Chapter 294: Quite round

104 minutes after the film started,

As the camera zoomed in, the black-and-white photo of Lao San and Jingqiu taken at the photo studio became larger and larger on the screen, finally filling the entire screen of the screening room.

In the frozen image, Chen Nuo gazed at the camera, smiling to reveal a mouthful of white teeth.

Beside him, Liu Yifei wore two small braids, also carrying a happy smile.

The screen went black; the rough cut of *Under the Hawthorn Tree* had finished playing.

In the new screening room, warm applause erupted.

Liu Xiaoli's eyes were filled with tears, her emotions stirred; during the viewing process, she had truly been completely immersed.

After watching, besides being moved by the love, she missed her youth.

She felt that compared to the two films she had watched recently, although *Mother* was good, it still had a gap compared to *Hawthorn Tree*.

Not only because the latter had Liu Yifei in it, but also because of Director Zhang Yimou's unique ingenuity, making it easier for people to understand.

Director Zhang was truly a very thoughtful director.

After each segment of the plot ended, he would have a black screen.

Using segments of voice-over subtitles to explain or advance the plot.

For example, when the screen was black, he would write a line like this: "After this conversation with Jingqiu, Lao San did not appear for several days, and Jingqiu didn't know what had happened..."

Look, how simple and easy to understand.

Just like a tour guide,

Fully catering to amateur audiences like her, as well as some elderly groups whose comprehension and memory had declined.

Chen Nuo's feelings were similar to hers.

In *Under the Hawthorn Tree*, the large segments of emotional buildup and unnecessary plot they had filmed were directly cut out, and in the end, Director Zhang Yimou chose to use voice-over subtitles to explain.

Well done.

In this way, he had also been worrying unnecessarily.

Fan Fan Binbing mentioned Ang Lee, thinking he had some friendship with Ang Lee.

There was some, but Director Lee had been hanging around Hollywood for years; his bit of friendship definitely wouldn't reach the point of making people engage in favoritism.

Chen Nuo believed that Chairman Lee at Venice, if the Eastern pure love edited by Director Zhang was a bit difficult to understand or raw, Ang Lee could understand it better than other foreign judges, or if he promised to go to the Golden Horse Awards again this year, he would help explain a few words.

That was all.

However, now it wasn't needed.

Subtitle explanations were all there, what else could be misunderstood?

Plus the translation, even a 3-year-old foreign child would know what this was talking about.

This was definitely a shocking move by Director Zhang to abandon cumbersome camera language and replace it with concise text explanations, thereby controlling the film's length and catering to middle-aged and elderly friends.

It was also the battle horn Director Zhang blew toward the commercial market with this youth romance film.

However, after a brief conversation with Director Zhang, Chen Nuo discovered that Director Zhang actually had ambitions for major film festivals.

This left Chen Mou, a former Tokyo International Film Festival judge, quite puzzled.

Chen Nuo didn't know that he was underestimating Director Zhang too much.

In the previous life, *Under the Hawthorn Tree* was also shortlisted for many film festivals, big and small.

Not only was it shown as the opening film in Istanbul, Hawaii, and the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, but it even went to Berlin to participate in the competition for the Berlin Film Festival's Crystal Bear award.

Crystal Bear, not Golden Bear or Silver Bear.

The Crystal Bear was a major award specifically set up by the Berlin Film Festival to recognize those easy-to-understand films.

It was divided into a children's group under 14 and a youth group over 14.

In this regard, *Under the Hawthorn Tree* unfortunately had subtitles, not a comic strip, so it wasn't "easy to understand" enough and was divided into the youth group over 14.

In the end, Director Zhang Yimou didn't go to the scene because of important matters, and ultimately missed out on the bling-bling Crystal Bear.

Just like it missed out on every Golden Horse Award shortlist, and finally was shortlisted for "Best Asian Film" at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

After watching the film and congratulating Director Zhang, Chen Nuo left without saying anything.

Their class's graduation play was still in rehearsal, and that one didn't have subtitles, so it had to be handled well.

Looking at the time, it was only past 2 PM, if he hurried over, he could still catch the tail end.

Chen Nuo didn't know in which interview in his previous life he had heard a celebrity say such words, saying that "the thing he wanted to do most was to go shopping and have a meal on the street."

At the time, Chen Nuo didn't think much of it, feeling that this person was too pretentious.

But now he also wanted to say similar words.

It's just not shopping, but opening a hotel room.

How sad.

Chen the Scumbag could no longer go to outside hotels to open rooms.

Because even using someone else's ID card carried great risks.

The people he bumped into in the elevator or hallway, the hotel front desk, the doorman, and the waiters—anyone could become that mole tipping off some entertainment magazine.

Even Qi Yun, he actually knew this in his heart. Because in the previous life, there wasn't just one or two similar examples.

Therefore, on this day, he had to introduce one of his friends to Liu Ayi at home.

"Liu Ayi, this is Gao Yuanyuan. Yuanyuan, this is Liu Ayi, Yifei's mother."

Liu Xiaoli had been in a very good mood these past few days.

Although Liu Yifei's holiday syndrome was starting to kick in, she still couldn't get her spirits up after returning to the country.

She pushed off all the work arranged by the company as much as she could, dragging it out, spending her days either sightseeing in Ziyu Villa or curled up in her room playing games.

But as her temporary manager, she couldn't bear to say any harsh words.

Let her rest if she wants to rest; she was about to become a Best Actress, so it was fine to rest for a while.

That night, she went out for a beauty treatment and returned to see the brightly lit living room, where Chen Nuo was sitting and talking with a beautiful woman with long flowing hair.

The woman looked very familiar; she had seen her on TV.

Hearing Chen Nuo introduce her naturally, Liu Xiaoli quickly greeted the other party, "Hello Yuanyuan. Nice to meet you, oh my, you are really beautiful."

Liu Xiaoli wasn't lying; she felt this girl was indeed truly beautiful.

So beautiful that a trace of doubt flashed through her heart: late at night like this, Chen Nuo bringing such a beautiful girl home, how did it feel a bit...

No, no, Liu Xiaoli immediately denied it; if there were really something, he wouldn't bring her home. Xixi was still here, how could Chen Nuo dare!

Liu Xiaoli looked left and right and asked, "Where is Xixi?"

Chen Nuo said, "We chatted for a while just now, I saw she was sleepy, so I told her to go to sleep. Auntie, you should rest early too."

Liu Xiaoli nodded, "Okay. Then you guys chat slowly."

Afterward, Liu Xiaoli didn't think much more and went upstairs to wash up and rest.

Sleeping until the middle of the night, Liu Xiaoli woke up as usual, her mouth a bit dry. She turned on the bedside lamp and found the water glass on the nightstand was empty, so she yawned and went out to the first floor to pour a glass of water.

For her, this was an old habit.

As a result, when she walked into the hallway and had only taken two steps toward the first floor, Liu Xiaoli suddenly froze.

She stopped, tilted her head, and listened carefully.

Indeed, there was a woman singing softly.

As someone who had been through it, how could Liu Xiaoli not know what this sound was?

Her heart suddenly began to beat violently.

When the moment arrived, she suddenly discovered that she didn't seem ready yet.

On June 3, 2009, a piece of heavy news suddenly broke in the entertainment industry: the Hong Kong Heavenly King, the eternally single Mr. Andy Lau, had actually been married for 23 years.

On this day, Heavenly King Lau made public his 23-year secret marriage history with Carol Chu.

While this news shattered many people's worldviews, it also affected many people.

Among them was Liu Xiaoli.

After thinking for two days, she settled on this current plan.

Even Heavenly King Lau wasn't hiding it anymore, so it wouldn't be too much for her to ask for an explanation for her daughter, right?

Moreover, you Chen Nuo were so generous and open when you were with Janice Man, but when it came to my Liu Yifei, you were secretive?

Is that appropriate? Is it fair?

Who are you looking down on?

If it weren't for Liu Yifei's extreme resistance to this topic, every time she tried to probe, she would throw a tantrum at her, and she wouldn't be willing to send a sheep into a tiger's mouth.

But now, she had no choice but to "not be able to catch the wolf without sacrificing the child."

Liu Yifei's room was right next to hers; these past few days, she had slept very alertly, but she hadn't caught any clues.

But she wasn't in a hurry.

She didn't believe that two 20-something young people who had just tasted the forbidden fruit, and she had even moved people in, living under the same roof every day, could still hold back.

As long as she caught them once and had solid evidence, she wouldn't allow the man to continue just eating the sweetness without chewing the bone.

But she didn't expect that today, when she was really just going out to pour water, the thing she had been waiting for for so long would appear so unexpectedly.

Liu Xiaoli's heart was pounding with nervousness; she hesitated for a while, but finally tiptoed toward Chen Nuo's master bedroom.

The closer she got, the more obvious the sounds coming from the air became, besides the collision of flesh, there were also sounds like a cat meowing.

At that moment, Liu Xiaoli's legs felt a bit weak, and her heart was beating even heavier like a drum, as if it were about to jump out of her chest.

Xixi, you... when did you... become like this?

Fortunately, just as she was about to reach the door, the woman inside let out a loud cry, and then it became quiet, otherwise Liu Xiaoli doubted whether she would have the courage to continue.

However...

However, this voice didn't sound much like Xixi?

Standing behind the door, Liu Xiaoli was truly struggling internally for a while.

In the end, a mother's responsibility outweighed the education and moral standards she had received since childhood.

She leaned carefully against the door and listened, only to hear a man and a woman talking in the bedroom.

Their voices weren't loud, so Liu Xiaoli could only hear bits and pieces.

The man's voice, of course, went without saying, but the woman's voice was a bit mature, making Liu Xiaoli's heart sink.

Sure enough, this was not her daughter at all, it was clearly that Gao Yuanyuan she had seen in the living room earlier!

"... it will be convenient from now on..."

"You, as the boss, are also... actually... so bold to move in... what if we get heard?"

"You think I want to? It's all Qi Yuntian's fault... why are you in such a hurry, I said another day would be fine, but you insisted on coming today."

"I missed you, haven't seen you for so long. Thinking of how you looked when you won the award at Cannes, I just... unfortunately you didn't see it, that morning..."

"Don't laugh, Brother Li Lianjie is a senior, you have to be respectful."

"I know, anyway, the day after you won the award, I went to film... his face looked so good. And that Wen Zhang... laughed me to death. Later I heard that Wen Zhang recognized Li Lianjie as his godfather. I think it's just because he was afraid it would reach your ears, afraid of your revenge..."

"How could that be, is my heart that small? Alright, alright, stop talking. Let's go, let's take a bath."

"Don't be in such a hurry, my legs are still soft. Tell me about your movie, now many people in the country are saying that you're just one Venice award away from... why do you think Director Zhang Yimou's... is not good? So little confidence?"

Originally, as Liu Xiaoli listened, she was angry and annoyed, wishing she could rush in right now and teach this pair of shameless dogs a lesson for Liu Yifei.

Although she held back in the end, she couldn't listen anymore and was preparing to leave, wait until dawn to take Liu Yifei and have a showdown with Chen Nuo.

However, hearing this, Liu Xiaoli's footsteps, which were about to move, suddenly stopped.

"It's not that I don't have confidence." Chen Nuo in the bedroom had no idea that there was someone eavesdropping outside the door.

The question Gao Yuanyuan raised was something he had been thinking about for the past few days, and he hadn't found a perfect solution.

After all, this wasn't just Zhang Yimou's movie, it was also his movie,

The "Grand Slam" Fan Fan Binbing mentioned was quite tempting to him.

But he was just an actor, and if the director wanted to take a big dump, he had no way to stop it. To solve the problem, he ultimately had to rely on Zhang Yimou.

Chen Nuo believed, was cutting *Under the Hawthorn Tree* into this ghostly shape a problem of Zhang Yimou's level?

It shouldn't be.

During the filming process, Chen Nuo could clearly feel that Director Zhang's directing ability was definitely on point.

And his aesthetic ability?

Chen Nuo didn't believe that Zhang Yimou, who directed the 2008 Olympic opening ceremony and was known for color aesthetics, would be blind and not see how ugly those subtitle voice-overs looked in the film when he was making this kind of subtitle-style movie.

Then why would a director who had been famous for decades suddenly go to such lengths for the sake of commerciality, for the sake of shortening the film's length, and for the sake of being easy to understand?

Chen Nuo thought about it and could only think that after Director Zhang finished directing the Olympics, he might have gotten a bit carried away.

Thinking that with the name Zhang Yimou, when he went to major film festivals, everyone would have to give him face.

For this reason, it didn't matter if the movie was a bit uglier; anyway, he wanted both the awards and the box office.

In other words, although this was *Hawthorn Tree* and not *A Simple Noodle Story*, both films were works built on Zhang Yimou's flamboyant mentality after the Olympics.

In a sense, they were even the same movie, just with different methods.

It's just that Xiao Shenyang was replaced by him, Chen Nuo. Then what would the result be?

Chen Nuo asked himself, and he couldn't say it would definitely fail.

He was just making a shallow judgment based on his experience watching films at some film festivals and his experience participating in film review in Tokyo.

He wasn't optimistic, but that didn't mean the movie would definitely flop.

Therefore, he told Gao Yuanyuan the truth: "I think Director Zhang's courage is too big, and my courage is too small, I feel the risk is too high. Hehe, maybe it's also because I'm too young, my pattern isn't big enough, and I couldn't keep up with his rhythm."

Gao Yuanyuan seemed not to have heard the second half of his sentence, rubbing lightly and slowly while asking full of worry: "Then isn't that too much of a pity? Didn't you say that you and Liu Yifei acted quite well in it, and had quite a chemical reaction?"

Regarding this, Chen Nuo felt he could just let it go, but it was indeed a pity for Liu Yifei.

Liu Yifei's performance in this movie was just as he had felt on set.

If Director Zhang hadn't cut the movie so simply and easily, even if they didn't win at Venice, trying at the Golden Horse or Hong Kong Film Awards wouldn't be completely impossible.

However, he could also understand it.

What's the use of winning a Best Actress award? Looking at how lazy that woman had been these past few days, giving her a Best Actress trophy would be a waste, only fueling her arrogance in being lazy.

If Liu Yifei were replaced by Fan Fan Binbing, Chen Nuo felt he would definitely think of a way.

But now... just wash up and sleep.

"What's a pity, it's just Venice, if we can't win, we can't win. There isn't only one director Zhang Yimou in the world. If Zhang Yimou doesn't work, then I'll look for Zhang Yiyi."

"If, if there's a chance in the future, can you take me with you?"

"You?"

"Mm, take me with you, okay?" Gao Yuanyuan said in a sweet voice, speeding up her movements.

Chen Nuo closed his eyes, feeling that Gao Yuanyuan's hand skills were indeed becoming more and more proficient, "Acting, how can I take you with me? That can only depend on yourself..."

"Fan Fan Binbing, Liu Yifei, they all relied on themselves? Everyone says you are the best at training actresses. I felt it when I filmed *The Blind*. Is it okay? If it really doesn't work, I'll go learn that... next time let you try the feeling. How about that?"

"Mm... let's see how you perform..."

Liu Xiaoli didn't listen anymore.

Liu Ayi didn't have any strange hobbies.

Moreover, her mind was now occupied by one thought: Chen Nuo didn't think *Hawthorn Tree* could win an award, and Liu Yifei could win Best Actress!!!

For Liu Xiaoli, this was 100 times more important than Chen Nuo cheating.

In her heart, even if Chen Nuo slept with 100 women, it was absolutely not as important as one Best Actress trophy for Liu Yifei.

What kind of thing is a man.

Liu Ayi had long seen through it.

Angry is angry, not worth it is not worth it, but Liu Xiaoli asked herself, with Chen Nuo's current status, even if there were no Gao Yuanyuan now, there would be Li Yuanyuan, Zhang Yuanyuan later.

On the long road of life, this was all a matter of time.

The point she was just angry about wasn't that Chen Nuo and Gao Yuanyuan had an affair, but that Chen Nuo didn't care at all and openly brought a wild woman from outside home. He didn't care about Liu Yifei's existence at all.

However, now, these small matters of love between men and women were temporarily put aside by Liu Xiaoli.

If it were someone else who wasn't optimistic, Liu Xiaoli definitely wouldn't feel there was any problem.

But who was Chen Nuo?

Liu Xiaoli was completely convinced by this trip to Cannes.

It was said that when he started filming in South Korea, he told everyone on the crew that he was filming this movie to go to Cannes to win Best Actor.

As a result, he really won.

For this, he even specially returned to South Korea to treat hundreds of people to a meal.

What kind of concept is this?

That was Cannes! Not some rural film festival!

Domestic media of all sizes praised him to the sky for this, and Liu Xiaoli felt it wasn't an exaggeration at all.

He said Zhang Yimou's path was crooked, his heart was too wild,

Liu Yifei's Best Actress trophy was in jeopardy,

Before Liu Xiaoli's eyes, she seemed to have already seen Zhang Yimou's empty-handed disappointment and Liu Yifei's lost expression.

What to do?

What to do?

Liu Xiaoli didn't even pour the water, walked back to the bedroom in a daze, sat on the edge of the bed, and began to think of countermeasures.

She thought for a whole day, and she didn't even leave the bedroom door that day, staying curled up on the bed. When Liu Yifei came to see her, she also made excuses that she was a bit uncomfortable, not saying a word about what she discovered last night.

Even waiting until past 8 PM, she only drank a little white rice porridge brought by Liu Yifei.

Until 10:30, when everything was silent, she suddenly turned over, got out of bed, and knocked on Chen Nuo's door.

Chen Nuo had just finished taking a bath.

These past few days, he had joined the rehearsal of the graduation play, which was quite hard.

Li Er told him there were no songs or dances, but that 30-something director surnamed Niu acted like he had taken the wrong medicine.

He only appeared for a minute or two at the very end, but he acted like if you didn't dance a bit and sing two lines, I'll kneel for you.

He even kept saying: "There was a poll on the internet recently about your next movie. Musical films are second only to pornographic films, ranking second on the list of most wanted to watch. From this, it can be seen that everyone really wants to see you sing and dance again."

When he finished listening,

If it weren't for Director Niu speaking seriously and affectionately,

Reminding him of his hometown Chengdu, reminding him of Qi Yuntian, reminding him of Hanif Kureishi who helped him vote in Cannes, Chen Nuo would have almost moved to hit someone.

Even in the end, out of consideration for group human feelings, he nodded and agreed to dance for ten seconds.

Without Xia Yehe as a teacher, ten seconds was also very difficult for him.

He practiced for half a day that day, and felt he hadn't grasped the point, and was covered in sweat.

After returning at night and taking a bath, he was just about to watch the *Inception* script before going to sleep, when he suddenly heard someone knocking on the door.

After opening the door, Chen Nuo didn't expect Liu Xiaoli to come to him so late, and asked in surprise, "It's so late, is there anything, Auntie?"

Liu Xiaoli said indifferently, "Little Chen, is it convenient to go in and sit for a while?"

Chen Nuo looked back at the spacious room with a large bed, hesitated for a moment, stepped aside, and said, "Um, okay, please come in."

Walking into Chen Nuo's room, Liu Xiaoli didn't feel there was any problem, but she didn't have the nerve to sit on the bed, found a stool to sit down, and asked straightforwardly, "Little Chen, can you think of a way for this *Hawthorn Tree*? If Xixi misses this, it's really a pity. You and her have that kind of relationship, right? Can you help Xixi?"

Chen Nuo was stunned.

First, he didn't expect Liu Xiaoli to come to him in the middle of the night to talk about this,

Second, what kind of relationship did he and Liu Yifei have?

He was about to ask,

But Liu Xiaoli had thought for a whole day, thought a lot, and specifically chose this time, all deliberately waiting for Liu Yifei to fall asleep, not wanting to be heard by her.

Because what she was going to talk about was an adult's interest exchange.

Now she continued what she really wanted to say.

Before Chen Nuo could speak, she continued, "Little Chen, Auntie will tell you the truth, before you, my arrangement was originally for Xixi to fight for her career with all her might before 30, and then talk about love after 30. But now that things have developed like this, I can only accept it."

"I also know you have other women. Auntie promises you, as long as you help Xixi this time, I will definitely keep my mouth shut in the future. I won't ask about the two of you anymore, you can do whatever you want."

"Okay? Little Chen."

When Liu Xiaoli said this, she was truly full of bitterness.

Any mother couldn't possibly conspire with a cheating man to hide it from her daughter.

However, the temptation of Best Actress was really too great.

Let alone Venice or Berlin, Liu Xiaoli felt that even if it were a Golden Rooster or Hundred Flowers Award, from then on, a Best Actress title would be added uprightly before Liu Yifei's name.

In this way, she would pull away at least a ten-year gap from her peers.

Compared to that, what is a man?

This is the capital for advancing and retreating freely in the future!

Hearing this, how could Chen Nuo not know that Liu Xiaoli had overthought it.

And most likely Liu Xiaoli had also discovered his affair with Gao Yuanyuan.

But he didn't feel there was anything.

He was also single now, isn't it very normal for single men and women to do things?

If he felt there was a problem after Liu Xiaoli or Liu Yifei discovered it, he wouldn't have brought Gao Yuanyuan back.

He saw Liu Xiaoli's serious look and couldn't help but find it a bit funny, so he explained, "Liu Ayi, you might have misunderstood, Liu Yifei and I are really just friends. I don't know where you got the idea that I have another relationship with her, but I think you must have heard wrong or seen wrong."

That slap you gave, on Xixi's butt, I saw it clearly.

Could that be wrong?

Is this something friends do?

Liu Xiaoli's heart sank when she heard the word "misunderstood," and when she saw the man dead-set on not admitting it, acting like he had eaten everything and wouldn't admit it, she felt even more suffocated.

But she thought carefully, she could be said to have no way to deal with the other party.

Even threatening to have Xixi leave him, what effect would that have?

She heard it clearly that night.

If she knew that she, as a mother, took the initiative to bring Liu Yifei to give up her position, I'm afraid Gao Yuanyuan's face would be smiling to pieces.

Moreover, who knows how many female celebrities are outside, like Gao Yuanyuan, waiting eagerly for him to take them with him...

No, absolutely impossible.

As long as Xixi still lives in this house, if it doesn't work this time, there will be a next time.

It is absolutely impossible to vacate the position and cheaply benefit the wild woman outside.

However, what about this time?

Xixi acted so well, are we really giving up?

Liu Xiaoli thought about it and was still unwilling, finally hardening her heart, determined to go all out and gamble once.

She said with a pale face, "Okay, even if you are friends, then as friends, Little Chen, can you help her? Just consider it Auntie begging you, okay? A Best Actress award can really help Xixi a lot, this is not just because I am her mother, but also because I am her manager, Chen Zong, how about I kneel to you..."

Chen Nuo was startled, seeing Liu Xiaoli really making a gesture to kneel, he immediately rushed forward, lifted her arm, and lifted her up, "Auntie, Auntie, what are you doing?"

Liu Xiaoli sighed and said, "Chen Zong, I really have no other way. What do you want me to do for you to be willing to agree?"

Chen Nuo didn't know why Liu Xiaoli thought he could solve the problem, and was about to explain, but suddenly remembered the headline news of major media he saw on Qi Yuntian's phone before coming home today.

That news was a video someone shot with a mobile phone.

The video was about 30 seconds long.

It was a conversation between the most popular sketch comedian today and someone else while eating.

The screen showed half of that star's face, red, clearly having drunk a lot.

Originally talking about someone else, but for some reason, the topic turned to him.

"Chen Nuo won the Cannes Best Actor, Shenyang, are you jealous?"

"Why would I be jealous of him?"

"Jealous that he stole your spotlight."

"Can he steal it? Now don't talk about our Northeast, you ask around all over China, do more people know him or me? If you don't believe me, wait and see that Korean movie he won the award for, in two days you'll see how much money it can sell."

"Then if it doesn't sell money, can Zhang Yimou find him to film?"

"How would I know that. I'm telling you, Chen Nuo really isn't good, the boss of Zhang Yimou's company, that Zhang Weiping, was chatting with my master recently, preparing to find us to film a movie..."

Regarding this news, although it was noisy and known to the whole country today, when he saw it on Qi Yuntian's phone, he didn't actually think much, nor was he angry.

Now, combined with some things he had heard in later generations, he inexplicably had some inspiration and ideas in his heart.

Zhang Weiping and Zhang Yimou, these two people...

If... maybe he could try?

But if he did this, it would be really troublesome, requiring a lot of extra workload, and it wouldn't be in line with his usual style.

Also, helping that lazy woman Liu Yifei?

Why!

The company still has a gap of hundreds of millions, and she sleeps at home every day?

"Liu Ayi, I can try. However, you have to do me two favors." Chen Nuo cleared his throat and looked at Liu Xiaoli.

Liu Xiaoli said resolutely, "Don't say two, Little Chen, as long as I can do it, anything is fine."

Chen Nuo said, "The first is work, to be honest, these past few days, whether it's you or Liu Yifei's work state, I'm quite dissatisfied. I hope that starting tomorrow, you will let her start working, don't let her be a rice worm at home every day. You have to be like Li Jing before, you have to urge her! If it really doesn't work, you should hit her, scold her, can you do it?"

Liu Xiaoli's heart settled, a smile appeared on her face unconsciously, and she immediately agreed, "No problem. Little Chen, don't worry. This matter is indeed my dereliction of duty. I will definitely talk to Xixi properly!"

Chen Nuo said, "It's not just talking. I think if she needs to be taught a lesson, she should be taught a lesson."

Dog man, you really have a cruel heart.

Forget it, for Xixi's Best Actress!

Liu Xiaoli gritted her teeth and nodded, "Okay! I will definitely hit her if she needs to be hit, and scold her if she needs to be scolded."

Chen Nuo nodded, then hesitated, and said hesitantly, "Um, Auntie, there is another small private matter of mine, can you help me..."

20 minutes later.

Liu Xiaoli walked out with a little sweat on her forehead, looked at Liu Yifei's room with a bit of guilt, sighed slightly, and went back to her room.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 295 =====