Chapter 276

Lu Qingzhen picked up the coffee cup, took a sip, hooked the corner of her mouth, and smiled: "Lu Yanhe, this kid, completely trusts you now."

Chen Ziyan sighed, "Although I thought it would be like this, I'm still a bit helpless."

"Ah? Helpless? Are you crazy?" Lu Qingzhen showed an unbelievable expression. Sometimes, she really didn't understand what Chen Ziyan was thinking.

Chen Ziyan said: "You are not unaware that I have always been reluctant to be too deeply bound by interests with the artists I bring, so as not to be difficult to untie later."

"Maybe everyone doesn't understand why you always part ways with the artists you bring up yourself." Lu Qingzhen said.

Chen Ziyan: "They have grown to a height that doesn't need me, so why should I be tied to them? In fact, at their height, the role of my agent is not very big. You know, the situation in our domestic entertainment industry, in fact, the top stars and artists don't need agents."

Lu Qingzhen: "You are too absolute and too pessimistic about the role of agents."

"I'm just stating a fact." Chen Ziyan said.

Lu Qingzhen sighed, "You clearly know that if you are willing, they will all be willing to let you become a partner."

Lu Qingzhen: "... Oh, yes, I always tend to forget this point."

"Ziyan, according to your statement, since Lu Yanhe is so talented, can you rely entirely on yourself in the future? Write, direct, and act by yourself." Lu Qingzhen said with a smile.

"With you staring at him, I don't think this will be a problem." Lu Qingzhen smiled, "Do you know that sometimes you give me the feeling that you are your artist's old mother? No matter what happens to your artist, you will handle it yourself, without letting others do it. Maybe taking care of cubs is up to your point."

"It's not impossible, but Lu Yanhe has a big shortcoming." Chen Ziyan sighed, "His personality is too black and white. Friends are friends, enemies are enemies, like is like, dislike is dislike. By comparison, his little girlfriend Chen Siqi is more mature. If he is still such a personality after graduation, it is inevitable that he will encounter deception, betrayal, and even framing."

She paused, looked at Chen Ziyan again, and asked: "Then what do you plan to do? You have already promised to open a film production company with Lu Yanhe."

Chen Ziyan rolled her eyes.

Chen Ziyan said: "Jia Long said he would go to pick it, and come to discuss with us when there is an intended candidate."

"This is nothing. It just needs such an agency as a production party to facilitate signing contracts. Except for me and Lu Yanhe, this company will not have anyone in the short term." Chen Ziyan said bluntly, "We don't intend to really do a film production company."

Chen Ziyan: "Born with this personality."

Lu Qingzhen almost instantly understood who Chen Ziyan was talking about.

But Li Yuefeng is just like that. Chen Ziyan didn't want to deal with this kind of argument, so as not to let such an argument get bigger and bigger, and really let Li Yuefeng get involved with Lu Yanhe.

Lu Qingzhen nodded.

"Now many actors write, direct, and act by themselves, especially comedians. Why doesn't Jia Long try it himself?" Lu Qingzhen said, "Doesn't he have his own comedy production company?"

But if Jia Long is the director, the front of this movie seems to be stretched longer, far less fast than finding a director to film this movie. Experience can determine too many things. For new directors without experience, many things need to be paid for with double the time.

Li Yuefeng is a newcomer who emerged three years ago. Last year, he became popular because of a male second role. At the end of the year, a historical idol drama he starred in became the most popular drama at that time, and he was in the limelight for a while. In February this year, a modern campus-themed drama was broadcast, and the topic was very high. He also won many big-name cooperations because of these few small popular dramas. Then, a week ago, the argument that "Lu Yanhe is popular, but Li Yuefeng is the real performance newcomer" appeared on the Internet, saying that Lu Yanhe is popular, but he is too mixed. Sometimes he is popular because of magazines, sometimes because of film and television dramas, and sometimes because of the persona of a top student. Unlike Li Yuefeng, he diligently does the one thing of acting.

Lu Qingzhen said: "Then if you decide to pull Jia Long together to do this movie, who are you going to find as the director? Do you have a target candidate?"

"Are you talking about Li Yuefeng?"

Chen Ziyan heard Lu Qingzhen say this, first looked at her in surprise, and then felt that this idea didn't seem bad.

"It depends on his encounter. To enter the TOP sequence, at least one or two big popular male lead dramas are needed, which is the real TOP." Chen Ziyan said here, not knowing what she thought of, curled her mouth and said: "Don't be like some TOP, falsely popular, and dare to clamor that he is the new generation newcomer king."

Chen Ziyan looked at Lu Qingzhen, "You clearly know that the thing I lack most is money."

Lu Qingzhen: "But in any case, Lu Yanhe, this kid, I think he will enter the TOP sequence of mainland young actors within a few years."

"It's also shameless enough. He is twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, and he is still compared with a nineteen-year-old young man." Lu Qingzhen said pointedly.

Twenty-six or twenty-seven is not old, but compared with nineteen, it is much older.

"I heard that Li Yuefeng is negotiating to play the male second role in *True Fork in the Road*. Do you know?" Lu Qingzhen asked Chen Ziyan.

"Actually, Little Lu is quite suitable for the male second role in *True Fork in the Road*." He Heng said to Jiang Yuqian, "However, his schedule is probably not arranged. I heard that he has a male lead drama and two movies behind him, all of which have been signed."

Jiang Yuqian nodded and asked: "What's the matter with the two movies? Isn't there only one movie?"

He Heng said: "The other one is writing the script. The script hasn't come out yet, and the intentional contract has been signed."

"What kind of movie?"

"They are all literary films." He Heng said, "Little Lu can only take it at this stage. When he is more popular and starts to carry the play, Chen Ziyan will not let him take it. Poor box office has a great impact on an actor."

Jiang Yuqian nodded, thought of something, and said again: "Can Li Yuefeng get the male second?"

"At least he has been popular for several dramas in a row. If he is willing to play the male second, the production party should be very willing to invite him to play."

"Then we have to be careful. He is also the kind of person who always pulls others down." Jiang Yuqian said.

He Heng nodded, "Understand."

In mid-April, Lu Yanhe received a notice from the *Phoenix Terrace* crew again and went back to reshoot two scenes.

On the way back after filming, Wang Xiao from the Youth Association called him.

"Teacher Shi Xia is coming to us to give a lecture, Yanhe, do you want to go with me to pick him up?"

Lu Yanhe's eyes lit up instantly.

Chen Siqi has been trying various ways to get Teacher Shi Xia's new work and publish it in *Jump Up*. It's just that as the top writer in the domestic pure literature circle, Teacher Shi Xia's creation quantity has decreased extremely in recent years. Not to mention that he hasn't published a new long novel in five years, short stories and essays are at most three to four a year, all of which have been divided by domestic top pure literature magazines. Commercial literary magazines like *Jump Up* simply cannot get them.

Even so, Chen Siqi has never given up.

"Since we want to do it, it is equivalent to opening the door to get other writer teachers. Teacher Shi Xia has such a high status."

At that time, Lu Yanhe also joked: "We can only publish twelve issues of *Jump Up* a year. Can we accommodate so many writers and works?"

Chen Siqi said: "We can only publish one issue a month now because the content that meets our standards is not enough and not rich enough. If we have more and more manuscripts in the future, and even twelve issues can't fit, we can of course do supplements, or even semi-monthly magazines. If it still doesn't work, we can even launch the second and third magazines, as long as there is enough good content and content that makes everyone willing to buy and read."

Lu Yanhe knew that Chen Siqi had high hopes for *Jump Up*, but didn't expect her hopes to be so thick.

He was very surprised.

In such an era, can *Jump Up* further develop on the basis of ensuring its own survival?

This question only flashed in Lu Yanhe's mind for a second, and then he gave himself a positive answer.

Don't think about whether it can be done, just work hard to do it.

Therefore, now that there is an opportunity to meet Teacher Shi Xia, Lu Yanhe agreed immediately.

"Thank you, senior, I'll go, when?" he asked Wang Xiao.

"This Saturday." Wang Xiao said, "The lecture time is Saturday night."

"Okay." Lu Yanhe agreed in one breath.

As soon as Chen Siqi heard that Shi Xia was going to give a lecture at Zhenhua on Saturday, she immediately bought a ticket to Yuming on Saturday morning.

"I'm coming over, you help me make an appointment to enter your school." Chen Siqi said.

Lu Yanhe had already guessed Chen Siqi's reaction and responded with a smile.

"Teacher Shi is actually a very kind and interesting person."

When picking up Teacher Shi Xia with Wang Xiao on Saturday, Lu Yanhe said to Wang Xiao.

Wang Xiao was very surprised and asked: "Have you met Teacher Shi?"

"Before, *Jump Up* did a review of Teacher Shi Xia's past works and specially invited Teacher Shi Xia to write a reflection." Lu Yanhe said.

"Fortunately, you were invited." Wang Xiao said, "This time I didn't expect Teacher Shi Xia to agree to come to our school to give a lecture. Although he has been here several times, this is still a publisher who wants to reprint his previous works to bridge the gap. In the past, he did more activities like lectures, but now he rarely comes out."

"We also asked him this question at that time, after all, he is one of the few great writers whose novel sales exceeded ten million copies." Lu Yanhe said, "Many people like him very much, especially some of his quotes, which are very rare and popular on the Internet. At that time, Teacher Shi said that many places have been looking for him in recent years, all for his heat and fame, not a real literary lecture, and he is too lazy to do these."

Wang Xiao nodded, "No wonder, when we docked with his publisher about the lecture, they clearly required that on-site questions must be related to the works and cannot ask questions unrelated to the works."

The two arrived downstairs at Teacher Shi Xia's house.

Today's car was a seven-seater official vehicle of the school contacted through the Youth Association. Teacher Shi Xia was accompanied by a publisher editor and an assistant of his own, and they got into the car together.

"Teacher Shi, hello, do you remember me?" Lu Yanhe took the lead in greeting enthusiastically.

"Remember, it's not like we haven't seen each other for several years, didn't we just see each other?" Shi Xia smiled.

His hair was quite white.

However, he didn't look old and was still in a middle-aged state.

Lu Yanhe only chatted for two sentences and then closed his mouth. He didn't want to be a noisy person who talked too much.

Wang Xiao also quieted down after greeting Shi Xia.

When Lu Yanhe was with Wang Xiao, he rarely saw him quiet and not talking. This quietness made Lu Yanhe a little unaccustomed and uncomfortable.

Instead, at this time, Shi Xia suddenly smiled and teased: "Are you two young people a bit cautious when you see me, so you don't talk?"

Wang Xiao was happy immediately and said: "Or should I tell you a crosstalk?"

"That's not necessary." Shi Xia smiled and shook his head, "Just don't be cautious. I am most afraid of others feeling cautious because of me."

"That won't happen, I have a thick skin." Wang Xiao said immediately, "Otherwise I wouldn't do the work of the Youth Association."

Lu Yanhe smiled brilliantly, "I am thinking about how to persuade you to give your new work to the magazine *Jump Up*."

"Still having this idea?" Shi Xia didn't avoid this question and smiled and teased.

Lu Yanhe said: "Then all the magazines in the country that publish novels are having this idea, after all, you are Teacher Shi Xia."

Shi Xia laughed twice, but didn't pick up the conversation again.

"Little Lu, you should be studying at Zhenhua's School of Literature now, right?" Shi Xia asked.

"Yes." Lu Yanhe nodded.

Shi Xia nodded approvingly and said: "A serious professional class."

Lu Yanhe said: "I don't dare to claim so outside. I am too bad, my basic skills are not good. Almost every time I finish a class, I have to go to the library to check information, otherwise I don't know what the teachers are talking about in many places. Compared with the hidden dragons and crouching tigers around me, I am ashamed."

"Then you are too humble. Being able to dare to make a new magazine at this time and run it so vividly, you are awesome. We writers are very concerned about your magazine." Shi Xia said, "I also read almost every issue."

Lu Yanhe immediately said: "If there is an opportunity to publish Teacher Shi's new work, it will be even more vivid."

"Haha." Shi Xia laughed again, and then didn't pick up the conversation again.

Looking at his face, many people think Shi Xia has a particularly simple and honest personality.

But those who know and are familiar with Shi Xia know that his real personality is actually a bit childish, and even has a bit of an "old urchin" style. He doesn't have the demeanor of "highly respected," let alone putting on airs. The kind of "seriousness" often seen in many "old seniors" is rarely seen in him.

However, Shi Xia is not the kind of "old urchin" who often plays with young people. He doesn't pursue the so-called "youth feeling," but just rejects the concept of maturity in the social sense quite self-consistently.

As a writer who has reached the top position in the realistic sense, he doesn't regard himself as "successful," still writes, still writes diligently. In the eyes of the outside world, his output speed has slowed down. In fact, he is not writing less, but pursuing higher, and he will not publish easily without writing satisfactory works.

Shi Xia's manuscripts are hard to find in the magazine circle and publishing circle.

Shi Xia has also passed the stage of being moved by manuscript fees. Even if the manuscript fee is higher, it is only a drop in the bucket compared to the manuscript fees brought by his tens of millions of sales.

Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi are just juniors in his eyes. The sudden emergence of *Jump Up* is indeed surprising to the magazine circle, but this is not enough to be the reason for him to hand over his new work to two young people. ===== CHAPTER 277 =====