Chapter 470: Chapter 469: This female fan looks like Keira Knightley
Kaka and Ronaldo were both utterly dumbfounded at the scene.
Did... did the shoe-throwing just start?
This turn of events... isn’t it a bit too fast?
"Feng Te," Deng Kai reached out to steady Keira, who was standing on one leg, and gestured Feng Te to help pick up her shoe, "Eavesdropping on someone’s phone call is not a good habit."
Keira’s expression suddenly turned colorful, "How did you know that I was... no, that wasn’t eavesdropping. David had the speaker on, so I naturally overheard."
Deng Kai nodded, "So he owes me a box of signed footballs for that uncool move. If I hadn’t been nice just now, wouldn’t I have made an enemy of you, the English Rose?"
"I wouldn’t want to inadvertently make an enemy of Hathaway in the entertainment industry."
Keira slipped her high heels back on, "Didn’t your just actions potentially make enemies for her?"
Deng Kai: "I thought that was called humor."
Keira chuckled, "David did that to help me. I hope you don’t go after him about it. If you want signed footballs, can I sign a box for you?"
"Even though I know I’m not as commercially valuable as David, it’s still a crossover, which has its own commemorative significance. Plus, I believe the footballs I sign will definitely be valuable in the future!"
Deng Kai nodded, "I admire your confidence and belief in your future. But... are you sure you want to sign an entire container of footballs? I worry you’ll get carpal tunnel syndrome."
Keira: ???
"Good luck to David." Keira removed her sunglasses, her stunning beauty stunning a group of Sporting Lisbon players, "By the way, do you have time? I’d like to invite you to dinner."
Deng Kai nodded, he knew that Keira must have encountered some issue and wanted to seek his advice.
At the same time, despite Keira’s brazen behavior just now, she was actually a girl with a straightforward and hearty disposition, not at all pretentious, the kind of girl you can easily befriend and feel comfortable around once friends.
At the very least, the fact she took the initiative to come and resolve the conflict with Deng Kai, which was supposed to be his duty to apologize for, was already an admirable attitude.
And she wasn’t mad about the Scarlett and Portman joke either.
Otherwise, that kick would not have been from right to left, but from below upwards.
That would have been really hard to dodge.
But then again, Keira is also a good person; otherwise, when she kicked, if he had reflexively blocked it, not only her high heel but maybe her underwear would have flown away too!
Purple ones!
"I’m afraid that won’t do," Deng Kai turned down Keira’s invitation.
Ronaldo smiled slightly on the side.
Kai, oh Kai, you live up to the organization’s trust, you really resisted that beauty trap.
Props, props.
"Since you’ve come to Lisbon, it’s not for you to make arrangements. Of course, I should be the one to invite you to dinner. That’s the hospitality of the East," Deng Kai said, and then signaled to Feng Te to drive.
Deng Kai was not yet of the lawful driving age in Portugal and needed a driver.
It wasn’t until Feng Te drove off that Evra on the side frowned and said, "The female fan who came looking for young master Kai just now... was that Keira Knightley?"
Ibrahimovic: "Really? The English actress?"
Drogba: "Wow! The English Rose really did come! The Sun Newspaper is amazing!"
Pepe: "That’s so cool, young master Kai has so many celebrity fans. I’m jealous."
Barzagli: "We really can’t let this out. Otherwise, if Hathaway overthinks it and gets into a tiff with young master Kai, then it would be troublesome if it affects his competitive state."
Wu Xudong: "With a serious rival ahead, indeed we can’t afford these groundless worries."
Subsequently, the teammates all glanced towards Ronaldo.
The message was clear.
Among us... lies a traitor!
Ronaldo burst into anger at the time, "What? Doubting me? Am I that kind of person?"
His teammates nodded in unison.
Ronaldo was speechless, "Kaka, tell me, what kind of person am I!"
Kaka quietly moved away from Ronaldo and looked up at the ceiling of the underground garage, "The moon is so big and round tonight..."
...
A Chinese restaurant.
There weren’t many Chinese restaurants in Lisbon before.
But in the past two years, there suddenly appeared quite a few, some of which are high-end places with good facilities.
And the taste of Chinese food is indeed dominant.
So much so that Keira, who had planned to discuss matters while eating, ended up cleaning off the entire table of dishes before remembering that she had something to say.
In plain terms, it was about selecting a film.
Because "Pirates of the Caribbean" got snatched up by some insightful dog.
Keira had a gap in her schedule for the past six months.
But there weren’t many choices available to her, she wasn’t yet famous, just a little star.
For instance, this November, there was a film called "Love Actually" that sought out Keira.
A so-called ensemble film is one with multiple stories, where characters often don’t have a lot of screen time.
Keira, of course, wasn’t interested in such films.
After starring in "Bend It Like Beckham", she had certain standards for her roles.
The best would be the lead actress, or at least a standout supporting actress.
"Love Actually is going to be a good movie," Deng Kai’s opinion was the exact opposite of Keira’s, "It’s a film specially made for Christmas, ten stories that touch people’s hearts and cover the widest range of scenarios people encounter or can imagine."
"Just because of this, the film won’t be bad."
"Besides, Christmas happens every year, and if the film is done well, it could become a classic, gaining popularity every Christmas season. That’s an advantage no other film could ever have."
"Acting is about being supported by others, as well as supporting the film. But this film is rare in that it continuously supports the actors, and it has a lot of staying power."
Keira nodded in agreement with Deng Kai’s views and then mentioned her own commercial transition and the decisions she needed to make for the next six months.
After all, "Love Actually" wouldn’t start filming until the end of the year, and she couldn’t afford to waste the next half a year.
However, after Keira shared several screenplays with Deng Kai, he frowned.
None of them made an impression on him.
They didn’t seem like they would be any good.
There was even one whose title made it clear it was one of those "borderline romantic flicks."
Low budget, edgy, explicit, and requiring certain, if not tremendous, sacrifices from actresses, these projects offer great opportunities for female stars just stepping onto the acting scene but also sweet traps that could easily become blemishes in their careers.
Deng Kai immediately rejected this project.
Keira then said, "Your judgment and reasons are exactly the same as my parents’."
Eventually, Deng Kai thought of an alternative, recalling a film he had previously considered for Hathaway.
But considering the ongoing profits from "Pirates of the Caribbean", he ultimately let go of that film with a heavy heart.
However, in the short term, that movie actually promised better returns.
After all, it could have become the box office champion of the year!
Offering it to Keira as compensation, they were really even.
