Chapter 424: The best birthday present

It was currently afternoon, and the river view outside the floor-to-ceiling windows was still stunningly beautiful. If this apartment was worth 100 million, then at this moment, this scene should be worth 50 million.

The Huangpujiang was like a slowly flowing golden silk, shimmering with fine light, as if someone had sprinkled a thin layer of gold foil on the calm water surface, swaying slightly with the wind, dazzling people so much they could hardly open their eyes.

Today was August 24th, and outside was still the scorching heat of a furnace, with high temperatures refusing to retreat. But under the soft breeze of the central air conditioning, the indoor temperature was just right, about 24 or 25 degrees, cool and comfortable, neither cold nor hot.

Chen Nuo didn't say anything more, walked to Liu Yifei's side, threw his backpack on the sofa, sat down, raised his hand to pat her head lightly, and said: "How did you find it? I remember not putting it outside."

Because she was indoors today, Liu Yifei was only wearing a loose goose-yellow home long T-shirt, her legs exposed, sitting on the carpet in front of the sofa, her body leaning against the sofa, legs curled at her side.

From Chen Nuo's angle, he could see faint cyan blood vessels faintly visible under the fair skin of her thighs, extending from the back of her legs upward, crawling over the delicate skin, and disappearing under the hem of the T-shirt.

There, a corner of light blue fabric was looming, a slightly protruding outline, like a small steamed bun.

Liu Yifei held his hand back, fingers intertwined, gently sticking to her cheek, her face expressionless, only her eyes looking slightly dim. "Haven't lived here for a long time, a bit dirty, I saw it when I was cleaning."

Chen Nuo laughed: "Yo, you can clean the room too. My respects, my respects."

Liu Yifei hummed, didn't make a sound.

Chen Nuo said: "Alright, are you that unhappy?"

"Mm."

Chen Nuo sighed slightly and said: "I knew you would be uncomfortable, so I put it away, but I didn't expect you to rummage around and find it..."

Liu Yifei didn't want to either.

She just wanted to see if there were any long hairs, but who knew she would rummage out such a photo. The moment she saw it, she immediately remembered what she had vaguely heard before, and her heart felt uncomfortable instantly.

She looked at the little baby in the photo and couldn't help but say: "Chen Nuo, she's really cute."

Chen Nuo agreed: "Actually, the real person is ten times cuter than the photo."

"Really? Then can I see her? Really want to hug her."

"Of course you can." Chen Nuo paused, "However... not now."

"Why?"

"She's in Beijing. When we go back, I'll take you to see her. After *Inception* is released and we get the money, Qi Da and I plan to set up a charity foundation for her."

Liu Yifei said "Ah," turned her head, and looked at him with surprise.

Setting up a charity foundation, this idea Chen Nuo actually had a sprout of long ago.

It had appeared intermittently since 2008, until now it was becoming clearer. It was just that he was short of money before and was too embarrassed to mention it.

It wasn't until after *Inception* was released this time that the box office performance met his expectations, and he finally remembered this matter again, feeling that the time was ripe.

Not long ago, during those few days in Shanghai, Qi Yuntian came to find him, talking about Wen Yongshan taking a new play in Hong Kong, as well as the recent progress of *Chicken with Plum Sauce*. It was said that Pang Ho-cheung could write the script as early as next month.

Then he talked to Qi Yun about it. As a result, the person also said they wanted to participate, and while talking, they became emotional, took out a photo of Qi Chuyu in the orphanage from their wallet, slapped it on the table, and talked about it vividly, leaving Chen Nuo speechless and having to agree.

Later, Qi Yuntian forgot to take the photo, so it was left here.

Didn't expect it to be rummaged out by Liu Yifei.

Sigh.

This house couldn't be lived in a few times a year, so there really wasn't anything.

The Qi Chuyu in the photo was thin and pitiful, making people feel pity. Chen Nuo felt a blockage in his heart when he saw it, let alone a girl like Liu Yifei; how could she feel good after seeing it?

As for his own various photos, a habit he had cultivated in his previous life, he never kept physical objects, only storing them in his phone.

Trying to catch him red-handed, that's a dream.

Liu Yifei blinked and asked again: "What foundation?"

"It's to help those hearing-impaired children, to install cochlear implants for them."

"Ah?... How do you plan to do it?"

"Do it myself."

"No, I mean, are you planning to promote it? Just like so-and-so?"

Chen Nuo said speechlessly: "I'll just do my part, just go do it quietly. Promote what the hell."

Liu Yifei looked at his calm expression, stared for a long time, and a sweet tenderness surged in her heart unconsciously.

This was the person she loved, and she really hadn't loved the wrong person.

What girl wouldn't hope for her sweetheart to be kind, good, and loving?

She wouldn't be an exception.

Liu Yifei raised her hand: "Then what if I want to donate money to your foundation."

Chen Nuo said irritably: "Donate my ass, you should feed yourself first."

"Don't look down on people, I'm also a boss now, let me tell you! In the future, aren't you still going to rely on me?"

Liu Yifei looked a bit angry at first, but became triumphant at the end, flipped up, jumped up, ran into the bedroom barefoot, her clothes fluttering, revealing her tight buttocks.

A moment later, she ran back with a stack of documents, "slapped" them on the coffee table, and said triumphantly: "Look, what is this!"

Chen Nuo was a little surprised: "Damn, no way, you..."

"Hehe..." Liu Yifei, with a pair of bare legs, didn't care at all that her light blue panties were exposed at any time, shook her head, and said arrogantly, "Is it amazing, still not praising me?"

Chen Nuo said pleasantly surprised: "Amazing, really amazing. You've already finished it?"

"Hahahaha." Liu Yifei laughed, her eyes squinting into a line, "That's right."

Chen Nuo gave a thumbs up, then picked up the stack of documents and read them carefully.

The documents were neatly formatted, using high-quality paper, mostly contract styles or approval letters.

The first one had a red seal on the top right corner, and the first page was the name: "Articles of Incorporation for Company Establishment," with "Huanxin Film Co., Ltd." written in bold in the middle. The registered address of the company was an office building in Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, and the legal representative was—Liu Yifei.

The second page was a copy of the "Articles of Association," totaling three pages, listing the company's future business: planning, production, distribution, and copyright management of image works such as films and TV dramas, including peripheral services such as actor management and music production. In the promoter column at the end, besides Liu Yifei, there was a note in parentheses: Agent Signatory—Chen Nuo.

"This is the Articles of Association," Liu Yifei stood on tiptoe, hugged his neck from behind, and said triumphantly, "I wrote you in too."

"... Why did you write me in? Didn't I tell you to operate it under your own name?"

"Just... leave a name, looks better."

Chen Nuo rolled his eyes helplessly and continued reading. Behind it was a "Seal Registration Certificate," with an oval company seal pattern printed on it, the edge circle saying "Huanxin Film Co., Ltd.," and the middle saying "Representative Director Liu Yifei." A small line of text at the bottom of the document said: "Approved by the Tokyo Legal Affairs Bureau on August 14, 2011."

"Not bad, not bad. It's been less than two weeks," Chen Nuo originally thought this woman ran back to be lazy for her birthday, but didn't expect she had actually finished it?

Liu Yifei said coquettishly: "You don't know, I spent three or four days just running for materials, procedures, translation, certification, stamping... a bunch of broken things, so tired."

"Really? Come, come, come, come over and let me rub it for you."

Chen Nuo was beaming with joy, stretched out his hand, pulled Liu Yifei from behind to sit on his lap, and while rubbing her thighs, comforted her, "You've worked hard, President Liu."

Liu Yifei leaned in his arms, squinting her eyes comfortably, the corners of her mouth slightly raised: "Heh heh, you have to be better to me in the future, I'm a person with a company now."

"Yes, yes, yes, a person with a company, amazing."

"Are you going to rely on me in the future?"

"Yes, yes, yes, rely on you, absolutely rely on you hard."

"Mm? Why do I feel like you're scolding someone?"

"How am I scolding someone, I'm just having some wild thoughts."

"What wild... thoughts."

Chen Nuo's hands were rubbing slowly, from calves to thighs. Liu

Yifei's legs couldn't be called thin, nor could they be called very long or straight, but the skin was really good, almost no pores could be seen, smooth and slippery, the feel could truly be described as skin like congealed fat, the more he touched, the more he felt it.

Liu Yifei could still talk normally at first, but then her words became intermittent, her buttocks were like sitting on charcoal, twisting around, and the last two words "wild thoughts" were almost inaudible.

She suddenly pressed his hand and said: "Wait, haven't asked you yet, Miyazawa, is she going to stay in the company to help in the future?"

Miyazawa, that is, Miyazawa Gongze Huili.

Last time when they went to Japan for promotion, Chen Nuo chatted with this top graduate from the University of Tokyo and knew that the other party was not doing well in the Japanese workplace and had just resigned from a law firm, so he asked her to help handle the registration of the branch company. It could also be considered a small test; after all, when the Huanxin Japan company opens, it will definitely lack people, especially in legal aspects.

Currently, it seems that Miyazawa Gongze Huili should still be quite capable, otherwise, how could she have run through this complex registration procedure in such a short time? Workplace setbacks should indeed be as she said, encountering some "unhappy" things.

Otherwise, really relying on this lazy fat woman lying on her legs, it is estimated that she wouldn't necessarily see the certificate next year today.

Hearing Liu Yifei's words, Chen Nuo said: "That's what I think..."

But he immediately reacted, smiled silently, and said: "Of course, you are the president, it still depends on your meaning in the end."

As soon as Liu Yifei heard this, she fell into his trap, immediately closed her eyes in satisfaction, opened her legs a bit more, put her hand between his belly button and thighs, and squeezed an "mm" sound from her nose.

After a while, she continued: "Miyazawa really helped a lot this time, then... the president's meaning is, we should reward based on merit, then let her stay. However, you have to guarantee."

"Guarantee? What?"

"You can't do that..."

"What?"

"You know... can't be as close to her as before." Liu Yifei's voice softened, with a bit of coquettishness, her eyes half-open, eyelashes trembling, as if she were acting like a spoiled child.

Similar requests, Chen Nuo had heard until his ears were calloused in two lifetimes. For what to do at this time, he naturally knew clearly in his heart.

The strength of his hands increased by a few points, sliding slowly from the inner thighs upward, his palms sliding slowly against Liu Yifei's smooth skin, lowering his voice, his lips close to the woman's ears, and whispering: "Jealous? President Liu, why are you so unconfident?"

After speaking, he blew a breath lightly.

Liu Yifei screamed "Ah," her neck shrank, her body twisted, "Itchy~ I, I'm not unconfident, just... just reminding you, who told you to be my person now?"

"Oh? Yours?" Chen Nuo put his hand somewhere and squeezed it lightly.

Liu Yifei's whole body stiffened instantly. Chen Nuo's movements didn't stop, his hand reached in from the hem of the T-shirt, his palm sticking to the smooth and flat lower abdomen, sliding slowly upward. To that soft curve, through the thin underwear, his fingertips rubbed the top lightly.

At this moment, a long moan overflowed from Liu Yifei's mouth.

Chen Nuo's voice became even deeper, "Then should I perform well to prove that I only belong to President Liu."

Liu Yifei bit her lower lip, her cheeks flushed like peach blossoms, her breathing rhythm was all messed up, her buttocks rubbed hard on his knees, and her body couldn't help but squeeze into his arms.

She hummed in her mouth: "Yes, perform well, you... you slow down... no, don't..."

Although she said so, she didn't push him away, but instead wrapped her hands around his neck, her head tilted back slightly, revealing her slender neck, as if silently inviting.

Chen Nuo naturally understood.

Lowered his head, his lips touched the skin on her neck, kissing from the collarbone to the earlobe, like raindrops, and every drop of rain falling would stimulate the girl to let out a cat-like cry.

His hands were not idle either.

One hand performed a level 12 lock-picking skill behind Liu Yifei, one clip and one squeeze, and the button opened.

The palm of the other hand followed easily and completely covered that piece of warmth.

When his fingertips rubbed gently on the sensitive area, the sound waves from Liu Yifei's mouth were one wave higher than the other, echoing in the large room.

"Chen Nuo..." Liu Yifei urged in a murmur, "Fast..."

At this time, her T-shirt was pulled directly to her chest, revealing fair skin, shining with a moist luster under the sunlight outside the window. Her hands grabbed Chen Nuo's shoulders, her nails almost pinching into his skin.

Chen Nuo picked her up.

Among all his women, in terms of weight, besides Fan Fan Binbing, it was this eldest lady.

But a man at this time, his strength is twice as much as usual. After easily placing her on the sofa, Chen Nuo slowly pressed on top.

Liu Yifei's T-shirt was pushed up completely by him, and her light blue panties were also slowly taken off by him, revealing that piece of smooth skin.

He lowered his head and kissed her lower abdomen, moving upward along the curve. Liu Yifei's body arched, the sound overflowing from her mouth became more and more rapid, her hands grabbing his hair hard, that feeling, as if it was forcing him to use minoxidil.

Her mouth was like singing an opera, humming and echoing.

"Still jealous?"

After a while, Chen Nuo raised his head, wiped his mouth, his voice low and hoarse, with a smile, his fingers hadn't stopped yet, still lingering on her inner thighs, teasing lightly.

Liu Yifei opened her misty eyes, bit her lip and glared at him, her voice as soft as cotton candy: "You............ ah!"

Before she finished speaking, the woman screamed again. Her body went completely soft.

Finally, Chen Nuo stopped teasing her and started the last step.

In Liu Yifei's watery expectant gaze, his movements were gentle and carried an irresistible force.

The woman's hands instantly tightened around his back, and the moans sounded again like ocean waves, echoing continuously in the room, becoming more and more rapid, more and more high-pitched.

The Huangpujiang outside the window was sparkling,

Chen Nuo was in a really good state. In the large room, it wasn't until the arc light on the river turned from bright gold to dark gold that the room became quiet.

Why not say that a big house is good.

When the two changed from the living room to the bedroom, even Guli Nazha, who took the owner's card and swiped the elevator up, didn't hear a thing.

Guli Nazha came to deliver the cake. When she walked out of the elevator and heard that strange sound, like pumping air into a tire, and the woman's moans, if it were at night, in another place, she wouldn't mind staying a while longer.

However, at this time, her whole face was flushed, she didn't dare to stay at all, put the specially ordered birthday cake on the table, and ran away like flying.

Half an hour later, when Liu Yifei came out naked from the bedroom, ready to pour water, she saw something extra on the coffee table and let out a scream.

"What's wrong?" Chen Nuo was startled, wrapped in underwear, and rushed out.

He didn't see a pervert, but saw a pink cake on the coffee table.

He naturally knew what was going on, otherwise why would he change the battlefield?

A floor-to-ceiling window in the living room, isn't it fragrant to enjoy the view while exercising?

"What's going on?" Liu Yifei said with a red face, "Who did you ask to send it up? Is it your little secretary, or..."

"Of course it's the little secretary."

"Oh." Liu Yifei breathed a sigh of relief, then hit him again, and said: "It's all your fault, it must have been heard."

"Alright, come, eat cake, eat now or eat later?"

"... You! It must be at night!"

"At night, then isn't there still a long time, then..."

"Giggle giggle giggle, what do you want to do, ah~~~ Chen Nuo, put me down, let me rest. No, no, ah ha ha ha ha, itchy, itchy to death, I can't, I want to drink water, I want to rest ah ah ah ah~"

On August 25, 2011, the day she turned 24, Liu Yifei abandoned her mom and dad, friends and best friends, and had a birthday that was cold and clear compared to the past 20 years, without fireworks, without ceremonies, without press conferences, and even without a dance party.

Just because her boyfriend didn't like to show his face, and it wasn't convenient to show his face.

She sacrificed so much for the other party, but in the end, what she got didn't seem to be much.

The birthday gift she received wasn't very precious, just a necklace Chen Nuo bought back from Singapore. It wasn't a limited edition, nor was it a new product endorsed by any brand, just a simple and slender platinum chain with a sapphire pendant.

The birthday cake was the same, although exquisite and gorgeous, it wasn't very special or spectacular.

But she felt that this was the happiest birthday she had ever had in her life.

Not because he stayed with her all day.

Nor because at zero o'clock that day, he posted a message on Weibo. A few short words attracted countless forwards and comments, making her fans increase by tens of thousands overnight.

Similarly, not because after the sky darkened in the evening, he wore a hat and mask, took her hand, and the two walked quietly along the Huangpujiang. No assistant, no bodyguard, just like the most ordinary couple.

But because, from these various behaviors, she finally felt a little bit of "certainty" from her heart.

On this day, she turned twenty-four, her love was just ripening, her heart hadn't cooled yet, but it was no longer the age of seventeen when she thought that once love was produced, it could last forever.

So, this was her best birthday present.

Chen Nuo didn't stay in Shanghai for long, a total of three days.

The first day he accompanied Liu Yifei for a birthday, the second day he went to meet some leaders in Shanghai, as well as the leader Zhang from the SARFT, and chatted.

What they talked about was really the Shanghai Film Festival.

However, facing the other party's request for him to be the chairman of the organizing committee, he still followed what he had originally discussed with Qi Yuntian and the others, using the excuse of filming to politely decline.

In the end, he only accepted being the chairman of the jury for the SIFF in June next year, and would try his best to make the film festival look glorious, not like this year, which was even colder than Liu Yifei's birthday.

After talking, Deputy Director Zhang Piping and a certain deputy mayor personally sent him downstairs, almost opening the car door for him. It can be seen that the pressure brought by this year's Shanghai Film Festival to the relevant parties was indeed not small.

On the third day, he met Wu Jing and Wong Kar-wai.

He had heard Fan Fan Binbing mention before that at that charity gala, Wu Jing had stepped forward, which could be considered a righteous act of helping, so this time in the meeting, he also spoke kindly.

Not only did he agree to the other party's request for a guest appearance, but he also encouraged the descendant of Dorgon who seemed to lack confidence—film well, as long as you abandon the bad habits of your ancestors and film the feeling of "punishing even if far away," there will definitely be no lack of market.

Wu Jing was easy to talk to; he just used a little bit of the skill he used to coax Liu Yifei, encouraged him a little, and made the long-frustrated kung fu star perk up.

But for Wong Kar-wai, he really had a bit of a headache.

To be honest, if Wong Kar-wai wasn't Wong Kar-wai, he wouldn't refuse. But it just so happened that Wong Kar-wai was Wong Kar-wai, but conversely, if Wong Kar-wai wasn't Wong Kar-wai, he wouldn't be so troubled.

It's a bit of a tongue twister, actually it's just that Wong Kar-wai wanted him to film a kung fu movie, and the name of the kung fu movie was *The Grandmaster*.

Yes, it was that *The Grandmaster* that even Chen Nuo knew, which ended up filming for 5, 6, 7, 8 years, almost filming into *The Grandmaster of Generations*.

This was too difficult for him, he really could only refuse.

Although he did owe Wong Kar-wai a favor for *The Message*, he could only politely apologize to Director Wong and ask him to go find his trusted general Tony Leung, and not come to mess with him.

Wong Kar-wai didn't say much about his refusal, but... in his future schedule list, there was inevitably one more guest appearance task.

By August 28th, the fourth day, he couldn't delay any longer.

Because on this day, *Inception*'s Japanese box office officially exceeded *Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone*'s 20.3 billion yen, standing at the third place in Japan's historical box office ranking with a score of 20.43 billion.

In front of it, there were only *Titanic* with 26 billion and *Spirited Away* with 31.6 billion left.

The people at Toho gave him a life-and-death serial call, wanting him to quickly fulfill the promise he made to Japanese fans back then, soothe the restless hearts of the people, and by the way, use this to promote the film in Japan again, to see if he could refuel in the air and impact the silver throne of the second place of the big ship.

Similarly, on the global box office ranking, *Inception* already had only a slight gap from *Titanic*. It should be said that breaking the big ship was just a matter of time.

This made Warner Bros. a bit unable to sit still, inevitably a bit greedy, and after discussing with Huanxin Hengdian, decided to start the second promotional cycle, letting Nolan take Knightley and Reynolds to start another round of promotion in North America.

As a result, Chen Nuo had no choice but to meet with the child simply, and then boarded the plane to Japan again.

Besides participating in *Human Observation* this time in Japan, there was one more important thing.

Huanxin Film Co., Ltd. was also established under President Liu's name. He could also talk to Fuji TV this time when he went over, to see what to film to earn the Japanese's money.

If it could be a hit, you have to know, Fuji TV is not considered the number one TV station in Japan. If he could use this as a stepping stone... then earning the Japanese's yen would be much more comfortable than RMB. The key is the subsequent copyright income, a trickle of water, which can make people eat until they are fat and strong.

So he really needs to think about it carefully.

However, soon what gave him a headache wasn't this. Because at the very beginning of this trip to Japan, Chen Nuo found that he had made a mistake.

That was that he really shouldn't have taken any commercial flight outside.

PS:

Got tricked, right? Hahaha.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 425 =====