"You still look better with a chubby face.

Look at the photos you took back then.

on

Empty,

How beautiful! "

Juven was a little embarrassed.

She was a little shy. "Stop talking about that time!"

"Why can't I say it?

Is it because of Martha? "

He pursed his lips and didn't say anything.

Hayley didn't say anything else.

She randomly stuffed the photos into the album and threw them on the sofa chair beside the bed.

She got out of bed.

She walked to the bathroom.

Juven quickly came over. "Babybear —"

She looked at him expressionlessly.

"It's not that I can't talk about Martha —" He took a deep breath, "It's just that.

"It's just that I don't know how to say it.

Martha … she's my First.

Love, I'm also her First.

Love, at that time … we were too young and didn't know how to give in. "

This was easy to understand.

Martha came from an acting family.

Her parents were both actors. She could be said to be the second generation of stars. She started her acting career when she was young.

She had acted in many good movies.

In the last ten years, she was one of the few child stars in Hollywood. Now, she was also a promising young actress.

It could be said that a girl who had a smooth life since she was young was proud and didn't know how to compromise.

As for Juven, as the eldest son,

He was used to taking care of his younger siblings.

He also started earning money to support the family very early.

It was a little strong. The two of them were only 16 or 17 years old at that time. If they had a conflict, it wouldn't be good if they didn't give in to each other.

Hayley thought for a while. "People say that First, Love will never forget.

It's hard to forget. When you can talk about Martha frankly, it means that you've grown up and matured. "

Juven hugged her and sighed softly.

*

Back in Los Angeles, Juven went into the studio with his band members to record songs.

Hayley followed him to the recording studio every day. In the first few days, she was quite interested in learning about the process of recording songs. After a few days, it was no longer attractive to her, so she took her books and notebooks and read them next to the console.

The sound engineer was quite curious and asked her what she was looking at. She turned the cover over: "Basic Quantum Mechanics", and the sound engineer didn't ask her anything else.

Recording songs was quite boring and tiring. Often, it would take 10 hours at a time to record them repeatedly. Every sentence and word had to be perfect. Whenever Juven was dissatisfied, he would have to do it all over again.

After a day of recording, they were exhausted.

"I didn't expect your job to be like this …" Hayley drove while Juven sat in the passenger's seat, looking a little tired.

"What?" he asked, furrowing his brows.

"It's very boring and repetitive work. I mean, is there a need to have such high requirements?

You've tired yourself out, and you've also tired others out. "

"You should do everything to the best of your ability. That way, when you look back in the future, you can proudly say that you tried your best and did a good job."

Hayley agreed. "You're right." She was also curious. "Is it like this when filming?"

"More or less.

Every scene you see, the actors actually have to perform it more than 10 times, sometimes more.

A movie is usually very long if it's 120 minutes, right? "

She nodded. "Yes."

"The length of the useful scenes the director gets is about five times the length of the movie. Sometimes, it's more.

It might take 20 hours of filming, but in the end, it can only be 120 minutes. "

Hayley suddenly understood. "So that's how it is!

No wonder a movie sometimes takes half a year to shoot. It must be very tiring. "

She had been to Juven's location, but in fact, she didn't stay there for a whole day, so she didn't actually see the actual working process.

Juven shrugged. "It won't be very tiring once you get used to it."

There was a lot behind this sentence.

He had been acting in front of the camera since he was 12 years old. This was his job and also his source of income to support himself and his family.

Hayley stopped the car by the roadside. Juven looked at her in confusion. "Why did you stop here?"

She turned sideways and kissed him. "Honeybear, be good to yourself."

*

Hayley and Juven were together again.

Helen didn't even ask and was very calm.

She still instructed the maid not to let Mr. Phoenix go upstairs.

However, if she wasn't at home, Hayley would still let him go up. In fact, the maid couldn't restrain Hayley at all.

Helen didn't really fire the maid either.

Hence, the mother and daughter played a tacit game. Helen usually had an "I won't expose you, but don't go overboard" expression on her face, while Hayley would have an "I'm quite obedient" expression on her face.

Helen still couldn't be seen often. No one knew where she went. Sometimes, she wouldn't be at home for two whole days on weekends. Hayley would ask Juven to stay overnight.

Juven would now tell her about things that happened before he was seven years old.

Phoenix's family name was originally Bottom. Before he was seven years old, Juven had been migrating with his parents to various cities in South America. They had moved more than 40 times.

His parents joined a cult called "God's Children" and had been doing missionary work all over the world. They didn't have any fixed income.

The church wanted you to contribute. You didn't need to pay for it. You only needed to give them the basic necessities to survive. The reason why Aline could give birth to five children in eight years was also because the church believed that everything was natural and God's will. Therefore, contraception was not allowed.

When Aline was pregnant with Samo, she finally realized that the children might starve to death in a foreign country. Hence, she resolutely left the church and returned to America, where she gave birth to her youngest child, Samo.

Because he was too poor and didn't have the time or energy to take care of the children, Juven had been taking care of Rain and Djékun since he was about five years old. He didn't have any toys, picture books that children had, and he didn't go to kindergarten.

After returning to America, because he was too poor, he went to school intermittently. When he was about ten years old, he took his younger siblings to the streets to perform. It could be said that his life was very difficult.

Hayley was dumbfounded. In comparison, Helen was practically the Virgin Mary.

Well, they had never worried about money, so perhaps they really couldn't understand how terrible Juven's childhood was. However, it was very abnormal for a child to not receive the education he deserved when he should have gone to school.

Juven didn't receive the systematic education in school. After he became a child star and had an income, he first let his younger siblings go to school. He briefly studied in high school for two years, during which he had to work. Most of the time, he read books and did his homework in the studio. Reading was all self-taught, so when he encountered complex sentences or words that were too long, he couldn't read them. Sometimes, it would cause trouble for him to read his lines.

Hayley would also tell Juven about what happened before they came to America.

They lived in a big house in Berlin. Sometimes, when they went on vacation, they would go to some castle in the suburbs. However, she was too young at that time and didn't remember many things.

Dad?

Of course, she had a dad. However, she didn't know if they were divorced or if he had passed away.

Her father doted on her very much. He often kissed and hugged her, lifted her up high, and took her to ride horses.

Her father was also very good-looking!

He was a young man who knew how to have fun and had a bright smile.

"Do you miss him?" Juven hugged her on his lap and rested his chin on her shoulder as he asked softly.

"Sometimes, I miss him.

But I don't know if it would be better if he was there … I mean, you saw it. Helen doesn't know how to express her feelings, so I've always been quite curious. Maybe Dad married her because she's very beautiful. "

"Then — do you hate her?

Do you hate Helen? "

"No, why should I hate her?

She had taken care of everything for me, including food, clothing, shelter, and transportation. It was all thanks to her that I was able to live this kind of life.

Actually, "she shrugged," you think it's a big problem that she doesn't know how to communicate with me, right?

But I also like her personality of not knowing how to talk nonsense. I can take care of myself as long as I have enough money, and she never lacks money.

This kind of situation is really perfect! "

Juven was speechless. She was absolutely right!

Helen had a kind of otherworldly beauty, as if she shouldn't worry about these trivial matters, so she didn't ask anything. Hayley was also used to taking care of herself, or rather, taking care of herself with the help of the servants.

Like parents, like children. Hayley grew up perfectly into a "good girl" who didn't need Helen to worry about. She didn't grow up to be bad, wasn't cynical, and didn't even have any stress.

This really made people jealous!

*

Hayley was sometimes very curious about Juven.

Normally, with his growing environment and childhood experience, it was easy for him to become a child with low self-esteem, but it could also be that his experience as a child star didn't make him feel inferior. Those who made a name for themselves in Hollywood, even if they weren't narcissists, must have a good understanding of themselves. A child with low self-esteem wasn't suitable for Hollywood, and would be tired of this profession early on. Therefore, the career of a "child star" was very fluid. One had to be very smart and confident to continue to develop.

Hayley studied Little Robert Downey, Martha Purinton, Juven, and other actors who were still struggling in this industry from childhood to adulthood. She found that child stars could be roughly divided into three types: one type was like Martha, whose parents, regardless of whether they were in the industry or not, were very smart and determined. They knew what they wanted and had a career plan at a very young age; the other type started after they became famous, taking drugs, drinking, and partying crazily. Very few of them could stand up again. Most of them were consumed in the endless cycle of taking drugs, quitting drugs, relapsing, and quitting drugs again.