Chapter 338

Zhou Ping'an shook his head, smiled, and said, "That's one thing, there's another."

Lu Yan He struck a "you say" pose.

Zhou Ping'an had already felt Lu Yan He's defense against him from Lu Yan He's body language.

Without even opening his mouth, Zhou Ping'an knew what reaction his words would get.

However, Zhou Ping'an couldn't help but speak. He was sent by Ma Zhongquan.

Even if he knew he would fail, he still had to complete this standard action.

"If you are willing to come back, we will tailor a training plan for you, cultivate you into the top male actor in the country, and become the next Shang Yongzhou."

That's what Zhou Ping'an said.

Lu Yan He almost couldn't hold it and laughed on the spot.

He looked at Zhou Ping'an with a teasing expression and asked, "What do you mean, come back?"

Zhou Ping'an: "I know, the fact that we wanted to terminate the contract with you before made you very concerned—"

"I'm not concerned anymore," Lu Yan He interrupted him. "On the contrary, I am very glad that we terminated the contract back then, otherwise I might still be the same as before."

Zhou Ping'an: "Yan He, you should know that it wasn't me who deliberately wanted to suppress you before."

"But you haven't told me until now who wanted to suppress me, have you? I can only remember this matter on your head," Lu Yan He said calmly. "We have to be fair. You can't push all the responsibility away just because it's something others asked you to do. If a killer takes money to do things, others won't find this killer for revenge?"

Zhou Ping'an's expression hardened.

Lu Yan He looked at Zhou Ping'an calmly.

Zhou Ping'an gave a bitter smile.

"Brother Ping'an, you came to find me today, it shouldn't be your own idea, right? I know, you are just acting on orders, so my attitude has been said very clearly, you can go back and report to Vice Ma Zong," Lu Yan He shrugged. "When I had no value, you treated me like grass, and you drove me away if you wanted to. I didn't have any room to struggle. Now that I have value, you suddenly came to find me. Then I am really quite helpless, it's like... before you drove me away, it wasn't a big deal, it wasn't how reluctant you were to do this, actually, you could also not drive me away, right? As long as I have enough value to give you."

Lu Yan He's eyes were indifferent, "It's a pity, I don't want to share my value with you."

Lu Yan He originally thought he would face all this calmly.

But after saying these words to Zhou Ping'an, on the way back to the dormitory alone, Lu Yan He's mood became a bit low.

This lowness had nothing to do with Ma Zhongquan and Zhou Ping'an, but for his fate that had soared in the past few years—if he hadn't traveled through, all this would have ended long ago, there would be no counterattack, and there would be no indifference sitting in front of Zhou Ping'an today.

If possible, Lu Yan He would rather hope that the person sitting in front of Zhou Ping'an today saying these words was the original Lu Yan He.

It wasn't until the dormitory that Lu Yan He realized he seemed to have been affected again.

It seems that every time this happens, his emotional fluctuations are very large.

Once it involves the fate of the original body, he will feel sorry and worthless for him.

Is it because the original body left relevant emotions in this body that made him lose control frequently in this regard?

This is not the first time.

Lu Yan He scratched his head and went to wash his face, letting himself calm down a little.

At this time, Xiao Jing came back.

"Yan He, you are here, I haven't seen you for a long time, I bought roast duck, do you want to eat?"

Lu Yan He returned to the room, looked at Xiao Jing's happy face, and asked with a smile: "Do you have any good news?"

Xiao Jing said: "I got the quota to go to the UK for exchange."

"Congratulations, congratulations," Lu Yan He immediately congratulated, "When are you going?"

"Next semester," Xiao Jing said, "I will set off in August and go for a year of exchange."

Lu Yan He nodded and asked: "Which school are you going to?"

"Cambridge."

"Awesome," Lu Yan He sighed.

Although Yuming has many students going to overseas universities for exchange every year, the competition is still very large to be able to get the opportunity to go to a world-class university like Cambridge.

Even Lu Yan He, a student who didn't have this idea, had heard of the difficulty.

At this time, Xiao Jing's phone suddenly rang.

Xiao Jing frowned as soon as he saw the caller's name.

Who is the person who can make him frown at this time?

Xiao Jing took his phone to the balcony to answer the phone.

Lu Yan He returned to his seat and opened his laptop.

After a while, he suddenly heard Xiao Jing's voice coming in: "... Can you stop making trouble? How could I give up this opportunity! You clearly know how much I value this opportunity... it's just a year, I'll be back in a year, I'm not going for a lifetime!"

Xiao Jing's voice revealed helpless fatigue.

This should be an argument with his girlfriend.

Otherwise, he wouldn't easily mention words like "lifetime" to others.

This kind of word basically only appears between couples.

Lu Yan He silently put on his headphones, pretending he hadn't heard anything.

After a while, Xiao Jing ended the call and returned from the balcony.

He saw Lu Yan He wearing headphones, seemingly not hearing the phone call he had on the balcony at all, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Xiao Jing sat in his seat, seemingly calming his mood.

Lu Yan He wrote out the outline and character sketches of "My Own Swordsman."

This story, these characters, he really didn't need to think much, he remembered them very clearly.

Mainly because he really likes watching this show, watched it several times, and often discussed it with classmates, and had a deep impression of many plots in it.

After a while, Lu Yan He took off his headphones.

He looked back at Xiao Jing and asked with inexplicable clumsiness: "Are you done with your call?"

Xiao Jing nodded.

He asked: "Yan He, do you quarrel with your girlfriend?"

Lu Yan He: "..."

He silently said "as expected" in his heart, and said: "Of course, of course we quarrel."

Xiao Jing grabbed his head as if in pain and said: "Then if you quarrel, what will you do?"

Lu Yan He thought that he and Chen Siqi really hadn't had a quarrel that he "didn't know what to do" until now.

He hesitated for a moment and said: "Maybe calm down first."

Xiao Jing: "Can you accept being separated from your girlfriend for a year? Long distance."

"Are you referring to the fact that you are going to the UK for exchange?" Lu Yan He didn't answer, but guessed the reason for Xiao Jing's argument with his girlfriend, "She doesn't want you to go?"

Xiao Jing said: "Originally, the two of us agreed to go together, but she didn't get the quota for exchange to the UK."

Lu Yan He: "So she hopes you stay and accompany her?"

"Hmm," Xiao Jing nodded sullenly.

"Then what do you think?"

"I don't want to give up this opportunity," Xiao Jing said. "I spent two months just preparing to get this quota."

Lu Yan He: "Since you have thought about it very clearly, then it's fine. Actually, it's not very difficult to handle. I think you might need to have an open and honest talk with your girlfriend."

"Talk about what?"

"Talk about choices," Lu Yan He said. "I am very worried about one thing. If you really give up this opportunity for your girlfriend, can you really accept this matter in the future and not blame your girlfriend for the reason of losing this opportunity?"

Xiao Jing shook his head almost without hesitation. "Yes, I think so too, so I think if you really feel this is a very important opportunity, important to the point that you don't have any hesitation when making a choice, then take this as a priority to think about your future relationship with your girlfriend."

"Are you saying, if we really can't talk it through, I should just break up?"

"It's not what I said, it's that you only have this path to go," Lu Yan He said. "What else can you do? Either you give up going to the UK, or she accepts you going to the UK. If you quarrel back and forth, the core contradiction doesn't change, and the result won't change."

Xiao Jing sighed and nodded.

"Actually, I know everything you said. I just, I just don't understand, clearly she was the one who prepared to go to the UK with me at the beginning, she is the person who understands best how much I value this exchange opportunity, why did she say let me give up?"

Lu Yan He: "Because maybe in her heart, the fact that you two are together is more important than anything else."

Xiao Jing was silent.

"Maybe you think it's just a year of separation, but in her view, this year of separation has doomed the two of you to be separated forever," Lu Yan He shrugged. "I'm a bit pessimistic, but I guess there is such a possibility."

After saying such words, Lu Yan He suddenly realized.

It is because he has suffered the loss of being stretched thin for three years, so he especially understands the constraints, shackles, and discomfort in Chen Siqi's family environment. Chen Siqi may be because of this, especially understanding his decision.

They have never complained about each other being busy or having a hard time finding time to date like ordinary couples.

It is not only because of the relationship between one in Yuming and one in Jiangguang, but because they put work and self-improvement in a very forward position.

This is the tacit understanding between the two of them.

If one of them didn't think so, maybe they would have had an argument like Xiao Jing and his girlfriend long ago.

Lu Yan He talked about this matter with Chen Siqi online.

Chen Siqi said: "I just think that we don't need to be in a hurry for a moment, and we don't need to care about this year or two. Even if one day you tell me you are going to some place to film, and you have to film for a year, I won't feel very panicked, because I know you will come back after filming. To be honest, Yan He, Xiao Jing's girlfriend is so worried, and hopes he won't go to the UK, could it also be because he didn't give his girlfriend this sense of security, and his girlfriend subconsciously felt that if they are not together for a year, they will definitely break up?"

Lu Yan He was speechless.

Chen Siqi: "The way we girls think is indeed different from you boys. I don't want to say that this really has any reason for Xiao Jing, but if it were you, I wouldn't worry about this, and I wouldn't persuade you not to go."

Lu Yan He was silent.

"Of course, you are different from Xiao Jing, and I am different from Xiao Jing's girlfriend," Chen Siqi smiled. "At least when I miss you, I will buy a plane ticket and fly to see you."

Lu Yan He burst into laughter.

"Also true."

"But not everyone has such conditions, and we must admit this point. If it weren't for "Jump Up," I would be a very ordinary female college student," Chen Siqi said. "So, I think in the final analysis, it is what you said. No matter what, you must do your best. I will never stop someone from becoming better, even if it is you, even if it is at the cost of our breakup, I sincerely think so."

Lu Yan He took a deep breath.

People have learning, career, and also emotion and rationality.

Lu Yan He rarely talks to Chen Siqi about such a deep place, this is a very accidental chat.

This night, Xiao Jing went to bed very early, and I don't know if he fell asleep or just kept the posture of "sleeping" on the bed.

Lu Yan He is also thinking about his future.

Will such contradictions appear between him and Chen Siqi in the future?

Thinking about it, he didn't think of potential contradictions, but there will definitely be conflicts. Lu Yan He lay on the bed, looking at the ceiling, thinking that he didn't have Chen Siqi's degree of tolerance. If one day he really had to pay the price of breaking up to achieve something, he definitely couldn't agree, and he couldn't agree even if he was shameless.

Thinking clearly about this matter, Lu Yan He felt at ease and fell asleep peacefully.

On the other side.

"Lu Yan He humiliated me severely, Ma Zong, don't let me do this work anymore, this is simply an impossible task."

Zhou Ping'an sighed to Ma Zhongquan, and after complaining, he looked at Ma Zhongquan, seemingly feeling pitiful for the humiliation he received.

Ma Zhongquan glared at him and said: "So what if you are humiliated? Have you been an agent for too long that you can't even stand this bit of grievance? When you were negotiating business back then, you smiled when others poured wine on your head, now you can't do it?"

Zhou Ping'an's expression was like a jammed robot, jamming on the spot, not knowing how to react.

Ma Zhongquan said: "Zhou Ping'an, I tell you, now for us, one Lu Yan He is more useful than five Ma Zhiyuans. I don't care what method you use, just win Lu Yan He over for me. I don't care what means you use, I just want the result."

Zhou Ping'an looked at Ma Zhongquan silently and resentfully, and said: "Ma Zong, why don't you go yourself?"

Ma Zhongquan: "..."

Zhou Ping'an said: "I'm really not shirking responsibility, Ma Zong. For me to go and talk to him, there are already old hatreds and new grudges. Even if I take my head off and give it to him, it won't be enough for him to vent his anger. You are really making things difficult for me."

Ma Zhongquan: "Then I will let Lin Suyang go and talk to him."

Zhou Ping'an was stunned.

"What? Ma Zong, how can you let Lin Suyang go and find Lu Yan He? I can't even handle things, why can he handle it?"

"Since you can't handle it, let him try," Ma Zhongquan said.

Zhou Ping'an's facial features twisted instantly, somewhat unwilling.

"Ma Zong, then I will try again. That kid Lin Suyang will definitely mess things up," he said directly.

Ma Zhongquan smiled, "Then I will give you another chance, don't let me down."

After Zhou Ping'an left, Ma Zhongquan also frowned.

Regarding Lu Yan He, he really doesn't have any good ideas now—as for Chen Ziyan, he already has evidence anyway, knowing that she is running a company outside. However, even if Chen Ziyan is swept out, Lu Yan He might not necessarily obey the company's arrangements.

According to the contract, only Chen Ziyan can manage Lu Yan He's brokerage affairs. If Chen Ziyan is gone, according to the contract, Lu Yan He can completely decide for himself, and he doesn't have to listen to anyone in the company. If this matter is not handled in advance, with the old hatreds and new grudges between Lu Yan He and them, it is very likely that Lu Yan He will become a "three-no" person, no one can manage, until the contract expires in three years.

The sentence repeated by Zhou Ping'an made Ma Zhongquan's sense of crisis deeper.

——At worst, just wait until the contract ends.

Whether it is Lu Yan He, Li Zhibai, or Yan Liang, they all had eight-year contracts at the beginning, and only Lu Yan He changed the contract later, which also means that the contracts of the three of them with the company expire in three years.

Ma Zhiyuan and Cheng Hai are also the same.

With their current popularity, heat, and status, there must be many brokerage companies wanting to compete for them.

Ma Zhongquan must plan in advance and scheme in order to find a way to keep people.

Otherwise, people have been cultivated to be popular, but they ran away. It is one thing for him to lose face, but being held accountable is a big problem.

Among them, Ma Zhongquan values Lu Yan He the most.

Any manager can see the preciousness of Lu Yan He.

With him, an actor and screenwriter who has reached the top position, in any negotiation with any platform, the chips have to be thicker than one or two times.

It's a pity that among these few people, Lu Yan He is the one who has broken away from his control the most seriously.

Ma Zhongquan is very annoyed.

Zhou Ping'an usually pays attention to Lu Yan He's movements, and he has paid more attention in the past two days.

Learning that Lu Yan He made an appointment with Huang Kai and Wang Zhong to meet, his first reaction was whether these people were going to cooperate?

After all, Lu Yan He's bomb-like official announcement at the Hexi Film Festival let everyone know that he had many projects to start.

Huang Kai also collaborated with Lu Yan He on "Golden Age."

Zhou Ping'an immediately went to inquire about the news.

After inquiring, Zhou Ping'an found it incredible.

This is actually a movie directed by Wang Zhong, written by Lu Yan He, and starring Chen Bige.

From the director, screenwriter, and lead actor, it can be said that it is the most top-level lineup in the domestic film circle, and it is difficult to put together a more luxurious lineup than this.

Zhou Ping'an reacted immediately. The movie is trying to find Huang Kai to play the male lead.

"Do you know about this movie?" Zhou Ping'an asked Li Zhibai for the first time.

Li Zhibai nodded, "I know."

"Knowing, why are you so careless? The role Huang Kai can play, you can also play, why didn't they find you?" Looking at Li Zhibai's casual appearance, Zhou Ping'an asked with hatred for iron not becoming steel.

Li Zhibai looked at him and said: "Why should they find me? If they didn't find me, it's just not suitable."

"Where are you worse than Huang Kai?" Zhou Ping'an asked angrily.

Li Zhibai: "I'm almost ten years apart, what do you say is the difference?"

He rolled his eyes hugely, "Can you stop pretending to be confused? Didn't you run over to threaten Old Lu before, saying that you can refuse the movie he wrote for us, and now you are helping me stare at the script he wrote?"