Chapter 74 Return to Beijing

After returning to China, Gu Wei first went back to his home in Runze Manor to put down his luggage and tidy up a bit.

Although I didn't have to adjust to the time difference much after returning from Thailand, the flight took half a day, plus the time spent at the airport, so basically a whole day passed.

Even if there is nothing wrong with your body, you still feel tired inside.

The villa in Runze Manor has been empty since Gu Wei left.

However, the agent will hire a special cleaning company to come and clean the house every once in a while.

So you don't have to worry about coming back anytime.

The next day, Gu Wei just got up when he received a call from Nazha.

"Gu Wei, have you returned to China?" Nazha on the other end of the phone sounded a little excited.

"Yes, I just arrived yesterday. Are you well-informed?"

“I saw the news report online this morning.

Why didn't you tell me when you came back?" Nazha complained.

"I just came back yesterday, and this trip was very tiring. I had to take a rest after coming back. There is still a lot of work to do." Gu Wei said with a wry smile.

"Well, do you have time today? I want to have dinner with you." After hearing what Gu Wei said, Nazha was a little hesitant. After all, she knew that Gu Wei was a director making movies and she knew that he was indeed very busy.

"Why, you missed me after not seeing me for two months?" Gu Wei teased.

"Who misses you, you self-indulgent scumbag."

Gu Wei didn't care. He thought for a moment and said,

"Well, wait for my call. I'm very busy during the day and don't have time. I'll pick you up when I'm done."

"Okay, just come pick me up from school."

Then I chatted with Nazha for a few more words, learned about her recent situation, and hung up the phone.

Gu Wei was not trying to trick Nazha, he was really busy.

[Detective Chinatown] Although the filming has been wrapped up, the shooting work has been completed.

But Gu Wei is not just an actor, he is also the director and investor of the film.

His participation is required from post-production to release date, and finally to promotion and release.

The other actors in the movie have nothing to do after filming. They just have to cooperate with the crew in promoting the movie before it is released.

In addition to the movie, there are some other things in the company waiting for Gu Wei to make the final decision.

In the morning, Gu Wei made himself breakfast at home with bread, fried eggs and milk.

The food at home is bought in advance and placed in the refrigerator by the life assistant, who also comes regularly to replenish the stock and remove some expired food.

After a quick bite, Gu Wei came to the company.

Inside the company, all the employees were busy. Anyone who saw Gu Wei coming in would stop and greet him.

"Good morning, Mr. Gu"

"Mr. Gu, good morning~"

“.”

Gu Wei also responded to everyone with a smile.

Come to your office.

As soon as I sat down, turned on my office computer and asked my assistant to make me a cup of coffee, Chen Zhixi arrived.

"Mr. Gu, the editor is here, we can start post-production now."

Chen Zhixi is a decisive person at work. High efficiency and high initiative are the characteristics of her work. Gu Wei has a deep understanding of this in the two months they have worked together.

He picked up the steaming coffee and took a sip.

"I'll take care of the things at hand and then I'll be right over."

After sending Chen Zhixi away, Gu Wei met with agent Yang Liwen and general manager Zhao Mingcheng successively to learn about some things that happened in the company in the past two months.

Although they would report to Gu Wei regularly even though they were far away in Thailand, some things still needed to be made clear in person.

"Mr. Zhao, how is the cooperation with Huanrui regarding Century Talk going?"

"Boss Gu, we have basically reached an agreement with Huanrui on this matter.

After we made concessions on controlling rights and investment shares, Huanrui also showed more goodwill.

They agreed to give us the male lead."

Gu Wei was very happy to hear this, but also a little hesitant.

"Is it going so smoothly?"

Zhao Mingcheng thought for a moment and said

"I heard from Guangguang that Huanrui was reluctant at first, as they wanted to use the male lead to promote a newcomer that the company had chosen.

But at the end of last month, Yang Mi officially joined Huanrui Century and signed a contract as an artist studio.

Huanrui wants to give the female lead of "Gu Jian Qi Tan" to Yang Mi as a gift. I heard that many characters in this drama will be played by people from Yang Mi's studio.

This way they won’t bother with us about the male lead.

After all, if I eat it all, it will look really ugly and the lighting will be embarrassing."

“Yeah, that’s fine.

When will the contract be signed?"

"It's scheduled to be early next month. We, Huanrui, Guangguang, and Zhulong will sign the contract together."

Gu Wei lowered his head and thought for a moment

"You've done a good job on this. After all, [Ancient Swords] is a Huanrui project. Once filming starts, send a finance officer to join the crew, and we don't need to worry about anything else. We just need to wait for the distribution of the profits later."

"I understand, Mr. Gu."

Things in the company were almost done, and Gu Wei came to the editing room.

This is where he will mainly fight for the next period of time.

Although there is a dedicated editor, as a director, Gu Wei needs to control the overall direction and he needs to tell the editor the editing style and direction.

Film shooting produces a huge amount of footage, which can only become a complete movie that can be released after being processed, and then undergoing rough editing, fine editing, final editing, music selection, subtitle addition, special effects addition, and other steps.

The importance of post-production editing is no less than that of pre-production shooting.

After a busy day, Gu Wei walked out of the editing room looking a little tired at the end of the afternoon.

I went back to the office and changed into something more casual.

"Naza, I'll pick you up from school later?"

Gu Wei took out his cell phone to call Nazha. He hadn't forgotten what he had promised in the morning.

"Come here, I'll wait for you at the school gate."

Soon the car arrived at the gate of the film school.

Nazha wore a light brown windbreaker with a white sweater underneath, sky blue tight jeans, a cute pink mask and a black baseball cap.

I know Che Nazha from Gu Wei’s company.

The car slowly stopped beside her, opened the back door, and Nazha got in and sat with Gu Wei.

Taking off the mask, revealing her beautiful face, Nazha looked at his face.

"Gu Wei, is it hard to film a movie abroad?"

"It's okay. It's mainly because being a director is harder than being an actor."

"I see your eyes are bloodshot, and you look tired."

Nazha unconsciously put her hand on Gu Wei's face, looked into his eyes, and said with some heartache.

"I was editing a video at the company today and staring at the screen all day. Just a night's rest will be enough." Gu Wei said as he grabbed Nazha's fair and tender little hand.

"What do you want to eat?" Gu Wei asked.

"Let's go eat hotpot. We haven't had it for a long time. I haven't eaten much meat recently in order to lose weight. I'm so greedy." Nazha said aggrievedly.

As a frontier person, Nazha loves to eat meat, especially beef and mutton.

But as a female star, she has to suppress her desire to eat meat to avoid gaining weight.

"If we want to eat hotpot, let's go home and eat it. It will be more convenient and avoid a lot of trouble." Gu Wei said after thinking for a while.

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

The two took a car to the nearest Walmart supermarket, went in and chose some beef and mutton for hot pot, as well as some of their favorite vegetables and other foods.

When she entered the supermarket, Nazha unconsciously chose a large bag of snacks.

In addition to the food, Gu Wei also picked out a few bottles of red wine and some beer.

(End of this chapter)