Chapter 293: Dugu Qiubai (7,000-character update!)

Li Xiao sometimes didn't understand why her boyfriend was so blindly appreciative of Lu Yan He, as if he had taken drugs.

Even a little jealous.

Li Xiao was very sure that Mao Jiayang's evaluation of her was definitely not as high as that of Lu Yan He.

However, because of being with Mao Jiayang, Li Xiao occasionally had close contact with Lu Yan He, or even sat down to eat together.

After Li Xiao had contact with Lu Yan He several times, she understood Mao Jiayang's feelings a little.

Some people are perfect everywhere, but because they are perfect, they make people feel like they are fake, and they can't like them no matter what.

Lu Yan He, serious, sunny, not pretending, very sincere, just like what Mao Jiayang said, the person is very nice, and, his three views are very correct, making people unable to hate him.

Li Xiao initially thought that Mao Jiayang was straight-minded and couldn't see the complexity of people like Lu Yan He who mixed in the entertainment industry. She always believed that a person who could achieve such achievements and status could never be a simple person. After dealing with Lu Yan He, Li Xiao was relieved.

Lu Yan He never wanted to disguise himself as a simple person. This was the beginning of Li Xiao changing her view of Lu Yan He. If Lu Yan He wanted to pretend to be a simple person, full of ideals and justice, Li Xiao would stay away from him. But he never showed off his insights at work, and did not preach or point fingers at their affairs as an "experienced person"—what Li Xiao feared most was this point.

Li Xiao is a journalism major.

In this era when people shout "news is dead" every day, Li Xiao is also often worried about her major and future path.

At present, except for national news agencies, news people have almost no good places to go. Self-media has become the mainstream, and professional knowledge of news seems to be not so important in the fast and convenient internet age.

Once when eating with Lu Yan He, Li Xiao subconsciously talked about her troubles about this major because of a topic, and felt regret after finishing speaking.

When Li Xiao talked about this topic before, she would often get comfort or encouragement from others, but they were all superficial words without practical significance. The worst thing is that some people will stand from a high-level perspective and make their own comments on the news industry. What Li Xiao hates most is this kind.

She knows that the news industry has undergone earth-shaking changes compared to ten years ago, but this does not mean that she can calmly listen to others pointing fingers at the things she loves.

But Lu Yan He's reaction was beyond Li Xiao's expectations.

He nodded very seriously, but didn't rush to pick up the conversation, didn't rush to say news xxxxx, but asked very seriously: "When you chose this major in journalism, was it your first choice?"

Li Xiao nodded in surprise.

Lu Yan He said: "An editor of Ye Mai Net, Xin Zixing, she is the person in charge of the electronic version of *Jump Up*. She used to be an editor of a fashion magazine. Later, the magazine didn't do it, stopped publication, and she went to Ye Mai Net, starting from the fashion section of Ye Mai Net. When shooting street photos in Langhua, she had a sudden inspiration to make a documentary like *City Travel Notes*, and now she has also become the producer of *City Travel Notes*."

Li Xiao looked at Lu Yan He in surprise, not knowing why he suddenly said this.

Lu Yan He said with a smile: "I just admire you people who have always chosen to do what you like. Engaging in what you like seems to be able to burst out a particularly large amount of energy. She has a lot of things on hand, and she is also very busy every day, but I have never heard her shout tired."

Probably because what Lu Yan He said was too beyond her expectations, Li Xiao showed an embarrassed smile instead.

"You are also a person who has always chosen to do what you like."

Lu Yan He shook his head and said: "I started doing something first, and then slowly began to like it."

"Hmm?"

"The profession of an artist, the matter of acting, I didn't do it because I liked it," Lu Yan He said frankly. "But I slowly liked it after doing it."

"Then what about *Jump Up*?" Li Xiao asked again.

Lu Yan He smiled, and Li Xiao felt that she seemed to see a bit of shyness from Lu Yan He's smile.

Li Xiao felt that she had misread it, it was an illusion.

How could a big star still show shyness in his smile.

Lu Yan He said: "This magazine... how should I put it, it is of course what I want to do, but I really want to do this magazine because of the people who do this magazine with me."

"Oh, yes, you said it, I remember you said it in an interview, it's because you can do this magazine with your high school classmates, so that you can still be connected after graduation." Li Xiao nodded, remembering the interview she had read.

Mao Jiayang turned to look at Li Xiao and asked: "You have also read Old Lu's interview?"

"He is very popular, occasionally I will brush the push," Li Xiao said. "And, you know, many of my classmates are his fans, often forwarding news related to him."

Mao Jiayang said to Lu Yan He with a smile: "This is true, several of Xiaoxiao's friends have said that they hope to go to work for you after graduation."

"Where I am?" Lu Yan He was stunned.

He thought to himself, where is he?

Mao Jiayang said: "Didn't *Jump Up* do a lot of self-media? And often send some comments and interview manuscripts, they really want to do that."

Lu Yan He realized: "That, that's not what I did, it's what Chen Siqi and their editors did, it has nothing to do with me."

Mao Jiayang said: "I saw the news saying that you established a film and television company yourself?"

"That's just an empty shelf, except for me and my agent, there is no one," Lu Yan He waved his hand. "It's just for the convenience of some work matters."

Li Xiao asked: "The drama you collaborated with the Beijing Station, is it your own script?"

Lu Yan He nodded and said: "To be precise, it is our director Bai Jingnian who wants to film such a story, so he wrote a concept of the story, wanting six young people to be the leads, three men and three women, they live, work, pursue dreams in a prosperous big city, become good friends, and I wrote a script based on the concept he wrote."

Li Xiao nodded.

"But I haven't thought of a suitable name until now," Lu Yan He said. "I don't know what kind of name would be suitable."

Li Xiao asked: "Isn't it easy to take a name? I see many names like *Warm, Sweet*, *Rolling Life* and so on now."

"The name of a drama must be similar to the temperament of the drama itself to be good. I don't want to use a hypocritical and literary name, because this is a sitcom, talking about the most natural and relaxed story. It is best to be the kind that everyone knows it is this drama as soon as it is said, without too many decorative words," Lu Yan He said.

Li Xiao heard this and said: "The six of you are the leads, talking about the lives and work, dreams and friendship of the six of you, then think of a name around these six people."

Li Xiao's words stirred up a thousand waves in Lu Yan He's mind.

Lu Yan He remembered a very distant name.

The nickname of *Friends*—

*Six People Walking*.

Lu Yan He didn't want to use *Friends*, because they were not old friends at the beginning of the story, and the English name was *Friends*, which was too ordinary in the Chinese context.

But *Six People Walking* was inexplicably suitable for this version.

The sentence pattern came from "Three people walking, there must be my teacher" in "Three people walking", and the three words "Six people walking" completely met Lu Yan He's standard of less decoration and highlighting the theme.

Lu Yan He finally confirmed the name *Six People Walking*.

And after the first round of auditions, a total of eighteen actors entered the second round of auditions.

This round is not an audition, but an interview.

The first round will ask them to do a small situational performance to see the basic quality. This round is just chatting to see the actor's own personality and quality.

In the second round of auditions, Yan Liang and Wen Minglan also came.

Lu Yan He wanted to hear their opinions.

Since six people are starring in this drama together, the feeling between actors is also very important.

When everyone exchanged opinions, Lu Yan He realized that everyone's angle and standard for looking at actors were different.

Bai Jingnian especially liked a girl named Bai Jin.

"A girl who looks very handsome, with heroism between her eyes, and she is cheerful. Look at her words and deeds, they are very similar to Li Lili."

"But Li Lili is actually a girl who is quite silly. The image is indeed suitable, but there is no kind of energy that will do silly things on Li Lili," Hu Siwei had a different point of view. "On the contrary, I also think He Qiaotian looks more like Li Lili."

"He Qiaotian doesn't look as beautiful as Bai Jin."

"Both girls are quite beautiful, just different temperaments," Hu Siwei said. "You just like girls with a bit of heroism like Bai Jin."

Bai Jingnian: "He Qiaotian feels like a girl who acts like a little girl. Look at her, does she look like a girl who dares to escape marriage at the wedding?"

Bai Jingnian disliked He Qiaotian for being too gentle and sweet.

After the two argued, neither could convince the other, so they came to ask Lu Yan He's opinion.

Lu Yan He felt that what they both said made sense.

"Just from what they look like today, maybe we can't see anything too rich and three-dimensional. Why don't we ask them to try makeup together and see who is more suitable for Li Lili."

In *Six People Walking*, the Li Lili written by Lu Yan He was written based on Rachel in *Friends*. A beautiful, but completely ordinary girl who is not "glamorous" in life. And Bai Jin and He Qiaotian both made Lu Yan He feel a little bit worse. But wanting to make the actor 100% fit the role, this idea itself is unreasonable. So Lu Yan He said, maybe we can look again.

If Lu Yan He really had to make a choice, Lu Yan He felt that it was most suitable for Bai Jin to play Zhou Zhixi, the girl who was the most boyish among the three girls.

Lu Yan He didn't write a tomboy, but a girl whose words and deeds were not very concerned about femininity. Zhou Zhixi in *Six People Walking* is different from Chen Wanqiu's self-disciplined literary and Li Lili's sloppy. She has her own stubborn little personality, and what seems to be the most life-view and world-view thinking, but in fact, she is different from ordinary people in many ways of behavior.

Bai Jin's temperament, which is different from ordinary girls, is very consistent with Zhou Zhixi.

As for He Qiaotian, Lu Yan He felt that her image was not suitable for this drama, and more suitable for playing some roles with a strong sense of neighbor, such as if a role like a younger sister of a lead needs to make a cameo next.

It's just that Lu Yan He was participating in casting for the first time, and he was not sure whether his ideas were correct, so he didn't easily express his opinions.

Lu Yan He wouldn't think that he had the ability to challenge all the rules here just because the script was written by him and because he had seen what successful works looked like. Just like the song *Memory*, people could sing it on the show and it became popular, and he moved it over to sing, but only got good reviews and became a little popular. The person who really made this song popular was Song Linxin.

If one thinks that moving those works over directly can walk sideways in this world, Lu Yan He feels that he underestimates the normal operating laws of a world. He has a gold mine from another time and space, just saying that he knows many gold mines that can achieve success under specific conditions. He still has to understand the things inside, understand the reasons for its success, and understand the reasons why it is liked by everyone.

Before he understands, he learns first, and silently watches how others do it first.

While everyone was busy looking at actors, more news about *Six People Walking* also spread, especially on the internet.

1. This is a sitcom.

2. This is a sitcom that plans to film while broadcasting.

3. This is a sitcom that plans to broadcast weekly, one episode per week.

4. During the first broadcast of this drama on the Beijing Station, it will be an exclusive broadcast on the TV station, not online on video websites, and will be online on video websites after the whole drama is broadcast.

When several news items spread, many people didn't believe this news, feeling incredible.

Not for anything else, because such a practice is too incredible. No drama has done this in these years.

How dare *Six People Walking* do this?

Especially not synchronizing online on video websites, brother, in this era, how many people still watch TV?

Many people really treat these news as jokes.

Until someone working at a video website spoke on their social media, saying that this news is true: our website wanted to buy the online broadcast rights of Lu Yan He's drama, but they refused to sell it, saying that they would consider going online on video websites after the TV station's first broadcast ended.

The authenticity of this news was confirmed, and many people were confused and unable to understand.

A sitcom that insists on exclusive broadcast on TV stations in the internet age, and is it weekly?

Are you sure?

Isn't it a joke?

If you are not joking, is your brain squeezed by the door? -

Zhou Ping'an rushed to the legal department at a speed of ten thousand emergencies, asking if Yan Liang's performance contract had been mailed out.

The legal department said innocently: "It was mailed to the Beijing Station this morning."

Zhou Ping'an let out a hysterical "Fuck!".

After Zhou Ping'an left the legal department of Star Entertainment like an angry lion, this person was at a loss and asked: "What's wrong with him? Wasn't he the one who urged the contract before? Why does he look like I did something wrong when I got the contract done for him?"

Colleagues silently turned their computer screens to him.

The legal department leaned over to look for a while and understood instantly.

"He wants to breach the contract?"

"I guess so."

"Uh, I can suddenly understand his mood. This drama is doing this, isn't it clearly going to flop?"

"Hahaha, only broadcast on TV stations, not online," colleagues shook their heads. "The Beijing Station fooled Lu Yan He."

"How could Chen Ziyan allow such a thing to happen?"

Several people gathered together and chatted.

Zhou Ping'an rushed to Chen Ziyan's office angrily.

"Did you know it long ago?"

Chen Ziyan moved her gaze away from her computer screen, looked at Zhou Ping'an, her expression calm, and asked: "What did I know long ago?"

Zhou Ping'an said: "TV station exclusive broadcast, no online broadcast."

Chen Ziyan frowned slightly and asked: "So what?"

"Do you think a drama that is only prepared to be exclusively broadcast on the TV station, if told to me in advance, would I agree to let Yan Liang act? The male lead of a flop drama is also a flop."

Chen Ziyan: "Zhou Ping'an, have you been an agent for so many years, and you have been an agent to the dog's stomach?"

Chen Ziyan had no cowardice of being guilty, and scolded Zhou Ping'an, "What is a flop drama? You don't know a fart about drama."

Zhou Ping'an: "You guys are going to broadcast exclusively on the TV station, this is not a flop, what is a flop? How many people watch TV now, with the Beijing Station's average ratings of 0.4, how many people are watching?"

Chen Ziyan rolled her eyes and said: "Okay, you look down on the ratings of 0.4, I will tell your words to everyone at the TV station immediately. If you have the ability, be tough, and don't let your artists go to the TV station in the future."

Zhou Ping'an was so angry that he cursed: "Am I fucking meaning this?"

"You fucking say it again!" Chen Ziyan scolded angrily.

The two confronted each other in Chen Ziyan's office, swords drawn, and even people outside the office could hear some movement, and they looked at it in surprise.

However, they could only hear some roaring sounds, but couldn't hear clearly what they were arguing about.

The sound insulation is still very good.

The reason why Zhou Ping'an was so angry and felt that *Six People Walking* was going to flop was secondary. It was mainly because he felt that he had been fooled by Lu Yan He and Chen Ziyan together.

In fact, how a drama is broadcast has nothing to do with the actor, nor can it be decided by the actor.

But if a drama is going to take a path that is clearly impassable when it is being prepared, it will of course affect the final decision of many actors and even agents.

Zhou Ping'an didn't ask such a sentence at all. In the current drama, either it is a pure web drama, or it is a TV and network broadcast, and there is no drama that is only broadcast on the TV station and not synchronized on video websites.

Video websites are the bulk of a drama's income.

Who would have thought that this sitcom is so iron-headed, it is simply sick in the brain.

Zhou Ping'an argued with Chen Ziyan, but didn't argue anything.

Of course, Chen Ziyan couldn't argue anything with him.

The performance contract has already been signed, and there is no chance for Zhou Ping'an to go back on his word.

Zhou Ping'an was just purely venting his anger and expressing dissatisfaction.

After Zhou Ping'an left, Chen Ziyan's anger disappeared.

Her gaze returned to the computer screen, and she sent a message to Lu Qingzhen, saying: Now the various doubts about *Six People Walking* are not bad things. A drama is not afraid of controversy and questioning before it airs, but it is afraid of no one paying attention. And, this matter is exposed so early, which can also actively help the news of this drama only being exclusively broadcast on the Beijing Station to strengthen the impression in the audience's hearts.

Lu Qingzhen: However, doing this is really a bit risky.

Chen Ziyan: It doesn't matter. With the production cost of *Six People Walking*, even a 0.4 rating is profitable. Do you think the Beijing Station will do a loss-making business? They kept the production cost so low because they knew they would face great pressure.

Lu Qingzhen: But now the topic of *Six People Walking* is really high, almost to the extent of hot search on online social platforms.

Chen Ziyan: The Beijing Station's publicity department has always been powerful, plus this topic itself is enough.

Lu Qingzhen: The Beijing Station's publicity has always been powerful, after all, it is a traditional big station, but doing this kind of topic so overwhelmingly is very easy to cause this drama to start high and end low. It hasn't been filmed yet, and the topic is so vigorous.

Chen Ziyan: The advantages outweigh the disadvantages. The only star of this drama is Little Lu. He cannot carry the ratings of a drama. Many big productions are kept secret before airing because they have strict publicity steps. Early exposure will disrupt their design. But for this drama, if you don't hype the heat up in front, relying on Little Lu's popularity and those fans now, you can't support the ratings of this drama. There are only eight episodes in total, one episode per week, the ratings of the first episode are too important, and there is almost no chance of trial and error.

Lu Qingzhen understood Chen Ziyan's meaning.

Chen Ziyan: And, we have all read the script. This drama may not be able to make all viewers like it from the beginning, but there are no thunder points that will make viewers feel uncomfortable, so the top priority is to make the basic market bigger.

Lu Qingzhen: Okay, you are professional in this regard.

In this regard, the opinions of Chen Ziyan, Hu Siwei, and Bai Jingnian are consistent.

When the opinions of the three of them were consistent, although Lu Yan He himself didn't like this way of hyping topics before filming, he honestly shut his mouth and defaulted to their operation.

If it was spontaneous questioning at the beginning, the subsequent related discussions had their respective arrangements for people to enter the game.

Discuss the broadcast prospects of sitcoms in this internet age, discuss whether this broadcast mode of weekly broadcast can stand firm, and discuss whether the ratings will increase under the condition of exclusive broadcast on TV stations.

Lu Yan He even knew that Chen Ziyan had arranged for someone to pretend to be a black fan and initiate a topic: If *Six People Walking* is exclusively broadcast on the TV station, and the ratings are not as good as the Beijing Station's average ratings of 0.4, is that the biggest tragedy of the year's TV drama?

This topic triggered a lot of forwarding and discussion.

It seems that they are not optimistic about their drama, but such topic discussion and heat have made more and more people know about this drama *Six People Walking*.

The search volume for the names of Lu Yan He, Wen Minglan, and Yan Liang has also surged on social networks.

Yan Liang's name search volume has increased by 270% during this period, making the angry Zhou Ping'an care about this unexpected joy while maintaining his surface anger.

The growth rate of Yan Liang's social media fans has become much faster.

The second season of *Young Days* started broadcasting. As a popular variety show broadcast last year, the data of the first episode of the second season is better.

The first season did accumulate a lot of fans for this show, and the second season was actually recorded by the original cast, which made the old fans very excited.

As a result, in the first episode of the second season of *Young Days*, the situation of Lu Yan He creating this sitcom appeared.

Lu Yan He was writing the subsequent script on his laptop in the show at that time.

It happened that the following pd asked him what he was writing on his laptop alone during the preparation, and Lu Yan He answered directly that he was writing a sitcom script.

pd asked: "Why do you want to create a sitcom script?"

Lu Yan He said: "I am not original. It was the director of this drama, Bai Jingnian, who proposed such a project plan, and there is an outline, and then I started writing on his basis, but I wrote it quite happily, and I like these characters very much."

pd asked: "Then what expectations do you have for this drama?"

Lu Yan He said: "In fact, as long as it can make everyone laugh when watching the drama, it is enough."

pd said: "After you won the Golden Tripod Award, many people are looking forward to when you will win the Best Actor."

Lu Yan He nodded and said: "Yes."

pd asked: "Why don't you take a drama that is more conducive to you winning the Best Actor? After all, we still have to admit that sitcoms are generally not welcomed by mainstream awards, right?"

Lu Yan He was a bit surprised, eyes widened, "Can this also be said? Well, maybe, but it doesn't matter. My agent has always told me one thing. She said, I am very young, I can fully want to do whatever I want to try, don't be bound by other people's sayings, and don't be bound by the honors obtained. I am very grateful for her encouragement and support, allowing me to always do some things that do not appear on artists in the conventional sense."

pd asked: "Then trying actually means that the possibility of failure is very high, because it is not in the comfort zone, and there is no success rate in probability, how do you view this problem?"

Lu Yan He said with a smile: "Actually, I am still looking forward to my failure."

"Hmm? Why do you say that?"

"Actually, many media friends have shaped my image too well, as if I am a person without shortcomings, a person who will succeed in everything. In fact, it is not like this. It is impossible for anyone to have no shortcomings, and it is impossible for one person to succeed in everything. When my first failure comes, I can do what I want to do more easily, because no one will look at everything I am going to do with the fact that I succeed in everything."

After saying these words, Lu Yan He smiled brightly in front of the camera, not at all like he was saying polite words, not at all like he was saying some face-saving words.

This speech by Lu Yan He in the second season of *Young Days* was cut into long pictures and spread widely.

His speech moved many people.

But there are also some media, watching the excitement and not thinking it is too big, taking the title: Lu Yan He, Dugu Qiubai.

It makes Lu Yan He look very arrogant.

Lu Yan He is also very helpless.

But this episode made Lu Yan He's image better—in the words of a netizen, his achievements are really not high, but his image is already so good, and he is still so sincere, able to maintain his original heart in front of the camera, I can't hate him at all.

Because he is sincere enough, many previous slots have now become points for everyone to support him.

What's wrong with him wanting to try writing a script?

What's wrong with him wanting to act in a sitcom?

What's wrong with him wanting to do things he hasn't done before?

At worst, just fail.

For Lu Yan He, the biggest gain this time is to let his fans with strong career hearts be relieved, no longer questioning his choice as unreliable, not the best choice.

Lu Yan He couldn't tell the fans who questioned him that I didn't need your support.

So, he is very grateful that they finally understood him. ===== CHAPTER 294 =====