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Text Chapter 2 The Body of Lies

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    The so-called butterfly effect is like this. Ye Wei made the old principal look bad, and the old principal also made him suffer.

    After the assembly, he was grabbed by the principal and given a lecture, and received his "little punishment" - his "cuttlefish" working hours were increased by five hours!

    Harvard-Westlake has many community services, one of which is called "Cuttlefish": seventh- and eighth-grade students clean up on campus after school. Each student must do it for one hour a year, while ninth-grade students need to spend three hours a year.  I mop the floor during school hours and clean the cafeteria during lunch.

    Now he has five extra hours to hang out with those junior students!

    So¡­what¡¯s the big deal?

    This is why Ye Wei feels weird. He should be able to complain to Lian Genius, but no, he has "experienced" too much suffering. This kind of "punishment" is simply child's play.

    It was all caused by that dream. He felt that he had grown up a lot. This was a good thing, right?  No matter what, just do whatever you want, do whatever you want, this is who I am!

    Thinking of this, Ye Wei couldn't sit still in class. The math teacher thought he was still the bad student who didn't pay attention in class. It was really difficult to find an Asian who was so bad at math!  In fact, Ye Wei has been thinking about things at home. Every time he thinks that his father will die of anger, he breaks into a cold sweat.

    After one class, he couldn¡¯t stay any longer, so he found Teacher Grace Ashe and wanted to go home to rest on the grounds that he was not feeling well.

    ¡°Maybe his face is indeed ugly, Teacher Ai Xi is right, but don¡¯t think that this can reduce the punishment. No way, five hours and one minute cannot be reduced.

    So, VIY, who was in the limelight, left the campus in a hurry, which made many people scratch their heads anxiously. They were looking for him to have fun with, to look for people he knew, to look for bad luck with him Why couldn't they find him?

    After leaving Harvard-Westlake, Ye Wei got into a taxi. Instead of going home, he went straight to his father's dental clinic.

    Hogan-Yeah¡¯s private dental clinic was opened in Santa Monica. When Ye Wei arrived at this coastal city, it was already noon.

    The clinic is not big, with one hall, one room and one bathroom. There is only Ye Haogen, a dentist, and an old black nurse who has been working for many years. In the bright hall, there is a Frankenstein-like dental chair with desks around it.  , sofa, medicine cabinet, and some elegant plants.

    "Dad!" Ye Weicheng rushed into the clinic hall and saw his father in a white coat arranging some dental tools beside the dental chair.

    When Ye Haogen heard the voice, his middle-aged face was full of surprise, "Wei, why are you here?"

    "Oh, you old guy!" Ye Wei walked up to him and hugged his father excitedly. He felt as if he had been in another world, as if the last time he hugged him was eight years ago. This made his eyes heat up and he choked up.

    But it was real in front of me. Dad was fine. It was just a long, smelly dream.  Regardless of whether it is true or false, I must protect my father and my family!

    He put away his mood, smiled and said: "I skipped school."

    "What!?" Ye Haogen frowned in surprise.

    "Haha, I lied to you. I only left with the teacher's permission. I always felt that something was wrong with you today, so I came over to take a look to feel at ease." Ye Wei put his hands on his father's shoulders and kept looking at him, but his father still  The high-spirited elite dentist has a youthful look because he is chasing his movie dream.

    Ye Haogen looked at himself and smiled helplessly: "I'm fine. You've seen it too. Shouldn't it be time to go back to school?"

    "Please, dad, don't be so rigid." Ye Wei looked annoyed, "I finally came out, so just treat it as a day off."

    "Okay, okay, who hasn't been young?" Ye Haogen has never been a strict father, and he laughed again this time, "But don't blame dad for not reminding you, C grades in all subjects will not bring you  A new car key for a 16-year-old, your mother has warned me."

    As he continued to pack his tools, he said with a smile: "You want the latest Land Rover, right? It depends on the performance of "Wedding Day". If it is not a box office bomb, you will only get one."  Secondhand Volkswagen.¡±

    Hearing "The Wedding is Coming", Ye Wei's expression darkened. He had been thinking about what to do next. After much thought, the most important thing now was to figure out one thing.

    That is, "Wedding Day" with a good script failed to be made. Is it the bitter result of the producers' efforts but failed, or is it Kevin Thomas and his crew are just a bunch of rubbish and liars, and the reason why the film failed is because they messed around.  The consequences?

    The possibility of the latter is 99%. Anyway, in the dream, when he grew up and went to the University of Southern California to film, he called Kevin Thomas and asked forHe asked to see the production budget, production schedule, director's diary and other original production data of "Wedding Day is Coming", but the guy couldn't provide it to him on the grounds that the company had been bankrupt for many years and the data had been lost.

    What a ridiculous reason, he believed that no professional filmmaker would lose such important original data!

    Kevin Thomas didn¡¯t let him take a look, which can only show one thing: there are a lot of problems with those things.  A layman can't see it, but an insider can.

    To give the simplest example, the last few location scenes in "Wedding Day" were filmed in Florida. For an independent film with a production budget of 2 million, there was a question mark as to whether to film this location.  The key is, was that large sum of location fees really used for filming?

    ?????????? Or are those people traveling on the pretext of filming, making filming come second and traveling first?

    There can be a lot of tricks in the "scenery exploration fee" alone.

    This is still a way to at least cover up others' eyes. Some are more direct and more outrageous, and clues can be found in those production documents.

    If Kevin Thomas is really messing around with a total of US$1.8 million in investments that his family has invested several times, he will not let that bitch go!

    Thinking of this, Ye Wei looked serious and said: "Dad, I have another thing to do. You know I am making a short film to participate in the school film festival next year, so I am not interested in the production of "The Wedding Is Coming"  I¡¯m very interested in the film schedule and director¡¯s diary, I want to take a look.¡±

    The first Harvard Westlake Film Festival was announced shortly after the start of this academic year.

    With such an opportunity to shine, of course he was excited to participate, so he wrote a three-minute public service announcement script, recruited friends to form a production team, and completed the filming together, which is still in the process of post-editing.

    Ye Haogen naturally knew, and was very much looking forward to his son's performance. He smiled and nodded: "Okay, I'll ask Kevin when I have time."

    "No, ask him now, dad, I really need it urgently! Let's do this, give me his number, and I'll do it."

    Ye Wei was very insistent, and Ye Haogen didn't find it strange. His son has always had a domineering and willful side, which makes people a headache, "Okay, let's go have lunch first?"

    "Now!" Ye Weizhen was not in the mood. He snatched his father's mobile phone like a robbery, opened the address book and called a contact

    "Hey, hey! Kevin? Yes, it's me, Wei." As soon as the call was connected, he pretended to say hello enthusiastically and walked to the bathroom of the clinic.

    Seeing that his son was mysterious, Ye Haogen shrugged helplessly. I guess making a short film was not the real purpose, right?

    The equally enthusiastic voice of Kevin Thomas came from the mobile phone: "Wei, what's wrong? Isn't this your father's mobile phone? It seems that someone skipped school?"

    "Yes, haha, here's the thing" Ye Weixiao said his reason for coming, and Kevin Thomas was surprised: "Wow, you work so hard!"

    After closing the bathroom door, Ye Wei pretended to whisper and whispered: "Kevin, let me tell you the truth, it's actually a girl. I told her that I made a movie at home, but she didn't believe it. I  I can¡¯t show her the final cut DVD, so I need these, these things to make me look professional.¡±

    At this moment, Kevin Thomas felt that he understood everything, and laughed with sudden realization: "Oh, I understand, haha, no problem, I'll give you some storyboards."

    "No, Kevin, it's all, I need it all!" Ye Wei spoke anxiously, as if he was letting something slip: "The storyboard can only take off her top, one piece of information and one piece of clothing! Oh no forget it, Kai  Wen, now that you know everything, you won¡¯t report me, right?¡±

    "Haha, no, I understand. I will bring it to your father tomorrow and then give it to you."

    "Now, I need it urgently, now!"

    "It seems that girl is really hot? Haha, those information are in the company's office, and I am also in the company, but I can't leave now"

    "I'll get it, you wait for me at the company."

    Ye Wei ended the call involuntarily, looked at herself in the mirror on the wall, slowly changed the angle of her face, and murmured: "My dear, you really have some talent for acting."

    A stern smile appeared on that young and handsome face.

    Instead of going to have lunch with his father, Ye Wei just came and went in such a hurry, giving Ye Haogen a big headache.

    The production partnership opened by Ye Haogen and Kevin Thomas is called Vido-Pictures, named after the first two letters of Ye Wei and his sister Dorothy's names. It is located in San Moni  An office in a small office building with few employees.The affairs of "Wedding Day is Coming" are all managed by Kevin Thomas.

    In less than half an hour, Ye Wei arrived at the company office. Kevin Thomas had been waiting for a long time.

    "Hey, Wei!"

    Kevin Thomas is a white man in his late forties, wearing a blue casual suit. He has a well-proportioned figure and a smile on his face. He looks very kind. It is easy for people to classify him as a cultured and gentle man.  .  He did go to college and was a film graduate of the prestigious University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

    This identity and image, coupled with his eloquence, are enough to fascinate some people with movie dreams.

    "Kevin." Ye Wei also seemed very enthusiastic, looking around at the small office equipment, "Where are those materials?"

    "You'll get it, over here." Kevin walked to the computer desk aside. There were several thick stacks of documents on the table, "They're all here."

    Ye Wei's eyes lit up, and he quickly rushed over to look through it. The production schedule, budget expenses, storyboards were all there!

    "Is there any more? Is there any more?" He asked while flipping through the drawers of the computer desk, grabbing anything useful he saw, just like a thief carrying out a robbery.

    Looking at him from the side, Kevin Thomas smiled playfully, his contemptuous eyes were like looking at a stupid boy, to be precise, a spendthrift and brainless playboy.

    When Ye Wei put the stacks of documents into the bag, Kevin said: "Wei, return these documents to me when you are done with them. I still have some use for them."

    "No problem, I'll return it to you in two days." Ye Wei pretended to agree.

    At this time, Kevin Thomas didn¡¯t know what he had in mind. He hesitated and said somewhat mysteriously: ¡°There is something, I don¡¯t know if I should tell you¡±

    "What? Say it quickly, say it quickly, I won't tell anyone else." Ye Wei was curious and anxious, and wanted to fool him into thinking he was a fool, right?

    "There will be a yacht party on the beach in Santa Monica tomorrow night, and there will be many models attending"

    Ye Wei suddenly shouted excitedly, "Wow! Is it a Victoria's Secret angel? Or a Playboy girl? Can I go!?"

    Seemingly satisfied with his reaction, Kevin Thomas smiled happily and said: "It's not that top-notch, but it's also very hot and I like to make friends. I don't know very well. If it weren't for the distribution, I wouldn't want to."  Go. But I think you¡¯d be interested, so go and have some fun.¡±

    "Of course I'm interested, they will like me." Ye Wei wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth, his acting was a bit exaggerated, but the other party couldn't tell.

    He knew what this guy was up to. He was tempted because of his money. As long as he spent money on that bullshit party, he would look like a rich bitch, and those third-rate models who were obsessed with money would come over.  After all, he is a minor kid, and he will only end up taking advantage of Kevin Thomas.

    Sure enough, Kevin Thomas was also a little excited: "If you really want to go, you have to get ready today. Those models are not little girls anymore. There is no use in trying to be cool. They only like rich people." Ye Wei said ambiguously  Laughing: "I know, I know."

    "You must not tell your father or anyone about this! Otherwise I will be in trouble. I will pick you up tomorrow night, just say go to the movies."

    "Haha, I understand completely." Ye Wei laughed, looked at Kevin Thomas' disgusting smile, reached for his cell phone in his pocket, and sneered in his heart: But you are really in trouble.
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