Chapter 264 275 [Who wants to get married after being reborn! ]

After the shortlist for the 47th Cannes Film Festival was announced, Li Yishu took the main actors including Zhang Fengyi, Lei Han, Liu Deyi and two leaders of Emei Film Studio, flew directly from Sichuan Airport to Shenzhen, and then took a bus to Hong Kong from there.

At this time, Han Sanping had also arrived in Hong Kong, and the group successfully met up at a large hotel in Hong Kong.

At the dinner table in the evening.

After three rounds of wine and five dishes, Han Sanping couldn’t help but ask, “Director Li, do you think we can win an award in Cannes this time?”

The two leaders of Emei Film Studio nearby also had sparkling eyes. If the film invested by their studio could win an award, regardless of the return, at least they would have achieved political achievements.

Originally, the person in charge of this film was Han Sanping, but he transferred to Yanjing Film Studio, so the performance of this film had little to do with him. Naturally, the achievements were scattered on the heads of the new director and the leaders in charge of the “Nobody” project.

“We haven’t even gone to Cannes yet, so it’s hard to say whether we can win an award.”

Li Yishu shook his head. He never opened champagne at halftime. Moreover, he had already won three gold medals this year. It was basically unlikely that the Cannes Film Festival would give him the Palme d’Or again.

Moreover, the competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival is quite fierce. Judging from the shortlist, many films are classics familiar to the public.

Not to mention Zhang Yimou’s “To Live” and Quentin’s “Pulp Fiction”, there is also “Queen Margot” starring Isabelle Adjani and “Burned by the Sun” directed by Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov.

This year’s Cannes Film Festival was also a very memorable one for Lee Yi-su, because Ge You won the first Cannes Best Actor award for his role as Fugui in “To Live”. After that, Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” was a big hit this year.

Zhang Manyu smiled and said, “If you ask me, we will definitely win an award. If the judges of the Cannes Film Festival are not blind, they will definitely give us a big award.”

“Yes, Director Li.”

Zhang Fengyi continued, “I have never seen any other movie use the filming techniques of ‘Nobody’. It will definitely win an award this time.”

“That’s also a technical award.” Li Yishu turned to look at Zhao Fei and said with a smile, “Brother Zhao, you have a great chance of winning the award this time.”

“Then let’s borrow Director Li’s good words and hope to win a technical award!”

Zhao Fei smiled and he was very satisfied with the filming of “The Unknown”.

It’s a pity that “Sword Rain” was a commercial film at the time and could not be registered for the film festival. Otherwise, with the bullet time, it might have won the photography technology award long ago.

A group of people ate and chatted until around eight o’clock in the evening, when they gradually dispersed.

Li Yishu originally wanted to go find Qingxia in the evening, but just as she walked out of the box, Zhang Manyu suddenly followed her and said, “Director Li, I want to talk to you about something.”

“Okay, come to my place and talk.”

Li Yishu glanced at her and without thinking much, turned around and took Zhang Manyu back to his mansion in Mid-Levels.

Inside Li Yishu’s mansion.

After entering the house, the lights were on. Zhang Manyu looked around. The decoration was simple, which was quite different from the popular decoration style in Hong Kong. It gave people a sense of coolness, but it had its own unique flavor.

“Director Li, your house is decorated very nicely.”

“It’s OK. I asked someone to design a simple style. I don’t really like the magnificent feeling.”

Li Yishu’s aesthetic taste still tends to be towards the minimalist style of several decades ago, and she does not like the European luxury that is popular in Hong Kong now.

“It’s quite nice.” Zhang Manyu asked while admiring it, “When did you buy this Mid-Levels luxury house?”

Li Yishu walked into the kitchen, took out two cans of soda, threw one to the other party and said, “You bought it too early. It should be more than two years ago, right?”

He couldn’t remember exactly when he bought it, but it should have been in 92.

“Do you have beer?” Zhang Manyu took a look at the drink in her hand.

“Have!”

Li Yishu went back to the kitchen and took out a few bottles of beer. The two of them sat down in the living room, drinking and chatting.

Zhang Manyu opened the pull ring and took a big gulp. The refreshing taste of the ice-cold beer moistened her gradually getting hot. After a burp, she said, “Director Li, what do you think about me buying a set now?”

“Not so good.” Li Yishu took a sip of beer and shook his head: “The housing prices in Hong Kong are too high now. If this trend continues, the housing prices will collapse sooner or later.”

“Oh no?”

Zhang Manyu was surprised and said, “The housing prices in Hong Kong are changing every day. The large flat I bought two years ago has increased by half now.”

“It’s because the price has increased so fast that ordinary people can’t afford to buy a house with their lifetime savings. Do you think this is reasonable?”

Li Yishu couldn’t tell Zhang Manyu directly, so she could only use the savings of ordinary people as an excuse.

In fact, the high housing prices in Hong Kong are not only caused by real estate developers and speculators, but mainly because Hong Kong is a fairly developed city. As one of the world’s three largest financial centers and one of the world’s famous port cities, its geographical location is very important.

No matter how high the housing prices are, there will always be someone to take over.

This is the same reason why houses in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen can still be priced out of reach for ordinary people when the real estate market is down. After all, they are among the few top metropolises in the country, and whether it is educational resources, job opportunities or career advancement channels, they are all sufficient to maintain the high housing prices in these four cities.

“That’s true.” Zhang Manyu nodded dazedly. If she hadn’t been an actress, making money relatively quickly, she would probably be an ordinary person who couldn’t afford to buy a house.

Li Yishu didn’t want to talk about this topic. “Let’s not talk about this anymore. What do you want to talk to me about?”

Zhang Manyu pondered for a moment, picked up the beer can and drank it in one gulp, then said, “I… recently suddenly had a plan.”

“What’s the plan?”

“I don’t want to film anymore. I want to retire.”

“what?!”

Li Yishu was slightly stunned. Zhang Manyu is also going to retire from the film industry?
That’s not right. He remembered that Zhang Manyu later filmed a movie “Sweet Honey” with Li Ming and also participated in the filming of Zhang Yimou’s “Hero”.

“It’s too tiring. It’s been ten years since my debut, and every day I’m either in this crew or that crew, so I decided to take a break. After filming Green Snake last year, I haven’t taken any roles until now. I’ve been resting for more than half a year, and I found that I’ve gradually gotten used to this kind of life…”

Zhang Manyu has many friends in the circle, but ever since she was betrayed by a friend once, she rarely speaks her mind to them, for fear that someone will sell the news to the gossip media.

Although her relationship with Lee Yi-su was not very deep, they had a history together after all. After much thought, Zhang Manyu decided to talk to Lee Yi-su and hear what this new godfather of Asian films had to say.

“This one……”

Li Yishu touched his nose awkwardly. He didn’t know that he had the aura of being a friend to women.

But no matter what, Zhang Manyu came to him because she trusted him.

“Whether to retire from the entertainment industry or not is up to you.”

Li Yishu thought for a moment and said, “You can just take a rest first. When you have rested enough, it won’t be too late to come out and film. You are still young, and taking a two-year rest is still the golden age for an actress.”

Zhang Manyu picked up another bottle of beer, opened the pull ring and started drinking, then sighed heavily: “I’m thirty years old, not young anymore.”

It seems like age anxiety!
Women generally have a certain degree of age anxiety when they reach the age of 30.

Especially for popular stars like Zhang Manyu, their anxiety about age is much stronger than that of normal people. Although they have material wealth that ordinary people do not have, it is precisely because of this extra wealth that they have too much time to think about the issue of age.

To put it simply, he just had too much money to burn. Li Yishu thought for a moment and said comfortingly, “The ancients said that one should be established at the age of thirty. Thirty is just the beginning of life. You haven’t even reached the halfway point of your life yet, so how can you not be considered young?”

“Yeah, it’s just the beginning.”

Zhang Manyu narrowed her eyes slightly, and after a while, she looked at Li Yishu deeply, smiled, then hugged his head with both hands, kissed him mouth to mouth, and started biting him directly.

Li Yishu was stunned at first, but then she reacted and took the initiative.

Zhang Manyu has a pretty appearance, but she is still very wild at heart. She just has been suppressing it and has not been able to release it. Otherwise, she would not have suddenly announced that she would enter the rock industry and become a rock singer after retiring from the screen for a few years.

This is a bit similar to Izumi Sakai, both of them start to go wild after drinking.

It took a whole night.

When Li Yishu got up the next morning, she also made herself a cup of wolfberry water, and then took some Liuwei Dihuang Pills, a specialty of the Chinese medicine store in Baodao.

Although Zhang Manyu seems a bit weak compared to Monica and Gong Li, Li Yishu still deeply understands the importance of taking care of the body. He doesn’t want his body to collapse in a few years.

God has mercy on her and given her a new life, so Li Yishu naturally has to take good care of her waist.

On the lawn in the garden, Li Yishu practiced two sets of Five Animal Exercises taught by Yu Chenghui. After that, she returned to the house and saw Zhang Manyu wearing an apron and walking out of the kitchen with breakfast in her hands.

Zhang Manyu put down the breakfast in her hand and asked curiously, “Do you also know Kung Fu?”

“I don’t know kung fu.” Li Yishu shook her head: “It’s just to exercise my body.”

Zhang Manyu muttered to herself: “No wonder you have such good physical strength…”

“What did you say?”

“Nothing, just go wash your hands and have breakfast. I don’t know what you like to eat, so I just took some frozen dumplings and fried dough sticks from the refrigerator and cooked some porridge.”

“It’s quite rich.”

Li Yishu glanced at the simple breakfast on the table and walked into the kitchen to wash her hands.

When he sat down, Zhang Manyu immediately handed him a bowl of porridge: “Here you go.”

“Thank you.”

Li Yishu took it and caught a glimpse of a few scattered weekly magazines on the table. They should have been bought before. She picked them up and started reading while eating.

Zhang Manyu sat there, her chin supported by her hands, staring at Li Yishu while eating.

Li Yishu was surprised and asked, “What’s wrong? Is there something on my face?”

“No, I just feel that I like this kind of life.” Zhang Manyu smiled slightly. For a moment just now, she felt like she was having breakfast with her husband in the family atmosphere after marriage.

“hey-hey……”

Li Yishu smiled but said nothing. It was not easy to respond to such words. He knew that Zhang Manyu was a little love-sick, otherwise she would not have been cheated out of more than 10 million yuan.

Speaking of which, these female stars in Hong Kong who were active in the 1980s and 1990s all had unsuccessful relationships. They were either cheated of their feelings or their money. Wang Zuxian was cheated of his feelings, Zhang Manyu was cheated of tens of millions, and later, Chen Farong even mistakenly trusted her boyfriend and was cheated of hundreds of millions of savings.

Sometimes I think that it is not without reason that beautiful women are so short-lived. Women who are too beautiful are either surrounded by bootlickers or scumbags.

“Jingle Bell……”

Just then, Li Yishu’s cell phone rang. It was Amy calling, saying that Zou Wenhuai had already made an appointment and asked him when he would be free to come over.

He glanced at the time on his watch and said, “Contact Zou Wenhuai and tell him we’ll be there at 10 o’clock.”

After chatting for a few more words, Li Yishu hung up the phone and saw Zhang Manyu staring at her. She smiled and asked, “Why are you staring at me again?”

“Nothing, I just think you’re awesome.”

Zhang Manyu is from Hong Kong and has lived here since she was a child. She has been working in the industry for ten years and is naturally aware of Zou Wenhuai’s influence in Hong Kong.

No matter how great Lee Yi-su was before, he was just a director, but Zhang Manyu heard a little bit of what he talked about on the phone just now.

The psychological price and the investment in Golden Harvest also made her realize that Li Yishu is not only a director, but also an entertainment tycoon that even Zou Wenhuai has to respect.

“Of course I’m awesome. You knew that last night.”

“Hate!”

Zhang Manyu rolled her eyes at him.

Li Yishu smiled and quickly finished her porridge before saying, “I have something else to do so I’ll leave first. If you’re tired, go upstairs and rest for a while. You don’t have to clean up these. I’ve hired a cleaner and I’ll ask the cleaning lady to take care of it later.”

Zhang Manyu’s smile froze. “No… I won’t rest anymore. I have to go back and pack my luggage to go to Cannes tomorrow.”

“Well, I’ll be leaving first. There’s another car in the garage with the key in it. You drive it first.”

Li Yishu stood up and left.

Unlike Qingxia who has no plans to get married, if Zhang Manyu takes notice of her, she might think of becoming her permanent partner just like Li Jiaxin.

It’s okay to have fun, but forget about dating.

He doesn’t want to be bound by marriage in this life.

Those who are married understand that as long as you have money and ability, you should never think about getting married.

Because getting married means losing a large area of ​​forest.

Who would get married after being reborn?!

Looking at his departing back, Zhang Manyu sighed. The family atmosphere she felt before was only a fleeting feeling after all.

Ten o’clock in the morning.

Golden Harvest Film Company.

After Li Yishu and Amy came over, Ho Kuan Chang, who had just returned from Canada, also smiled and welcomed them to Zou Wenhuai’s office.

Zou Wenhuai smiled and stretched out his hand: “Mr. Li, I heard from Raymond that this film “Rumble in the Bronx” was shot very well, with many big scenes. I wonder when the postscript will be produced. I am looking forward to seeing it.”

After shaking hands with Li Yishu, he smiled and said, “Mr. Zou, the earliest it can be done is early July, but I have asked someone to rush the work and try to finish it before the end of June. Once it’s finished, I will definitely give it to you for your review first.”

“Haha, then I’ll just wait and see.”

Zou Wenhuai laughed heartily.

He learned from Ho Kuan-chang and Jackie Chan that from the perspective of shooting alone, this movie is already a qualified commercial action blockbuster.

With the addition of Li Yishu’s reputation, Zou Wenhuai can already imagine the movie becoming a global hit.

(End of this chapter)