With the evening breeze blowing, only the house with its lights on can be seen from the balcony on the second floor of the house. Diana didn't change her elegant blue dress. She stood on the balcony with a white coat on her shoulder and didn't know what she was thinking. Harvey saw her beautiful figure through the floor glass window. He opened the window and came to her. The balcony of the house was very spacious, and there were several tables. If it was afternoon, it would be a good enjoyment to spend afternoon tea here.
Harvey looked where Diana was looking and asked, "what are you looking at?"
Diana's jade hands in crystal stockings are on the marble handrails, and her clear eyes are still looking at the far away place: "only when you look around here can you feel that Elroy is so small, but there are many places in it that I have never been to."
"It sounds like there's something else in it."
Diana turned her head and looked at Harvey coolly with a jade hand on her waist. "Nothing. How's your negotiation with father going? I thought you talked longer."
Harvey laughed and explained casually, "ah, it takes a long time to explain it completely, so it's not urgent now. William will come to us tomorrow to confirm the cooperation. Do you want to go back to the college?"
"Of course, I am still a student."
Harvey thought of something, looked at Diana's pretty face and said, "you can't learn anything in that place. Don't you think about finding something else to do?"
Diana raised her hair and her face was helpless: "college life is really not interesting and boring, but she is at ease. At least she doesn't have to think about messy things before graduation."
Harvey was dumb. "You mean to marry me?"
"Not all of them."
"Well, which is it?"
"Harvey, if I marry you, I don't have to think about these things."
Harvey felt his chin for a moment and said, "that is to say, he doesn't want to marry me."
Diana naturally nodded and said, "I don't deny that."
Harvey had mixed feelings and said with a wry smile, "you haven't forgotten what I said last time. It sounds a bit frustrating to me."
Diana looked in the direction of Elroy and said with a smile, "in your present status, you can definitely find a more suitable person. Even if it becomes the same as before, no one will criticize the life style of a novelist." After that, she glanced at him with no special mood. She didn't feel bad about Harvey, but she always thought they were more suitable to be friends.
Harvey was the first man to make her feel this way. From birth to now, not to mention friends, no man could make her have any special ideas.
"Ha ha, but I don't intend to cancel the engagement. Now Mr. Donne certainly doesn't have the idea to cancel our engagement. Well, if you want to get out of your current situation, I can give you some help. At that time, even if the Cromwell family didn't agree, you could make your own decisions and decide what kind of life you should live. " Harvey first gave a banter, then turned serious.
"Help?"
Diana turned her head and looked up and down at Harvey.
Harvey said frankly, "that's what I just talked to your father about. You can understand that I want to plan and perform a play, and then I need the support of Cromwell chamber of Commerce. It happens that I am short of actors for this play."
Diana's slender eyebrows frowned. "Do you want me to perform a play?"
Nowadays, the social status of drama actors is not low, but Diana's ideas tend to be conservative, and she doesn't like the feeling of being surrounded by the audience.
"This time, the Cromwell chamber of Commerce will cooperate with us to obtain 5% of the share return at the cost of roughly estimated investment of at least 1 million barons. If you are willing to join, I can promise you 3% of the share return." Said Harvey, looking into her blue eyes. He didn't look like he was joking.
It won't be long before Jared's theater will become a shareholding model, with Harvey and Jared each accounting for 30%. Although Harvey didn't have the property right of the theater, he is still a technology shareholder. After shooting, count of Monte Cristo will only be shown in the theater. Harvey and Jared also plan to use other shares of the theater to attract more investment.
Harvey is very clear that if he eats a cake alone, the count of Monte Cristo is bound to cause a sensation, but it will take a long time to develop after that. Why not divide the cake, attract more investment, and make the cake bigger, so that even if you only get one third of the cake, it will be ten or even 100 times larger than the one you eat alone.
The movie market is so big that Harvey can't eat it alone.
Diana frowned deeper: "Oh? I didn't know I was worth the price. "
Harvey's data is more like a joke.
"It's very worthwhile for me. You should have read the novel the count of Monte Cristo. Don't you think Haide is very similar to you? No matter that arrogant or forthright character, if your character is more soft and warm, it will be perfect. Cromwell chamber of commerce is willing to help me to solve my biggest problem at present. If you are willing to promise me to play Haidai, you can solve my second problem. " Harvey put one hand on the guardrail, held his chin, and said what he thought and planned.
Diana hesitated: "I've never really loved anyone, including my father, and I'm not interested in drama."
She likes count of Monte Cristo very much and has read the novel no less than five times. Because of this, she knows the role of Haide very well and thinks that she can't perform Haide's performance full of passion and love for count of Monte Cristo.
Harvey shrugged: "just play that role. I don't think it's hard for you. You can choose to try and make a decision."
Harvey still decided to complete the shooting of count of Monte Cristo by directing and acting herself. It's not easy to find a suitable actor in a world without film foundation. Even though Diana has no acting foundation, her temperament is naturally suitable for the role of Haide, and the natural performance effect is enough to meet Harvey's requirements.
If Diana is convinced to play Haide, Harvey can pull out her maid Shirley to play melcedes. Christie, who originally planned to play Haide, plays melcedes in her girlhood. Harvey himself plays the count of Monte Cristo. In this way, the starring roles of the count of Monte Cristo are basically completed.