Chapter 272: I Get Rich, You Get Rich Too!

Lu Yan He also realized why everyone often says that sitting together and drinking is the fastest way to shorten the relationship between people.

Liu Bige and He Han were both high after drinking too much.

Liu Bige's words also became more—before his words were many, but still holding some posture, unlike now, while talking, while waving his hands, like a conductor in a concert hall, talking about his ambition and ideals for movies, full of hope for the future.

And He Han, after he was high, was even more wanton, with dirty words one after another.

Actually, Lu Yan He usually doesn't like people who are full of dirty words, but He Han is a person who can say the act of saying dirty words very purely.

Lu Yan He could feel the purity in He Han, he had no malice, no cynicism, like a person who grew up carefree, a person without a dark side.

What surprised Lu Yan He even more was that He Han suddenly held Lu Yan He's hand and said emotionally: "When Liu Bige told me that a big star was willing to act in my movie, I thought this guy was fooling me. I didn't know which corner the big star came from. Which big star would be willing to act in a movie by a newcomer director who is unknown? I didn't expect it to be true! Lu Yan He, what on earth are you thinking? Is your head squeezed by the door to dare to take this risk? I tell you the truth, I don't have the bottom of my heart to film this movie myself, I'm afraid of messing it up. This is the investment I finally got, I can be a director myself, I'm really afraid of messing it up!"

Lu Yan He looked at him speechlessly, silently took out his phone, and turned on the video recording.

Recorded it first, and tomorrow morning when they wake up, send them the picture of them like this, their expressions should be more exciting.

Three people, names, brief introduction.

He Han was dejected and said: "You haven't remembered it yet."

He Han was too lazy to ignore him.

These two people, he let them continue to sleep, and see when they wake up.

This is just the first one.

He himself is also a bit high, but he can control himself.

Lu Yan He said: "I'm just thinking, will Liu Bige and He Han remember the picture of them pouring out their hearts to me after they were high last night when they wake up today."

"What time is it?" Liu Bige asked.

One is the top star, Best Actor Chen Pinhe.

Liu Bige suddenly remembered some fragments.

Before going to bed, Lu Yan He read the information in the envelope given by Chen Ziyan seriously.

——I am very confident in the movie *Miss Ning*, really, you will know after reading the script.

"Remember what?" Liu Bige yawned.

Zou Dong saw him suddenly laugh and asked him what was going on.

Indeed, as Chen Ziyan said, these three people, whether from social status or other aspects, are not people that a ordinary variety show PD like Chen Mo can directly contact, let alone possess their private contact information, and happened to have communicated during this recent period.

——You should be able to see how well this script is written, right? Don't worry because of the nonsense I said!

——Yan He, Little Lu, Old Lu!

He Han estimated that he was really worried.

I don't know if they will continue the actions they had after they were high last night when they wake up. If they remember, it is estimated that they will be socially dead.

He was full of worries, anxiety, and confusion about the future of the movie *Miss Ning* last night. Changing an actor, he might really retreat.

Lu Yan He finished filming a scene, saw the messages sent by He Han, couldn't help but laugh, and could feel He Han's increasingly urgent mood through the update of each message.

Around eleven o'clock in the morning, Lu Yan He suddenly received a message from He Han: Drank too much last night, talked nonsense, don't take it seriously.

Zou Dong was also present last night.

Lu Yan He replied: Just filming, will act, the script is very good, you don't have to worry.

He Han paced back and forth in the room as soon as he woke up, occasionally making a long howl, sighing about "drinking misleads things" and the like.

He held his phone, like a licking dog waiting for his goddess to reply, his eyes were obsessed, and asked: "Why haven't you replied yet? Why haven't you replied yet? Why haven't you replied yet?"

One is the CEO of the top car brand Chiyue, Moswei.

Lu Yan He felt more and more that Chen Mo was not simple. She seemed to be just an ordinary program PD, but she could contact so many big shots directly. What is her background?

He could only suppress it in his heart for the time being and continue to wait for Chen Ziyan's investigation.

Early the next morning, Lu Yan He had to get up, eat a simple breakfast, and prepare to go to the crew.

Zou Dong heard this and also hooked the corners of his mouth.

Thinking of this picture, Lu Yan He couldn't help laughing.

Followed by more than a dozen.

His eyes slowly widened.

He never thought that he, a rookie at drinking, would be the one standing to the end tonight.

He Han glared at him with hatred for iron not becoming steel.

One is the director of Jingtai, Shen Tailin.

Then it is necessary to investigate who instructed Chen Mo to plant a Trojan horse in Lu Yan He's notebook computer, and it needs to be excluded one by one to determine the answer. Before that, Chen Ziyan needs Lu Yan He to remain vigilant against these three people.

He opened a double room for them, threw one bed for each, packed up, and went to sleep himself.

However, setting aside other things, the state of He Han and Liu Bige now made Lu Yan He have a deeper impression of them.

Lu Yan He didn't know whether these two people were drunk or not, anyway, people were a bit dizzy.

"You have the nerve to say, what kind of nonsense did you talk about." Liu Bige looked at He Han speechlessly.

It can only be said that Liu Bige and He Han are both more rookie.

Liu Bige sat on the bed, in a state of being drunk, awake but brain not awake, watching He Han running back and forth in the room like a donkey kicking, not knowing what he was crazy about—he couldn't hear a word of the words he muttered.

He Han also looked frustrated.

Especially since Lu Yan He hadn't replied for so long, he really couldn't sit still now.

"He won't really not act, right?" He Han asked Liu Bige.

Liu Bige scratched his messy hair and said: "You ask me, I ask who, you are a director yourself and say you have no bottom in your heart, still expect him to believe you can film this movie well?"

He Han sighed.

"And you have to run over to see him in person. Do you think it's inappropriate, and then replace him?"

"I don't have this meaning, I just—forget it, don't say it." He Han and Liu Bige looked at each other, both helpless and irritable.

Just at this time, He Han's phone suddenly rang.

He immediately picked it up and looked.

When he saw the content of Lu Yan He's reply, his expression finally relaxed.

"Fortunately."

Liu Bige asked: "Lu Yan He replied?"

"Mm."

"What did he reply?"

He Han threw the phone directly to Liu Bige.

Liu Bige received it in his hand, looked at the message Lu Yan He replied, hissed, and sighed: "He is much more atmospheric than we thought."

He Han: "Otherwise, how could people be so popular at such a young age."

Liu Bige looked at him with contempt and said: "At this time, it is otherwise. Didn't you think before that stars are not actors, can't act? Question my vision?"

He Han said: "That's not my problem. Didn't the internet say that, like Lu Yan He, who transformed from an idol to an actor, has talent, and in these few years, there is only Lu Yan He."

"Fart, that's what Lu Yan He's fans blew," Liu Bige said immediately. "You still believe these statements on the internet, it's really enough."

He Han is now as long as Lu Yan He is willing to continue acting in this movie, Lu Yan He's fart is fragrant.

Directors have the integrity of directors, but directors also have the thick skin of directors.

Different directors have completely different personalities—Lu Yan He fully realized that director is just a profession, the commonality in them is the commonality given to them by this profession, not only people with a certain personality can be directors.

Because He Han and Liu Bige visited the crew, many people in the crew knew that Lu Yan He was going to act in a movie next.

From TV series to acting in movies—to some extent, many people will regard this change as "advancement." The contempt chain in the film and television circle still exists, even if with the development of streaming media in recent years, the production of dramas is becoming more and more exquisite, and the blessing to actors is getting bigger and bigger, and even many actors no longer take movies as their first choice, but up to now, as an actor, movies can still improve the status of actors more than dramas. The status of actors is basically established by movies, and actors standing in the TOP ranks by dramas are rare.

Everyone smiled and asked Lu Yan He what kind of team this movie was and what the subject matter was.

Lu Yan He only simply said it was a low-cost movie.

Everyone was surprised when they heard it was a low-cost movie.

Ten years ago, many popular stars would take on some low-cost movies in order to rush for awards and enter the film circle, because at that time, there was a consensus that was not a consensus, low-cost art films were sacrifices for film art, acting as a "good actor" face, and luckily winning an award was "soaring in a day" lining.

But ten years later, the film industry is booming, and everyone can see more and more clearly that among one hundred actors who act in low-cost art films, not one Best Actor or Best Actress can be mixed out. All successful actors finally rely on big explosions and big fire film and television dramas to soar.

Lu Yan He is not an unknown newcomer, where does he need to act in such a movie?

Especially when they heard that he was not even the lead actor, just a supporting role, they all felt that Lu Yan He's head was caught by the door—why take such a movie?

Lu Yan He heard others discussing him again when he was in the restroom.

"I don't know what Lu Yan He and his agent are thinking, taking a supporting role in an art film."

"Brushing status, brushing reputation, art films have no box office, but the style is high."

"Do a fart, now art films are not the same as before, still think it is an era where style can be eaten as a meal."

"Hey, style cannot be eaten as a meal, but for a star like him who is already popular, that is plastic gold body."

"Don't be hard to plastic gold body that was plasticized by *The Golden Age*, because the box office blood fluttered, and the gold body was broken again."

"Isn't there *Phoenix Terrace* to guarantee the bottom? You haven't seen him acting on set, that posture, often one take."

"One take counts as what, one take is not rare in our crew, Chen Dao is the kind of director who won't film a second take as long as it can be handled by editing and post-production. If you want to ask how Lu Yan He acts, it all depends on how many shots Chen Dao gives him after the final cut. Those who act badly are all long shots and backs."

"You are really panting, Lu Yan He's acting skills have been affirmed by Huang Zong, don't you know?"

"But any actor with high cooperation, Huang Zong doesn't affirm?"

"I say, do you have a prejudice against Lu Yan He?"

"I'm just not interested in listening to you praise him. How many plays have you acted in, making it look like a genius."

"Hehe, you really have a prejudice against him."

The two walked out.

Lu Yan He waited for a while before coming out of the compartment.

This kind of talk, saying it over and over like a wheel, Lu Yan He has heard I don't know how many times, but every time he hears it, it is like being poured cold water, no matter how many times it is poured, it is impossible to get used to it.

Is taking *Miss Ning* a wrong decision?

Lu Yan He also has no bottom in his heart.

*The Golden Age* and *Phoenix Terrace* are plays introduced by others, and then he strives to fight for them, big directors, big teams, big productions.

But *Miss Ning* is completely different.

Lu Yan He actually didn't think he could win an award for acting in this movie. He didn't think about this matter at all. He was just shocked by that slightly abnormal character when reading the script, remembered the past, and had a strong emotion in his heart, feeling that he should act this character.

Chen Ziyan did not deny it and supported him.

Back to the set, Lu Yan He fell into deep thought. At this moment, he was really hesitant.

Xiao Yun saw him like this and asked: "Why are you like an eggplant beaten by frost? I don't have you so withered."

"Me?"

"Yes, didn't they all say that you are going to film a movie later? How good, you look like this now, others think you have suffered some disaster."

"Bah bah bah!" Lu Yan He immediately became energetic, "Don't curse me."

Xiao Yun laughed.

She laughed and suddenly sighed again, "I really didn't expect that coming to film *Phoenix Terrace* would be like coming to training, every scene has to be criticized, Chen Dao is too terrible."

Lu Yan He said: "Aren't you acting better and better now?"

"It's okay," Xiao Yun said. "I'm not really unable to act, it's just that I didn't know the script well before and made so many mistakes, I am a great actor, okay."

She is full of confidence and full of vigor.

Lu Yan He nodded and said: "Indeed." 【

Lu Yan He nodded and said, "Indeed."

To have been chosen by Huangcheng and Chen Lingling to save the production after Zhen Hongyu, regardless of anything else, their acting skills must be solid; it is impossible to just be going through the motions.

Xiao Yun said, "I don't know when I'll ever get to play a lead role."

"Maybe once this show airs, you'll become an overnight sensation and play leads from then on," Lu Yan He said.

Xiao Yun immediately smiled, her eyes curving into crescents, "I'll take your word for it."

"You're welcome."

"What about you? You should be playing leads in all your upcoming projects, right?"

"I have one project where I play the male lead, but that's a female-led show," Lu Yan He said. "The others are all supporting roles."

"Huh? Why?" Xiao Yun said. "Why do you still take supporting roles? After 'Golden Age' aired, shouldn't there be plenty of lead roles coming your way?"

Lu Yan He: "I have to attend classes, and lead roles require a lot of filming time. It's usually hard to find a schedule that fits, so I mostly take supporting roles. I only took that male lead role because it was only twelve episodes, and the filming schedule was suitable."

Xiao Yun stared at him, dumbfounded. "I give up. This is the first time I've heard of someone taking supporting roles just because they don't have time. You're something else."

Lu Yan He smiled.

Xiao Yun: "If this news gets out, I bet you'll be fought over by all the major film and television companies."

Lu Yan He: "With so little time, I can film at most two or three projects a year."

"That's not necessarily true. Maybe they'll just have you take two weekends off to film a cameo," Xiao Yun said.

The two chatted while waiting for their scenes.

Then, it was the Lunar New Year.

Spring Festival.

The "Phoenix Terrace" crew took a three-day break, from New Year's Eve to the second day of the Lunar New Year.

Staff members whose homes were closer to Langhua could go back for a visit; those further away or who couldn't get tickets had to spend the New Year where they were.

Lu Yan He was also among those staying with the crew to spend the New Year on-site.

The crew organized a group to make dumplings and have a New Year's Eve dinner, and Lu Yan He was the only actor who joined in the fun.

It wasn't that there weren't other actors staying with the crew who didn't go home, but they all kept to themselves and didn't come to join the crew's New Year's Eve dinner.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, Lu Yan He went on a livestream to wish everyone a Happy New Year, and afterwards, he sent out New Year's greetings via text to many people—this was all etiquette—and he stayed busy until around nine in the evening.

The Spring Festival Gala was playing on his laptop, and Lu Yan He watched it off and on.

Almost every group chat was sending out red envelopes.

Lu Yan He claimed some and sent some out as well.

Chen Siqi suddenly sent him a message: This is the most satisfying Spring Festival I've ever had.

Lu Yan He immediately asked: Satisfying in what way?

Chen Siqi: Satisfying because Liu Weian finally doesn't dare to nag or put on airs anymore. Thinking about how stifled I've been all these years, it's truly great.

Lu Yan He: That calls for a celebration.

After saying that, Lu Yan He sent Chen Siqi a red envelope.

Chen Siqi accepted it instantly and replied with a fireworks emoji.

Lu Yan He said: Tomorrow and the day after are holidays. I'm planning to call Li Pengfei to meet up on the second day of the New Year. Do you think we should call Linyu, Chen Qin, and Xu Zijun too?

Chen Siqi: I think that's a good idea, and Bai Yu too. They've all helped "Jump Up" a lot.

Lu Yan He: Alright, I'll book a place.

Chen Siqi: Where are you planning to book?

Lu Yan He said: Let's do it in Yuming; it's more convenient for everyone there.

Chen Siqi: You only have two days off and have to return to work on the third day. We'll come to you instead. You book a place near your hotel, and we'll all come to find you. We can stay at your place on the night of the second day and leave the next day.

Lu Yan He: That works too. But, would it be inconvenient for them? They might have to visit relatives for the New Year.

Chen Siqi said: Let's ask everyone. If anyone needs to go back on the night of the second day, I'll arrange a car to take them back.

She added: I'm planning to get my driver's license and buy a car.

Lu Yan He asked: Can you finish the test during this winter break?

Chen Siqi: Not a chance. At most, I can pass the written test during winter break. I'll have to wait until I'm back in Jiangguang to finish the rest.

Lu Yan He: I haven't learned to drive yet either.

Chen Siqi: You're so busy right now, where would you even find the time to learn to drive?

Lu Yan He: I should still try to learn; it'll be much more convenient later on.

Chen Siqi: That depends on your own time. But you shouldn't be in a rush, right? Don't you already have someone to help you drive?

Lu Yan He: I can't ask him to drive me everywhere.

Chen Siqi: Driving yourself is indeed much more convenient.

Lu Yan He: Yeah.

Chen Siqi: I'm going to my grandparents' house tomorrow for lunch, and I'll come over in the afternoon.

Lu Yan He: How are you getting here?

It's the Spring Festival travel rush; train tickets are impossible to buy.

Chen Siqi said: I'll just charter a car to come over.

Lu Yan He: Then send me the information for the car you chartered.

Chen Siqi: Okay.

Chen Siqi added: But are all the restaurants closed where you are? Will there be food at night?

Lu Yan He said: The crew has a kitchen running, so there's food. Besides, many crews are staying here to work, so many restaurants and eateries are still open. Don't worry about food.

Chen Siqi: That's good.

On New Year's Eve, quite a few people in Langhua were setting off fireworks.

Lu Yan He lay on his hotel bed, watching the fireworks blooming in the night sky outside the window.

For Chinese people, the Spring Festival is a holiday with special significance.

Lu Yan He thought of his parents—he meant his parents from before he transmigrated.

He wondered if they were doing well.

The moon is brightest in one's hometown.

However, is the moon in this space-time the same moon as in that one?

Lu Yan He sighed countless times in his heart, and then, listening to the laughter from the Spring Festival Gala on his laptop, he felt even more dispirited.

His phone suddenly buzzed.

Lu Yan He picked it up to see Li Zhibai asking in the group chat what they were doing.

Yan Liang said he was being dragged by his family to take photos one after another, and was being asked by them when he would finally become famous and when the TV shows he filmed would air.

Yan Liang was born into an ordinary family; his relatives were very ordinary people with the most plain and simple lifestyles. For an ordinary family, an artist like Yan Liang was a very special identity, but setting that identity aside, Yan Liang was the relative they were most familiar with. This meant that although Yan Liang didn't see his relatives often, every time they met, he would be grabbed and asked all sorts of questions. Not every question was appropriate, and sometimes they would inadvertently ask something that offended Yan Liang—like asking when he would become famous, which Yan Liang didn't know how to answer at the time. However, Yan Liang knew they weren't intentionally mocking him. Because he understood their mindset, Yan Liang didn't mind.

Li Zhibai's family was different.

Li Zhibai always said he was the one ignored by his family; his parents were too busy and had no time to manage him. New Year's was a rare time they could sit together. But when they sat together, it often turned into a criticism session for him. Every time this happened, Li Zhibai would run to the group chat to vent, angrily asking them, "Am I actually their biological child?"

Different families have different atmospheres, but those without a family share the same kind of loneliness that one can only experience for oneself.

He sat up from the bed and patted his face.

Stop wallowing in this mood alone.

Lu Yan He earnestly pulled himself together and decided to find something to do.

He opened his laptop, opened the folder where he stored many "golden ideas," looked through them one by one, and then clicked on a folder named "Scripts."

Inside was a script, "Lost in Journey." It was just an outline, along with a rough draft of the script.

The first draft was written by himself and had not been shown to anyone, including Chen Ziyan.

Chen Ziyan had previously said she would find a screenwriter to adapt this story into a script, but he had tried it himself. At that time, he lacked the ability in this area. He struggled to squeeze the script out, and by the end, even he felt it was dry—bone-dry.

But at this moment, he was suddenly struck by a whim to revise it again. He didn't know how to describe his mood at this moment; it was as if he needed this story, which had lingered in his heart for so long, to dilute his overwhelming sense of loneliness.

Lu Yan He had watched this movie seriously; he had watched it with his parents and laughed until he was doubled over.

He suddenly had new feelings about this story.

"Lost in Journey" is about comedy, but even in such a difficult situation, one persists on the road because it is the journey home.

Whether naive or shrewd, no matter who they are, everyone has to go back.

Lu Yan He revised until two in the morning.

Aside from the classic lines, Lu Yan He actually couldn't recount every line verbatim.

He only remembered the story and some of the funny segments.

He wrote down the content he remembered and then began to flesh it out on this skeleton.

One simple and honest, one shrewd and worldly—two completely different personalities colliding to create exciting sparks, moving from mutual misunderstanding to mutual recognition.

No one was urging him to make these revisions and additions, but he felt an urgency—an urgency to get it revised as soon as possible.

Lu Yan He didn't know why, as if there was a calling from deep within his heart.

—This isn't a script you wrote either; you copied it from someone else. What kind of calling is this?

A voice in his mind questioned him.

He ignored it.

—It's not yours, it will never be yours. Even if no one else knows, you will always know.

In the script, Lu Yan He typed the final line.

It was a voiceover spoken by the shrewd Li Chenggong at the end of the story: I know, some things actually never belong to me, but I have seen them, so I want to tell you about them. For example, someone can really remain simple and kind in this world of deceit, like the story that happened between me and this person. To you, it's a story you just finished watching, but to me, it's a past event I often think of and occasionally miss. Later, I never saw that fool again, but I often think of him and occasionally miss him.

Lu Yan He stood in front of the window at two in the morning, looking at the pitch-black world outside.

He had finally given this story closure.

Lu Yan He sent this revised script to Chen Ziyan via email.

He asked: Sister Ziyan, is it possible for me to direct this movie myself?

After the email was sent, Lu Yan He breathed a sigh of relief, lay down on the bed, turned off the lights, and went to sleep.

This sleep was exceptionally deep, as if he had returned to his childhood, sleeping without dreams.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, early in the morning, Lu Yan He received many text messages with blessings.

Lu Yan He sat on the bed and replied to them one by one; just replying took about half an hour.

Looking at the time again, oh, it wasn't early morning anymore; it was already nine-thirty.

It was a rare chance to sleep in.

Lu Yan He yawned.

While brushing his teeth, he suddenly remembered the script he had sent to Chen Ziyan late last night, and wondered if she had seen it.

She probably hadn't; it was the New Year, how would she have time to look at this?

Lu Yan He sighed and slapped his own forehead.

After finishing writing last night, he had gotten too hyped up, lost track of time, and sent it to Chen Ziyan.

Never mind, let her look at it when she has time.

The hotel had already passed its breakfast serving time. Lu Yan He didn't want to eat instant noodles, so he went downstairs to wander around the neighborhood to see if any breakfast shops were open. He wandered for a long time before seeing a noodle shop that was open.

Lu Yan He breathed a sigh of relief and entered the shop.

There was only the proprietress in the shop; other than her, it was empty.

The proprietress was sitting on a stool playing on her phone, not knowing what she was watching, but the corners of her mouth were curled up.

"Boss, could I trouble you for a bowl of beef noodles, with a fried egg?" Lu Yan He said.

The proprietress heard his voice and immediately responded, only then looking up, and recognized him at a glance.

"Oh my, it's Lu Yan He!"

People who open shops near film cities aren't surprised to see celebrities; instead, there was a sense of familiarity in her tone, like "So it's you."

Lu Yan He smiled and said: "Happy New Year, wishing you prosperity!"

The proprietress laughed twice, her laughter hearty, "I wish you prosperity too!"

On the first day of the New Year, everyone wants to hear auspicious words.

The proprietress even gave Lu Yan He a braised chicken wing, saying: "I braised this chicken wing myself, try it. Wishing you great success!"

Lu Yan He exclaimed, "For the sake of those words, I have to eat this first!"

After eating the noodles, with a bowl in his stomach, he felt warm inside.

The proprietress's noodles were really well-made; they were delicious.

Lu Yan He paid the bill and said: "Delicious."

The proprietress was very proud and said: "Of course, I've been running this shop here for over ten years."

Lu Yan He was amazed and said: "An old-established brand, then."

"You bet." She took out her phone, "Can I take a photo with you?"

"Sure, no problem." Lu Yan He nodded readily.

The two took a photo together, and then Lu Yan He left.

As it turned out, not long after he stepped out, he ran into Zou Dong.

"Brother Dong?!" Lu Yan He looked at him in surprise, "Why are you here already?"

He had given Zou Dong time off the night before last, telling him to go back to spend the Spring Festival and come back on the third day of the New Year. Why was Zou Dong here now?

Zou Dong said: "I spent the New Year with my parents. You're here alone, so I had to come."

Zou Dong had divorced his ex-wife; he had only gone back to his hometown yesterday to accompany his parents, and came here today.

"You finally got a holiday, why didn't you spend more time with Zou Yu?"

Zou Dong's son, Zou Yu, is currently in second grade.

After his divorce, he didn't live with his ex-wife and son, and given the nature of Zou Dong's work, it wasn't easy to see them.

Zou Dong said: "He went to his maternal grandparents' house with his mother."

So that was it.

Lu Yan He said: "It seems I need to quickly find someone else to rotate with you, otherwise you won't be able to rest properly during your time off."

Zou Dong immediately said: "It's alright, I'm enough on my own."

Lu Yan He didn't say anything.

For the New Year, he had given Zou Dong a year-end bonus of 50,000 yuan, which took Zou Dong by surprise.

Zou Dong had never expected that he would be able to receive such a high bonus.

Lu Yan He said: "Although we've only known each other for two months, we will be working together for a long time in the future. You've provided me with a lot of help, and I'll be counting on you from now on."

In addition to the 50,000 yuan year-end bonus, Lu Yan He also gave Zou Dong a pair of leather shoes.

"This was given to me by a stylist when I was filming a commercial before. I haven't opened it yet. You and I have the same shoe size, try them on."

Lu Yan He wondered if that was why Zou Dong had rushed over early on the first day of the New Year.

Lu Yan He said: "Did you travel late last night?"

Zou Dong nodded.

"Hurry back to the hotel and get some rest. My classmate is coming over this afternoon, and I'm having dinner with her," Lu Yan He said. "You can come find me around four-thirty."

Zou Dong nodded.

Lu Yan He: "Wait, you haven't had breakfast yet, have you?"

Zou Dong had indeed skipped breakfast to get here as soon as possible.

"I had some biscuits."

Lu Yan He said: "Then go get something to eat. I just had some noodles, and that noodle shop is pretty good. Let's go there; it's the only place open around here anyway."

He took Zou Dong to that noodle shop.

The proprietress saw Lu Yan He returning with someone and thought Lu Yan He had left something behind.

Lu Yan He said: "Boss, could I trouble you for another bowl of noodles, extra portion, with a fried egg and a braised chicken wing."

The proprietress said "Coming right up" with a spirit that made Lu Yan He feel energized just listening to her.

Ever since her mother passed away, Chen Siqi often ran to her grandparents' house, staying there overnight from time to time, and during holidays, Chen Siqi always made sure to visit.

"Qiqi, are you sleeping at Grandma's tonight?" Grandma asked.

Chen Siqi shook her head and said: "Grandma, I have to go find Lu Yan He. He's filming in Langhua."

Grandma immediately exclaimed and asked: "This kid is still filming during the New Year? Why is their crew so inhumane, not giving them a break?"

Chen Siqi hugged Grandma's arm, leaning on her shoulder, and said: "They have a break, the crew gave them three days off. It's just that he has nowhere else to go. Grandma, he's very pitiful, you should treat him well in the future."

Grandma glared at her, "You brat, you haven't even brought him home for us to see, and you're already taking his side."

Grandpa came over with a plate of freshly fried popcorn and chimed in: "Exactly, I've been telling you to bring Lu Yan He over for us to see, but you keep refusing."

Chen Siqi pouted and said: "What's there to see? Don't you like watching that TV show 'Golden Age'? You can just watch him on TV. We aren't officially together yet, so what reason is there to bring him to see you? Besides, we're only nineteen, okay? We're dating, not getting married and meeting the parents."

Grandma slapped Chen Siqi on the head.

"Who said bringing him over for us to see means getting married?" Grandma glared at her without hesitation, "It's so your Grandpa can help you vet him, so you don't get fooled by someone foolish."

"Me, fooled? He's the foolish one," Chen Siqi retorted indignantly.

"You're quite something," Grandpa huffed.

"Oh, why can't you believe your own granddaughter?" Chen Siqi puffed out her chest, "Anyway, just wait and see. I've found a really great guy, you'll definitely like him."

Grandma and Grandpa both looked at her with disdain.

"Eat up," Grandpa pushed the popcorn toward her, "It won't taste good if it gets cold."

Chen Siqi smiled and said "Okay."

At five in the afternoon, with the sunset almost sinking below the horizon, Chen Siqi got out of the car and met up with Lu Yan He.

The last time the two met was in December, when Chen Siqi returned to Yuming to visit several writer teachers and happened to have a meal with Lu Yan He.

It had been almost two months since they last met.

Zou Dong was very tactful at this time and didn't follow behind Lu Yan He like a gatekeeper, but retreated about three meters away, watching them from afar, leaving enough space for the two young people.

However, it was freezing at the hotel entrance, so they couldn't stand there for too long.

They set off for the restaurant immediately.

"I haven't been there either. It was recommended to me by Producer Huang, who said it's a high-end club that does private banquets, and the environment is very good," Lu Yan He introduced to Chen Siqi in the car. "They also have hot springs there. After dinner, we can go soak in the hot springs."

Chen Siqi immediately looked at Lu Yan He with a suspicious gaze, "What are you trying to do?"

Lu Yan He was stunned by Chen Siqi's look, then remembered something and immediately shook his head, saying: "Men and women are separated; it's not a mixed hot spring."

Chen Siqi then said "Oh."

"I booked two triple rooms. I, Li Pengfei, and Chen Qin are staying in one, and you, Linyu, and Bai Yu are staying in the other. Is that okay?"

Lu Yan He had originally wanted to book single rooms, but everyone kept saying they wanted to stay together, so it ended up being arranged this way.

Chen Siqi: "That's fine. But it's a pity that Xu Zijun couldn't come this time."

"Her family had something come up, so she couldn't make it. There will be opportunities in the future," Lu Yan He said. "It's been a long time since we all gathered together."

"Except for you and Li Pengfei, the rest of us still talk quite a bit. Even Chen Qin has been helping us," Chen Siqi said. "We originally wanted to pull Li Pengfei in, but he really has no interest in making magazines, so we let it go."

Lu Yan He said: "He likes outdoor activities like traveling and hiking."

Chen Siqi: "If he doesn't want to, so be it. I just thought that since we're all doing this, it would be a good thing if he could join too."

Lu Yan He: "Whenever he wants to join, he's welcome anytime."

"That's how it is now, but as the 'Jump Up' team grows bigger in the future, how can it be like this? Do you want to turn 'Jump Up' into your class reunion?" Chen Siqi rolled her eyes at Lu Yan He.

Lu Yan He smiled and didn't say anything more.

Of course, he knew this wasn't good, but somewhere in his heart, he had also thought that if it could be like this, it would be quite nice.

Chen Siqi teased: "It's a good thing you're an artist. If you were an official, wouldn't you be practicing nepotism?"

Lu Yan He thought about it seriously, nodded, and said: "It's a good thing I'm an artist."

Being an artist, valuing relationships isn't a big deal.

Chen Siqi thought to herself that if Lu Yan He's sincere heart wasn't stabbed in the back a few times, he probably wouldn't change for the rest of his life.

She thought again, it's better to hope for the best.

Having a sincere heart is such a rare thing; she was actually envious.

A person's character often determines many things in the blink of an eye.

When they arrived, they had dinner together, watched a movie, and then went to take a bath, prepared to soak in the hot spring, and went to sleep.

Their rooms were adjacent, and the hot springs were only separated by a wooden partition.

A small pool, about the size of a fountain.

Lu Yan He heard the tinkling sound of water from the other side of the wooden partition, and some faint images silently appeared in his mind. His cheeks turned red, and he didn't know if it was the high temperature that had heated his face red.

"Lu Yan He," Chen Siqi called from the other side.

"Huh?" Lu Yan He looked up.

Chen Siqi said: "My grandparents asked me when I'm bringing you to see them."

"Huh?!" Lu Yan He was stunned for a moment, as if he had been struck by something.

Chen Siqi didn't continue speaking on her side, as if she were waiting for Lu Yan He to speak.

Lu Yan He scratched his head, not knowing how to answer.

"I, I'm fine with whenever," his face was obscured by white mist, and he gave a light cough, "It's up to you."