Chapter 313: Dreams and Movies

She thought, she left him.

Returning to China from the United States, returning to Jingcheng from Palm Beach, moving out of Ziyu Villa, going to the newly bought house, immersing herself in endless work, endless games,

could get rid of the influence of the two words Chen Nuo on her.

But the fact was not so.

The news of him establishing a tech company and donating to Peking University was no less noisy in China than in the United States.

There were many people praising, but there were also many mocking and questioning comments.

The content inside was actually much the same as the United States.

Most felt that such an algorithm, if it could really appear one day, it must be at Stanford or Harvard, how could it be at Peking University?

Just like a famous expert on Renren said, Peking University is good, but top talents have already flowed abroad. Chen Nuo's donation behavior, although commendable, is also like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, unable to change the overall situation, and finally just a daydream.

Although Liu Yifei didn't know these remarks reached the ears of a doctoral student who had always been indifferent to the world, causing him to send a QQ message to Chen Nuo swearing an oath.

She was still very angry and indignant.

Subconsciously took out her phone, wanting to dial that number.

But in the end, she stopped.

"Don't care about someone who doesn't care about you, because love cannot be forced..."

Liu Yifei wrote this in her diary, bit the pen tip for a while, and continued to write, "I want to use the time I spent worrying about him to love myself well. Watch movies I like, eat delicious food, make life full of happiness. I believe, in the future, I will meet someone who truly cherishes me."

After writing, she frowned, blacked out the last sentence, and rewrote, "I believe, one person can also live wonderfully."

In the next few days, she really blocked relevant information, and even took the initiative to ask for more work, and told Liu Xiaoli for the first time that she wanted to take on a new play.

Intermittently, she also saw some sporadic information, knowing that the thing he had been busy with for so long and asked her to accompany him to act had finally been negotiated.

But seeing it and feeling uncomfortable was only for a while, after getting busy again, it would be better.

Until this day.

Liu Xiaoli walked into her room with a laptop, smiling, and sent countless "Chen Nuo" into her eyes.

Seeing those familiar names on the screen, Liu Yifei really wanted to cry, but she held it back, looked up and asked: "Mom, what is this?"

Liu Yifei's acting skills had truly improved,

Liu Xiaoli hadn't noticed anything wrong with her daughter at all during this period.

Moving out of Ziyu Villa didn't make her feel there was any problem, after all, that house was too big, without a man, it was a bit cold.

What she cared about these days was not anything else, but the currently hot Sina Weibo.

Inside that 10% stake, there was also a share of her family's Xixi, although not much, but it couldn't be calculated carefully.

Liu Xiaoli had already calculated, if Sina Weibo was worth 100 million, then Liu Yifei had 200,000. If it was 1 billion, that was 2 million, if it was 10 billion, that was 20 million!

Don't say it's impossible, during this time when Liu Xiaoli was bored in LA, USA, after seeing the overwhelming news about Chen Nuo wanting to start some video website, she also did some understanding of those internet websites in the United States.

Didn't know until she understood, and was shocked when she did.

It could be said, in an instant, a new world opened up before Liu Xiaoli's eyes.

She knew Chen Nuo had many fans on FB, and she understood that he had dealings with Donald, this well-known person in the United States,

but when she knew that the Facebook Chen Nuo was seeking shares in was already worth tens of billions of USD, it refreshed her cognition once again.

This time Liu Xiaoli completely threw the Forbes rich man Chen Jinfei behind her head.

Before, even if Chen Jinfei had spoken ill in front of the media, Liu Xiaoli still swallowed her anger and answered his calls afterward.

Just in case one day she took the road back, she still had to beg this person.

But now.

His phone number could no longer be dialed into her phone.

The in-depth understanding of Facebook also seriously affected her perception of Sina Weibo.

They were all enterprises Chen Nuo tried every means to invest in.

Facebook was already worth 80 billion RMB, so what about Sina Weibo?

Liu Xiaoli's attitude changed accordingly.

From not taking it seriously, to now she just had to look at relevant news every three days.

And she wandered around on it when she had nothing to do, just like inspecting her own industry.

Today she inadvertently wandered into a piece of news related to Chen Nuo, so she brought it over for her daughter to take a look.

"Look at this, Xixi, is this Little Chen?"

Liu Yifei took a deep breath and looked closely.

It turned out to be an account called "I am really Chen Nuo" that posted a Weibo, saying a greeting.

Then, someone in the comment section said hello I am also...

Then the two had a conversation.

"I said it's true."

"I also said it's true. If you don't believe it, come to Jiajiang, I am Jiajiang Chen Nuo, not living up to the name."

"Jiajiang, right? If I go, will you treat me to dinner?"

"That depends on whether you are as handsome as me. Where is this Chen Nuo of yours from?"

"I'm from Long'an."

"Haha, if you are really Long'an Chen Nuo, let alone dinner, even a sword fight is on me."

"It's a deal."

"Hahahahahaha, it's a deal, if you don't come, you're a pig."

"Hehe, okay."

Chen Nuo 111: "Can you count me in? I'm Liuzhou Chen Nuo."

Real Chen Nuo: "Add me, I am Minhang Chen Nuo. Never afraid of being compared in handsomeness."

Real Chen Nuo is here: "I'm here, don't argue, everyone."

Accompanying Brother Nuonuo: "Hehe, a bunch of fakes. Do you really think you can compare with Brother Nuonuo?"

Then at this time.

Chen Nuo: "?"

Liu Yifei's eyes widened at once.

The comment section was also silent for a full thirty seconds.

Immediately after, I don't know how many comments popped up at the same instant.

"Holy shit, two characters! No way? Is the real Chen Nuo here?"

"Brother Nuonuo, is it you?"

"Absolutely impossible. Brother Nuonuo, I love you. @Chen Nuo."

"@Chen Nuo, I've liked you for a long time, I'm your loyal sticky rice, can you reply to me?"

"Holy shit, it really seems to be real! @Chen Nuo, are you real?"

Liu Yifei didn't want to look after reading a few, and clicked the mouse to flip down casually.

Only to see the "I am really Chen Nuo" who posted the Weibo said afterward: "He is fake, I am real."

But no one paid attention to him.

Liu Yifei also felt this person was quite ridiculous.

She exited the comment section and looked at this Weibo again.

Posted less than an hour, it already had 3,240 retweets, 8,182 comments, and 110,000 likes.

She recalled.

Before, she had seen the one with the most likes and comments on Weibo, it didn't seem to have one-tenth of this.

Liu Xiaoli saw she finished reading, and asked again: "How about it, is this Little Chen."

Liu Yifei said lightly: "Don't know. Mom, where did you find this, can you not be so boring."

Liu Xiaoli shouted: "How is it me who found it? I went on this Weibo today, in that ranking list, many of them were about this, I was quite strange, why would Little Chen go to reason with those boring people. Why don't you ask?"

Liu Yifei said: "I won't ask, if you want to know, ask yourself, you're not unfamiliar with him, you're more familiar with him than me."

Liu Xiaoli was blocked and almost couldn't catch her breath.

"Alright, Mom, you go out, I want to play games."

Liu Xiaoli peeked at her computer screen, curled her lips and said: "Playing this Audition again. Dancing every day, don't you want your eyes?"

"Oh, I know, you go out."

Liu Xiaoli shook her head helplessly and went out.

Liu Yifei's face was sometimes white and sometimes bright under the dim light of the screen.

Joined a room, the game started.

On the computer screen, a long-haired girl wearing an ultra-short skirt and dressed up in a fancy way was gesturing along with several other equally fashionable cartoon characters.

"Up up left down right right up left down right".

Bad!

"Up left right up up down left down right up".

Bad!

"Right down left up down down down up left right".

Bad!

After three consecutive "bad"s, the score was pulled away by a large margin from the others.

Liu Yifei clicked the mouse angrily and closed the game directly.

She stared at the computer screen in a daze for a while, then opened the browser and logged into the Sina Weibo webpage.

Found that Weibo again, and entered the comment section.

Clicked on the person named "Chen Nuo" and entered his personal homepage.

The homepage was empty, nothing, but the follower count had already reached 200,000.

Liu Yifei looked at this blank page, was in a daze for a while again, and then clicked on the private message interface with him.

Took a deep breath, calmed down, and started typing, "Why did you suddenly post on Weibo?"

Sent the private message, Liu Yifei waited anxiously for almost half an hour before finally waiting for a reply.

"Who are you?"

Liu Yifei suddenly realized. Oh right, she hadn't told him she had registered for Weibo either.

But seeing this name, couldn't he react?

Liu Yifei was a bit angry, but still typed patiently.

Crystal17: "I'm Liu Yifei."

This time the reply came quite fast, "Haha."

Liu Yifei frowned.

Crystal17: "What are you laughing at?" Chen Nuo: "Nothing. So it's my girlfriend Feifei. Feifei, where are you, I miss you so much."

Liu Yifei's pupils widened at once, looking at those four words at the end, her brain was blank.

Then she giggled with a red face, only feeling that her heart was wrapped in a pile of melted soft candy, both sweet and warm.

After a long while, she thought about how to reply.

"I'm at home, I also miss you a little."

Why only a little, that means she hasn't completely forgiven him yet.

Although his words made her very happy and she wasn't angry anymore, she couldn't immediately show that she had forgiven him.

However, she also couldn't let him think she was very petty and still angry, so she struggled for a long time before deciding to reply like this.

This time the message was sent, and there was an immediate reply.

"Feifei, I'm in the United States these two days, and I'm a bit tight on cash. The money in the domestic account can't be transferred over. Can you lend me 20,000 to tide me over?"

Liu Yifei's heart jumped.

He actually asked her to borrow money?

Did something happen in the few days she was gone?

And 20,000? What does it mean?

Although Liu Yifei was full of doubts, she immediately typed: "Okay, I'll transfer it to you right away."

This time the reply from the opposite side was even faster.

Just not a person, but a system message.

"Sorry, this user has been banned."

Liu Yifei looked at this line of words, and it took a full ten seconds before she reacted to what was going on.

"Ah!" She screamed angrily, grabbed her hair and rubbed it hard.

It took a long time to recover from that kind of embarrassment, and finally decided to forget it, just go to sleep.

Afterward, she tossed and turned in bed and slept groggily for an afternoon, until Liu Xiaoli suddenly pushed open her bedroom door again, and said excitedly: "Xixi, come out quickly, look who's here!?"

Liu Yifei really didn't expect,

after asking for her new home address in a text message a few days ago, Fan Binbing just ran over without a word.

This made her very happy.

After finishing dinner, first accompanied Liu Xiaoli to chat, and after she went upstairs to sleep.

The two women secretly carried a bottle of Lafite brought by Fan Binbing and came to the platform on the second floor of the villa.

Under the reflection of the scented candles, Liu Yifei and Fan Binbing chatted while drinking wine together.

The weather in October wasn't cold, although it was very late, but after wrapping a blanket, it felt just right, very comfortable.

"...... So, you didn't go to California?"

"Um."

Fan Binbing turned the wine glass, the candlelight reflected in her eyes, with a mysterious expression.

The woman's crimson lips took a sip of the bright red wine, and she smiled: "Why didn't you go? He told you to come back and you came back? You're so obedient?"

"No, I......" Liu Yifei just opened her mouth, an inexplicable grievance suddenly surged into her heart, and her throat was blocked at once.

Fan Binbing heard it, sat next to her, hugged her shoulder, and comforted her softly: "What's wrong, did he bully you? Tell sister, sister will settle the score with him."

Liu Yifei shook her head, choked with sobs: "No."

"Then what's going on?"

Liu Yifei looked up, looked at Fan Binbing close at hand, and saw the concern in the other's eyes. The block in her heart suddenly loosened.

"Sister Binbing, I'll tell you one thing. You, you swear not to tell anyone."

"Okay, you say it."

"You swear first."

"...... Okay, I swear, if I tell anyone what you told me today, I won't be able to find a man to marry in the future. Is that okay?"

"Um, I, I............"

Liu Yifei stammered for five minutes, Fan Binbing suddenly interrupted: "Wait, Feifei, you two were in the United States for so long, nothing happened?"

Liu Yifei froze for a moment, "No, many things happened, he didn't reason with me..."

Fan Binbing smiled and interrupted: "I mean, you two didn't... do anything else?"

"Do what?"

Fan Binbing looked at her, her cherry lips parted: "Love."

"Make... love?"

"Ah? Ah!!!"

Liu Yifei reacted at once, her face turned red, and she waved her hand, "No no, Sister Binbing, you... where did you say that?"

Fan Binbing smiled like a smile: "What's this? You two are boyfriend and girlfriend to the outside world now, and adults to the inside, if you really do something, that's also natural... So, it's okay, tell sister, did you or didn't you?"

"No no, really no." Liu Yifei shook her head and waved her hand in a panic, "Sister Binbing, really no."

Fan Binbing seriously observed the expression on her face, after a while, she leaned back on the chair, as if her whole person had relaxed, "Then Feifei, continue."

Liu Yifei calmed down from her shyness for a while, then continued to summon courage and expressed the feelings in her heart.

This was also the first time she told others about her feelings for Chen Nuo.

Originally, according to her personality, she wouldn't have told everything.

It was all because of her drinking habit of being talkative after drinking.

She talked for a long, long time, and after finishing, Liu Yifei looked at her watch, it was almost 1 AM.

The temperature outside was a bit low, but whether in her heart or body, she was still burning hot.

She touched her slightly hot cheeks, looked at Fan Binbing, and asked: "Sister Binbing, do you think my feeling is right? Does he not like me at all?"

Fan Binbing didn't look at her at first, but took a sip of wine and was in a daze for a long time.

Only then did she turn her head, her expression unusually serious: "Feifei, sister tells you very seriously. This person you like, whether as a friend, as a boss, or as a lover, might be the best in the world."

"However, if you want to be with him for a lifetime? Want to marry him and have children? Then you really found the wrong person. He will definitely break your heart."

"So, Feifei, while nothing has happened between you and him yet, hurry back, it's still in time."

Liu Yifei might still have time to retreat from love,

but Chen Nuo knew that he could no longer escape unscathed in this business deal.

The contract had long been signed, the money had long been transferred by the Bank of China to the joint account of the crew here,

and even the American team representing Brand New had long been assembled.

That was through the relationship of Lori Eisner, finding a group of retired old guys who fought the world with her uncle at Disney.

They had been in the "Inception" crew for almost half a year, and the salary had already been paid for millions.

Even the early stage of the crew, those huge expenses for global location scouting, had already been spent countless times.

Now, you British ghost tell me, you want to add 50% of the production budget in the later stage?

When Chen Nuo heard such a sentence from Christopher Nolan in the Warner Bros. conference room in LA,

if it weren't for the fact that the water had already been spilled, Chen Nuo really wanted to slap the table and tell this crazy bastard that he wouldn't

But at this very moment, his butt felt like it was glued to the bench, and even when Michael Slane roared, "This is impossible!", he still had to persuade him!

And he couldn't help but persuade him.

Besides the fact that what's done is done, he was also waiting to use the money two years later.

It was impossible for him to give up this investment in FB.

Right now, Xiao Zha was giving him a valuation of 10 billion USD, which was the price just after the financial crisis had passed.

However, if Chen Nuo remembered correctly, in 2012, after the largest-scale tech company IPO in American history, FB's market value would exceed 100 billion on its first day of listing.

A 10-fold increase in 3 years.

And unlike Bitcoin, which was currently just a small puddle, this was a super capital pool already large enough to accommodate his 200 million USD, one that would absolutely not be shaken by the flapping of a butterfly's wings.

Therefore, Chen Nuo had to smile and say: "Michael, calm down, let Christopher finish, okay? I believe the director will have sufficient reasons."

Christopher Nolan nodded toward Chen Nuo and said very calmly: "Yes, I have reasons. Michael, and Chen, you must know that this matter actually goes against my principles; I hesitated for two whole months. It was only a week ago that I finally made up my mind."

"Of course, the final choice needs to be decided by the three of us together."

"If both of you do not approve, then we will start filming as scheduled. It would only be a delay of two months or so. In these two months, we have also made the pre-production preparations, including casting, even more perfect, haven't we?"

"Gentlemen."

"We now have Ryan Reynolds to play Chen's deputy, Arthur. His performance in 'Buried' left a deep impression on me. I dropped the original Joseph Gordon-Levitt because he overlapped slightly with Chen's black-haired, black-eyed Chinese elements."

"And Ryan's blond temperament can effectively balance the diverse background in the film."

"For almost the same reason, I also finally chose Keira Knightley to play Mel, who is Chen's late wife in the film."

"Her beauty in 'Pirates of the Caribbean' left a deep impression on many people."

"I believe that she and Chen together will be a pair that can spark the flames of love in the eyes of the audience."

"And our female lead, Ellen Page."

"Yes, I like her performance in 'Juno'; the intelligent yet youthful temperament she possesses is very close to the Adrian in my mind."

"Besides that, there is Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, and Ken Watanabe..."

"I truly believe now that I have found the perfect cast in my mind. With Chen as the center, each of them will be like a puzzle piece that will eventually come together on the big screen into a marvelous pattern, making everyone who sees it exclaim in admiration."

Michael Slane clapped twice and chuckled: "Christopher, I agree with your opinion. After I looked at your casting choices, I knew you were indeed on the right path. Therefore, I have no doubts about your delaying the start of filming, and I have no doubts about those expensive practical sets you've built."

"I just... excuse me, I really don't understand why you would say such things just now? My God, I don't know what Chen thinks, but for something like this to happen when we are at the brink, I think this is enough for those old men on my company's board of directors to boil me alive and eat me!"

Christopher Nolan revealed a faint smile, turned his head to look at Chen Nuo, and said: "Michael, it is actually because of Chen."

"Me?" Chen Nuo said in astonishment.

Nolan smiled and said: "Yes, you. Do you remember the words you said to me when you were in Xinjiang, China?"

Chen Nuo thought carefully for a moment, then finally shrugged, "Sorry, Christopher. My memory... isn't very good."

Nolan said: "It was amidst those beautiful grasslands and snow-capped mountains, you told me that the beautiful scenery here was just like what was described in the script, like an unreal dream."

"And you felt that the difference between a dream and a movie actually only lies in..."

"Whether it is 3D!"

Chen Nuo gave a wry smile and interjected.

He remembered.

Indeed, at the time, intoxicated by the beautiful scenery, he had said those words off the cuff.

Nolan smiled: "Then, you also mentioned a person, a movie."

Chen Nuo's wry smile deepened, "James Cameron, 'Avatar'."

Christopher Nolan's expression became serious, and he said: "Yes, so I went to find James, and I chatted with him about his new film this time, as well as the 3D camera he invented for it. He talked to me a lot and even showed me some clips of his new film. He is truly a person who loves movies, and he is also truly willing to share. I am very grateful to him."

"And because of this, I want to cast aside my persistence and stubbornness, return to purity, give the film itself more and greater space, and also give our 'Inception' a second option."

"Should we produce a 3D version of 'Inception' and give the whole world a real dream?"

"Chen, Michael, this is for you to decide."

(End of chapter)