Chapter 470: Influence

The first episode of *River of Silence* didn't actually push the main story much, mainly focusing on character shaping.

Especially focusing on the characters played by Lu Yan He and Ceng Qiao, from some detailed places, to establish their characters.

This way of shooting will pose a challenge to the audience—

Because in this era of watching dramas, it is not the time when there is enough patience to wait for a drama to finish portraying characters and then tell a story well.

Everyone's life is in a hurry, unable to stop well and enjoy a leisurely evening.

Even if watching a drama relaxedly, they hope the rhythm is faster, faster, and can mobilize the pleasure of watching the drama.

Chen Lingling didn't have the idea of "I am shooting art" to challenge the audience's patience. Although the content of the first episode was mainly about portraying characters, she also used several ways to keep the plot moving and changing. There were almost no long shots, and she wouldn't let the picture stay on a scene for a long time. So, looking back at the first episode, the plot is actually easy to summarize, but when watching, the amount of information is not small.

Lu Yan He was also very satisfied with the first episode.

Chen Lingling has a biggest feature in shooting dramas, which is also an advantage in Lu Yan He's opinion, that is, the detail processing is very in place.

Her details are not giving you a close-up shot, marking it there, and telling you that it's over. Every detail under Chen Lingling's lens is pushed forward with the plot and character portrayal. For example, when Lu Yan He entered the company twice to greet colleagues, everyone's expressions completed a sharp contrast in the first episode—this kind of contrast between front and back formed a strong perception under the close-up lens.

Lu Yan He said to Li Zhibai: "Director Chen's skill is deeper. I dare not say anything else, but the editing of this drama is a bit powerful."

Li Zhibai also nodded.

"Several shot transitions that made me marvel." Li Zhibai said to Lu Yan He, "Does Director Chen Lingling have no other dramas later? Can she let me play a role?"

Lu Yan He said: "You contact her yourself. If you want to act, I think any director will seriously consider it and won't turn you away directly."

Li Zhibai: "Damn, you are not prepared to help me introduce her?"

Lu Yan He said: "This is of course no problem, but based on my understanding of Director Chen Lingling, she will prefer actors who contact her directly."

"Oh? I heard her temper is a bit weird, is it true or false?"

"Can't say weird, it's a bit different from others." Lu Yan He said, "Almost all her thoughts are on shooting dramas, and other things are handled by her producer Huangcheng, who has cooperated with her for many years. She also trusts Huangcheng extremely. So, in many things, she will rely on Huangcheng, and this dependent relationship and childish personality make her discussed by many people as having a weird personality. Actually, I have cooperated with her on two dramas, and I like her very much. However, it's been two dramas, and I have almost no personal friendship with her, which is different from other directors I have cooperated with."

"Oh?"

"So, you should be able to understand what I mean when I say she is a director focused on shooting dramas."

Li Zhibai nodded.

He glanced at his phone.

"*River of Silence* premiered for one hour, and the number of domestic viewers exceeded five million." Li Zhibai clicked his tongue, "Perfect! Relieved."

Lu Yan He said: "Don't have to worry too much. If a drama wants to be said to be hot, explosive, and many people like it, how can it be said so only with a number of tens of millions of viewers? My fans, no matter how many, can't exceed one million. I have never felt that if the fans in my fan support group don't watch it, this drama will flop. This drama is not just me alone. Director Chen and Ceng Qiao are both very excellent creators. If my fans don't watch it, there are their fans watching it. Even if our fans don't watch it, there are so many audiences who don't chase stars and only watch dramas."

Li Zhibai: "If these words are spread out, your fans will cry down the Great Wall again, and will cry and complain that you belittle their efforts and support for you."

Lu Yan He sighed, "To be honest, those fans who truly support me have never morally kidnapped me like this. I can't say moral kidnapping, sigh, actually it is, without their support, I am nothing, who cares about me."

Li Zhibai: "Forget it, you suddenly belittle yourself again. You are respectful enough to your fans. And, to be honest, it's not that you begged them to do those things. You do your job well, they like you, spontaneously help you promote, and you also thank them, isn't that enough? If they feel that liking you and doing a lot of things for you gives them the right to manipulate you and command you, that's their problem. At this time, do you really want to accept this kind of moral kidnapping and compromise? You are not unable to live without fans. Since the college entrance examination, you haven't relied on fans to eat. You really relied on fans to eat, that is, the year or two of the competition, and they all ran away later, didn't they?"

"..." Li Zhibai's way of comforting is unique, but it is also very effective.

Lu Yan He laughed.

That night, many friends watched *River of Silence* and sent their feelings to Lu Yan He.

Everyone had mostly good reviews.

Director Luo Yuzhong still sincerely gave Lu Yan He a suggestion, saying that he felt that in the scene at the end of the first episode, he returned to the company from the police, facing the uneasy, suspicious, and vaguely wary eyes of his colleagues, he could handle it more "confused" and "at a loss."

Director Luo Yuzhong said bluntly: Your acting and perception have reached a realm now. At this time, you must use some techniques to make your performance more precise.

Lu Yan He understood what Director Luo Yuzhong meant.

Many people mistakenly think that acting is entering that character state, and it is always right. This is of course a very high level, but to become a truly top actor, one must make one's performance not only higher than technique, but also higher than pure perception.

Not only Director Luo Yuzhong, but also the screenwriter Feng Qiyue who cooperated on *Seventeen Layers* sent a message: The script of *River of Silence* is actually very average, just a second-rate script, all relying on your director, editing, and actors' performance to decorate it, making it look like it reached nine points (out of ten). If it weren't for you, just looking at the script, from the first episode, it is just a script that just passed.

Lu Yan He especially enjoyed this time.

People he knows in the entertainment industry pay attention to his works and will put forward their professional opinions.

Whether it is praise or criticism, this kind of discussion gives Lu Yan He a sense of satisfaction.

Just like an author who wrote an article and got many comments. Just like a chef who posted a cooking video on the internet and got many replicas and taste feedback.

Lu Yan He didn't even have time to look at the reaction on the internet.

In the main creator group of *River of Silence*, everyone was chatting and laughing.

Although the leads of this drama are Lu Yan He and Ceng Qiao, there are also other actors.

Today, the first episode went online. In addition to the leads like Lu Yan He and Ceng Qiao who will definitely be bought hot searches by the film party or their own company, other actors will also make good use of this drama promotion time to strive for greater exposure, so that they can increase their popularity and make their careers develop.

And Lu Yan He and Ceng Qiao are not the kind of leads who will prevent supporting roles from becoming popular, so there is no so-called warning means, nor is there any behavior of letting the film party and platform party highlight themselves and suppress others.

Other actors have all mixed out of various crews, and they feel the cold and warmth of this circle even more clearly than popular stars like Lu Yan He.

Therefore, the two leads Lu Yan He and Ceng Qiao have no "anti-explosion" means at all, and because of the turmoil between the two of them, almost all the promotional exposure opportunities have fallen on them, allowing them to get a large amount of exposure for a time, so their gratitude to Lu Yan He and Ceng Qiao can be imagined.

At this time, Maxine released news: *River of Silence* went online on Maxine for 4 hours, and globally, the number of viewers for the first episode exceeded one million, and it has reached the sixth place on the real-time heat list in the Asia-Pacific region.

This is a very valuable data on Maxine.

Maxine also officially announced that it has started communicating with Director Chen Lingling and her team about the second season of *River of Silence*.

These messages are all proving one thing: *River of Silence* is also very hot on the foreign internet.

The first episode achieved a good start with results that were both unexpected and reasonable.

The multiple hot searches arranged by Chen Ziyan made all the discussions about Lu Yan He focus on the performance and characters of this drama, and no content outside the drama was arranged.

The second episode will go online the next day.

Before this, Lu Yan He's promotion finally went full throttle.

First is the online interview of Lu Yan He by Japan's *Kinema Junpo*, with Chinese and Japanese bilingual versions released simultaneously.

This interview was done a week ago.

Japan's *Kinema Junpo* special critic Konishi Toshide came to China and interviewed Lu Yan He in person.

An hour later, South Korea's *Film Weekly* columnist Kim Ok-min released a review of Lu Yan He's film and television path and made a very large-scale comment on his new work *River of Silence*.

Subsequently, Singapore's *Critic Newspaper*, Vietnam's *Star*, India's *Bollywood Legend*, and many other Asian media magazines published articles one after another, or with a little interview, or a comprehensive report, focusing on Lu Yan He, the actor, and his new work *River of Silence*, and reported and promoted it on their official websites and social media.

In the afternoon, media in Europe and the United States also went online one after another.

French film critic Marion Tucci and American *Variety* columnist film critic Tom Wayne, who have had friendships and good relationships with Lu Yan He, updated their dynamics of watching *River of Silence* on their social media.

Afterwards, the executive editor of *Hexi Film*, Evan Gardi, also updated his dynamics, saying: "The new drama *River of Silence* starring the Chinese actor Lu Yan He, whom I have been paying attention to, has been broadcast, and I have seen many good reviews, making me can't wait to go back tonight and watch both episodes in one go."

This is the work of Chen Siqi and Lin Yu.

To be precise, it was also after they communicated with Chen Ziyan that they decided to ask their media friends to come out at this time to create such momentum for Lu Yan He.

Regardless of good or bad, at least during the broadcast period, they released dynamics related to *River of Silence* for the first time.

At the same time, the film and television self-media account *Jump Up* did not avoid suspicion, and the foreign media released a related report, and this side forwarded one, as long as it was a foreign media or celebrity with a little fame and influence, they were all like this.

After all, not many people will take the initiative to pay attention to these things on foreign media.

And under such "carpet bombing," the negative situation brought about by the threat of Lu Yan He's fan support group to disband before lost any deterrent power.

Until this time, Chen Ziyan "belatedly" spoke out:

—As Lu Yan He's agent, during this time, both Yan He and I have been very tormented. No matter how great the achievements Yan He has made, in his heart, what he cherishes most is the fans who have always supported him. Because we all know very clearly that without the firmest support of the fans, Yan He's talent, efforts, and his every work might not be able to obtain such a high starting point.

—However, we helplessly discovered a fact, that is, our idea of wanting to focus on works has been challenged from all sides. Partners hope Yan He has more exposure, platforms hope Yan He has more topics, and some fans hope Yan He can be tougher, more perfect, and stronger, becoming a "supreme god in the entertainment industry."

—No one is a god, humans are humans, so humans can only choose what they really want and focus on what they really want.

—There are many roads in this world. Some people tell you that you should choose a road that climbs high, some people tell you, no, you have to choose a flat road, some people tell you, you can choose a road full of sunshine and flowers, some people tell you, you should choose a road that no one has walked. However, no matter what road it is, what we have to choose is not the road others tell us we should choose, but the road we want to walk in our own hearts.

—In order to persist in the road we want to walk, we sincerely and painfully made a decision. From now on, we will disband all fan support groups. Please forgive us, it is not that we no longer need everyone, but that we want to firm ourselves up. If everyone is willing to continue to applaud and cheer for Yan He, we sincerely thank you. If everyone feels disappointed and leaves from now on, we also accept it calmly. Wish us all to be able to follow our hearts and not exceed the rules.

He Lan's phone vibrated as if it were crazy.

As a die-hard member of Lu Yan He's fan support group, ever since someone led the rhythm to force Lu Yan He to be the first lead, He Lan clearly stated that she did not accept such behavior and always tried to stop such things, but was kicked out of several groups instead.

But there were also several groups that agreed with her ideas and silently continued to support Lu Yan He.

He Lan breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Chen Ziyan's statement.

Every group was shaken.

Lu Yan He actually really disbanded all fan support organizations.

Although He Lan vaguely guessed that Lu Yan He would do this, at the moment when the dust settled, she was both relieved and sighed.

The so-called fan support group might have been a spontaneous organization of fans at the beginning. But in this era, no brokerage company will allow such an organization to spontaneously expand its power and possess the power to affect the artist's career without being controlled by itself.

But Chen Ziyan's announcement actually showed an attitude to all walks of life. From now on, these organizations have nothing to do with them. Any fan support organization can no longer speak on behalf of Lu Yan He and other officials.

As for whether they want to continue to exist in a wild way or disband, it is no longer their business and has nothing to do with them.

In the group, many people were repeatedly confirming, is it true? Does Lu Yan He really not care about them and want to disband the support group?

He Lan originally wanted to help Lu Yan He explain that disbanding the support group does not mean not caring about them.

However, she typed a few words and deleted them, and finally said nothing.

She herself also felt that recently, many of Lu Yan He's fans were not normal, as if they had lost their minds, frantically leading the rhythm.

She even doubted, are they really Lu Yan He's fans?

He Lan couldn't judge.

However, He Lan also knew very clearly that no matter what Chen Ziyan said, their move to disband the fan support group would always hurt the hearts of some fans.

This is unsolvable... as long as such a thing is done, it is destined to hurt innocent fans.

But He Lan also understood that Lu Yan He had to do this.

Lu Yan He cannot be an actor kidnapped by fans.

Lu Yan He's drastic disbandment stunned the entire entertainment industry.

There are really not many artists who dare to directly disband their own fan support groups.

This is not a matter of a few fans and an artist—no matter how the artist explains it, the signal released to the outside world by this behavior is the artist's attitude towards the fan group.

However, after everyone was shocked, they applauded one after another.

"This matter can only be done by Lu Yan He. If even he doesn't dare to cut ties with his own fan support group, other artists have even less confidence to do so."

"The current entertainment industry has suffered from fan circle culture for a long time. Lu Yan He can dare to stand out at this time and take the initiative to disband the fan support group, which is undoubtedly a model for the entertainment industry. Young artists cannot be kidnapped by some fans."

"A forum wants to invite you to give a speech." Chen Ziyan said, "It is a very influential forum, and they want to invite you to talk about the relationship between stars and artists. What do you think?"

"Forget it, I won't go." Lu Yan He shook his head and said: "What should be said has already been said. Regarding this matter, I don't want to strengthen everyone's impression. Now there are many people who want to set me up as a model for cutting ties with fanatical fans, but I don't want to be this model."

Chen Ziyan nodded, "Okay, I understand."

She patted Lu Yan He and said: "No matter how big the public opinion is, it will pass. *River of Silence* broadcast results are good, this is your biggest foundation."

"Um." Lu Yan He nodded.

"The Asian Television Festival in October this year invited you to be an award presenter. This is a good activity, and I am preparing to take it for you."

"Okay." Lu Yan He nodded again.

Chen Ziyan: "It is possible that you will also get a nomination."

Lu Yan He: "Um? Is that so?"

"Um." Chen Ziyan nodded, "However, the Asian Television Festival, its professionalism is not very strong, it is mainly a relatively commercial activity. Who is nominated and who is not nominated depends on who comes to support."

"It's okay, it doesn't matter if there is a nomination or not." Lu Yan He said, "You said it yourself that the professionalism is not strong, it's just joining in the fun. It's not a very glorious thing to get a nomination and win an award."

"That's still better than nothing. This can somewhat prove your influence." Chen Ziyan said with a smile, "It's not that every award must be professional enough and recognized professionally to be a good award. Generally, those nominated and winning at the Asian Television Festival are creators who are relatively popular and influential in Asia. In the past two or three years, Korean dramas, Japanese dramas, and Vietnamese dramas have won more awards. Before, Chinese dramas went to sea less, the internationality was not enough, and the international voice was not enough. This time, *Friends* and *Seventeen Layers* have enough influence." ===== CHAPTER 471 =====