Chapter 343: Wait

At this time, it was already May 18, 2010.

Chen Nuo's time in the *Twilight 3* crew had entered the countdown.

There weren't many scenes left; he could wrap up in three or four days at most.

Before this, on the streets of Vancouver, he finally met Fan Fan Binbing, whom he had been making appointments with for nearly a month and who had always said she was busy, busy, busy.

Chen Nuo felt this should be God telling him,

some emotions or persistence, might as well let it stay in this foreign land.

Chen Nuo stood in place with a smile, watching Liu Yifei happily give Fan Fan Binbing a hug.

The weather in Vancouver in May was quite cold, especially since it rained last night.

Fan Fan Binbing looked a bit afraid of the cold, unlike Liu Yifei's light outfit of a trench coat and thin wool sweater; she was dressed loosely and casually, in a thin cotton jacket and a turtleneck sweater, looking like she was still staying in winter.

Noticing his gaze, Fan Fan Binbing turned her head and smiled at him, saying: "Why, why are you staring at me, don't you recognize me?"

Both were acting pros, who was afraid of whom? Even if he wasn't feeling well inside, Chen Nuo smiled just as nonchalantly as the other party: "A little. Hey, I say, is the food here too good? Why do I feel you've gained a little weight?"

He didn't know if it was because she hadn't acted for too long, but contrary to Chen Nuo's expectations, the small joke made Fan Fan Binbing's smile stiffen for a moment.

She touched her face with her hand and turned to ask Liu Yifei: "Is there? Feifei, have I gained weight?"

Liu Yifei rolled her eyes at Chen Nuo and said: "Not at all, not at all, don't listen to Chen Nuo's nonsense."

Fan Fan Binbing laughed and hugged Liu Yifei again, saying: "Qianqian is still the one who knows how to talk."

After Fan Fan Binbing sat down, Chen Nuo pressed the service bell. After the waiter came with the menu, Chen Nuo was about to help her order a caramel latte, but didn't expect Fan Fan Binbing to say first: "Soda water, thank you."

It wasn't just the water she drank; in the subsequent conversation, a feeling of not knowing each other also deepened.

Making Chen Nuo feel that his previous guesses had basically landed.

If she hadn't done something to apologize to him. Otherwise, according to Fan Fan Binbing's personality of liking to tease him whenever she had nothing to do, why would she be like this now, chatting with Liu Yifei non-stop, and not even daring to look him in the eye?

Until Fan Fan Binbing seemed to have discovered the problem, she made small talk with him: "I can't go to *No Man's Land* this time, has the company decided who to choose?"

"Not clear, Li Jing and Ning Hao are looking for people, I didn't manage this matter."

Fan Fan Binbing smiled and said again: "I've been on vacation for so long, the company should be fine, right?"

"No problem."

"... That's good."

In this meeting, except for the "bye-bye" at the end, this was the only conversation between the two.

It was exactly the same feeling as an ex-boyfriend and ex-girlfriend meeting; there was an invisible wall between the two.

And Chen Nuo could be sure that this wall was built by the other party.

Even Liu Yifei discovered that something was wrong between the two. After dinner, when they parted, she frowned and asked him: "Chen Nuo, I think you and Sister Bingbing are so strange. What's going on?"

"Is there?"

"Yes. Are you angry with Sister Bingbing?"

"No."

"Clearly there is. Oh, I know, are you unhappy that Sister Bingbing is starting a business in Canada and staying for so long?"

"Really not, she can stay for a few more years."

Chen Nuo didn't lie.

There is a saying that the earth will turn without anyone.

For Huanxin Company, it seemed to be the same.

Except for the one surnamed Chen, no one was irreplaceable.

Regardless of whether she was surnamed Fan or Liu.

Although Fan Fan Binbing left Beijing to close her business, and Liu Yifei temporarily left the mainland to accompany her boyfriend to film.

But from April to May 2010, the hottest actress in all of China still came from Huanxin Company.

Her name is Zhao Liying, from Langfang, Hebei, who used to be an extra in Hengdian.

*Schemes of a Beauty*, this ancient costume palace drama, premiered on Anhui TV in March, with a viewership rating of only 0.7% at the start.

For a drama series carried by a newcomer female lead, such a result, although not good, was within expectations.

No one expected that a month later, on April 18, just as Chen Nuo had arrived in Vancouver to start filming *Twilight*, *Schemes of a Beauty* reached its finale.

At that time, its peak viewership rating reached 1.8%, not only surpassing *The Firmament of the Pleiades* starring Sun Li in the same year, which had a viewership rating of 1.33%, and *Dream of the Red Chamber* filled with female stars, but even approached the highest 1.92% viewership rating set by the phenomenal drama *Three Kingdoms* that year.

The reason for the continuous rise in the viewership rating of *Schemes of a Beauty*,

was the "duel between two beauties" between Zhao Liying and Yang Mi, who became popular in China because of *Chinese Paladin 3*, attracting a large number of viewers,

and also Zhao Liying herself.

Her ancient costume look was indeed eye-catching.

In terms of acting, she was indeed a bit stronger than the batch of popular young actresses of the same age in *Chinese Paladin 3*, including Yang Mi in the play.

Most importantly, her harmless, non-lethal face had a feeling of killing both men and women.

It even attracted more female fans than male fans.

The number of times she was pushed onto the hot search by those fan circle girls was six times, two more than what the crew specifically bought from Sina.

Now, it could be completely said that she became popular overnight domestically.

So much so that some entertainment media even shouted the exaggerated slogan: "Huanxin's tail-ender, sweeping the ceiling of domestic entertainment!"

Under these circumstances, quite a few merchants came to the door, Zhao Liying's endorsement fee soared to 3 million a year, and commercial performances also reached about 500,000 per show.

Although according to Huanxin Company's consistent shy style, they hadn't started taking commercial performances to rake in money, and their choice of endorsements was relatively cautious, but it was visible that the third pillar was about to be set up.

And,

"Wait until July in the second half of the year, Zhao Liying will have *Heavenly Sword and Dragon Slaying Sabre* on national local stations, and the heat will definitely continue to rise. And Zhao Liying is diligent, so when she does commercial performances and takes endorsements, the contribution to the company might be higher than Yifei's."

Regarding this judgment made by Li Jing when reporting to Qi Yuntian, although Chen Nuo didn't express an opinion, his confidence in Zhao Liying was actually fuller than anyone else's.

More than ten years later, among this batch of female artists born after '85, this baby-faced one was the one who was popular for the longest time.

If Liu Yifei got married, had children, and got divorced, she might not have such a long-lasting and even counter-trend upward acting life as her.

Let alone others.

The key is what is the relationship between little Zhao and him?

Friendship!

Friendship lasts forever, that is the true "Dinghai Shenzhen" (stabilizing needle).

Fan Fan Binbing,

let it be if it's scattered.

Three days later, *Twilight 3* wrapped up.

In the evening, Chen Nuo and Liu Yifei were packing their luggage in the room when the phone suddenly rang.

Chen Nuo looked at the name on the phone, picked it up and smiled: "Hello, Miss Vice President, what's the matter?"

Chen Nuo's smile only lasted for three seconds before it slowly disappeared.

After listening for dozens of seconds, he smiled again and said: "OK, I know, thank you Lori, I owe you one. You tell that side, it's fine, publish it."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure."

Then, he hung up the phone, sat on the bed thinking for a while, and then opened his laptop and logged into Twitter.

Liu Yifei was humming a song behind him, putting clothes into the suitcase. Five minutes later, Chen Nuo refreshed Twitter and looked at the latest tweet TMZ sent out.

He picked up his phone and dialed a number.

As always, Qi Yuntian always picked up his phone quickly, and heard "Hello" without ringing twice.

Chen Nuo asked directly: "How did you talk in Summit these days?"

Hearing Qi Yuntian tone on the phone was completely ignorant, "Didn't I just say this morning? Will Stenson, that old guy, has been circling us. I've been going back and forth between LA and here."

"Oh. I just received a call from Lori Eisner..."

Chen Nuo told Qi Yuntian the news he just got unhurriedly on the phone.

At the same time, during his narration, the little tune that was originally humming behind him also quieted down.

"Will, it must be him, wait a moment, I'll call Will Stenson, that dog bastard, right now!" Speaking to the end, Hearing Qi Yuntian voice rose on the other side, and the resentment was about to permeate his five-star suite through radio waves.

This seemed to be the first time Chen Nuo and Qi Yuntian had known each other that he saw this guy lose his composure like this.

Chen Nuo was unhurried, saying: "Wait, calm down. Are you sure Will Stenson did it!?"

"Who else could it be besides him!? It must be him."

"Do you think he wants to use this to force me to sign a contract with them?"

"Definitely!"

"Fine, but, don't call, you go to Twitter to see first, and then we'll talk."

"... Okay."

The phone hung up, Chen Nuo didn't speak, sliding the mouse, looking at TMZ's Twitter account on the computer screen.

That tweet that had just been sent out, probably only three minutes had passed, and it had over 1,000 clicks and over 100 comments.

In the current era, this number is not small.

It is estimated that it won't be long before the tags related to him will be in the top 20 of the North American trend list.

TMZ, the largest entertainment news network in North America launched by Warner and AOL, being able to contact Lori to tell him before publishing the news, was definitely Chen Nuo's huge face.

So, the tweet wasn't written politely, and he wasn't very angry.

TMZ: Exclusive breaking news—#NuoChen #KingOfVampires or #KingOfGreed? Insiders reveal Twilight lead actor raked in 120 million USD from the first two volumes! The fourth part even proposed a sky-high renewal request, and negotiations have been in trouble so far...

The content was repeating some so-called news from insiders, confirming that he had earned so much money from the first two parts. So it made people look like he was still asking for a lion's share on the fourth part, which was a bit intolerable.

Just like in the current comment section,

just like the top-liked comment by @realpatriot_usa.

"A Chinese person filmed two movies and earned 120 million USD?! Now he wants more? My daughter's bedroom is still covered with his posters. What does this kind of 'idol' teach children? Greed? #NuoChen #GreedyOrientalVampire#"

And below this comment, they were all people who were the same and yin-yang strange.

"Damn, I knew it! Otherwise, why would he bet 2 million with Harvey Weinstein!"

"120 million, the IRS should check this guy well."

"Is Summit Entertainment crazy? At that time he was still a nobody, why give him so much?"

"Can you publish the contract details, I really want to know what's going on."

"His pay is higher than Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt lol."

I don't know when, but there was an extra head next to his face, staring at the screen like him.

As a result, Hearing Qi Yuntian phone hadn't come yet, but Liu Yifei called out: "How hateful these people are. You didn't steal or rob, what does it have to do with them how much you earn? Why do they say that about you?"

Chen Nuo closed the laptop and said: "Yeah, what does it have to do with them."

Liu Yifei's little face wrinkled, worriedly saying: "Then what are you going to do?"

Chen Nuo smiled: "What do you think?"

Liu Yifei frowned: "This must be Summit Entertainment's doing, I think they definitely can't let them succeed. They are too bad for doing this. Hmm... do you want to explain it? Actually, you didn't know you could earn so much money at the time, right?"

Chen Nuo looked at Liu Yifei and asked: "Do you think explaining is useful?"

Liu Yifei tilted her head, her head tilted slightly to the right, a few strands of hair slipped from her shoulder, she subconsciously tucked them behind her ears, leaned forward slightly, her eyes full of seriousness, her volume increased a little unconsciously, and she said anxiously: "Why would it be useless? They all think Summit Entertainment gave you so much money. They don't know that it's actually because the film's box office sold well that you earned so much money. This is your strength, isn't it?"

Chen Nuo laughed and said: "Makes sense, really makes sense."

Under the light, Liu Yifei saw Chen Nuo laughing, first froze, then pouted, dissatisfied: "Oh, I'm not joking with you, don't laugh! You can still laugh, if I were you, I would be anxious to death... Hey hey hey, what are you doing? At this time, you still want to... mm, mm mm."

A little later, the whole room was filled with a cadence of sounds.

Like fine waves hitting the beach, one wave after another,

and it seemed like a playful cat had quietly sneaked in, frolicking on the big bed, babbling, squeezing out some notes from the throat that were like heavenly sounds but with sobbing, the sound sometimes low, sometimes winding, like weeping and complaining.

At this time, Chen Nuo's phone on the table started vibrating again.

The screen showed Hearing Qi Yuntian number.

The name was beating, appearing so anxious.

However, it was a pity that his calling time was so unfortunate.

It just happened to encounter a gust of wind and rain, and then the cat's cry suddenly increased by several decibels, completely covering the phone's movement.

Undoubtedly, at this juncture, Liu Yifei was very anxious, and Qi Yuntian was also very anxious.

However, Chen Nuo was not anxious at all.

He didn't perfunctorily deal with Qianqian; what Liu Yifei said just now was absolutely correct.

These vague news reports concealed some key information and were full of rhythm.

Clarifying the gambling contract he signed at the time should be able to reverse some people's views.

But...

What kind of person is Chen Nuo?

If social media with huge traffic like Twitter, Weibo, FB, and even future Ins will grow into towering trees in the future, and every human being in human society is a leaf on these trees.

Then he is the person who has witnessed the whole process of these trees growing from small to large, and then to lush branches and leaves, and then to decline.

In the era of 2010, his qualifications are unique.

Chen Nuo himself has forgotten how many times he has seen the stormy waves on Weibo and Twitter.

But as a former internet celebrity, being rumored, smeared, and even having his true inside story as a scumbag exposed were all common occurrences.

In this era, his rich experience could even write a textbook on internet public relations to sell for money.

It is no exaggeration to say that he has at least 113 ways to deal with these things.

However, before these methods are brought out, he needs to do one thing first.

That is—

Wait.

Because social media has always been a mental hospital; the more hysterical you wave the medical record to prove your innocence, the more you will be labeled as "seriously ill."

Explaining any contract or pay now is like pouring gasoline into a fire.

People who do this don't understand that on social media, no one cares about what the truth is.

Every so-called hot spot is a hunger game.

Countless boring people are waiting to use this to satisfy their hunger; if you don't let them eat their fill, and go to clarify this and that, it's like grabbing a bone from a dog's mouth; it's strange if they don't bite you to death.

So, waiting is the top priority.

The key is that he is still waiting while doing it, and it's very refreshing, why be anxious?

Besides.

People who are anxious to flip the table often forget that there is a share of their own food on the table, isn't there?

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