1982 Started from Hong Kong

Chapter 391 Happy and Proud
"I thought you wouldn't come until tomorrow, Mr. Zhai, and I was just about to go back to the studio."

After Xu Qi finished calling Zhai Yuan, he didn't expect that this lazy boss would come to the company after work.

He had originally planned to return to New Vision to continue studying dinosaur models, and asked Li Zhi to come for an audition tomorrow morning.

Seeing Zhai Yuan coming towards him, he hurriedly stopped to say hello.

"It's okay, go your way."

Zhai Yuan waved casually at Old Monster Xu, glanced at Li Zhi, and said with a smile, "Hello, Miss Li."

Then he added in Mandarin: "You can speak Mandarin to me. How about that? My Mandarin is pretty good, right?"

This sentence alone is far superior to Jet Li's previous way of speaking a mixture of Mandarin and Cantonese, pretending to be a Hong Konger.

Admittedly, being a Hong Konger still has some advantages these days.

But Brother Jie was tempted by her beauty and obviously had not made sufficient preparations in advance. He did not know that Lizhi, like him, came to Hong Kong from the mainland to make a living. She had long been ostracized because of her accent and now she had reached the point where she would rather not speak.

He is nothing like Zhai Yuan, a warm man, who always respects women, is considerate and caring about others.

"Mr. Zhai speaks Mandarin very well."

Li Zhi's eyes lit up slightly, and she looked at the famous child prodigy Yuan with curiosity.

His Mandarin is indeed very standard.

He is not like other men who deliberately learn some strange mainland accents in order to tease and humiliate themselves.

For example, there was a producer who pretended not to be good at Mandarin but insisted on speaking it. He once asked maliciously at a dinner party:
"Ms. Li, how was your dinner tonight? Was it so good that it made you drool?"

At that time, she thought the other person spoke poor Mandarin and pronounced "shao shui" as "hai shui" by mistake. She didn't dare to correct him and just stupidly said:
"Yes, a lot."

The whole table burst into laughter.

Lizhi later found out that the grandson grew up in Taiwan and indeed did not speak Mandarin, but his Chinese proficiency was very good.

When I learned the meaning of "Hi Shui", the only two words in my mind were from my hometown dialect.

Book that!

"Speaking Mandarin in Hong Kong is so unfashionable!"

Jet Li took the opportunity to speak and patted Zhai Yuan on the shoulder: "A Yuan, please don't make things difficult for Miss Li, haha!"

Lizhi's eyelids twitched slightly. She took a deep breath to calm herself down and continued to smile.

With every breath, the low-necked sweater that she had prepared for the interview fluttered, and the mountains on her chest became more upright.

Zhai Yuan smoothly looked away and glanced at the Kung Fu Emperor with a strange look.

Brother Jie is humorous and really good at chatting.

"Brother Jie, go home early after work."

Zhai Yuan kindly reminded him, his tone sincere: "You just got married to Senior Sister Huang. You should spend more time with your wife during the honeymoon. When do you plan to have a child?"

Senior Sister Huang is naturally Huang Qiuyan.

The two got married in June this year and held their wedding in the mainland. They also set up several tables of banquets when they returned to Hong Kong. It happened that "Royal Sister" was released not long ago. Huang Qiuyan was also Jet Li's senior sister in martial arts school, so everyone also started to call Huang Qiuyan "senior sister".

Jet Li's smile froze, he glanced at Li Zhi and hesitantly said, "I'm still considering it."

Zhai Yuan advised, as if he was thinking of his friend: "Don't think about it! You've been injured all over your body while filming the action scenes, especially your waist and legs. If you don't speed up, you'll be powerless in the future."

Li Zhi looked at Jet Li in surprise, and her eyes unconsciously swept over his lower body.

"You're talking nonsense. I'm in good health..."

Li Lianjie's face instantly turned red with embarrassment, and he argued with his neck stiff. Zhai Yuan smiled kindly: "Yes, yes, go back to accompany your wife, do you want to give you a holiday to rest for a few days?"

Jet Li shook his head, seeming to hesitate to speak.

What else can I say? The road is blocked!

Although Mr. Zhai has good intentions, he is young and outspoken, and does not understand the ways of the world...

Jet Li sighed secretly.

He took one last look at Lizhi, suppressed the pounding thoughts in his heart, turned around and left dejectedly.

Zhai Yuan glanced at his back and curled his lips.

In a parallel universe, in Jie Ge's own words, he fell in love at first sight when he saw Li Zhi, so he abandoned his wife and children.

How can we let him make mistakes again?
It would be better if all the bad karma ended with me.

"It's clear that Mr. Zhai cares about his employees."

Li Zhi's voice sounded in his ears, with a soft Shanghai accent.

Zhai Yuan looked at the woman in front of him who was born with a pair of fox eyes and smiled: "Yes~"

……

Twenty-six-year-old Li Zhi got into Boss Zhai's Bentley, showing a little restraint.

In terms of family background, her father came to Hong Kong three years earlier than her. In addition to being a drama actor, he also had a good business sense and started selling textiles from the mainland to Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand to make money. Otherwise, he would not have been able to support her to study abroad.

At that time, Li Zhi had just arrived in Hong Kong to live with her father. In her early twenties, she was determined to make a name for herself in the entertainment industry. She went to the interview at New One City speaking Mandarin, but was ridiculed by the recruitment staff for being unfashionable.

After suffering a heavy blow, Toshie went to the United States to study for three years and became fashionable. She returned to Hong Kong and finally made her debut successfully through the Miss Asia beauty pageant.

But I still can't get rid of the nightmare of accent.

After she once described "conspiracy" as "sinister Mao" and "premiere" as "premiere pornography", the 86 Miss Asia champion became a laughing stock and was booed at the award ceremony.

However, even if she wins the Miss Asia title, she won’t get any resources.

After all, it is a tradition for Hong Kong circles to bully mainland stars. There was Carina Lau in the past and Li Zhi in the future. They will not easily give resources to these so-called northern girls.

Besides, the value of the Miss Asia title is really ordinary, far less than TVB's Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant. Lizhi has been in the circle for only one year, but she is not as good as Carina Lau, who is also a northern girl.

"Relax, come to Jiuyi Entertainment and no one will dare to bully you."

Zhai Yuan turned his head and smiled at Li Zhi who was sitting upright: "First, play a supporting role in A Chinese Ghost Story. If the performance is good, I will give you a few leading roles later."

The cake was drawn very large, but Lizhi did not show the surprise that one might have imagined.

She thought of Zhai Yuan's recent reputation in the newspapers, hesitated for a moment, and asked tentatively: "Is there an unspoken rule?"

Zhai Yuan asked curiously, "Have you ever encountered something like this before?"

"Several producers have proposed this." Li Zhi said this, and then hurriedly added: "But I didn't agree."

"To be honest, I have no experience in this kind of thing."

Zhai Yuan glanced at Li Zhi's gourd-shaped figure without leaving a trace, and said with disdain: "Besides, how can you have unspoken rules on the first day you meet? I prefer to take things step by step."

Upon hearing this, Lizhi breathed a sigh of relief, his expression slowly relaxed, and he nodded in agreement.

"So Miss Li, please have a meal first, and then find a place to talk about the play."

Zhai Yuan continued: "After midnight, we have known each other for two days..."

(I was catching the high-speed train and typed a chapter on my phone on the train. It’s short and weak.
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