Chapter 453: Star
Yu Linna stayed at a hotel in Hong Kong. She looked at the sea view outside the window and thought about many things, but in the end, she still decided to give up thinking and enjoy her vacation properly.
After talking with Lan Ranyan that day, she had chosen to continue traveling with An Xiayue. Every night, she would find some time to write something and also to think about her script work. She was very busy. Even during her vacation, she had not forgotten her main profession.
“You’re working so hard all for her, right?”
Yu Xiayue walked over, gently hugged her, and said.
Yu Linna didn’t resist at all. She nodded.
“If I do this, she will be able to get out of it. For me, that’s a good thing.”
“It’s very hard to do this.”
“I have no extravagant hopes for a reward.”
“The power of love is truly great.”
Yu Xiayue smiled and let go of her.
She lifted her face and held her shoulders.
“Nana, although work is important, you should also relax occasionally. If you’re always so tense, it’s not good for you at all. Your girlfriend is also too inconsiderate. Today, let’s just the two of us sisters have a good time.”
“But I still want to…”
“Stop thinking about work all the time. Let’s go, let’s go and play.”
Yu Xiayue pulled Yu Linna out to play, not caring about her opinion at all.
When she was with Yu Linna, she always felt very happy. Why was that? They clearly didn’t know each other before, but she always felt that she was not a stranger to her, as if there was a natural attraction.
When she held her hand, she would occasionally recall some things from the past, those memories that had already been forgotten, which always made her feel very nostalgic. But those were all things of the past.
…
Ye Zhiyun’s company was still not out of trouble and was still struggling hard. But at this time, they were also thinking about how to get out of their current predicament. Dai Wenqian had spoken about this matter many times in company meetings.
“Now we need a lot of talent. We’ve just started, and we have nothing. What we need now is talent. I propose to promote talent and make an exception for promotions. Does anyone have any talent they want to promote?”
As a founder of the company, Dai Wenqian had already said so much. The other shareholders certainly couldn’t say anything more. What they needed now was more talent, to create glory for the company and to make achievements. For now, the conventional methods would certainly not work. They needed to make an exception and promote some talent, otherwise the company would be finished.
“What do you guys think of Wen Yajun?”
Ye Zhiyun said.
Wen Yajun was a new screenwriter that the company had just recruited. She was not yet an official one. Although she had experience writing scripts, to put her in the position of an official screenwriter and to be the screenwriter of a film was clearly a huge risk. This person had insufficient experience, and her strength was not easy to estimate. No one could guarantee what she could bring to the company. But today was an opportunity to make an exception and promote some people with no qualifications. Everyone also knew that it was impossible to use a conventional perspective here.
“She showed me a new script she had written yesterday. It’s a TV series script, and it’s even better than the script she showed me during the interview before. I think it’s not bad. I want to try to make it into a TV series. Everyone can take a look.”
With that, Ye Zhiyun took out the script and showed it to the shareholders. Everyone also tried to take a look. This script was called Love Has No Distance. It was a pure love story, with only the story of the first three episodes. But after reading it, they were itchy. This feeling was hard to describe, as if they were reading a book by Shion-sensei.
“This is indeed not bad…”
“But to promote her rashly, I still feel it’s not appropriate. How about we train her first…”
“But think about it. Before, when Shion-sensei was invited to write a script, at that time, she had never touched a script before, but she still wrote it.”
“The situation is different! When Shion-sensei was writing a script, it was mostly a low-budget TV series. We can’t afford to fail now. If we fail once, we’ll be finished.”
Everyone had been arguing for a long time, thinking for a long time. But Ye Zhiyun’s attitude was firm. She stated her position with an attitude that could not be refused, made an exception and promoted her, letting Wen Yajun become their company’s screenwriter, and also put the TV series Love Has No Distance on the agenda, considering the matter of setting up a project and filming. They had finally ended the days of filming commercials and doing commercial activities, and were officially preparing for the filming work. Ye Zhiyun was still the director.
After the decision was made, Ye Zhiyun drank her coffee. She didn’t know when the turning point would come. It would be great if the company could get better. She wanted to get out of her predicament as soon as possible. She still didn’t want to go home with the fruit of failure so soon. Even if she had to go home, she also wanted to go back with achievements. In the eyes of outsiders, she was very happy, starting a business with the money her father had given her, with no worries at all. But only those who had experienced it themselves knew that their entrepreneurial path was not easy. Even the rich second generation had to experience risks and pain when starting a business. If there really was the word “easy” in this world, that would be great.
“Zhiyun, you’re alone again. You don’t even call me when you’re drinking coffee now?”
“Wenqian… tell me, are we doing the right thing now?”
“We’ve already come this far. Are you still afraid of failure? This is not like you, Zhiyun.”
“Actually, it’s not that I’m not afraid. I just don’t dare to show it. Wenqian… I don’t want to fail. I want to win.”
Dai Wenqian sighed, put down her coffee cup, and gently hugged her.
“Don’t worry. I’m also afraid, but it will get better. Didn’t we agree on the day we came out? If we’re going to do it, we’ll do it to the best of our ability.”
When the two of them had decided to start a business, they had given up everything in their hands, had dropped out of school, and had given up the happiness they could have enjoyed at this age. They had chosen to suffer, but they did not regret it.
Their company had improved recently. Besides the newly joined screenwriter, there were also a few newcomers who had come for an interview, and it was gradually getting better.
Ye Zhiyun believed that they would get better. After the company’s matter was over, she would find a time to have a good talk with Nana. They would surely be able to go back to the way things were before.
…
Yu Linna would occasionally pay attention to Ye Zhiyun’s situation. She would pay attention to her on Weibo and in the news, and occasionally she would see Ye Zhiyun’s company in the news. For Ye Zhiyun, it was unknown whether it was a good thing or a bad thing. It was said that besides being busy with a TV series, Ye Zhiyun had also thought of making a movie.
Yu Linna had stayed up for several days and nights and had produced a movie script, which she had sent to Wen Yajun. After Wen Yajun had received this script, she had said that although it was just a first draft, it was not hard to see that it was a good story. She would take it back and revise it again.
As a price, Yu Linna’s dark circles were very obvious.
“Are you alright? You look particularly tired.”
Yu Xiayue patted her head, checked her forehead. It didn’t seem to be a big problem, just that she had stayed up for a long time, and her dark circles were too obvious. They had originally planned to go out and play, but as a result, Yu Linna had stayed in the hotel for a long time, and the travel plans had also been ruined.
“I’m sorry, Sister Yue. It’s my fault. Ahem… I’m a little tired.”
“You should rest well. I’m fine. Tell me when you wake up.”
Yu Xiayue could only comfort her like this. In such a fun place as Hong Kong, there was actually no one to accompany her. There was no helping it. Yu Xiayue had no choice but to go and play by herself. But before she left, she had returned to her own room and had had a video call with her old mom.
“Mom, you’re back in America now. How is it over there?”
“It’s still night here. Are you in such a hurry to see me? Yueyue, after the New Year, you haven’t been fooling around, have you? Work is still very important.”
Catherine said with a laugh on the other end of the phone.
“I’m very diligent! Mom, don’t look at me like that. You have to believe me.”
“Alright, alright. By the way, aren’t you in Hong Kong now? Who are you with?”
“With a friend. She is… a novelist. She’s quite famous in China. She’s a girl.”
“A novelist? I have very few novelists in my circle of friends. I rarely pay attention to these things. I also rarely read Chinese novels. I’m not very familiar with them.”
“Her pen name is Shion. By the way, she is also a scriptwriter. She can write very amazing scripts.”
“So talented, this friend of yours~ By the way, Yueyue, congratulations. You’ve filmed a very good movie this time. You’ve already become a box office champion. You can even see your news in America.”
“Really?”
This was indeed a fact.
The box office of Black Wolf was very high, and it had already exceeded four billion now, and was now heading towards the goal of five billion. In comparison, the box office of Soaring was only 2.6 billion, and the final box office was estimated to be unable to exceed three billion. This movie, which had been favored for the Spring Festival, had actually suffered a Waterloo. And that was not the worst. The other movies in the same period had become cannon fodder even more. Those that could exceed a hundred million were the cream of the crop among the cannon fodder. There were even some movies starring young fresh meat that, because their box office had been snatched away by Black Wolf, their box office had become lower and lower. The fans had locked the theaters, causing great trouble for the cinema staff, and had even made the news. The brainless fans’ behavior of the young fresh meat had received a lot of dissatisfaction, and it had caused a huge uproar online. The young fresh meat had suffered the lowest evaluation in history.
And the box office of Black Wolf had exceeded four billion, which was equivalent to six hundred million US dollars, and it was also the box office obtained in a single film market. This box office record had attracted the attention of Hollywood and had also shocked them. To have a single market box office exceed six hundred million US dollars, besides the United States, it had not appeared before. When a single market box office record appeared in China, the world was shocked. It was also at this time that Hollywood had discovered that the Chinese film market had developed to this extent and had become a film market second only to the United States.
And An Xiayue had also returned to the Hollywood news as she had wished, attracting their attention. Some film producers had started to have ideas about An Xiayue, but it was still under discussion. In any case, An Xiayue had made the right move this time. She had used the mainland market as a springboard to attract the attention of Hollywood. She believed that one day she would return to Hollywood.
“It’s like a dream. It’s so great! Mom, one day I will go back.”
“But before that, you should handle your domestic affairs well first. We won’t be going back for a while. You have to work hard on your own over there.”
“No problem. You can just believe me.”
Yu Xiayue said with a firm guarantee. Her story had just begun.
