Chapter 372

When Chen Nuo stepped into the bedroom, Fan Fan Fan Binbing was breastfeeding the child.

James Pritzker's country villa, located in the York region on the outskirts of Toronto, was hidden in a lush maple forest.

The surrounding hills were undulating, Lake Ontario was faintly visible in the distance, and everything was quiet.

It was the afternoon, and the bright, dazzling sunlight poured in through the floor-to-ceiling windows, with a few rays of light like strands of golden gauze, obliquely reflecting on the head of the bed.

The woman was wearing a loose beige cotton bathrobe, her thick, black, long hair cascading to one side, a few strands of hair sticking to her fair, porcelain-like cheeks, setting off those phoenix eyes to be even more charming; even though there was a bit of fatigue at the corners of her eyes, the gentleness from the inside out made her beautiful beyond compare.

The lapel of her bathrobe had been pushed open on one side.

The snow-white roundness, like mutton-fat jade, had a large part exposed.

Having just given birth, it was fuller and plumper than before, and one could faintly see the blue veins on the hemisphere.

The little one, who had been born only a few days ago, had her eyes closed tightly, lying peacefully in her arms, her little mouth containing it, sucking hard, making a slight smacking sound. Her little face was wrinkled and still had fetal redness, fine soft fetal hair sticking to her forehead, occasionally twitching her little hand, looking extremely cute.

Chen Nuo's sound of opening the door startled the woman.

She glanced up, her eyes flowing with a bit of shyness and some indescribable emotions, didn't speak, and lowered her head again, looking at the little thing in her arms.

Fortunately, before the top medical team withdrew, the doctors and nurses had specifically communicated with him.

Otherwise, Chen Nuo estimated that until now, he wouldn't be sure how to deal with Fan Fan Fan Binbing; now, he already knew.

"How is it? Is her appetite good today?" Chen Nuo closed the door lightly, not letting a trace of wind leak in, walked to the bed and sat down, his eyes fixed on that group of snow-white and the little baby by the snow-white.

Fan Fan Fan Binbing subconsciously turned her body to the side and whispered: "It's alright."

Chen Nuo leaned closer, pretending to be surprised: "What do you mean it's alright, I see she's eating so deliciously. It makes me hungry too..."

Fan Fan Fan Binbing curled her lips, revealing a trace of a smile, glanced at him, and said: "Bad guy."

Chen Nuo laughed: "Why am I a bad guy?"

"What do you think..." Fan Fan Fan Binbing paused and asked: "What did Qi Da call you out for? Is there something?"

"No, just chatted with them about the schedule later. She seems to be full. Are you tired? Do you want me to hold her for a while and let you rest?"

Indeed, the little thing was full, her little mouth started blowing bubbles, and she opened her big eyes to look around curiously, looking extremely cute.

Fan Fan Fan Binbing tidied up the lapel of her bathrobe, covered her exposed chest, wiped the little thing's mouth with a tissue, and said: "No need, she'll cry again if you hold her. I'll coax her to sleep first, then you can carry her to the bed."

After speaking, she gently rocked her arms, rocked for nearly five minutes, and the little thing in her arms finally closed her eyes little by little, her breathing gradually becoming even and calm.

Fan Fan Fan Binbing signaled, and Chen Nuo hurriedly carried the child over lightly, carefully putting her back into the baby box. Afterward, he walked back and sat by the bed.

Fan Fan Fan Binbing asked softly: "Then when are you planning to leave?"

"Next Tuesday."

Fan Fan Fan Binbing said very seriously: "If you have something to do, go get busy; she and I are quite good, nothing will happen. Also, the nanny I had before has come, and Zhang Xiaomei will also take care of me, don't worry."

"I'm not worried. But my work next is really starting from the 29th, so leaving on the 27th is just right."

Chen Nuo said seriously, "When the time comes, I will be busy until the 10th. Then, I plan to return on the 11th, stay with you for two more days here, and also see the baby. Return to China on the 13th. After I'm busy with things domestically, I will come back again. By the time that happens, you should be able to get out of bed too. We'll see what to do next then, whether you return to China or what."

Fan Fan Fan Binbing nodded, said "good," then was silent for a while, and said: "I'm sorry."

Chen Nuo smiled, touched the woman's smooth long hair, "It's okay."

"I didn't know what was wrong with me at that time."

"If you don't know, then forget it, don't think about it." Chen Nuo comforted.

Actually, he knew now what was wrong with Fan Fan Fan Binbing at that time.

Not only what the doctor told him, but Fan Fan Fan Binbing herself belonged to the pregnancy hormone-sensitive constitution, easily affected by hormone fluctuations in the body. Leading to emotional ups and downs.

Also because, as an actress, since her debut, Fan Fan Fan Binbing had relied on this face of hers to eat.

From Jin Suo in *My Fair Princess* to Li Li Ningyu in *The Message*, she stepped by step became a myth under the spotlight. She was used to being praised, used to standing at the top and looking down at others.

For the past ten years, every inch of her skin and every strand of her hair had been magnified and examined by the lens.

By this time in 2010, she had almost redefined the word "beauty" in the minds of many Chinese people, reshaping the aesthetics of I don't know how many men and women.

At the very least, without her appearance, there wouldn't be those artificial chins that were sharper than the next one in the future.

May I ask, in this situation, due to the appearance anxiety brought to her by pregnancy and childbirth, how could it be something ordinary people could imagine?

Why did she treat him like a robber when facing him before, afraid that he would snatch the child away?

Because under this pressure, she was actually willing to give birth to the child!

You just say how much she cares about this child.

So Chen Nuo understood very well why she would hysterically beg him not to snatch the baby away at the beginning. That was absolutely an emotional breakdown caused by the dual effect of hormones and anxiety.

Now according to the doctor, with the completion of production and the decline of pregnancy hormone content in the body, as long as corresponding psychological counseling is done, basically after the confinement, Fan Fan Fan Binbing would be able to recover to her original appearance.

Chen Nuo was originally still half-believing.

But now he suddenly discovered that it seemed to be really like this.

I saw that when Fan Fan Fan Binbing heard him say this, she suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, her soft body leaned over, fell onto his shoulder, and muttered: "I think of it now, I really seemed to have changed into a different person at that time, as if something was controlling me in my body, so scary."

Chen Nuo didn't know what to say, so he had to hold her shoulder with his hand, stroking her scattered hair.

Afterward, I don't know what happened, it unknowingly slid into the front lapel of the loose pajamas.

He really wasn't doing it on purpose, purely out of curiosity.

The result of curiosity was finding that in this situation, the feel was indeed different from normal circumstances.

With a rough grip of Chen Nuo's palm, he knew it was a full circle larger and rounder than before.

Soft and full, like dough that had just been fermented, hanging heavily in the palm, carrying a slight warmth.

At this time, he just pressed lightly with his fingertips, feeling the fullness inside, as if the full water bag was about to overflow at any time.

Fan Fan Fan Binbing gave a light "ah" cry, her body trembling.

Chen Nuo took his hand out to look and smell it.

Fan Fan Fan Binbing slapped his hand away all of a sudden, her face flushed red, and she said: "What are you doing."

Then, the woman looked back at the baby bed, turned her head again, bit her lip, and whispered: "It won't work now, it'll take more than a month... are you unable to hold back?"

Chen Nuo coughed lightly, "It's alright."

It's alright.

Generally, men who say this kind of thing are in a state of wanting a little face, but not having much of it.

Fan Fan Fan Binbing looked at him biting her lip, and then said: "Or I'll use... to help you. But, I'm not convenient to move now, or... you come up?"

This...

Chen Nuo thought about that scene, and had to say it was a bit exciting.

But.

Alright, there's no "but." Just be careful not to suffocate.

The key is that he's not the only one who wants to!

He could see that Fan Fan Fan Binbing was clearly holding back for a long time.

Besides, what is depression most afraid of?

Chen Nuo had read relevant papers in his previous life, and it was exactly happy hormones.

If you are happy and in a good mood, you won't be depressed.

In a short time, Chen Nuo thought of many excuses, and his guilt disappeared little by little.

Having made up his mind, he would just serve the tiger with his body.

And Chen Nuo didn't guess wrong; Fan Fan Fan Binbing was truly like a tigress who hadn't eaten meat for a long time.

Although she couldn't really swallow it to relieve the itch in her heart, the active initiative shown by the woman throughout the process was unprecedented, even developing some new routines, making it truly difficult to last long.

Finally, Chen Nuo wiped Fan Fan Fan Binbing's face with a tissue, looking at the woman swallowing her saliva, looking unsatisfied, truly having a feeling from the bottom of his heart.

If you do more and talk less, the world will truly be much, much better.

Look, before the Japanese even came, that originally depressed and gloomy feeling was almost gone.

What postpartum depression.

I guess, that's all from holding it in!

After his sage mode, Fan Fan Fan Binbing was still mumbling there, twisting and turning, looking uncomfortable.

But Chen Nuo didn't want to think about these things at this time; he wanted to do some serious business.

There were some things he wanted to make clear to the other party, so that after he left, she wouldn't think about this and that, and finally cause some trouble, which wouldn't be good.

"Cough, by the way, tell you something, I promised you. The child can take your surname."

"Really?" Fan Fan Fan Binbing stopped humming, shouted in surprise, sat up straight, looked at him with big eyes blinking and shining, and grabbed him tightly with both hands, "You didn't lie to me?"

"Really. You can take the name too. But, I have one condition."

"What condition?"

"Now she can only settle in Canada. However, when she grows up to 18 and returns to China to settle, if she wants to change her surname to Chen herself, you cannot interfere."

Fan Fan Fan Binbing wrinkled her nose, "What do you mean? You think she will lean toward you when she grows up."

Chen Nuo laughed: "I didn't say that; I just feel that in such matters, we need to respect the child's own wishes when the time comes."

Fan Fan Fan Binbing hummed, and said: "Fine, I promise. Let's wait and see. I don't believe that the baby I raised with my own hands will lean toward you in the end!"

Yo, I feel that the taste of Fan Ye has come out.

Chen Nuo's mood also relaxed a lot.

Seriously, seeing that soft, weak, crying Fan Fan Fan Binbing, he really wasn't used to it, and didn't like it either.

"But there is a premise for doing this, and that is, the fact that I am her father must be told to her from the first day she understands, and it cannot be hidden from her."

Fan Fan Fan Binbing hesitated, looked into Chen Nuo's eyes, and said hesitantly: "..."

The filming set of *The Big Bang Theory* was located in Studio 25 of the Warner Brothers studio.

When Chen Nuo came here, he didn't feel very unfamiliar.

Because some shots of *Inception* were filmed in Studio 16 of this huge photography base, this time it was just moving from 16 to 25.

And like many American dramas, the production process of *The Big Bang Theory* was also to film a part of the episodes first, and after broadcasting, adjust the plot direction according to the ratings and audience feedback.

The 13th episode he guest-starred in was the first episode of the second half of the season after the first half was broadcast, expected to premiere two weeks later, on Thursday night at 8:00 PM on December 12.

On the morning of November 28, when he walked into the makeup room under the leadership of the director and producer, the actors had all arrived and started putting on makeup.

When they noticed their group entering the makeup room, everyone stood up.

"Let me introduce, actually no need to introduce, I know everyone knows him, the Joker, the vampire, he has created many classic screen roles, let's welcome our guest star for the 13th episode of the 4th season of *The Big Bang Theory*, Nuo Chen." The on-site director Mark Cendrowski said with a full face of smiles.

Wow!

Everyone in the room applauded.

"Thank you, thank you."

Chen Nuo nodded in thanks.

When the applause died down, he said with a smile, "Thank you all. I'm very happy to be here because I'm a loyal fan of *The Big Bang Theory*."

"Haha, don't believe it, I'm telling the truth."

"Every time I feel I lack a sense of humor, I will watch your show... every time after watching, I will think, this bunch of people dare to do comedy. Then, I will feel much better,"

"Hahahahaha!"

Originally thinking he would say some polite words, the crew members didn't expect him to play a reversal, and everyone laughed and applauded. Amidst the laughter and applause, Jim Parsons, who played the protagonist Xie Erdun, took the initiative and walked up.

Although *The Big Bang Theory* had already stood firm in the Thursday 8:00 PM slot, with 12-14 million viewers per episode, it had become one of the top 3 sitcoms in the United States.

However, these few leads in the show were still quite green and hadn't reached the point of becoming popular all over the world in later generations. Including this Jim Parsons, who would win several Emmy Awards for Best Actor later, he currently only had an Emmy nomination last year.

So, at this moment, in front of Chen Nuo, his expression was still a bit cautious, he reached out his hand, and said a bit carefully: "Hi, Chen, very happy to see you. I'm Jim Parsons, playing Xie Erdun in the show, I'm your super fan."

Chen Nuo smiled and shook his hand: "I know you, Jim, very happy to see you."

Parsons let out a small jump and stepped aside; next was Johnny Galecki, who played the second male lead, Xie Erdun's roommate, the nerd Leonard.

Then Kaley Cuoco, the blonde big silly girl Penny.

Then Simon, who played Howard, and Kunal, who played the Indian socially anxious man Raj.

Actually, these were all actors Chen Nuo was very familiar with in his previous life.

In his previous life, when he was driving or sitting on a plane, the TV series he liked to listen to and watch most was this sitcom. He said he was a fan of this show just now, and he really didn't speak nonsense.

After the greetings, director Mark Cendrowski said again: "Chen, in a while we will conduct a rehearsal. This rehearsal has an audience; we will conduct some reaction tests on the spot and make final adjustments to the humor points. There is still a little time now, see if you want to enter the venue in advance and get familiar with the positioning with Parsons, Kaley, and the others?"

Chen Nuo nodded cleanly: "Good."

This was a bit beyond Mark Cendrowski's expectations.

He originally thought this big-name star would suffer a bit in the formal rehearsal before taking it seriously.

When Chen Nuo and several leads started to rehearse and position on stage, Mark Cendrowski stood under the stage with his hands folded.

At this time, the show's creator and screenwriter, and also executive producer Chuck Lorre, walked to his side and smiled: "Looks like this big star is easier to handle than we thought before, right?"

Cendrowski shrugged: "Looks like that for now."

"Alright, Mark, be happy. Think about it, he will bring us a huge wave of ratings. Those *Twilight* girls, that is absolutely a blank population that our show has never attracted, it's the key to our increasing ratings, just need one-tenth of his nearly 30 million FB fans to open the TV two weeks later and watch this episode, which will also let us surpass *Grey's Anatomy* or *House*, giving our motherfucker second half of the season's ratings a good start."

Cendrowski smiled and said disapprovingly: "Chuck, I think you are very optimistic."

"Hey, this isn't optimism, this is his first time accepting a guest invitation for a TV series, I think this will greatly improve our ratings, what's wrong with that? Instead, I'm very strange, why don't you look happy?"

Cendrowski said lightly: "Because I want to remind you, sitcoms are different from movies, our entire scene is shot with three cameras, and all the scenes will only be shot once, no close-up reshoots, the lines are the same... Parsons and the others have been reading the script since Monday, and have been practicing and rehearsing these days, and he, arrived today... he hasn't filmed any comedy before..."

"So, Chuck, I'm really worried about how he will perform."

On Thursday, December 6, the 12th episode of *The Big Bang Theory* just finished broadcasting.

On the CBS official website and CBS's YouTube account, a 30-second trailer was immediately launched, with the title: "Science conference has a big brawl, Leonard has a new rival! Next week he's coming—guess who he is?"

Many loyal viewers of *The Big Bang Theory* clicked on the trailer under this suspenseful title.

I saw the opening.

Xie Erdun stood in the middle of a house that looked like a conference room, and said seriously to his girlfriend beside him: "I don't believe a guy who acts can understand quantum mechanics."

The lens flashed, Leonard pushed his glasses, frowned and muttered: "Wait, Penny, you said you're dating that guy?"

The screen cut to Penny, the blonde big beauty standing in front of the cafeteria table, waving her hands and screaming at the nerd foursome: "Oh my god, you guys will never guess who I just bumped into in the hotel lobby!"

Then Raj painted his face white, spoke with an Indian accent, and said weirdly: "Why so serious? Does it look like it? Actually, I once won third place in a Joker imitation competition in India."

Finally, Howard jumped out, wearing tight jeans and a tight shirt full of sequins, twisting his waist and shaking his butt, licking his lips, and said greasily: "My baby, tonight, let's play something exciting." After speaking, he opened his mouth, revealing two white, sharp teeth.

Amidst the ensuing laughter.

The lens suddenly turned, and I saw a man with black hair wearing a suit walk onto the podium.

Other parts of his whole person were very clear, only his face was covered with a pile of mosaics, looking very funny.

At this time, the video screen went black.

A clear voice sounded in the darkness: "Hello, good evening everyone, I am 【beep】."

After the sound of the name being muted, the voice continued: "My speech topic is..."

Accompanied by the cheers and screams of the on-site audience that almost broke through the screen.

The screen lit up again.

"The Big Bang Theory. December 13, Thursday night at 8:00! That's right, that person you know, he's coming!"

Just after this trailer came out,

On Twitter and FB, *The Big Bang Theory*'s official account posted three pieces of trailer information from night to morning.

The first one: "Guess who is coming to the science conference? You will never guess! 12/13 Thursday at 8:00, someone you absolutely cannot believe will appear!" Attached was the video link to the CBS official website.

The second tweet: "Xie Erdun is going to explode, someone stole his limelight! Don't miss 12/13 Thursday at 8:00, someone is more popular than Xie Erdun!"

The third tweet directly @ the official Twitter of *Twilight*, writing: "The most handsome vampire in history, caught in a love triangle between Penny and Leonard! 12/13 Thursday at 8:00, he's coming!"

Just less than 1 hour after this third tweet appeared, the topic tag #nuochenbbt# rushed onto Twitter's trending search like a rocket, and the discussion volume was unstoppable, quickly breaking the 100,000 mark.

"WTF!? Chen is going to guest star in BBT *The Big Bang Theory*?"

What kind of show is *The Big Bang Theory*?

It tells the funny life stories of a group of physicist nerds.

It uses high-IQ scientists represented by Leonard, Xie Erdun, and others to perform comedy through their social barriers and low emotional intelligence characteristics in life.

It is full of a large number of scientific terms, as well as references and jokes about classic sci-fi movies, comics, and games, and the jokes played are not easily understood by ordinary people, mostly related to scientific knowledge, geek culture, and pop culture.

Most of its audience are nerds, geeks, or college students, and science lovers. This part of people is Chen Nuo's market blind spot.

Conversely, Chen Nuo's fan base is actually the same.

After this news came out at the beginning, the fan groups on both sides were collectively stunned.

First were the fans of BBT, who collectively issued doubts.

"Who? Chen? Who is this? Some Chinese scientist from Stanford or Harvard?"

"OMG, that Asian pretty boy who acted in *Twilight*, he's going to guest star in our BBT, is the director team crazy?"

"I highly doubt he can understand the lines in it."

"I've only seen his *Dark Knight*, he knows how to act in comedy?"

"I'm not planning to watch this episode, I think it will definitely be very awkward."

Similarly, Chen Nuo's fans also felt very strange.

"*The Big Bang Theory*? Is it that nerd show my sand-sculpture older brother watches?"

"I remember there isn't a single handsome guy in this show."

"I want to know why Chen's manager chose such a show for him to guest star in? However, no matter what, I will watch it."

"I'm very curious about what Chen will do in this kind of TV series."

"I'm too surprised, Chen would actually go to act in something like BBT, sisters, let me tell you, people who like BBT are all freaks, nerds, really!"

Afterward, it's hard to say whether the *Twilight* fans saw the nerds' remarks first, or the nerds saw the *Twilight* girls' evaluation of them first,

In short, when these two groups of people, whose original life circles were worlds apart, suddenly bumped into each other under the same topic, it was truly like Mars hitting Earth.

"Chen, that guy who acted in vampire movies, what does he know about science or comedy? I swear, this will definitely be a disaster."

"Dumb paper, Chen doesn't need to understand your science, because he has more interesting things to do. And besides reading books, what else can you do? I said, have you touched this?" 【A half-length photo wearing a tight vest, revealing cleavage】

"Can you guys go to college before speaking on the internet? Silly girl, this can at least let you spell words correctly."

"Oh my god, you people are too rude! Chen Nuo can do anything well as long as he makes up his mind. He is a very talented actor, and he will play this role very brilliantly." 【Vomiting expression】

"Nuo Chen is just a pretty boy. He doesn't have the wisdom and brain needed to play a role in *The Big Bang Theory*."

"Oh, come on! You're just jealous that he's more handsome than any of the characters you like. And his acting is better than any of them." 【Still photo of Edward from *Twilight*】

"Acting is better? In which universe?"

"In any universe, he is ten thousand times stronger than a socially awkward loser like your precious Xie Erdun. Who would want to watch a TV series played by that kind of character?"

"Xie Erdun is a genius! He is much smarter than your Chen. Chen's fans are all the same—superficial, only obsessed with appearance. They can't appreciate the depth of *The Big Bang Theory* at all."

"*The Big Bang Theory*'s fans are all the same—boring and not good at socializing. No wonder you want to watch a show about people who can't find partners."

"Chen Nuo might read the lines wrong, haha, I think he doesn't have the rhythm control ability needed for comedy."

"You're just angry that he will steal the limelight from your precious nerds."

"Steal the limelight? From Xie Erdun? Come on, no one can overshadow Jim Parsons' limelight."

"Hahaha, who is Jim Parsons?"

For a whole day, on Twitter, FB, and YouTube, it was all a war between BBT fans and Chen Nuo's fans who looked down on each other.

In less than a day, the entire topic discussion volume on Twitter soared to 300,000, and the trailer that CBS officially put on YouTube had its clicks break one million.

This simply made the production team of *Saturday Night Live* a bit jealous.

On December 8, in the last meeting before this episode of *Saturday Night Live* started, producer Marci Klein took the lead and said: "Shit, I have to say, CBS's wave of publicity is very smart. But this is not good news for us; this way it stole a lot of our limelight. And we are going to broadcast tonight, but they have to wait until the 13th!"

A chubby, white-haired old man sitting in the main seat of the conference room laughed: "Marci, perhaps this is actually a good thing. Since you said the discussion on the internet is so intense, then I think, maybe many of them will choose to come to our show to see it for themselves and see how his comedy ability really is."

"Hope so, Lorne." Marci Klein said with a bitter smile, "However, I suspect they don't know at all that he will be on our show."

The old man comforted, "Don't worry, it doesn't matter if it's messed up. I didn't count on this young man to bring me any surprises anyway. After all, I know now, there is only one Lady Gaga, and Scarlett Johansson is not Lady Gaga. Obviously, this boy named Chen is not either, so..."

Before he finished speaking, the old man couldn't help laughing.

And the people sitting there laughed along.

Including Tang Roykin.

As the on-site director, and also the person in the program group who strongly advocated inviting Chen Nuo, Tang Roykin could understand this joke.

The three episodes with the highest ratings of *Saturday Night Live* this year were the 13.7 million viewers for Alec Baldwin as host on September 25, the 12.5 million for Justin Timberlake on April 10, and the 12.3 million for T. Reynolds on October 30.

The latter two shows both had Lady Gaga as a musical guest.

So, they invited Scarlett Johansson as the opening host on November 18, thinking that this Hollywood actress had similarities in image to Lady Gaga and had also been making a lot of noise about her divorce recently, so maybe she could also play a role like Lady Gaga.

As a result, I didn't expect that the ratings for that episode were only 11.5 million people, which wasn't particularly bad, but still didn't reach their goal of 12 million.

Therefore, during this period, *Saturday Night Live*...

Comparing Chen Nuo with Lady Gaga now, playing gender jokes, was clearly the other party's trick to liven up the atmosphere.

However, the meaning contained in the words was also quite obvious—

This old man didn't look favorably at all on Chen Nuo, as a young actor, being able to bring them how many ratings; the goal set before the meeting was only 11.5 million people. Equivalent to Scarlett Johansson.

Tang Roykin understood this very well.

After all, no matter how energetic and quick-thinking he was, he was an old man born in 1941.

Although he had a resounding reputation in the American comedy circle and had set countless records, in many cases, the show had to rely on his rich experience and ability to adjust and check some things.

But at the same time, as an old man about to turn 70, inevitably, his ability to accept new things was much smaller.

Just like in a meeting more than a month ago, when he, Tang Roykin, proposed inviting Nuo Chen, this Chinese actor, to be the opening host of this episode of *Saturday Night Live*,

This chubby white-haired old man, a producer recognized in the American entertainment circle for making outstanding contributions in the fields of comedy and talk shows, who had won 21 Primetime Emmy Awards and was also the individual with the most nominations in Emmy history,

Lorne Michaels, the founder and general director of *Saturday Night Live*, didn't even know who Nuo Chen was.

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