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The celebration banquet was coming to an end and guests were leaving one after another, but it was still very lively.

However, all this seemed to have nothing to do with Huang Yulang. Even with a beauty like Li Zi by his side, he was still drinking in silence in a unhappy mood.

"Alang, stop drinking. You'll get drunk if you drink any more."

"I'm not drunk."

Huang Yulang stared at Ma Rongcheng, who was being treated like a star. It was obvious that he had conceived "Chinese Hero" for Ma Rongcheng based on his creative conditions and personal style, but now he, his mentor, benefactor and boss, was being left out.

What’s even more infuriating is that Ma Rongchen, who relied on the support of Fang Sheng and Yongsheng and had grown wings, actually refused to renew his contract and wanted to change jobs!
But when he thought that he was going to switch to Fangyan's company, a deep feeling of powerlessness suddenly swept over his body and weighed on his heart.

Just as they were thinking about how to find Fang Yan to negotiate face to face and try to gain as much benefit as possible for Yulang International Company, a figure came towards them. Li Zi was startled and immediately pushed Huang Yulang lightly, reminding him anxiously, "Stop drinking, Mr. Xiang is here."

Hearing this, Huang Yulang sobered up immediately, met Xiang Huaqiang's cold eyes, and trembled subconsciously.

"Mr. Xiang..."

Those sitting at the same table were all his company's trusted aides. They stood up one by one, with more or less nervousness and uneasiness on their faces.

"This time, 'Chinese Hero' has achieved such a great success, and the box office is expected to hit 5000 million. Everyone here is a hero!"

Xiang Lan followed closely behind, delivering some polite words while distributing red envelopes.

As soon as they saw that there were red envelopes to be received, everyone's nervousness gradually dissipated, and the awkward and solemn atmosphere at the table also eased.

"Everywhere, this is what we should do."

"Yes, we only made a small contribution. The credit mainly goes to Mr. Huang and his men."

"........."

Compliments were flying around Huang Yulang and Xiang Huaqiang. Huang Yulang finally came to his senses and raised his glass to toast:

"That's not right. The reason why "Chinese Hero" is so successful is that the script is well adapted and the movie is well made!"

"Haha, thank you for your company's willingness to authorize Yongsheng to film "Chinese Hero"."

Xiang Lan accompanied Xiang Huaqiang and had a drink with everyone present.

How dare I not be willing!

Huang Yulang felt bitter, but he dared not say it out loud. He could only put on a smile and drink with the guests.

Just when he thought Xiang Huaqiang was just here to hand out red envelopes, he never expected that Xiang Huaqiang would lower his voice and say while handing out the red envelopes:

"Someone asked me to bring you a message..."

Huang Yulang felt as if struck by lightning, his head was buzzing so much that he didn't hear the rest of the words.

"I'm not saying you can't survive, but you have to know when to stop. Do you understand?"

Xiang Huaqiang cast a sharp look at him, and then patted his shoulder in a friendly manner, "Take care of yourself. I believe you won't do anything stupid."

"Ming...understand."

Huang Yulang's face was dull and his speech began to stutter.

The confidants present noticed something was wrong, especially the company vice president who came over as soon as Xiang Huaqiang left:

"What did Mr. Xiang just tell you?"

"Nothing, nothing."

Huang Yulang swallowed his saliva and pretended to be calm, but he was actually very panicked.

No matter how hard I thought about it, I couldn't figure out which link had gone wrong, or who had betrayed me!

Otherwise, how could the information that he had arranged to falsify the financial accounts and cover up the financial situation during last year's stock market crash have been leaked!
Once this matter becomes public, not only will Yulang International be suspended from trading, but he himself will also be thrown into jail!

When he thought of this, his eyes swept across the faces of his confidants, and a feeling of distrust surged in his heart. No matter who he looked at, they looked like a leaker.

"Mr. Huang."

Seeing him staggering like he was drunk, the vice president frowned and said, "How about we just stop drinking here and I'll have someone take you back?"

Huang Yulang took a deep breath and asked, "How are you doing with the negotiation with Ma Zai?"

"It's still the same as always. He won't listen to any soft or hard words. He refuses to renew the contract, doesn't want to sign the next work to the company, and is unwilling to sign a non-compete agreement."

The vice president told the truth, "He really has no mercy at all. In my opinion, he just wants to leave the company..."

Huang Yulang felt heavy in his heart, "If that's the case, then let him do as he wishes."

The vice president was greatly shocked. Huang Yulang had previously said viciously that he would force Ma Rongcheng to sign no matter what method or price was used. He did not expect that his attitude would change 180 degrees now. But when he thought of what happened to Xiang Huaqiang just now, he immediately shut up and said nothing.

"Ugh!"

Huang Yulang's eyes were full of unwillingness. He looked around for Fangyan, but found that he had already left without knowing when.

Gradually, the unwillingness in their eyes began to turn into panic, fear and powerlessness. They could not defeat Fang Sheng!

………………

It was late at night when we returned to Repulse Bay Villa from Miramar Hotel, but the house was not quiet at all.

Brigitte Lin, Joey Wong, Zhu Lin and others were thoroughly drunk, and they seamlessly went from the celebration banquet to the mahjong table, and even played along with Fang Yan.

Li Zhi and Gong Xing sat aside, chatting and laughing, and occasionally glancing at the intense mahjong game.

"Haha, Yanzi, you lost again!"

Lin Qingxia pushed her cards away.

"And it's three shots in one go, give me money, give me money!"

Wang Zuxian's eyebrows were full of joy, and her thick eyebrows danced like black butterflies.

"Alas, the big red envelope I just received from someone was robbed by you guys."

Seeing Fang Yan's pitiful look, Zhu Lin chuckled, and his cheeks, which were flushed from drinking, became even redder.

"What do you mean by looting? We won this back with our own hard-working hands!"

Lin Qingxia rolled her eyes.

"That's right, it's just a little money I won from you, just look at how thick your big red envelope is."

Wang Zuxian said angrily: "Even if we lose for one night, I'm afraid we may not be able to lose everything."

Zhu Lin, Li Zhi and the others nodded silently. Seeing this, Lin Qingxia grinned and said:

"Come on, come on. Tonight we are playing Sichuan Mahjong. We are going to fight to the end. No one is going to escape!"

"You guys!"

Gong Xing stood up.

"Sister Gong Xi, you can't give him advice, that's cheating."

Wang Zuxian said with a look of vigilance.

"Okay, okay, I'll ask Auntie Wu to make you some hangover soup and some midnight snacks. What do you want to eat?"

Gong Xing couldn't help but shake his head and laugh. "Of course it's sugar water and egg tarts!"

As soon as Wang Zuxian said this, she was immediately echoed by Li Zhi, Zhu Lin, Lin Qingxia and others.

Gong Xing said unhappily, "Pay attention to your figure, you know? You'll be filming Ghost with me in a few days."

Wang Zuxian stuck out her tongue and slyly changed the topic to Christmas, "What gifts are you going to give? Especially you!"

Fang Yan noticed that the five women present all turned their eyes to him, and shrugged his shoulders and said:
"Didn't I give it to you in advance? The story of Ghost was my idea, right?"

"Wow, that's so perfunctory. Can this be considered a Christmas present?"

Wang Zuxian spoke with the coquettish tone that is unique to Taiwanese girls, "Besides, this script was not written by Sister Gong Wei, how can it be yours?"

Fang Yan showed a playful smile, "Why not? What's hers is mine, and what's mine is hers."

"I'm going to stand on Xiaoxian's side on this one." Lin Qingxia glanced at Zhu Lin, Li Zhi and Gong Xian, "What do you think?"

"How about this, we'll decide the winner in a card game!" Zhu Lin's eyes rolled, "If you lose next time, you won't just lose money, but you'll have to promise us that everyone will give us a Christmas present." Then he looked around, "How about this idea?"

It's really like catching a sheep and pulling it to death!

Fangyan smacked his lips, but when he thought about it carefully, he realized that the Christmas gifts for them had actually been planned and prepared for a long time.

Then he exchanged glances with Gong Xian, who understood what he meant and said with a smile, "Okay! I'll take it for him!"

"It's a deal! Let's get started!"

Wang Zuxian rubbed her wrists, and her eyes kept communicating with Lizhi, Lin Qingxia, Zhu Lin and others, as if they were connected by an invisible bond.

The guns were all pointed at Fangyan! They were united as one!
………………

With the four women taking turns and working together, Fang Yan was ultimately no match for four people and suffered a humiliating defeat.

In the end, I had to promise "tearfully" to prepare Christmas gifts for them, and each person's gift must be different.

"Let me be clear in advance, the gift must be a surprise, not just a perfunctory one."

Lin Qingxia's eyes were smiling and full of anticipation.

Fangyan spread his hands helplessly and wanted to say, I really can't do it!

However, Wang Zuxian, Li Zhi and the others had obviously expected this, and pretended not to hear it. They left together laughingly, saying that it was getting late. After Gong Xing and Zhu Lin sent them out the door, they looked back and saw Fang Yan sitting alone at the mahjong table with a wry smile on his face.

"You can give me anything, but don't give me anything too expensive..."

A trace of heartache and guilt flashed in Zhu Lin's eyes.

"You don't have to worry about that."

Fangyan smiled knowingly, "Actually, I've already thought of what gift to give you."

Zhu Lin uttered a light "hmm" and cast a questioning look at Gong Xian, but saw that Gong Xian kept shaking his head, looking completely clueless.

Fang Yan blinked and said, "As for what the gift is, I can't tell you for now, otherwise there will be no surprise."

Zhu Lin was kept in suspense like this and felt extremely itchy, but he really had no way to do anything about him.

Gong Xing cleverly smoothed things over, "It's getting late, why don't we quickly wash up and go to bed early?"

Zhu Lin suppressed his curiosity, climbed the stairs with Fang Yan and Gong Xing, and returned to their own bedrooms.

With a "click", Gong Xing just closed the door and said impatiently:
"The gift for Zhu Lin, could it be the script you tailored for her?"

"what do you think?"

Fang Yan said: "This way she won't have to feel bad and can go back to acting with peace of mind."

Gong Xian asked, "Then tell me what your script is like?"

"If you open the gift so early, there will be no surprise." Fangyan joked.

"Anyway, this surprise is not prepared for me, so why don't I not tell Zhu Lin?" Gong Xing urged impatiently.

"Well, the background of this story takes place in Hong Kong in the 20s..."

He spoke "In the Mood for Love" slowly and leisurely in dialect.

In fact, the plot of the whole movie is simple. Zhou Muyun's wife and Su Lizhen's husband have an affair. The two men and women who were originally kept in the dark discovered their spouses' extramarital affairs through clues, and then the two hurt souls began to meet.

From being strangers at the beginning, to comforting each other, and developing deep feelings for each other, until both of them were unwilling to reveal the secret that they had fallen deeply in love with each other. Due to the constraints of moral ethics, Su Lizhen deliberately distanced herself from Zhou Muyun. She did not dare to let Zhou Muyun take her home, and she did not even dare to hold Zhou Muyun's umbrella. Zhou Muyun did not dare to go beyond the line, so he made a decisive decision and chose to leave and escape. The two eventually parted ways.

"This this……"

Gong Xing opened his mouth, but hesitated to speak.

"To put it politely, it's a platonic love, to put it simply, it's an extramarital affair with a mental derailment."

Fang Yan said: "The more ambiguous the relationship between the two, the more painful the restraint between the two is. What you can't get will always make you restless..."

"Why does this story sound so weird?"

Gong Xing frowned slightly.

"That's right, because this story is not as heavy as the script of Farewell My Concubine, which has a beginning, a middle, a middle, and a conclusion, as well as contradictions and conflicts."

Fangyan smiled and said, "But I dare say that European and American audiences will definitely like this petty bourgeois style."

"You want to take "In the Mood for Love" to the Cannes Film Festival again, right?" Gong Xing suddenly realized.

“It doesn’t have to be the Cannes Film Festival. It could be Berlin or Venice.”

Fangyan half-jokingly said, "How about I let you win a grand slam at the three major European film festivals?"

Gong Xing spat, "What a joke! You're not going to give me this In the Mood for Love as a gift, are you?"

Dialect: "Can you kill two birds with one stone?"

"What do you think?" Gong Xing pursed his lips. "Tell me, besides In the Mood for Love for Zhu Lin, what gifts are you going to give to Qingxia, Lizhi, Xiaoxian and the others? If you haven't thought of it yet, I can still give you some advice and help you prepare."

Fangyan said directly: "Qingxia likes champagne rose."

"That's good!" Gong Xing nodded, "Where's Xiao Xian?"

"I haven't really thought of what to give her yet. I've already given her what I should have given her."

Fang Yan still remembers the scene when he gave Wang Zuxian a birthday present and she excitedly hugged him.

"Then let's put Xiaoxian's aside for now."

Gong Xing silently took note of it in his heart, and then mentioned Li Zhi.

Fang Yan said: "I have already thought about this. I will create a new song specifically for her."

Gong Xing asked, "What song?"

“Angkor Wat” can be considered as the ending song of the movie In the Mood for Love.”

Fang Yan said faintly: "Su Lizhen and Zhou Muyun finally said goodbye in the alley. At the end of the movie, Zhou Muyun walked to Angkor Wat and quietly spit out his heart into the cave wall. This way of sealing up the love that ended without a result is to only tell the heart to Angkor Wat forever..." (End of this chapter)