Chapter 610: Chapter 322: Lin Wanzhou is Back Chapter 610: Chapter 322: Lin Wanzhou is Back Leaving the restaurant, Xu Qingyan drove Pei Muchan back home.

While on the road, they chatted about quite a few things, mainly the basic information about Pei Muchan’s family members.

However, due to many people and infrequent contact by Pei Muchan,
much of the information was only understood in general terms and simply acknowledged.

Xu Qingyan silently noted everything down.

After leaving the underground garage at Jiangpan Residential Area, he bought flowers and headed straight to Xinghai Airport.

Lin Wanzhou’s flight was supposed to have been delayed.

It was expected to land around twelve.

It was almost ten now; he would still have time to rest upon arriving at the airport.

Setting up a film crew is a rather troublesome matter.

Although Zhou Mian was assigned to handle it, Xu Qingyan realized it was unrealistic to expect to just oversee things without involvement.

He pulled the script together, so there was no way he could stay uninvolved.

Ring ring ring, on the road, Zhou Mian called late at night.

“Hello?”

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The movie has a budget of eight million?”
“What’s the matter?” Xu Qingyan asked back.

“Isn’t that too low?

The company’s first movie is only spending eight million?” Zhou Mian earnestly said, “Even if it’s a trial, shouldn’t it be at least ten million?”
Zhou Mian was worried that such a low budget wouldn’t cover anything substantial, that’s why he nervously confirmed with Xu Qingyan late at night, thinking maybe he read it wrong and the total budget was actually eighteen million.

Little did he know, eight million was already the maxed-out budget.

“It’s precisely for the quality that I decided to spend eight million,” Xu Qingyan didn’t need to explain too much, “Hmm, I will personally pick the actors and the director, contact them as per conditions.”
Zhou Mian just called to confirm; his job was to handle minor things and the company operations.

When it comes to revenue-creating productions, Xu Qingyan held absolute say.

He couldn’t be questioned; his performance was too outstanding.

From an initial few million in capital, he snowballed it into a profit of seventy million in just one year.

Xu Qingyan didn’t personally direct films but always controlled the production quality.

Not overly strict, but it had to stay within a competent range.

Directors he hired were bluntly treated as juniors, with no restrictions, focusing only on discussing ideas and quality requirements.

No matter how the director filmed, just producing a qualified product was acceptable.

Under such high pressure, directors generally followed the script.

The benefit was that it was fast, speeding up the progress by several multiples compared to other similar film crews.

After all, it was like writing an essay with a provided outline.

Rather than saying directors were creating, it felt more like they were working on an assembly line.

Different from the mainland’s director-centric system, it was more akin to the script-centric system from Korea.

Quality no longer relied on directorial inspirationaEUR”a rethink at the spur of the moment, or twisting ideas until midnight, was not an option.

Once the script was established, the quality was set; as long as it didn’t deviate from the topic, it was fine.

After arriving at the airport, he rested in the car for a while.

These past few days had been filled with various tasksaEUR”film and some of his personal matters, which were also significant to him.

“Did you disembark the plane?”
The night fog thickened; it was already twelve and foggy, Xu Qingyan realized while making a call.

Breathing out cold air from his mouth, he realized it was deep autumn already, and soon it would be November.

Getting closer to winter also meant getting closer to the year end.

If he was going back to Shanxi with Pei Muchan this year, then he’d need to make arrangements for Lin Wanzhou.

Perhaps they’d celebrate a small festive occasion early, letting Li Yang accompany her.

Though it’s also possible to stay a few days and then return to work, it wasn’t out of the question.

“Uh-huh, about to come out from XX,” Lin Wanzhou’s voice sounded tired yet happy, “ten more minutes until I see you.”
“It’s late, aren’t you tired?” she asked.

“Nope,” Xu Qingyan chuckled, “you’ll see me as soon as you get out.

There’s no in-flight meal at night; did you have lunch?

Do you want to eat something?”
“No, I’m a bit hungry, we’ll see after I get out.”
After hanging up the phone, it took a few minutes before Lin Wanzhou appeared in his field of vision, wearing a Korean-style trench coat and looking around with her luggage.

When Lin Wanzhou saw him, she couldn’t help but quicken her pace and was just about to take off her mask when suddenly Xu Qingyan magically produced a bouquet of flowers from behind.

“When did you buy them?” Lin Wanzhou’s eyes sparkled for a moment, and a bright smile appeared on her face.

Xu Qingyan smiled, “Bought them on my way to see you.”
“Thank you.” Lin Wanzhou hugged Xu Qingyan tightly; the shy girl was becoming bolder, whispering close to his ear, “I really like them, but I also brought you a gift.”
Xu Qingyan’s eyelid twitched, only hoping the gift wasn’t herself.

Better be something that can pass the review.

If not, they’d have to cover themselves with a blanket to look at it together.

In the car, Lin Wanzhou handed over a box to Xu Qingyan.

“What’s this?”
“A watch.”
“Oh, I don’t wear watches.” Xu Qingyan broke into a cold sweat, relieved he didn’t wear it out after taking a bath and napping today, “I won’t accept if it’s too expensive.”
“Why?” Lin Wanzhou visibly appeared unhappy, “Don’t you want to take a look?”
“It’s inconvenient while driving, but if this watch has luminous features, I’ll take it.” Xu Qingyan jokingly responded, “I don’t like turning on lights when I get up at night, I prefer features like night vision.”
“It should illuminate and also beep to set alarms.”
“Are you talking about a children’s watch?” Lin Wanzhou frowned, her lips pouting, “I picked it especially for you, it definitely looks good, just wear it.”
“Is it good?”