Brilliant Years 1991

Chapter 196: So sad! So depressed! So jealous!
Inside a luxurious mansion in Repulse Bay.

A group of staff members were busy adjusting the lights and reflectors, but almost everyone was very careful and cautious, as if they were afraid of touching the expensive furnishings in the villa.

The photographer constantly directs and makes adjustments behind the camera.

In the astonishingly large kitchen of the villa, all electrical appliances had been cleared out, except for some kitchen utensils and bowls and chopsticks of unknown brands, there was only an Aijia rice cooker on the center table.

It's now plugged in and the rice is being steamed.

The makeup artist is putting makeup on Li Qingxia.

Today's requirement is a homely look, so she shouldn't wear too heavy makeup and will wear homely clothes, but a makeup artist will still be needed to adjust her eyes and eyebrows to make her look softer.

More like a good wife who cooks meals at home.

As the boss of an advertising company, Huang Zhan had nothing to do. Apart from paying attention to the photographer's work from time to time, most of his energy was spent on observing the interior of the villa.

I was amazed in my heart.

Repulse Bay, this is Repulse Bay!

A luxurious mansion worth hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars - not just anyone can earn 100 million Hong Kong dollars, and even if someone works hard all his life and earns 100 million Hong Kong dollars, he simply can't afford to spend it to buy such a luxurious villa. Therefore, at least 500 million or 800 million, or even more than 1 billion in assets, are needed to buy this place!

You deserve to buy here!

He was looking around quietly, thinking that he would never be able to live in this mansion in his lifetime, when he suddenly heard a noise behind him. He turned around hurriedly and saw that the door of the villa was opened and the owner had returned.

He walked with his head held high, with an impressive momentum.

"Mr. Cao!"

Huang Zhan quickly greeted him with a smile on his face.

Today is different from the past. Just three or four months ago, when he saw this young man, he of course called him "A Kun" or "Kun Zai". Even if he was a boss, it was normal. But in just three or four months, not only did the beverage that the other party asked him to shoot the commercial for become very popular, it was said that it made tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars every month, and now it has acquired a listed company in one fell swoop and became the chairman of the board of directors of the listed company.

It's not "boy" anymore. No matter how young you are, you should respectfully address people as "Mr. Cao".

By the way, although Huang Zhan is well-known in the red sky entertainment circle for his unrestrained talent and passion, and he is indeed talented in creation, but he is by no means the kind of arrogant madman. His wildness and debauchery are actually more directed at the entertainment circle. When facing the bigwigs in the red sky business world, he is still very honest and knows how to put down his arrogance of a talent - in the business world, if you have money and can make money, you are a great person!
Cao Yukun had already strode over and stretched out his hand from a distance, "Uncle Chan, why are you so polite? Just call me A-Kun!"

Huang Zhan was very happy, but still said, "You have to call Cao Sheng!"

At this time, the staff who were originally busy stopped what they were doing and greeted him respectfully, "Mr. Cao!"

No one wanted to take Cao Yukun's job, but they just worshipped the rich man out of instinct.

Before coming, we only knew that we were going to film a segment about Lai Ching-Hsia, but after arriving, everyone quickly realized that Lai Ching-Hsia was actually the hostess of this luxury house in Repulse Bay. When we learned from James Wong that the client of today's advertisement was the "handsome Kun" Cao Yu-Kun who had been very famous in Hong Kong recently, everyone suddenly realized that Lai Ching-Hsia had been kept by this big boss.

He was able to keep Li Qingxia as his mistress, and even bought such a luxurious house to hide her away... Who would dare to look down on him?
When you see the real owner coming, of course you should be as polite as possible!

As I said, although no one is doing Cao Yukun's job, it is not wrong to worship the gods when you see them.

Cao Yukun held Huang Zhan's hand, smiled and nodded at them, "Thank you for your hard work!"

At this time, Li Qingxia heard the noise outside and ran out, "Husband!" Then, she turned around, as light as an eighteen-year-old girl, "Is this okay?"

She was only a month or two pregnant, and it wasn't even noticeable yet.

To be honest, she is almost 40 years old, but her figure has always been as light as a girl. Today, she is particularly happy and looks even younger and more agile. Tsk, her husband suddenly asked her to shoot a commercial, which made her excited! Shooting a commercial for her husband's company's products is of course a convenient thing, but her focus is obviously not on the fact that she can get another sum of money.

What she cared about was that if she wanted to shoot a commercial, she had to find professionals. Even if it wasn't James Wong, he had to be someone in the industry at least. What's more, he had said at the time that he would rather work with someone he was familiar with than with a stranger, so he still found James Wong, and shot it in his own villa. In this way, it was equivalent to having people in the film, television and entertainment industries come to his house.

First, to see my mansion, and second, to semi-publicly show it off - my husband is Cao's son!

Even if they had to sign a confidentiality agreement, gossip like this would inevitably spread quietly over time - in her opinion, this was basically equivalent to her husband gradually revealing his identity.

Of course I’m happy!
Although she is the de facto canary, and although it is highly unlikely that she will officially register for marriage with him, let alone think about a luxurious wedding, but to some extent, making it public in a small circle is also an endorsement of her identity!

"Yes, Not Bad!"

Cao Yukun smiled and nodded and praised her. Seeing Li Qingxia coming over, he opened his arms and hugged her. The old lady was usually very shy. She was more relaxed only when they were alone. She would even be shy in front of the servants at home. But today, she seemed willing to show her intimacy with Cao Yukun.

Just as she wishes.

A bunch of staff, even including Huang Zhan, were all staring at her. There was no way. The younger generation in the future, when they look at the photos of the old lady from when she first debuted to now, they will probably just sigh emptyly, "Wow, the woman who was known as the most beautiful woman in Asia back then was so beautiful!" When she was young, she was pure and peerless. When she matured, she was either charming and handsome, or heroic! But the people standing in the big villa at that time really witnessed the beauty of Lai Qingxia, which has been beautiful for twenty years!
Of course there are people who are not very interested in her appearance after watching her in movies and TV shows, but there are probably not many people who have met her in person but still feel that she is not pretty.

In Hong Kong, Taiwan, and even Southeast Asia today, the old aunt is still the love interest of countless people - she has been rumored to have two love affairs, but there were many entanglements between them. Li Qingxia's personality is gentle but strong-willed. She is definitely not someone who would easily surrender to a man, which makes people even more obsessed with her.

However, today, it ends.

She is already in a relationship - most likely being kept as a canary by this young, rich, handsome guy in front of her - oh, how heartbroken! How depressed! How envious!

Of course, the two of them just hugged each other briefly, and Cao Yukun quickly let her go.

As Cao Yukun let go of Li Qingxia, the group of people stared at the two people hugging. For a moment, everyone in the villa seemed to have stopped as if the pause button was pressed. At this moment, they suddenly slowed down, and almost at the same time, everyone started moving again.

After hugging her and letting go, Cao Yukun stared at Li Qingxia for a moment, then turned his head to look at Huang Zhan.

"Uncle Chan, what do you think?"

Cao Yukun insisted on calling him Uncle Chan, which made Huang Zhan feel quite proud. At this time, he came to his senses, pushed his glasses, and praised him generously, "I think it's all good. Miss Li has this kind of gentle temperament. As long as we don't force her to be heroic, there will be no problem!"

Cao Yukun thought for a moment and said, "That's it... Oh, by the way, tie your ponytail!"

Huang Zhan immediately agreed, "Yes! You should tie your hair into a ponytail. People who work in the kitchen don't leave their hair loose like this!"

If they reach an agreement, then it's okay.

Li Qingxia did it herself and tied her ponytail in a few seconds. In addition, she was wearing a very homely outfit today and an apron. To be honest, this is the traditional Chinese aesthetic of being able to work in the living room and cook in the kitchen. It's basically the best.

Let’s start shooting.

It's already mid-October.

Although he couldn't help himself and sneaked to the capital to have a snack, he unexpectedly learned that a third woman was pregnant with his child, and her identity was relatively dangerous. However... these were all trivial matters.

Cao Yukun did not delay anything that was really important.

Make money.

After more than ten days of sorting out the process, especially when Cao Yukun personally went to the production line and carefully investigated the entire process of rice cooker production, he felt that he was basically no longer a layman in this industry.

Doing business, especially running a factory, is nothing more than these things.

Personnel, finance, production, technology, sales.

Once you have these five most basic aspects sorted out, you will basically have a clear idea in mind.

Then you can start planning the next step.

In fact, with the new loans from several banks in hand, the factory did start up and started production in an orderly manner, but the products they produced no longer had even the original sales channels. It can be said that for every item produced, there was just one more item piled up in the warehouse.

It is obviously impossible to continue like this.

Of course, for Cao Yukun, it was just a matter of pushing things forward step by step.

He didn't seem to be in any hurry.

But in fact, all the stakeholders in this matter, including creditors, company management, workers below, and even Miss Pansy Kwok, were a little worried for him.

At least until now, no one knows what Cao Yukun will do next.

And Cao Yukun's old trick is roughly the same - shoot a commercial first!
After the previous experiments with Qinyuan brand plum juice, especially the trials not only in Hongkong but also recently in Lijiaopo, which were all quite successful, he certainly had a good idea in his mind.

At least in this era, my three sales promotion tricks are still sufficient.

If we bring it back to the mainland, it will be more sufficient.

…………

The advertisement was very simple, and the dialogue was written by Cao Yukun himself. Even though it was shot several times, it was still very fast. Together with the promotional photos for the hard advertisement, it only took an hour to complete.

It’s much faster than when Andy Lau and Zhou Aimin shot the commercial for sour plum juice.

After finishing the job, Huang Zhan and his team left. Before leaving, he repeatedly promised that the film would be ready within three days. Cao Yukun personally sent them to the door and watched them get into the car.

But after they left, Cao Yukun also got into the car to leave. Li Qingxia, who had happily accompanied Cao Yukun to see people off just now, suddenly became unhappy.

Huang Zhan and the others certainly didn't know the situation, so they didn't even think about why the man of the family would rush back from outside at eight or nine in the morning?

But the old lady obviously knew what was going on.

So she kept pestering him, not wanting him to leave, "Hubby, you haven't been with me for two days!"

She was actually reminding Cao Yukun that according to the rules you set, today should belong to me - as I said, women are very smart. Although Cao Yukun never responded to their temptations, it did not prevent them from realizing that Cao Yukun already had someone else outside.

But at least, you should give me the one third that belongs to me, right?

Not to mention too much, in this month, you have to travel to the mainland, Southeast Asia and other places for at least half a month. At most, you will stay in Hongkong for about ten days, and it takes three days to get a turn. In a month, it is actually only my turn for four or five days!
Cao Yukun laughed, turned around to hug her, and kissed her face.

"What? Are you still shy today? Huh? In just over an hour, you made a million, isn't that enough?"

Just talking about something else.

She talked about money, but what she was actually talking about was not money. It was that Huang Zhan and his team came over at once, which was like she intentionally left a loophole, allowing the identity of the old lady to be spread.

Of course the old lady understood it immediately.

Her face turned red and she opened her mouth as if she wanted to speak, but she couldn't help but smile in the corners of her eyes and eyebrows - in the past, she might not have asked any more questions, but not now.

She is pregnant.

She didn't say anything, but once again took the initiative to lie in his arms and sniffed him deliberately.

Well, actually I went to accompany Zhou Aimin yesterday.

I've been with her more these past two days since I came back - she wants to have a baby, and since Cao Yukun promised her, she seems to be obsessed with this, just like an old aunt before she got pregnant. And these few days are just her good days.

Cao Yukun laughed again, "Okay! If you really want to know, I'll let you see him some other day!"

Li Qingxia looked up at him, glanced at him, and couldn't help but punched him lightly on the chest, acting coquettishly and naughtily, "Come back tonight!"

Cao Yukun adjusted his tie and smiled, "No! No! Busy!"

Li Qingxia was unhappy. She looked at him unsatisfied and pitifully.

Cao Yukun reached out and touched her face. "Tomorrow. Come and sleep here tomorrow."

"You said, tomorrow!"

"I said, tomorrow!"

(End of this chapter)