"The daughter of the Moran family can't have no engagement banquet!" With one sentence, the matter was settled by the old man.
Although the person involved, Laila, felt that apart from wasting money and energy, there was no benefit to the engagement, others were quite enthusiastic about it. Janet was happy because she could make a wedding dress for her daughter again. The old man was happy because he could boast about his granddaughter in front of his old friends. Roy was more direct. As long as he could marry her, he was willing to do anything. Let alone just an engagement banquet, he could go through fire and water!
But the old man didn't set the date too early, considering the Oscars ceremony. He scheduled it for the end of March. This way, they could celebrate their granddaughter's engagement and her movie awards at once. What if her movie didn't win any awards? This possibility never crossed the old man's mind. Haven't many people loved her movies? Winning an Oscar was just a matter of course!
Because of the engagement, Laila suddenly had a lot more work. Inviting guests, the form of the banquet, trying on the engagement dress, and so on, made her feel like a doll, being manipulated by one person and then grabbed by another.
What's frustrating is that she couldn't refuse or escape. No matter which one she avoided, she would be faced with Janet's face that said, "Do you have any dissatisfaction with my arrangements? Mom is so sad, so disappointed, don't you love me anymore?"
But she wasn't the most disappointed one, Nolan was.
He had been waiting for a long time to discuss the script, and he had been interrupted twice by two advertisements. God knows when he heard that Laila couldn't study the script with him temporarily and had to wait until the engagement was settled, his heart was almost broken.
Could the movie be filmed on time? He was becoming more and more uncertain.
Meanwhile, the news about Laila and Roy's engagement was also making waves in the outside world. Some media even reported on how romantic Roy's proposal was, and how happy Laila was to accept it, as if they had seen it with their own eyes.
It was obviously unfounded, yet many readers bought it. They took the proposed scenes in the reports as real, thinking that there was such a romantic proposal scene.
"You see, this is how a proposal should be done, right?" Laila threw the collected clippings in front of Roy, feeling more and more that she shouldn't have looked at his nervous and slightly helpless look. She was even too embarrassed to tell her mother how he proposed.
How to say it? Say that she was half asleep in the middle of the night and suddenly found him sitting by her bedside, staring at her with two rabbit-like red eyes without blinking, and then inexplicably proposed?
Come on, that's not a love story, that's a horror story!
Roy flipped through the reports with interest, silently noting in his heart, "So it can be like this!" The scenes written in the newspaper, such as the beach, the sky, the moonlight, and the flower bushes, looked so beautiful. Should he consider proposing to her again more suitably and beautifully?
Thinking back now, he seemed to feel that he had been a bit rash at the time. Although it was impulsive, it seemed that it didn't bring her any good memories. Anyway, there was still some time before the official engagement banquet. Maybe he should find a more suitable and beautiful opportunity to propose to her again.
Amidst all the chaos, the Oscars finally arrived.
This time, Laila's "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" reigned supreme with thirteen nominations, once again becoming the king of nominations. Of course, those who knew the inside story understood that she would not be able to bring back so many trophies in the end, but that did not dispel the media's attention to the movie.
Who made her Laila Moran? She was a magical news machine that could easily make the world's attention follow her every move.
Following her was very easy to get good news, this was the unanimous idea of journalists and paparazzi. Unfortunately, her identity as a news tycoon's granddaughter made it difficult for those people to openly follow her. Moreover, her work nature was quite reclusive. It was normal for her to stay in her room for ten days or half a month when writing a script. So even if they wanted to follow her, it was difficult to keep up with her.
It just so happened that such a reclusive person became the one that the public was eager to know about, and various media outlets were quite frustrated and helpless about their need to know.
Even if they changed the person, people wanted to know about her, so they might as well find the news. But what about her? If she wasn't writing a script, she was on a film set, she had bodyguards when she went out, and she had a private plane for business trips. In such a situation, how could they follow her? How could they dig up news from her?
Therefore, awards ceremonies like the Golden Globes and the Oscars became the times when people could most easily see her and the closest places for the media to her. This made the number of reporters around her the highest every time, regardless of whether she won any awards or not.
To cooperate with Janet's inspiration, Burberry rushed to make a set of clothes that could match Laila's dress for Roy before the awards ceremony.
Actually, they could still use the original set, but everyone knew that the couple's outfits had become a highlight of Laila and Roy's red carpet appearances, the most focused on by reporters and the media. How could they miss such a good publicity opportunity?
Moreover, when they signed the contract initially, they said they would cooperate with Janet's designs. Although the design was suddenly changed here, if they didn't cooperate, the audience and fans would probably blame them first.
Fortunately, their designer was quite capable. Laila's cloak-style gown gave them good inspiration, and they finally designed a set of clothes for Roy that could continue the couple's outfit on the red carpet at the last minute.
This gown, which Laila jokingly called "Sherlock Holmes-style," also had a cloak, somewhat similar to the one worn by Holmes on TV, but because it was pure black, it wasn't overly gorgeous.
However, when Roy, with his hanger-like figure, put on this outfit, he suddenly felt a very high-end and elegant feeling. She felt that this was the advantage of having good looks and a good figure. If someone with a misshapen figure and a bad face wore it, there would probably be more comparisons to costumes.
Then, when the two appeared hand in hand on the red carpet, the fans in the entire venue went crazy.
Seasoned reporters had already prepared to cover their ears when their figures appeared. Generally, when stars appeared, there would be similar cheers, and they were used to such an environment. But these two were different. If other people's appearances were called cheers, then their appearance was like a sonic weapon, something that would make your brain explode!