Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 418 Oh, Little Rich Woman

Li Qiutang finished filming at 7:20 a.m. the next morning.

After a busy night, Li Qiutang took out eye drops to put them on, but Liu Yifei said, "Let me do it." She then took the eye drops from Li Qiutang's hand.

"You've been busy all night, go back to sleep," Li Qiutang said.

"You're the same way. You went out to meetings during the day. Don't move, or you'll misalign your eye drops." Liu Yifei applied the eye drops to Li Qiutang's eyes and gently blew on them. "How is it?"

"Alright." Li Qiutang blinked. "You should go back now. I still have a lot of things to do here." He needed to hold a short debriefing meeting after work.

The all-night shoot didn't finish filming this scene.

The actors left the set, but Li Qiutang was still in the studio. At that moment, the QC supervisor's voice came through the intercom: "Director, two takes today are not up to standard and need to be reshot."

Li Qiutang sighed, picked up the walkie-talkie, and said, "Okay, I'll take another look later."

QC (Quality Control) adjustment is for this purpose: to promptly check the quality of materials and provide feedback to Li Qiutang.

The people filming Li Qiutang were not only the documentary photographers from the film crew, but also the iQiyi "Intern Ghost Blows Out the Light" program team and those young interns.

"Director, aren't you tired?" Huang Cancan handed Li Qiutang a cup of hot coffee.

"Are you alright? Are you tired? If you are, go back and rest." Li Qiutang took her coffee and went outside for some fresh air.

Seeing several staff members smoking outside, he said, "Don't smoke in the park. What if you set something on fire?"

The photographer of "The Intern Ghost Blows Out the Light" and Huang Cancan followed Li Qiutang for a walk outside. Li Qiutang then returned to the office building's conference room to wait for the debriefing meeting.

Huang Cancan said to the camera, "The director has a lot of energy. I heard that he had meetings all day yesterday, then stayed up all night, and now he has to go to another meeting. He has been working for 24 hours straight. I can't keep up."

Huang Cancan and Liu Chao, the two interns from "The Intern Ghost Blows Out the Light," participated in the crew's debriefing meeting as bystanders. Li Qiutang led the 40-minute debriefing meeting, and when it ended, she said to the "The Intern Ghost Blows Out the Light" camera: "You guys have been filming all day, aren't you tired? I'm going back to sleep."

But he didn't actually go back to sleep; he went to the QC tent to check the materials that didn't meet the standards.

Under the lens of the "Intern Ghost Blows Out the Light" program team, Li Qiutang appeared to have an iron body and didn't seem to get tired at all.

The cinematographer of "The Intern Ghost Blows Out the Light" filmed some scenes of Li Qiutang reviewing the footage and then turned off the camera, saying to him, "Director, you're working too hard, I can't take it anymore."

Li Qiutang smiled and said, "If you can't hold on any longer, go back and rest. I'll be done soon too."

After reviewing the materials at QC, Li Qiutang went back to rest. He didn't disturb Liu Yifei, but instead went to Kerry Apartments, which he hadn't visited in a long time, to rest.

After Liu Yifei had finished sleeping, she called to ask where he was. Li Qiutang said he was on his way to a meeting with the leaders of Xidu and would turn on his phone on time in the afternoon, so it wouldn't be a problem.

This movie theme park in Harbin will likely be Changchun Film Studio's biggest and most important project over the next decade.

The importance attached to this by the Xidu government and Changchun Film Studio goes without saying; otherwise, they wouldn't have asked Li Qiutang to help them gain support.

Li Qiutang was willing to help his fellow villagers, but he also had firsthand experience with the principle that investments should not cross the Shanhaiguan Pass.

None of his 10 cinemas are located in Northeast China.

Today, we had a small meeting behind closed doors. A deputy director from Xidu jokingly said that he hoped Li Qiutang could "support the development of his hometown. You know so many investors from making movies, so you can introduce us to them if necessary."

That's considered good; at least they can laugh it off and cover it up.

A local ministry leader actually publicly demanded that Li Qiutang contribute money at the meeting: "It's no problem for you to contribute 300 or 500 million yuan. The people back home will also remember your kindness."

What's the difference between this and open robbery? Li Qiutang didn't say anything, but she was already very uncomfortable. She complained to her superiors about being poor: "Making movies isn't as profitable as you think." After the meeting, someone approached Li Qiutang, hoping that she could introduce some coal mine owners to invest in this movie theme park.

On her way back to the film set, Li Qiutang cursed inwardly that some people were overstepping their bounds.

Not only did Li Qiutang lose everything, but she also wanted to drag Qiu Tian and her money bag into it.

As internet capital entered the film and television industry, coal bosses gradually withdrew from the scene. However, Qiutian has maintained a very friendly and close cooperative relationship with the coal bosses, and has also brought substantial returns to its investors.

Therefore, Li Qiutang absolutely will not allow anyone to put their hands in her pockets.

Being watched is a very unpleasant feeling, so Li Qiutang had a particularly sour face on set today.

Even when he spoke to Liu Yifei, his words were laced with barbs.

"Of the three, you have the most experience in action films. How can you expect to convince everyone with this performance? Was all your three months of training for nothing?"

Based on Liu Yifei's understanding of him, she knew that Li Qiutang must have encountered something very unpleasant during the day, otherwise he wouldn't have given others such a cold shoulder.

So she didn't argue with Li Qiutang, and she accepted whatever Li Qiutang said to her.

This also sent a signal to the crew: don't mess with him, because the director even dares to scold his wife, with whom he shares a bed, on set.

Li Qiutang's grumpy face and bad temper intimidated the crew, and today's filming efficiency was actually higher than yesterday's.

We started work at 3:30 pm and finished before 2 am.

Li Qiutang returned to her room. Liu Yifei had just finished showering and was still awake.

"Why aren't you sleeping yet?"

"Did something happen to you today?" Liu Yifei asked.

Li Qiutang didn't mean to hide it from her, but there was no point in telling her: "It's nothing, you should go to sleep."

“How can I sleep if you’re keeping something on your mind? Take a shower first, and we’ll talk after you’re done.” Liu Yifei still hoped that Li Qiutang would tell her everything.

After Li Qiutang finished showering, Liu Yifei made him a cup of hot milk. The two leaned against the headboard, Liu Yifei nestled in his arms, and Li Qiutang told her about what had happened that day.

Liu Yifei doesn't care about money, but she knows that 300 to 500 million is not a small amount for anyone. Although she is also unhappy about being asked for money like this, she thinks simply: "If he wants money, then give him money. Let's just consider it a loss to avoid disaster, and I won't get involved in this kind of thing again."

"If you can't come up with that much money right away, I have some more. You can take it and use it first."

Li Qiutang laughed: "Oh, little rich girl, how much money could you possibly have?"

"I can come up with three or five hundred million."

"Hmm?" As long as Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli didn't make any reckless investments, Li Qiutang usually didn't ask about their finances. But she didn't expect Liu Yifei to be so rich. "Being an actor is so lucrative. I can't come up with three or five hundred million all at once."

"Now I've really become a gigolo, living in your house, having your mom cook for me, and you're still so rich."

"Why do all your words sound so awful? Do you need anything? If you need money, just tell me."

“This isn’t about paying money to avoid trouble. Now that you’ve paid and boarded the ship, it won’t be so easy to get off. Fortunately, this matter has only been discussed in a small meeting, and I haven’t actually been asked to pay any money yet. This project will take at least two or three years to get started, so we have plenty of time to maneuver.”

Li Qiutang yawned: "Go to sleep, we have to get up early again tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)