Chapter 256 Both Shot
Liu Yifei has the thickest blood among all Chinese actresses.

Through the three roles of Wang Yuyan, Zhao Linger and Xiaolongnu, she became the white moonlight of almost a generation of men in mainland China.

Everyone's love for her is unreasonable. No matter how many bad movies she starred in, or even how many times she hyped up her love life, many people still stick with her.

This alone makes other female stars in the circle extremely envious.

It is undeniable that Liu Yifei's appearance does conform to the aesthetic standards of most men.

Even her haters and those who laugh at her ugly smile have to admit that Liu Yifei is really beautiful.

And the year 2007 was undoubtedly the time when Liu Yifei was at her most popular.

But it was precisely because she was so popular that her mother had the huge illusion that she could ignore some rules.

When talking about Liu Yifei, her mother is an hurdle that cannot be avoided.

She is indeed a good mother, but certainly not a good agent.

The reason why Liu Yifei was able to develop so smoothly in the early stage was not due to her mother, but to the operation of Chen Jingfei, the real estate tycoon in Beijing.

As for the relationship between Chen Jingfei and Liu Yifei and her daughter, we will not make groundless speculations, but it is definitely not as dirty as the slander online.

It was also with the support of Chen Jingfei that Liu Yifei was able to make her debut as the female supporting role in the CCTV-produced "The Story of a Noble Family".

She was also able to win the role of Xiaolongnu among many popular actresses.

It can be said that Chen Jingfei has made great efforts to make Liu Yifei so popular, and he has protected her so well. Otherwise, how could a girl in her teens remain so innocent in the complicated entertainment industry.

However, accidents never happen. As the financial crisis approached, not only did Chen Jingfei's own business run into problems, but more seriously, the relationships behind him also collapsed.

When Chen Jingfei was rich and powerful in the past, everyone in the entertainment industry respected him and gave him face.

Now that Chen Jingfei's building is about to collapse, who would care about him? Not to mention giving him face.

But even though Chen Jingfei fell, it did not affect Liu Yifei's popularity at all.

At this time, Liu Yifei was still one of the most popular actresses in mainland China, and her commercial value was no less than that of Fan Xiaopang, even though Fan Xiaopang worked so hard.

Therefore, when Chen Jingfei was unable to provide protection for Liu Yifei, many film and television companies wanted to recruit Liu Yifei.

Even Zeng Jia stepped forward and wanted to bring Liu Yifei into Jiahe.

Among them, the one that has made the greatest effort to recruit is Huayi Brothers, which has fully recovered and is on the fast track of development.

The Wang brothers really spent a lot of money and gave the much-anticipated female lead role of "The Forbidden Kingdom" to Liu Yifei.

This was the case when Huayi had not signed a formal agency contract with Liu Yifei.

This undoubtedly gave Liu Yifei's mother a huge illusion, allowing her to unscrupulously stand up a film and television giant.

The Wang brothers are not easy to talk to. They paid such a huge price and even let their popular actor Li Bingbing play a supporting role for Liu Yifei.

In the end, you didn't sign it and directly signed with a Hollywood agency, hoping to bring your daughter into Hollywood.

If the Wang brothers who have been fooled don’t do something, how can they regain their face and maintain the authority of the company?

So after that, Huayi directly and unilaterally banned Liu Yifei. It was also after that that Liu Yifei's negative news began to fly all over the place, and even what she wore in public would be ridiculed.

At first, Liu Yifei's mother didn't take it seriously. But after she came back from Hollywood with a lot of trouble, she found that the situation had completely changed.

Liu Yifei is famous, but not many people dare to ask Liu Yifei to film with them.

So after 2008, he didn't get any acting jobs for two or three years, until he joined the declining Hong Kong entertainment industry, and then he started producing works.

However, the Hong Kong entertainment industry had completely declined at that time, and the resources Liu Yifei could receive were not as good as before.

She also took on a lot of bad movies, and even went to the extent of hyping up her relationship with a Korean for publicity.

It was because Liu Yifei had a strong personality, otherwise she would have been forgotten long ago and would not have been able to withstand the blow from Huayi.

The Huayi of the original time and space is not comparable to the Huayi of today. They were known as the first private film and television company in the mainland at that time, and they were indeed worthy of it.

At that time, Huayi not only had a huge influence, but was also very domineering, and few people in the circle dared to provoke him.

Only Liu Yifei's mother is a young and ignorant person who doesn't take Huayi seriously.

However, in this life, due to the rise of Jiahe, Liu Zhou also took away part of Huayi's luck, so Huayi's strength and influence are much smaller than the same period in the previous life.

The most recognized private film and television company now is Golden Harvest Media Group.

But even the current Huayi is not someone that an artist can easily offend.

Liu Zhoudan learned from Zeng Jia that there is a high probability that Liu Yifei's mother will still stand Huayi up in this life.

At that time, Zeng Jia went to recruit Liu Yifei with full confidence, but unexpectedly he met her weird mother. After a brief exchange, he left without wasting any energy.

Zeng Jia reported to Liu Zhou that Liu Yifei's mother said that she would take her daughter to Hollywood for development next. If she wanted to sign her daughter, she had to provide Hollywood's film resources.

Zeng Jia was stunned at the time. In the eyes of Liu Yifei's mother, Hollywood's film resources were as readily available as cabbage.

Don’t even mention that you haven’t joined Golden Harvest yet. Even Fan Xiaopang, who has joined Golden Harvest for two years and is being highly promoted, is still pursuing his career in the mainland.

So Zeng Jia didn't waste any more words on her. She felt that no matter how famous Liu Yifei was, she would definitely have a lot of trouble in the future with such an amateur agent.

However, although Jiahe withdrew, Huayi seemed quite confident that it could recruit Liu Yifei. With just a simple verbal agreement, it gave her a big gift.

Therefore, there is now a huge heated discussion in the outside world about Liu Yifei's ability to win the female lead in "The Forbidden Kingdom".

Other female stars, and not just female stars, but also male stars, have put in a lot of effort to jump from the TV circle to the film circle. Just look at Fan Xiaopang and Huang Xiaoming back then.

If they had not joined Golden Harvest, they might still be stuck in the television industry.

But it was so easy for Liu Yifei to jump from the television circle to the film circle. She even directly collaborated with two global kung fu superstars, Jackie Chan and Jet Li, and was the leading lady.

This made the female stars in the circle jealous.

Even Fan Xiaopang, who has no shortage of resources now, felt sad when he saw this news.

At the same time, I couldn't help but complain that this is really Huayi's style, always leaving the best resources to outsiders.

For Liu Yifei's huge number of fans, it was as happy as New Year's Day.

There is no doubt that the announcement that Liu Yifei is the female lead in "The Forbidden Kingdom" has added fuel to the already very popular movie.

It is even more popular than the previous "Battle of Guandu" which also caused a huge sensation.

But no matter what, the entertainment industry is extremely lively because of the launch of these two films.

However, for Liu Zhou, he secretly wanted to see what everyone's expressions would be like after "The Forbidden Kingdom" and Wu Baige's "Battle of Guandu" were released.

Thinking of "The Forbidden Kingdom", Liu Zhou still felt a little regretful.

It’s not a pity that the movie turned out badly, but it’s a pity that the first collaboration between Jackie Chan and Jet Li was lost.

At the beginning, Liu Zhou had even thought about letting Jackie Chan and Jet Li work together to make a movie to enter Hollywood again.

Liu Zhou is planning to follow the theme of "Detective Chinatown", with Jackie Chan and Jet Li as the two male protagonists, investigating and solving cases in Chinatown in the United States.

However, it is definitely not based on reasoning like Chen Sicheng's version, but it will give full play to the characteristics of the two people, focusing on kung fu and supplemented by detective reasoning. If a better script is made, with the action styles of the two people, one fierce and the other funny, it will definitely be worth doing.

But Liu Zhou was busy acquiring Sina and everyone was busy, so the idea was delayed until now, and it is still just an idea.

Now Jackie Chan and Jet Li are getting older day by day, and their appeal to the audience is slowly declining.

At this point, the gimmick of the two's first collaboration is gone, and "The Forbidden Kingdom" has a bad reputation. Next time the two work together, people will definitely not be very interested.

Rather than doing something thankless, it is better not to do it and let the idea remain at the idea stage.

Putting these thoughts aside, Liu Zhou didn't think about them any more.

After being busy for so long, Liu Zhou also planned to have a good rest for a few days.

The summer vacation is coming soon, Ning Hao's "Crazy Racing" will be released, and Liu Zhou will support him.

After that, he will start preparing for his first science fiction blockbuster in China, and will attend the Venice Film Festival in September.

Therefore, Liu Zhou will still be very busy in the second half of this year, and he may only be able to relax during this period.

However, before Liu Zhou could relax for two days, a phone call came and made him busy again.

"Xiaotong, is this true?"

"Really, the doctor said it's been three months."

Zhang Tong saw the other party suddenly fall silent, and his originally happy expression slowly calmed down. He asked with a little trepidation:
"Don't you want this child?"

"Of course not. How could I not want to? It's just that I'm going to be a father for the first time in decades. I feel excited but complicated."

Hearing Liu Zhou's words, Zhang Tong also breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, Zhang Tong is currently filming "Painted Skin" in Northwest China. It was fine at the beginning, but he has been retching and dizzy in the past few days.

Later, I went to the hospital for a check-up and found out that I was pregnant.

When Zhang Tong heard that she was pregnant, she was filled with excitement and joy, and immediately called Liu Zhou to share the good news.

But Liu Zhou's silence just now made Zhang Tong realize that their relationship was not so aboveboard after all.

Zhang Tong was really worried that Liu Zhou would not want this child.

But fortunately, I was just overthinking it.

"What do you mean decades? Aren't you even thirty now?"

"It doesn't matter. Since you're pregnant, we won't be filming the show anymore. Let someone else do it."

"No, I've already filmed half of my scenes. If I change roles now, it would mean that the entire movie would have to be re-filmed, which would be a huge loss."

"This little loss is nothing to me. Filming is so hard, what if it affects the child?"

"I know you have money, but doing this will also have a huge impact on the rest of the crew, and now that I know I'm pregnant, I'll definitely pay attention."

Seeing that Liu Zhou cared so much about the baby in her belly, Zhang Tong felt better again and his tone of voice became lighter.

"Don't worry about the others. I'll ask Zhang Zhao to coordinate."

"Don't worry, nothing will happen. You don't have to make such a fuss. Besides, my part will be finished in about a month at most."

"I just felt uneasy, so I asked you to stop filming."

“I know you care about me, but I can’t be so selfish and abandon the entire crew. Everyone has been working hard for two months on this movie.

And you know how much I value my baby, I'm not going to joke about it."

Seeing that Liu Zhou still didn't give in, Zhang Tong continued:

"My roles are all literary ones, so they won't have much impact on my body."

"Okay, but don't work too hard during filming, and make sure you take good care of your nutrition. I'll come see you soon."

When Zhang Tong saw Liu Zhou agreed, he felt a little relieved.

The reason why she didn't want to change roles, besides the reasons she just mentioned, was that she didn't want to make a big fuss about the matter.

As a key project of Golden Harvest, "Painted Skin" has attracted much attention from the outside world since its inception.

The movie has been filming for nearly two months and suddenly changing the heroine will definitely cause a huge response, and she will definitely become the focus of media attention.

This is still the influence of the outside world. What Zhang Tong is most worried about is that Zeng Li will pay attention to this matter.

Although Zhang Tong had a vague feeling that Zeng Li must have guessed something, since she hadn't revealed it, Zhang Tong didn't want to reveal it.

Zhang Tong didn't want this matter to become a big deal, she just wanted to finish filming the scene quietly and then give birth to the child quietly.

After hanging up the phone, Liu Zhou couldn't help but sit there for a long time before he let out a long sigh of relief.

Liu Zhou didn't expect that Zhang Tong failed to get pregnant after trying so many times last year, but got pregnant after only a few tries this year.

To be honest, this was the first time that Liu and Zhou had a child in the fifty or sixty years combined.

I feel excited, expectant, and a little overwhelmed.

But then he thought of Zeng Li, and a strong sense of guilt welled up in his heart.

Anyway, I feel very complicated.

Liu Zhou took a long time to calm down before returning home.

Liu Zhou was startled when he saw Zeng Li sitting on the sofa in a daze today.

Could it be that Zeng Li also knew that Zhang Tong was pregnant?

Liu Zhou walked up to Zeng Li with a somewhat uncertain mood.

Zeng Li seemed to have just noticed Liu Zhou at this moment, and suddenly smiled and said happily:
"Zhou Zhou, I have good news for you."

When Liu Zhou saw the smile on Zeng Li's face, the heavy stone in his heart was put down.

He sat directly next to Zeng Li, held her in his arms, and asked:

"What good news?"

Zeng Li then took out a report sheet and handed it to Liu Zhou.

"look!"

"Isn't this a report from the hospital? Are you sick?"

"I am pregnant!"

"What's the matter?"

Liu Zhou was so shocked by Zeng Li's words that he straightened up immediately.

(End of this chapter)