Entering the Chinese entertainment industry is like entering a deep sea

Chapter 806 One glimpse of the Dragon Girl, and your life is ruined.
Shu Chang, Liu Yifei's best friend, finally arrived late before the show started.

The lights came on, and the familiar opening music of "Kangxi" began to play, but the stage backdrop was changed to the iconic red walls and glazed tiles of Beijing.

Cai Kangyong appeared with a smile, dressed in a gray suit.

"Dear viewers, this is the first-ever 'Kangxi Lai Le' special episode featuring our journey to the north!"

"Welcome our special guests, Director Li Chen and Ms. Liu Yifei."

"welcome."

Little S rushed out in her high heels, then suddenly slammed on the brakes, pointing at the audience below the stage in a startled manner.

"Wait a minute! Why are all the audience members wearing Youku uniforms? Director Li, did you even pre-select the audience?"

The camera cuts to Li Chen sitting on the sofa.

Li Chen wore a burgundy shirt and light gray casual pants today.

He appears quite low-key, but he is not lacking in substance.

Li Chen smiled faintly: "You misunderstood. This is a programmer from the company. He heard that Emperor Kangxi and Emperor Xuanzong were coming, so he volunteered to work overtime as an audience member."

Little S rolled her eyes: "So this is a 'work absence meet-and-greet'?"

The audience and Chen Handian burst out laughing.

Liu Yifei sat next to Li Chen, her hair styled in a cute bun, making her signature oval face appear even fuller and more defined.

She had a smile on her face and was breathtakingly beautiful.

As expected, Little S did not play by the rules and plopped down right next to Li Chen, leaving almost no safe distance between them.

The first question was quite direct: "Director Li, I heard that you fell in love with Yifei at first sight?"

Shu Chang, as a guest and close friend, stood behind the camera with an expression that was strikingly similar to Liu Yifei's.

Both women turned their smiling eyes toward Li Chen.

Little S stared intently at Li Chen, her gaze intense and aggressive.

Li Chen glanced at his wife beside him.

She was looking down and pursing her lips, secretly smiling.

The scene was quite quiet, and everyone's eyes were focused on Li Chen.

Li Chen said slowly, "There's a saying in 'The Return of the Condor Heroes,' which goes, 'Meeting Yang Guo once and you're doomed for life!'"

Little S immediately interjected, "So you're Yang Guo?"

Li Chen shook his head and laughed, "No, quite the opposite. I was instantly smitten by the Dragon Girl and my life was ruined."

The audience burst into laughter and applause.

Chen Handian immediately knelt down and pounded the floor, while Cai Kangyong sighed and said, "This answer is so sophisticated; it's both a display of affection and self-deprecating humor."

Unwilling to give up, Little S pressed Liu Yifei, "And what about you? What was your first impression of Director Li?"

"Don't tell me you mistook Director Li for Yang Guo. The first time you two met was probably before you even started filming 'The Return of the Condor Heroes'!"

Liu Yifei blinked, looked at her husband affectionately, nodded and smiled, "I didn't even know him back then. He was in the directing department, and I didn't even know all the students in the acting department."

This time, Li Chen couldn't help but facepalm!
The audience erupted in applause and laughter once again.

Little S excitedly asked, "And then? Did you fall in love at first sight?"

Liu Yifei smiled slightly and shook her head: "Hey, I was still a minor back then, unlike him, who was mature beyond his years and full of tricks."

"I accidentally lost my way back!"

Little S exclaimed in admiration, "I didn't realize you were so good at sweet talk, just as good as your husband!"

"The deepest trick in the world is Director Li's trick!"

The audience burst into laughter again, and Li Chen helplessly spread his hands: "I don't have such deep schemes. When I was filming 'You Are the Apple of My Eye,' I cast you as the female lead and I played the male lead. Wasn't that straightforward enough?"

"This is a director's most direct confession! I seriously followed you through 36 scenes, 72 shots!"

Cai Kangyong clapped and laughed, while Chen Handian rolled his eyes and pretended to faint.

Shu Chang, behind the camera, and Liu Yifei, in front of the lens, both had big smiles on their faces.

Little S, hands on her hips, feigned anger and said, "This is 'Kangxi Lai Le,' not 'If You Are the One'!"

Li Chen and Liu Yifei exchanged a glance, completely ignoring Xiao S's wailing, and treated "Kangxi" as a stage for showing off their affection.

Little S exclaimed that she couldn't stand it.

Then, switching to a serious expression, he asked a very pointed question: "Li Chen! You're worth tens of billions now, have any actresses knocked on your door in the middle of the night to 'discuss the script'?"

The scene fell silent for a moment.

Even Shu Chang was curious. Although she had already learned from her best friend that such a thing could not be brought to Li Chen's attention, she was still very curious about how Li Chen would respond.

Li Chen remained expressionless: "Yes, it happens every night."

There was an uproar at the scene.

When female celebrities seek out famous directors to discuss scripts, it often turns into something more like having sex rather than pursuing their careers.

Unexpectedly, this most famous director in China admitted it so frankly.

Little S's eyes lit up: "Who?!"

Li Chen pointed at Liu Yifei: "Far away, yet right before our eyes!"

Little S, with her nostrils pointing to the sky, seemed ready to unleash a torrent of abuse.

Cai Kangyong quickly smiled and said, "I knew it would be Yifei."

"Li Chen, are you serious?" Little S didn't even call him Director Li anymore.

Liu Yifei covered her mouth and chuckled. So far, Xiao S has not gained any advantage over her husband.

"Of course, besides this Miss Liu, which female celebrity would dare to knock on my door in the middle of the night!"

Liu Yifei covered her face with her hands and laughed loudly, while Xiao S slammed her hand on the table in anger: "What kind of scoop is this! I want to hear the most exciting news!"

"I don't believe that, apart from your wife, no female celebrity in the industry has ever knocked on your door! Do you dare to swear by the light, Director Li!" Little S's address to Li Chen has changed back to Director Li.

To Liu Yifei, it just sounded like Little S knew how to play the victim.

Li Chen glanced at Miss Liu beside him.

His eyes clearly showed curiosity.

Little S's question was indeed despicable; how could he possibly swear an oath?

Fan Bingbing knocked on his door in Venice.

But he didn't swear, which clearly meant he admitted it.

Moreover, a director of his caliber must have had actresses of varying levels, from third-tier to above, knocking on his door before he became famous.

Even if he says no, no one will believe him; instead, they'll think he's hypocritical.

Li Chen smiled calmly and added, "Of course!"

A single sentence, just three words, instantly caused the scene to erupt in excitement. Even Liu Yifei frowned slightly, her eyes meeting Li Chen's, as if exchanging information through her gaze.

Chen Handian covered his mouth in shock, Cai Kangyong exclaimed in astonishment, and even Shu Chang behind the camera cast a questioning glance at her best friend in front of the lens.

"Who!" Little S pressed on relentlessly, finally seeing a glimmer of hope.

All eyes turned to Li Chen once again.

Li Chen could sense the anger hidden in his wife's eyes!
"Who it is doesn't matter! All I can say is that I can't control who knocks on the door, but I can control who opens it. So far, I've only opened the door for one person!"

Liu Yifei's expression brightened, but she still gave Li Chen a slight glare. Little S felt like dying; after all that, they were back to square one!
Seeing this, Tsai Kang-yong knew that his partner wouldn't get any more information out of him today.

Instead of trying a different approach, after a few questions, Shu Chang, a special guest and close friend, made her dazzling appearance.

They dropped a bombshell as soon as they came on stage.

"Liu Qianqian appears ethereal on the surface, but she's incredibly childish in private! She changed my brother's laptop screensaver to her own emoji with the caption 'I love only this one person in my life,' and then she denied it, insisting that my brother set it himself."

Little S immediately seized on this: "So Director Li's computer screensaver is Yi Fei? What kind of domineering CEO plot is this!"

Liu Yifei glared fiercely at Shu Chang with a smile on her lips.

Shu Chang acted as if she hadn't seen anything and continued to reveal more: "There's something even more outrageous. My brother once made her angry, and guess what she did."

"What's wrong?" Little S pressed.

Liu Yifei couldn't help but facepalm, while Li Chen just watched the show with a smile.

"She actually dismantled all of my brother's collection of Pu'er tea cakes overnight, filled a bathtub with them, and took a Pu'er tea bath herself!"

Li Chen laughed heartily, while Liu Yifei shook her head in embarrassment and annoyance, saying, "I made a bad choice in friends!"

The audience burst into laughter instantly.

It's time for the classic segment in "Kangxi" that tests teamwork.

Little S speaks out again: "What do you hate most about Liu Yifei wearing?"

Li Chen and Liu Yifei exchanged a glance and couldn't help but smile.

Liu Yifei looked as if she had lost all will to live, and the two of them wrote down their answers at the same time.

"Show your board!" Cai Kangyong said.

Li Chen and his wife both raised their hands, and everyone who saw the answer could only laugh themselves to death.

Li Chen's handwritten note read: "I hate everything she chose!"

Liu Yifei's handwritten note contained only one line of text: "He has absolutely no aesthetic sense!"

Little S laughed so hard she almost convulsed: "So all these years, your husband has been choosing your outfits!"

Liu Yifei nodded slightly, which was taken as tacit agreement.

Cai Kangyong added a witty remark: "Is this the power of capital?"

Little S nodded emphatically: "Being the wife of a famous director is too difficult!"

Cai Kangyong laughed and said, "Just tell me if you want to be one or not!"

Little S immediately broke character: "Why are you asking me! We're the ones asking the questions!"

The atmosphere at the scene became lively once again.

Little S suddenly changed the subject and asked, "Have you decided on a name for your second child? If it's a girl, what are you going to name her?"

Cai Kangyong immediately teased him with a laugh, "Hey, hey, hey, you can't just not want others to have sons just because you didn't have one yourself!"

"Hahaha," Chen Han laughed heartily.

Little S glared at him, and Chen Han immediately made a sewing gesture on his mouth.

"Li Chen, Sister S is asking you a question!"

Li Chen laughed and said, "Sorry, the second child is also a son! I'm sorry to disappoint you!"

"Ahhh! NG, I'm not recording anymore! This man is too ruthless! Even when you kill someone, you don't have to kill them; even when you expose someone's shortcomings, you don't have to expose their weaknesses! Why does he only keep having sons?!"

"Tell me, Liu Yifei! Is it my problem or his problem?!" Little S suddenly turned into a shrew, grabbing Liu Yifei's arm and shaking it.

It seemed as if Liu Yifei wouldn't give up until she answered.

Liu Yifei smiled, her face flushed, and couldn't help but say with a smile, "It's not your problem! It's not his problem! It's my problem!"

Everyone looked at each other, and even Little S didn't understand the hidden meaning in Liu Yifei's words.

Li Chen, however, was perfectly in sync with her and had already guessed how his wife would go on to double-kill Little S.

"Why?" Little S pressed.

"Because I want to have another child, a son."

After Liu Yifei finished speaking, the entire program reached its climax.

Little S wanted to have a son but couldn't, while Liu Yifei got her wish. Is there anything more cruel than this?

Little S simply ran away: "I'm not recording anymore! I've never seen such a difficult couple! Sister S is seriously injured and has withdrawn from 'Kangxi'. 'Kangxi' is now over – the most difficult couple in history!"

Wang Wei, the producer of "Kangxi", was overjoyed. He was 100% certain that this episode would be a ratings smash.

Of course, Little S didn't run away. After resting for a while, she returned to the spotlight.

An hour passed quickly.

Finally, Cai Kangyong said emotionally, "Thank you, Yifei and Director Li, for making 'Kangxi' a show without any regrets."

Liu Yifei suddenly stood up and imitated Little S's classic flying kick, but of course, she only made a slight gesture.

Little S paused for a second, then quickly regained her composure and rushed over to hug Liu Yifei: "I won't kick you back because you're so pregnant!"

After the recording was finished, Wang Weizhong immediately came up to him: "Hahaha, thank you Director Li and Yifei for your support. S was just doing this purely for the sake of the show. If there was anything inappropriate, please forgive me!"

Wang Weizhong was afraid that Li Chen would change his mind and ask him to delete some segments, or not let him broadcast them at all.

Li Chen replied, "It's alright. If 'Kangxi Lai Le' didn't have some boundaries, would it still be 'Kangxi Lai Le'? If Little S asked questions in a conventional way, would she still be Little S?"

Little S laughed and said, "Director Li is so magnanimous. Actually, I was really afraid that you would turn your back on the spot and refuse to film, then I would really have to run away!"

"Today's joke density is probably the highest of 'Kangxi's' ever. Director Li, now that the show is over, I still want to gossip a bit: who exactly was knocking on your door!" Little S said with a smile.

Liu Yifei chimed in, "Yeah, Director Li, tell me, I actually want to know too!"

"Brother, I want to know too!"

"We all want to know!" Chen Han shouted.

Li Chen chuckled and said, "I'm not telling you!"

Little S: "."

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That evening, Li Chen arranged for someone to entertain the entire cast and crew of "Kangxi" while he accompanied his wife home.

"Was it Fan Bingbing who knocked on your door back then? In Venice?" Liu Yifei suddenly asked as the couple lay in bed.

"Yeah, I told you long ago, meeting the Dragon Girl is a life-altering experience. If I hadn't met you, there would probably be another beastly director in this world."

Liu Yifei snorted and pressed herself against Li Chen: "Have you been wanting to be like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige for a long time? If you ever want to abandon your wife like they did, don't hesitate!"

Li Chen was both amused and exasperated: "What kind of nonsense is this? Are you a widow? If Chen Kaige had chosen Chen Hong from the beginning, and Zhang Yimou had married Chen Ting from the beginning, maybe they could have grown old together!"

“If I were Chen Kaige, you would be my Chen Hong.”

"If I were Zhang Yimou, you would be my Chen Ting!"

"With a wife like this, what more could a husband ask for!"

A warm feeling washed over Liu Yifei as she listened. Although she was deeply moved, she deliberately pretended to be indifferent.

"I am who I am, not your Chen Hong, nor Chen Ting!"

Li Chen laughed heartily: "Yes, you are Little Dragon Girl, and I am Yin Zhiping, the one who fell in love with Little Dragon Girl at first sight!"

(End of this chapter)