Chapter 718

"Hey, little fellas! If you still want to eat daddy's cream cake, then don't come here and cause trouble. " Adriaan, who was holding a special container filled with cream, carefully squeezed out a flower on the cake. Fine, even though it was ugly, it did look like a flower. Then he said to the little fellas who were jumping around in the kitchen.

"I really can't tell, but it's pretty decent." Little Emma poked his head over and looked at the cake that was smeared with cream in front of him and said in a serious manner.

"Yeah, but it doesn't look good. Eide is still an amateur." Little Emma poked her head out from the other side and nodded in agreement.

"If it doesn't taste good, it doesn't matter how pretty the cake is." Adriaan shrugged.

"Are you sure this cake will end up in our mouths when it's brought out?" Little Emma showed a suspicious and ill-intentioned expression.

Adriaan rubbed his chin. Fine, that was indeed a problem. Speaking of which, cream cake was never really meant to be eaten, especially when there was a bunch of little fellas around. While he was deep in thought, he didn't notice that a hand had reached out from Little Emma's back. So when he sighed and decided not to talk to the two Emmas, he lowered his head and saw the half-finished cake flying towards him.

Poof! The cake landed firmly on Adriaan's face. Then, Lily cheered and clapped twice, followed by the laughter of Deva and the others. Even though his face was covered in cream, Adriaan could still picture the scene of Lily and the two Emmas clapping their hands in celebration and the other little fellas cheering and frolicking beside them.

So, he wiped the sticky cream off his face and yelled angrily, "Lily!"

"Aiya aiya, daddy is angry. Run! Run!" Following Lily's words, the little fellas who were making a ruckus in the kitchen immediately ran away.

I knew that this kind of thing would happen if I gathered them together. After wiping the cream off his eyes with a tissue, Adriaan sighed. But what else could he do? He promised to make it up to little Emma. So, after "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" was released and played with Liu Xiaoli and Liu Yifei for two days, Adriaan went to his manor in Hampshire and brought all the kids, including little Emma, to his manor in England for Christmas.

"No wonder they ran away so fast." Just as he finished cleaning, Kate's voice came from the door. She was holding two cups and looking at him with a faint smile.

"Yeah, so I'm thinking, I need to teach Lily a good lesson." Adrian slowly wiped his hands clean, then walked over and took the cup away from her hand. "You're too indulgent, my dear."

"Me?" Kate raised an eyebrow. "You should be the one saying that, Eide. I didn't ask her to throw the cake in your face!"

"Of course you didn't, but you didn't say that it wasn't allowed, did you?" Adriaan moved closer to her and winked.

Indignant, Kate wanted to retort, but a hand reached out from behind and hugged her waist. "Remember, Kate, whatever he says is true, even if it's not true. If you debate with him, you'll fall into his trap."

Then, Charlize's beautiful face rested on Kate's shoulder. He breathed into her ear and looked at Adriaan with a slightly provocative gaze.

"That's true!" Kate reacted immediately and put away her unhappy expression. She looked at him and snorted. "Well, I'm indeed indulging Lily, and I will continue to indulge her in the future. So you have to work hard to be a good father, Eide."

After that, she turned around and hugged Charlize. "Let's go to the living room, Charley. Look at the Christmas gifts for the little guys. By the way, I saw a Saint Laurent silk windbreaker in London a few days ago. It should suit you very well."

"Really? That's great. Let's go and have a look tomorrow or the day after tomorrow." Charlize and Kate walked out arm in arm intimately. It was not until Adriaan wanted to ask her to stay that she suddenly realized something and stopped. "By the way, Yini is not here. I helped you deal with some things, including the appointment time with Mourinho. It's all in the study. You don't have to thank me. Just remember to pay me my salary for these days."

She blinked and held Kate's arm tighter. Then she added, "In addition, it's Kate and I tonight. Don't come and disturb us."

"I agree." Kate did not give Adriaan a chance to speak. Then, she left with Charlize under Adriaan's supercilious eyes.

"Don't come and disturb me? Are you kidding me? I won't come if you say so? " Adriaan mumbled to himself in the shower. "Don't forget, the keys to the house are all in my hands!"

It was not that there were no other women in the manor. Although not all the children's mothers came, Monica, Sophie, and Julia were all there. However, he could not always indulge them. It was necessary to teach them a lesson. Plus … Charlize's last look when he left seemed to be saying, "Come on, give it a try.

I'll give it a try. " Adriaan, who came out of the bathroom in his bathrobe, snorted softly. Then, he was shocked. Little Emma had snuck into his bedroom. She was sitting on the chair, holding her cheeks and blinking at him.

"Emma, it's not a good habit to just come into my bedroom," Adriaan said with a sigh.

"I didn't need to say hello when I came in before," Little Emma mumbled. Little Emma mumbled, then raised her voice, "I'm just here to see how you're doing. Did you 'eat' cleanly?"

She emphasized the word "eat", and her eyes were curved. Without a doubt, she was the one who planned the farce in the kitchen. Lily was just the one who carried it out.

"It's okay. Didn't you say that cream cakes usually don't make it to your mouth?" Adriaan shrugged and began to chase her away. "Alright, you've heard the situation. You can go tell Lily that I'm very angry. Tell her to be careful. I might teach her a lesson at any time. Now, I'm going to change. Don't tell me you want to watch? "

Little Emma stared at him, a dangerous look flashing in her eyes. She seemed to want to say, "I want to watch." But in the end, she jumped up from the chair and walked out. Adriaan sighed softly. He untied the belt of his bathrobe and was about to change when the bedroom door was suddenly pushed open. "Right, there's one more thing, Eide."

"Emma!" Adriaan hurriedly pulled his bathrobe to his chest and yelled angrily at the girl who barged in.

"Don't worry, I didn't see anything." Little Emma waved her hand carelessly, as if she didn't care.

"What now?" Adriaan was helpless. He was used to it after so many years.

"Let me tell you, it's my birthday in three months. I'm going to have a very big birthday party. You have to come, okay?" The little girl mischievously dragged out the last syllable of her words.

"Alright, then how are you going to hold your birthday party?" Adriaan sighed.

"Hmm …" Little Emma tilted her head and rolled her eyes. "I haven't thought about it yet."

"Then tell me when you have, okay?" Adriaan facepalmed.

"Alright, alright, but you have to come. You can't be late, and you can't be absent!" Little Emma solemnly reminded him with an unreadable light in her eyes.

"I'll only be absent once …" The little girl interrupted him before he could finish, "That's why I'm making this request. If you're absent this time, Eide, I'll never talk to you again!"

Little Emma looked up at him and said seriously. She even stood on her tiptoes and punched his chest twice. Only when he repeatedly said that he wouldn't and that he would attend her birthday party next year even if it was the end of the world did she leave the room with her nose in the air, looking back three times with every step she took.

It feels like … she's plotting something. Adriaan thought as he locked the door to prevent anyone from barging in, but then he shook his head and continued to change his clothes.

All in all, it was a pretty good Christmas in the UK, even though there were some minor problems. After Christmas Eve, the children who woke up to open their presents were noisy, but it also made the manor seem very lively. However, Lily wasn't too satisfied. Back in school, Adriaan had said that the gifts for birthday parties and holidays wouldn't exceed 50 dollars. Even if it was adjusted, it wouldn't be much.

So when Deva and Juliet proudly showed off in front of her, she immediately puffed out her chest and put on a disdainful look. "I don't need these. I'm already an adult, not like Emma, who's still a child."

She was referring to little Emma, who was already a little over ten years old. She was still laughing and fooling around with Deva and the others, completely unlike little Emma who was calmly reading a book at the side.

Then, her father walked over and patted her head lightly. "Alright, little girl, you're only eight years old. It's still too early for you to become an adult."

After that, when they returned to America, her father would find other ways to make it up to her. Even though he was strict about money, her father still spoiled her a lot. So, even if she was a little jealous of her sisters' gifts, she would quickly forget about them. Those gifts were nothing to her.

Kate wasn't too happy either. As for the reason, it was obvious when she rubbed her perky butt in the morning and walked out of the bedroom with Charlize and Adriaan. She didn't expect Adriaan to sneak in, so when she touched the bed, she was shocked when she was kissing Charlize. Kate wanted to kick him out, but she didn't expect Charlize to change sides at the last minute. He and Adriaan kept her in the middle for the whole night, so when she woke up in the morning, it was a little inconvenient to walk.

But even if she was unhappy, what could she do? It wasn't the first or second time. Her unhappiness was mostly directed at Adriaan's "night attack" and Charlize's "betrayal." But it didn't matter. She would do it again in the future. So when Adriaan dragged them to chat and pulled the topic to a few movies that were recently released or pre-screening, Kate didn't pay much attention to it.

"Obviously, this is an atypical love movie. It's covered with a layer of sci-fi, but it's still a literary movie. It discusses what love means. Even if the memory is erased, you will still fall in love with the other party when you meet. Is it because the memory can't be erased completely, and the shadow of that person is always buried in your heart, or is there really something about that person that can always attract you?" Sitting among the women, Adriaan commented on the movie in which Kate was the female lead.

"Do you know what I think, Eide?" Julia picked up the cup in her hand and looked very serious. "When I hear you talk about love, I always feel that it's not credible."

The other women chuckled softly, but each of them had a different meaning. Which type were they? It was really hard to say.

"In fact, the original ending that Director Michael Gunry prepared was for the old female lead to come to the company and ask to erase the memory of the male lead again. Through the surgery records, the audience can know that she has done this many times. This is undoubtedly more in line with the ending of a literary movie, but it is a bit too dark for the audience, so in the end, they gave up, "Adriaan continued.

"I haven't seen it, but from what you said, Kate should be doing very well, right?" Charlize was the first to adjust, or rather, he was already used to it. He only slightly fluctuated his emotions before he asked.

"Of course, Kate is very good, especially when she is set off by Jim Carrey. I think the film critics think so too." Adriaan smiled and looked at Kate.

Unexpectedly, Kate looked away. When she received the script, her heart was in turmoil. In a sense, it was tailor-made for her. Although Kate gradually calmed down during the performance, when she heard Adriaan talking about the plot, that feeling came back again. Even though she had already accepted everything, she still couldn't help but want to sigh.

However, because of this, Kate, who had deep emotions, performed very well in this movie. Although it was only a pre-screening, most film critics applauded it.

"This is Miss Kate Beckinsale's most sincere performance. Every time she cries or laughs in the movie, it is very infectious and convincing," someone commented.

The movie was called "Warm Light", and it was a collaboration with Jim Carrey. It depicted two quarreling lovers who went to the memory company to delete each other's memories. But through the memories, they rekindled their love and came back together again. Although the camera was basically following Jim Carrey's point of view, Kite's performance was always eye-catching. The feeling of being fully immersed in the role was clearly conveyed. It was no wonder that film critics would praise him once or twice.

When Adriaan first handed the script to Kate, he didn't think too much about it. He just wanted to use this role to train her acting skills. He said that he would let her set foot on the throne of the best actress. He didn't expect that the story would unexpectedly have a deeper meaning — for his woman — so he spent more time to let Kate fully analyze and reflect on … the story of her leaving and returning.

Therefore, the movie, which was supposed to be produced and released last year, was delayed to this year. Of course, the effect was very good. Although the pace of the movie was a bit slow, although it was still only a movie, and although it received good reviews, more or less, because the critics looked down on Jim Carrey and subconsciously treated him as a foil, Kate did indeed perform exceptionally well. Even Kirsten, who was also very good, was outperformed.

Although Kirsten's Best Supporting Actress award was the result of Adriaan's pushing, she still had acting skills. Plus, she had played good roles in the past few years, at least on par with Kate. And Kirsten's appearance in the movie was very good, at least in a white coat, with a big braid on her head and neat bangs covering her forehead, she looked very stylish. Adriaan couldn't help but play with her once, but the critics temporarily forgot about it.

Even though this was a pre-screening and not a public release, it was enough to show that Kate was very good, so … it shouldn't be a problem for her to get nominated next year.

Of course, Sophie also did a good job. I think the European critics must be very annoyed at this moment. Although thinking so, Adriaan changed the topic to Sophie.

In addition to the pre-screening of "Warm Light" in the past few days, "Life as a Rose", which had been promoted for a long time, attracted a lot of attention without any suspense. Although this was already the third movie directed by Adriaan that was released this month, no one made a fuss. He had done this as early as ten years ago. As long as one wasn't an idiot, no one would doubt the ability of the miracle director.

However, compared to the one-sided praise for "Warm Light", the comments for "Life as a Rose" were more or less polarized.

"It's hard to imagine that Sophie Marceau played the role of Édite Piaf in the camera. The iconic confused look and slender eyebrows made her a completely different person. The miracle director can always make the actresses perform hundreds of percent of their acting skills. The emotional expression when answering the reporter's question on the beach can be called a classic!"

"This is not the first biopic of Édite Piaf, nor will it be the last, but it is definitely the most special one so far. Adrian Kewell accurately outlined the life of the little skylark through flashbacks and interludes. Although Ms. Piaf's life was full of many tragedies, this movie still conveyed her inner positive spirit."

"It's a slightly mediocre movie. Adriaan should have done better, but the large number of clichés not only didn't enhance the theme of the movie, but also made it less convincing. Using Sophie Marceau as Piaf was also a wrong decision. No matter how confused she looked, she couldn't capture Piaf's true charm."

"I can only say that this is a large collection of messy scenes without a specific order. It's like a random shape cut on a piece of paper by a child with a pair of scissors. Coupled with the bad acting, even if most of the songs are sung by Piaf, this movie can't be saved."

Nevertheless, except for those who were looking for trouble, most people still gave this movie positive reviews. But the most troublesome ones were the French.