Chapter 145: About Future Plans

"Knock, knock."

A knock sounded.

Lu Yan He thought it was Zhou Ping'an returning, having left something behind, but when he looked, it was actually Chen Ziyan.

Chen Ziyan hadn't told Lu Yan He in advance that she was coming, which was why Lu Yan He was surprised.

"Sister Ziyan, why did you come to find me?"

And so early.

Chen Ziyan said: "I only heard the news last night. Zhou Ping'an is accompanying Vice President Ma on a business trip at ten this morning. I reckon he will definitely come to find you to sign the formal termination agreement first thing this morning. Since Tu Song is back today, I just stopped by on the way."

Lu Yan He nodded and said: "Sister Ziyan, you're god-like. Zhou Ping'an just left."

"Yeah, we ran into each other at the elevator entrance," Chen Ziyan said. "This is the new signing contract. Take a look, and hand it to me after you sign it."

Chen Ziyan took three identical contracts out of her bag.

Terminated the contract in the front, and the new contract came in the back.

Chen Ziyan had prepared this new contract for Lu Yan He long ago, but because she didn't want to affect his college entrance exam, she hadn't given it to him. Sending it over now was just to seamlessly connect him.

Lu Yan He picked up the contract and nodded. "Thank you, Sister Ziyan."

"What are you preparing to do these few days?" Chen Ziyan asked.

"I don't know, I hadn't thought about it before. I'll rest for a few days first. Aren't I going to start learning acting soon?" Lu Yan He said.

"Yeah," Chen Ziyan nodded. "If you have nothing to do these few days, you can watch more movies and dramas to see how others act. If you don't know how to act at first, just imitate. You have intuition; the last audition gave us a big surprise. Learn to ponder character psychology slowly."

"Okay."

Chen Ziyan: "I'm going on a business trip tonight and won't be back for three days. If you have anything, just call me."

"Okay."

Chen Ziyan looked at Lu Yan He and suddenly smiled.

"You are always 'okay, okay, okay,' so obedient that I'm not quite used to it," Chen Ziyan said. "I've never managed an artist as obedient as you."

Lu Yan He was at a loss.

Obedient... was that wrong?

Lu Yan He just habitually didn't express his emotions on non-principled issues.

"It's fine, this is quite good. You just need to be comfortable yourself, but you don't have to be timid in front of me. I am not a manager like Zhou Ping'an. If you have any opinions or ideas, you can communicate with me at any time," Chen Ziyan said. "I said that you listen to me regarding work, but if you have your own ideas, you can tell me directly. I will consider your ideas. I am not the kind of manager who doesn't allow artists to have their own thoughts; I just don't like artists who are paranoid, stubborn, unprofessional, incompetent, and always babbling nonsense."

Lu Yan He smiled.

"I'm not like that, Sister Ziyan, don't worry."

"Alright, I've given you the contract. If there's nothing else, I'm going to leave first," Chen Ziyan said. "Tu Song is back. If you're bored alone these two days, you can make plans to hang out with him. He doesn't have any work arrangements these two days either."

"Okay." Lu Yan He nodded.

"Leaving."

After seeing Chen Ziyan off, Lu Yan He picked up the contract and read it seriously.

Although he believed Chen Ziyan wouldn't cheat him, in such matters, one must still read it carefully, clause by clause.

Chen Ziyan specifically sent it over for him to read and sign before finding her, which was the same logic.

From the beginning, she had presented an attitude of "you have to listen to me," but in these matters, she had never forcefully demanded his 100% trust.

In fact, after reading the contract terms, Lu Yan He was still shocked.

Because the content of this new contract was clearly very favorable to him.

First, the contract duration was five years, not the eight or ten-year long-term contract customary for newcomers. Just this item alone was very rare. Artists need time to be cultivated. In five years, the first two or three years are spent cultivating you, and once you become famous, there are only two years left for you to earn money for the company. Of course, you can renew the contract, but once you become famous and then talk about renewal, there are many variables, and the initiative is not in the company's hands.

Secondly, the contract clearly stated that the profit-sharing ratio between Lu Yan He and the company became 3:7, from the previous 2:8. And there was a new additional clause behind it: once the revenue brought by Lu Yan He to the company exceeds five million yuan, this ratio can be adjusted to 4:6. And if Lu Yan He's annual revenue for the company exceeds five million yuan, this ratio will be further adjusted to 5:5. Finally, if Lu Yan He's revenue exceeds ten million yuan, the ratio will be renegotiated.

These two contents guaranteed Lu Yan He's very large rights and interests.

Lu Yan He was only nineteen this year, and after five years, he would only be twenty-four, still in the golden period of his career, and at that time, his bargaining power for renewal would also be in an advantageous age bracket. The additional clause on the profit-sharing ratio guaranteed Lu Yan He's income after he became famous.

There were many other conditions very favorable to Lu Yan He, including providing him with an assistant and a nanny car during work, and even two physical examinations a year.

Lu Yan He was stunned when he saw the physical examination item. He really hadn't thought that he could enjoy such humanized service.

After Lu Yan He finished reading, he had nothing else to say, and he was even embarrassed to ask Li Zhibai's family legal team to help him look at the contract.

It was to the extent that Li Zhibai would be jealous.

Lu Yan He knew very well that he could get such a contract, it must be because of Chen Ziyan.

Chen Ziyan had a high status and great authority in Star Entertainment, which was why she could provide such a generous contract to the artists under her management.

Even if Zhou Ping'an wasn't black-hearted, he didn't have this authority.

What should he do?

When this question was placed in front of Lu Yan He, he himself hadn't expected it.

Having already experienced how crazy the summer after the college entrance exam was, he now, on the contrary, didn't have the urge to vent all the pent-up frustration and hardship.

Before, he had a very focused goal every day, which was preparing for the exam. Now that the exam was over, he was idle instead.

Lu Yan He sorted out all the study materials. He originally wanted to throw them away, but he couldn't bear to.

Things he had painstakingly accumulated over a year.

He found a cardboard box to put them in and looked around his room again. It was really... "bare walls," nothing at all.

The original owner had no money in his hands and lived a strapped life, buying nothing. After he transmigrated, he also spent money very carefully, saving and economizing, only then did he have a small amount of savings now.

Go buy some things first.

Lu Yan He thought.

The laptop was provided by the company for them in each room. He definitely couldn't take it away, and Zhou Ping'an definitely wouldn't be happy to let him take it away. Buying a laptop for himself was the right thing to do, after all, he still had to livestream later.

Then, buy a few novels to read. This is content that can be livestreamed. Before, he had always been livestreaming studying, but it wouldn't be bad to replace textbooks with novels or other books later. Reading more books is always good for oneself. Lu Yan He was able to get into a 985 university before, and this time he could stabilize his performance, which itself was influenced by traditional education. The concept of "reading more books" was deeply engraved in his mind.

Chen Ziyan also said that doing an artist, in the end, depends on character and how long one's own quality can be maintained.

Reading books may not necessarily make him famous for a long time, but having goods in his belly means he won't worry about anything.

As the old saying goes, there is a beauty like jade in books, and there is a golden house in books.

Lu Yan He decided what he wanted to buy and prepared to go out. Before leaving, he thought of what Chen Ziyan said, so he contacted Tu Song.

"I'm preparing to buy a laptop and buy some books. Do you want to go together?"

Tu Song was very surprised to receive his call, seemingly not even knowing that Lu Yan He was going to sign under Chen Ziyan later.

But it was the first time Lu Yan He took the initiative to invite him, and he had nothing to do, so he agreed.

The two went out under the scorching sun of June. Although the temperature hadn't reached its peak at this time, it was still hot enough to make people sweat.

"How did you do on the exam this time?" Tu Song asked.

Lu Yan He felt he wasn't asking sincerely either, just casual talk.

"It's okay. Let's see what score I can get in the end," he said. "You changed managers these few months, you should be happier than before, right?"

"Yeah," Tu Song's eyes shone when he mentioned this. "Much better! I'm already preparing to record my first single! It's an OST for a drama!"

Lu Yan He knew that Tu Song was focused on being a singer. He didn't want to act, nor did he want to record variety shows or be a comedic artist. He was the one who loved singing the most in the Fengzhi group. Now that he had the opportunity to sing his own single, even if it was an OST, he was very happy.

"Congratulations, finally you can be a proper singer," Lu Yan He said.

Tu Song said: "Sister Ziyan is much better than Zhou Ping'an. Under Zhou Ping'an, I wasted more than two years for nothing."

He said this, then suddenly remembered something, and his words stopped abruptly.

He had heard that Lu Yan He had been planning to terminate the contract with Zhou Ping'an.

Tu Song felt a bit embarrassed, thinking his words just now were like showing off to Lu Yan He.

He really didn't mean that!

Tu Song wanted to apologize to Lu Yan He, but didn't know what to say.

Seeing his stammering and hesitant appearance, Lu Yan He was even more certain that Tu Song still didn't know the news that Chen Ziyan had also become his manager.

Since Chen Ziyan hadn't said anything, Lu Yan He didn't mention it first.

"It's okay, I hate that Zhou Ping'an too," Lu Yan He said. "Don't worry, I won't go to Zhou Ping'an to snitch."

"Who cares about him now." Tu Song pouted. "I ran into him this morning. Was he looking for you?"

"No, Yan Liang and Li Zhibai are flying somewhere else today, he came to instruct them," Lu Yan He said.

"It's really not surprising at all. In the end, Zhou Ping'an chose Cheng Hai, Li Zhibai, and Yan Liang," Tu Song said. "The two most famous ones and the most obedient one."

Tu Song was talking about what Zhou Ping'an said before, that only three people would be kept to manage in the Fengzhi group.

Lu Yan He asked: "Then... the other two, them?"

"Not planning to be artists anymore," Tu Song said. "Ming Ge is preparing to apply for an overseas university, and Xiao Shan is going home, saying he is preparing to open a shop."

Lu Yan He was stunned.

Have they all given up?

This surprised Lu Yan He very much.

Tu Song said: "Actually, if they stayed, they would just have to change a manager. Even if Zhou Ping'an refused to manage them, there would definitely be other managers willing to manage them. Even if they did nothing, the company would have to give them a subsidy of three thousand yuan every month. This is much better than those newcomers who just signed."

Lu Yan He thought for a while and said: "Maybe they don't want to waste time anymore."

Not everyone is like Lu Yan He, with no way out.

Being able to apply for an overseas university or open a shop, both are things their families can provide support for. Perhaps they don't care about that three-thousand-yuan subsidy every month.

They see no hope for development in the entertainment industry, so while they are still young, they can completely change their path.

Tu Song asked again: "When will that drama 'The Golden Age' be filmed?"

Lu Yan He said: "It will be filmed next month."

Tu Song asked: "Are you preparing to be an actor in the future?"

"I don't know, let's see first," Lu Yan He said. "I still have to attend university later, so I can't focus on this side like you."

Tu Song is different; he didn't attend university.

Li Zhibai and Yan Liang both attended performing arts universities, but Tu Song didn't even attend a performing arts university.

He heard before that he always wanted to take the music conservatory exam, but Zhou Ping'an didn't seem very willing.

I don't know if he still has such thoughts now.

If he has, Chen Ziyan shouldn't disagree, right? -

Lu Yan He chatted with Tu Song, bought a laptop as planned, and went to the bookstore to browse.

Tu Song followed him to the bookstore and was still surprised.

"So you really love reading," Tu Song sighed.

It seems that Tu Song also thought Lu Yan He was just putting on an act before.

Now that the college entrance exam results haven't come out yet, basically no one knows Lu Yan He is a true straight-A student.

Lu Yan He didn't explain either. He picked a few books in the literature and art area and prepared to check out.

"Lu Yan He?!" A pleasantly surprised voice sounded.

Lin Miaomiao stood behind Lu Yan He, holding a plastic-wrapped book, her eyes shining.

"You're here to buy books too?" Lin Miaomiao looked at the books in Lu Yan He's hand and asked happily.

"Yeah." Lu Yan He was also very happy to see Lin Miaomiao and smiled. "I just finished the exam yesterday, so I came to look around today."

Ever since the two added each other as friends, Lu Yan He occasionally chatted with Lin Miaomiao a few times. Only then did he discover that although she spoke directly and a bit thoughtlessly, she had a very real and lively personality.

She was even still in her second year of high school—oh, no, after this summer vacation, she would be a high school senior.

Thinking about it again, he was fooled by her before, really thinking she was a host.

Lin Miaomiao asked: "How did you do on the exam? I watched your livestream yesterday. I just clicked in, and you logged off. I didn't even know what you said."

This is what happens when you go in late; you didn't catch the hot stuff.

Lu Yan He said: "It's okay. I didn't estimate my score, but I feel I performed quite well. I didn't encounter any too tricky or weird questions."

"As soon as you finished the exam, the real questions were sent to our group," Lin Miaomiao showed a headache expression. "Our head teacher is a roll-king."

"Responsible to you," Lu Yan He said.

Lin Miaomiao sighed, "You've made it through, I still have a year to endure. High school senior year, just thinking about it is hard to endure."

"Endure it, and it will be a free world," Lu Yan He said with a smile. "Keep it up."

Tu Song walked over with a book, "The World of Music."

He looked at Lu Yan He curiously, then at Lin Miaomiao, and suddenly his face froze. "Are you Lin Miaomiao?"

Lin Miaomiao looked at Tu Song suspiciously and asked: "Do you know me?"

"Uh, seen you once," Tu Song nodded. "My aunt took me to attend your dad's birthday banquet."

Lin Miaomiao heard this, and her face changed instantly.

She subconsciously looked at Lu Yan He, and then said: "You recognized the wrong person, I haven't seen you."

"You aren't Lin Miaomiao?" Tu Song asked back. "Isn't your dad Lin Desheng of Beijiguang Video?"

"..."

Lu Yan He watched Lin Miaomiao's face fall into a kind of inexplicable entanglement and repetition.

She seemed very unwilling to admit that she was Lin Desheng's daughter.

But judging from Tu Song's reaction, it didn't seem like she was some heinous person. Why be so wary?

Lin Miaomiao suddenly looked at Lu Yan He again and said: "I have something to do, leaving first."

After saying that, she turned and ran.

Lu Yan He and Tu Song were both confused, not knowing what was wrong with her.

Lu Yan He couldn't help but ask Tu Song: "What's the situation?"

"I want to ask you that," Tu Song said. "How do you know her?"

Lu Yan He said: "Last time I went to record a program, I ran into her. She said she was the livestream behind-the-scenes host for that program and did an interview with me on the livestream."

"Uh, she probably just thought it was fun. Do you know who she is?"

"Just heard you say it, Lin Desheng's daughter? Who is Lin Desheng?"

"You know Beijiguang Video, right?" Tu Song asked.

Lu Yan He nodded.

Of course he knew this. It was one of the largest online video platforms now.

Tu Song said: "The boss of Beijiguang Video."

Lu Yan He was stunned.

The boss?

Tu Song said: "This Miss Lin is like a proud peacock outside. The time I saw her, many people were fawning over her, and she didn't even pay attention to them. I didn't expect you to be able to talk and laugh with her."

"Uh, I didn't know who she was either." Lu Yan He realized. No wonder when she first met him, she spoke in an overbearing manner. Clearly, she was a little girl who had been spoiled at home. No wonder she dragged people in to interview him, pretending to be a host, and no one stopped her. Everyone was cooperating with her to play this game. And why wouldn't they? She was the princess of Beijiguang Video.

Tu Song looked at Lu Yan He thoughtfully and said: "She treats you quite differently."

"I haven't even met her a few times."

"But she is willing to talk to you and laughs so happily," Tu Song said. "If you had seen her attitude toward others, you would know why I said that."

Lu Yan He asked in surprise: "Is it that exaggerated?"

"More than that," Tu Song said. "Her appearance, to put it nicely, is called noble; to put it ugly, it is arrogant. But even so, many people still revolve around her. Everyone wants to please her. After all, President Lin only has one child."

This chance encounter finally let Lu Yan He know Lin Miaomiao's identity.

On one hand, he was surprised; on the other hand, he also had a sense of sudden realization. The various clues before were now all connected together.

He only knew before that Lin Miaomiao's family must be very rich, but he didn't know she had such a big background.

Nowadays, several of the best video platforms in the country all stand behind large groups, have strong capital support, and being able to manage a video platform, the magnitude of resources held is unimaginable to ordinary people.

Especially for artists like Lu Yan He.

But Lu Yan He didn't have any other thoughts.

Use Lin Miaomiao to get on the line with Beijiguang Video?

If there is an opportunity, of course it's good; if there is no opportunity, there is no need to force it.

Lu Yan He now feels that his whole life is brand new, and he has a feeling that as long as he works hard, he can get everything through his own efforts.

After returning, it was almost noon.

The two ate cover-rice at a small restaurant at the entrance of the community before going back.

In the afternoon, Lu Yan He thought to himself, he couldn't just be idle like this.

Especially in the next few years, if nothing goes wrong, he will have to study while taking care of his acting career, and time will be very tight.

He prepared to make a plan for himself, what to do next, and write it down item by item.

Including those things he knew before transmigration.

Novels, music, movies, and dramas... these only exist in his memory. If he doesn't take advantage of the fact that he still remembers them and try his best to write them down, the memories will become more and more blurred, and the things he can replicate will become fewer and fewer.

Lu Yan He first eliminated novels.

Novels are all text, easily tens or hundreds of thousands of words, and that's considered few.

He only remembers the plot, and asking him to replicate a novel now is impossible.

But good stories and good ideas can be written down first, and if there is an opportunity later, they can be adapted into scripts by others. For example, Agatha Christie's most famous detective novels, whether it is "Murder on the Orient Express" or "Death on the Nile," their criminal tricks can actually be interpreted into a new novel story—as long as it is confirmed that no similar tricks have appeared in this world.

Movies and dramas are the same. He can only write down good stories and good ideas first, in preparation for later.

The only thing that can be quickly replicated now is songs.

It's a pity he doesn't understand music scores. Speaking of which, can he learn music this summer, at least learn the basics, so he can write down the melodies in his mind?

He can't do it now, so he will hum them one by one and record them on his phone, so he won't forget them in the future.

After all these plans are made, Lu Yan He is thinking about what else he can do.

This space is also developing, and it has also developed things like e-commerce and online payment methods.

After thinking for a long time, Lu Yan He found that the space for him to exert his transmigrator ability is actually very, very small, basically concentrated in the field of content creation—only this field relies too much on personal creative thinking, rather than the social development process, so it is difficult for similar works to appear.

Then there is no way.

One is recording and replicating, and the other is to find ways to exercise his abilities.

Just like Lu Yan He can sing many songs, but because he can't compose music, he can't write them into scores himself and can only ask Chen Siqi for help. He also knows many successful movie and drama stories and novels, but he doesn't have the ability to write them into scripts or novels, so he can only sigh for now.

Learn how to write novels? Learn how to write scripts?

These abilities must be learned.

Lu Yan He listed several plans for himself.

This summer, besides taking acting classes to improve his acting skills and joining the crew to film, he also has to learn basic five-line scores, improve his writing ability, and start learning how to write stories.

After the plans were listed one by one, Lu Yan He's heart became more and more stable.

He found that he was actually very afraid of having nothing to do.

Before transmigration, he never had such a psychology.

Changed.

Detecting his own changes made him lost for a moment.

No matter how actively he integrates into this world, he still cannot change the fact that he is an outsider.

No matter what, he is haunted by a sense of unease, instinctively wanting to strengthen himself to face everything that might appear in the future.

The phone vibrated with a buzz.

Lu Yan He came back to his senses and picked up the phone.

Lin Miaomiao sent a message: Did your friend tell you who I am?

Lu Yan He: Yeah.

Lin Miaomiao: You... don't expect me to be able to help you with anything. Although my dad is Lin Desheng, I don't have any say.

Lu Yan He: "..."

That familiar Lin Miaomiao who pricks people as soon as she opens her mouth is back.

He said: I didn't expect you to be able to help me with anything either.

Lin Miaomiao: That's good.

Lu Yan He didn't know if Lin Miaomiao was really lacking a string in her brain, which is why she spoke without considering other people's feelings, or if she said this out of putting ugly words upfront. But because when he first met Lin Miaomiao, this person was of this style, Lu Yan He wasn't very angry.

He even felt before that it was her luck that this girl hadn't been put in a sack and beaten.

Lin Miaomiao said again: Actually, it's not that I don't want to help you, it's that I really can't help. My dad would never look at someone more just because they fawned over me.

Lu Yan He sighed and replied: Don't overthink it, I really don't care about this.

Mainly because he felt that he and she really couldn't be considered familiar.

They had only met a few times in total, and they couldn't even be considered friends.

If it weren't for running into her outside the hospital that time and being pacified by her by mistake, he wouldn't even have a sense of closeness to her.

Now he just had a little bit.

At this time, someone suddenly @ him in the class group, and the phone popped up a prompt.

He disliked the noise before, so he set the class group message notification to do-not-disturb mode.

He clicked in and saw that everyone was calling for a gathering tonight.

Taking advantage of the fact that the college entrance exam results haven't come out yet, they were counting the number of people who could participate in the gathering tonight.

Lu Yan He replied "I can."

Before long, Linyu sent the booked place to the group.

She said: This restaurant has a large private room, the screen in the middle can be removed, and three tables can be set up, which can seat almost forty people. Teacher Liu said that there was still about one thousand left in the class fund that hadn't been used, and asked me to go to her to get it when the class had activities. It just so happens that it can be used for dinner today.

Everyone responded one after another. ===== CHAPTER 146 =====