Chapter 222: The Little Girl Has Big Ambitions
Chapter 222: The Little Girl Has Big Ambitions
The girl could tell that when Julia called him her “little daddy,” it was only because she envied how much Eric spoiled her. However, several utterly wicked thoughts flashed through Drew’s mind.
Maybe I can try using it somewhere. I refuse to believe he won’t lose control.
Thinking this, Drew asked aloud, “Why are you buying a script from Eric?”
Julia did not pay much attention and casually explained Elizabeth’s plan.
The little girl immediately became interested and sat up slightly. “Why not come to me?”
Julia glanced at Drew suspiciously. “Come to you?”
The little girl said proudly, “Yeah. Let me tell you, Eric likes writing and drawing in his study, so there are some script outlines he thinks are pretty good stored in there.”
Julia opened her mouth in surprise. “You’re not planning to steal…”
“How could that be possible?” the little girl reflexively retorted. Then she chuckled twice. “Actually, if I casually took out one outline, Eric wouldn’t know at all.”
Julia immediately shook her head and refused. “No. Even if Eric doesn’t know at first, once the movie is made in the future, he’ll definitely find out.”
“Then forget it.”
Drew shrugged her little shoulders with an indifferent expression. She did not believe Julia would not be tempted, so she leaned against the seatback, lowered her head, and pretended to be bored as she filed her nails with a small nail file, waiting for Julia to speak again.
Sure enough, after the car drove along the road for a few more minutes, Julia finally could not help asking, “Drew, you’re saying Eric has quite a few backup… script outlines?”
The little girl nodded lightly, trying her best to hide her triumphant smile.
“Eric spoils you so much. Can’t you talk to him and ask him to sell us one? After all, he has… so many.”
During the phone call earlier, Elizabeth had mainly focused on Eric forcibly kissing her and had not explained in detail why Eric refused. Therefore, Julia felt perhaps they could try again through the little girl.
But Drew directly shattered Julia’s fantasy. “Since Eric already refused Miss Murdoch, he definitely has sufficient reasons. So even if I ask, he won’t change his mind.”
Julia fell silent again.
It was not that she did not want Drew to steal one of Eric’s scripts, but she truly did not dare. She found it difficult to imagine how Eric would react if he eventually found out, but the result definitely would not be him laughing it off.
“Actually, Eric isn’t the only person in the world who can write scripts, right?” After a while, Drew spoke again.
Julia stopped the car at a red light and turned to ask, “What do you mean?”
“I mean, we can look for scripts ourselves. Then I’ll take them to Eric and let him see whether they have potential.”
Drew quickly explained. Some of the little girl’s thoughts actually happened to coincide with Elizabeth’s.
But this time, Julia keenly caught something else in the girl’s words and asked suspiciously, “You just said… we?”
“Yeah.”
Drew no longer hid her purpose.
“Julia, look. Since Elizabeth Murdoch wants to establish a film company, why shouldn’t the two of us invest in it too? When the time comes, the three of us can become producers together. I’ll be responsible for scripts, you’ll be the female lead, and Elizabeth will handle distribution. What do you think?”
Hearing this suggestion, Julia felt tempted but also somewhat shocked. She reexamined the girl before her, who looked seventeen or eighteen but was actually only fourteen.
Among the women who were relatively close to Eric, Julia had the least contact with Drew, so she also understood the little girl the least.
Only after hearing the car behind her honking did Julia realize the light ahead had already turned green. She quickly stepped on the gas while asking, “Would Eric agree to you doing this?”
“We just won’t tell him.”
“Then… then what about money? Where are you getting the money to invest in a film company?”
Drew immediately pulled a VIP card from her bag and waved it in front of Julia. “There’s still over ten million in this card.”
Because Julia did not know that Eric had asked Drew to acquire adaptation rights, when the little girl stated the balance on that credit card, Julia immediately felt a sense of unreality.
She felt Eric’s indulgence toward this little girl had already become unreasonable. He had actually given such a young girl so much money.
Although Julia herself had already become a top Hollywood actress thanks to Pretty Woman, in all honesty, because she had been famous for too short a time, her current assets still did not reach ten million.
Having thoroughly shocked Julia, the girl’s goal had been achieved.
After putting away the credit card, Drew continued, “As for the shares, I won’t ask for too much. Just give me 30%. You two can discuss how to divide the rest. Don’t think it’s too much. Think about it. I can get Eric to help us choose scripts. That alone is worth 30%. After all, if the script isn’t chosen correctly, it’s like starting off on the wrong road. No matter how hard you work afterward, you’re destined to achieve nothing. Besides, Elizabeth’s family has 20th Century Fox, so distribution definitely won’t be a problem. But during production, there’ll definitely be plenty of issues. At that time, if Eric knows I have shares in it, since it’ll already be a settled fact, he won’t be able to stand by and do nothing, right?”
Seeing Julia nod one moment, shake her head the next, and then fall into thought, the little girl, who had been chattering enthusiastically, quickly realized this matter was probably entirely led by Elizabeth, while Julia was more or less just going along with it.
After realizing that, the little girl stopped wasting her breath and suggested, “Julia, how about we call Elizabeth Murdoch over and discuss this together?”
Julia raised her wrist and looked at her watch. “Isn’t it too late now?”
“Hey, sister, time is money.”
Without allowing further argument, Drew picked up Julia’s mobile phone from behind the windshield and asked, “Tell me the number. I’ll talk to Elizabeth.”
Julia helplessly pointed ahead. “The address book is over there.”
Drew picked up the address book in front and began flipping through it.
More than an hour later, Elizabeth really did arrive at Julia’s apartment.
One of them wanted to surpass Eric, while the other wanted to shock Eric.
After exchanging ideas, Elizabeth and Drew almost immediately hit it off. The ambitious older girl and the ambitious little girl sat around the small coffee table in Julia’s apartment living room and began discussing their grand plan to establish a film company.
As for Julia, she had completely “fallen” into the minor role of serving tea and water.
Eric naturally knew nothing about this.
After the two security guards brought over the first aid kit and he applied medicine, he rested for a good while before carefully returning to the party.
The pain in his leg made Eric unwilling to stay any longer. In addition, Friends was still in the middle of intense production, so many people had already begun leaving one after another in order not to affect the next day’s work.
Eric found Aniston and planned to return to Beverly Hills together.
“I’m going to Nicole’s place,” the little girl said, arm linked with the tall woman beside her. “Also, I don’t want to keep bothering my dad, so I plan to move out from his place tomorrow. Nicole agreed to rent a place with me.”
Eric was stunned for quite a while before confirming he had not heard wrong.
Looking at Nicole, who stood beside Aniston with an innocent expression, Eric wondered, Is this what they call being caught in one’s own trap?
Because Friends had become such a hit, Aniston had once again become the target of frenzied paparazzi pursuit. As a result, her small apartment in Burbank could no longer be lived in. The little girl was also unwilling to move into Eric’s house and live with Drew, so before finding a new safe place, she could only temporarily move in with her father.
“Then what about me?” Eric spread his hands helplessly and asked.
Hearing that question, the little girl did still hesitate a little with some “conscience,” but she soon raised her chin and said, “Why should I care what you do? I still have filming tomorrow, so I’m going back with Nicole first. Go back to Beverly Hills by yourself.”
Even after Aniston disappeared together with Nicole, Eric was still somewhat confused.
He had only asked Nicole to coax the little girl a bit and stop her from clashing with Drew. He had never expected the final result to turn out like this.
He did not believe Nicole had done this deliberately, because there did not seem to be any benefit in it for her.
However, he also absolutely did not believe Aniston was a simple-minded little girl.
For things to end up like this, it could only mean the little girl and Nicole were on completely different levels. In order to preserve her female lead role, Nicole had gone all out trying to make Aniston happy. In the end, she had directly destroyed the little girl’s defenses, making Aniston start baring her heart to her.
Still, Eric was certain Nicole would not dare do anything to hurt the little girl, so he decided to let things be.
After going through so many things in one night, Eric was also somewhat exhausted. He did not even have the strength to drive home and went directly to Virginia’s little villa to rest for the night.
Early the next morning, Julia got up groggily, grabbed at her hair, and went into the bathroom to brush her teeth and wash her face. However, when her mouth was full of foam, the woman suddenly remembered there should still be two other people in this apartment.
After hastily cleaning up, Julia walked toward the living room.
At this moment, the living room was already in chaos.
The A4 paper she had bought to print scripts was scattered everywhere, covered with many messy scribbles and drawings. Elizabeth and Drew were still huddled together, enthusiastically discussing something.
Julia picked up a sheet of A4 paper and looked at it. Unable to understand what had been drawn on it, she casually asked, “You two… didn’t sleep all night?”
This voice finally made the two slightly possessed girls raise their heads.
Drew shook her head left and right before saying in surprise, “Ah, it’s already light outside.”
Julia rolled her eyes. Wasn’t that obvious?
The little girl yawned widely and said to Elizabeth, “Liz, let’s stop here. I’m going to sleep.”
After speaking, the girl marched toward Julia’s bedroom without the slightest courtesy. From the look of it, she was definitely planning to sleep in Julia’s bed. Julia did not really have mysophobia, but still asked after her, “Drew, Eric said I should send you to school.”
“&-#-#-@--%-#-@…”
Several muffled, unintelligible sounds came from the bedroom. It sounded like the little girl had covered her head with something.
Julia stared blankly at Elizabeth. “What… did she say?”
Elizabeth held a ballpoint pen and quickly wrote something on a sheet of paper while casually saying, “She said there’s no need. She already asked for leave.”
Julia looked toward the bedroom, then at Elizabeth, and said in surprise, “Wow, how magical. How did you understand that?”
“I didn’t. I guessed.”
“…”
Just as Julia was left speechless, Elizabeth picked up a sheet of paper and gestured toward her. “Julia, look. What do you think of our film company’s name?”
“What does… this mean?” Julia looked at the two unclear letters on the paper. “TG Films?”
“TG. It stands for ‘Three Girls,’” Elizabeth replied.
“You two… stayed up all night and only came up with this name?”
“Of course not. We discussed many things too. Right, Drew said she wants 30% of the shares. You’ll also get 30% of the remaining shares, and I’ll take 40%. What do you think?”
Although in Eric’s previous life, Julia had been among the first Hollywood movie stars to establish a personal production company, at present she had only been famous for a little over half a year and her attention was still mostly on films. Therefore, once Elizabeth said this, Julia simply nodded and agreed.
“All right, you two decide. Do you want breakfast? I’ll make some.”
“No need. I’m going to sleep too.”
After saying that, Elizabeth stood up and drifted unsteadily into the bedroom.
Seeing this, Julia followed uneasily into the bedroom and found Elizabeth and Drew each occupying one side of the large bed, already asleep.
After drawing the curtains and considerately covering the two with blankets, Julia finally began cleaning up the living room, which was a complete mess.
In this chaotic morning, half-asleep and half-awake, the later-famous TG Films was born just like that.