Chapter 316: This is what I want

"You let her go to *Idol Era* as a production assistant?"

Lu Yan He looked at Chen Ziyan in disbelief, feeling stunned by this completely unexpected result.

"Didn't you say she wasn't suitable?"

Chen Ziyan calmly pressed her hand, signaling Lu Yan He to be a little calmer.

"I just said she wasn't suitable to be your assistant, but going to *Idol Era* as a production assistant is quite suitable. I chatted with her for nearly forty minutes. She is quite smart, and at first glance, she is a very mature person," Chen Ziyan said. "It just so happens that I need to put one of my own people in *Idol Era*, and I don't have any capable hands at hand."

Lu Yan He said: "Then what about my assistant?"

Chen Ziyan said: "I will find one, and I will have it equipped for you within a month."

Lu Yan He hummed twice, crossed his arms in front of his chest, and said: "You poached my wall corner, Sister Ziyan."

Chen Ziyan was amused. "Poached your wall corner? You are my wall corner, do I still need to poach?"

Lu Yan He: "..."

Lu Yan He found that he could never win against Chen Ziyan.

Forget it.

Chen Ziyan said: "Regarding Xu Fanxing, I actually have another idea."

"Hmm?" Lu Yan He looked at her in surprise. "What idea?"

Chen Ziyan said: "I think she is suitable to debut as an artist."

The expression on Lu Yan He's face was even more surprised.

He didn't expect Chen Ziyan to think so.

Chen Ziyan said: "I saw the potential for being an artist in her. Of course, what the final situation will be depends on herself."

Lu Yan He: "I thought that since you brought the three of us, you didn't plan to bring other artists."

Chen Ziyan said: "I was too lazy to bring them, but I am preparing to leave Star Entertainment."

"Leave... Star Entertainment?" Lu Yan He looked at Chen Ziyan in surprise. "Really?"

"Yeah." Chen Ziyan nodded. "Of course, it may also cooperate with Star Entertainment in another form. I haven't considered it clearly, but one thing is certain, I definitely won't continue to do it in the current state."

"Current state... Sister Ziyan, are you dissatisfied with the position Star Entertainment gave you?"

"Of course not. If I wanted to be an executive, do you think they wouldn't give me this position?" Chen Ziyan's eyes were disdainful. "It's just that Star Entertainment's current development situation and future development direction deviate from my goals."

"Sister Ziyan, actually I have always wanted to ask you this question, what is your goal?" Lu Yan He has always been unable to understand one thing: why did Chen Ziyan choose to part ways with them and stop cooperating after bringing out top actors like Shang Yongzhou and Chen Bige?

Chen Ziyan said: "My goal—"

After saying these four words, she smiled slightly.

"It's the stars and the sea."

Lu Yan He: "..."

This is the same as saying nothing.

Chen Ziyan: "It doesn't make sense to tell you this now, but I think you must be very confused, why didn't I continue to cooperate with Chen Bige and Shang Yongzhou, right?"

Lu Yan He nodded.

"I talked to you before, but I didn't talk deeply. Today I can actually tell you. In the simplest words, my ambition is not to be a nanny or a broker for a top actor," Chen Ziyan said calmly. "At the level of Shang Yongzhou and Chen Bige, their agents must manage their brokerage affairs wholeheartedly. This does not conform to my positioning of myself. So, to a certain extent, it's good to part ways."

Lu Yan He's heart suddenly opened up.

So that's how it is.

"As for me, I really like being an agent. I especially like to make some talented people who are worth being popular popular. However, my world is not just those few people," Chen Ziyan said directly. "When you grow up to the level of Chen Bige and Shang Yongzhou in the future, I will definitely have to break up with you. This is not a problem that can be solved by deep or shallow feelings. At that time, you need an agent who focuses 100% on you, otherwise your career will have problems, and I can't focus 100% on you alone."

Hearing Chen Ziyan say this, Lu Yan He couldn't help but feel a little hesitant and dazed.

"However, you don't have to worry about anything, Little Lu. Believe me, when that day really comes, I must have already built a reliable and completely trustworthy team for you," Chen Ziyan said. "We are still friends, just like the relationship between me and Chen Bige and Shang Yongzhou now."

Lu Yan He didn't know what to say for a while.

He couldn't even accept this for the time being.

People are always creatures who hope for eternity and permanence.

Rationally knowing that there is no eternity, let alone permanence, but you can get a 100-point score in theory. When it really happens, even if it hasn't happened at all, just clearly seeing the moment it is about to happen, you realize that the 100-point theory is a fragile, vulnerable dangerous house under the constraints of sensibility, facing collapse at any time.

Chen Ziyan didn't expect that she would say this to Lu Yan He so early.

Generally speaking, she would give artists a vaccination one or two years before this happened.

Why did it suddenly change when it came to Little Lu?

Chen Ziyan said it on impulse, not premeditated.

After thinking about it, Chen Ziyan realized that she was shocked by Lu Yan He's rapid upward momentum.

Furthermore, Lu Yan He's upward momentum is very fierce, but he doesn't have enough time to exercise the mentality to take on the world he is facing at this time.

Even finding an assistant for himself, but forgot to analyze the pros and cons she would bring.

Is it that Lu Yan He doesn't have the ability to analyze? No, it's that he was blinded by the identity of "Xu Zijun's sister" and forgot to analyze.

Chen Ziyan subconsciously wanted Lu Yan He to grow up quickly. Even if Lu Yan He has grown up very fast, it is still not enough, and it cannot keep up with the speed of his career growth.

Soft-heartedness will suffer, and being emotional will eventually lead to the day of being used and stabbed. Chen Ziyan is a pessimist in this regard and doesn't think about anything else.

Before this, Chen Ziyan only hoped that Lu Yan He could forge a harder shield, as well as a stronger mentality and endurance.

March.

*Idol Era* is in full swing, and Lu Yan He went to record an episode of *City Travel*, and then prepared to start filming *Late Spring* in a tight schedule.

Everything is ready, waiting to start filming.

"*Late Spring* is the first movie I directed." Before filming, Liu Bige finally gathered the main actors together. Unlike usual, when the crew gathered everyone before filming, it was usually in a conference room. This time, everyone sat in a classroom together.

Like returning to the era of high school classes.

Liu Bige still wears a white shirt, suit pants, and black leather shoes, looking like a white-collar worker who punches in every day.

In China, this kind of dress is generally defaulted to work clothes.

However, Liu Bige wears it as casual clothes.

After watching for a long time, Lu Yan He got used to it—until today, Liu Bige stood on the podium dressed like this, looking like a subject teacher again.

"The production cost of this movie is very small, not a big crew, but it will be an excellent film. Except for Lu Yan He, all of you are basically acting in a movie for the first time. I hope it can open a good start for your career. Of course, I also hope it can become a very good film in Yan He's acting career," Liu Bige said. "This is my first time directing independently, but I have been learning and familiarizing myself with the art of film for more than ten years. In the past ten years, I have been thinking about what kind of film I would shoot when I first directed. When I had this opportunity, I have also been looking for various projects, and finally, I saw the novel *Late Spring*."

"There are already many classic films on youth themes. Why do I still want to shoot such a film to tell a story that many people have told?" Liu Bige said. "Many people will ask me such a question, especially since it is not the kind of film that is popular in the movie market in recent years and has good box office. There are many doubts. Indeed, I chose to shoot this movie, not for the box office of commercial films. If I wanted to shoot a movie with good box office, I would definitely not choose this story."

Lu Yan He sat under the stage and listened, a little curious, why Liu Bige wanted to say such a "demoralizing" paragraph before the movie started filming.

Generally speaking, don't directors try their best to make everyone believe that this will be a very successful movie?

He believes Liu Bige must have his own reasons.

"Because among all the choices, it is the one that moves me the most," Liu Bige said frankly. "Because this is my first play, I have to shoot a story I want to shoot the most. So, there is *Late Spring*. I have talked to each of you, kept in touch almost every day, and you are also the actors I picked one by one. From today on, I hope everyone can discard all distractions and concentrate on entering this film. It requires everyone's 100% focus and investment."

*Late Spring* has five main characters.

Lu Yan He plays the male lead Meng Bai in this movie.

Originally, in the original novel, the main perspective of this story was the girl named Yin Yue.

But Liu Bige and Miao Yue calculated together, one is to let Lu Yan He star, and the other is to let the expression of this movie be pulled out of the personal perspective, making it more three-dimensional and multi-perspective from the story level, and the movie became a script promoted from multiple perspectives.

The actress who plays Yin Yue is named Yan Lingyu, a freshman at Beijing Arts University. In order to let Yan Lingyu act in this movie, Liu Bige communicated with her head teacher for I don't know how many rounds. Later, it was because Lu Yan He starred in this movie that her head teacher let go.

Yan Lingyu's name is more literary, and she is also more cold. To be honest, the first time Lu Yan He saw her, he felt that this actor was found too accurately. Yin Yue in the story is such a cold girl, a bit out of place in the cram school, unable to integrate into many people.

In addition to Yan Lingyu, there is another freshman from Beijing Arts University, Kong Fan.

He plays a classmate who is closer to Lu Yan He in the play, Yu Lang.

Kong Fan's image is more like Yan Liang's, his figure is more robust, although it doesn't make people feel very strong, but the wheat-colored skin and a bright smile are full of the power of the sports department.

In comparison, Lu Yan He's image is the kind of "white moonlight school grass" image common in many film and television dramas. Handsome, excellent grades, smiling with a "sunny and warm smile." Fortunately, it is just an image. If such an image runs through the end in the film, Lu Yan He really has no interest in acting.

He Qingqing is different from them. She is not from a professional acting school.

In fact, she was found by Liu Bige from a talk show theater.

Liu Bige introduced to Lu Yan He: "At that time, I saw a small girl who was only eighteen years old go on stage, and I felt incredible, but she held the microphone, and as soon as she opened her mouth, I was shocked. That kind of expression desire that couldn't stop, and her natural familiarity, were too similar to Jiang Mo."

He Qingqing is not a professional talk show actor. She just didn't get into university in the college entrance examination, saw that the talk show industry was very hot, and because she was a character who liked to talk, she tried it. She didn't try for a month, and it was only the third time she went on stage that she was kidnapped by this man named Liu Bige to be an actor.

He Qingqing didn't believe it at first, feeling that she was cheated, and kept saying to people: "Big brother, my family has no money, otherwise I wouldn't have run here to see if I could talk about talk shows after I didn't get into university. Don't pester me, it's a waste of time and your energy. I really have no money."

Liu Bige: "..."

Actually, when the director goes to find actors, it is really easy to be mistaken for a liar.

Because filming is too far away from the real life of ordinary people, and it is difficult for anyone to really believe that a person who suddenly appears in front of you and says he wants to find you to film is really a director.

The last lead is Wang Jing. A very ordinary name. She comes from another acting school, but it is far less famous than Beijing Arts. It is a very ordinary acting school. Liu Bige found Wang Jing at the beginning, purely by coincidence, all thanks to a colleague at Long Yan Pictures who recommended that she had seen such a girl and left a very deep impression on her.

Liu Bige went to see it specifically, and after seeing it, he decided to set her.

She plays Zuo Lanlan, the most extreme character among the female characters in the movie.

Before this, they hadn't seen each other.

Liu Bige clearly requested that they start acting from the first scene, when they didn't know each other.

Of course, script reading and rehearsal are still necessary.

Before the official start of filming, Liu Bige took them to read the script together.

Reading this, Lu Yan He was very surprised to find that the other few people, although they hadn't acted much, everyone's understanding of the script, characters, and even every scene was quite right, and they didn't make any low-level mistakes that novices easily make.

This is because before the script reading, Liu Bige had actually communicated with the other actors about the script and characters I don't know how many times.

The preparation work before *Late Spring* started filming is considered very solid. Of course, Lu Yan He hadn't starred in other movies, and didn't know what other movie crews were like. Maybe other movies were also prepared early, and before filming started, actors communicated frequently with the director, and the characters were analyzed clearly.

The play was filmed in Yuming.

Lu Yan He didn't ask the crew to arrange a hotel for him, he came to work on time every day, and went back to Huiziyuanqiao to sleep after work.

There are few classes, and when he has to attend classes, the crew must ask for leave. Anyway, it had already been agreed before, and it would not affect the crew's filming.

Instead, Miao Yue also came to the scene from time to time, curious about what the filming scene looked like.

The crew of *Late Spring* is not big, only thirty or forty people, about the same size as the crew of *Three Mountains*.

This is because the budget is small, and it can't afford a big group.

Because of this, everyone is almost used as two people, and there is a lot of work.

Also because of this, the logistics conditions are not very good.

There are basically no snacks and drinks on the scene.

Seeing this, Lu Yan He paid out of his own pocket, and from time to time invited the whole crew to drink coffee, milk tea, and buy snacks.

Anyway, there are not many people in the crew. Speaking of which, it is the whole crew, and the expenses are not as big as imagined.

For Lu Yan He, filming *Late Spring* is much more difficult than imagined.

He didn't expect it himself.

Reasonably speaking, he has acted in several dramas, and his acting skills are highly recognized and praised by others. He originally thought that acting in a play like *Late Spring* would be a matter of course. Unexpectedly, just a few days after filming started, he encountered a huge problem.

He felt that his acting was already okay—he didn't know where he could change and adjust, but Liu Bige was always dissatisfied.

It happened that Liu Bige didn't say which detail was wrong, but just said that the feeling Lu Yan He gave was wrong.

"Acting is very good, but it is not what I imagined," Liu Bige said.

This scene is a scene where Meng Bai, played by Lu Yan He, accidentally sees his father having an affair with someone else, and writes hard in evening self-study.

According to Lu Yan He's design, the state Meng Bai presents in this scene is that he is suppressing his anger on the surface, but he is actually burning with anger in his heart, and wants to rush to his father to question him.

However, Lu Yan He acted three takes in a row, and Liu Bige said it wouldn't work.

"Acting is very good, but the layering is too obvious, and the traces of performance are a bit heavy," Liu Bige said.

Although this scene is Lu Yan He's solo play, because the background is in the class.

Other actors and mass actors are all there.

Everyone has to accompany Lu Yan He to act down again and again here.

Lu Yan He could enter the state when he first acted in this scene. Later, when the number of ng reached seven or eight times, Lu Yan He couldn't help but feel irritable, and couldn't settle down to act in this scene.

After Liu Bige shouted action again, he almost held his breath, started writing on the paper a bit like a bet, lowered his head expressionlessly, wrote very fast, his wrists and fingertips were forced, word by word, and the pen tip even seemed to want to scratch the paper.

The character's psychological state and Lu Yan He's annoyance and anger as an actor at this moment are intertwined.

He lost control of his strength for a moment, and the tip of his pen finally tore through the paper with a "rip" sound because he had pressed down too hard.

Lu Yan He was stunned, his eyes flashed for a moment, and then he cleared up.

Liu Bige finally said: "This take is here, Yan He, this take is good, this is what I want." ===== CHAPTER 317 =====