Chapter 137: Youthful Spirit

"In this exam, 27 people in our class entered the top 120 in the grade, setting a record, the first time," Liu Qin said with a smile. "Thank you all for making me sought after among the head teachers."

The whole class let out cheers of "Oh oh."

Liu Qin: "In addition, I also want to specifically praise Lu Yan He and Li Pengfei. Everyone knows what kind of grades they used to have, but since this semester, visible changes have occurred in them. Working hard, being serious, constantly improving their grades, and making significant progress. I especially hope that classmates who are still in the lower rankings will not be discouraged, continue to sprint, there is still time, and the college entrance exam results can continue to improve. Everyone must always remember one point: you are not competing with these dozens of people in the class or these hundreds of people in the school, you are competing with the more than 100,000 candidates in the entire Yuming. Therefore, for every point you score more, you are not surpassing one or two people, do you understand what I mean? Never give up until the last moment."

As the voice fell, applause rang out.

For the head teacher's chicken soup, the students were very face-giving.

Subsequently, Liu Qin said again: "Then, I also want to praise Xu Zijun."

Everyone's eyes looked straight at Xu Zijun.

Suddenly focused by countless eyes, a touch of embarrassment appeared on her face.

Liu Qin said: "At such a critical time in the third year of high school, Xu Zijun encountered what might be the biggest pressure crisis in her life so far. In the last monthly exam, her state slipped, but she held onto her focus and her mentality, and this time she returned to the top twenty of the grade. All classmates should learn this mentality from her. This semester is about to end soon. As the college entrance exam gets closer, the pressure everyone feels will become greater and greater. This is all very normal. Don't be afraid, and don't keep it in your heart alone. Whenever you feel like you can't hold on anymore, you can come to me to communicate at any time. This is not wasting time, but relieving pressure."

Liu Qin broke these things into pieces and told them bit by bit.

Emotions are contagious, and the students listened very seriously.

Lu Yan He's mood, which had become somewhat irritable because of Chen Ziliang, was slowly soothed and slowly became calm.

At the same time, at an offline commercial performance site.

"Thank you everyone!"

Li Zhibai shouted, and left the stage amidst the enthusiastic shouting of the whole audience.

He left under the escort of the bodyguards on site and got into the nanny car.

Many people were shouting Li Zhibai's name, and the atmosphere on site was so enthusiastic that there was a feeling that he was a superstar who had debuted for more than ten years.

But in fact, at least half of them were water armies arranged by the organizer.

Zhou Ping'an sat in the car waiting for him with a smile.

"Quite a few of your fans still came today."

Li Zhibai sat down, took off his coat, and was full of heat.

After singing and dancing for fifteen minutes in such cold weather outdoors, he was covered in sweat.

"Brother Ping'an, can you take on fewer commercial performances like this for me next time? It's too low," Li Zhibai said very unhappily.

Zhou Ping'an said: "Don't look down on this kind of commercial performance. Although the environment is average, you get a 100,000 yuan appearance fee for coming once, and the local bosses are still very generous with money."

"I don't lack this bit of money, it's really too low-class, I'm ashamed," Li Zhibai frowned, "I didn't become an artist to perform in this kind of venue."

"Okay, okay, I know, aren't we also at the end of the year, so we took the job because they were generous with money. If it were normal times and they were stingy with money, begging me to let you come, I wouldn't agree."

Zhou Ping'an appeased Li Zhibai, then continued: "You know the program *Small Song Gathering*, right? Lu Yan He and Yan Liang have both been on it. I've talked to their director team, and they will let you be on the next three episodes, do three performances, and see the broadcast effect of the program, then see if you will continue to be a regular later."

Li Zhibai looked at him in surprise when he heard Zhou Ping'an say this.

"Really or fake?"

"Why would I lie to you? Although this program is not a first-tier variety show, it has loyal viewers. Before, Lu Yan He and Yan Liang were on this program, and the effects were quite good. You are originally the most popular among them, so prepare for the performance well, and when the time comes, bring out a performance that amazes everyone, and we will cooperate with the program team to market it," Zhou Ping'an said. "You've been a bit wasted in the past six months, and there hasn't been any relatively good work arranged. Later, I still hope that you can be both a singer and an actor. You are one of the people I am most optimistic about. Operate well, and you will definitely be able to become a popular first-tier star in the future."

"Okay."

"You didn't apply for the interview with Chen Ziyan, did you?" Zhou Ping'an asked suddenly.

The topic suddenly turned here, making Li Zhibai understand immediately that the point of Zhou Ping'an chatting with him so much today was here.

Afraid he would run away.

Li Zhibai smiled and said: "Brother Ping'an, are you so worried about me?"

"You are so excellent, it is very possible that you will be snatched away by Chen Ziyan, so of course I have to give you a vaccination early," Zhou Ping'an looked at him. "You know, I have always been cultivating you in the first echelon. Here with me, my plan for you is to be a popular first-tier, especially now that you are almost nineteen, and you can finally officially be an actor. I am negotiating a male lead play for you."

Really... it's all pie.

Li Zhibai: "But, for people like Feng Zhi, you will only keep three people in the end, right?"

"Yes, my energy is limited, and keeping people who can't be made popular is also a waste of time."

"Me, Cheng Hai, who is the third person?" he asked.

Zhou Ping'an smiled and said: "Have to see their recent performance, but to be honest, no matter who is left, they won't surpass you here with me. I am most optimistic about you. You know, in the entertainment industry, whether an artist is excellent or not is not the most critical thing. Whether there is a manager to help you handle various things is a very important reason for whether an artist can go far. Lu Yan He was chosen to play *The Golden Era* before, but now that role has been snatched by Chen Ziliang. Chen Ziliang came down to grab this role, Lu Yan He has no one to help him, can he keep it by himself? Just think about it, it's impossible."

Li Zhibai's brows frowned.

"Brother Ping'an, you said Chen Ziliang wants to grab Lu Yan He's role?"

"Hmm."

"Does Lu Yan He know about this?"

"He knows, although I don't intend to help him keep this role, I still told him the news immediately."

"Chen Ziliang has a problem with his brain, going to grab someone else's rice to eat," Li Zhibai suddenly straightened his face and cursed very unhappily.

Zhou Ping'an looked at him in surprise.

"Why are you so angry? This matter has nothing to do with you."

Zhou Ping'an hadn't paid much attention to them recently and didn't know that in just a few short months, the relationship between Lu Yan He, Li Zhibai, and Yan Liang had advanced by leaps and bounds. The relationship that hadn't been familiar for three years had become familiar in three months.

Here with Zhou Ping'an, his impression of the three of them was still stuck in the past.

These artists were relatively indifferent to each other, and even had competition. Zhou Ping'an never thought that Li Zhibai had become so close to Lu Yan He that he would feel angry because he encountered such a thing.

Li Zhibai also realized that his emotions were too excited.

He curled his lips and said: "I've always hated that narcissist Chen Ziliang."

Zhou Ping'an suddenly realized, so that was it.

Li Zhibai hating Chen Ziliang indeed had a reason.

He had crossed paths with Chen Ziliang before. Li Zhibai was a few years younger than him, so at first, Li Zhibai would take the initiative to greet him and say hello. But Chen Ziliang's eyes were set higher than the sky, and he didn't put anyone in his eyes at all. Not only that, he had once publicly ridiculed Li Zhibai for being just an idol star who relied entirely on fans for a living. When these words reached Li Zhibai's ears, he wanted to jump up and beat him right then and there, but someone stopped him.

Zhou Ping'an said: "Chen Ziliang's approach is of course hateful, but he is popular now. He is willing to guest star in a role, the production side must be happy, earning such a big shout for nothing."

"I don't believe he won't cause trouble for the crew. Anyway, wherever this idiot goes, trouble goes. Didn't the stopping of recording of *Small Song Gathering* last time come from him?"

"The matter was indeed caused by him, but look, it was such a serious matter, didn't it end up with nothing later? The director team of *Small Song Gathering* said they were going to sue him, didn't someone mediate later?" Zhou Ping'an said with an indifferent look: "In the entertainment industry, whether you act like a big shot, have a big temper, or even do some particularly trashy things, as long as you don't violate the bottom line, get banned directly, or disappear, as long as you are popular, have heat, and have topics, you will always be pampered. Things like effort or character, these are not important."

Li Zhibai looked at Zhou Ping'an in surprise.

Although he had always known that Zhou Ping'an was a person with a low moral standard, Li Zhibai didn't expect that he would dare to say such things openly, which was simply incredible.

Seeing Li Zhibai's surprised look, Zhou Ping'an didn't restrain himself, but instead intensified his words: "You are still young, and you still take ideals, morality, and quality very seriously. Later, after experiencing many ups and downs, you will know that nothing is as important as the things you truly hold in your hands. Lu Yan He holds nothing in his hands, so Chen Ziliang wants to grab his role, and he grabs it as he says. Lu Yan He has no power to resist."

Li Zhibai fell silent.

Later in the evening, their small group jumped up.

Li Zhibai spoke in it: Zhou Ping'an really disgusted me.

He @ Lu Yan He and said: Chen Ziliang grabbing your role, why didn't you tell us?

Yan Liang followed and bubbled: Grabbing a role? What's going on?

Lu Yan He appeared in the group after a long while: Zhou Ping'an told you? This news was also told to me by Zhou Ping'an. I'm still thinking of a way to see how I can keep my role. Telling you is useless, it just makes you worry with me.

Li Zhibai: Who said that? The idea is really big, how do you know we can't help you?

Lu Yan He: You don't want to ask Zhou Ping'an for help, do you?

Li Zhibai: For this kind of thing, what help should I ask him for? Anyway, just give Chen Ziliang some trouble during this time, let everyone see what kind of character he is, scold him, *The Golden Era* can't sign him at this time.

Lu Yan He: Don't mess around, this matter offends people for no reason.

Li Zhibai: This is not for no reason, it's targeted, okay? Before, he said I was an idol, relying entirely on fans to eat. What does he rely on to eat? A popular singer, isn't he also relying on fans to eat? Besides his fans, how many people think he sings well? Go to his, rest assured, I am about to go on *Small Song Gathering*. I want to disgust him on the program and let everyone know what his true face is.

Yan Liang: You are also going on this program? You want to make trouble on the program?

Lu Yan He: Don't go crazy, kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred, no need.

Li Zhibai: What do I have to lose? Anyway, I have a bad temper and like to fight with people. People who know me know it. How much can I lose?

Yan Liang and Lu Yan He saw Li Zhibai say this sentence full of pride, and for a while didn't know what to say.

Lu Yan He was really afraid that Li Zhibai would go crazy on the program.

If he really disgusted Chen Ziliang on the program, then the two of them would really become enemies.

Li Zhibai, an artist who is on the rise, why bother to offend a popular singer who has already become famous at this time.

He immediately called Li Zhibai.

"Don't mess around, don't go crazy, it's not easy to have a chance to be on a program—oh, I forgot, it's not easy for you, but in short, this is your chance to meet the audience, a chance for more people to like you, you don't need to do this kind of thing to disgust him. My role, he can't grab it so easily, don't worry, Luo Dao Yuzhong and Sister Yuqian both support me."

Li Zhibai said: "What nonsense, I've been unhappy with him for a long time, I've been holding back, now that I've vented it out, what else is there to hold back."

"You are very likely to be cyber-bullied by Chen Ziliang's fans," Lu Yan He said helplessly. "Even if you don't care, does Zhou Ping'an care? Do your parents care? Why bother? It's not time to tear your face off, let's develop sneakily for a while, he can't be popular forever, we will definitely be more popular than him in the future."

After much persuasion, Lu Yan He finally persuaded Li Zhibai to give up publicly exposing Chen Ziliang's disgusting behavior on the program.

"*The Golden Era* is indeed a very rare opportunity for me, and I have done everything I can for this opportunity, but if it really doesn't work out because of some force majeure, then I recognize it, it doesn't matter," Lu Yan He said. "My focus now is on going to school, I don't have that much energy to fight with him, and I don't have the strength to fight, but I don't care about this temporary gain or loss. On one hand, I believe in Luo Dao Yuzhong, believe in Sister Yuqian, on the other hand, I also believe in myself. He can grab one of my roles, two roles, can he grab all my roles? One day, I will stand in front of him and make him regret doing this today."

After appeasing Li Zhibai, Lu Yan He began to think, he had known this news for a few days, should he take the initiative to contact Luo Yuzhong at this time?

The reason Lu Yan He had been hesitating was that he was afraid that once he showed worry and anxiety, it would make Luo Yuzhong dissatisfied—if Luo Yuzhong had the idea of letting Chen Ziliang replace him in this play, that would be it, if not, Luo Yuzhong would definitely be angry.

Don't you trust me that much?

A director like Luo Yuzhong wouldn't have low spirit, and Lu Yan He was hand-picked by him. If Lu Yan He raised his worry about whether he might be replaced when Luo Yuzhong didn't want to replace him, maybe he didn't want to replace him originally, but then he had the idea of replacing him.

Looking forward and backward, that was Lu Yan He's true portrayal now.

After hesitating for a long time, Lu Yan He felt that he still had to take the initiative to contact Luo Dao Yuzhong, just to change the way of saying it, a way that would not anger Luo Yuzhong.

Lu Yan He sent a message to Luo Yuzhong: Director, hello, my manager told me that my acting contract was sent over a few days ago, is there anything else I need to do?

First use this matter to throw a stone to ask the way, and see Luo Yuzhong's reaction.

That was all he could do.

Otherwise, he would really run directly to Luo Yuzhong and ask: Director, Director, do you want to replace me again? Replace me with Chen Ziliang, right?

Luo Yuzhong didn't reply for a long time.

At this moment, Luo Yuzhong was having a big head at the dinner table, trying his best to push away the female public relations arranged by Chen Ziliang, while angrily drawing a big cross for Chen Ziliang in his heart.

As a big-name director, such scenes with female public relations were not uncommon, but it was a bit exaggerated for someone who was meeting and eating for the first time to arrange such things.

Luo Yuzhong was a bit annoyed.

Coming to the appointment today, Chen Ziliang had entrusted someone to introduce him. He also wanted to meet this popular singer.

Film and television and music are two industries, but they have always been in the same entertainment industry, and now this industry is bigger, becoming the entertainment industry, closely related to each other.

Every play has many film and television OSTs. Luo Yuzhong has been filming for so many years and knows many singers.

There are also some singers interested in acting who will indeed guest star in his play.

As long as it's not inappropriate, Luo Yuzhong is happy to find them one or two not-so-important, stereotypical roles in his play to let them satisfy their acting addiction.

On one hand, it satisfies their curiosity, on the other hand, it is also a gimmick for publicity.

Luo Yuzhong is not the kind of director who doesn't hear anything outside the window.

How to film a play, how to be seen by more audiences, Luo Yuzhong has been immersed in this for many years, very familiar, and very important.

But when he came today, Chen Ziliang's set, first enthusiastic greetings, this is relatively normal, then brought into the private room, but it was a bit wrong, after all, there were several beautiful women sitting in the private room, looking like they were here to accompany the wine.

Luo Yuzhong doesn't like this set.

Human relations are worldly wisdom, unavoidable, but don't be too vulgar. He is an old-fashioned director who has been mixed for decades, do I lack a bite of your strange little child?

Luo Yuzhong looked down on Chen Ziliang by three points first.

His heart is not right.

Coming to the appointment today, he knew that Chen Ziliang was interested in the role of the female lead's white moonlight.

Luo Yuzhong thought, it's good to be able to refuse face to face, say it euphemistically, and properly refuse this matter. If he is willing, find him another role to play, as long as he wants to come.

He knew that Chen Ziliang was quite popular among young people, so he also held the idea of meeting him. If the talk is good, he can continue to talk about an OST cooperation.

But listening to those songs on the way here, Luo Yuzhong frowned.

It's not that it's hard to listen to and can't be accepted, it's that Chen Ziliang's style is not very suitable for film and television soundtracks.

"Luo Dao, I really grew up watching your plays," Chen Ziliang said this sincerely while holding a woman's hand.

Luo Yuzhong felt disillusioned—you just pull it down, don't let others hear it, as if you became like this because you were harmed by the play I filmed.

Jiang Yuqian knew what Chen Ziliang was planning recently.

He Heng smiled and said: "Chen Ziliang is still not giving up on you, he has been sticking to the cold butt for so long, and he still refuses to give up."

"Saying he refuses to give up, do you think he is so unwavering to me?" Jiang Yuqian immediately rolled her eyes.

She closed the script in her hand and glanced at the passing scenery outside the car.

"Still want to play my white moonlight, don't look at his own crooked temperament, where is the look of white moonlight, really think that public relations set can handle Luo Dao," Jiang Yuqian said with disdain, "Little Lu actually made me look at him with admiration. Chen Ziliang let out the wind, just wanting Lu Yan He to retreat in the face of difficulties, he actually sat quite still, motionless like a mountain."

He Heng nodded, and a touch of appreciation appeared in his eyes.

"He is a rare, relatively steady young man."

"Quite likable," Jiang Yuqian said, "You don't know, Luo Dao has a high evaluation of him, and he appreciates him very much in his words."

He Heng: "When I heard you relay how he went to fight for this play with Luo Dao, I felt this teenager was quite good, good character."

"Yes," Jiang Yuqian clicked her tongue, "Zhou Ping'an has no eyes, not human."

"Haha, Zhou Ping'an has always been that kind of person, seeing money and opening eyes, profit-seeking, only seeing immediate interests." Peers are light, He Heng immediately put a big hat on him.

Luo Yuzhong came out with a bad luck face, got into his car, and only after much persuasion did he successfully refuse the painting Chen Ziliang wanted to force on him.

Zhang Shansan's painting, although he likes it, he doesn't want to receive one from Chen Ziliang.

After a meal, Luo Yuzhong fully realized one thing: Chen Ziliang is full of trouble behind him, it is better to have less contact.

Luo Yuzhong got into the car and sighed to the driver: "Why is a young man now more routine than an average middle-aged person, vulgar and unbearable."

The driver who had been following Luo Yuzhong for more than ten years smiled silently and said nothing.

He didn't need to say anything either.

Luo Yuzhong then saw the message Lu Yan He sent him, which was already an hour ago.

He had several pinned chat windows on WeChat, and he had to scroll down to see Lu Yan He's message. Because of this habit, it was often difficult to see and reply to other people's messages in time, but it was okay. With his status in the world, the word "timely" was not that important.

Luo Yuzhong saw the message sent by Lu Yan He and curled his lips.

"Look, there are still smart and sensible young people. I guess he heard some wind, was anxious, and is asking here by side-knocking."

Luo Yuzhong replied: Just finish the contract normally. It won't start filming until the second half of next year. Wait until you finish the college entrance exam to talk about preparation matters, don't delay your studies. ===== CHAPTER 138 =====