Haven is so close to the big city of New York, and the public security is so bad. This is unparalleled."

Liu Yifei said: "The impact of the subprime mortgage crisis is very serious in this country. When you came here, didn't you see a lot more homeless people on the streets? Some were sleeping on the streets, and some had set up tents. It was completely different from New Haven where I was before."

"I came in the early morning. It was pitch black. I really didn't pay attention." Chu Xuan said, "But if you mention this, then I understand. The subprime mortgage crisis created a lot of homeless people. They resorted to robbery to survive. Due to skin color discrimination, Chinese restaurants were robbed. This is also understandable."

"That should be it." Liu Yifei did not comment, and then said: "There is another factor that you may not know. During the past six months that we have been in the country, a certain party here seems to have expanded the scope of legalization of some banned substances in order to win votes, resulting in more and more civilians becoming addicted, so various robberies and other things have occurred frequently. This is all seen in the newspapers."

“No wonder…” Chu Xuan nodded slowly. Playing with banned substances in China is tantamount to seeking death, but the so-called banned substances are legal here, and this world police still clamors to crack down on banned substances every year. This is quite funny.

Not only that, some banned substances will also enter private hospitals and become "painkillers" for treating patients. After these "patients" become addicted, their dependence on "painkillers" will become more and more serious.

Therefore, by expanding the scope of legal possession of such "painkillers", it is possible to obtain the votes of these "patients" to cast for the vested interests.

It’s scary to think about how politics is played.

Who says that the moon on the other side of the ocean is round? These people either lack knowledge or are seriously ill. If they are hospitalized, they run the risk of contracting banned substances. Even if the moon is round, it is bloody.

"This country is getting more and more chaotic. Do you think I dare to go out alone?"

"I just stayed at home these days, reading books, watching TV, taking private lessons, and playing with photography equipment. It was so boring."

As Liu Yifei spoke, she suddenly hummed and revealed a pair of satisfied eyes: "Fortunately, you have a conscience and knew to rush over a few days in advance to accompany me."

"Bo~" She kissed Chu Xuan's face and said with a frown, "This is a reward for you."

Chu Xuan took away the hand that she was holding, put his arm around her shoulders and sat on the swing with her. They walked a long way and then took a rest on the swing.

The swing swayed gently. Liu Yifei leaned on his shoulder, crossed her legs, and swayed in the low air under the swing.

She said, "I haven't even finished writing my graduation speech yet. I don't know how to write it."

"Is there any theme?" Chu Xuan asked.

Liu Yifei shook her head: "I don't know about the topic, but...if I write according to my true thoughts, I'm afraid it won't pass. If I want to flatter, it's not what I really think."

After hearing this, Chu Xuan understood.

When giving a speech at any university, you don't have to say anything good about the school, but you also can't say anything bad about it. This is a taboo, not only abroad but also in China.

Based on his understanding of Liu Yifei, Liu Yifei probably wanted to take the opportunity to promote her country or something.

Is this equivalent to promoting China at Yale University, a prestigious American university?

The consequences are very serious, and you may be blacklisted by the university.

But, as Chinese people, if we don’t promote our own country, should we promote other countries?
There are many people in China who yearn for the West, but that’s because they don’t know what the West looks like.

Be it him, Liu Yifei, or his mother, their family has some understanding of this country. It is not that beautiful at all. In fact, this land has nothing to do with the word beautiful.

Based on this fact, if a pure person like Liu Yifei has to rely on flattery to complete her task, this should be the point that Liu Yifei is struggling with.

"Don't think about anything else. Just write your insights on acting and thank the school for its training. The international situation is here and we are not qualified to touch it. Since you graduated from the acting advanced class, you just need to talk about acting knowledge." Chu Xuan gave advice.

"Well, this is the only way. I also wanted to promote China's beautiful rivers and mountains to see if I could attract people to go and take pictures. Now I think forget it. I'm still too young." Liu Yifei said.

Chu Xuan stroked the hair on his shoulder and said, "Promotion depends on movies and media. For example, our film Enemy at the Gates was shot in real scenes in China. When it is released globally, it will be a way to promote China. And Macron, who is working with us, will be invited to China to shoot any movies that need suitable scenery in the future. After the global release, it will also be a way to promote China."

"Oh, yeah." Liu Yifei raised her eyebrows and smiled. "Okay, I got stuck in a dead end, and my husband has to help me figure it out. So I'll write a speech about performance, but you have to help me polish the manuscript these few days. You're my teacher in this regard."

"Okay, I'll help you study it." Chu Xuan looked doting and raised his hand to scratch her nose.

Liu Yifei cooperated by narrowing her eyes and enjoying the love from Chu Xuan.

"It's time to eat!" Mom's voice came from inside the house.

"Let's eat." Chu Xuan said, and Liu Yifei got up from his arms.

The couple got off the swing, enjoying some relaxing time, and walked into the house in a happy mood.

(End of this chapter)