Chapter 328: Call the Police

Among the actors of *Under the Hawthorn Tree* this time, it wasn't just the male and female leads and the director who came to Berlin.

Three hours before the premiere, Jiang Jiang Ruijia, the fourth person who played Wei Hong, the best friend of Liu Qi Yifei in the film, was putting on makeup in the hotel room.

It wasn't early anymore; the pink dress brought from China had already been taken out of the suitcase and was spread out on the bed behind her.

The dress wasn't any haute couture, nor was it any top-tier brand; it was a dress from a second-tier brand borrowed for her by a domestic dress company.

Even so, the dress was indeed brand new, and the effect when worn was also quite good.

The pink dress used a tube top design, revealing the collarbone and shoulder line.

The dress body was lace and soft tulle, and the fishtail hem started to spread from the middle of the thighs, which was very flattering to the figure.

After trying it on just now, the two makeup artists also praised it endlessly, saying she looked very sweet and cute wearing it.

The only problem was that because the chest area was exposed, it needed a necklace to decorate it, and the necklace provided by the domestic jewelry company that sponsored her looked a bit...

"Low, too low."

The person putting on her makeup now was exactly one of the two makeup artists the crew brought from China to Berlin.

One was an old acquaintance, Sister Zhang, who was on the crew during filming and was now applying powder for her.

And the man standing next to her with his arms crossed was specially hired for this Berlin Film Festival.

It is said that when Zhou Xun, Li Fan Bingbing, and others attend some important occasions, they like to find him; he is the designated makeup artist for many top domestic female artists and is very famous in the industry.

The one speaking now was this "Brother Lan," who was holding his arms and unconsciously pointing his orchid finger with his right hand.

Brother Lan's voice was a bit sharp, making what he said sound even more mean.

"Fortunately, you didn't go to the opening ceremony. How could you go like this? Wouldn't it be embarrassing if you went?"

"Oh my, what were you thinking? The earrings are fine, just cover them with your hair when the time comes, try to give a front face, and you can probably muddle through."

"The necklace is so important, so conspicuous, and you actually muddled through like this. Wearing this kind of trash around your neck? Do you really think those foreigners are blind?"

"I'm truly impressed. Think about it, who will be standing next to you then? It's Liu Qi Yifei, it's Director Zhang, it's Chen Nuo. And you wear this kind of thing to stand there for a group photo? Just thinking about it makes me feel embarrassed for you..."

Jiang Jiang Ruijia's pretty face flushed with embarrassment, her hands twisted together, and she really wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

Fortunately, Sister Zhang didn't stop her movements and helped say: "This can't be blamed on little Jiang, mainly because the time was too tight. I heard you only knew you were coming to Berlin a few days in advance, little Jiang, am I right? So how could you find a better sponsorship? You couldn't, right."

Jiang Jiang Ruijia said "Hmm," feeling very grateful in her heart. She knew Sister Zhang was helping her out of a tight spot.

Actually, she had known for a long time that she was going to follow them to Berlin this time. It is said that when the crew decided to add one person, they were actually hesitant between her and Teacher Xi Xi Meijuan, who played Liu Jingqiu's mother.

The reason they finally chose her was because she had a good relationship with the female lead and felt they had a lot in common when they were on the crew, which gave her this opportunity.

Jiang Jiang Ruijia heard this and was truly glad that she had deliberately tried to get close to the female lead when she was on the crew. Although the later dinner couldn't be arranged, it had fallen into the eyes of many people.

Up to this point, for a junior student at the Shanghai Theatre Academy, this was definitely a dream start.

In the words of her agent,

"After the film festival, when the film is released, that will be the time for us to make big money. You, you will be famous, it's just around the corner."

However, before making money and becoming famous, it was already not bad to be able to find a sponsorship; how could she dare to be picky?

Of course, she knew that necklace wasn't good; anyone with eyes could see that although the style looked flashy, in reality, most of it was low-grade diamonds, and it might only be worth a hundred thousand yuan in total.

Speaking of which, if it weren't for this, if it were really some jewelry worth millions, which merchant would lend it to her?

Once Sister Zhang intervened, Brother Lan probably figured out this logic, so he stopped talking about it and started working on her.

It must be said. There is naturally a reason why people have high standards.

Sister Zhang stepped aside and let Brother Lan operate for about twenty minutes. Jiang Jiang Ruijia looked at the girl in the mirror, only to see her eyebrows like paintings, sweet and lovely, and she almost couldn't recognize that it was herself.

Brother Lan stood aside and asked: "How is it? Looks good, right?"

Jiang Jiang Ruijia couldn't help but nod and say: "Looks good."

Brother Lan chuckled and said: "To tell you the truth, I didn't even go to the Spring Festival Gala this time, and I came to Berlin with you for only one purpose... As a result, humph, humph, if I had known that coming here would only mean putting makeup on a little girl like you, I wouldn't have cared at all."

"Don't look at me like that, although Director Zhang's face is big, but during our holidays and festivals, it's the time to make money, I said I couldn't come, you can't blame me, right."

Indeed, if it weren't for the fact that the two male and female leads in the crew brought their own makeup artists, Jiang Jiang Ruijia knew that with her status, how could she have two makeup artists serving her together? If it were another crew, it would be good enough if they didn't ask her to do her own makeup.

"Alright, sit down, let me fix your hair." Brother Lan's voice hadn't faded when suddenly someone knocked on the door outside.

Sister Zhang went to open the door, and Jiang Jiang Ruijia saw her agent grinning, obviously excited to the extreme, both ears were red, and he said in English, "Plz, please come in."

Behind him were three foreigners in suits and leather shoes, two men and one woman, and the two men each held a small password box in their hands.

Under the agent's greeting, several people filed in, and then her agent pointed at her and said in English: "It's her."

Several people then locked their eyes on Jiang Jiang Ruijia's face and looked her up and down.

Jiang Jiang Ruijia didn't know what had happened, and suddenly she didn't know where to put her hands.

The foreign woman nodded and said a string of English.

Her agent also answered in English.

The two men walked to the dressing table, first moved the original things on it to the side, and carefully placed the password box in their hands on it.

Then, the woman went over, covered the password dial with her hand, didn't even look with her eyes, and just quickly pressed on it with one finger.

With a "click," the lock opened, the woman opened the box, and turned back to gesture a "please" to Jiang Jiang Ruijia.

"Holy shit."

Jiang Jiang Ruijia heard Brother Lan curse in a low, rough voice.

She stood where she was, her two legs feeling as heavy as a thousand pounds.

Looking at the shiny, colorful jewelry on the black velvet in that box, she felt the whole person was stunned.

Those tiny polyhedrons on the jewelry twinkled under the light, like a sky full of stars. Compared with her original jewelry, it was like heaven and earth.

Although the woman looked like she was letting her go forward to take a look.

But before she figured out what was going on, how could she dare to move?

Undoubtedly, any piece in this box, she probably couldn't afford even if she sold herself.

Jiang Jiang Ruijia cast a confused look at Brother Li, the agent who accompanied her to Berlin.

Brother Li said another sentence of English to those foreigners, and then pulled her outside the hotel.

Brother Li's mood seemed very excited too. Before this, Jiang Jiang Ruijia had never seen him take a deep breath before speaking.

"Tonight, that is, in a while, you will walk the red carpet with Chen Nuo."

Jiang Jiang Ruijia's ears buzzed, and the whole person swayed.

Brother Li clearly anticipated her reaction, didn't care about her, and continued: "That's right, it was originally arranged for you to go with Director Zhang, but now, they found that it is more appropriate for you to go with Chen Nuo. At that time, you will walk the red carpet in groups of two, take photos separately first, and then meet up. I will tell you the whole process in a while, you go in and choose the jewelry first."

Jiang Jiang Ruijia shook her head to make herself sober, and asked in disbelief: "But why? Why is it arranged like this?"

"Do you think I would ask? Zhang Jiajia? When they told me just now, asking one more word would be irresponsible to you. What if they think we are unwilling? I don't care what they think, I would be a fool if I hesitated for a second."

Jiang Jiang Ruijia also took a deep breath, nodded, and said: "Brother Li, you are right."

"So go, go choose your jewelry quickly."

"Harry Winston?"

"Yes, Harry Winston."

When Chen Nuo walked out of the room, Zhang Zhang Yimou and Zhang Zhang Weiping happened to bring a few people to find him.

Seeing him for the first time, Director Zhang smiled, "You wear this Zhongshan suit, what are we supposed to do?"

Chen Nuo also smiled, "First time wearing it, not bad, right?"

Zhang Zhang Yimou laughed, "More than just not bad, today you are absolutely a true film killer. Come, let me introduce you, this is from Xinhua News Agency..."

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Chen Nuo understood the intention of the first domestic news agency.

It turned out they wanted to do a special report on their film's award-winning situation in Berlin this time. They wanted to interview Zhang Zhang Yimou and him in a few days.

After Chen Nuo agreed, people also knew that time was tight, and the premiere was about to start, so they didn't stay long.

After people left, Zhang Zhang Weiping smiled, "Nuozi, you are really on fire now."

Chen Nuo smiled.

In reality, he didn't feel anything in his heart.

In the words of the people from Xinhua News Agency, the song he sang at the Spring Festival Gala last night was a bit out of the circle in China.

Not only was the popularity of *Under the Hawthorn Tree* in China completely opened up, but Chen Nuo also had a trend of becoming popular again.

That's right, it was becoming popular again.

Because the wave of losing fans he announced before was no joke. Screenshots posted by many old fans showed that some QQ fan groups that were originally full left more than half directly.

If he were some idol singer, this wave of official announcement would basically declare that he had fallen from super first-tier to second or third-tier overnight.

Fortunately, he wasn't.

So, when those crazy fans, face fans, and girlfriend fans left, he could still be a celebrity at the Spring Festival Gala, and still have many people like and reply on his Weibo.

This trend of losing fans was also completely reversed after the Spring Festival Gala.

However, for him personally, this wasn't actually a good thing.

As an actor, he had heard Li Er tell him long ago that box office appeal and daily exposure were inversely proportional.

Because when all is said and done, acting is a profession of selling one's face.

If he really spent all day posting various handsome photos on Weibo, engaging in various marketing hype, striking while the iron is hot, and eating up all the traffic.

When his films are released later, he still wants to sell movie tickets?

Unless he is Nezha.

Once you become a traffic star, don't think about eating the rice of films anymore.

Otherwise, even if the fans are powerful, what if the pre-sale is hundreds of millions? In the end, it will probably be at the level of the last place.

However, he thought so, so he wasn't very happy.

But the media didn't think so.

Seeing that he sang a sad song for everyone on the joyous New Year's Eve, singing it so that now the internet is saying "sang half of China to tears."

Even if those who scolded him and those who praised him were almost equal, it was indeed a household name.

But he didn't say a word and flew back to Berlin that day. What's more terrifying is that after participating in the film festival, he still has to go to LA to film later.

Once he enters the crew, he will be even more isolated from the world.

In this situation, the domestic media really felt the sky had fallen.

It's a pity that no one can eat this wave of sky-high traffic.

So someone really started to arrange, contacted the staff of the Berlin branch of Xinhua News Agency, and came to the door.

The first domestic news agency was embarrassed to say they were here to rub off the heat, so they found a theme of interviewing the film's award-winning.

However, in the eyes of those with discerning eyes, many things were already tacit.

"Thanks to you, Nuozi. This time, I can finally rest assured."

Zhang Zhang Weiping said sincerely, "I only encountered this kind of situation where I didn't have to worry about promotion when I was doing *Hero*."

Chen Nuo smiled: "To be honest, it has nothing to do with me, it's all the director's face."

"No matter whose face it is. Once this report from Xinhua News Agency goes out, the influence will definitely be top-notch. Other media will definitely follow up. At that time, Nuozi, you will be filming your play in the United States, even if you don't have time to come back, our film will definitely sell well this time! I have this confidence now." Zhang Zhang Weiping smiled.

Chen Nuo smiled: "That would be the best."

Zhang Zhang Yimou followed with a smile, but didn't speak on the side.

In reality, he felt that it wasn't just the domestic box office; this time in the Berlin Film Festival's award-winning, according to the current situation, as long as what he cut out wasn't a piece of shit, then they should all get a small award. Now, Zhang Zhang Yimou finally truly realized the gold content of the two words Chen Nuo in foreign places.

Not at all like before.

He brought a group of people to compete abroad. The media that came were all looking at his face. He was the thigh of the crew. The pressure was really huge.

But this time it's different.

Director Zhang finally realized what it feels like to have a thigh to hug.

It's really relaxed and comfortable.

How could he not understand what Luo Man Polanski understands?

Media hype is not some profound martial arts secret.

The problem is that these foreign media, sometimes you really can't invite them even if you spend money.

It was the same before.

Wanting to invite one or several influential media, even if it was him, was not an easy thing.

But this time, *Der Spiegel*, which is famous all over Germany and even the world, just left, and there are several top entertainment media from France and the UK coming soon.

It can be said that as long as they are willing, they can have endless interviews 24 hours a day.

Even if he is Zhang Zhang Yimou, he has never fought such a wealthy war in his life.

Old Old Mouzi now really feels that as long as his film passes this time, it won't be criticized as a piece of dog shit by those tricky film critics and judges.

This time it really has it.

However, will it be a piece of dog shit?

Zhang Zhang Yimou suppressed the anxiety in his heart and smiled: "Alright, time is almost up, the car will be here soon, let's prepare and set off."

When Chen Nuo got into the courtesy car that the film festival sent to pick them up, Jiang Jiang Ruijia was already sitting inside.

After sitting in, Chen Nuo looked at the girl sitting opposite him, seeing her face full of tension, couldn't help but make a joke, "How about it, am I handsome in this outfit today?"

Jiang Jiang Ruijia nodded vigorously, "Handsome."

She didn't lie.

Jiang Jiang Ruijia had never seen anyone who could wear such old-fashioned clothes so trendy and good-looking.

A stiff new Chinese-style Zhongshan suit, with a stand-up collar, fitting the slender neck and clean jawline, making his facial features so three-dimensional and deep.

It can definitely leave a deep impression on any girl.

However, the reason why Jiang Jiang Ruijia almost held her breath the moment he got into the car wasn't actually because he was handsome.

It was because of the two words Chen Nuo.

She had also heard about the news in China today.

She knew that as long as she returned to China and added a little bit of exaggeration to what happened while she and Chen Nuo were in the same car today, she would definitely be able to make it to the front page headlines of major news websites.

Even if they just said some useless nonsense, there would definitely be many people who wanted to hear what Chen Nuo's nonsense would be about.

What's more, the diamond necklace worth millions around her neck now, which she could wear for free, was all because of this name.

How could she not be on pins and needles opposite him?

Hearing Jiang Jiang Ruijia's praise, Chen Nuo laughed: "Thank you."

After saying that, he saw Jiang Jiang Ruijia still looking nervous, so he didn't say anything more.

First time participating in a film festival, more or less it's like this.

When he walked the red carpet with Emma Stone back then, wasn't Emma also nervous to the point of a stomachache? He was about the same, walking with his head down, wishing he could finish the red carpet area in two steps.

Zhang Zhang Yimou arranged for the old to lead the new, that was still to give people some time to calm down.

Why did he want him and Jiang Jiang Ruijia, not Liu Qi Yifei, to walk together? The reason, besides letting him lead her like a friend.

Actually, there were two more.

The first is because their film this time in Berlin, besides today, will have a red carpet.

Starting this year, the Berlin Film Festival, in order to expand its influence and coverage in Berlin, has set up a new link called "Film into the Community."

That is to take some films with relatively high attention, after the premiere, to the cinemas in various areas of Berlin, and screen them for ordinary people.

Today Zhang Zhang Yimou and the others received a notice that their film had already made this list.

In a few days, it will land in a cinema in a certain area of Berlin, and at that time, they will have to go and meet the audience.

So in order to walk something different on the red carpet, this arrangement was made.

This is one, the ostensible reason.

The second reason was told to him by Qi Yuntian.

He said he heard a staff member mention that Zhang Zhang Weiping felt that if he walked the red carpet with Liu Qi Yifei and stood with Zhang Zhang Yimou and Jiang Jiang Ruijia's combination, he was afraid the picture would not be balanced. That's why this arrangement was made.

Chen Nuo didn't understand what not balanced meant.

But he really didn't care. Even if he was with Director Zhang, he felt it was quite good.

The hotel they were staying at wasn't far from the premiere venue, the Marlene Dietrich Square Film Palace in the Tiergarten district of Berlin, and it only took ten minutes to get there.

Jiang Jiang Ruijia even felt it was just a moment; she had just thought of a topic, and the car stopped.

She landed in Berlin after the opening ceremony ended, and this was her first film festival.

Everything that followed, for Jiang Jiang Ruijia, could be said to be crazy.

Before this, she hadn't been to other film festivals; she only felt the enthusiastic situation in Cannes, Venice, and other places in entertainment news, in the red carpet photos of Gong Li, Zhang Zhang Ziyi, Fan Fan Bingbing, and others.

At this time, she realized that the real scene was ten thousand times more lively than she imagined.

How could there be so many photographers with cameras in one place? They were lined up on both sides of the red carpet, stepping on stools, and there were actually five rows from low to high. On both sides of the red carpet, which was a full fifty meters long, were all photographers with cameras.

The lenses in their hands were like the compound eyes of insects, dense and countless, so many that her trypophobia was almost triggered.

If it weren't for someone walking with her, her weak legs would definitely have made a fool of herself.

Actually, let alone Jiang Jiang Ruijia, Chen Nuo didn't expect there to be so many photographers today.

I don't know if it's because the venue here in Berlin is large or for some other reason, anyway, this battle is already comparable to the Oscars.

"Chen, look here."

"Chen, tell your girlfriend to smile."

"Look over here, Chen, you look extremely handsome today."

"I like your Chinese-style clothes, give me a side view, thank you."

"Chen, look here, give me a Twilight look, okay?"

"Put your arm around your girlfriend's waist, Chen. She is very cute."

Messy voices came from both sides of the red carpet, and Chen Nuo was too lazy to care what these face-blind photographers were saying. After taking pictures with Jiang Jiang Ruijia for a while, he met up with Zhang Zhang Yimou and Liu Qi Yifei.

Not paying attention, Liu Qi Yifei ran to his other side. In the gap between changing poses for photos, she whispered to him: "Are you avoiding me?"

Chen Nuo almost wanted to laugh, "Me? Avoiding you?"

"Yes, otherwise why did you run to walk the red carpet with Zhang Jiajia?"

"That was arranged by the director."

"Really, I thought you were afraid."

Holy shit. Chen Nuo couldn't help but turn his head to look at Liu Qi Yifei, and said: "What did you say? I'm afraid of you?"

Liu Qi Yifei turned her head and also looked at him, as if she had vented all the resentment she had been holding for several hours: "Why are you being fierce? You're still being fierce with me? Why did you go to walk the red carpet with Zhang Jiajia? Tell me, why?"

At this moment, countless flashes lit up.

Many photographers shouted and screamed.

"Wow, too sweet."

"Chen, this is your girlfriend, right."

"It can be seen that your relationship is very good."

"Can you kiss her?"

"Kiss one, okay?"

At this time, what Zhang Zhang Weiping was worried about still happened.

When Chen Nuo and Liu Qi Yifei were smiling and spitting at each other. Even if Zhang Zhang Yimou was smiling like an old chrysanthemum on the side, the whole picture was not balanced.

The five rows of cameras in front and back all shifted, and the sound of the shutter almost connected into a line, making Jiang Jiang Ruijia dumbfounded.

Originally she thought it was exaggerated enough before, but at this moment she realized that this was the real exaggeration.

"May I ask what you were talking about just now? It looked very interesting."

After taking photos, when accepting interviews from local German and some international media reporters in the interview area, the reporter from *Screen* asked curiously.

"Oh, she was asking me how she looked today."

"Then what did you say?"

"He said not so good."

The reporter asked: "Haha, then are you angry?"

"Of course, no."

"I was just joking, we often make jokes like this."

After speaking, Chen Nuo and Liu Qi Yifei looked at each other and smiled, just like it was real.

The reporter from *Screen* asked again: "Chen, when Leonardo and Martin Scorsese came together just now, he said he was optimistic about you winning the Berlin Silver Bear for the second time. What do you think?"

Chen Nuo said: "Thank you, thank him. I hope he will say the same after watching the film later."

"And Luo Man Polanski, he is here too."

"Really? Then I think I have to call the police."

"Hahahahaha."

The reporters who heard this all laughed.

Everyone thought Chen Nuo was joking, but in fact, he wasn't.

He really took a phone out of his pocket and dialed it in front of a group of various reporters and photographers.

"Hello, LAPD? I saw a minor sex offender..."

After a while.

After the photos were finished, when several people walked into the Film Palace together, Liu Qi Yifei had forgotten to be angry and asked curiously: "Chen Nuo, you didn't really call the LAPD, did you? You were acting, right?"

Chen Nuo said coldly: "What am I acting? Shouldn't I call the police when I see a criminal?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 329 =====