Chapter 26: Fan Bingbing

"You're not even forty yet, you can completely continue to pursue love freely, hehe."

It's cold at the top. Since reaching the top of the Hong Kong entertainment circle, Mei Yanfang had rarely experienced such warm care. She wiped her tears and returned to her heroic and spirited demeanor.

"Little Lu, well said. Sister Mei thanks you!"

Seeing Lu Kuan waved his hand indifferently and laughed: "Coming without a trace, going without a trace; the matter of going and coming is the same. Why ask more about the affairs of the floating life? Just let this floating life be in a dream."

"Life is as illusory as a dream, without self and without permanence. One must treat the changes in life calmly, and be indifferent to staying or leaving, knowing how to let go."

Mei Yanfang laughed out loud: "Little Lu, how can you, a Daoist priest, snatch the rice bowl of a monk? This isn't the knowledge of your Daoist school, right?"

"Hehe, everything that is Sinicized is Sinology. It's the same, the same."

Mei Yanfang was in a great mood after his guidance and was about to call the servant to prepare dinner when the assistant at the door shouted loudly on the first floor: "Sister Mei, Hong-sang is here."

"Anita, I heard you are unwell." The loud voice arrived before the person.

Hong Jinbao brought a graceful woman up to the second-floor terrace. The woman held a bouquet of flowers in her hand, placed it on the small glass table obediently, bowed, and greeted Mei Yanfang.

Glancing at the young and handsome Seeing Lu Kuan on the side, she was slightly stunned, her mouth curved into a sweet smile, and she nodded to greet him.

"Big Brother, sorry to trouble you to come and see me." Mei Yanfang stood up with a smile, confident and free, as if the one who wanted to speak before tears flowed just now was another her.

The Hong Kong entertainment circle is not big. Mei Yanfang's friends all called her Mei-gu, and a few close ones called her "woman"...

Hong Jinbao had a transcendent status, and Mei Yanfang's return of "Big Brother" was also polite.

"And this is?"

Hong Jinbao seemed to have just realized it, and introduced her in a pretentious way: "This is Miss Bingbing from the mainland, who recently cooperated with me on a TV series."

"Bingbing, greet them."

Fan Bingbing was wearing a slim-fitting coffee-colored long dress today, with a fur coat over her upper body, and a head of big waves that looked expensive.

But in front of Mei Yanfang, she could only bow and act small: "Sister Mei, it's a pleasure to meet you. Please take care of me!"

Seeing Lu Kuan looked at the little Fan, who was in her early twenties at this time, and sighed in admiration—so moist!

As mentioned earlier, Boss Lu had once visited the actress who called herself a "rich family" in Wuxi and had a collaboration.

It was just that he only watched from a distance and didn't play with it.

Thinking of the TV series Hong Jinbao mentioned, it should be *Special Police Dragon*, which she collaborated on with mainland director Li Jing.

Around 2000, the Hong Kong film market continued to decline, and many Hong Kong filmmakers began to try filming TV series.

*Tai Chi Master* and *Little Li Fei Dao*, directed by Yuen Woo-ping and starring Wu Jing, and *The Duke of Mount Deer*, directed by Wong Jing and starring Dicky Cheung, were all works of this period.

As for why she appeared in Hong Kong, it was very simple. In 2000, Fan Bingbing couldn't bear the humiliation and roared, "How can a big woman live under others for a long time?" She went bankrupt to pay the liquidated damages and terminated her contract with Qiong Yao.

After switching to Wang Jinhua, the number one agent in the country, the latter formulated a development route of "going on CCTV and taking good plays" for her, but she didn't expect that after several dramas like *Young Justice Bao II*, she was still not popular.

Helplessly, she chose another direction to break through: entering the Hong Kong film and television circle.

Thus, she participated in the TV series project of Hong Jinbao, whom even Jackie Chan had to call "Big Brother."

Hong Jinbao naturally noticed the young man with firm lines beside Mei Yanfang long ago, and asked with a smile: "Anita, is this a new boyfriend?"

He was more than ten years older than Mei Yanfang and knew she could take a joke, so he wasn't afraid of her getting angry even if he spoke without restraint.

Unexpectedly, Mei Yanfang changed her usual attitude and said seriously: "Big Brother, don't talk nonsense. This is my younger brother, Seeing Lu Kuan."

Then she added: "Without him, Mei Yanfang might not be here in two years."

Seeing Lu Kuan calmly accepted her intimacy and favoritism; there was no need to act holier-than-thou after the battle was already settled. Without a hint of affectation, he reached out his hand: "Mr. Hong, a pleasure to meet you!"

Hong Jinbao was a bit puzzled why Mei Yanfang was so serious today, and shook hands with Seeing Lu Kuan with a smile.

He came here today because he couldn't resist Fan Bingbing's pleading, just to take her to meet the big sister of Hong Kong actresses under the guise of visiting the sick. In a human society, relationships are handled this way.

Fan Bingbing said in surprise: "Seeing Lu Kuan! I remember now!"

"Sister Mei, it's rumored in the circle that a mainland Daoist priest was the first to see that you were unwell. It's him, right!"

Seeing Lu Kuan was silent. As mentioned earlier, he didn't want to present himself as a charlatan; he just wanted to use his predictive ability as a bargaining chip for cooperation.

He didn't expect that Hong Kong, which was superstitious about Feng Shui, gossip, and even Southeast Asian witchcraft and sticking needles in dolls, would spread it so quickly.

Mei Yanfang understood. This must have been spread by her good mother and two good brothers. As soon as the results were checked, they said that their daughter was lucky and had been predicted by a high person long ago, thinking that this was putting gold on her face.

Hong Jinbao came here to bring Fan Bingbing to get familiar with the face, and left after sitting for a while.

It is said that opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared. Fan Bingbing obediently left Mei Yanfang and Seeing Lu Kuan's numbers, and her conduct was perfect, dripping without leakage, very small-minded.

Seeing Lu Kuan appreciated her graceful figure as she left with great interest—this waist-to-hip ratio, this cannon frame...

He wanted to have no women in his heart, but that didn't mean he wanted no women around him!

"Little Lu, I just said you were my younger brother. You don't mind, right?"

The two sat down in the restaurant. Qin Meijin seemed to have gone to connect with the two blood-sucking ghosts, leaving them a pleasant dining space.

"How could that be? I want to thank Sister Mei for her appreciation."

The two chatted while eating, and Mei Yanfang began to care about his general situation in detail.

"Little Lu, I heard from Zhao Wenzhuo that you are in a TV crew in the mainland?"

Seeing Lu Kuan struggled to cut the steak: "Yeah, I have no father or mother, and I grew up in a Daoist temple since I was a child. This is just the beginning of my descent from the mountain."

Then he joked: "I have to go through some training in this rolling red dust."

Mei Yanfang, who had received his favor and was enlightened by him, had already regarded Seeing Lu Kuan as a very close person in her heart.

Hearing his miserable life experience and being twenty years older than Seeing Lu Kuan, she sadly put down her knife and fork: "Little Lu, you will be my younger brother from now on. I'll cover you!"

"Ah?" Seeing Lu Kuan was stunned, looking up at Mei Yanfang, whose maternal love was overflowing.

This was a typical personality trait of someone who had suffered from the misfortune of their original family and was extremely eager for love after adulthood, and there was no one around her she could truly trust and entrust after becoming famous.

Added to the fact that she was almost twenty years older than Seeing Lu Kuan, it was hard to say whether she wanted to treat him as a younger brother or a son...

Mei Yanfang looked at his hesitant appearance and felt a bit desolate. Perhaps it was her own wishful thinking.

Seeing Lu Kuan laughed: "Sister Mei, aren't you afraid that I'm a villain trying to climb the social ladder?"

Mei Yanfang beamed and took out the talisman he had carved by hand.

"If you wanted to cheat me out of my money, this would be worth at least 10 million."

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 27 =====