Chapter 444: Everyone is telling him to rest well

At the Hexi Film Festival, the Audience Choice Award is a very special existence.

It means that it doesn't count the votes of media and film critic judges; it is the film that the audience likes the most in the main competition unit, voted entirely by the audience.

Every year, the Best Film of the Hexi Film Festival and the film that wins the Audience Choice Award are in a struggle to see whose final achievements are higher.

The achievements here include both box office competition and the contention for other major awards, and even the rankings by major top film magazines.

This year's Hexi Film Festival Best Film winner is a Danish film called *Whispers of the Wind*, which tells the story of a little girl and her grandfather living in the mountains.

Lu Yan He didn't watch it, but the word-of-mouth was indeed very good. Especially major media outlets gave it extremely high evaluations.

However, its shortcomings were also very obvious, which was that some audiences felt this film was too boring; it was basically just some daily life, without too many ups and downs in the plot.

Many audiences still wanted to see a story with more development.

Besides that, Chen Bige also won the Best Actress award at the Hexi Film Festival for the first time, winning a top international film festival Best Actress award, and her career reached a new peak.

The topic of *Rouge* was overwhelming for a time, spreading across the entire internet.

A film winning an award at a film festival of this level was news that would reach the level of being on the *Xinwen Lianbo*.

Lu Yan He was also excited watching the live broadcast.

In this way, this was already the third film Lu Yan He participated in that had won a major award at a top international film festival.

Lu Yan He felt excited and joyful from the bottom of his heart.

When receiving the award, Wang Zhong said on stage during his acceptance speech, very seriously: "I originally thought I was here tonight to help Yan He accept the Best Screenplay award."

Lu Yan He didn't feel it was a pity at all.

Compared to his Best Screenplay award, he of course wanted to win this Audience Choice Award more!

HP immediately released the news of *Rouge* winning the award on major social media accounts and announced the preview of subsequent special viewing activities to be held for *Rouge* around the world, starting the pre-heating.

As a screenwriter, Lu Yan He won a major award with his first film.

What Lu Yan He's facial nerve disorder, what Lu Yan He's recent situation?

Nothing was wrong.

Everyone sincerely believed that Lu Yan He was doing just fine!

As his junior year was about to end, Lu Yan He had already harvested his second major international award.

Not to mention the Best Director award for *Sanshan*, the starring role in *Late Spring* winning the Venice Jury Grand Prize, and the screenplay for *Rouge* winning the Hexi Film Festival Audience Choice Award—the weight of these two major awards was so heavy that he could even break into the tier of Shang Yongzhou.

Zhenhua University immediately sent a congratulatory message, congratulating Lu Yan He, a student of the School of Literature of the university, for the film *Rouge*, which he independently wrote, winning the Hexi Film Festival Audience Choice Award.

With this, the film works written by two students currently at Zhenhua University had both won major awards at top international film festivals.

Yuming was very jealous.

Why didn't Lu Yan He come to Yuming in the first place?

Lu Yan He didn't know how many congratulatory calls he had received.

And led by Huang Tai of Long Yan, major companies were enthusiastically coming to make appointments with him for scripts.

The project *Those Years, the Girl We Chased Together*, which hadn't officially started, was once again targeted by many people who wanted to compete for it.

Some companies directly offered a guaranteed price of 5 million and a 5% box office share.

Before this, such conditions were unthinkable.

Because of the award won by *Rouge*, the actors who were going to participate in *Love Letter* also came to sound Lu Yan He out, asking if *Love Letter* would also be sent to film festivals later.

Lu Yan He actually felt that the film *Love Letter* was very similar to *Rouge*; both belonged to using an art-house film method to film a film that was relatively pleasing to the audience.

Neither of them set too high a threshold for viewing, and they released extreme emotions within, even if in a relatively restrained way.

In fact, after the film *Rouge* won the award, Lu Yan He immediately received emails from people at several international film festivals, inviting his new work *Love Letter* to participate in their film festivals, including even the Venice International Film Festival and the Hexi Film Festival.

To be honest, even with two major awards in hand, because of his multiple identities and the fact that he wasn't a director—as an art of directors, Lu Yan He, whether as an actor or his identity, wouldn't be a focus of consideration for film festivals.

However, in this situation, Venice and Hexi immediately lowered their status.

Not to mention other film festivals.

Actually, besides these four major film festivals, there were other film festivals in the world, some of which were equally distinctive and could unearth several films with widespread influence in the global film industry every year.

It was really because Lu Yan He's combat power at international film festivals in recent years was too strong.

In the eyes of overseas film festivals, he was like a meteor that appeared out of nowhere, suddenly rushing in front of everyone, blooming with a light that no one could ignore.

However, such a meteor, after the *Rouge* crew returned to the country in glory, and with Chen Bige and Huang Kai frequently being photographed by the media about their recent situations, Lu Yan He remained holed up on the Zhenhua University campus, basically never coming out.

Many media outlets wanted to interview Lu Yan He.

In fact, besides the media, because of the award, official departments and organizations wanted to organize seminars, including some formal and official publicity; they wanted to invite Lu Yan He, but all were politely declined by Chen Ziyan.

Wang Zhong, Chen Bige, and Huang Kai all attended a high-level film seminar, but Lu Yan He did not attend.

This sudden disappearance of his finally caused more and more discussion.

What exactly is wrong with Lu Yan He?

Why hasn't he appeared? Why is he hiding on the Zhenhua campus?

Many people even used the word "hiding."

Many people were asking.

Lu Yan He felt that not responding would only make such questions intensify.

Therefore, Lu Yan He responded in his comment section: After returning from Hexi, I went for some check-ups, and the doctor said I was too tired and under too much pressure and must rest, so I am resting for a period of time.

He couldn't be bothered to find other excuses.

As a result, this response from Lu Yan He rushed onto the hot search with whirlwind speed and force.

However, what was magical was that after this response hit the hot search, basically no one questioned him or said he was selling misery.

On the internet, basically everyone was saying "Lu Yan He has indeed worked too hard these years," "He really should rest well," "If he doesn't rest, I would think he is an alien hiding on our Earth," and so on.

Actually, everyone had a count in their hearts.

How could Lu Yan He not be tired?

The achievements he made in these three years might be something other actors couldn't achieve in a lifetime.

Studying at a top university, taking care of artist work, using spare time to film, becoming a model worker in the entertainment industry, writing his own scripts, and under such intensity, still occasionally live-streaming, working as the editor-in-chief of *Jump Up* magazine... such intensity made people's heart rates increase just looking at it.

Lu Yan He just persisted like that.

Lu Yan He's good popularity with passersby was fully reflected in this incident.

Everyone was telling him to rest well.

However, Lu Yan He actually received a pile of supplements, which was also something he didn't expect.

Just at this time, Lu Yan He suddenly received a message from Chen Siqi: What's this about the doctor saying you are under too much stress? When did this happen?

Lu Yan He's heart skipped a beat.

Uh, oh no.

He had been consciously hiding this matter from Chen Siqi, not wanting her to know, not wanting her to worry.

Now it couldn't be hidden anymore.

Lu Yan He had to quickly call her immediately.

"It's not a big deal, it's just telling me to rest well. I thought there was no need to make you worry, so I didn't tell you," Lu Yan He explained as soon as he opened his mouth.

Chen Siqi said: "I don't believe what you say now."

Lu Yan He: "..."

Chen Siqi asked: "Who accompanied you to see the doctor? Which doctor did you see? I want the contact information."

Lu Yan He: "Sister Ziyan accompanied me. I didn't lie to you, and I'm not comforting you either. Really, I swear."

Chen Siqi: "Hmm, I know."

Chen Siqi said again: "I have already bought a plane ticket for three hours from now. I will arrive at Zhenhua at eight o'clock in the evening. You come to the gate to pick me up."

Lu Yan He: "..."

He wanted to say there was no need to make this trip; he was really fine.

But he didn't even need to say these words out loud; he knew it would be useless if he said them.

Chen Siqi wouldn't not come because of this sentence of his.

This response from Lu Yan He caused quite a stir and earthquake in the entertainment industry.

If it weren't for the fact that this sentence was too sudden, it wouldn't have shocked everyone so much.

After all, Lu Yan He didn't even attend the film seminar; in everyone's understanding, this could only mean that Lu Yan He's problem was indeed a bit serious.

And not just ordinarily serious.

Otherwise, he would have attended.

Actually, Lu Yan He not attending this matter was nothing. Wang Zhong and the others all knew Lu Yan He's situation, so after explaining it to the department people, they all understood. Not only did they understand, but now Lu Yan He was like a lucky doll; no one wanted to see him have an accident, so they all told him to take good care of his health and rest well.

After Chen Siqi came to Zhenhua and saw Lu Yan He's state with her own eyes, confirming that he wasn't forcing himself or pretending, she believed his words.

She specifically went to find Chen Ziyan again to chat with her, and after knowing that Lu Yan He really didn't have other problems hidden from her, Chen Siqi glared and lectured Lu Yan He: "If you have such things again and your first reaction is to hide it from me, let's just break up!"

Lu Yan He was stunned; he didn't expect Chen Siqi to react so strongly.

But fortunately, besides this sentence, Chen Siqi didn't say anything else.

Lu Yan He could only promise repeatedly that he wouldn't do it again.

Chen Siqi scolded him: "With so many things, the pressure is so great that you have nerve problems, and you don't even know what's going on yourself. I don't know what you are doing treating yourself like an ascetic monk!"

Lu Yan He silently took the scolding.

Chen Siqi said again: "Regarding *Jump Up*, don't worry about it in the future. Don't review the pre-printing versions either. I am going to cancel your editor-in-chief position."

Chen Siqi was righteous and confident, not intending to discuss it with Lu Yan He at all.

Of course, Chen Siqi didn't have the authority to cancel Lu Yan He's editor-in-chief position.

But she didn't hesitate at all.

She gave this instruction decisively, using an imperative sentence without doubt.

In front of Lu Yan He, she didn't need any authority.

Many of Lu Yan He's jobs were thus split up and taken away by Chen Siqi and Chen Ziyan.

It had to be said that the things he had to deal with every day really became much less.

Basically, he could only focus on his studies and the preparation for *Love Letter*.

Just like that, he rested until the end of May.

The sunlight became golden like honey, and the leaves cast green shade under the sun.

Li Zhibai finally finished filming and returned.

The three of them finally sat together after a long time and had a meal. ===== CHAPTER 445 =====