Hollywood Director 1992

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"Link, are you busy? Your Sister Xiaoli is in America. Do you have time to come back and see her?"

"Sister Xiaoli?"

Hearing the Chinese dialect from the phone, Link rubbed his temples. The hippocampus in his brain was expanding, adding some memories that didn't belong to him.

"Have you forgotten Liu Xiaoli? In '86, she came to Los Angeles with a domestic song and dance troupe and stayed at my house for over a month. You used to play with her a lot during that time," Aunt Pei reminded him on the phone.

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"Oh, I remember now. Is she there with you now? Okay, I have time this afternoon. Good, I should be able to get there around the time you finish cooking."

After hanging up the phone, Link continued to look at the documents, signing several purchase orders.

Around 3 PM, Link left Guess Pictures and drove to El Monte, east of Los Angeles.

El Monte is a city under the jurisdiction of Los Angeles County, about thirty kilometers from the city center, similar to a suburb of a large city.

The population here is not large, about 100,000 people, of which 5% are Chinese. With the rise in housing prices in the city in recent years, more and more Chinese have come to settle here.

The original owner had lived here for several years.

The original owner was originally a genuine Chinese person. He was adopted by an American couple from an orphanage when he was two or three years old, and brought from China to Appleton, Wisconsin, in the northeastern United States, and became an American citizen ever since.

When he was 9 years old, his adoptive parents divorced. The original owner moved with his adoptive mother to El Monte, Los Angeles. When he was 15 years old, his adoptive mother died of heart disease. The original owner didn't want to be sent to an orphanage, so he ran to a Chinese restaurant near El Monte to work as a child laborer.

Because of this, he met Aunt Pei, the restaurant owner, and received some care from her.

The original owner hung around in El Monte for more than three years. At the age of 18, he ran to Los Angeles to work, working as a porter in a juice factory. Sometimes he would work as an extra on film sets. Once, when he was working as a stunt double, he accidentally fell from a scaffolding.

He felt fine at the time, but he died suddenly after returning home that night.

And Liu Xiaoli, mentioned by Aunt Pei, is Aunt Pei's cousin's daughter.

She came to Los Angeles to perform a few years ago and came to visit Aunt Pei. The original owner saw that Liu Xiaoli was beautiful and took the initiative to be her guide, taking her around to play, like a licking dog.

The car drove to South El Monte and stopped in front of a Chinese restaurant on Valley Boulevard. The restaurant was not big, with a sign hanging at the door that read "Old Northeast Restaurant", and the walls were painted in a red color with Chinese characteristics.

Link got out of the car with a gift and went into the store to talk to Aunt Pei and her husband.

The Chinese people eating in the restaurant saw him and greeted him warmly, saying that his movie could sell well in the United States, which was very remarkable.

Link politely dealt with them.

While they were talking, a beautiful young woman walked down from upstairs, with her black medium-length hair loose, tall, wearing a beige coat and black pencil pants, with an outstanding temperament.

The most attractive thing about her was her gentle young woman's temperament. Her watery and crystal-clear peach blossom eyes made people easily misunderstand that she was flirting when she stared at them.

This person was Sister Xiaoli mentioned by Aunt Pei.

To Link's surprise, this Sister Xiaoli looked very similar to the actress's mother he had met in the circle in his previous life, but she was much younger and more beautiful, with crystal-clear and smooth skin on her face, without the wrinkles in his memory.

"You are Link? I haven't seen you in a few years. You've grown so big and so handsome, like a different person."

While he was looking at Liu Xiaoli, Liu Xiaoli also looked at him with a smile. Liu Xiaoli was a little over 1.7 meters tall, shorter than him, and looked at him with her face slightly raised, with a smile on her lips.

"It's been five or six years since I saw you, Sister Xiaoli is still so beautiful, like a fairy."

"Haha, you have changed a lot. Not only have you become more handsome, but you have also become more glib. I remember you used to blush easily when you spoke."

Liu Xiaoli pointed at his face and smiled.

"Yes, I was a little boy at that time. Little boys have that expression when they see beautiful older sisters."

"Aunt Pei, listen to what he's saying, like an old man in his thirties or forties, with a silver tongue."

Liu Xiaoli smiled at Aunt Pei next to her.

"Link is an adult now. Isn't this how adults talk?"

Aunt Pei smiled and invited the two to the dining table in the room for dinner. There was a large table of Chinese dishes, including stir-fried pork with dried bamboo shoots, General Tso's chicken, clear stewed eel soup, and four-joy meatballs. There were Sichuan, Shandong, and Cantonese dishes.

While eating, Link and Liu Xiaoli talked about her trip to the United States.

Liu Xiaoli came to the United States more than a month ago, initially in New York, where she played a small role in the domestic TV series "A Native of Beijing in New York."

She came to Los Angeles these two days and is preparing to find a job here and settle down.

"Settle down here? You should be married, right? Doesn't your husband care about you?"

"We divorced because of incompatible personalities. I divorced last year. I'm now living with my daughter."

Liu Xiaoli flicked her hair, her expression very calm, as if she was not affected by the divorce.

"Did your daughter come here too?"

"Yes, I brought Qianqian with me."

"A strong woman!"

Link joked.

Liu Xiaoli glared at him, and her gentle temperament immediately became pungent, "Hmph, men are unreliable, what can women do if they don't become strong? Are you waiting to starve to death?"

"How's the job search going? Are you planning to continue acting?"

Link took a spoonful of soup.

"No, I just want to settle down as soon as possible now, and I'm not picky about what kind of job."

Liu Xiaoli looked at him, with a hint of hesitation and struggle on her face, but suddenly she became decisive again and smiled: "Little Link, the news says that you have become a great director, do you have any channels to help your sister find a job? I can dance, understand English, and speak a little French."

"Sure, you said you're not picky about jobs, are you really not picky about anything?"

"It must be a decent job. I don't dare to do a job dancing in a nightclub, I'll be laughed to death if it spreads back to China."

"We are friends, how could I introduce you to such a job?"

Link put down the soup spoon and looked at Liu Xiaoli, "I have a film company under my command that is recruiting staff. There are vacancies for positions such as finance, public relations, assistant, and logistics supervisor. Think about it, tell me which position you think is suitable, and I will arrange it."

"Okay, you said it, I won't be polite with you."

Liu Xiaoli said with a smile.

"Don't be polite, we are family."

"Yo, your Mandarin is getting more and more standard. It seems that you have practiced a lot in private."

Liu Xiaoli joked.

"Of course, no matter where we are, we are upright Chinese people in our bones. What beats here is also a Chinese heart, so naturally we can't not know Chinese."

Link pointed to his chest and said.

"Haha, you have really changed, you have become much more interesting than when you were a child, but you are glib, and you don't feel as honest as before."

Liu Xiaoli peeled a large shrimp and put the smooth shrimp body on his plate.

"This is the way Americans talk, saying whatever they want. You'll get used to it in a few months."

After eating at Aunt Pei's restaurant, Link left contact information for Liu Xiaoli, drove away from El Monte, and returned to Beverly Hills.

On the way, he received a call from Monica Bellucci. Monica asked him if he had time tomorrow and wanted to have coffee with him to talk about the script and the role.

Link told her the address of Guess Pictures and asked her to come to the company tomorrow afternoon.