allonlinenovel Chapter 161 Engagement (Part 2)
Chapter 161 Engagement (Part 2)
As soon as Xie Junfei finished speaking, a sinister female voice came from behind:
"You brat, you finally remembered me."
Xie Junfei was so frightened by the ghost behind him that he shuddered and almost jumped up.
Huo Shen pressed on the little girl's waist and calmly said:
"Alright, Holland, stop scaring her."
Hearing her cousin say that, Holland, a supermodel, was furious.
"She should be scared! What a bad girl!"
"She promised to enter the entertainment industry to help me revive Venus, but who knew that this little girl would run away halfway through."
As he spoke, Holland angrily poked Xie Junfei:
"I was the one who led your little actor to the Berlin Film Festival! I, a dignified and domineering CEO, have actually become Lu Wanzhou's agent!"
Xie Junfei casually pressed down on her outstretched finger, still finding it strange:
"Wasn't it supposed to be an Oscar contender? Why did it turn into the Berlin Film Festival?"
Hearing her question, Holland's eyes widened even more. Her eyes, which were severely lacking in sleep, along with the thick dark circles under her eyes, almost covered half of her face.
And so, a pair of resentful eyes stared at her with a mournful intensity, like a camera lens:
"You don't even know this? Are you really going to just wash your hands of the responsibility? Am I still your precious baby?"
"You're not thinking of quitting, are you? I'm going to make a scene! I'm really going to make a scene!"
After saying that, she immediately pretended to lie down on the ground, but Huo Shen quickly grabbed her:
"Just act it out. Xie Junfei was taking the college entrance exam recently. You've been living a muddled life abroad, don't you even know that?"
"Besides, I was the one who blocked you using her phone. Otherwise, how could a poor high school student possibly concentrate on her studies if you bombarded her with eight hundred messages a day?"
Upon hearing this, Holland's resentment and frustration vanished instantly, replaced by a mixture of surprise and utter embarrassment.
"Huh? Aren't you only a junior in high school this year?"
Xie Junfei: ..........
Xie Junfei: "Are you still half asleep?"
Holland laughed awkwardly twice, then guiltily changed the subject:
"Let's talk about why Lu Wanzhou attended the Berlin Film Festival instead of the Oscars."
The scene was completely silent; clearly, everyone wanted to see Holland get his comeuppance.
Three minutes later, Xie Junfei condescended to give Holland a way out:
"Okay, why?"
Holland immediately perked up and seized the opportunity:
"That's all Lanka's fault!"
Lanka, Venus's number one rival.
If Venus dominates the film and television resources centered in the capital, then Lanka is a conglomerate exclusively belonging to the southern faction.
Unlike Venus, Lanka greatly favored casting actors with theatrical backgrounds.
For example, the female lead in the film "The Dream of Zhuang Sheng," produced by Lanca Films and nominated for an Oscar this time, is a former Huangmei Opera singer.
"Zhuangzi's Dream" is shameless in a certain sense, a shameless act that takes an extreme approach.
Lanka invited a famous American director to direct the film. Although the main characters were all Chinese with a background in traditional Chinese opera, American aesthetics permeated the entire film. In the end, although the film told a Chinese story, it had actually been distorted.
Holland, a former supermodel, has no respect for this kind of behavior of trying to win awards by using her own culture to curry favor with the judges, and she can't be bothered to argue with such a rogue.
If they end up as runners-up, then when Sri Lanka returns home for marketing purposes, she'll have to kick Lu Wanzhou while she's down, causing trouble for no reason.
Since the judges are biased, let's just flip the table and stop playing.
So Holland simply withdrew from the Oscars and headed straight for the Berlin Film Festival.
The hard work of filming for six months paid off, and just over ten hours ago, the film "The Mountain Keeper" won several awards.
Wenren Ge won Best Director, Lu Wanzhou won Best Actress, and the cinematographer received the Outstanding Artistic Contribution Award. This trip to Berlin can be described as very fruitful.
Holland seemed to have a weight lifted off his shoulders:
"This has completely elevated Lu Wanzhou to a higher level, making her the undisputed number one Venus de Milo."
"Then with some marketing in China, it'll be a huge hit."
"When the time comes, I'm going to give those Sri Lankan lapdogs who sell out their culture a good stomp!"
Xie Junfei smiled and nodded:
"Of course, no problem. The Xie family will cover the marketing expenses. Just remember to buy a lot of trending topics."
Holland chuckled twice, answered a call from Lu Wanzhou, and then turned to leave.
"Now is the golden time for public relations. I'll just say hello and then head back to Venus. See you later."
After saying that, she turned and left hurriedly without waiting for Xie Junfei to speak.
After finishing her pleasantries with the lady, Mrs. Huo walked over to Xie Junfei's side and scolded her playfully:
"Holand, he's such a grown man, yet he's always rushing around like this. He's so unreliable."
Xie Junfei smiled and took Huo's mother's arm.
"My sister had some business to attend to at her company, so she had to leave in a hurry."
Although everything was kept simple, there were still quite a few guests. The well-dressed gentlemen and ladies of the Wanxiang Mansion were chatting and laughing. The Xie and Huo families were the main guests, and everyone was surrounded by wave after wave of guests.
Xie Junfei took advantage of the break and slipped out to get some fresh air in the small garden in the backyard.
The Wanxiang Mansion is a complex of garden villas, and it is not just the Huo family's residence.
The villas were very far apart, and at most they were connected only by their backyards.
She casually sat on a French-style cast-iron chair under a cherry blossom tree, with Sacred Heart herb to repel mosquitoes beside her, and a tall cherry tree behind her blocking out most of the sunlight.
The shadows of the trees cut the sunlight into fragments, which fell on Xie Junfei like gold dust, making her cheongsam, made of Su brocade, shimmer like the water of the Slender West Lake.
The delicate fragrance of Sacred Heart Vanilla neutralized the smell of red wine on her body. A gentle breeze blew by, and Xie Junfei tilted her head back, savoring this rare moment of leisure.
From the corner, the girl's bright eyes and white teeth, her black hair tied back with a wooden hairpin, adorned with bitter orange blossoms and red beans, made her appear even more dignified and elegant. She didn't look like a typical Beijing girl who grew up in the capital, but rather like a well-bred young lady raised in the water towns of Jiangnan.
The scene was so beautiful it looked like a painting. The refined man in the corner paused, as if he had thought of an old friend, and a look of nostalgia appeared on his face.