Chapter 583
Luke Pazzi is one of the Pazzi family’s stewards and was given the name “Pazzi” after decades of hard work in the Pazzi family.
He has always been in charge of Time Media.
The most important thing is that the director of the film that Time Media is sending to the Academy Awards is one of the Pazzi family’s first ladies.
Dana Pazzi.
This Miss Dana is one of the candidates for the future heir of the Pazzi family and has many supporters behind her.
At just 20 years old, she has already completed a film on her own and made it to the jury of the Academy Awards, which is impressive indeed.
The Pazzi family wanted her to win Best Director, Best Film and Best Performance for this film any way they could.
That is what Claire is aiming for.
If Dana could seal the deal with this film, he would be able to take care of her if she became the head of the Pazzi family in the future.
He might even be able to enter the Pazzi family directly and be given the family name.
Another thought, Claire hesitated for a moment: “Mr. Luke, but Universal Pictures over there and First Light Media have also worked together a few times, and one of the actresses under First Light Media is also very much valued by Universal Pictures, will it ……”
Luke waved his hand, unconcerned: “There are many companies that work with Universal Pictures, as a big entertainment country, Q and V are still few companies? But look at them, which one of them can compare with us?”
Universal Pictures is not a philanthropist, how could it be dedicated to helping the poor?
Moreover, the real head of Universal Pictures is a member of the Laurent family, and his position in the family is not low, at the elders’ group level.
Those in the Laurent family, who are only concerned with the development of the Laurent family, are the only ones to whom the venus group will pay more than a pa*sing attention.
“Here are the tickets for the inside of the festival.” Luke pushed over three tickets, meaningfully, “Quite a few of the jury members from the Golden Awards are there, it’s up to you to take advantage of them.”
Claire finally smiled, “Thank you Mr. Luke, I’ll contact Miss Dana myself.”
Luke nodded and let Claire go out on her own.
The Pazzi family had spotted the suspected number one devil1 on the nok hit list.
**
Ying put on her mask and, incidentally, her sungla*ses.
On top of that, she disguised herself.
The fact that Cesar was going to reappear in the public was not a secret among the four major zaibatsu, the underground world and other major powers in o-continent, since even the nok forum had spread the word.
There were too many people staring at it.
Whether they were coming for Cesar, or her.
The female secretary looked at her stance for the first time so big and was a bit puzzled: “Boss, what do you think this is going to be?”
Ying was concise: “To meet someone.”
As the two of them were talking, a car siren sounded and a car drove up from outside.
The female secretary subconsciously looked and was instantly blinded by the golden car: “……”
Who the hell buys a car like that?
It’s too flashy.
Ying Ziji pressed her head.
She thought Cesar was just joking.
It really was a gold car.
The man who came was Jobe Laurent, Cesar’s personal servant.
Although he had a lot of doubts in his mind, he didn’t ask and quickly took Ying Ziyang to the Laurent castle.
There was a special pa*sage in, the other members of the family in the castle had no business going this way and were completely unaware that anyone was coming.
The further you went in, the brighter it became.
You can clearly see that the walls of this pa*sage are also covered with gold bricks, shining brightly.
Ying Zidian’s face was expressionless.
She really hated the rich.
Walking to the room at the end, Qiao Bu knocked on the door, “Master.”
Inside, Cesar spoke, “You can go now.”
Qiao Bu immediately retreated.
Ying Zidian pushed the door and walked in.
Luckily, this time she was not dazzled by the golden light.
But this room was filled with all kinds of electronic devices.
Cesar stood up and went forward, “Boss, I-”
“Stand there.” Ying Ziyang put his hands in his pockets and glanced at him, “I’ve just changed into new clothes, don’t think about rubbing your tears and snot all over me.”
The girl was ruthless, her whole body leaking only one message.
Stay away from me, don’t even think about it.
Cesar: “……”
Although his boss seemed to have become more talkative and fresher, it was still the same tune.
And, more like to dislike people.
Learned that from who?
Cesar also just stood still, helpless: “Boss, I really didn’t think of crying this time, I ……”
He said, but a choke emerged from his throat.
The young man lowered his head, his blonde hair wet against his face.
A hundred years had pa*sed.
He never thought he would see her again.
Ying Zigui: “……”
She knew.
“Your medicine.” Ying Zigui threw over a box, “I’ve emptied Norton’s house.”
Although Norton had mistakenly entered a new place, he didn’t take all the alchemical herbs with him.
These alchemical herbs were too precious and of high quality for Norton University’s alchemy students to use or use.
The last time she contacted Norton, Ying also specifically asked Norton for an alchemy recipe.
After all, she hadn’t studied alchemy much, and Norton was still stronger in alchemy.
Relying on this alchemy recipe, she asked the vice headmaster to send her the rest of Norton’s alchemy materials, and this was how she made a medicine that could repair Xize’s body.
“Tch.” Cesar took the box, “It’s rare for him to be generous, or your face works, Boss.”
Just in time, when his body was repaired, he would be able to see the light of day again.
It was because of Ying Zidian that the Laurent family really got its start.
Back then, when Ying Zidian went on an expedition, he took Xizhe, who was still very young, along with him.
He went to the legendary lost Atlantis.
Rumour has it that Atlantis was an ancient continent with a highly developed civilisation.
The earliest account, which appears in the work Dialogues, claims that it was destroyed by an unprecedented flood in 10,000 BC.
But with Ying’s guidance, they managed to find Atlantis and the gold was brought back from there.
From then on, the Laurent family’s position as the first family was firmly una*sailable.
It was only when Cesar was a*sa*sinated that the Laurent family receded into obscurity.
When he awoke again, the Laurent family rose again at an absolute speed.
“Boss, when are we going to Atlantis again?” Cesar rubbed his chin, “You can’t have too much of something like money, can you?”
He looked at the nok forum, there were still quite a few people talking about forming a team to find gold.
Ying shook his head slightly, “Atlantis has completely disappeared, there’s no way to go there.”
“Disappeared?”
“Well, gone from the earth, and if it had come out a little later last time, we would all have had to die too.”
Cesar thought back for a moment.
Remembering that when they’d been there, Atlantis had been a ruin in the deep Atlantic, not half as glorious as it had been in the books.
Completely collapsed and shaken.
It was indeed going to be destroyed.
Cesar was sorry: “Well, if I hadn’t been unable to carry too much at the time, I could have moved it all home.”
He was going to make his castle golden too, and blinding everyone.
Cesar took his medicine aside.
Ying made it to the velvet sofa and took Fu Yunshen’s call.
“How did you sleep at night?”
“Not bad.”
“Did you have any dreams?”
Ying Zidian thought for a moment: “I didn’t dream about you.”
Fu Yunshen raised his eyebrows: “Hm? Yoyo, you don’t love me anymore.”
“No, I don’t.” Ying Ziyi yawned, but not perfunctorily, quite seriously, “I’m not sleeping very soundly without your pillow this time, when will you bring my pig over?”
Cesar, who was listening in, “……???”
“Thursday night at the latest.” Fu Yunshen smiled, “And accompany you to the opening ceremony, don’t worry, I’ll disguise myself to prevent us from being in the hot seat.”
Ying nodded, “Yes.”
She ended the call, and when she turned her head, she saw a silly child looking straight at her.
It was only after a long time that Xize said something like, “Boss, you’re so double standard.”
The answers to the same question differed greatly.
Ying Zidian: “Right.”
Xize: “……”
He ruffled his hair: “Boss, you can help me count my luck in peach blossom.”
“OK.” Ying Ziji laid out the tarot cards, “Choose the cards.”
Her divine calculation ability had not yet recovered.
But things like peach blossom luck could be easily calculated with tarot cards.
Cesar quickly chose the cards.
“You-” After reading the cards, Ying Ziji was slightly silent, “Give up.”
Xize: “?”
“At the moment, you shouldn’t have a girlfriend for ten years.”
Xize was genuinely shocked, “Ten, ten years?”
He had been bored in this castle for over a hundred years since he had woken up.
If Norton hadn’t developed his physical limits with alchemy and stopped his looks, he would indeed be an old man now.
But ten years?
Cesar couldn’t bear it anymore.
Ying stood up, “I’ll leave now, I can’t stay long, I’ll come back another day.”
“Oh, right.” Xizé asked again, “Boss, do you run a film company in China?”
“Not really open, from my boyfriend.”
“……”
Cesar held back his zinger and slapped a pile of paper into Ying Zigey’s hand, “Inside tickets for a film festival, I don’t have much use for them, here you are.”
Ying Zidian took it and left the Laurent castle.
Cesar rang the bell, called Jobe in, and looked serious: “I want to get married, see if there are any other families that need a marriage, and show me the pictures.”
Jobe: “????”
What had their master been irritated by?
“Master, it’s not me who said.” Jobe hesitated, “Once your real age is out there, which family’s lady would dare ……”
Cesar’s eyes glanced faintly.
Jobe immediately rolled out nimbly to prepare the photo.
**
After taking off her costume, Ying returned to the hotel.
The female secretary and Shang Yao Yi’s group were sitting in the lobby.
Opposite them, there was a group of foreigners.
When the female secretary saw the girl, she immediately got up and went forward, whispering, “Boss, this is the president of Times Media, and that, is Miss Dana Pazzi.”
Ying Ziji glanced at her, nothing special, and sat down in her chair.
“Hello Miss Ying, I’m Claire.” Claire turned her head and smiled, “It’s like this, there’s a film festival tomorrow, the jury is in, Miss Ying are you going?”
He finished and without waiting for the girl to answer, he already answered himself, “Look at my memory, I forgot, Miss Ying, you don’t have tickets, you can’t get in.”
With one sentence, many people paled slightly.
Shang Yaozhi frowned.
Although he had won international awards, he really had to wait until he won the Golden Image Award before he could be called an international film star.
Where others were concerned, one could only endure.
They had also spoken about Xie Manyu being maligned by the young lady of the Bevin family last year just for playing the female lead.
The Bevin family was ruthless, and the Pazzi family, as the head of the four major plutocrats in o-continent, would only be more ruthless.
Shang Yaozhi had also heard about the o-continent underworld, which was full of vicious mercenaries.
On top of that, there were all kinds of large weapons and poisons that were not allowed to be sold on the market at all.
China is too far away from O-continent, and even a strong dragon cannot suppress a snake on the ground.
First Light Media is the number one entertainment company in China, but in the international arena, it is far from enough, not even in the top 30.
For a film festival of this level, and hosted by the O Continent, there are only a few tickets for the inner venue, and indeed they will not be handed over to them.
When the female secretary heard this, she was also furious.
She knew that Ying Zidian was in the Bevin family
“Since Miss Ying doesn’t have the means to go, there’s no way we can go along.” Claire just smiled with a bit of pomp and circumstance, “I hope that you will be on time for the opening ceremony of the Golden Statue Awards on Friday, and I hope that the results of the selection will make you happy by then.”
This statement means that the Pazzi family is going to buy the judges.
With the Pazzi family’s ability to have only one hand in the O Continent, they could indeed do the same.
Dana’s gaze swept lightly, without any extra emotion.
It was neither contempt nor mockery.
A group of Chinese were not enough to enter his eyes.
She stood up with a few moments of impatience, “Let’s go.”
Ying Zidian didn’t look up, his arm still resting on the back of his chair, faintly: “Tickets, we have them.”
Chapter 584
She tilted her head sideways, blandly: “A fellow traveler is not necessary, a meeting at the door would be fine.”
She hadn’t even paid attention to the festival if Cesar hadn’t slipped her a stack of tickets.
The Golden Film Awards are a spin-off of this festival, which has been around for a hundred years, and are used to honour and encourage major films.
The festival is called the International Film Festival (iFF), and is known internationally as the iff.
The last time a film from China was nominated for an iff was 28 years ago.
However, it was only a nomination, not a prize.
The film was screened out in the first round of screening.
But even so, it gave the film’s lead actor, producer and director a notable status in the Chinese film and television industry.
Now after twenty-eight years, The New Life is the second film to be nominated for an iff.
Whether or not the film could win the Best Film award in the iff was really significant for First Light Media.
But Ying didn’t take the award too seriously.
Everything is natural to her, she doesn’t have to force it.
Although Ying Zidian had read Shang Yaozhi’s future two years ago, the tarot cards showed that he would win the Best Actor at the Academy Awards.
But there are really too many variables in the future, even if it’s just a small factor.
It may not necessarily not change.
Except for a set point of calamity like death or injury, which is something that needs to be changed by external forces at a great cost.
Everything in the world is changing all the time.
Unless necessary, Ying never deliberately changes the future, nor does she use her divine calculation power all the time.
Because sometimes changing a small point might well have a bigger impact in the future.
Claire’s footsteps gave a beat, and the smile at the corners of her mouth froze.
He narrowed his eyes and faintly: “Miss Ying, what a joking matter.”
Even the infield tickets he was holding were given by the Pazzi family.
Claire shook her head and walked out quickly, following Dana closely.
The CEO was not yet twenty years old and was still young and eager to compete.
Naturally Dana heard her and she frowned, “They have tickets?”
Tickets for the outside were easy to get, the audience could buy tickets and get in.
The hard part was the insider tickets.
Ninety percent of the tickets were in the hands of Universal Pictures, the Laurent family.
The remaining 10% is only the turn of the other companies to share.
Time Media, the second largest entertainment company in the world, also has the Pazzi family at its back to get the tickets for the inside show with ease.
After all, the Pazzi family is one of the top four plutocrats in the O Continent, and that is something they really can’t afford to mess with.
It’s not like they’re just saying that they’re buying out the judges.
It would be inappropriate to use buyout, as long as one sees the Pazzi surname, the prize can be handed over.
In terms of background and family history, Dana can be ranked in the top ten in the entire international arena.
Apart from the other young master of the Pazzi family, the only one who can hold her down is a direct member of the Laurent family.
The owner of a Chinese showbiz company?
Even the biggest company in the eyes of the big plutocrats who have been entrenched for hundreds of years is just an ant that can be trampled to death at will.
Unless, of course, it could reach the level of the Venus Group.
This is the only exception to the four major Zaibatsu’s expectations
The four major Zaibatsu had once joined forces to besiege the venus group, but not only did the venus group not break down, it survived and went on to acquire a number of major companies, leaping to become the number one group in the world.
Now. Even the four major Zaibatsu could not easily make the venus group disappear.
If they made a move, the end result would only be a lose-lose situation.
“Miss Dana, little girl, all hard tempered, can’t allow others to belittle her.” Claire laughed again, “Not everyone can be like you, having grown up competing in the Pazzi family until now.”
The Pazzi family was definitely no less competitive than the Lin, Tse and Moon families.
Every member of the first family has a lot of blood on their hands.
Dana had come to the entertainment industry for fun, she had a more important job at hand.
Dana hesitated for a moment and glanced back.
There was a pile of tickets on the table, gold in colour.
And the ones the Pazzi family had given them, in blue.
Not even the same colour as the tickets they had been given.
Dana didn’t care, got in her car and took off.
No matter what, she was going to get her hands on the Best Picture award this time.
**
In the hall.
A group of people looked at the pile of tickets that Ying Ziji had slapped on the table and fell into silence.
Both the director and producer, as well as Shang Yaozhi and his agent, were stunned.
The female secretary had been with Ying Zidian for a long time and was used to it, but her heart still couldn’t help but tremble: “Boss, you’re ……”
What the hell is going on wholesale?
Just now Claire was showing them off the tickets for the inside show, which were only five.
A pile like this must be at least fifty or sixty, right?
“Hm?” Ying raised his eyes, “Give out more to the staff, I’ll ask for more if there aren’t enough.”
The employees at the side snapped their heads up, all a little surprised.
They were just following along to move things and do some chores, and there was such a good thing?
Where could one find such a good boss?
“Oh oh.” The female secretary put it away and gave one to each person, then remembered something, “Boss, is there any difference between the gold and blue tickets? I see that Time Media’s tickets are blue.”
Ying pondered for a moment, “I’ll ask.”
Cesar’s reply came quickly.
[Only love money but also love the boss]: Is the blue one as good as the gold one? Gold stands for gold, what does blue stand for?
[Only love money but also love the boss]: Isn’t it enough for me to ask the organizer to customize a colour just for me? If they don’t customize it, they won’t have any investment in the future, let’s see how they’ll present the award in the future, huh t^t!
Ying Ziji: “……”
This kind of reason, she has no way to refute it, very Cesar Laurent.
Ying Ziji looked up: “Custom tickets, nice colour.”
The female secretary cupped the golden ticket and remembered the golden car that had blindsided her in the morning: “……”
“I won’t be going to the film festival.” Ying leaned back in her chair and spoke, “You guys go shopping.”
The female secretary nodded, “Okay, boss, if the Pazzi family really put pressure on the jury?”
Ying Ziji’s tone was light: “They can try.”
Going with the flow did not mean that the selection process could be maliciously disrupted.
With these words, the female secretary was relieved.
She knew that Ying had contacts in the Bevin family, but the Bevin family was weaker than the Pazzi family.
So she had been on tenterhooks, fearing that she might stir up something.
But now it seemed that their boss had much more background than she had thought.
After the chat, Ying went upstairs to rest.
She opened her computer and logged into the nok forum with her small number.
There were still a few posts on the home page, with the most gossip about ibi, one moment it was about Li Xini’s trousers falling down, the next it was about Anthony being kicked into the water.
Ying skimmed through it casually, and his eyes settled on a new discussion thread.
[The Pazzi family has found traces of devil and the underworld is saying that devil is coming back, come on, place your bets, guess if both sides strike again, will another elder of the Pazzi family die or will devil drop from the top of the killer list?
Posts with bounty list hunters are always very hot.
Especially when it comes to devil, who is number one on the list.
In just a few minutes’ time, there were already hundreds of replies.
Last time devil was able to kill the Pazzi family’s elder because he was too mysterious, this time the Pazzi family is prepared and heavily protected, devil’s chances of winning are not good.
I bet on devil, he’s my god!
Is there a prize for placing a bet? No, no bets, no fun.
Ying Zidian’s eyes narrowed slightly as she tapped her fingers on the keyboard and then clicked on “devil”.
It wasn’t that she thought the devil was strong enough to stand up to the whole Pazzi family, but she didn’t like the Pazzi family.
It was not that she thought the devil could stand up to the whole Pazzi family, but she didn’t like the Pazzi family, which had caused her a lot of trouble a few hundred years ago in Filippo.
But she was really curious to find out who the devil was.
If she could run into it, she would be able to have a few fights.
**
The iff was held just two days before the Academy Awards, and people from all countries came to participate.
The outfield was full of actors and directors, as well as posters promoting the films of various countries, and nice refreshments.
Dana was not interested in any of this and took her ticket and went straight to the inside.
Clare followed her.
He also knew that he wouldn’t have been able to get in here without Dana’s presence.
“Don’t worry, Miss Dana, there’s absolutely no way for First Light Media to compete with us, they-” Before Claire could finish her words, the harsh sound of the emergency brakes rang in his ears.
He frowned.
This was the infield, who would dare drive a car in?
Claire looked over.
It was a plain black car, aimed at them at the rear.
There was a sign to the right of the number plate.
There was definitely no one on o continent who wouldn’t recognise it.
A golden throne with a golden crown.
The emblem of the world’s number one family, the Laurent family.
Claire froze.
The car door opened and someone came down.
The female secretary waved towards Claire, smiling brightly, “Hi.”