Hong Kong Entertainment 1979: A Beating Up the Manager at the Start

A week later.

The filming of the Shanghai Bund series is progressing exceptionally smoothly, with one-third of the story already filmed.

This afternoon's filming focused on Zhao Yazhi and Zhou Runfa strolling in the snow. The scene was filmed in an alleyway resembling the style of the Republic of China era.

Under the arrangement of assistant director Johnnie To, the crew arrived at the designated location at 3 p.m.

The crew spent another hour cleaning up and clearing the set. It wasn't until Johnnie To came to Li Jiangbo and said that filming could begin.

Li Jiangbo waved his hand, signaling Johnnie To to get ready.

With a shout of "Come on, microphone!", Zhao Yazhi walked slowly toward the camera, and the camera moved backward as she walked.

After this scene was filmed, the shoot didn't end there. Under Li Jiangbo's direction, Zhao Yazhi returned to the starting point for a close-up shot.

Artificial snow, blown by a blower, drifted in the sky. In a close-up shot, Zhao Yazhi displayed several expressions of longing before moving on to the next scene.

Zhou Runfa was seen holding an oil-paper umbrella, wearing a black overcoat, and with his signature white scarf around his neck.

The two walked from one end of the alley to the other.

"Click!"

"Let's pack up and get ready for the next scene."

Everyone started packing up, while Li Jiangbo looked at the script in his hand and discussed the gunfight scene with Wang Jing beside him.

Suddenly, Huang Yuanshen, dressed in a gray suit, stepped out from the crowd and grabbed a crew member he knew well, asking, "Around what time do you think we'll wrap up today?"

The crew member laughed and said, "It's Brother Shen! We're filming a gun scene today, so we'll probably wrap up very late."

Huang Yuanshen nodded. "I see!"

He thought for a moment, then took an envelope out of his pocket and handed it to the employee. "Give this to Ah Zhi for me. Remember not to let anyone see it. I'll treat you to dinner another day."

After hesitating for a moment, the man took the envelope from Huang Yuanshen's hand and nodded in agreement.

After a period of orderly preparation, the crew moved to a gunfight scene.

The employee, commissioned by Huang Yuanshen, slipped the envelope into Zhao Yazhi's bag when no one was looking, and then went about his business as if nothing had happened.

The busy Zhao Yazhi didn't even notice that someone had slipped something into her bag that she would later regret.

It was past 8 p.m. when the filming was finally finished.

Li Jiangbo then asked Johnnie To to inform everyone that they would take a day off tomorrow and be on set for filming the day after tomorrow.

After Li Jiangbo finished tidying up and walked out of the set, he found several actors chatting idly at the door.

"Why don't you go back?" Li Jiangbo asked curiously.

Zhou Runfa laughed and said, "Director Li, we're off tomorrow, so I was thinking we should all go out for a late-night snack and have a get-together."

"Oh! You guys eat, I'll head back now," Li Jiangbo said, and then turned to leave.

Li Jiangbo had invested all his money in the stock market, leaving himself only two thousand yuan for food and rent. He didn't have any money to treat everyone to a meal.

Before he could even take a step, Zhou Runfa grabbed him and said with a smile, "Director Li, let's go together, it's on me."

Li Jiangbo said awkwardly, "How can I let you treat me?"

Zhou Runfa leaned close to Li Jiangbo's ear and whispered, "Alright, I know you're directing for free this time. How can I, who's on a salary, let you treat me?"

Li Jiangbo smiled awkwardly and tried to leave, but Zhou Runfa wouldn't give him a chance, holding him tightly and even calling on Lü Liangwei to pull him away.

Finally, Li Jiangbo reluctantly followed the crowd to Kowloon Tong.

In a street food stall in Kowloon Tong.

Li Jiangbo sat down at an empty table with seven or eight other people. After ordering, they started chatting, mostly about things in their social circles.

For example, Jackie Chan, who became a sensation last year with "Snake in the Eagle's Shadow" and "Drunken Master", was signed by Golden Harvest and went to Hollywood to develop his career.

For example, there's the complicated relationship between Li Hanxiang, the director of erotic films who was famous throughout mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and Shaw Brothers.

For example, the ghost stories at Shaw Studios, like the milk tea lady in the women's restroom, etc...

It wasn't until a staff member started talking about the various gossip surrounding Zhao Yazhi, Huang Yuanshen, and Adam Cheng.

The staff member asked, "Guess who I saw on set today?"

Everyone asked in unison, "Who?"

The man was also a master storyteller. He deliberately kept quiet at first, until he had everyone in suspense, before finally saying, word by word, "Huang...Yuan...Shen!"

Upon hearing this name, Li Jiangbo immediately recalled Huang Yuanshen, a somewhat petty and narrow-minded man he encountered when Zhao Yazhi was negotiating a film contract.

He smiled slightly and shook his head. As someone who had traveled through time, Li Jiangbo knew this matter very well.

For example, the newspapers later reported Zhao Yazhi's extramarital affair with Huang Yuanshen, and the incident where Zhao Yazhi was slapped by Adam Cheng's girlfriend, Lydia Shum, on set.

But everyone was still discussing it quietly.

"I heard that the two met while filming 'The Whirlpool,' and then Huang Yuanshen began to pursue Zhao Yazhi intensely."

The others nodded in agreement, and someone else said, "I think the two of them should be fine. After all, Sister Zhi has been working very hard on set lately, spending most of her time on set."

"I think you're wrong. That kind of thing doesn't take very long..."

Upon hearing this, everyone laughed knowingly.

But someone else chimed in, "You're right, I reckon you only last about three minutes..."

The man who had just spoken immediately blushed. "Three minutes? I'd take at least half an hour. Don't believe me? Let's try!"

"Oh, half an hour still? How do you know they have a short time?"

"I specifically found this out..."

Everyone ate and chatted until 10 p.m. before finally parting ways.

Meanwhile, Zhao Yazhi returned home at nine o'clock in the evening.

As soon as she got home, she habitually handed over her bag, but after waiting for a while, the maid didn't take it.

At this moment, Zhao Yazhi remembered that the maid had gone home because of some business. She casually tossed her bag onto the sofa and turned to go to her son's room.

At this moment, Huang Hanwei came out and saw the bag and clothes on the sofa.

He sighed, walked over, picked up Zhao Yazhi's bag and clothes, and prepared to hang them up.

Who knew that when he picked up the bag, he accidentally held it upside down, and all the cosmetics and other items inside fell out.

Huang Hanwei hurriedly picked up the items and put them back in his bag, but found an envelope with a heart drawn on it.

Curious, he opened it and saw a beautiful necklace and a letter.

In the dim light, he unfolded the letter and began to read it.

After reading just one line, Huang Hanwei's eyes became bloodshot, his teeth ground together, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably.

Just then, Zhao Yazhi came out of her son's room and noticed that her husband was holding something and his hands were trembling.

"Hanwei, what's wrong?"

Huang Hanwei said in a low voice, "What did I do? What can I do? Look at the mess you've made!!!"

After saying that, he threw the letter and necklace in his hand directly in front of Zhao Yazhi.

Zhao Yazhi bent down to pick up the letter and necklace from the ground, glanced at them, and instantly felt a chill run down her spine.

She quickly explained, "Hanwei, I really don't know where this thing came from."

Huang Hanwei shouted angrily, "Enough! The thing was found in your bag, and you still dare to say you don't know?"

Zhao Yazhi said urgently, "Hanwei, listen to me, I really don't know..."

Before she could finish speaking, Huang Hanwei interrupted, "Don't know? You've been caught red-handed, what excuse do you have?"

Just as the two were arguing fiercely, Zhao Yazhi's two-year-old son, Huang Guangwei, rubbed his eyes and walked out of the room.

"Daddy, Mommy, please stop arguing, I'll eat my food obediently..."

Zhao Yazhi looked at her son with tears streaming down her face. Seeing her son looking at the two of them with a pitiful expression, she felt even more aggrieved and distressed.

She rushed to her son, hugged him tightly, and screamed at the top of her lungs, "Huang Hanwei, listen to me! We're completely over. Let's get a divorce!"

After saying that, she picked up her son and ran out of the house without looking back.

Huang Hanwei felt a pang of heartache when he first saw his son, but after hearing Zhao Yazhi's words, he couldn't control his anger and resentment.

He shouted, "Fine, let's get a divorce! I can find someone better without you!!!"