Chapter 396: Start Awarding!

He Lan had never imagined that one day she would appear in the media section of an awards ceremony red carpet.

This time, she was arranged by Chen Siqi to come to the Feihong Awards red carpet scene with Li Bi, as media personnel for *Jump Up*, to conduct red carpet interviews along with other media outlets.

This was also a major innovation of this year's Feihong Awards: setting up media interviews during the red carpet segment and doing a live broadcast.

This move was also for the Feihong Awards to expand its own influence, specifically giving various media outlets the right to do live broadcasts.

Previously, this point was held by the official side, doing exclusive broadcasts or selling them to others.

He Lan had no experience at all.

But fortunately, she was only there to help Li Bi today.

This short-video blogger, who had risen to fame over the past year, had become a big video blogger with tens of millions of followers on his account, relying on exclusive celebrity follow-ups, live broadcasts of high-platform confessions, live broadcasts of Venice International Film Festival premieres, and exclusive follow-up reports on Huang Kai—several major events.

Even Li Bi himself hadn't expected that this year could go so smoothly.

Of course, Lu Yan He and Chen Siqi hadn't expected it either.

The two of them wouldn't arrogantly think that this was all their credit. Giving the same opportunity to others, others might not necessarily be able to grasp it.

Li Bi had been glorious enough and worked hard enough this year.

He hadn't rested for a single day, updated at least three short videos every day, and there wasn't a single editor at *Jump Up* who hadn't been "harassed" and "asked for advice" by him.

He used the resources he could use to the extreme, and then, grasped several key opportunities, and leaped over the dragon gate.

He Lan hadn't known Li Bi for long, but this time in contact, she had already been shocked several times. Especially the interview outline Li Bi prepared this time, thick with several hundred pages, many of which were questions written and crossed out, and many scribbled keywords.

He Lan had asked him: "Did you think of all these questions yourself?"

Li Bi said: "No, I just found some of their previous interviews and reports, and while reading, I thought of them. Many times when reading the materials, a lot of questions would pop up. These are just some drafts, not yet summarized; I will definitely have to organize them again when the time comes."

Then, not two days later, He Lan saw Li Bi's thick stack of interview outline drafts turn into a complete set of interview questions sorted by person.

When Lu Yan He walked onto the red carpet, the red carpet process was just past the halfway point.

There was no situation on the Feihong Awards red carpet where people fought to be the finale and refused to appear; there wasn't that much nonsense, everything was normal.

The lineup of stars on the red carpet this time was large, but there weren't many who were also young idols like Lu Yan He.

His appearance also caused the most intense shouting in the entire venue.

Li Bi, who had just been resting with a numb face in the gap, suddenly became as if he had been injected with adrenaline, instantly perking up.

"Babes, my boss Lu Yan He is here!" Li Bi greeted with excitement and enthusiasm, "Damn, I'm not bragging, my boss is really young and handsome, a dragon among men. Other stars indeed have their own charms, but my boss has the charm of being awesome at a young age."

He Lan looked at Li Bi, who was full of nonsense, in disbelief. The reverence she had accumulated for him in her heart previously collapsed instantly.

Huh?

Wouldn't saying that attract hatred?

She was originally helping Li Bi, so she also looked at the live situation of Li Bi's live broadcast room. When she looked, huh... the barrage in the live broadcast room was all following Li Bi's excited posture, typing 666, handsome, handsome, handsome, and other words.

He Lan then realized, oh, it wasn't that Li Bi was too exaggerated, it was that she hadn't kept up with the rhythm of Li Bi's live broadcast room.

Lu Yan He's popularity at the scene was very high.

There were too many of his fans at the scene, and the momentum made the media at the scene feel it exceeded expectations—although they had long expected that Lu Yan He's popularity would be very high. But so high, it was something many of them hadn't expected at all.

After all, when several other stars who were usually more popular in everyone's minds entered, the atmosphere at the scene wasn't this enthusiastic.

He Lan, as a fan of Lu Yan He, was also a bit surprised and asked curiously: "Are Yan He's fans really this many?"

Li Bi knew best and said: "*Late Spring* brought the boss a lot of fans, especially female fans. The character he played in the film made many girls feel very immersed. Many media outlets, because of his image in *Late Spring*, called his character in *Late Spring* the most 'boyfriend-material' screen image this year. Actually, just looking at this, you know why there are so many fans at the scene."

He Lan suddenly understood.

Lu Yan He, because of his hot-search constitution, plus too many topics unrelated to artists, had always existed in an awkward situation where his fame was far greater than his popularity.

Now this awkward situation seemed to have changed because of the film *Late Spring*.

Lu Yan He walked to the media area to accept interviews from various media outlets.

Lu Yan He hadn't experienced this kind of group interview directly on the spot, which was quite fresh.

Someone asked him, what award do you most want to win tonight?

Lu Yan He treated everyone equally and said he wanted to win both awards.

Someone asked him, regarding Best Actress tonight, who he predicted would win.

Lu Yan He said, I'm too nervous about myself, where would I have the leisure to predict whether others will win or not.

Someone asked him, why didn't he bring Chen Siqi to attend the awards ceremony?

Lu Yan He said, she is studying at Jiangguang, college students are very busy, not as free as you media say.

After a round, Lu Yan He, relying on his Tai Chi skills, completely handled these tricky questions from the media.

Chen Ziyan saw Lu Yan He's performance in the back and said with a smile: "He can completely graduate now in dealing with these media; he doesn't need me to continue guiding him behind the scenes."

Wang Biao said with a grinning face: "Then Sister Ziyan, guide me more in the future; I need to learn."

Chen Ziyan looked at Wang Biao, who was smiling shamelessly, smiled, and said: "Just watching more is learning; this kind of thing has no other techniques. Besides, what are you learning from me? Go learn from your Little Brother Lu; my things are almost outdated."

"Sister Ziyan, if your experience is outdated, then all agents can retire." Wang Biao said immediately.

"Where did you learn these glib tones?"

Wang Biao smiled and said: "What glib tone? I'm telling the truth."

Lu Yan He came to Li Bi and He Lan.

"Haha, my boss is here, babes, if you have any questions you want to ask him, type them in the barrage, I'll help you ask on the spot."

Li Bi said excitedly immediately.

He Lan stood beside Li Bi and was startled by the enthusiasm suddenly ignited in Li Bi.

Lu Yan He, however, seemed to be already very familiar with Li Bi's style and was not surprised at all.

He first greeted the people in the live broadcast room.

Li Bi said: "Boss, the first question everyone wants to ask you is, if you win an award tonight, will you give everyone some benefits?"

Lu Yan He was stunned and asked: "What benefits does everyone want? You guys post them in Li Bi's live broadcast room, and I'll see when the time comes. If it can be realized, it will be realized."

Li Bi: "Boss is generous! Babes, did you hear that? Whatever benefits you want, hurry up and type them in the barrage!"

He added: "The second question everyone wants to ask is, besides winning Best Actor tonight, will you focus on acting in films in the future and not act in TV dramas?"

"No." Lu Yan He shook his head, "Films and TV dramas are two very different subjects. The satisfaction of acting in a TV drama and the satisfaction of acting in a film are two different feelings. Moreover, many stories must have the volume of a TV drama to be filmed; not every story is suitable for being filmed as a movie."

Lu Yan He answered two questions, saw two more groups of people coming from the red carpet side, and said: "Then I'll go in first, let's talk later."

He waved his hand.

Li Bi said with a bright smile: "Bye-bye, boss."

Participating in an awards ceremony means having to hold your breath and keep your mental state at a positive and full level. If this state lasts for a long time, it will be very tiring.

However, one must also pay attention to expression control. If you were smiling the last second and suddenly stopped the next, and it was photographed and posted on the internet in the form of a GIF, it is very likely that some haters will start saying you have a cold face, and even question your cold face, analyzing from various micro-expressions reflecting psychology how cold-blooded your nature is.

This is nonsense, but paired with such a GIF from smiling to not smiling, it will indeed give people a bad impression.

After Lu Yan He entered the venue, he found that everyone's face was full of smiles, almost no one was not smiling.

In such an occasion, there is more small talk than other occasions.

Lu Yan He also gradually discovered that he knew more and more people in the film industry.

The most popular films at this year's Feihong Awards were *Sanshan*, *White Pearl*, *Late Spring*, and *Upstairs*.

These films were either acted in by Lu Yan He himself or had already been encountered before. For example, Teacher Liu Teli.

He saw Lu Yan He, pointed at him with an exaggerated gesture, and said: "Little Lu, we've met on a narrow road again."

Lu Yan He was also very happy to see Teacher Liu Teli.

"Hello, Teacher Liu." Lu Yan He had watched the film *Upstairs* and liked it very much. Liu Teli's performance was also very good, good to the point of being supernatural, playing a worldly character, playing it like a hermit in the city, and exploding with surprising joy at critical moments.

This was also why the media and critics believed that Best Actor tonight was a battle between Chen Pinhe and Liu Teli.

If Chen Pinhe was a typical academic school, then Liu Teli was a typical worldly school. The acting styles of the two were completely different, and the styles of the films were also very different.

Liu Teli encouraged Lu Yan He, saying: "I wish you can win an award tonight. *Late Spring* and *Sanshan* are both good films, especially the scene you guest-starred in *Sanshan*, it was really awesome. I heard you finished filming it in one night, incredible."

Lu Yan He hurriedly said thank you.

"I still have a lot to learn and improve."

Liu Teli suddenly saw someone, immediately pulled Lu Yan He over, and said: "Let me introduce you, Old Huang, Huang Beng, the director of *Upstairs*. Old Huang, Yan He doesn't need me to introduce him to you, right?"

Huang Beng looked like a fairy, very thin, wearing a Daoist bun, but wearing new-style Hanfu, quite trendy, very different from many people at the scene.

Lu Yan He greeted with surprise: "Hello, Director Huang, I am Lu Yan He."

Huang Beng smiled and said: "Yan He, hello, I am Huang Beng."

This person also spoke quite slowly.

The two exchanged pleasantries.

Lu Yan He also took the opportunity to express his liking for *Upstairs*.

"This Rashomon-style structure is rarely seen in domestic films, and it is constantly reversing in such a small space, and the whole process is from the perspective of Teacher Liu Teli's character to reverse, not multi-perspective, keeping the film at a highly tense rhythm from beginning to end, and it didn't get messy at all in the second half, really too awesome." Lu Yan He said, "I like this film very much."

Hearing Lu Yan He say so much, Huang Beng changed his previous indifferent attitude and became a bit more talkative.

"I heard you also write scripts yourself."

"Ah, yes." Lu Yan He nodded and said with a smile, "But I haven't written this kind of script that plays with structure and reversals. This actually has high requirements for storytelling."

Huang Beng immediately looked at Liu Teli, "Look, people who know the business all know how hard it is to write my script, only you still dislike me for playing tricks and not being cinematic."

Liu Teli said: "At my age, how would I understand these fancy things."

"Then just act more." Huang Beng said immediately, "Act more in things you haven't acted in before, don't always guard your old artist's golden body and not come down."

"To hell with your old artist's golden body, if I wanted to guard this golden body, I wouldn't bother acting in your play."

"Virtue, look at your eyes shining when you look at the script, it's not like you can't see where this script is awesome."

Lu Yan He listened to the two of them bickering, between laughter and tears, "..."

Afterwards, Lu Yan He was also busy helping people from *Late Spring* and *Sanshan* introduce other filmmakers.

Busy all the time, couldn't stop.

He also met Chen Pinhe.

However, he didn't know why, Chen Pinhe's attitude towards him seemed indifferent, and he didn't know what was going on.

It was just because Chen Pinhe was on the list of three people Chen Ziyan provided that he needed to be wary of, so he wasn't very relaxed when facing Chen Pinhe.

And Chen Ziyan's prediction was also very accurate; many people probed him about *Burning Fire* tonight.

Especially Wang Zhong.

Wang Zhong really cared about the three people Chen Jiang, Sui Fangran, and Wang Lu from *Sanshan*, feeling like he had become half an agent, constantly trying to recommend them to others and helping them find opportunities.

In fact, because of the film *Sanshan*, the three of them already had a business card belonging to them in the circle and had fame.

Their subsequent resources were also quite good, and they had all received new plays.

It's just that none of them were leads.

The biggest beneficiary of *Sanshan* was still Wang Zhong, followed by Lu Yan He. The three of them actually just relied on this film to let the film circle know them.

Compared to *Sanshan*, the help *Late Spring* brought to Yan Lingyu, Kong Fan, and the others was much greater. On one hand, the box office of *Late Spring* was higher, the influence was greater, making their basic foundation larger; on the other hand, it was the convenience of the subject matter.

*Sanshan* had the director's style in the first place.

*Late Spring* highlighted characters more, and they were characters with different personalities and strong impressions.

From these two films, one can clearly see the importance of picking plays—both plays were good plays, but for the actors themselves, there were differences.

Some actors became famous overnight with their debut, stepping into the sky in one step.

Some actors had popular plays but were not popular themselves.

This was not only because of whether the actor had audience appeal, but also closely related to their characters.

However, no matter what, that night, these young people were all in the spotlight.

The entertainment industry really liked fresh blood, and these fresh blood that emerged from films were clearly the most welcomed by the traditional mainstream entertainment industry.

The Feihong Awards even arranged a program for each of these two groups of young people.

Lu Yan He didn't participate because he didn't have time to rehearse.

When the awards ceremony was about to begin, Lu Yan He sat down, took a deep breath, and then exhaled. At this moment, Lu Yan He felt a feeling completely different from the previous awards ceremonies he had attended.

He inexplicably had a sense of ease and comfort.

Of course, there was still nervousness. The ease he spoke of was towards such a big scene at night, towards such an awards ceremony that made the sense of ritual one hundred percent. He no longer felt like a newcomer and had the indifferent spirit of returning home.

Quite good.

Lu Yan He smiled.

Then, right from the start, the awards ceremony announced the winner of Best Supporting Actress.

This was another innovation of the Feihong Awards.

Separating the nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress and putting them in the first few award sequences, thereby raising the audience's attention to the entire awards ceremony.

The winner of Best Supporting Actress was Bao Zhenzhu from *Upstairs*, a female actor in her fifties, with a plump figure and exquisite heavy makeup. On the big screen, all five nominated female actors were there, and their appearances were also shown on the big screen at the same time. Bao Zhenzhu had visible nervousness; she even held Liu Teli's hand tightly, watching the presenter on the stage without blinking.

When the presenter read Bao Zhenzhu's name, she jumped up from her seat in excitement, hugging Liu Teli and shouting in surprise.

Really, in just a second, tears welled up from her eyes.

Lu Yan He was always easily moved by this moment, and therefore couldn't help but stand up and applaud for her.

When she was giving her acceptance speech, she pointed at Liu Teli and said: "Liu Teli, I have to thank you. No one has asked me to act for five years. If it weren't for you recommending me to Huang Beng, letting me return to the set to act in the film *Upstairs*, I might never have been able to return to the set in my life. Everyone here, producers, directors, colleagues, I, Bao Zhenzhu, am still acting, very much want to act, and I can act well, please come to me more!"

She finished these words at a fast speed, as if a breath she had held for many years was suddenly vented.

She hugged the trophy and couldn't help her excitement under the eyes of everyone, laughing twice.

The whole audience followed suit and laughed.

Lu Yan He shook his head and sighed to Liu Bige, who was sitting beside him, saying: "Every time I attend an awards ceremony, I always encounter such actors I didn't know before, because of a good play, a good performance, being dug out, letting them appear on the stage, letting us know them, I really like attending such awards ceremonies." ===== CHAPTER 397 =====