Chapter 174 Meeting

Time goes back to fifteen minutes ago.

In the private room upstairs, after sending away his female companion who insisted on pestering him and the person in charge of a company who came to discuss business, Zha Lan did not leave in a hurry as he had made an excuse. Instead, he sat leisurely in his seat, waiting for a delicious dinner.

It is said that the chef of this restaurant is an award-winning chef. The food he prepares is both beautiful and delicious, and is always ranked at the top of the personal recommendation list of these gourmets.

Unfortunately, a handsome man will attract a lot of people. Even if you book a private room, you still can't stop the people from coming to you.

Fortunately, they were all small figures who could be easily dismissed with an excuse, rather than important people who required him to hide his true nature and humble himself to please them. Although it took some time, it did not delay his dinner in the end.

While happily waiting for the dinner, unexpectedly, when the appetizers were served, Zha Lan suddenly found someone who looked familiar: the young part-time waiter following behind the private room waiter was Tom, whom he had met several times.

If it weren't for the big age gap between the two, Jake actually didn't like watching Tom - when filming "Léon", Tom was just a minor supporting role with few lines, while he was the undisputed leading actor; not long after that, when filming "The Fault in Our Stars", Tom, the New Jersey kid with a silly American smile, suddenly became the leading actor, while he was just a guest band musician without even a line.

This is not about competing for status. Given Zha Lan's current status, compared with a newcomer like Tom, it would lower his value.

So it's purely that Zha Lan, who is overly narcissistic and always likes to be self-centered, is jealous of Tom, a newcomer who is qualified to "threaten" his looks and status - the issue of the role is easy to explain, but in terms of his position in Su Yun's heart, Zha Lan knows without thinking that he is not as good as Tom, a young man who looks very young and sweet.

Although he and Su Yun dislike each other, they are also impressed by each other's talent and looks. Moreover, the Eastern market is rising along with the rise of China. Collaborating with Su Yun is obviously one of the bridges for Western actors to enter the Eastern market.

French films do not sell well in the North American market, and most of them end up gaining fame but not making much money. Instead, they are sent elsewhere, especially to Eastern markets, where they are more likely to be sold at a good price and earn satisfactory box office revenue after being re-dubbed.

For example, his previous film "Zorro" was sent to the Chinese mainland market through Su Yun's channels. Although the current return on revenue is not much, judging from Su Yun's previous achievements in the mainland, the long-term revenue in the future will be quite considerable.

Previously, his agent Piero suggested that if he wanted to make money, he should look for more opportunities to cooperate with Su Yun. Therefore, Zha Lan, who has a keen business sense, took this to heart: considering Su Yun's unyielding character, which is very similar to his, he would definitely force his way back once he found an opportunity.

As expected, last month I heard from Piero that Su Yun had reached a cooperation agreement with her former rival Zhao Film Company. Not only did she use Zhao's influence to solve the remaining problems in Taiwan, but she also raced against time to shoot a new movie and plan a new variety show. She is very popular in Hong Kong.

Zhao from Hong Kong is well-known in the European and American markets for his wealth and stupidity. He also particularly prefers the type of big productions that Su Yun is best at. The fact that the two of them can put aside their past grudges and work together is really a great boost for Su Yun.

He knew that Su Yun was the kind of girl he disliked on the surface but admired on the inside. Like him, she would not give up and turned around and played the game of Return of the King!

For people who are like him, whether in character or appearance, Zha Lan naturally has a certain degree of favorability bonus - so Tom also suffers from the fact that he is completely opposite to Zha Lan in terms of looks. Zhuang Long and Bo Wen, who are also competing with Zha Lan for Su Yun's attention and cooperation opportunities, don't make Zha Lan feel like dissing them because their looks are more or less similar or similar to Zha Lan...

As for Su Yun, who has the same appearance as Zha Lan, a fierce and self-aware type who relies on her beauty, a personality very similar to Zha Lan, and even has the added buff of the "Matilda" character, her favorability is multiplied.

Although Zha Lan didn't show it on the surface, among all the big names Su Yun had worked with, he was definitely the one who cared about her the most and missed her the most.

Regarding the incident in Taiwan, Zha Lan was unable to fly over to support the film because she was filming in Spain with the crew. However, he was busy with other filming plans afterwards and found some rare free time to send a long letter to Su Yun from afar, saying that if Su Yun had no filming opportunities but still wanted to film, she could fly to France to find him at any time, and he and his production company would do their best to help.

Even Kubrick and Spielberg, like everyone else, only sent Su Yun letters full of comfort and encouragement after hearing about this, but did not offer to help her find an opportunity to rise again - Kubrick suffered political losses due to the subject matter of his film, so he moved to the UK to settle down; and Spielberg was a commercial film director who had just started to succeed, so it was not easy for him to get involved in political issues.

Therefore, for the time being, both of them could only rely on their adult experience and urge Su Yun in their letters to stay out of the spotlight and wait for the right opportunity, and they would do their best to help her if there was a chance in the future.

Both are about trying your best to help, but there is an obvious difference between doing your best as long as you ask and doing your best again when there is a chance.

Su Yun would not condemn others for seeking profit and avoiding harm. The way Kubrick and Spielberg handled things was actually the most rational and appropriate approach. However, people could not help but be moved by Zha Lan's audacity and irrationality of "as long as you speak up, I will help you no matter what the consequences are."

Therefore, when Su Yunyuzhuan received this letter, he was really moved: everyone said that Zha Lan was so bad in terms of relationships that he could be ranked among the top scumbags, but his chivalrous character, which was similar to the underworld habits because of his lower-class background, made him a rare good friend and brother in terms of friendship.

But how did it end? Su Yun did fly to France to compete for the Palme d'Or for "The Fault in Our Stars".

Considering that Zha Lan was still flying around the world to shoot location scenes at that time, Su Yun did not deliberately look for him when she went to France, but just left after receiving the award.

This is why Zha Lan couldn't help but play a prank after seeing Su Yun from afar tonight: When he heard the news that Su Yun won the award, he was very happy for her. He specially took two days off to fly back to France, wanting to treat this poor but lucky child to a big dinner to celebrate -

Good guy, he went through so much trouble to rush back, but that scumbag Su Yun had already flown away!

And now, Su Yun, who still didn't know that there was an "ambush" waiting for her, was happily eating and chatting with Zhuang Long and Bourne.

"This time I came here, besides visiting you, I also want to discuss some new business with you..." Facing the undercurrents at the table, Su Yun was very calm.

Of course, the only one among the three who was not calm was probably the young man Bourne.

Since they have the same interests and hobbies, matching looks, and have filmed a movie together before, Su Yun's invitation this time was somewhat fanciful to Bourne: Su Yun came all the way to visit him and even asked him out for dinner. If you think about it carefully, it can be considered a date!

However, when he got dressed and came to the restaurant door, he found that Su Yun had not only arranged a date with him...

Seeing the complicated expression and hesitation on Bourne's face, Zhuang Long's eyes moved between the two of them even more full of interest.

Before, when he was at the door of the restaurant, he was slightly surprised by the grown-up Su Yun. Before the joy in his heart that his former cabbage was finally growing up could spread, he turned around and saw a pig trying to eat the cabbage.

Obviously, a confused young man like Bourne did not realize the true nature of the situation, so he mistook him for a love rival. His eyes were full of resentment and anger.

And Su Yun could obviously see that Bourne had a crush on her - I heard that the two of them had played a couple in a movie in Japan before. At this age, it is easy for them to fall in love during the filming and then turn the fake love into real love.

However, compared to Su Yun's calmness, Bourne seemed much more reserved and confused.

Zhuang Long thought that he probably understood the real reason why Su Yunduo asked him out for dinner: she knew Bourne's little thoughts, but didn't want to settle down so quickly, so she used him as a smokescreen.

On the one hand, it can show the quality of the people around her and stimulate Bourne's fighting spirit; on the other hand, it can also make Bourne retreat and slow down his offensive through such similar or even slightly better quality.

On the surface, she could still say that she was just here to discuss business and visit a friend - but once the real account was taken, she could say that she had done nothing and that they were just overthinking it.

Zhuang Long knew that Su Yun had always been a slut since she was young, so he had no doubt that Su Yun could do such a perfect combination of not taking the initiative, not resisting, and not taking responsibility...

Just as I was sighing in my heart that Su Yun was so young but had such a good plan, the door of the private room was suddenly pushed open from the outside.

Before he could explain the reason why "Mr. Alain Delon asked me to come over and give his friend a bottle of red wine", Tom, who was dressed as a waiter, was stunned when he saw the three people in the box.

Especially Bourne's golden hair, which is particularly eye-catching among the two black-haired ones!

Although the golden hair of both of them has inevitably dimmed from its former youthful golden color as they have aged, and has instead gradually turned into a deep golden brown, the fact that they repel each other due to their sexual similarities has already created a chain of suspicion that is difficult for males of the same age to avoid.

Perhaps only a narcissist like Zha Lan would not mind the repulsion between people of the same nature and would be happy to see this: he thinks that people of the same nature as him are all inferior substitutes for him, the top match - so maybe he would even feel complacent about it...

But Tom, who is younger than Zhalan and not as well-trained as Zhalan, was stunned by the scene.

The look on her face was one of complete disbelief, as if she was saying, "I'm working so hard outside, but you're having two cats behind my back."

For a moment, he didn't know what to say to express his current complicated feelings.

"Tom! Didn't Marian say that you and your friends went camping?!" There was silence. Taking advantage of the moment when Tom was unable to organize his words, Su Yun, as Zhuang Long had expected, slammed the table and took the initiative.