Chapter 486

His words, however, drew a reaction from them.

"We all believe you'll definitely win an award. If not the Feihong Award, then the Lingyun Award or the Galaxy Award."

"Don't worry, you won't be disappointed for long. We all believe you're about to win an award soon."

"Even if you don't win an award, it doesn't affect everyone's recognition of you. No matter who wins, it's impossible to shake your status in the Chinese-language film industry."

"Huang Kai only won the award because you gave him the role in this film."

"Stop, stop, stop, no need to comfort me," Lu Yan He said. "Let me answer the questions quickly. Once I'm done, you can all get off work early, and I can get off work early too."

The reporters burst into laughter.

"Go ahead."

Lu Yan He pondered for a moment and spoke about his own award situation first.

"I still hope to win an award. The idea that it doesn't matter whether I win or not—if it truly didn't matter, I wouldn't have signed up. Since I signed up, I wanted to win," Lu Yan He said bluntly. "Not winning this time is indeed a pity, but since it happened this year, there's nothing to be done. Besides, as you just said, Brother Kai won, so I have nothing to say. I can't exactly travel back in time and tell myself, 'Whatever you do, don't cast Brother Kai in *Rouge*.'"

Lu Yan He answered the first question in a playful manner and then proceeded to answer the subsequent ones.

"Actually, I think it's quite good that *Angry Crow* won the Feihong Award for Best Film. It's been so many years, and no animated film has ever won Best Film, so why shouldn't it? I like animated films very much. In fact, China has a very solid foundation for animated films, and it can absolutely become a representative genre of Chinese-language cinema," Lu Yan He said. "I really like this work; it's a piece that truly achieves both highbrow and lowbrow appeal. It doesn't pretend to be profound like some animated works, using bizarre and fantastical allegorical techniques, nor is it like others that are made too childish for adults to watch. *Angry Crow* is actually filmed with the feeling of the fables in our language textbooks; different people can gain different insights from watching it."

"You always give such high praise to other works. Do you feel that your own works have been underestimated?" a reporter suddenly asked.

"Underestimated?" Lu Yan He was a bit surprised. "Is there any work of mine that has been underestimated? I don't think so. It seems like the performance of every one of my works has been quite good—box office where there should be box office, and awards where there should be awards."

The reporters: "..."

Lu Yan He realized what he said, gave a sheepish smile, and asked, "Did I 'Versailles' again?"

The reporters' faces clearly read: What do you think?

Lu Yan He: "I just wanted to clarify that none of my works have been underestimated; they've all been quite good."

Although not winning the award put Lu Yan He in a pretty bad mood, it was mostly over after a good night's sleep.

After all, he was an actor who had experienced many nominations and was very experienced in this regard.

Of course, as happens after every awards ceremony, there was all sorts of dissatisfaction with the results online.

However, the logic for any award is the same: if someone who should have won didn't, no amount of discussion will stir up much of a storm. But if someone who shouldn't have won did, that's when you've poked a hornet's nest and will be roasted to death.

The results of this Feihong Award belonged to the former, not the latter, so the public skepticism was relatively calm.

At this time, Jiang Yuqian contacted him.

She had found a producer for *Phone*.

Ye Luo, the producer of *The Home I Haven't Returned to in a Long Time*.

Lu Yan He was very surprised; he hadn't expected Jiang Yuqian to find such an experienced producer.

He was afraid Jiang Yuqian had forgotten about the copyright ownership—in Lu Yan He's view, a producer like Ye Luo, who had just produced a massive hit, shouldn't be interested in taking on an independent film project like *Phone*.

Jiang Yuqian, however, said that Ye Luo was currently a free agent.

Lu Yan He was stunned when he heard Jiang Yuqian's explanation.

A free agent... what did that mean?

Jiang Yuqian then said, "Ye Luo had a falling out with Wenxia Zhiyin; he just left them."

Lu Yan He was astonished.

He asked, "Why is that?"

"He wasn't satisfied with the profit distribution for *The Home I Haven't Returned to in a Long Time*," Jiang Yuqian said bluntly. "Anyway, the situation is quite complicated. The specific reason is that he wasn't satisfied with the bonus he received, had an argument with people in the company, and later decided to leave."

Lu Yan He couldn't accept such a vague explanation for this kind of thing.

He contacted Chen Ziyan and asked her to check through her channels to see what was going on.

Actually, as long as there were no issues of principle, finding a producer like Ye Luo to be responsible for the *Phone* film would be a huge bargain for them.

Lu Yan He even wanted to sign Ye Luo to Linghe.

An experienced producer like Ye Luo, with extensive connections in the industry and a deep understanding of film production, was exactly the kind of person their company needed most.

For Lu Yan He, they weren't lacking in funds, scripts, or actors; they were just missing a "project manager" who could integrate all resources.

After some investigation, Chen Ziyan dug up the main reason Ye Luo left Wenxia Zhiyin.

"He slept with his company boss's wife," Chen Ziyan said, speechless. "He was discovered, which is why he was kicked out."

"..." Lu Yan He really didn't know what to say for a moment when he heard this reason.

Chen Ziyan: "Actually, this kind of thing isn't a huge deal. If he hadn't been bold enough to cuckold his boss, he wouldn't have been kicked out. At this stage, he is the best producer *Phone* can find. If you want to start this project as soon as possible, I suggest you don't worry about this kind of moral issue."

Lu Yan He thought for a moment and said, "Sister Ziyan, let's meet him and have a chat."

"Sure," Chen Ziyan said. "If we are really considering using him as the producer for *Phone*, we definitely need to meet and talk. But, Yan He, have you thought it through? Can someone with your moral standards accept working with him?"

"As long as we don't become friends, working together is fine; what's there to be unable to accept?" Lu Yan He said. "I was hesitant just now because I was worried that if he could do something like that, he might lack principles and a bottom line, and end up stirring up a bunch of trouble on the *Phone* set."

"You don't need to worry about that; he has very rich production experience, and I've never heard of him doing this kind of thing in the professional field," Chen Ziyan said.

"Alright then."

Lu Yan He and Chen Ziyan met with Ye Luo.

Ye Luo didn't know that Chen Ziyan and Lu Yan He already knew the real reason he left Wenxia Zhiyin, and he still put on the airs of a big-shot producer in front of them.

"I've read the script for *Phone*, Yan He. You really are an amazing creator. In time, you will become a pillar of our Chinese-language film industry." When Ye Luo praised Lu Yan He, he used the most exaggerated adjectives possible, yet even with such praise, he still managed to make Lu Yan He feel uncomfortable.

Lu Yan He felt it was mainly because Ye Luo had a condescending attitude.

You couldn't feel at all that Ye Luo was a producer who had just been kicked out by his former employer.

Of course, he might just be a good actor, pretending that he and his former employer parted ways due to profit distribution issues.

In fact, that was the persona he had built for himself.

It's just that while many people build personas for themselves, very few believe in their own personas as much as he did.

Regarding the *Phone* project, Ye Luo said he was willing to be the producer, but he wanted a salary of 5 million and a 5% share of the film's box office.

Lu Yan He felt it was strangely novel; he was usually the one setting the conditions, but today he had suddenly become the one being presented with them.

No matter how little Lu Yan He knew about the market for producers, he knew that Ye Luo's demand was an exorbitant one.

A salary of 5 million? Plus a 5% box office share?

Are you kidding? Even Jiang Yuqian didn't have such terms.

Chen Ziyan looked at Ye Luo calmly and asked, "Producer Ye, did you get these terms at Wenxia Zhiyin too?"

"If I had gotten these terms at Wenxia Zhiyin, I wouldn't have failed to reach an agreement with them," Ye Luo said. "Director Ziyan, perhaps these terms sound high to you at first, but to be honest, with *Phone* currently having nothing to show for it, the workload I need to do as the producer is not small."

Chen Ziyan smiled slightly. "It's not like we haven't participated in film production; *Love Letter* was something we made from scratch. Producer Ye doesn't need to describe how heavy a producer's workload is to us. I'm more curious, Producer Ye, after you left Wenxia Zhiyin, did no other company recruit you? With your past qualifications and achievements, I think many film and television companies should have offered you an olive branch, right?"

A smug smile appeared on the corner of Ye Luo's mouth. "Of course there were, but I just left Wenxia Zhiyin, and having finally regained my status as a free agent, trying to be an independent producer is also an option."

"I thought you were only working alone because everyone was wary of you," Chen Ziyan said with a smile.

Ye Luo's eyes narrowed slightly.

Chen Ziyan turned to Lu Yan He and said, "Yan He, I'd like another cup of coffee. Could you help me order one?"

Lu Yan He nodded and smiled easily.

He looked at Ye Luo: "Producer Ye, would you like another cup of coffee?"

Ye Luo: "Thank you, no need."

Lu Yan He went off as if he hadn't noticed the undercurrents between the two of them.

Once Lu Yan He was gone, Chen Ziyan looked at Ye Luo with a composed posture, as if she finally had the chance to speak the truth.

"Let's stop beating around the bush. With Yan He here, it's hard for me to speak, but if I'm going to work with you, did you think I wouldn't investigate why you left Wenxia Zhiyin?" Chen Ziyan smiled. "Is there anyone in this circle who doesn't know my style, Chen Ziyan?"

The smile on Ye Luo's face vanished completely.

"You have ability, experience, and you're very arrogant; I understand that," Chen Ziyan's gaze landed in his eyes, sharp as a cold blade. "But you don't need to put on an act in front of me. Independent producer? Let's stop joking. No matter how brilliant your past achievements were, you need a work now to prove your ability to this circle again. Without the resources of Wenxia Zhiyin, can you still exert your past strength? Before you prove that, no film company with any real power will offer an olive branch to a man who slept with his boss's wife. You know best: the bigger the place, the less they want a ticking time bomb."

Ye Luo clenched his hands.

"The *Phone* project is very special. Actually, we aren't in a hurry to make it, but this is a script Yan He wrote specifically for Jiang Yuqian, so Jiang Yuqian wanted to film it as soon as possible and found you. Otherwise, we at Linghe could have made it slowly on our own. It is precisely because we are doing this project ourselves, without seeking cooperation from other film companies, that there is a producer position for a film starring an A-list actor and written by Lu Yan He left for you. If it were the terms you just mentioned, you know very well how many A-list producers would be interested. Now that I've laid it all out for you, before Yan He returns, you still have time to seriously consider whether you want to cooperate with us with sincerity, let this film help you return to the cooperation lists of major film and television companies, or if you want to insist on terms that no film company in all of China would agree to. If it's the latter, I suggest you can get up now and go knock on the doors of those coal bosses who are interested in the film industry."

Ye Luo looked at Chen Ziyan with a stern expression, unable to say a word, and didn't get up for a long time.

Chen Ziyan smiled warmly and clapped her hands. "Great, I knew we could have a good talk. After all, on the *Phone* project, we can fully achieve a win-win cooperation, right?"

Ye Luo twitched the corner of his mouth, as if a string were reluctantly pulling it into a smile.

At this moment, Lu Yan He walked in with a steaming cup of coffee.

Sometimes, Lu Yan He had a blind trust in Chen Ziyan.

This blind trust came from everything Chen Ziyan had achieved over the past few years.

Lu Yan He felt that there was nothing in this world that Chen Ziyan couldn't accomplish. If there was, it only meant Chen Ziyan didn't want to accomplish it.

He didn't know how Chen Ziyan had "coerced and lured" Ye Luo into changing his tune in the time it took him to go get a coffee.

However, this wasn't the first time such a thing had happened.

Lu Yan He actually really wanted to ask Chen Ziyan how she did it.

In short, Ye Luo officially joined the *Phone* project.

This film project finally began to build its team.

Ye Luo also demonstrated his professional ability. He knew they had looked for many film companies before, but because they wanted to keep the copyright in their own hands, those companies were unwilling to produce it.

Ye Luo said directly: "Then we'll do it ourselves."

The first issue was the production budget.

Ye Luo very straightforwardly created two production plans: one with a relatively high production budget, reaching 80 million RMB, and another with a relatively low budget, only 35 million RMB.

The difference between these two plans was mainly the payment method for the salaries of the four people: Ye Luo, Lu Yan He, Jiang Yuqian, and the director.

The former was full payment, while the latter involved investing their salaries as equity and taking a share of the profits.

For Lu Yan He, it didn't make much difference.

Before his own salary as a screenwriter had even arrived, he had already put up 15 million as the initial preparation fund for the film.

Later, he would put up another 10 million, making a total investment of 25 million in the film.

Jiang Yuqian would also personally invest 10 million in the film.

This meant that just the two of them had put up a total investment of 35 million.

If you didn't count their salaries, this money was actually enough to cover the entire production budget of the film.

Ye Luo was stunned when he learned that the film's production budget mainly came from the investment of the screenwriter and the lead actress.

Mainly, he hadn't played it this way when making films before.

Ye Luo asked Chen Ziyan suspiciously: "Is it that our film can't find investment?"

"Of course not," Chen Ziyan said. "Others are just unwilling to work for us to make a film, but they are still willing to invest. Film projects written by Lu Yan He are very popular right now."

Two days later, Ye Luo discovered an even more exaggerated phenomenon.

When Lu Yan He makes a film, he might really not need to find a film company to raise investment.

His own circle of friends and the capital behind him could support him in making a medium-budget film.

Arctic Light Video and Icefield Video each put up 8 million.

Besides these two video websites, Chen Ziyan, Li Zhibai, Yan Liang, Chen Siqi, Chen Bige, Shang Yongzhou, Luo Yuzhong, Jia Long, Huang Kai, Ceng Qiao, Xin Zixing... nearly 25 of Lu Yan He's friends in the industry each put up 500,000 to invest in the film.

They had all made a small profit before by investing in Lu Yan He's *Lost on Journey* and *Rouge*.

Artist investment in film and television projects is actually a very common investment behavior. Like the film projects Ye Luo had done before, basically every project would have artist investment. However, a phenomenon like *Phone*, where the individual investment portion was almost entirely composed of Lu Yan He's circle of friends, was really not common.

In the end, the investment share left for outsiders was only about 15 million.

This was also the share they left for Ye Luo to find a distribution company.

Projects like *Phone*, which had popular actors and a screenwriter like Lu Yan He from the start, wouldn't wait until the film was finished to find a distribution company.

Generally, a certain investment share is left for the distributor, allowing the distributor to have more common interests with them, so they naturally pay more attention to the distribution.

In this world, only interests can truly and eternally drive people.

Ye Luo prided himself on being knowledgeable and experienced, but on the *Phone* project, he inexplicably had the absurd feeling of a Fortune 500 executive suddenly parachuting into a family business and wanting to lead this family business to conquer the world.

But that was the reality.

Ye Luo even hesitated a bit: should he also put up some money to invest in this film?

Otherwise, it would seem like he was out of place and not part of the group.

Lu Yan He also admitted that making a film was really much smoother, easier, and more convenient for him than for most people.

With the mythic halo on his head, there was never a time he lacked money; there were only others complaining that he didn't give them investment opportunities.

After the *Phone* film project went through a round of financing, the news spread like wildfire.

The fact that Jiang Yuqian and Lu Yan He were joining hands again to film a new movie also entered the public eye for the first time.

When they learned that the other lead actress of the film was Wang Jing, the media sighed in unison:

Lu Yan He really is someone who likes to cooperate multiple times with actors he is familiar with.

Counting it up, this was already Jiang Yuqian's third time cooperating with Lu Yan He, and also Wang Jing's third time cooperating with Lu Yan He.

Both of them had previously appeared in *Squid Game*, which was written by Lu Yan He.

Look again, Huang Kai had just won the Feihong Award for Best Actor based on *Rouge*, which was written by Lu Yan He.

Someone joked: *The Golden Age* became the biggest winner four years later.

This debut work of Lu Yan He, a TV series that was extremely popular back then, was dug out by many people.

Lu Yan He's friendship with Huang Kai and Jiang Yuqian started from this series.

Lu Yan He, who was just a small supporting role back then, had now become the "thigh" that carried the lead actor and actress.

A new title appeared in Lu Yan He's comment section: "Thigh Lu."

*Phone* was scheduled to start filming in July of next year. Before that, Jiang Yuqian had to film the second part of *Behind the Golden Clothes* first.

This also left Ye Luo with plenty of time to find a director and build the film crew.

With a project manager to act as the producer, Lu Yan He could completely become a hands-off boss.

Lu Yan He only needed to wait for Ye Luo to assemble the production team, participate in the film's production meetings, and ensure that the overall style and direction of the film didn't go off track; that was enough.

After all, besides Ye Luo, the project manager, there was also Jiang Yuqian.

This was a film tailored for Jiang Yuqian, so Jiang Yuqian herself was certainly invested in it.

Wang Jing specifically asked Lu Yan He out for a meal.

At Lu Yan He's age, it was indeed rare to meet a few people younger than himself.

Wang Jing and the other juniors who filmed *Late Spring* with him were among the few.

Wang Jing said: "Yan He, I didn't expect you to really save this role for me."

"Since we agreed to save it for you, of course I saved it for you," Lu Yan He said.

Wang Jing sighed and said: "I've actually been a bit troubled recently."

"Hmm? What's wrong?"

"I signed with Arctic Light, and after filming *Squid Game*, they sent me a lot of scripts to choose from. Actually, they've been quite good to me, but those scripts they sent me were all... how should I put it? They were all about falling in love in different ways, all the same, and I didn't want to act in them at all. I told them I wanted to act in something that would let me act to my heart's content, and they always told me there weren't many scripts like that," Wang Jing said to Lu Yan He. "Luckily, you sent *Phone* over at this time, otherwise I would have been forced by them to act in some plays I didn't want to act in."

Wang Jing is an actress with great tension and ideas in acting.

Among the actors Lu Yan He had seen, she counted as one who could be called talented. Otherwise, Lu Yan He wouldn't have thought of her first when looking for an actress to play the little girl after writing the script for *Phone*.

Even for that *Fake Death Won't Work* by Liu Bige and Li Zhibai, Lu Yan He also recommended Wang Jing for the role of the neurotic girl.

However, this is probably a common problem for all actors with ideas; they all have a bit of self-importance and all want to find challenging roles to act in. Therefore, they all have some rejection of the popular plays on the market, feeling they aren't artistic enough.

You know, Wang Jing's start was a film like *Late Spring*.

Actors like Yan Lingyu and Kong Fan, whose personalities aren't particularly strong and whose appearances just fit the roles particularly well, are fine. Even with a high starting point like *Late Spring*, they won't "demand too much" of themselves.

That's different for talented actors like Wang Jing, who have strong personalities and high demands on themselves.

*Late Spring* became a mirror. Every play they act in afterward, they will measure whether it is worthy of a starting point like *Late Spring*.

Lu Yan He understood Wang Jing's mentality very well.

However, understanding is one thing, but Lu Yan He didn't know how to face such a mentality either.

Whether it's sticking to your own standards or not making yourself too aloof, different paths can be taken, and all can lead to the destination.

Regarding this kind of thing, Lu Yan He really didn't know how to offer advice.

"This depends on yourself," Lu Yan He said. "All roads lead to the same destination, no matter how you choose."

Wang Jing was surprised, looking at Lu Yan He in shock, and asked: "All roads lead to the same destination?"

She clearly hadn't expected Lu Yan He to say such a phrase.

Lu Yan He said: "I feel that any actor will repeatedly struggle with the path they choose; it's unavoidable. Those who take the traffic route will envy those who insist on honing themselves on the small path, and those who hone themselves on the small path will also envy those surrounded by applause and halos. Your starting point is very high; this is an advantage, but also a disadvantage. It will become your shackles, and for a long time, no matter what play you act in, you will subconsciously compare it to it."

Wang Jing fell into deep thought.

"I won't offer other suggestions, and I'm not some experienced person with that kind of life experience to give you advice, but as an actor, I would suggest that after acting in a play, throw it away, keep only the insights it brought you in performance, but completely throw away the external things it brought, such as honor, such as pride."

Lu Yan He smiled and said: "Let me tell you something. Have you heard that I have a play coming up that I'm going to Hollywood to act in?"

Wang Jing nodded.

Lu Yan He: "Many people don't know that this film I accepted is a horror film."

Wang Jing showed a look of surprise.

"Didn't expect that I would accept a horror film?"

Wang Jing nodded.

"I think after this news is exposed, there won't be few people with the same reaction as you. After all, in many people's hearts now, I shouldn't be acting in horror films. They will think horror films are too low, will think I'm acting well in the country, why run to Hollywood to lower my own value, all kinds of skepticism, I can almost imagine it," Lu Yan He looked at Wang Jing. "But I don't care about these voices; I only care about one thing, and that is what kind of actor I want to become. Toward this goal, if it's beneficial to me achieving this goal, I'll do it; if it's not beneficial to me achieving this goal, I won't do it."

Wang Jing looked at Lu Yan He thoughtfully.

"You might as well think first, the scripts they give you that you don't want to act in, is it that you really feel physiological disgust when you act in them, or are you bound by some concept of your own, some sense of honor, and it's these voices telling you that you don't want to act."

Speaking of this, Lu Yan He's words were actually already very direct.

Although Wang Jing was a bit stuck in her own strange circle, Lu Yan He was very reassured about her acting in *Phone*.

To be precise, with Jiang Yuqian and Wang Jing starring in *Phone*, Lu Yan He wasn't worried about their acting skills at all.

Both of them belonged to people who knew how to act.

Including Jiang Yuqian, Jiang Yuqian's problem lay in the fact that her eye for picking plays was really average.

However, clearly, the film *Phone* wasn't the kind of subject matter that could be used to chase awards.

This was a very commercial film.

For Jiang Yuqian, its significance lay in the fact that this was her first commercial film where she was the lead protagonist.

This was different from the lead actress role she took in the second part of *Behind the Golden Clothes*. That was just the female lead, the main perspective of the film wasn't on her.

And for Wang Jing, this film was her starring in a film again after *Late Spring*.

Actually, to put it bluntly, for both of them, this film actually meant the issue of them standing firm in the film circle.

Which film did Lu Yan He use to step into the film circle? *Three Mountains*.

But which film did he use to stand firm in the film circle?

It was *Late Spring*.

Because of this film, he was the main star, the main star including Director Liu Bige.

This film was carried by him. Once the film was carried, the industry recognized it.

A film person, whether a director, an actor, or a screenwriter, in short, if you don't have a work that you truly carried by yourself, in everyone's eyes, your ability to "carry" is something to be questioned.

Many big stars, in the eyes of film companies, don't necessarily possess the ability to "carry."

The dual female leads of *Phone* are actually in a similar situation.

Lu Yan He's script is of course a big highlight, but films have always been weak on scripts and heavy on directors.

And *Phone* won't invite a famous auteur director; one, there's no need for this film to invite such a director, and two, there's not that much budget.

This film already has a complete script, and Lu Yan He, who has a clear idea of what the film should look like, doesn't need another director with particularly strong opinions and creativity.

They just need a director who can well implement the intentions.

Therefore, what kind of results *Phone* can achieve, this button is buttoned on the dual female leads, especially Jiang Yuqian.

Wang Jing is just a novice, Jiang Yuqian is the A-list female star.

Lu Yan He only hopes that the film *Phone* can achieve the expected box office target, 200 million.

There is almost no film on the market that sets its own box office target at only 200 million; everyone is happily writing a bigger number.

However, Lu Yan He knows that the film *Phone*, under normal circumstances, is very difficult to achieve such a high box office.

Being able to have a box office of 200 million is already a very high number.

By then, once the domestic copyrights and overseas streaming copyrights are sold, the profit will be secure, and that's enough. Lu Yan He didn't have particularly unrealistic fantasies about a film whose original version didn't achieve great success either.

At this time, Icefield Video came knocking.

They wanted to buy the web series adaptation rights for *Phone*.

Jiang Lan's evaluation of the story of *Phone* before was that it was more suitable for video websites to adapt into a web series. Sure enough, Icefield Video's sense of smell was very sensitive; not long after the news spread, they came over immediately.

Lu Yan He could only say apologetically: I have to wait until the film is released to sell the web series version of *Phone*.

Icefield Video was very puzzled and asked why.

Lu Yan He said, what if your web series is filmed faster than the film and is broadcast on your Icefield Video first, then how much will my film be affected.

Icefield Video: "..."

They said again that they could buy it first, find a screenwriter to develop the script, and they could promise in the contract that within two years, the adapted web series would not be broadcast.

This sincerity was indeed given.

Lu Yan He then authorized it.

Arctic Light Video, after learning the news, was very depressed and came to ask Lu Yan He aggrievedly why the web series adaptation rights for *Phone* weren't given to them.

Lu Yan He said, *My Own Swordsman* and *Squid Game* haven't been broadcast yet; you can't have every project digested by Arctic Light Video, or Arctic Light Video will become Lu Yan He Video.

People from Arctic Light Video immediately indicated that we are very happy to open a Lu Yan He Theater for you on our Arctic Light Video.

Lu Yan He: "..."

Not long after, Zheng Huairen, the executive who had been connecting with him and was responsible for content production at Arctic Light Video, called.

"Yan He, do you still have some film scripts on hand that haven't been made public?" Zheng Huairen said. "*My Own Swordsman* is about to wrap up, and *Squid Game* is also in post-production; we can develop new projects."

Before Lu Yan He could repeat the same words, Zheng Huairen immediately said: "Filming a drama from preparation to writing the script to filming, and then to broadcast, takes at least one year, and at most two or three years; we have to plan well. The audience of our Arctic Light Video are all your die-hard fans; you can't let them finish watching *My Own Swordsman* and *Squid Game* and then not see your new plays for a year or two. You now not only have drama fans as an actor, you also have a large number of drama fans as a screenwriter."

Lu Yan He: "..."

Zheng Huairen had said it all.

However, his relationship with Arctic Light Video was indeed unusual. The cooperation with Arctic Light Video before was indeed very smooth, so Lu Yan He didn't mind continuing to cooperate with them.

After thinking about it, Lu Yan He asked Zheng Huairen: "The authorization for *Phone* has already been given to Icefield; I have a few film scripts on hand that tell youth love stories, you can take a look to see if you are interested."

Zheng Huairen didn't hesitate at all and immediately said: "Of course I'm interested!"

Zheng Huairen said again: "You didn't just give the authorization for *Phone* to Icefield; you also authorized *Rouge* and *Lost on Journey* to them."

Lu Yan He: "..."