Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 723 Why do you tell everyone everything?
After filming wrapped up that night, in Liu Yifei's room at the Mulan film crew's hotel.

"You bastard, I've been filming for three months and you only come to see me now." Only after they've been intimate will she say that she wants to blame Li Qiutang for taking three months to visit the set.

"Busy." Li Qiutang tightened his embrace around his wife. "I'm here now, aren't you satisfied?" He wasn't sure if he meant he was visiting the set or his performance earlier.

"You look terrible." Clearly, Liu Yifei was thinking about her husband's behavior just now.

The two cuddled together, chatting about random things, sometimes about family matters, sometimes about intimate conversations, and sometimes about industry gossip.

After resting, Liu Yifei tormented her husband again.

The crew's intense action training enhanced her endurance and strength, and even though Li Qiutang was exceptionally talented, she was almost no match for him.

“What 33-year-old man still works so hard to serve his wife?” Li Qiutang took a sip of water. “Normally, I should be chatting with you about astronomy, geography, history, and literature at this time.”

"I didn't stop you from talking. You can talk all you want, but when you're done, you still have to hand it over to me."

"Where did you learn these hooligan words from? Shu Chang taught you, didn't she? Don't hang out with Shu Chang anymore."

Liu Yifei playfully hit him and laughed, "I'm the one who's married, so logically I'm the one who's experienced."

"Okay, you've even learned the term 'old driver'." Li Qiutang knew that Liu Yifei rarely went online and didn't know many trendy internet slang terms.

Liu Yifei was a little shy, but when she thought about how she was a married woman and an experienced woman, she brazenly said, "I know a lot of things."

"What else do you know?"

"I also know that Yang Mi is pregnant, you didn't know that, did you?"

Li Qiutang genuinely had no idea: "Pregnant?" Then, out of nowhere, he asked, "Whose?"

"Hey!"

"I'm sorry." Li Qiutang realized she had spoken offensively. "Didn't you say that the couple's relationship was bad and they were going to get a divorce? How come you're pregnant now?" Anyway, every year there are people on Weibo saying that the two of them are going to get a divorce. Another actress born in the 85s even has a dedicated Weibo account that posts about their divorce every day.

"They've made up, that's how couples are, they always make up after a fight." Liu Yifei was genuinely happy for Yang Mi that her best friend was pregnant.

Li Qiutang then asked, "And what about her now?"

"Still filming in Shanghai."

"She's really going all out." It has to be Yang Mi; Uncle Liu can really trust her.

Liu Yifei revealed another piece of gossip: "Actually, Yang Mi's pregnancy was unplanned. She didn't expect to get pregnant, but she had to keep filming because of work commitments. She said that filming on set was very difficult."

"She even told you this?"

"We talk about everything."

"So you're going to tell her about our situation too?"

"No way, I'm not that naive." Liu Yifei is not the type of person who would proactively talk about her private life with others.

But she hesitated and said, "However, since they've told me so much, I should also talk about our family matters."

"What did you say?" Li Qiutang felt that this woman had probably rambled on quite a bit.

"It's just a small matter." But from Liu Yifei's evasive eyes, Li Qiutang could tell that it was definitely not a small matter. Seeing that her husband didn't believe her, Liu Yifei said, "It really is just a small matter."

"You know Shu Chang, she's incredibly audacious and will do anything. Once she even talked about her boyfriend's abilities."

Li Qiutang's eyes widened. Girls always talk about this!

“I promise I didn’t say a bad word about you,” Liu Yifei immediately swore. “I praised you to the skies, saying that you always lasted at least half an hour, and that we were very harmonious.”

"And what about her?" Li Qiutang actually inquired about Shu Chang. "I can't tell you that, it's none of your business."

Li Qiutang objected: "She listened to me, so why can't I listen to her?"

After thinking for a moment, Liu Yifei decided to reveal something to her husband: "Shu Chang has had several boyfriends, but according to her, none of them are very good. The last one, the finance guy, was caught by Shu Chang secretly taking medicine in the bathroom on their first night together. He even lied to Shu Chang, saying it was for treating his rhinitis."

"Shu Chang, I'm telling you this too!"

"I don't know anything about her," Liu Yifei said. "Okay, I've told you everything. You're the most capable boyfriend among all the girls in our circle. Are you satisfied now?"

Li Qiutang immediately retorted, "You women are so boring, comparing yourselves to your boyfriends. We men don't talk about our girlfriends when we get together."

"Then who are you talking about?"

"Everyone's talking about other people's girlfriends."

Liu Yifei: ???

After chatting for a while, the two washed up and then went into the water together.

The next day, Liu Yifei got up early to start work, and said little else.

Li Qiutang didn't go with the film crew; he came to Qingdao to take care of some business.

A representative from Wanda Films made a special trip to Qingdao to meet with Li Qiutang to discuss the film "The Love Saint 2".

The phenomenal success of "The Love Saint" at the box office, grossing 6 million yuan, was truly unexpected—even the company hadn't anticipated such a hit. This allowed co-producer Wanda to make a fortune, and they subsequently urged Qiu Tian to make a sequel. However, the company had no plans for a sequel, so Wanda seized the opportunity to obtain authorization from Qiu Tian and develop the sequel film themselves. Qiu Tian contributed the copyright as a third-party producer, and the second-party producer was New Classics Media, which Wanda had personally approached.

Filming for the movie has already begun and is currently underway.

A movie like "The Love Saint 2" was never even presented to Li Qiutang. Li Qiutang didn't even know that Wan Da had taken over the sequel.

But he had some impression of the movie.

Who did you choose for the male lead?

"Wu Xiubo, Uncle Bo. We finally managed to snag his slot." He's a top star in the "uncle" circle, and the first one to have a limited availability, so securing his slot is definitely a must.

Li Qiutang didn't say anything. Since the project had already been handed over, he couldn't stop Wan Da from making that choice, and he figured Wan Da wouldn't listen to him anyway.

Wanda has indeed encountered significant problems recently, facing substantial liquidity pressure. However, this pressure has not yet affected the film and television sector, so it's worth making investments.

They even want to expand their investment, participate in more of Qiu Tian's films, and invite Qiu Tian to participate in their own projects.

However, the conversation eventually comes back to a movie – "Mojin: The Lost Legend 2".

Wan Da hasn't given up on "Mojin: The Lost Legend 2" yet and still wants Li Qiutang to direct it.

"The Wandering Earth" has finished filming, so Li Qiutang should have some free time now.

Not to mention Liu Yifei is now a Cannes Best Actress winner. If the original cast returns, it would be hard for this movie not to be a hit.

Li Qiutang recounted an incident: "I recently went to Jiangxi Province and had dinner with a leader from their cultural and tourism department. He asked me if a movie like 'Mojin: The Lost Legend' could be filmed in Jiangxi, since it's a major center of feng shui and has a Taoist ancestral home, making it very suitable for this kind of subject matter. I said, 'Isn't it forbidden to film tomb raiding?' He said that wasn't the case, and that as long as some sensitive elements were handled properly, it could still be filmed as an action-adventure film, and the local area would welcome it because this kind of subject matter easily boosts local tourism. After our first film was released, didn't the number of tourists at the grassland filming locations increase?"

Wan Da, emulating the culture of Yanjing, set a budget of 10 billion yuan for the movie "Mojin: The Lost Legend 2", leaving Li Qiutang to do whatever he wanted.

But Li Qiutang really doesn't have the time, energy, or interest to film "Mojin: The Lost Legend 2" again. Besides, even he might not be able to reunite the original cast of "Mojin: The Lost Legend".

First, it's difficult to schedule everyone's time; second, it's difficult to write everyone's roles.

"Forget it, you guys do it yourselves. With the first part as a foundation, you can just follow the steps in the second part, it shouldn't be bad." Li Qiutang finally refused Wan Da's offer.

(End of this chapter)