Chapter 35 Domineering
However, this is Hong Kong in 1979, not a different world of sacred light calendar xxx, swords and magic, nor is it a world of fairy tales with many golden elixirs and gods walking all over the ground. No one dares to glar at me and destroy anyone.
Didn’t TVB often say that we in Hong Kong are legal...
"A Chong, why do you have to buy clothes here?" Although Li Kaiyuan's face turned red with shame and anger, he did not lose his mind.
"There will be an interview tomorrow. I want you to go with me." Chen Chong explained softly, while picking up a windbreaker, signaling the clerk to come over, and instructing him: "Try it for my girlfriend."
Li Kaiyuan stopped insisting, threw his bag to Chen Chong, started to try on his clothes, and asked, "What interview?"
"An exclusive interview with Ming Pao Weekly..."
Before Chen Chong could explain in detail, the charming woman took a scarf and deliberately walked to the mirror beside Li Kaiyuan, shouting pretentiously: "Oh, Xiaoyu, come and help me see if this color is right?"
Damn, the rhythm of asking for a slap in the face is too obvious. There are so many clerks and so many mirrors, do you have to make up for it here?
Chen Chong couldn't help rolling his eyes, and Li Kaiyuan looked cold, ignored her and continued to try on his clothes.
"Xiaoyu, I'll tell you, be more careful." The woman said in a voice that seemed to be whispering, but everyone could hear it: "Your store is full of high-end fashion shipped from Europe. Don't try it on for people to wear it at any time. What should I do if I get worn out? They patted their butts and left, you have to pay for it."
It was unbearable. Chen Chong was about to get angry, but he saw Li Kaiyuan neatly take off his windbreaker, wrap it up casually, and then directly hit the woman's face.
The woman grabbed her hands and pulled off the clothes covering her head, and then raised her eyebrows and opened her mouth to curse. Li Kaiyuan collapsed and stood in front of her with his face, raised his eyebrows and said, "What do you want?"
The voice is not loud, but the momentum is imposing, like a queen looking down on her, like a female tiger getting angry.
The woman was so beautiful that she subconsciously wanted to retreat, but her legs became weak, she staggered and fell to the ground.
The guests and clerks present were stunned, and the fashion store was quiet...
Chen Chong was on the side, his mind was drunk, and he took it away - this queen-like style, who is the only one else, is so domineering!
The woman was ashamed and ashamed, struggling to get up, let alone making a tantrum, she didn't even have the courage to see Li Kaiyuan. She lowered her head and cried and ran away in a hurry.
Lee Kaiyuan looked around for a week, and everyone looked down, not daring to look at each other. Then, as if nothing had happened, she picked up the windbreaker thrown on the ground and handed it to the clerk named Xiaoyu, and said as if nothing had happened: "This dress has a little tight shoulders. Please change me to a larger size."
"Oh, oh... OK." The clerk took the windbreaker and ran away in panic.
Chen Chong took two steps forward and was about to speak, but Li Kaiyuan said first. She asked in a low voice: "Am I very fierce?"
"Fierce, especially fierce!" Chen Chong nodded seriously, then grabbed her hand and rubbed it on his face, looking obscene: "But I like it very much..."
Li Kaiyuan was amused and laughed. As her smile, the frost disintegrated and spring returned to the earth. Chen Chong vaguely heard the sound of several people venting their breath.
"It's in public, there's no sign of a good person!" Li Kaiyuan shook his hand away, and although he was blamed, his tone was very gentle.
Chen Chong held her slender waist and smiled.
If the scene was just now, if it was a man, he could swear for the rest of his life, but for a girl, she would worry that she would be too fierce and be alienated by her lover.
So Chen Chong made such an intimate and ambiguous move to dispel Lee Kaiyuan's worries.
After a while, the clerk led a woman in her thirties who was dressed very elegantly and exquisitely.
"Hello, two, I am the owner of this store. My surname is Guo, Guo Zhiqin." The woman shook hands and Shen Chong, and then asked, "What are the names of the two?"
"Chen Chong, this is my girlfriend, Lee Kaiyuan."
The woman was obviously very interested in Li Kaiyuan. After a few polite socializing in Chen Chong, she enthusiastically took Li Kaiyuan to try on clothes one by one. Chen Chong was so happy that he sat aside to rest.
A woman is more troublesome to buy clothes than a house. After two or three hours of trouble, Chen Chong returned to the suite of the Mandarin Hotel with a large bag and a small bag.
Although I was a little tired after running around for a day, Chen Chong was stimulated by Lee Kaiyuan's queen-like appearance. When I rolled off the sheets at night, I was extremely excited and in good condition...
"A Chong, are you really afraid that I am a shrew?"
"Only men who are incompetent are afraid of women." Chen Chong liked the intimate and ambiguous chat feeling after rolling the sheets. He gently stroked Li Kaiyuan's hair and said, "Do you think I look like an incompetent person?"
"You can brag." Li Kaiyuan gently pinched Chen Chong, and then said, "Sister Qin said that the woman is a mistress supported by a big boss and has no ability."
"So what if you have the ability?" Chen Chong didn't care about the woman of that kind of quality. He was a little curious about the female owner of the fashion store and asked, "What is the origin of Sister Qin?"
"I don't know very well. But Sister Qin is very capable. The fashions in that store were all selected by her by herself in Europe, one by one." Speaking of clothing, there was no woman who was uninterested. "Sister Qin said that the clothes in the store were not very suitable for my temperament, so she gave me time to go to Europe with her and make a few customized sets of clothes."
"Then you go. Isn't it just to make money just to make life better?" Chen Chong said lazily: "From her behavior, her family background will definitely be good. If you learn more from her, you will not make any mistakes in attending some cocktail parties in the future."
"I won't participate in those things." Li Kaiyuan said one by one with Shen Chong's fingers, "It's so boring that he walked around with a wine glass."
"You are talking about the scenes in the TV series, right?" Chen Chong laughed and said, "You are a rich woman with a mansion in the middle of the mountain. There will definitely be a lot of social events that you can't avoid in the future. It's better to learn it early."
"Okay, I'll go and learn." Li Kaiyuan turned over, hugged Chen Chong, and asked, "Do you have to be interviewed with you tomorrow?"
"We are rich now, but we don't have fame." Chen Chong was a little ready to move, so he turned sideways and faced with Li Kaiyuan. While fiddling with the little white rabbit, he said: "Famousness is an intangible asset, sometimes it is easier than money. We start from scratch and have no background. The more famous we are, the more resources available, and there is always benefits."
"But what did I say when interviewing me?"
"Don't worry, I'll deal with it. Just act according to my wink."
Li Kaiyuan was not dissatisfied with being a supporting role for Chen Chong. She snorted and said, "I wonder if my mother would scold me after seeing the interview."
"No, I'll find a chance tomorrow and mention your mother's restaurant to the reporter to ensure she's happy."
Li Kaiyuan was surprised, looked up slightly and asked, "What are you going to say?"
"I just said, I'm so smart and you're so beautiful because you've eaten dumplings made by your mother since childhood." Chen Chong hugged her, while being dishonest, and said nonsense: "If you want to be rich, look for Aunt Liu, and if you want to be beautiful, eat dumplings."
Li Kaiyuan laughed loudly, and then the whole room was full of spring.
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Although the back pain caused by rolling the sheets, Chen Chong rushed to the magazine's office early the next day. Today, "The First Movie Review" was officially released.
The first issue of "First Movie Review" has only printed 2,000 copies, priced at HK$10. In terms of cost, it is actually not as good as "Movie Age". Chen Chong adhered to the concept of "expensive may not be high-end, but high-end must be expensive" and deliberately set such a high price. Anyway, the reader group of this magazine is all middle- and high-end intellectuals, and they are not sensitive to prices.
The magazine now operates in a standardized manner, and all departments are operating well. The sales of "Movie Age" exceeds 10,000 yuan. The first movie review of "The First Movie Review" was released, so naturally there is no need for Shen Chong to host it himself.
Chen Chong was in charge of the magazine, mainly focusing on more than 100 unofficial magazines. In order to gain popularity and attract high-quality manuscript sources, he asked Zhang Shuping to design a unique kraft paper packaging bag, put it on the first issue of "First Movie Review", mail it to the management of major film companies, and then send it to some well-known filmmakers and cultural figures in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia.
Chen Chong intends to sign these magazines in person to show his importance.
I was busy until nine o'clock. As usual, the phone on my desk rang, and Chen Chong didn't raise his head and directly pressed the hands-free button.
"Mr. Chen, you have four things to deal with." On the other end of the phone, there was a nice female voice.
This is Chen Chong's newly recruited secretary named Qiu Siyu. If he is not in the office of Oriental Charming Film Company, Qiu Siyu will be responsible for calling at 9 o'clock every morning to notify him of what he needs to deal with.
"Tell me."
"Reporter He from Ming Pao Weekly called to confirm the time and location of today's interview."
"Tell him, as you agreed, at 2 pm, the office on the 7th floor of Wanfu Building."
"Okay." Qiu Siyu stopped for a while and then continued: "Mr. Duan from Taiwan said that he had a flight to Hong Kong in the afternoon and wanted to invite you to have dinner together."
"How many of them?"
"Mr. Duan didn't say it."
"Call over and ask, send someone to pick them up, arrange them at the Wenhua Hotel, and then go to Fulinmen or Yung Kee to book a private room." After Chen Chong gave the order, he thought about it and said, "I will notify Luo Dayou to go to the banquet together, and then send a car to pick him up." (Note 1)
"Okay." A murmur of writing was heard on the phone. After a while, Qiu Siyu continued, "A lady Lily called in Los Angeles last night. She didn't say anything specific, but only left a phone number to let you contact her."
"What time is there in Los Angeles now?"
“It’s 5 p.m. now.”
"Tell me the phone number." Chen Chong picked up the pen, wrote down the number, and asked, "What else is there?"
"Ms. Zhang called to ask if she needed to come back to attend the premiere of "Crazy Raid".
"Tell her that if you have time, try to get back as much as possible. If you come back, help her book the air ticket."
"Okay. Does Mr. Chen have any instructions?"
"Carry up the office used for the interview, nothing else is done."
"Okay, goodbye Mr. Chen."
In this era, there was no cell phone, so it was inconvenient to connect. Chen Chong printed the same phone number on all business cards, and then imitated the Hollywood system, set up a mail room in the office of Oriental Charming Film Company, and hired several potential secretaries to help him handle phone calls and emails.
Don’t underestimate the work of this mailroom. Many famous Hollywood figures, such as David Geffen, one of the three partners of DreamWorks, Barry Diller, Paramount’s president, Ron Meyer, and Michael Orwitz, the leader of CAA, all started out in the mailroom. David Geffen even called the mailroom a business school in the entertainment industry, because it is the front line of interpersonal relationships in the industry, and can contact all kinds of people in the industry, quickly grow knowledge and accumulate experience.
Especially if there is a boss like Chen Chong who plots on future celebrities all day long and works in the mailroom, he will definitely benefit a lot.
Picking up the note with the phone number of her cousin Lily, Chen Chong flicked his finger and said to himself: "Today, it's such a good thing...
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Chapter completed!