Entertainment: 1990

Chapter 255

"Giggle..."

Upon hearing Zhang Yan's witty remark, Liu Xiaoqing immediately bent over laughing.

After a while, she propped herself up on the armrest and sat up from the soft couch. Her two smooth thighs swung out from under her robes, overlapping like piles of snow. Swinging her bare feet, she asked again, "Then do you dare to go crazy with me?"

"Don't dare."

Although the sight of that snow-white figure was enough to make one's soul tremble, Zhang Yan still shook his head decisively: "This is a photo studio. If Jiang Wen and Jiang Wu rush out with their cameras in the future, I will have no way to defend myself."

"Haha~"

Liu Xiaoqing smiled contemptuously: "How come you're not even as brave as Jiang Wen? If you're worried that I'm setting a trap, you can search first, or we can go somewhere else."

"What about the conditions?"

Zhang Yan countered, "If you're only after revenge against Jiang Wen, there's no need to specifically seek out me, is there?"

"Half and half, I've invested quite a bit of money in the production. Just think of me as someone who's here to do public relations for the production team." Liu Xiaoqing said as she bent down to put on her shoes, then stood up and said, "Let's go, you decide where we go."

As he spoke, he picked up a light blue raincoat from the side and wrapped himself up tightly from head to toe.

It seems she had already prepared for the change of scenery.

"To put it bluntly, you're still harboring feelings for him, aren't you?"

Zhang Yan sighed and suggested again, "Why don't you introduce that makeup artist to me? I can be more lenient with the requirements tomorrow."

He was truly smitten; he was smitten with the makeup artist.

Although 40-year-old Liu Xiaoqing is well-maintained, she is certainly not as youthful as she was in her late twenties. However, this time, she has the effect of defying aging.

However, upon hearing this, Liu Xiaoqing's face turned cold. She walked step by step to Zhang Yan, looked up and met his gaze: "What, do you think I'm too old?"

Of course, Zhang Yan couldn't accept that, and quickly denied it, saying, "How could that be? I am..."

He suddenly changed his expression halfway through his sentence, then immediately changed his words, saying, "I was just thinking about where would be a suitable place."

Liu Xiaoqing then took a half step back and smiled with satisfaction, "I didn't expect you to be so capable. I was a little reckless for a moment—are you alright?"

Zhang Yan gritted his teeth and said, "It's okay, I'm not that fragile!"

"So, have you decided where to go?"

"Come with me."

Zhang Yan awkwardly turned around, making a gesture that would lead to him being falsely accused of harassment when facing away from Liu Xiaoqing. He cursed inwardly that this old woman was truly unethical, actually using the raincoat as cover to launch a sneak attack on him.

Of course, his choice to compromise was not entirely due to coercion.

No matter what, she is Liu Xiaoqing, one of the most successful actresses in the past decade, and currently the most famous billionaire in China.

With this youthful makeup look, how could Zhang Yan not be tempted?

As he passed the curtain, Zhang Yan hesitated for a moment, then reached out and tore it off, haphazardly crumpling it up and tucking it under his arm.

Why are you making this?

"You'll know when you get there."

After half an hour.

Inside a half-finished building at the August 1st Film and Television Base, Liu Xiaoqing curiously looked around at the room's layout, which was half ancient and half modern, and asked in surprise, "What is this place?"

"The Leopard Chamber of the Zhengde Emperor".

Zhang Yan bolted the door, casually shook off the curtain, and said, "There's a bed in the room, but no bedding. This will do in a bit."

As he spoke, he prepared to lead Liu Xiaoqing into the bedroom. But Liu Xiaoqing did not move an inch, and simply took off her raincoat silently.

"what happened?"

Zhang Yan stopped and looked at Liu Xiaoqing suspiciously: "You're not suddenly thinking of backing out, are you?"

"Do not."

Liu Xiaoqing, revealing a magnificent robe, pointed to the dragon throne behind the desk: "I want to try that."

As she spoke, she gracefully walked over.

Seeing this, Zhang Yan asked with a smile, "Then am I Li Shimin or Li Zhi?"

Liu Xiaoqing sat down on the dragon throne and said authoritatively, "If you wish, you can also be Li Yuan."

…………

[I'm speechless that even a paragraph of this got deleted. Since I didn't have enough words to reach 2000, I had to say something, but I didn't know what to say that wouldn't get deleted... So I just added a few dozen words to make it 2000.]

What's my father's name? My father's father...

Okay, this song didn't exist back then, and it wasn't called that in the Tang Dynasty.

However, Zhang Yan did get to experience the thrill of spending his days on the dragon throne.

That dragon throne is really lousy. It looks quite impressive, but it's just for show. It creaks and groans with the slightest movement...

The clouds dispersed and the rain stopped.

The two lay side by side on the bed, wrapped in a cloth curtain. Zhang Yan touched his lower abdomen, where a hairpin had previously left a red mark, and asked, "In the upcoming negotiations, how much do you want me to concede?"

To prevent Liu Xiaoqing from making exorbitant demands, he was already prepared to be ruthless when he asked the question—after all, the two of them didn't have any 'feelings' for each other, and there was no question of who would lose out or gain in this matter.

After a moment's hesitation, Liu Xiaoqing shook his head and said, "Whatever you want. Anyway, I don't want to get involved in this anymore. I'll go straight back to Beijing first thing tomorrow morning."

Do women also enter a state of post-coital bliss?
Seeing Zhang Yan looking at her inquisitively, Liu Xiaoqing said helplessly, "Originally, I was thinking of helping him one last time, so that our years together wouldn't have been in vain. But now that I think about it, if you make it too obvious, he might become suspicious of you, and then the movie will be completely ruined."

It turns out that intelligence has once again taken over.

Seeing that she was quite calm, Zhang Yan tentatively asked, "The person who did your hair..."

Before he could finish speaking, Liu Xiaoqing flipped over and straddled Zhang Yan, then climbed over him off the bed and ran to the outer room in her slippers.

A moment later, she tossed a business card to Zhang Yan and said, "Here, this is the makeup artist's business card. However, our 'Wu Zetian' production team has already booked him. If you want to use him, you'll probably have to wait until the second half of next year."

Liu Xiaoqing asked Zhang Yan to take her back to the photo studio.

After watching her change back into her everyday clothes, the two of them went their separate ways.

At the time of parting.

Liu Xiaoqing turned around naturally and asked, "Shall we meet again next time?"

"This one……"

Zhang Yan hesitated. The afternoon's experience was indeed quite good, but he still felt somewhat resistant to the idea of ​​maintaining a long-term relationship with a woman in her forties.

"Humph~"

Liu Xiaoqing didn't get a reply, so he snorted, opened the car door, got in, and drove away.

Zhang Yan watched her car drive away and couldn't help but sigh with regret. He wished he could have taken a picture of her while she was sitting on the second floor of the photo studio with her legs crossed.

[PS: The second half of this chapter was particularly difficult and frustrating to write. I even considered deleting the entire chapter and just writing about what happened afterward... but that would probably mean only one update today.]

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