Chapter 167: Warding off evil

Chen Ziyan parked the car at the entrance of the Hongfu residential complex and said to Lu Yan He: "Take a good rest for these two days, you don't need to come to the company. You should spend some time filling out your volunteer choices. Have you thought about it? Where are you planning to study?"

Lu Yan He shook his head and said: "I haven't thought about it yet. The admissions groups of Zhenhua and Yuming have both called me, inviting me to apply. I haven't seriously thought about this matter."

"Also, then you should think about it carefully these few days. When you fill out your volunteer choices later, remember to change your password. I've seen news every year for the past two years that someone secretly tampered with other people's volunteer choices, just so that others wouldn't have a good time. There might not be such a villain around you, but you should take precautions."

"Okay." Lu Yan He nodded.

After getting out of the car, Lu Yan He waved to Chen Ziyan and walked into the Hongfu residential complex.

The road was pitch black, and the streetlights weren't very bright. Plus, he hadn't seen them for a long time, so when He Bangan walked towards him with He Leming, he didn't recognize them immediately.

"Yan He." He Bangan called out.

Lu Yan He looked at them in confusion, and then recognized them.

"Uncle?" He was stunned.

He was thinking yesterday that this person should appear, and today he actually appeared.

People really can't stand being mentioned.

Lu Yan He looked at them coldly. "Why are you here?"

"You child, look at what you're saying, why can't we come?" He Bangan said with some intimacy, patting Lu Yan He on the shoulder. "I'm your uncle, can't I come to visit you?"

"Oh, it's just been a long time, a bit surprised," Lu Yan He said indifferently.

He Bangan looked at Lu Yan He's eyes, which had almost no emotion, and was stunned for a moment. He still remembered what this child looked like a few years ago: timid, not daring to lift his head, without any opinions. Now he has really changed a lot, from skin to bone. Strange.

This made the excuses He Bangan had prepared a bit difficult to say.

"Yan He, do you have an opinion about your uncle? Oh, uncle isn't anything else, just seeing you become an artist, it's not good to disturb you, fearing to affect you," He Bangan said while scratching his head. "You also know, uncle opens a restaurant, usually quite busy, not easy."

"Mm."

"Yan He, you won't not want your uncle, right?" He Bangan looked at Lu Yan He with a pitiful look and asked.

Lu Yan He glanced at him, then glanced at He Leming, who was standing beside He Bangan and was timid, and sighed in his heart.

"How it was before, it will be like that later," Lu Yan He said. "It has nothing to do with wanting or not wanting. Did uncle not want me three years ago, so he left me alone?"

"That's not it, not it!" He Bangan immediately denied. "Sigh, I was scolded by your two teammates today, and uncle also realized that he really cared less about you usually. Uncle will definitely correct it in the future."

"My teammates?" Lu Yan He frowned. "Who else did you go to?"

"Just that one called Li Zhibai, and Yan Liang," He Bangan immediately said the names of these two people. "They even wanted to do something to me, and threatened me, I'm so angry, Yan He, I'm your uncle!"

Lu Yan He said: "They are just teammates with me. Did you say something unpleasant to them, so they were angry?"

He Bangan: "What unpleasant things could I say? As soon as I went in, the two of them gave me a face, and even said something..."

He Bangan's words stopped abruptly halfway.

Lu Yan He looked at him. "What else did they say?"

He Bangan was really embarrassed to repeat those words in front of Lu Yan He again.

"Never mind, don't say those unpleasant words. Yan He, you've finished the college entrance exam now, when will you come to uncle's house again? Uncle will make you delicious food," He Bangan showed a smiling, caring look. "Look at you now, too thin, it must be too hard. You, you don't know how to take care of yourself alone—"

"Because I can't take care of myself, because I'm poor," Lu Yan He looked at He Bangan and interrupted his performance. "Pay tuition myself, go to school myself, manage my own eating and drinking, every meal is calculated carefully, can't consider how to eat the most nutritious, uncle, you should know all this, right? When you wanted to ask me for money before, didn't you already look at my bank statement? How much money I make every month, how much I spend, how much I can save, you calculated it clearly, didn't you?"

Lu Yan He's heart was calm and indifferent.

The original memory was recovering bit by bit.

"Yan He, are you blaming me?" He Bangan looked at Lu Yan He in disbelief and asked.

Lu Yan He shook his head. "I don't blame you, and I don't hate you, but I don't want to be close to you either. Keep this relationship in the future. Anyway, uncle and nephew... when you threw me here and ignored me, this relationship was already dead in name."

At this moment, Lu Yan He almost withdrew from the original perspective. He just stood from a third-party perspective, looking at the uncle-nephew relationship between the original body and He Bangan, feeling a kind of disgust that he didn't know how to describe, and even said these words with exhaustion. He didn't have the original body's relative feelings for He Bangan, and his emotions for He Bangan were only rejection, hoping that such people would stay away in the future, the farther the better.

He came from an ordinary and happy family, with ordinary but harmonious relative relationships. Therefore, Lu Yan He did not accept He Bangan's practice of bringing him out of the countryside and then ignoring him. Because he didn't accept this point, no matter what he said, he could understand, but still didn't accept it.

He Bangan's mouth was murmuring, seemingly wanting to say something else.

Suddenly, at this time, He Leming, who had been silent, shouted at Lu Yan He: "If it weren't for my dad bringing you out of the countryside and letting you participate in the competition, how could you be like this now?!"

Lu Yan He looked at this little fat man in surprise.

Because of his loud shout, people passing by looked over.

Fortunately, no one walked over just to watch the fun.

Lu Yan He looked at He Leming, smiled playfully, and looked at He Bangan.

"Uncle, does Leming still not know why you brought me out of the countryside?"

He Bangan was stunned.

"Oh, maybe you think I don't know either?" Lu Yan He said. "Grandma called you, saying she was not in good health, entrusted you to take care of me, and take me out. You refused at first, saying you didn't want to bring a drag, right?"

He Bangan looked at Lu Yan He in disbelief.

Lu Yan He said: "Later, Grandma took all her savings, gave them to you, and begged you to take care of me. You took the money and brought me out reluctantly. At first, you let me help in the restaurant, later you saw a talent show, which provided food and housing, so you helped me sign up. Later, I debuted inexplicably, signed a contract, you thought I was going to be popular, going to be a star, going to interfere with my work, was taught a lesson by Zhou Ping'an, and wanted to take money from the company, making me scolded by Zhou Ping'an every day during that time. You never cared about my situation in the company, didn't care if I would be scolded by Zhou Ping'an. When you finally found out that I really couldn't make money, you never appeared again. Do you think you are qualified to let me be grateful to you for bringing me out, bringing me to Yuming?"

He Bangan clenched his fists.

He Leming looked at He Bangan in shock: "Dad, is it Grandma who gave the money, and then you brought him over? Where is the money?"

He Bangan roared at He Leming: "Shut up!"

He Leming was startled and didn't dare to speak.

Lu Yan He: "That's about it, you can go, don't come again in the future."

He lifted his legs and walked forward.

"Lu Yan He!" He Bangan suddenly raised his volume and shouted.

Lu Yan He turned to look.

The uncle who was still a bit timid and close to him before, now had a broken-jar-broken-fall, threatening expression on his face. For some reason, Lu Yan He always felt that this appearance was more suitable for his face.

"You finally have some improvement now, do you hope others know that you are a wolf-hearted person who doesn't care about relatives after you make a fortune?"

Lu Yan He pondered for a moment and said: "That's also good. Let others know about my business with you. Those villains know that they can't take advantage of me, so they won't come over, warding off evil."

He seemed not to care at all, curled his lips lightly, and ignored He Bangan's distorted facial features, walking forward.

"Dad, is he scolding us as villains?"

"Shut up!"

The summer night wind is never gentle.

It is sultry, like sea waves, with a salty and wet taste, as if wrapped in sand and dust.

Lu Yan He went upstairs, but hesitated before entering the door.

The door suddenly opened.

"Eh—" Yan Liang was carrying a bag of trash, seemingly about to go out to throw it, but ran into Lu Yan He standing at the door.

Lu Yan He: "Throwing trash?"

"Mm." Yan Liang nodded.

"Give it to me, I'll go throw it." Lu Yan He took the trash bag from Yan Liang's hand and turned to the trash can in the stairwell.

Yan Liang looked at Lu Yan He's back in confusion.

Living together day and night, Yan Liang already knew Lu Yan He very well.

He keenly noticed that Lu Yan He was not right today.

What happened?

Yan Liang turned back to Li Zhibai and asked: "Lu Yan He is not right today."

Li Zhibai: "How is it not right?"

"Don't know, looks a bit mentally exhausted."

"Tired, right." Li Zhibai said. "Every day in class, it's also hard."

Yan Liang: "Doesn't feel like being tired from class."

At this time, Lu Yan He came back after throwing the trash.

Yan Liang didn't say anything more.

He left the door half-open, walked to the living room, and asked Li Zhibai in a low voice: "Should we tell him about his uncle coming?"

"Tell him, can't hide it anyway," Li Zhibai said. "But have to tell him properly, let him not be soft-hearted."

Yan Liang nodded.

At this time, Lu Yan He came in.

"Old Lu!" Li Zhibai shouted.

Lu Yan He walked over, seeing Li Zhibai and Yan Liang both looking like they wanted to say something, and guessed what they wanted to say.

"I ran into my uncle downstairs, he came just now, right?"

Lu Yan He took the initiative to say this.

"He's still downstairs?" Li Zhibai heard this and jumped up immediately. "This dog thing is endless, right?"

"Gone now," Lu Yan He said. "Thank you guys, for helping me drive him away."

"Thank what, I hate this kind of person the most, you don't know," Li Zhibai said. "Disappear when there's something, but active when coming to take advantage."

Lu Yan He smiled.

"Sigh, actually I'm not that unhappy, but my heart is blocked."

"This is quite normal." Yan Liang patted him on the shoulder and said: "Meeting such relatives, everyone's heart is blocked, but we scolded them back for you."

"I also made everything clear, I don't want to be hypocritical with them," Lu Yan He said. "Just seeing him today, I remembered some things."

Some memories that existed in memory before, but were rarely thought of specifically.

Over the past year, Lu Yan He has been thinking about how he should do it, how he can live well in the future.

But people don't just have the present and the future, they also have the past.

An unhappy past is a debt, to be repaid, and it must be unwilling, but you can't say you won't repay it.

Lu Yan He said: "I'm not afraid that they will make this matter known to everyone, I don't think I did anything wrong, but I don't want this matter to keep entanglement with me, unable to get rid of it, and be shackled by it in everything I do."

"Then cut the mess quickly." Li Zhibai said. "At worst, just cut off the relationship."

"You say it simply." Yan Liang gave Li Zhibai a white look. "Kinship is always the most troublesome. If Old Lu didn't handle it well, someone would really think he is a white-eyed wolf, cold-blooded."

Li Zhibai: "Those who care so much can't get everyone's liking anyway."

"But his career, which is finally getting better, may not be able to withstand such tossing," Yan Liang said. "Still have to tell Sister Ziyan, ask her to help you handle it, really, this kind of thing is the most annoying. A cousin of mine, just because he had a father who ate, drank, whored, and gambled, made his work change several rounds. A drag is a drag, even if the fault is not on you, but the trouble is caused by you, others will think you are a drag."

Yan Liang's pessimistic words made Lu Yan He's heart skip a beat, and also made Li Zhibai silent.

Lu Yan He thought clearly about this matter in one night and decided to go to Chen Ziyan in person the next day to make it clear.

See how to solve this matter.

Chen Ziyan's expression was very relaxed after listening: "It's okay, if he has the ability, he can make trouble. You don't need to worry. We are the ones who often deal with the media. You are a young man who is self-reliant and not dragged down by family background and origin. This story is more inspiring. Don't forget, you are a young man of only nineteen years old, you have no ability to give back to them. Piercing this matter at this time is actually better for you."

Lu Yan He breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Chen Ziyan finish.

Unknowingly, he had already formed a reliance on Chen Ziyan.

As long as Chen Ziyan said it was okay, he would breathe a sigh of relief.

"That's good, I was worried that this matter would have a great impact."

"The impact can be big or small. Yan He, you have to know one thing. For an artist, even if you are a mess, entangled in negative news, this is not a bad thing. As long as you are always seen, you always have a chance to turn over. The most terrible thing for an artist is not being seen," Chen Ziyan said. "Ten years ago, an artist's complex family background would make people feel that the image was not perfect and would destroy the star aura. Now the times have changed. The star aura no longer requires perfection. This is a flaw in you. I will amplify this flaw and let everyone know that your journey here is not easy. If an artist can get everyone's sympathy, this has never been a bad thing."

Lu Yan He nodded.

"Alright, don't worry about this matter anymore, take a good rest for a few days, now should be the time when you are most proud," Chen Ziyan said. "There are already many media wanting to interview you, I have refused them all. Promotion is okay, but if you appear in person to accept interviews, once there are too many, it will make people feel that you are too proud. Even if you don't have this meaning, people are like this. You have achievements that make people admire, but you constantly repeat the promotion of this achievement, which will make people disgusted. Except for the biggest media, I don't intend to let you discuss your college entrance exam results and the university you are going to attend."

"Okay."

"You have always been a very humble person, but be happy when you should be happy," Chen Ziyan said. "Alright, I still have things to do later, you go back first."

"Okay." Lu Yan He got up and said goodbye to Chen Ziyan.

Chen Ziyan saw Lu Yan He out.

"Learn from Li Zhibai," Chen Ziyan said again when she sent Lu Yan He to the door. "Don't take many things too seriously, there is nothing that is really a big deal."

Chen Ziyan had thought before that Lu Yan He's uncle would be a trouble, but she didn't think that this trouble would break out so quickly.

Chen Ziyan had always been worried that Lu Yan He, a young man who was self-disciplined, diligent, hard-working, and had a shadow-like past, would have a problem with his mentality.

The so-called inner demon.

Therefore, Chen Ziyan instilled this concept into Lu Yan He from time to time, hoping that he would open himself up and not fall into emotional internal friction.

Sending Lu Yan He away, Chen Ziyan sighed.

She hoped that Lu Yan He would one day truly cross this hurdle.

Rehearsal room, MX was originally practicing dance together, but because Ma Zhiyuan couldn't learn a movement, the progress was stuck.

Ma Zhiyuan himself was also irritable, complaining: "What kind of broken movement is this."

Qu Yousong went to get a water bottle, took a sip of water, and said: "Don't be anxious, drink some water first, the more anxious you are, the less you can learn."

Ma Zhiyuan came to the corner and opened his bag.

Chen Jing saw that they had all left the team, and he also went to the other side to drink water.

This movement was indeed a bit difficult, but it was unexpected that Ma Zhiyuan hadn't learned it for so long.

He had received several years of professional training after all.

Chen Jing thought, it is estimated that Lu Yan He's college entrance exam results coming out these two days made Ma Zhiyuan unable to concentrate.

Actually, Chen Jing also didn't understand why Ma Zhiyuan cared so much about Lu Yan He.

From the current situation, Lu Yan He couldn't compare with Ma Zhiyuan at all. To surpass Ma Zhiyuan, it would take at least a year or two. Why treat Lu Yan He as an eyesore now?

Not to mention, Lu Yan He didn't seem to intend to take the idol artist route in the future, but to film and be an actor. They were not on the same track.

Chen Jing curled his lips.

"Chen Jing, why are you curling your lips?" Qu Yousong suddenly said loudly.

Everyone else looked at Chen Jing.

Chen Jing was stunned, looking at them at a loss.

"Ah?"

Qu Yousong said annoyedly: "Know that you learn dance fast, but there's no need to mock Old Ma, right?"

Chen Jing looked blank and said: "What mockery? I don't mean that at all!"

He looked at Ma Zhiyuan in a panic.

The latter's face was gloomy, looking at him unhappily.

Chen Jing's heart skipped a beat.

Now... he had offended Ma Zhiyuan again for no reason.

He hurriedly explained: "Zhiyuan, I don't mean that, it's Qu Yousong who is talking nonsense!"

"It's okay, regardless of whether he is talking nonsense or not, it's normal for you to mock me. Anyway, none of our dances are as good as yours, that's a fact," Ma Zhiyuan said, sneering while speaking. "Since your strength is so strong, you shouldn't stay in our MX, why don't you debut Solo?"

Chen Jing's palms were sweating.

"Oh, we're all in the same group, forget it," Jiang Bai, who had been silent, spoke up. "Qu Yousong, you are narrow-minded. Someone curls their lips and you can interpret so many meanings. Isn't it because your fan club president praised Chen Jing for dancing better than you before? You are narrow-minded, and you are not a dancer. Just comparing who dances better, Ma Zhiyuan is the well-deserved popularity king, and he is the captain, our core is him, can't others have their own expertise?"

Jiang Bai said this, and Qu Yousong exploded immediately.

"You fart, I—"

"Alright." Ma Zhiyuan interrupted Qu Yousong. "Wei Zhuoran is stopped working now, and there are only a few of us left, don't have internal strife? Continue practicing dance."

Qu Yousong glared at Jiang Bai unhappily.

Jiang Bai didn't take it to heart at all.

Chen Jing looked at him gratefully, and Jiang Bai didn't look back.

He had always been like this in MX, light, not forming cliques, and not saying much. Today was also rare for him to talk too much.

At this time, Lin Suyang suddenly came.

As soon as he appeared, except for Ma Zhiyuan, the others walked over and called Brother Suyang.

Lin Suyang greeted them with a smile and asked: "How is the dance practice?"

He saw Ma Zhiyuan sitting in the corner without getting up, feeling annoyed in his heart, but not showing it on his face.

"Almost there," Qu Yousong said first, and after speaking, he looked at Chen Jing and Jiang Bai, warning them with his eyes not to dismantle him.

Lin Suyang nodded: "Practice well, the performance the day after tomorrow is very important, it's a program on the national station, there are many audiences."

"Okay."

Lin Suyang looked at them, nodded, and said: "Then okay, you practice slowly, let's eat together at noon."

"Is Brother Suyang treating?" Qu Yousong asked immediately.

Lin Suyang smiled and pointed at them with his fingers, saying: "Always want to take advantage of me, even though you earn more than me."

Qu Yousong said: "Where, we all heard that Brother Suyang, you bought a big luxury house of more than four hundred square meters."

Lin Suyang: "This was heard by you."

"Hehe, there are no secrets in this company."

"Okay, then I'll treat," Lin Suyang said with a smile.

Others cheered immediately.

Lin Suyang walked to the door, suddenly as if thinking of something, turned around, and said to Ma Zhiyuan: "Chen Biqiu contacted me just now, 'Young Days' decided on Lu Yan He, let me say sorry to you."

Lin Suyang finished speaking, and the rehearsal room became silent.

Everyone was quiet.

Everyone knew that Ma Zhiyuan went to snatch "Young Days" just to take revenge on Lu Yan He and disgust him.

In fact, no one thought Ma Zhiyuan would fail before.

Even though Lu Yan He had been very popular these two days and had been hanging on the hot search, there was still an uncrossable distance between him and Ma Zhiyuan.

Why did "Young Days" choose Lu Yan He instead of Ma Zhiyuan?

This doubt emerged from everyone's mind.

Everyone looked at Ma Zhiyuan, whose face was so black that it seemed to be dripping with water.

It wasn't until this moment that everyone realized a bit belatedly, why did Lin Suyang want to say this to Ma Zhiyuan in front of everyone?

Was this deliberately making Ma Zhiyuan lose face in front of everyone?

Lin Suyang looked at Ma Zhiyuan and walked out of the rehearsal room.

At noon, Lu Yan He went to eat lunch outside the complex with Li Zhibai and Yan Liang.

He was still worried that He Bangan was still squatting on him.

Lu Yan He searched his name several times in the morning, just wanting to see if He Bangan had done any so-called exposure online, but he didn't see it.

"Did 'Young Days' sign a contract with you?" Li Zhibai asked.

Lu Yan He nodded and said: "Sister Ziyan said it's already signed."

"That's good, this time it's still relatively cool, kicking Ma Zhiyuan away," Li Zhibai was a bit proud, humming and laughing. "He's going to be pissed off."

Knowing that Ma Zhiyuan would be angry, Li Zhibai was happy.

Yan Liang nodded and said: "That's probably going to be angry. I heard that he told others long ago that he had already talked to Chen Biqiu and would kick you out of this show."

"Self-conceited," Li Zhibai said disdainfully.

"It seems that he and his agent Lin Suyang had a fight because of this," Yan Liang said.

"Why did they fight?"

"Ma Zhiyuan went to find Chen Biqiu without telling Lin Suyang."

"Behind the agent's back?" Lu Yan He was confused. "Why would he do this?"

"Don't know, anyway I heard that he has quarreled with Lin Suyang several times in the past six months," Yan Liang shook his head. "Maybe it's because he's popular, so he doesn't want to listen to the agent's arrangements. He even told others that Lin Suyang was lucky to be their agent. No matter which agent brought them, they could be popular."

"He said such things outside? Lin Suyang must be pissed off," Li Zhibai tsked. "This person really has water in his brain, making him so blindly arrogant."

The waiter came to serve the dishes.

The three of them stopped discussing and each took their phones to brush.

"Mm?!" Yan Liang suddenly let out a shocked exclamation.

"What's wrong?" Lu Yan He and Li Zhibai looked at him.

Yan Liang's face showed a look of astonishment. "This is too coincidental, the person we were just talking about... it's said that Ma Zhiyuan and Lin Suyang fought in the company."

Lu Yan He and Li Zhibai showed shock at the same time.

Artist and agent fought?

"Who started it?" Lu Yan He asked.

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