Chapter 423: Determined to win, really?

Liu Zhen and Zhong Benshuo were stunned for a moment, and then, Liu Zhen looked at Zhong Benshuo.

Zhong Benshuo said something to Liu Zhen, presumably explaining what Lu Yan He had just said.

After listening, Liu Zhen laughed, pointed his finger at Lu Yan He, and said a few words.

Zhong Benshuo also laughed.

"Yan He, don't worry, what happened in this room will definitely not get out."

Zhong Benshuo gave Lu Yan He a "relax" look, and then, as if to prove to Lu Yan He that it was really safe here and there was no need to worry, he reached out and grabbed the hand of the woman who walked to him, pulled gently, and the woman sat on his lap with a smile, one hand gently and softly resting on his shoulder.

Lu Yan He took a deep breath to calm himself down.

"Mr. Zhong, I love my girlfriend very much, so thank you and Senior Liu for your kindness, I don't need it." Lu Yan He insisted, then looked at the woman standing in front of him a bit at a loss, and said to her in English: "I don't know if you understand English, if you do, I don't need you to come and accompany me."

The woman looked helplessly at Zhong Benshuo and Liu Zhen.

Zhong Benshuo looked at Lu Yan He deeply, turned his head and whispered something to Liu Zhen.

The smile on Liu Zhen's face paused slightly, and then he made a casual gesture, and also gave the woman a "you go down" look.

In this environment, Lu Yan He felt like sitting on pins and needles.

Liu Zhen waited for the woman to leave before he smiled and looked at Lu Yan He.

Next, it was actually just ordinary chatting, and nothing of value was talked about. It was nothing more than finding suitable opportunities to film together and do projects together in the future. If Lu Yan He needed Liu Zhen's help, just speak up, etc., and so on.

Lu Yan He barely maintained his social etiquette and didn't get up and leave directly, but in his heart, he developed an attitude of "respectfully declining" towards Liu Zhen. Lu Yan He actually didn't care about consensual physical relationships; he wasn't some moral saint who couldn't tolerate sand in his eyes. However, he didn't like being brought to such an occasion the first time they met.

They hadn't really understood him, and hadn't probed his opinion in advance, so they just made arrangements for him in such a blatant attitude of "food and sex are human nature".

Lu Yan He felt a sense of being very disrespected—even though their attitude was so enthusiastic, and they seemed to be very friendly to him, chatting in such a "private and frank" environment the first time they met.

After staying for ten minutes, Lu Yan He thanked them and left on the grounds that he still had filming the next morning.

Zhong Benshuo didn't expect Lu Yan He to propose to leave so quickly.

But Lu Yan He's intention to leave was decided, so Zhong Benshuo had to send him away.

Lu Yan He walked out of the door of this room and said to Zou Dong and Wang Biao who had been waiting outside: "Let's go."

Zou Dong and Wang Biao saw Lu Yan He's dissatisfaction at the bottom of his heart at a glance.

Without asking anything, they nodded and followed.

Zhong Benshuo caught up.

"Yan He, do you really not want to play for a while longer? Why are you leaving so early?"

Lu Yan He stopped, and said very seriously to Zhong Benshuo: "Mr. Zhong, I hope you won't take me to such a place again without informing me in advance next time, and make some arrangements that I don't know about."

Zhong Benshuo's face became a bit stunned and ugly.

Lu Yan He took a deep breath, nodded to him, and left.

When Lu Yan He and the others returned to the hotel, Chen Ziyan's video conference was also over.

Lu Yan He told Chen Ziyan about what he had just experienced, and Chen Ziyan was furious, almost to the point of rolling up her sleeves and scolding Zhong Benshuo.

Lu Yan He said: "Sister Ziyan, forget it, just have less contact with him in the future."

Chen Ziyan's face was pale and ugly.

"Almost got caught by him! This kind of thing, once seen by someone, and a little bit of wind leaks out, your career will be ruined directly!" Chen Ziyan said, "This is not a joke. In South Korea, they can still continue to act even if they take drugs, but we in China are not. Once you get involved in this muddy water, do you think you can still come out clean? You will never be able to be a high-quality artist openly again. Every day after that, you will live in the worry of scandal exposure. The more successful you are, the more afraid you will be, because you know the place you stand on is not stable and may collapse at any time."

Every word Chen Ziyan said was like a hammer, hitting Lu Yan He's heart.

A burst of lingering fear surfaced in his heart.

If his acting career was really ruined because of this, what should he do? His back started to feel cold.

Chen Ziyan said: "This time it was also my negligence. These aspects abroad are very chaotic. In the future, when going abroad, to any place, as long as it is not a familiar person you trust, you cannot go around."

Actually, Zhong Benshuo couldn't be considered a stranger. It was precisely because Zhong Benshuo's arrangements for this trip were very meticulous, so Chen Ziyan and the others didn't expect that they would encounter this kind of thing when Zhong Benshuo took Lu Yan He to see actors like Liu Zhen in the evening.

Lu Yan He sighed.

"Actually, I felt something was wrong after going in, but I thought at the time, since it was Liu Zhen, it shouldn't be this situation, didn't expect..." This was a bit of a hindsight, but it was indeed the real situation.

Chen Ziyan said: "It's okay, fortunately you held your ground and were not tempted. Learn from the past, rest first, there is still filming tomorrow morning."

Lu Yan He nodded.

"Okay."

After Chen Ziyan waited for him to leave, the expression on her face that had just softened sank again.

Must make a preparation—

In case the fact that Lu Yan He entered that room last night is exposed, it will be unclear no matter how you say it, and it will be unclear even if you jump into the river. Must make a public relations plan in advance.

Furthermore, she must also seriously negotiate with Zhong Benshuo.

Things cannot just pass silently like this. Stop bringing Yan He bad with those rotten things!

Chen Ziyan has been in the entertainment industry for too many years and has seen many people dragged down because of such accidents.

Lu Yan He is still young and easily targeted.

Chen Ziyan sounded an alarm for herself.

The next morning, Zhong Benshuo did not appear. Of course, they didn't hope he would appear either. The work in the morning had nothing to do with Maxine.

Lu Yan He completed the shooting of a fashion magazine in South Korea—this was the cover bought for him by his endorsed brand Math.

This was also Lu Yan He's first time shooting the cover of a Korean fashion magazine. In itself, male artists are on fashion magazine covers much less than female artists, and Lu Yan He himself shoots even less. Basically, it is the endorsed brand that pays, and he cooperates with the brand to promote it as an endorser.

Shooting magazines was not that enjoyable for him, because he had to pose in various ways, which was not what he was good at. He was very adaptable to the camera, but he was not adaptable to posing. Fortunately, he finally had some experience, and he managed to finish it after some effort.

Until the shooting ended, Zhong Benshuo suddenly appeared.

He still had a bright smile on his face, as if the unpleasantness when Lu Yan He parted with him last night didn't exist, or rather, had vanished into thin air.

After Lu Yan He said goodbye to the photography team, he said in a very exaggerated tone: "As expected of you, even shooting a magazine is so cinematic! I watched from afar, and it seemed like I saw a scene in a movie! Your eyes are full of storytelling."

After Zhong Benshuo's exaggerated praise came out, Lu Yan He's face couldn't remain serious anymore.

He looked at Zhong Benshuo and sighed.

"Mr. Zhong, the fan meeting doesn't start until the afternoon, you don't have to come to accompany me in the morning."

"I am your die-hard fan, I also want to see your work state of shooting magazines." Zhong Benshuo said, "After you left yesterday, Brother Liu Zhen praised your acting skills, saying that among the younger generation of actors, you have super first-class potential, and you will definitely become a superstar in the future."

Lu Yan He couldn't really accept others praising him, let alone someone like Zhong Benshuo, praising him so fiercely. He waved his hand and said: "Okay, okay, Mr. Zhong, don't praise anymore, there is no such thing, it's not early, we are ready to go to lunch, are you going with us at noon? Or do you have other arrangements?"

Zhong Benshuo said: "I have already arranged it at noon, specially come to pick you up for lunch."

"Arrangement? Thank you for your kindness, but we saw a hot pot restaurant on the internet that we really want to go to, and we have already planned to go there to eat." Lu Yan He said.

Zhong Benshuo: "Huh? I have already booked the restaurant over there."

"Then I'm really sorry, you didn't tell us in advance, and we have already booked the seat." Lu Yan He said directly.

At this time, Chen Ziyan finished talking with the people from the magazine and came over.

"Mr. Zhong is here." Chen Ziyan exerted her gender advantage and professional advantage. At this time, she was not polite at all, and directly wrote the four words "yin and yang strange" into the pronunciation of every word.

Zhong Benshuo was stunned for a moment and immediately reacted to why Chen Ziyan had such an attitude towards him.

He didn't rush to explain anything, just smiled and pretended to be stupid.

In the end, Zhong Benshuo still followed them to the hot pot restaurant shamelessly, as if he couldn't understand Chen Ziyan's face, and didn't mention what happened last night throughout the whole process, just finding other topics to chat with them.

Lu Yan He finally felt amazed. How can a person be completely unaffected by the other party's cold attitude, and can sing a big show for several hours even if he sings alone?

It can only be said that it is no wonder that people can mix well in Maxine, always having two brushes.

In the afternoon fan meeting, a total of 500 people finally grabbed tickets to participate in this event.

Lu Yan He didn't expect that there would be 500 people coming to see him offline in South Korea.

Until he stood in front of these 500 fans, watching every one of them holding light boards or posters in their hands, and making excited, excited, wave-like shouts, Lu Yan He felt a kind of reality.

He and Chen Ziyan had never operated any fans, hot searches, etc. here. It can be said that popularity and fame were basically grown wildly. Precisely because of this, they felt surprised by the current situation.

Facing his fans, Lu Yan He was still very enthusiastic and very grateful to them.

Some fans said that she drove for several hours to get here, and was very happy to see him with her own eyes in her lifetime, very moved—Lu Yan He was scared by the word "in her lifetime", smiled and waved her hand, saying: "Not to that extent, not to that extent, seeing me is not worth becoming a wish for everyone in their lifetime, this gives me so much pressure, but thank you for liking me."

Some fans excitedly expressed that she liked *Friends* very much, but heard that he was not in the second season, which made her very uncomfortable, and even cried for a week. Lu Yan He's inner "Huh?" sound, a week? He could only appease, saying: "As actor Lu Yan He, I will always have works to accompany everyone in the future, no need to cry for a week, you are very beautiful, crying your eyes swollen will affect your appearance."

The fan sat down with joy.

This kind of face-to-face communication made Lu Yan He directly feel this thing that Zhong Benshuo had been emphasizing.

Streaming media can allow a show to go from a relatively closed place to the whole world.

When filming *Friends* and *Seventeen Layers* at the beginning, I never thought that this show would set off such a big influence in Japan and South Korea, with so many viewers.

Before Lu Yan He came, he still had a little bit of his own pride in his heart. He already had many people who liked him in China, and he was already a big star with many fans. South Korea and Japan were not his base camp. It was good if someone liked him, but it was not an urgent need to conquer if no one liked him or knew him.

However, from the moment he saw the fans who picked him up at the airport, to this moment, standing on the stage, hearing every fan express their love for him in person, Lu Yan He had to admit that he was greedy, even greedy.

He just wanted more people to know him, pay attention to him, like him, and recognize him. This is also a kind of spiritual opium, which will make people addicted. His so-called calmness and self-restraint are just a cross-section. In the end, he is not a hermit living in seclusion. Whether he admits it or not, he is essentially a bit vulgar and still pursues fame and fortune.

Lu Yan He didn't expect that he would suddenly have a further understanding of himself standing on the stage of this fan meeting.

This fan meeting was also broadcast live on Maxine simultaneously.

Zhong Benshuo received data from his colleagues that this fan meeting actually had nearly 70,000 viewers, and the maximum number of concurrent viewers was more than 40,000.

In terms of the nature of such an event, this is a very beautiful data.

As the data model calculated, many users on Maxine are his fans. Seeing his face, they will click in to take a look. Lu Yan He's event was not recommended on the big picture, just sent emails and reminders to the subscribed users of *Seventeen Layers* and *Friends*, telling them that there was a live broadcast of such a fan meeting. In addition, publicity was done on small channels and social media. With such publicity resources, such a number of viewers was obtained.

Zhong Benshuo looked at this data and became more convinced that he was right to invite Lu Yan He over this time.

Inviting Lu Yan He over once, from his service fee to the food, clothing, housing, and transportation of him and his team, cost a lot. But it's worth it. Maintaining a good relationship with Lu Yan He is secondary. Just the number of viewers of these two live broadcasts and the resulting publicity effect can easily earn back this cost.

Zhong Benshuo thought of the magazine Lu Yan He shot this morning.

Korean fashion magazines have always been xenophobic, especially excluding star artists from other Asian countries and regions. Cover resources are either reserved for their own people or given to Europe and America. The fashion magazine Lu Yan He shot today is not one of the top ones, but it is also a big publication that is firmly in the first line, and it is still very difficult to get on. But Math threw money at the editor-in-chief's office, urgently formed a shooting team, made a shooting plan overnight, and jumped the queue for the April issue schedule, saying it would be inserted.

From this incident, what Zhong Benshuo saw was not anything else, but Math's importance to Lu Yan He. The degree of importance a brand attaches to an endorser is not to look at the fancy titles given to him, and some commercial flattery that sounds beautiful, but to see how much money it is willing to spend on this person, and what kind of treatment it is willing to give him at critical moments.

From this point, Lu Yan He can directly say that it is not an exaggeration to be Math's own son in the Asian region.

Anyway, according to news from the fashion circle, Math has never spent so much money to buy a cover for any Korean endorser.

Zhong Benshuo is determined to further cooperate with Lu Yan He. ===== CHAPTER 424 =====