King of Hollywood

"How many times have I told you, Ed! What if I didn't react and I missed it all at once?" Although Sarah was blaming, her tone was obviously more coquettish.

"I also said that your little fist can't do me any harm." Adrian laughed, and immediately held her face and kissed those two delicate red lips.

There was a passionate lingering, but Sarah finally grabbed his hand on her buttocks: "Not now, Ed, the party has just begun."

"I know." Hearing her panting, Adrian laughed, and kissed her lightly before letting go.

"I thought you weren't coming tonight."

"How is it possible, I have basically done what I promised."

"But you're late today."

"There's a reason for that. There's a girl on the set who is going back to Los Angeles. I invite her to take my plane and take her home by car. You know the car condition on weekends. This is an irresistible factor."

"Indeed, but... a girl?" Sarah, who had finished her clothes and opened the door, looked at Adrian with a half-smile.

"What are you thinking about?" Adrian pinched her face, "That girl is only one year older than Lily, and she is still a child."

"It's not my problem." Sarah shrugged with a grimace, and then sighed: "Mom knows, Ed."

"Oh?" Adrian raised his eyebrows, not too surprised, "Do you need me to go to your house some time for a detailed explanation?"

"No," Sarah shook her head with a smile, "I just remind you that you must be prepared when you go to my house in the future."

When she reached the entrance of the aisle, she stopped suddenly and looked at Adrian: "Although it is meaningless to say this now, if I were to choose again, I would definitely not make the same choice again."

"Okay, okay," Adrian laughed, "Maybe one day you wake up suddenly and find yourself ten years ago, and you can choose whatever you want at that time."

One sentence instantly made the affectionate but somewhat sad atmosphere disappear. Sarah gave Adrian a blank look, and immediately walked out. At this time, a figure suddenly bumped into her arms, and a noisy voice rang out.

"Oh, my dear sister. I finally found you and came to this place..." It was a girl who looked to be between 14 and 16 years old. Blonde, rather lively, eyes a little too big, but still pretty. He just babbled on and on, from how he found out Sarah wasn't there to how he searched the house. Chatted a lot.

"Okay, I know..." Sarah smiled helplessly and wanted to interrupt her, but she suddenly looked at Adrian and screamed: "Oh my god, are you the director of Miracle?!"

The girl grabbed Adrian's hand with bright eyes, as if she couldn't help herself: "I'm so honored, I didn't expect to see you here. I like your movies very much, "This Killer Is Not So Cold", "Forrest Gump," "Braveheart," "The Matrix," and so on, I've seen each of these movies seven or eight times at home, by the way. I'm..."

Only then did she realize that she hadn't introduced herself yet, but when she rolled her eyes, she showed a narrow smile again: "I'm Dawn Summers, Buffy Summers' sister, yes, it's the great man in front of you. And low-key, Buffy Summers, the vampire hunter who has saved countless times! Of course, I am not actually her sister. I am actually a key..."

"Okay, Amanda. Stop acting." An amused Sarah interrupted her chatter by pinching the girl's face.

"This is Amanda. Amanda Seyfried, who plays my sister in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." She then gave Adrian a formal introduction, "I think you should remember."

"Oh, of course, I've been following this TV series," Adrian laughed, and stretched out his hand to the blonde girl in front of him, "Hello, Amanda, nice to meet you."

Of course he remembered that he personally handed over Amanda's information to Xilei Lin, and asked her to find a way to get her agency. I originally thought that with my own intervention, the plot of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" would change a lot, but it turns out that a large part of it has indeed changed, but the role of sister still appeared when preparing a new script last year, which is only delayed compared to the original version for a season.

What surprised him even more was that it was Amanda Seyfried who got the role, and this is where the wonder of the world lies. It just so happened that Lin Xilei had already made a choice at that time, so Adrian asked her to take care of Amanda's agent contract, which was also a test for her. As for Amanda, it depends on whether she is sensible.

"Your sister is really enthusiastic." Adrian said to Sarah after watching Amanda leave.

"It's okay," Sarah shrugged, then tilted her head to look at him, "Aren't you trying to trick her, Ed?"

"Do I think that kind of person?" Adrian rolled his eyes. "Help me, Sarah, see how old she is."

"When you came up with my idea, I wasn't as old as her." Sarah snorted softly, and immediately turned to leave, but Adrian pulled her back.

"I'm not happy with what you said, my dear, so I'm going to take you back to Beverly Hills tonight as a punishment!" Adrian said fiercely in her ear.

"I knew it," Sarah pouted, "but today is a party at my house, can I just leave it alone?"

"You can leave it to someone else to take care of it. Anyway, I'm going to give you a good look today." Adrian made a final decision——

"...This is the speaker, and the sound of the movie is coming from here."

"Oh, I love it here, have you seen many movies here?"

"It can be said to be yes, or it can be said to be no. Who will concentrate on watching movies here?"

"You didn't concentrate on watching the movie?"

"Why are you so crazy about movies?"

"Because...movie night was my happiest night at the orphanage, we all ran to the dining hall as fast as we could and wanted to sit in the front..."

After reading this paragraph, Charlize immediately put down the script in her hand and continued to organize the things in front of her: "Okay, let's go here."

"Wait," Kate raised her head while holding the script, "There is still a short line in the back, you can do your business after you finish correcting it."

"That's not okay," Charlize shrugged. "As I said, if you help me sort out these documents, I will spend 20 minutes correcting your lines. Now the time is up."

"Can't you take a minute longer?" Kate couldn't help but rolled her eyes.

"No." Charlize refused bluntly, "I still have a lot of materials to process, of course, if you are willing to help me with classification and so on. I can consider spending another ten minutes to help you correct the lines, to be honest... "

She turned over the cover of the script and looked at it: "The Cider House Rules? This female character is really suitable for you."

"Really?" Kate flipped through her script in her hand. "Actually, I think it's a good role for you too—interested in a movie, Charlie?"

Charlize gave her a blank stare, buried her head and continued to deal with the things in her hands. Kate didn't take it seriously either. She glanced at the time on the wall and the dark sky outside before continuing: "Now there are still documents to deal with. Do you have so many things to do every day?"

"Of course. Do you think that bastard said 'No you don't know what to do' just to fuck and coax me?" Charlize snorted, "Although he will ask about everything, but basically I am In addition to the work of general secretary assistants, there are many extra things, and the entire assistant team is almost in charge of me, because only in this way can he spend more time on certain things.”

Kate couldn't help pursing her lips. How could she not know what the "certain things" that Charlize said, and then, she seemed to think of something, hesitated and asked: "Charlie, there is something... maybe you know?"

"What's the matter?" Charlize, who was sitting behind the long table and doing the most basic sorting work, looked up and asked.

"Hmm..." Kate hesitated, "That's...that...you should know..."

She gestured to her belly, Charlize thought for a while, then showed a suddenly realized expression, then nodded and said: "That's right, he made another woman's belly bigger, and the other party is still an 18-year-old girl."

"What?!" Kate's eyes widened immediately, and her hands clenched subconsciously. There is a feeling that the anger is about to start burning.

"Don't get excited," Charlize said still calmly. "Just like you, it was accidentally shot. You know. Although Ed is lecherous, he never treats his children badly."

"You're so protective of him," Kate snorted, "why don't you have one?"

"If I give birth to a child, things at hand will be messed up, and..." Charlize said unhurriedly, then put her hands in front of her face, raised her head and looked at Kate, "If I give birth to a boy , may become someone like his father, and if I give birth to a girl, I may meet someone like her father."

Kate frowned, as if she didn't like what she said very much, but for a while she didn't know what to say.

"Okay, Kate, don't think so much, I'm not targeting anyone, I'm just expressing some thoughts," Charlize shrugged, "I love Lily, and Ed wouldn't want his daughter to meet someone like him. "

"Maybe I should take Lily out of here." Kate suddenly sighed.

"Don't be silly, Kate." Charlize stood up, smiled rarely, went to the wine cabinet - this was her exclusive room in Adrian's mansion - and poured two glasses of champagne.

"You know that's impossible." She handed one of the cups to Kate, with a harmless teasing tone in her tone.

After taking the cup and taking a sip silently, Kate opened her mouth again: "What about you, Charlie, since you think so, why did you stay with him for a hundred years, and... still defend him like this."

"I'm different from you," Charlize was silent for a moment, and then drank the champagne in his glass. "You know what happened in my family, right?"

Kate nodded, and then added: "Just a little, not very clear."

"My mother shot my father to protect me," Charlize said in a low voice, with a look of remembrance on her face. "Although the court acquitted my mother, that nightmare has always haunted me. So I put my energy into other things, like how to connect with ballet, like learning how to be an assistant, as long as I don't think about it, and for a long time I was obsessed with the feeling of ****... Then, I found a good Method."

A smile that she didn't even realize appeared from the corner of her mouth, and Kate couldn't help but ask, "What is it?"

"Yes..." Charlize's smile grew wider. "Fucking with Ed, the kind of wild, passionate sex that never stops until the last moment, can make people forget everything, especially when holding him..."

Her gaze became a little farther away, but then she moved closer to Kate and showed a smirk: "You don't really think that. I dragged you to sex with Sarah to please Ed, right?"

Kate rolled her eyes and turned her head away, opened her mouth but made no sound. Looking at the mouth shape, it should be the word that starts with "b" and ends with "h", but it is not malicious.

"I remember the first time I met him," Charlize continued. "It's been almost eight years. Know what he said to me. Kate? He said he was building a big empire and he was going to Standing on top of this world. Can you imagine? A man who looks like he is only in his early twenties, swears by a girl who is almost ten years younger than him, but... Although they call him a miracle. But Only I know what kind of miracles he has created, and I have personally witnessed how his empire was built step by step."

Having said that, she let out a sigh of relief and returned to her previous state again. It's just that the smile on the corner of her mouth became more and more gentle, making Kate, who turned around again, a little dazed.

"Actually, what I want to say is," Charlize put down the glass and approached Kate, "it's complicated. There is love, admiration, and attachment. There are many, many emotions, entangled together to form a picture that can't be seen or figured out. You, me, and Sarah are all caught in the net. The difference is that Sarah and I have accepted the result, and I even enjoy it, seeing what he can do in the end level, but you are always unwilling to admit it, unwilling to face your own heart."

"I just..." Kate was silent for a while and wanted to defend herself, but Charlize stopped her mouth before she opened her mouth.

Kate opened her eyes wide again, but she didn't resist at all, allowing Charlize to stick her tongue into her mouth and fiddle with it, even though the cup dropped to the table with a soft jingle as she let go.

"Although Ed came back from Kansas tonight, he will attend Sarah's party, so he probably won't be back, so..." Charlize said with a smile after kissing Kate.

"Wait, Charlie, I think... I think..." Although she had made out with Charlize more than once and played a lot of lace tricks in front of Adrian, Kate was still a little flustered.

"What do you think? Oh, forget it, Kate, you like it very much." Charlize said deliberately sticking out her tongue that could easily reach her chin, hooked it a few times in the air, and her eyes became Very ambiguous, "Whether you are above or below, I still remember your flirtatious performance on Christmas night, besides, Lily is already asleep..."

Just finished saying this, Lily's voice of "Ouch" came into the ears, the two women tensed their bodies immediately, turned their heads away, and then saw Adrian walking in with Lily in pajamas, followed by Sarah covering her mouth and giggling.

"How many times have I told you to close the door tightly when doing things?" Adrian said in a teasing tone, and put his daughter in his arms. Lily covered her face shyly and buried her head on her father's shoulder .

"We were just talking about lines at first," Charlize said nonchalantly, without Kate's embarrassment at all. "How much did you hear?"

"Who knows, when I just came back, I saw the little guy peeping here." Adrian pinched Lily's little cheek.

"Didn't I tell you to sleep well?" Kate angrily took Lily from Adrian's arms.

"I seemed to hear that my father was back, so I ran out, and then passed by here to take a peek." The little guy was aggrieved with his mouth flattened, but probably because he knew that what he had done was not right, and... so he didn't say much, He continued to cover his face with his hands, and then secretly looked at the parents and the two aunts with his eyes through his fingers.

"Okay, Kate, since that's the case, let Lily go to sleep." Adrian said.

That's the only way to do it. Fortunately, Lily knew that her mother was a little upset, so she went to bed obediently after talking to her father. Next, although Kate complained about Adrian in vain, some things have been decided, perhaps because of what Charlize said before, and other reasons, they were very enthusiastic this night, so As for getting out of bed the next day, fortunately, the bedroom door was locked, otherwise Lily would definitely slip in again.

Although he returned for the weekend, Adrian still had to deal with work matters, so he deliberately chose to come back on Saturday night, and then went back on Monday night. In this way, there is one day on Monday to deal with matters. Anyway, "Winter's Bone" is progressing very well, and this time I want to ask about the affairs of M Records.

The new year is here, and Britney and Christina are going to release new records, and Avril Lavigne, who is very good in training, Adrian is also preparing to let her release a single, in addition to the record company Assets also need to be sorted out. Once Universal Music gets their hands on it, a new round of adjustments will begin soon.

Charlize, though, seemed displeased with something as she left the office to head to the label.

"It's nothing, some small problems, let's talk about it later." When Adrian asked, she said so, but her eyes kept falling on Penelope who was walking with him.

Adrian didn't care. Penelope was very enthusiastic about him during this time. After hearing that he was going to the record company today, she begged to go too. According to her own statement, she also wanted to be a singer at first, but Because of his poor voice, he finally gave up, so he wanted how the song was recorded, so he agreed.