lit a cigarette for himself, Zhang Yimou didn't put on a coat, only wore a white vest on his upper body, and sat on the edge of the cold bed.

Sucked in and spit out, one after the other, and it didn't take long for six or seven more cigarette butts to appear in the ashtray next to them. The small, unfurnished rental house was so filled with smoke that the other person in the room, or rather the other person lying in bed, coughed and woke up from the thick smell of smoke.

"Don't smoke so much early in the morning"

The young woman rubbed her hazy sleepy eyes and sat up with her hands, Zhang Yimou subconsciously turned his face away when he heard the sound, but his eyes were snow-white. With a swallow in his throat, he hurriedly turned his face away, "Put on your clothes first, Lily"

The woman lying on the same bed with him was Gong Li.

"Hmm"

Gong Li smiled sweetly at him, got up meekly, touched an underwear from the bedside and put it on, and picked up a nightgown and put it on, "Are you hungry, I'll make breakfast for you"

Zhang Yimou nodded but didn't speak, Gong Li also knew that he had something on his mind and didn't say anything, and when he got out of bed, he obediently kissed him lightly on the cheek.

Sure enough, men are rarely able to resist the charm of gentle women, Zhang Yimou frowned tightly, and he barely squeezed out a smile and patted her hands.

It's been a few months......

Looking at the busy figure of the woman, Zhang Yimou lit another cigarette for himself and sighed.

At the end of August, he participated in the Venice Film Festival, and although his Red Sorghum film was a big hit at the Berlin Film Festival a year ago, it did not win anything at this year's Venice Film Festival. The whole team returned to China, and some leaders who thought that they could use this movie to increase the face of mainland movies were unhappy, so the reward that was originally said to be good was gone, and the funding for making a new movie for him was gone. With the withdrawal of a large number of foreign capital, there is a shortage of money everywhere, there is no money everywhere, mainland films can't make much money, and they can't win awards outside to promote the mainland positively, and he understands that he can't get funding.

But Zhang Yimou never expected that the matter between him and Gong Li would still be exposed.

The reason is because of Gong Li, she had a boyfriend named Yang Dan when she was studying at the Central Academy of Drama. After Gong Li was attracted by his humor and talent, she gradually snubbed her real boyfriend. In order to be with him, Gong Li proposed to break up with Yang Dan several times, but was rejected by Yang Dan, who has good family conditions and an arrogant temperament. In order to make him die, she no longer answered his phone to meet him, so that by the middle of this year, the two had less and less contact, and the relationship was on the verge of breaking down.

Gong Li has a boyfriend, and Zhang Yimou knows about it. It's just that she told him before that she would handle the relationship by herself, so Zhang Yimou didn't think much about it. Who would have thought that Yang Dan's family had some connections in the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, I don't know how Lu Dao learned that Gong Li was getting along with him through what channel, Yang Dan was angry and angry, and ran to Zhang Yimou's house in Xi'an to make trouble, but was blocked by his wife Xiao Hua, and Yang Dan chose to report with his real name and expose their unchaste relationship to the media after being most enraged.

In the past few years, being found to have been unfaithful in marriage in the mainland is almost equivalent to cutting off the road to progress, and Zhang Yimou is like this. After his relationship with Gong Li was exposed, not only did many mainland newspapers accuse and criticize the two, especially Zhang Yimou, but his Xi'an Film Studio even held a special meeting to vote for him, allowing him to suspend work and rest for a period of time. On the one hand, facing the unhappiness of work, on the other hand, he was also entangled in Gong Li's forced palace and his wife's cold words, and he was annoyed and annoyed, Yu Crisp went to Xi'an in a Hong Kong film delegation to contact the local people to ask if he could shoot a film related to Qin Shi Huang and the Terracotta Army, he took the initiative to contact the Hong Kong director named Cheng Xiaodong, and followed him to Hong Kong.

"Yimou, I'm done with the meal, let's have a bite to eat......"

The sonata of pots and pans was sung for about ten minutes, and not long after, a burst of voices calling him woke up Zhang Yimou, he answered, and then put on his coat and got out of bed, and walked out of the room.

Gong Li was also ingenious, and in ten minutes, she warmed up the leftover soy milk and a few leftovers from last night. Zhilu said that Zhang Yimou didn't like to eat rice, and she also went out to buy some steamed buns for him, which made Zhang Yimou's heart warm.

For Gong Li, his feelings are complicated, his union with his wife Xiao Hua was just a means of self-protection during the period when he was in the countryside, and after so many years of marriage, there was still a little affection now. In his mind, if he hadn't had a daughter to worry about, and the marriage scandal in the mainland would have mistaken his career, he was afraid that he would have divorced Xiao Hua a long time ago and chose the younger, beautiful and gentle Gong Li.

"When will this day come to an end......

Zhang Yimou picked up a bun, took a few bites and chewed it, but he didn't mean to use chopsticks to pick up the vegetables at all, obviously his appetite was not very good. Gong Li was heartbroken, and hurriedly asked: "What's the matter, eat more, you have lost weight in the past month in Hong Kong."

Zhang Yimou nodded, and after taking another bite of the bun, he sighed: "Lily, maybe we came to Hong Kong by mistake this time."

A few months ago, Cheng Xiaodong, a director of Xu Ke Studio, a film company in Hong Kong, went to Xi'an in person to ask the mainland if he could shoot a movie about Qin Shi Huang and the Terracotta Warriors in the mainland. The name of that movie is "Qin Warriors", which is adapted from the work of the same name by Li Bihua, a well-known Hong Kong female screenwriter and novelist. Zhang Yimou had heard of Xu Ke Studio Company, and knew that Lu Dao was a subsidiary of Hong Kong's largest film company, Xinyicheng, and that he was controversial in the mainland at that time, so he took the initiative to contact Cheng Xiaodong and promised to help him lobby Xi'an Film Studio to agree to co-produce "Qin Warriors" with Xinyicheng.

Zhang Yimou has been in the West Film Studio for so many years, and he naturally has no connections, although the relationship between the mainland and Hong Kong is relatively tense at this time, but after the West Film Studio reported to the radio and television department, the leaders finally nodded at the meeting, and decided to give Xu Ke Studio Company a convenience, hoping to convey some goodwill to Hong Kong. As a result, the Western Film Studio also agreed to cooperate with Xu Ke's studio to shoot Li Bihua's "Qin Warriors".

Who knew that after Lu Dao settled the most difficult things on his side, there was a problem on Cheng Xiaodong's side. Cheng Xiaodong is the person who Xu Ke promoted and discovered, and has been following Xu Ke since his debut, he wants to shoot "Qin Warriors", and the investor is of course Xu Lao Wei and his Xu Ke Studio Company. Since the beginning of this year, the three giants of Xinyi City have continued to fight among themselves, which has annoyed Xu Laowei. His Xu Ke Studio Company was established by him and his wife Shi Nansheng, but there are three major shareholders who are New Art City Company, Shi Tian, one of the three giants of New Art City, and Lei Juekun, the boss of Golden Princess.

Mecca not long ago forced the sale of Xinyibao records to Xu Lao Wei's eyes, worried that one day his Xu Ke studio will also be sold by shareholders, he moved the idea of completely taking the company into his own hands, and it happened that Xu Ke's previous "True Colors of Heroes 3" brought him a huge income. So Xu Laowei is now negotiating with Xinyicheng and Shi Tian, wanting to buy their shares

As a result, he wanted to buy Xu Ke's studio, which naturally cost a lot of money. Suddenly, Xu Ke's studio's funds also became nervous, and the six million investment that Xu Lao Wei originally promised to Cheng Xiaodong couldn't get it for a while.

Cheng Xiaodong couldn't get the money, and "Qin Warriors" was half prepared, so he naturally couldn't shoot it. Zhang Yimou was half avoiding the mainland's media accusations and reports of his change of heart, and half worried that the Western Film Studio, where he slapped his chest, would not be able to receive the work of this drama, and Yu Crisp also came after Cheng Xiaodong returned to Hong Kong.

Zhang Yimou came to Hong Kong, and Gong Li could still stay in the mainland, so she also came with her.

"Don't think so much, one plan. The boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, and with the ability to win an award at the Berlin Film Festival, you can still not eat enough to go to that film company to pick up a job, at most we will wait a little longer."

Gong Li also told the truth about the matter in his sighs these days, and when he saw that his mood began to be low again, he hurriedly comforted him a few words.

It's easy to say, but it's not that easy to do.

Zhang Yimou shook his head with a wry smile, and after eating a big meat bun in three or five bites, he said to her, "I'll go to Director Cheng's side to have a look."

He has been in Hong Kong for a while, and he has spent a lot of savings, if he can't still pick up some scattered private goods at Yindu Film Company, and Cheng Xiaodong helps him advance this house, I'm afraid he won't be able to hold on for a long time. But Rao is like this, during the time that the two of them are in Hong Kong, life is also tight. He Zhang Yimou is also a big man, and watching a woman follow him from the mainland to Hong Kong to live a hard life is torment.

After finishing the washing, he picked out a new piece of clothing after coming to Hong Kong and put it on, and then went straight to the nearby bus stop, he was still not close to Xu Ke's studio company, Zhang Yimou was reluctant to take the sky-high taxi.

The bumpy road soon arrived at the office building where Xu Ke's studio company was located, and the following security was also familiar with him during this time, and he was allowed to go when he nodded, and let him go straight to Xu Ke's studio company on the seventh floor.

"Mr. Zhang, are you here......"

Zhang Yimou almost ran to Xu Ke's studio every day during this time, and the little girls at the reception were familiar with him, and when they saw him coming, they hung up the phone directly to Cheng Xiaodong: "Producer Cheng, Mr. Zhang is here"

After hanging up the phone, the little girl pointed directly to the office in a corner, "Producer Cheng is still in the company, Mr. Zhang, go over by yourself."

"Well, Xie Lu, thank you" Zhang Yimou said thank you, walked a few steps quickly to the door of Cheng Xiaodong's office, and was about to knock on the door, when he found that the door was opened, and when he looked up, he saw a young face.