Huayu: I'm reborn, but you still force me to be a scumbag?

Chapter 331 Call the Police
Among the actors of "Under the Hawthorn Tree", not only the male and female protagonists and the director came to Berlin this time.

Three hours before the premiere, Jiang Ruijia, the fourth actress who plays Wei Hong, Liu Yifei's best friend in the play, is putting on makeup in her hotel room.

It was already getting late, and the pink dress she brought from China had been taken out of the box and was spread out on the bed behind her.

The skirt was not high-end, nor was it from a first-tier brand. It was a skirt from a second-tier brand lent to her by a domestic formal wear company.

Even so, the skirt is indeed brand new and it looks great on me.

The pink dress adopts a tube top design, revealing the collarbone and shoulder line.

The skirt is made of lace and soft tulle, and the fishtail hem starts to flare from mid-thigh, which is very figure-flattering.

After trying it on just now, two makeup artists praised it highly, saying that she looked very sweet and cute in it.

The only problem was that the part of her chest that was exposed needed a necklace to decorate it, but the necklace provided by the domestic jewelry company that sponsored her looked a bit...
"Low, too low."

The people doing her makeup now are the two makeup artists that the crew brought from China to Berlin.

One is an old acquaintance, Sister Zhang, who was with the crew when the filming took place, and now she is putting makeup on her.

The man next to him, who was watching with his arms folded, was specially invited for this Berlin Film Festival.

It is said that Zhou Xun, Li Bingbing and others like to look for him when they attend some important occasions. He is the exclusive makeup artist for many big-name female artists in China and is very famous in the industry.

The one who is speaking now is "Brother Lan", who is folding his hands and unconsciously curling his right hand in a orchid finger position.

Lango's voice was a little sharp, which made his words sound even more harsh.

"Luckily you didn't go to the opening ceremony. How could you have gone? Wouldn't it be embarrassing if you had gone?"

"Oh, what are you thinking? Forget about the earrings. Just use your hair to cover it up and try to show your face straight. I think you can get away with it."

"The necklace is so important and so conspicuous, yet you are so careless. Wearing this kind of rubbish around your neck? Do you really think those foreigners are blind?"

"I'm really impressed. Think about it, who will be standing next to you at that time? Will it be Liu Yifei, Director Zhang, or Chen Nuo? You're just going to stand there for a photo with this thing? When I think about it, I feel ashamed for you..."

Jiang Ruijia's pretty face turned red with embarrassment. She twisted her hands together and wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

Fortunately, Sister Zhang kept moving her hands and helped by saying, "You can't blame Xiao Jiang for this. It's mainly because of the tight schedule. I heard that you only knew you were coming to Berlin a few days in advance. Xiao Jiang, am I right? How are you going to find better sponsorship? You can't find any, right?"

Jiang Ruijia said "hmm", feeling very grateful, knowing that Sister Zhang was helping her out.

In fact, she knew she would come to Berlin this time quite early. It is said that when the crew decided to add one more person, they actually hesitated between her and teacher Xi Meijuan, who played Jingqiu's mother.

The reason she was finally chosen was because she had a good relationship with the heroine and they felt they had a lot in common when they were on the crew, which gave her this opportunity.

When Jiang Ruijia heard this, she was really glad that she had deliberately tried to get close to the heroine in the crew. Although the dinner party later failed to take place, it caught the attention of many people.

At this point, for a junior student at Shanghai Theatre Academy, this is definitely a dream start.

In the words of her agent,
"When we get back from the film festival and the movie is released, that's when we'll make a lot of money. You'll be a big star in no time."

However, before making money and becoming famous, being able to find sponsorship is considered good enough, so how could one dare to be picky?

Of course she knew that the necklace was not good. Anyone with eyes could see that although the style looked fancy, in fact most of it was made of low-grade diamonds, and was probably only worth about 100,000 yuan in total.

If not, which merchant would lend her the jewelry if it was really worth millions?
As soon as Sister Zhang interrupted, Brother Lan probably understood the logic, so he stopped talking about it and started to work.

It has to be said that people have high standards for a reason.

Sister Zhang stepped aside and let Brother Lan do the operation for about twenty minutes. Jiang Ruijia looked at the girl in the mirror and saw that her eyebrows were as pretty as a painting and she was sweet and lovely. She could hardly recognize that it was herself.

Brother Lang stood aside and asked, "How is it? Does it look good?"

Jiang Ruijia couldn't help but nodded and said, "It looks good."

Brother Lan laughed and said, "To tell you the truth, I didn't even go to the Spring Festival Gala this time. I came to Berlin with you guys for only one purpose. But in the end, humph, if I had known that I could only do makeup for a little girl like you, I wouldn't have cared."

"Don't look at me like that. Although Director Zhang has a lot of face, it's the time for us to make money during the New Year holidays. You can't blame me if I can't say it."

Indeed, if the two leading actors in the crew had not brought their own makeup artists, Jiang Ruijia knew that with her status, how could she have two makeup artists serving her? If it were another crew, she would be lucky not to be asked to do her own makeup.

"Okay, sit down, I'll fix your hair." Before Brother Lang finished speaking, someone knocked on the door.

Sister Zhang went to open the door. Jiang Ruijia saw her agent grinning, obviously extremely excited. Both ears were red. She said in English, "Plz, please come in."

Behind him were three foreigners in suits, two men and one woman. The two men were each holding a small safe.

At the invitation of her agent, several people filed in, and then her agent pointed at her and said in English: "That's her."

Several people then locked their eyes on Jiang Ruijia's face and looked her up and down.

Jiang Ruijia didn't know what was going on and didn't know where to put her hands.

The foreign woman nodded and spoke a few words in English.

Her agent also answered in English.

The two men walked to the dressing table, moved the things on top to the side, and carefully placed the password box in their hands on it.

Then, the woman went over, covered the combination dial with her hand, and without even looking at it, she quickly pressed it with one finger.

With a "click", the lock opened, the woman opened the box, turned around and made a "please" gesture to Jiang Ruijia.

"Fuck."

Jiang Ruijia heard Brother Lang curse in a rough voice.

She stood there, her legs feeling as heavy as a thousand pounds.

Looking at the glittering jewelry of various colors on the black velvet in the box, she felt completely dazzled.

The small polyhedrons on the jewelry sparkled under the light like a sky full of stars. Compared with her original jewelry, they were like heaven and earth.

Although the woman seemed to ask her to go forward and take a look.

But how could she dare to move before she figured out what was going on?

There is no doubt that she could not afford any of the items in this box even if she sold herself.

Jiang Ruijia cast a confused look at her agent Li Ge who accompanied her to Berlin.

Brother Li said another sentence in English to the foreigners, and then pulled her out of the hotel.

Li Ge seemed to be very excited. Jiang Ruijia had never seen him take a deep breath before speaking before.

"Tonight, in a little while, you and Chen Nuo will walk the red carpet together."

Jiang Ruijia felt a buzzing in her ears and her whole body was shaking.

Brother Li obviously anticipated her reaction and ignored her, continuing, "Yes, we had arranged for you and Director Zhang to go together before, but now they think it's more appropriate for you and Chen Nuo to go together. You will walk on the red carpet in pairs, take photos separately and then come together. I'll tell you the whole process later. You go in and choose the jewelry first."

Jiang Ruijia shook her head to wake herself up, and asked in disbelief, "But why? Why is it arranged like this?"

"Do you think I would ask? Jiajia? When they told me just now, if I asked one more word, it would be irresponsible to you. What if they think we don't want to? I don't care what they think. I would be a fool if I hesitated for a second."

Jiang Ruijia also took a deep breath, nodded, and said, "Brother Li, you are right."

"So go ahead and choose your jewelry."

"Harry Winston?"

"Yes, Harry Winston."

When Chen Nuo walked out of the room, Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping came to find him with a few people.

When Director Zhang saw him for the first time, he laughed and said, "What are we going to do if you come out wearing this Zhongshan suit?"

Chen Nuo also smiled, "It's my first time wearing it, so it's okay huh?"

Zhang Yimou smiled and said, "More than that, you are definitely a real film killer today. Come, let me introduce you, this is from Xinhua News Agency."

After a few pleasantries, Chen Nuo finally understood the purpose of the country's No. 1 news agency's visit.

Originally, I wanted to do a special report on the Hawthorn Tree's winning streak in Berlin. I wanted to interview Zhang Yimou and him in a few days.

After Chen Nuo agreed, he knew that time was running out and the premiere was about to begin, so he didn't stay long.

After everyone left, Zhang Weiping said with a smile: "Nuozi, you are really famous now."

Chen Nuo smiled.

In reality, I didn't feel anything.

According to the Xinhua News Agency, the song he sang on the Spring Festival Gala last night has become quite popular in China.

Not only has "Under the Hawthorn Tree" become completely well-known in China, but Chen Nuo is also showing signs of becoming popular again.

That’s right, it’s becoming popular again.

Because the wave of fans he lost when he officially announced it was no joke. Many screenshots posted by old fans showed that more than half of the fans in some QQ groups that were originally full had left.

If he was an idol singer, this official announcement basically meant that he had fallen from a top-tier singer to a second- or third-tier singer overnight.

Fortunately he is not.

Therefore, even after those crazy fans, fans of his looks, and fans of his girlfriends leave, he can still be a celebrity on the Spring Festival Gala, and many people will still like and reply to his Weibo.

This trend of losing fans was completely reversed after the Spring Festival Gala.

However, this is not a good thing for him.

As an actor, box office appeal is inversely proportional to daily exposure. He had heard Li Er tell him a long time ago.

Because no matter what, being an actor is a job that just sells your face.

He really wants to post all kinds of handsome photos on Weibo all day long, engage in all kinds of marketing hype, strike while the iron is hot, and get as much traffic as possible.

When his movie is released in the future, will he still want to sell movie tickets?
Unless he is Nezha.

Once you become a traffic star, forget about making a living from movies.

Otherwise, no matter how powerful the fans are and how many hundreds of millions are in pre-sales, in the end the company will probably be ranked last.

However, since he thought so, he was not very happy.

But the media doesn't think so.

Seeing him singing a sad song for everyone on the joyous New Year's Eve, people on the Internet are now saying that "his song made half of China cry."

Even though there are almost the same number of people criticizing him as praising him, he is indeed a household name.

But he didn't say anything and flew back to Berlin that day. What's more frightening is that after attending the film festival, he had to go to LA to film a movie.

Once you join the group, you will be isolated from the world.

Under such circumstances, the domestic media really felt like the sky was falling.

It would be a pity for everyone to not be able to benefit from this huge wave of traffic.

So someone actually started making arrangements, contacted the staff at Xinhua News Agency’s Berlin branch, and came to our door.

The country's leading news agency was too embarrassed to say that it was just trying to take advantage of the popularity, so it found a topic to interview a movie that was competing for awards.

However, in the eyes of discerning people, many things are tacitly understood.

"Thanks to you, Nuozi. Now I feel completely relieved."

Zhang Weiping said sincerely, "I only encountered this kind of situation where there was no worry about publicity when I was a hero."

Chen Nuo smiled and said, "To be honest, it has nothing to do with me. It's all about the director's face."

"No matter whose face it is. Once this report from Xinhua News Agency comes out, the influence will definitely be top-notch. Other media will definitely follow up. By then, Nuozi, you can shoot your movie in the United States. Even if you don't have time to come back, our movie will definitely be a big hit this time! I have the confidence now." Zhang Weiping said with a smile.

Chen Nuo smiled and said, "That would be the best."

Zhang Yimou laughed along, but remained silent.

In fact, he feels that it is not just the domestic box office. At the Berlin Film Festival, according to the current situation, as long as what he edits is not a piece of shit, he should win a small award. Now, Zhang Yimou has truly realized the value of the two words "Chen Nuo" in these places abroad.

Not at all like before.

He brought a group of people to participate in the competition abroad. The media came because of his face. He is the leader of the crew. The pressure is really huge.

But this time it's different.

Director Zhang finally realized what it would feel like to have a thigh to hug.

It's so relaxing.

How could he not understand what Roman Polanski understood?

Media hype is not some profound martial arts secret.

The problem is that sometimes you really can’t even afford to invite these foreign media.

It was the same before.

It is not easy to invite one or several influential media, even for him.

But this time, just as Der Spiegel, which is famous throughout Germany and even the world, left, several leading entertainment media in France and the UK followed.

It can be said that as long as they are willing, there are endless interviews to be done in 24 hours a day.

Even if he was Zhang Yimou, he had never fought such a wealthy battle in his life.

Zhang Yimou now really feels that as long as his movie passes this time, it won’t be criticized as a piece of shit by those tricky film critics and judges.

This time it really happened.

But will it be a piece of shit?

Zhang Yimou suppressed his anxiety and said with a smile, "Okay, it's almost time, the car will be here soon, let's get ready and go."

When Chen Nuo got into the courtesy car that came to pick them up at the film festival, Jiang Ruijia was already sitting inside.

After sitting in the car, Chen Nuo looked at the girl sitting opposite him. Seeing her nervous face, he couldn't help but make a joke, "How about me, do I look handsome today?"

Jiang Ruijia nodded vigorously and said, "Handsome."

She didn't lie.

Jiang Ruijia had never seen anyone who could wear such old-fashioned clothes so fashionably and beautifully.

He was wearing a neat new Chinese-style Zhongshan suit with a crisp stand-up collar that fitted his slender neck and sharp jawline, making his facial features so three-dimensional and profound.

It will definitely leave a deep impression on any girl.

However, the reason why Jiang Ruijia almost held her breath the moment he got into the car was not because he was handsome.

It’s because of the two words “Chen Nuo”.

She also heard some news from home today.

She knew that as long as she returned to China and exaggerated what happened today when she and Chen Nuo were in the same car, she would definitely be on the front page of major news websites.

Even if they are just talking some useless nonsense, there will definitely be a lot of people who want to listen to what Chen Nuo is talking about.

What's more, the million-dollar diamond necklace on her neck can be worn for free because of this name.

How could she not feel very uncomfortable sitting in front of him?

Hearing Jiang Ruijia's praise, Chen Nuo laughed and said, "Thank you."

After saying this, he saw that Jiang Ruijia was still nervous, so he didn't say anything more.

It’s more or less like this when you attend a film festival for the first time.

When he walked the red carpet with Emma Stone, she was so nervous that she had a stomachache. He was similar, just walking with his head down, wishing he could walk the entire red carpet area in two steps.

Zhang Yimou arranged for himself to guide the newcomers, so he should give them some time to calm down.

The reason why he wanted to go with Jiang Ruijia instead of Liu Yifei was simply to let him lead her like a friend.

Actually, there are two more.

The first reason is that their movie is being shown in Berlin this time, and there will be a red carpet in addition to today.

Starting this year, the Berlin Film Festival has established a new segment called "Films in the Community" in order to expand its local influence and coverage in Berlin.

That is to say, after the premiere, some highly popular movies will be taken to cinemas in various areas of Berlin and screened for the general public.

Today, Zhang Yimou and his team received a notice that their film has been included in this list.

It will be released in a cinema in a certain district of Berlin in a few days, and I would like to ask them to go and meet the audience then.

So in order to look a little different on the red carpet, we made this arrangement.

This is one of the obvious reasons.

The second reason was told to him by Qi Yuntian.

It is said that a staff member said that Zhang Weiping felt that if he and Liu Yifei walked the red carpet together with Zhang Yimou and Jiang Ruijia, the picture would not be balanced. That is why he made such an arrangement.

Chen Nuo didn't understand what was unbalanced.

But he really didn't care. He felt it was good even if he was with Director Zhang.

The hotel where they stayed was not far from the venue of the premiere, the Marlene Dietrich Square Film Palace in Berlin's Tiergarten district, and it only took them more than ten minutes to get there.

Jiang Ruijia even felt like it was just a moment. She had just thought of the topic, but the car had already stopped.

She arrived in Berlin after the opening ceremony, and this was her first film festival.

Everything that happened next was crazy to Jiang Ruijia.

Before this, she had never been to any other film festivals. She had only felt the enthusiasm of places like Cannes and Venice from entertainment news and red carpet photos of Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, Fan Binbing and others.

Only then did she realize that the real scene was ten thousand times more lively than she had imagined.

There were so many photographers holding cameras in one place. They lined up on both sides of the red carpet, standing on stools. There were five rows from low to high. Both sides of the red carpet, which was more than 50 meters long, were full of photographers holding cameras.

The lenses in their hands were like the compound eyes of insects, densely packed and countless, so many that her trypophobia almost started to set in.

If there wasn't someone beside her to help her walk forward, she would have made a fool of herself with her weak legs.

In fact, not to mention Jiang Ruijia, even Chen Nuo didn't expect that there would be so many photographers today.

I don’t know if it’s because the venue in Berlin is bigger or for some other reason, but the scale of the event is comparable to that of the Oscars.

"Chen, look here."

"Chen, tell your girlfriend to smile."

"Look here, Chen, you look very handsome today."

"I like your Chinese-style clothes. Give me a side view, thank you."

"Chen, look here, give me a Twilight Vision, please?"

"Put your arm around your girlfriend's waist, Chan. She's adorable."

Chaotic noises came from both sides of the red carpet. Chen Nuo was too lazy to care what these face-blind photographers were saying. After taking pictures with Jiang Ruijia for a while, he met up with Zhang Yimou and Liu Yifei.

Without noticing, Liu Yifei ran to his other side. While changing poses for the photo, she whispered to him, "Are you hiding from me?"

Chen Nuo almost wanted to laugh, "Me? Hiding from you?"

"Yes, otherwise why would you go and walk the red carpet with Jia Jia?"

"That was arranged by the director."

"Really? I thought you were scared."

Damn it. Chen Nuo couldn't help but turn his head and look at Liu Yifei, saying: "What did you say? I'm afraid of you?"

Liu Yifei turned her head and looked at him, as if she had let out all the resentment she had been holding back for hours: "Why are you so fierce? Why are you so fierce to me? Why did you want to walk the red carpet with Jia Jia? Tell me, why?"

At this moment, countless flashes of light lit up.

Many photographers started shouting.

"Wow, that's so sweet."

"Chen, this is your girlfriend, right?"

"It can be seen that you have a good relationship."

"Can I kiss her?"

"How about a kiss?"

At this time, what Zhang Weiping was worried about happened.

When Chen Nuo and Liu Yifei were smiling and flirting with each other, even if Zhang Yimou was smiling like an old chrysanthemum beside them, the whole picture was not quite balanced.

The five rows of cameras in front and behind all deviated, and the sounds of shutter clicks almost formed a line, leaving Jiang Ruijia dumbfounded.

She originally thought that it was exaggerated enough before, but at this moment she realized that it was really exaggerated.

"Excuse me, what were you talking about just now? It seemed very interesting."

After taking the photos, when being interviewed by local German and some international media reporters in the interview area, the reporter from "Silver Screen" asked curiously.

"Oh, she was asking me how she looked today."

"Then what did you say?"

"He said it wasn't very good."

The reporter asked: "Haha, are you angry?"

"of course not."

"I was just kidding, we always joke like that."

After saying this, Chen Nuo and Liu Yifei smiled at each other, as if it were real.

The reporter from Silver Screen asked again, "Chen, when Leon Ledo came with Martin Scorsese just now, he said he was optimistic about you winning the Berlin Silver Bear for the second time. What do you think?"

Chen Nuo said: "Thank you, thank him. I hope he will say the same thing after watching the movie."

"And Roman Polanski, he's here too."

"Really? Then I guess I'll have to call the police."

"Hahahahaha."

The reporters all laughed when they heard this.

Everyone thought Chen Nuo was joking, but in fact he was not.

He actually pulled out a phone from his pocket and made a call in front of a crowd of reporters and photographers.

"Hello, LAPD? I saw a juvenile sexual predator."

……

after awhile.

After the photo shoot, when several people walked towards the movie palace together, Liu Yifei forgot about being angry and asked curiously: "Chen Nuo, you didn't really call the LAPD, did you? You were acting, right?"

Chen Nuo said coldly: "Why am I acting? Shouldn't I call the police if I see a criminal?"

(End of this chapter)