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"Is it going to rain today?"

Paris, Charles de Gaulle International Airport. Link looked up at the blue sky and the brilliant sun, similar to New York's weather, showing no signs of impending rain. This made him doubt the accuracy of the French weather forecast. If it didn't rain in the next two days, his trip would be in vain.

"The French weather forecast says it's going to rain tonight in the Paris area,"

Anna caught up and said.

Link nodded. After getting off the plane and walking for a few minutes, he also felt some mugginess. Paris has a temperate maritime climate, with an average outdoor temperature of 18 degrees Celsius in June and July. The feeling of mugginess indicated unusual weather, a sign of impending rain.

"Have we arrived? At which exit?"

As he walked to Terminal T2E, he received a message from Marion Cotillard.

Link replied to her and noticed that he had over twenty text messages and seven or eight missed calls on his phone.

One was from Ivanka, asking him to check in after landing.

One was from Catherine, saying she had just met with Jennifer Lawrence and all was well.

One was from Selena, asking if the news about him seeing a ghost at the Broadway Theatre was true. She asked what the female ghost looked like and if she was beautiful. She also called him a jerk for even wooing a ghost.

He also received messages from Paul Walker, Dino Duva, James, Eminem, Emma Stone, Emma Roberts, Emma Watson, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Beyonce, and others.

Most of them were inquiring about his dream of a ghost singing.

Since both he and "The Phantom of the Opera" were very popular, after Tiffany broke the story, it was widely reported by many online media and broadcasters, sparking heated discussion online and becoming a hot topic in the entertainment industry.

Netizens not only discussed it online but also flocked to the Broadway Theatre, indicating their intention to sleep there to see if they could hear the ghost sing.

Due to the influx of visitors, the normal operations of the theatre were impacted.

The theatre had to make a statement saying there were absolutely no ghosts in the theatre and that Link dreaming of a ghost singing was a random occurrence.

Despite that, curiosity overwhelmed the netizens, leading to a packed Broadway Theatre. When "The Lion King" was performed onstage, many people were sound asleep in the audience.

Subsequently, over a dozen influencers claimed they actually heard a woman singing in their sleep.

Others said they heard nothing, probably because "The Lion King" was being performed and not "The Phantom of the Opera."

The situation escalated and even piqued the curiosity of acquaintances like Paul Walker, who sent him messages inquiring about the 'culprit'.

Link replied to a few messages, telling everyone it was real and they could go and experience it for themselves.

After Bob and Wallace picked up the luggage, the group of four discreetly walked out of the airport. He wore a cap and sunglasses, which covered half of his face. Anna and the other two also wore sunglasses, looking like a team of special agents.

But as they exited the terminal, a paparazzo recognized him.

'Mr. Link Baker!' A paparazzo shouted.

Over a dozen paparazzi burst out and began snapping photos of him.

"Mr. Baker, is this trip to Paris for work or are you meeting up with Marion Cotillard?"

"Mr. Baker, some media reported that you are involved in Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet's relationship, causing a crisis. What is your explanation for this?"

"Mr. Baker, it's said that while watching 'The Phantom of the Opera', you dreamed of a lady ghost singing. Is this story true or just a publicity stunt?"

Facing the paparazzi's inquiries, Link answered a few questions, insisting that he and Marion were just friends, with no messy relationship, and hoped everyone would not speculate wildly.

The paparazzi did not believe him and mentioned they had photographed him staying overnight at Marion's house last month.

Link stated that he and Marion were good friends and that staying at a friend's house overnight was quite normal.

He then signed autographs for more than a dozen fans who had gathered around, and walked out of the airport under the escort of Wallace and airport staff.

"Link, over here!"

Upon reaching Charles de Gaulle Avenue, a lady dressed in a spaghetti strap silk dress and with French-curled hair waved at him, standing next to an apple-green Volkswagen Beetle.

This sexy French lady was none other than Marion Cotillard, thirty-five years old, who had debuted in 1992 and starred in big-hit French movies such as "Taxi," "Love Me If You Dare," and "A Very Long Engagement," and had won the Best Actress Oscar in 2008 for "La Vie en Rose."

Although her beauty was not as stunning as her predecessor, the French Rose Sophie Marceau, she exuded a classical grace, with blue-gray eyes, red lips, and a sexy nose tip, full of artistic flair, a very sexy and cool woman.

Around Marion Cotillard, dozens of media reporters and paparazzi were holding up cameras, continuously taking photos of the duo.

Seeing these people, Link could guess, the few paparazzis in the hall were also drawn here by her.

"Hi, Marion!"

In front of the many reporters, he openly hugged Marion Cotillard.

"Missed me?"

Marion also boldly kissed him on the face, blinking her enchantingly deer-like eyes and curving her red lips into a slight smile.

"Of course, from the day I left Paris, I've been missing you, your lips, your voice, now smelling your scent, there's only one thing on my mind, to possess you," Link said softly in French while holding her.

"I've missed you too, can you feel my whole body trembling?"

The two looked into each other's eyes, and even the atmosphere around them became ambiguous.

"Mr. Baker..."

Before the reporters and paparazzi could swarm up, Link pulled Marion Cotillard into the car.

The car roared onto the Charles de Gaulle Airport's direct roadway and started accelerating.

"Chase!"

The reporters and paparazzi also started their cars, and a fierce chase ensued on the highway leading from the airport to downtown Paris.

Link, with his superb driving skills and ultra-fast response time, weaved through the dense traffic and pushed his speed over eighty miles per hour.

Because of the high speed, Marion gripped the seat, occasionally screaming, sometimes urging him to go faster, sometimes asking him to slow down.

After driving for more than ten miles, Link quickly lost the paparazzi tailing them through several swift lane changes.

"How's my driving?"

Link smiled, holding the steering wheel.

"Incredible, so thrilling,"
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Marion Cotillard exclaimed excitedly, gripping the handle.

Link looked at the rearview mirror and smiled.

"Link, go there. I want to kiss you,"

Marion leaned in with a breath tingled with heat.

Link checked the surroundings, turned the car into a public parking lot at Villette Park in the 19th district, and the moment the car stopped, they gazed at each other and embraced passionately.

After kissing for more than ten minutes, they were about to move to the back seat to see it through to the end.

The phone in Link's pocket tinkled, and as he held Marion close, he casually hung up. But the phone insisted on ringing again.

He took it out and saw it was Director Woody Allen's call.

"Link, where are you?"

Director Allen shouted into the phone, sounding somewhat displeased.

"In the car, on the way to the set, it'll take about, no, two hours to report in,"

"Don't lie to me. I just saw the news that you arrived at Charles de Gaulle Airport twenty minutes ago. It only takes forty minutes to get to the set. What do you need two hours for? Link, remember, you're an actor. You came to Paris to film, not to mess around...."

Director Allen is quite a talkative fellow, not just in everyday life but also in his movies, where the characters usually have lines filled with rambling.

Sometimes, a speech extends to eight pages filled largely with meaningless babble, a level of rambliness that perhaps only Director Quentin Tarantino could rival.

As he listened to Allen's droning, he placed the phone on the seat and continued to kiss and caress Marion.

After talking for a few minutes, Director Allen at the other end seemingly heard something and suddenly shouted, "Link!! What are you doing? I'm asking you a question. Why aren't you responding?"

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Marion Cotillard couldn't help but laugh out loud and finally couldn't hold back, throwing back her sexy swan neck, laughing heartily.

"...."

The voice on the other end also fell silent.

Link hurriedly picked up the phone, "Heard you, I'm coming right over to check in."

"Hmph, half an hour, half an hour at most. It's going to rain in Paris tonight, you better come early to prepare, don't miss this heavy rain,"

"Got it, see you soon!"

After hanging up, he sighed and said, "Looks like our date has to be postponed."

"Haha, you haven't made up yet?"

Marion tightened her skirt and asked with a smile.

"No, it's hard to reconcile."

"It's okay, you'll have a good talk after filming. Director Allen isn't really a stickler."

Marion kissed his cheek and said.

Link nodded his head and started the car.

He didn't have much hope about reconciling with Director Allen.

Their conflict had been present since the start of filming.

The main reason was a significant disagreement about acting styles.

Director Allen was an actor who had received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.

When he was creating "Midnight in Paris," he initially planned to write, direct, and act himself, but due to his age, which did not suit a romantic role in the film, he reluctantly chose Link.

Because of this, the film's male character was designed based on his personality—brooding, funny, a bit dopey, and incessantly chatty.

During filming, Allen also wanted him to act in this way.

Link tried it, but it didn't work.

He was not the brooding, rambling, goofy man and couldn't play that role well; forcing it would have been awkward.

He approached Allen to suggest simplifying some lines, complaining that the protagonist seemed excessively verbose and lacked masculinity.

Allen disagreed and insisted he continue acting.

He reluctantly acted for a few days but felt increasingly disconnected, suggesting someone else should take the role.

Allen noticed the issue and reluctantly agreed to make some slight adjustments to the character based on Link's appearance and personality.

Subsequently, while filming, they frequently clashed over how much to change scenes and the extent of those changes.

Allen was reluctant to make significant alterations and still wanted the protagonist to resemble himself.

Link didn't want to become another Woody Allen; he wanted to fully own the role, so he thoroughly researched the character, performed diligently, and even wrote over twenty thousand words as the protagonist's biography.

With the help of Marion Cotillard, Jennifer Lawrence, and others, he continually adjusted and perfected his performance, making the character vivid and dynamic.

And since he was performing increasingly well and convincingly,

Director Woody Allen was forced into a corner and had to accept it grudgingly, but the resentment remained, and during filming, he constantly found fault and made things difficult for him.

This was one of the reasons for their conflict.

Another reason, as assistant director Frank Arela told him, was that Allen liked to cast female leads he found aesthetically pleasing and would fall in love with during filming to capture their most beautiful shots.

However, after falling for Marion Cotillard and Jennifer Lawrence, Allen was shocked to discover both women had been intimate with Link.

Frank mentioned that upon learning this, Allen nearly lost it and furiously berated Link.

Since then, he had been exceptionally strict with Link on set, with constant snide remarks and various forms of manipulation.

But Link took it all and persisted until the end.

And since he persevered, Woody Allen couldn't let his anger out, hence his constant irritability and relentless attitude.

Link wasn't bothered by it.

Director Allen was a highly skilled and respected director.

During the filming of "Midnight in Paris," despite the nitpicking, he taught Link many useful things.

His acting improved significantly, and he also learned about many French paintings and literary works.

The gains outweighed the costs, and he didn't bother to quarrel with an old man.