Chapter 525: Strong as Hell (1.46 million-word update!)

Huangcheng was a senior producer in the industry, especially someone like him who had been tied to a top-tier TV drama director for a long time, his status and position were even higher.

Why keep talking about this contempt chain thing; you can treat it as existing, or you can treat it as non-existent.

Because, if you really reach the top level of the TV drama field like Huangcheng, no matter how the contempt chain is, you don't beg others; it's others who beg you.

The dramas Lu Yan He starred in were explosive hits, and the screenwriting was also strong as hell, but the projects Huangcheng produced weren't bad either; even if he didn't have Lu Yan He's 100% explosive hit success rate, they were all good projects with good results.

Wherever Huangcheng went, he was respected.

If Lu Yan He came to make this phone call seriously and asked him to help persuade Chen Lingling, Huangcheng really wouldn't buy his account much.

After all, with his friendship with Chen Lingling for so many years, really speaking, he would definitely stand on Chen Lingling's side.

But Lu Yan He suddenly came up with this set, although it wasn't acting stupid, it was comparable to the effect of acting stupid, and Huangcheng was really made unable to be vague and perfunctory by him.

Huangcheng only knew what it was after listening to Lu Yan He finish speaking.

He said: "Lingling is not suitable to be a mentor on a variety show; with her temper, half of the people will be scolded to tears by her. By then, won't the fans of those actors be anxious and red-eyed to scold her?"

Lu Yan He said: "Brother Cheng, although the director has a big temper, she is really professional, and she scolds people based on facts, not just randomly losing her temper. The current audience is not as shallow as you think; they can tell good from bad."

Huangcheng: "No, no, why bother? She is already such a big director, and she still has to suffer this crime. By then, how uncomfortable it will be. Now recording a show basically starts at ten-plus hours, and yours, I hear it's not an easy one to record."

"Brother Cheng, the variety show led by our Linghe, how could we let Director Lingling suffer so much," Lu Yan He said. "And, Brother Cheng, this is definitely a very good platform for Director Lingling, letting the audience see what kind of director she is—you know, now it has been circulating on the internet that the director has a violent temper, is a tigress, and many actors don't want to cooperate with her a second time after cooperating with her. These are all misunderstandings! Why let the director be misunderstood like this?"

Huangcheng: "Those people on the internet, they say everything; we don't care."

"But, being scolded, not saying it on the mouth, but definitely still feeling uncomfortable in the heart, Brother Cheng, you haven't been scolded, you don't know, but Director Lingling must be uncomfortable in her heart, especially since these are all misunderstandings," Lu Yan He said sincerely. "I have cooperated with Director Lingling, so I know she is a very good director, but it's useless for me alone to know; hearing is false, seeing is believing, the best way to eliminate misunderstandings is to let the audience see Director Lingling on the show."

Huangcheng: "Your mouth can really bluff."

Lu Yan He: "Mainly because I am confident."

"Confident that no one will refuse you?"

"Then I don't have this confidence; you and Director Lingling refused me so readily, the speed was so fast that I didn't even react," Lu Yan He complained before continuing, "I am very confident in what I want to do; it will definitely become a phenomenal show, and it will become a benchmark in the industry."

For Lu Yan He's attitude of being so full of confidence, Huangcheng really couldn't say anything.

Because Lu Yan He's success story was already a legend in the industry.

If others said this, Huangcheng would laugh at this person for being arrogant.

Lu Yan He said this, and Huangcheng could only sigh in his heart: So what.

Indeed, so what?

No matter how phenomenal the show is, no matter how much of an industry benchmark—

The problem is, Chen Lingling is already the top TV drama director in the country.

She herself is a benchmark.

Lu Yan He closed his eyes and began to hum: "Sigh, Brother Cheng—"

Huangcheng: "You stop for me!"

Lu Yan He stopped immediately.

Huangcheng: "But you didn't say anything wrong in one sentence; this show can let the audience see a real Lingling."

Lu Yan He: "Yes!"

Huangcheng: "This is your show, you won't edit it randomly, right?"

"Brother Cheng, I still have to continue filming with Director Ling, how could I edit it randomly!" Lu Yan He said depressedly. "You don't believe me too much."

Huangcheng: "This is to be safe, have to confirm with you."

Lu Yan He: "You ask which production team, the production team is definitely swearing to you, but like me, being able to do what I say, there are not many."

Huangcheng: "Your face has really become a bit thick; I remember your face wasn't this thick when you filmed 'Silent River'."

"Mainly because of being near ink, staying with Li Zhibai every day, and being infected by him."

Huangcheng took a deep breath and said: "Hung up."

After hanging up the phone, Huangcheng had a moment of trance—

If Lu Yan He changed, Huangcheng felt it was normal.

An actor, in a few short years, completed the achievements that other actors could only achieve in ten or even twenty years; becoming more proud, more arrogant, more wild, Huangcheng felt it was all normal.

However, how did this guy become so shameless?

What's going on?

What the hell is going on?! -

Besides resident mentors, of course, there must be guest mentors.

Lu Yan He made calls one by one: Ceng Qiao, Huang Kai, Jiang Yuqian, Jiang Jun, Bao Zhenzhu, Liu Zi, Jia Long... Lu Yan He's network of contacts was fully utilized at this moment.

Actually, if it weren't for the fact that the identity of a mentor required a certain seniority and achievement, Lu Yan He could have invited more people.

But there was no rush.

The show wasn't ending after one season.

Do it slowly, don't rush for success.

The most critical thing was the actors who came to compete.

Whether this show could push out some actors who were not so recognized or known before was the most critical place.

Looking at the original version of the show, Lu Yan He felt that the show really had magic; Lan Yingying's foundation and charm as an actor were not brought into play in film and TV dramas due to the character's persona, but were displayed vividly on this show, even making people feel the relaxation and familiarity of a big-name actor.

That female champion who was never appreciated also presented a texture completely different from her film and TV drama performances in every performance on this show.

If a show could let many actors be seen with such qualities, and be discovered by producers and directors that this actor could actually give such high-difficulty and high-quality performances, that was the greatest practical significance of this stage to an actor.

The premise was that they had such qualities.

Lu Yan He sent messages to all the friends in the entertainment industry he knew, asking them to recommend actors they knew who were suitable for this show.

Thus, while the outside world was still discussing Lu Yan He's trip to Venice, another wind blew up in the industry and the circle.

—Lu Yan He wants to do an acting PK show?!

—What is he doing?

After Zhou Ping'an heard this news, his first reaction was to find Yan Liang and tell him not to be a contestant.

"Having you as a guest is enough; you must not go to this show to compete; your current status doesn't need to go to such a stage to lose your status."

Yan Liang was speechless.

"Yan He didn't think about asking me to go from the beginning."

Zhou Ping'an: "That's fine."

Yan Liang looked at him and said: "But Yan He guessed that you would definitely come to tell me these things."

Zhou Ping'an: "Nonsense! I definitely wouldn't allow you to go to this kind of thing; you are now a proper big first-tier, how could you participate in this kind of show!"

Yan Liang: "Yan He asked me to tell you that you can consider sending Cheng Hai and Fu Li over."

Zhou Ping'an was stunned.

Yan Liang: "The words are passed, you make your own decision, but no matter what, don't tell Cheng Hai that we mentioned it actively, if you don't want Cheng Hai to feel uncomfortable in his heart."

People in the same group back then now had very different developments.

Cheng Hai's popularity back then was much higher than Lu Yan He and Li Zhibai, but now he was almost fading away.

It was conceivable that if Cheng Hai knew it was Lu Yan He who invited him to participate in this show, Cheng Hai would definitely feel embarrassed.

Zhou Ping'an asked: "You guys... still thinking about pulling Cheng Hai?"

"His relationship with us has always been good, but because you hated Yan He very much back then, you forced them not to associate with Yan He, and the relationship became distant. Later, Yan He became more and more popular, and Cheng Hai also has face; how could he run over to be close to Yan He after distancing himself from Yan He after he became popular," Yan Liang said. "Yan He has always been much kinder than you think; he knows why Cheng Hai distanced himself from him, so he has never blamed him."

Zhou Ping'an was silent.

Yan Liang: "Cheng Hai's acting was also praised by Director Luo back then."

Zhou Ping'an nodded. "Got it, I will tell him."

"Yan He is not a mentor either; the mentors are Chen Lingling, Chen Bige, and Shang Yongzhou; Cheng Hai can rest assured to come over and play," Yan Liang said. "Maybe he can learn a lot."

"Chen Ziliang wants to come? Refuse," Lu Yan He said directly. "I don't want him to come and get involved."

Chen Ziyan said: "He is a topical artist; if he comes, the show won't worry about popularity."

"Not needed, our show is not short of popularity," Lu Yan He said. "Sister Ziyan, one Chen Ziliang, one Ma Zhiyuan, I don't want these two people to get involved in any project related to me."

"Since that's the case, then forget it," Chen Ziyan nodded. "A bit of a pity, I thought it was just a variety show, you wouldn't care that much."

"Of course I care; this show will definitely be popular. If it helps him become popular too, I will definitely regret letting him come," Lu Yan He said. "If he finds other ways to make himself popular again, then I have no way; if he becomes popular again from me, I absolutely cannot accept it."

Lu Yan He's disgust and hatred for Chen Ziliang and Ma Zhiyuan were deep in his marrow.

He was actually quite a tolerant person.

But for people he truly hated, he absolutely couldn't forgive them.

"Then okay," Chen Ziyan said. "There is one more thing; Long Yan Film Industry hopes that you can mention the movie 'Burning Fire' twice in the activities of the Venice International Film Festival to warm up for the movie."

"Ah?"

"Although the movie is finished, the post-production still needs to be done for a long time; the movie needs to maintain popularity."

Lu Yan He thought for a while, nodded, and said: "Okay, when the time comes, if I forget, Sister Ziyan, you remind me."

"Mm."

"The Birth of an Actor" was very lively in the circle.

First-tier actors were definitely not considered.

Those who were mainly hesitating and considering were all second and third-tier actors.

They belonged to the kind who had some fame, or had been popular before, but now were a bit up and down, wanting to toss, but feeling that going on stage to be a contestant to compete was embarrassing, and the style was gone.

Lu Yan He didn't care too much about this part of people.

He himself had some intended candidates.

For example, Wang Dashan, the actor of "Lost on Journey."

For example, a few people in "Late Spring."

However, they belonged to the ranks of young actors, and more other representative actors were needed.

For example, those whose acting was very exquisite but not famous, similar to Liu Mintao and Zhou Yiwei at the time.

For example, those whose acting couldn't be counted as old drama bones, but whose popularity and heat were okay, similar to Tan Songyun, Liu Yan, and Zeng Shunxi at the time.

For example, actors with very distinct characteristics and stories, similar to Fan Tiantian at the time.

When Lu Yan He was thinking about how to do this show, besides thinking about the explosive points of the show back then, he was also repeatedly reminding himself that although this was an acting PK show, it absolutely could not be made into a high-brow, scholarly talk show.

There must be all kinds of people, put together, so that this show would be good to watch.

What variety show script, what show persona, although many people scold it, it cannot be denied that this show needs these things to be good to watch.

Variety show script, it's not that everyone's lines are written for everyone, like acting, letting everyone act once on the show.

But to do a good job of various dramatic script arrangements, for example, arranging Shu Chang and Xin Zhilei in a group back then, and arranging them in the first episode, the chemical reaction between the two was like thunder and fire, becoming the first explosion of this show.

Lu Yan He's script here was that the three mentors on the show were all people with very high professionalism, so the show must also introduce the voice of another party to avoid the three mentors saying things that were too professional for the audience to grasp for a while.

Therefore, Lu Yan He discussed with everyone and felt that they should find a few special guest commentators for every episode.

Thus, this heavy responsibility fell on Lin Yu.

Lu Yan He only had one requirement: professional, but not mysterious, inclusive, and the commentary should be easy to understand.

Lin Yu understood Lu Yan He's meaning and went to arrange it.

Lu Yan He didn't do the set of making a fortune in silence and creating surprises for people at all.

Variety shows were not played this way.

Must be grand, must spread the publicity, let the hot search occupy the list.

Only in this way could it fit the impression of "explosion," making people inside and outside the industry look sideways.

Thus, once the contract was signed, "The Birth of an Actor" first released the posters of the host and the convener.

Lu Yan He and Peng Zhixing took the lead in setting off the first wave of discussion.

The next day, the show released the list of "one mentor + one guest mentor": Chen Bige and Huang Kai.

"Rouge" combination.

The third day, it was Chen Lingling and Ceng Qiao, "Phoenix Terrace" and "Silent River" combination.

The fourth day, it was Shang Yongzhou and Fu Kai, "Carpe Diem" and "Road to Glory" combination.

Poster after poster was announced, name after name refreshed everyone's understanding of this show.

These names put together made people in the industry feel stunned.

After all, these people basically rarely went on variety shows.

Such a configuration was comparable to the lineup of a mainstream film festival.

Some people also jokingly called it "this show might as well be renamed 'Lu Yan He and His Friends'."

Indeed, they were all people who had cooperated with Lu Yan He.

However, no one felt they didn't want to watch it because of this.

With so many big shots in the film and TV circle gathered in one show, who wouldn't want to see what the hell this was?

Arctic Light Video.

Zheng Huairen looked at the reservation background data of "The Birth of an Actor" that was temporarily opened and sighed: "It still has to be Lu Yan He, can shake people, can also make things happen, this set after set, changing people every day to bring the show to the hot search, it hasn't even started to enter the formal recording stage yet, and it's made so grand, really awesome."

"Doing movies can't beat him, doing TV dramas can't beat him, now doing variety shows also can't beat him," someone laughed.

Zheng Huairen: "This show, others can do it too, but definitely can't get such a lineup."

"This lineup is too powerful, how much money does it cost?"

"Investment promotion hasn't even started yet, but with such popularity now, do you still need to worry about no money?" Zheng Huairen said. "Sponsors will only scramble to send money."

"Such popularity, really envious."

"Indeed, also good at marketing, exposing a little bit every day, hanging people's appetite, improving everyone's expectations, typically popular before broadcasting."

At the same time, performance plays, buying copyrights, finding screenwriters to adapt into scripts of about fifteen to twenty minutes.

These behind-the-scenes work, not one can be missing.

A large amount of preliminary preparation work also requires a large amount of money to be invested.

Fortunately, this show pulled in Yuehu Station and Arctic Light Video, plus Lu Yan He's Linghe, the three companies together first gathered the preparation funds, no need to go to the bank for loans.

However, in order to alleviate the financial pressure, they also quickly started investment promotion. Now there are quite a few brands in the market interested in this show, but everyone also has to look at the production cycle and duration of this show.

If the show is only going to be broadcast next year or the year after, no one will be willing to give a large sum of money now, and putting it in the bank to eat interest is also a considerable income.

Lu Yan He was too lazy to care about these specific things.

He couldn't care about it either.

It's just that his endorsement brand "Hundred Stars" stationery came to greet them early, wanting to compete for the title sponsorship of this show.

"Hundred Stars" was one of the few brands among Lu Yan He's endorsement brands that took the mass route, because it was stationery, what it needed was popularity and national popularity.

Lu Yan He's show didn't take the path of comedy and ridicule, and "Hundred Stars" felt it was very consistent with its brand image.

"Hundred Stars" also meant it was determined to win, directly reporting a title sponsorship fee of 200 million, but it wanted exclusive title sponsorship.

For a non-series variety show, this title sponsorship fee belonged to the first-tier price.

However, whether "Hundred Stars" could win it in the end also depended on the bids of other brands.

Seeing that "The Birth of an Actor" was so popular with brands, Lu Yan He breathed a sigh of relief.

He could temporarily put down the things here and hand over the subsequent things to more professional people to handle.

He was about to set off for the Venice International Film Festival.

"Lu, how many days are you staying in Venice?" Lily Williams asked happily on the phone.

When "The Mist" finished filming, Lily Williams said somewhat sadly that she didn't know when she would see him again, and didn't expect to meet at the film festival so soon.

This time Lily Williams came with another movie she participated in, and this movie was shortlisted for the main competition unit, and she played the second female lead in it.

"I'm staying for three days, I arrive on September 3rd, cooperate with the screening event to do some publicity on the 4th and 5th, and leave on the 6th," Lu Yan He said.

"I only arrive on the 5th, and you leave on the 6th!" Lily was a bit depressed. "Then are you free on the evening of the 5th? Shall we have dinner together? I can probably arrive at the hotel around five in the afternoon."

"On the evening of the 5th, I should be holding a banquet, inviting some friends to participate; if you have time, come over together?" Lu Yan He said. "Rarely holding an exhibition of my works, I have to treat some friends who come to stand on the stage for me."

Lily heard this and said: "Okay, is this banquet public? Do I have to walk the red carpet?"

"It hasn't been determined yet, maybe there will be a red carpet photo session," Lu Yan He said.

"Good, then I'd better bring a few more sets of clothes to prepare; I must appear beautiful and moving," Lily said with a smile.

What Lu Yan He didn't expect was that this time his work screening event in Venice actually attracted quite a few people.

Even the Thai female star Cai Na, whom he had met once before, sent him an email, asking if she could get an invitation letter for his work screening event.

Lu Yan He replied immediately that of course she could. He added an explanation, very sorry, I have been busy preparing for a show recently and haven't had time to confirm who will attend this Venice International Film Festival and send out invitation letters to everyone.

In fact, Lu Yan He didn't really care much about this matter; it was organized by Chen Ziyan and the official people of the Venice International Film Festival.

He had already contacted the people in the country, and as for the foreign filmmakers, Lu Yan He didn't know many of them anyway.

Lu Yan He gave Cai Na's email to Chen Ziyan and told her about this matter.

Chen Ziyan said: "Okay, then the lineup of your work screening event is quite large, comparable to the scale of the films in the main competition unit."

Lu Yan He smiled.

"Mainly because there are many of our own people."

"The film festival organizing committee also invited some foreign stars."

"Is that so?"

"Mm, there are quite a few people interested in you," Chen Ziyan smiled. "Especially film critics; the love of film critics for you is even close to favoritism."

Lu Yan He: "Thanks to Lin Yu."

"Lin Yu is just a bridge, the key is still yourself," Chen Ziyan looked at him thoughtfully. "You have to know, film critics are always more picky about handsome male actors and beautiful female actors, but they seem to be especially fond of you; I still haven't figured out what's going on."

In fact, Lu Yan He's international popularity and current influence largely came from the recognition and praise of film critics from all over the world, which gave him the love and dividends of the media.

Chen Ziyan said: "I have already made the list of media people to be invited to your thank-you banquet, and I have also checked it with Siqi and Lin Yu; you check it yourself again, is there anyone who needs to be added, don't miss anyone."

Lu Yan He said okay.

Holding this thank-you banquet, one reason is that there are indeed many friends who came to stand on the stage for him this time, and he couldn't thank them one by one, so it's better to hold such an event and thank them together.

Second, it is also because the Venice International Film Festival organized such a work screening event for him, no matter for what purpose, it left a brilliant and honorable stroke on his career resume, and Lu Yan He also returned the favor, returning a star-studded celebrity event to the Venice International Film Festival.

What's more, for those who came to stand on the stage for Lu Yan He, not to mention those foreigners, just these people in the country, whose time is not precious, whose schedule is not tight.

They came to support Lu Yan He, and Lu Yan He naturally gave back to them.

Holding such a banquet can provide a star-studded event scene for the Venice International Film Festival, allowing the media to have new material to shoot and report.

Internally, at the banquet scene, there are photographers and reporters from major media running the film festival, and also producers and directors invited by Lu Yan He and Chen Ziyan.

Such an occasion can provide a lot of convenience for everyone. Introducing everyone to know each other can be a mutually beneficial utilitarianism, and of course, it can also be a banquet that creates opportunities for everyone to know each other.

Soon, news came from Chen Ziyan's side.

Lu Yan He's endorsement brand "Math" agreed to sponsor this banquet.

"Although it is said to be a private banquet held by ourselves, if there is no brand title sponsorship, in the eyes of many people, it is still quite terrible, indicating that you have no brand to pay for it," Chen Ziyan said. "Of course, Math basically agreed in one bite."

"Young Days" started the second stage of recording in mid-to-late August.

The recording of this stage was mainly to record this group of people going to a farm to help with farm work.

The recording of the second stage was already set.

Looking at this arrangement now, it inexplicably formed a sharp contrast with the Venice International Film Festival in the third stage.

A group of people complained one after another in the car on the way to departure.

"Isn't this our slow life? Why go to do farm work?"

"Careless, should have asked what to record this season before signing the contract; if I knew I had to work, I should have asked for leave."

"Exposed to the sun for three days, and then go to Venice to walk the red carpet? Should we just make an appointment to do a tan?" Xiao Yun said to the other girls.

Liu Zhiyin took something out of her bag and compared it to her face silently.

"Damn, what is this?!" Xiao Yun stared with wide eyes in shock.

Lu Yan He was also stunned, then reacted.

This thing, isn't it a facekini?!

Liu Zhiyin said: "I prepared one for each of you."

"Too fierce, sister!" Xiao Yun was shocked.

"Female stars are female stars indeed." Li Zhibai clicked his tongue three times.

Liu Zhiyin pointed directly at the camera: "You be careful of being called sexist; what female stars are female stars, do you male stars not need to do image management?"

Li Zhibai: "..." Don't be so politically correct."

He grinned. "Anyway, I can't get tanned."

Liu Zhiyin turned to Lu Yan He and Yan Liang and said: "I hope you two will strip him and tie him to a telephone pole to be exposed to the sun for five days in the next five days; let's see if he gets tanned."

Lu Yan He and Yan Liang burst into laughter at the same time.

Xiao Yun's eyes shone, fearing the world wouldn't be chaotic, and said: "Strip!"

Li Zhibai said "Damn" again.

Lu Yan He actually quite liked this arrangement of doing farm work.

For a show to have continuous vitality, it must constantly innovate and have fresh things for the audience to see.

Lu Yan He liked the content of doing farm work because it was relatively real; it wasn't just doing it for show, nor was it deliberately setting up things where star artists were busy and clumsy and funny doing farm work.

For this segment, they came to a local farmer's house.

Li Zhenzhen said in the car: "We actually thought of this task in a message on our show. The one who left the message was an international student studying abroad. He said that this year was his first year studying abroad, but there were only his grandparents at home, because his parents were also working in other places. In previous years at this time, he used his summer vacation time to chop the firewood needed for autumn and winter at home, repair the roof tiles, and prepare everything that could be prepared, so that when his summer vacation ended and he went to school, his grandparents could work a little less."

When Li Zhenzhen told this story, everyone quieted down and listened carefully.

"So, we thought, we could help him do all these things. Of course, we also wanted to see what you would do when you have never done these farm works," Li Zhenzhen said. "This is an era where urbanization is becoming more and more developed, and the countryside has gradually moved away from the vision of our lives, but in fact, agriculture still exists widely in our lives, so we hope to present such content on the show."

Li Zhenzhen's words seemed to be said to the artists, but in fact, she was also expressing her original intention of doing such content to the audience in front of the camera.

Lu Yan He felt this was a very good theme.

The world on the show should be diverse and colorful.

There are high mountains, flowing water, cities, and villages. The prosperity of the world lies not only in its fireworks, but also in its inclusiveness.

Of course, this is talking about the intention, talking about the depth; as a variety show, such content also has one point, which is the sense of contrast and watchability.

When officially recording, except for Lu Yan He, others were indeed quite busy and clumsy.

Only Lu Yan He worked in an orderly manner, knew how to burn fire, knew how to nest, knew what fruits could be eaten in the mountains and forests, and also knew how to avoid some places where snakes and beasts might appear.

Xiao Yun looked at Lu Yan He worshipfully and asked him, how do you know everything.

Lu Yan He smiled and said: "Did you forget, I grew up in the countryside since I was a child."

The memory left by the original owner, the intuition and instinct left behind, made him still like a fish in water in this environment that was actually not very familiar.

The grandparents were also very polite to them.

On the first day they came, they cooked a big table of dishes for them, almost all meat dishes, and there were only two bowls of green vegetables.

Among these artists, most of them were people who controlled their diet all year round.

This big table of meat made them a bit afraid to start eating.

Lu Yan He said bluntly: "Eat with confidence, in the next few days, no matter how much you eat, you won't gain a pound; if you eat less, you might fall to the ground with hypoglycemia tomorrow."

Lu Yan He's words scared them full of doubts.

Is it that bitter?

And once they started eating, the dishes on this table opened their taste buds.

Too fragrant.

So fragrant that once they started, they couldn't stop their chopsticks.

"Feel the meat of this fish is sticky to the teeth, different from the fish I ate before."

"Because it's pond fish, just fished out of the pond."

Lu Yan He said: "Actually, green vegetables are the most different. This kind of green vegetable just picked from the ground, stir-fried with oil, is very fresh, and the taste is completely different."

A group of people ate until their stomachs bulged.

And just as Lu Yan He said before, in the next few days, they were so tired every day that after eating dinner at night, they didn't even want to take a bath.

Li Zhibai even took his palm with calluses and faced the camera and said: "Prevent you from saying we are acting, these few days we are honestly working, not lazy at all."

At this time, Yan Liang walked past Li Zhibai, heard what he was saying, and said unceremoniously: "Don't worry, everyone is definitely not saying you are lazy now."

The next second, Yan Liang said: "They will only say you are brittle, vegetable, trash."

Li Zhibai changed his face instantly, roaring: "How much better are you than me!"

The girls behind were supporting each other, looking at the people in front in disbelief, sighing.

"How do they still have the strength to roar so loudly?" Singer Song Linxin was really tired to the point of being out of breath.

Everyone ate the last dinner together, slept the last sleep, and early the next morning, they had to prepare to leave.

The old man was especially polite and prepared a piece of bacon and a bottle of radish skin for each of them, all made by their own family.

Lu Yan He and the others smiled and thanked them, and accepted them very politely.

Got in the car, sat in the car one by one, looking at the landscape outside the window, quiet for a long time.

Until the car drove out of the village and arrived at the town, Li Zhenzhen raised the megaphone and spoke.

"Everyone worked hard."

"You worked hard too," Liu Zhiyin said.

These few days, they were exposed to the sun, the production team was also exposed to the sun, they were doing various farm work, they were also carrying cameras to film, who didn't work hard.

Just at this time, a shout came from outside the car window: "Stop! You stop!"

It was a very familiar voice.

Because it was early in the morning, there were no people on the street, and it was not noisy, so this shout was very clear.

A motorcycle suddenly came to the outside of their car window, the old man they had been staying with for these few days sat behind the motorcycle, patting the car window with his hand.

Everyone in the car was startled and hurriedly told the driver to stop.

"Grandpa, what's wrong?"

"Too dangerous!"

They got out of the car one after another.

The old man got off the motorcycle nimbly, took out a very thick envelope from his arms, and stuffed it into Peng Zhixing's hand who was closest to him without saying a word.

"This, you take it back!" The old man said, "Don't do this!"

This was what they had secretly put under the pillow before leaving in the morning, containing 30,000 yuan.

It wasn't much, it was their little heart.

"These few days we have been eating yours, living in yours, this is what should be given," Peng Zhixing reacted immediately and said.

The old man didn't listen to this set of his, "Your director has already paid our food and accommodation fees."

"That's them, we are us, these few days we have been taken care of by you and grandma."

"Don't waste this talk, take it back!" The old man refused to accept it, turned and left, got on the motorcycle, waved his hand, "You have a safe journey!"

He urged the young man riding the motorcycle to drive.

Thus, they went back at lightning speed.

A group of them were left on the spot looking at each other.

"Sent it back from so far away? Worried he wouldn't accept it, so secretly stuffed it under the pillow," Li Zhibai said in surprise.

After they returned to the car, Li Zhenzhen looked at them with a smile.

"It's okay, don't worry, we have already paid, and they also understand your intentions, that's enough," Li Zhenzhen said. "I originally thought some of you would complain about being tired and leave halfway, didn't expect you all to persist, exceeded my expectations."

"Look down on whom." Li Zhibai hummed.

Li Zhenzhen asked: "However, there is actually one more thing."

"Mm?" Everyone was a bit confused.

Li Zhenzhen said: "Originally we didn't intend to say this on the show, but Gao Yuan—that is, the grandson of the grandparents, the one who left the message under our show at the beginning, he said, please be sure to say this thanks for him on the show."

"Thanks?" Everyone was very confused, not knowing why.

Li Zhenzhen said: "This is also really a big coincidence, of course, it can't be said to be a coincidence, because it is because of this thing that he became an audience of our show. Have you ever wondered how this student's family could afford to send him abroad to study?"

Yan Liang asked in confusion: "Didn't he get a scholarship?"

Qin Zhi nodded: "Many people rely on scholarships to study abroad."

Li Zhenzhen was stunned.

She seemed not to expect this answer.

"Okay, he didn't rely on a scholarship," Li Zhenzhen said.

Only then was everyone really stunned.

Li Zhenzhen's eyes fell on Lu Yan He: "He was able to go there to study after getting the offer from Cambridge University through the financial aid project set up by Yan He."

Lu Yan He opened his mouth in shock.

Others also looked at Lu Yan He in shock.

Lu Yan He also set up a financial aid project?

This thing, no one had ever heard of it.

In fact, Lu Yan He himself didn't know much about it.

"Wait, Sister Zhenzhen, don't be in such a rush to praise me yet; I don't even know what's going on myself." Lu Yan He hurriedly interrupted this sudden turn of events, "Let me make a phone call to confirm first."

Lu Yan He hurriedly dialed Chen Ziyan's phone.

"Sister Ziyan, did you do a financial aid project?" Lu Yan He asked.

Chen Ziyan: "Yes, didn't you take 10 million to me these two years and let me do charity together? Two years ago I did a financial aid project with a public welfare organization, and there is your share in it."

She asked again: "What's wrong, why did you suddenly ask this?"

Lu Yan He uh-ed, "Nothing, suddenly heard I have such a project, I was confused, so I asked."

After hanging up the phone, everyone looked at him.

In fact, no one else in the car heard what Chen Ziyan said on the phone.

But Li Zhenzhen heard it in real-time from the earphone through the microphone Lu Yan He was wearing.

Hearing the number of 10 million, Li Zhenzhen was not prepared at all, revealing an unbelievable expression.

Star artists earn a lot, and star artists of Lu Yan He's level, or screenwriters, people holding the copyrights of multiple explosive dramas, are undoubtedly even more so.

However, in this world, it doesn't mean that if you are very rich, you are willing to take out money to share with others.

It's not that Li Zhenzhen hasn't heard that in this world, some people are willing to take out a lot of money to do charity. However, like Lu Yan He, silently taking out 10 million to do these things, and not doing any publicity reports at all, Li Zhenzhen was seeing it for the first time.

Li Zhenzhen could almost imagine what kind of reaction it would cause when this part of the content was broadcast on the show.

"Seems it really was me who did it, because the specific affairs were not managed by me, I was just responsible for paying, so how they did it specifically, who they subsidized, I didn't know," Lu Yan He whispered to others.

"You are really admirable," Liu Zhiyin said to Lu Yan He.

Lu Yan He hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Don't, don't, don't praise me like that."

Liu Zhiyin asked in a low voice: "Do you have a foundation specifically doing this?"

"No, it's my agent, she has been doing this privately, after I knew, I entrusted her to help me do a little bit together," Lu Yan He said. "Because I'm really busy usually, don't have time to identify who is credible, and afraid my money will be wasted by others, and more afraid that wasting things is small, and someone will use the banner of me being one of the donors to cheat money from others. You know, this piece is very chaotic, many scammers."

"Yes," Liu Zhiyin nodded. "I originally wanted to say, if you have a foundation yourself, I also want to entrust you to help me do this thing together."

Lu Yan He: "Very sorry, I don't have one either."

"Mm, then forget it."

Involving money, it's all too sensitive.

Lu Yan He didn't want to find trouble for himself.

The first episode of the fifth season was actually online at noon.

When they got off the plane, the hot searches of the eight people were already in place.

In order to maintain freshness, they didn't watch the clips that had already been exposed on the internet.

Waiting until night, they ordered takeout, sat together, and while eating takeout, started watching the first episode of the main film.

Li Zhenzhen and the others made a particularly grand opening—

The reason it is said to be grand is that the opening of this season was actually the universe, accompanied by atmospheric symphony.

"When I was young, I often wondered if there were aliens in this universe."

"Some people say, oxygen is the foundation of life, there is no oxygen in the universe."

"I was very confused, since they are all aliens, why does the form of life still rely on oxygen?"

"After growing up, these many doubts disappeared from my mind."

"No matter how big the universe is, it's just the universe."

"Compared to whether aliens exist or not, what directly affects my life is the mess in front of me."

With the entry of this voiceover, the lens also passed through the atmosphere from the universe, pushed to China, then to a vast city, then to a prosperous street, and then passed through the crisscrossing streets and routes, the lens pushed into a house, a window.

With the narration "mess in front of me" read out, a door opened from the lens, Peng Zhixing walked out of the room with a bird's nest on his head, plain-faced, the pimple on his forehead clearly visible, he didn't care about his image at all, and yawned a big yawn.

The screen froze on his wide-open bloody mouth, and then, a forty-eight-hour countdown appeared on the screen.

Beside it sounded: "Actually, forty-eight hours ago, he didn't look like this."

After the voice fell, the screen switched, coming to the backstage of a grand activity.

Peng Zhixing, in a suit and leather shoes, handsome and handsome, was waiting to go on stage.

"Handsome, Brother Zhixing," Xiao Yun sighed. "Tsk, still people rely on clothes."

Peng Zhixing smiled.

"The production team is really getting better at editing, this opening, awesome," Yan Liang said. "Playing with flowers is flying."

"It is said that the opening of every episode this season will play a flower trick," Qin Zhi said. "Don't know what the next episode will look like."

"I don't know what the next episode will look like, but if Xiao Yun says she wants to see the segment where Li Zhibai was stripped naked not put into the opening of which episode, I think that must have been PR-ed by Li Zhibai," Liu Zhiyin laughed.

"Damn." Li Zhibai immediately exploded.

"Then if the segment where you were pooped on by a chicken on your head wasn't put into the opening, I think it must have been PR-ed by you," Li Zhibai immediately countered.

Liu Zhiyin: "..."

Lu Yan He: "Don't hurt each other."

"She started it first!" Li Zhibai said. "You people, you are targeting me more and more now."

"You are a fun person, can't blame us," Xiao Yun said bluntly.

"Fun your grandpa," Li Zhibai suddenly remembered something. "Right, the segment where Xiao Yun stepped on dog poop on the road must also be released, not allowed to be PR-ed; if it's not released in the main film, I will send what my phone shot to Weibo."

Xiao Yun's face stiffened.

Li Zhibai succeeded and laughed.

The next second, Li Zhibai was beaten by two girls on the sofa.

"Damn—" Li Zhibai struggled hard like a shrimp in a frying pan.

However, Peng Zhixing and Yan Liang helped press him down with quick eyes and hands.

Lu Yan He couldn't help but cough twice from laughing.

"Young Days" season five, episode one, no guest stars, and no one was absent, everyone was present.

The familiarity, closeness, and especially the sense of life they presented on the show were unanimously praised by the audience.

Many people said that these people in the fifth season had a sense of relaxation outside the camera.

Everyone sighed, it still has to be a familiar game.

No guest stars, no need to take care of other people's emotions, all are old acquaintances, that sentence followed by sentence, post-production is not easy to edit.

Especially at the end of the first episode, the lateral thinking game returned.

Lu Yan He's sentence "I discovered that the person who killed my mother was actually my father, and my father knew I was also in this house" was edited into the last scene of the first episode, and the barrage exploded.

—Damn! What kind of slow show is this, suddenly scared my hair to stand up!

—Lu Yan He suddenly said what kind of horror story, mommy!

—I'm impressed, this twist, I'm going to report this show, false propaganda, not warm and funny at all, how to sleep tonight?

—Seeking a sleeping partner tonight.

—What kind of brain circuit is this Lu Yan He, it was already a scary enough story, and it was upgraded by his sentence.

Lu Yan He's development also became the most explosive point of the first episode.

Of course, no one on the internet knew that his words had other meanings.

Everyone just thought he was continuing the story on the previous basis.

The "divine twist" Lu Yan He showed on the show also made people intuitively feel his ability in screenwriting for the first time.

After all, it only took him a few minutes to think of this twist.

The show very clearly pointed out the time Lu Yan He used to think with subtitles.

—I feel this story can be directly adapted into a movie script.

—I also think so, after Lu Yan He filmed "The Mist" in the United States, did he also dabble in horror-themed stories? He won't be preparing to write a horror movie script himself, right?

—Can he act in more literary films and go for awards? Don't always film these commercial films and genre films that consume him, okay?

—The one in front, you like to win awards so much, why don't you go film it yourself? What are you BB-ing here for? Lu Yan He wants to film whatever he wants to film, your mom also told you to study hard and get into Zhenhua University, did you get in?

After watching the first episode, the filming of the second stage was officially over.

Because many people had other schedules tomorrow, everyone didn't live in this house in the end, rushing to the airport late at night, going to the hotel.

Li Zhibai and Yan Liang all rushed to the airport, having other work arrangements tomorrow.

Lu Yan He didn't stay in a hotel either, directly took the night train back to Yuming.

Arrived at Ziyuanqiao at 2 am, fell into a deep sleep.

The next day, Lu Yan He didn't wake up until 10 am.

After waking up, he was still exhausted, feeling he hadn't slept enough.

But he already had experience, at this time he couldn't continue to sleep, otherwise he would feel more tired.

Therefore, Lu Yan He still tried hard to climb out of bed.

In five more days, he would set off for Venice.

In fact, the Venice International Film Festival had already opened the day before yesterday, but because his work screening event was in the middle, they didn't prepare to attend the opening ceremony.

In fact, the first week of the film festival is often the time when star power is not lacking.

At that time, many crews had just arrived, and the stars were not in a hurry to leave.

On the contrary, when entering the second week, the star power was much less.

Especially those European and American big stars, as their works finished screening, they basically all left—the Venice Film Festival is a film festival that typically leaves good screening times for those star-studded crews, and those without big stars, works from small countries and small directors, will be arranged to the back.

So, they put Lu Yan He's work screening event in the second half, and Lu Yan He could understand.

To increase star power and popularity for that time.

What Lu Yan He didn't expect was that his work screening event actually attracted more and more people asking for invitation letters.

He looked at his phone today and found an email from Kim Eon-sook, a management layer of TVN, expressing the hope of getting four invitation letters for the "Rouge" screening event. She wanted to bring the leads of the Korean drama version of "Rouge" to attend this event, which was also to warm up for the Korean drama version of "Rouge."

Lu Yan He looked at the list again, wow, they were all quite famous big stars; Kim Eon-sook actually found two top Korean actors to act in this remake, male actor Kong Shi, female actor Zheng Yu Jiang.

After researching, Lu Yan He knew why Kim Eon-sook came to ask him for invitation letters.

It turned out that Kong Shi happened to have a brand promotion activity in Venice this year, and Zheng Yu Jiang was a judge for the main competition unit of this Venice International Film Festival. Both of them were in Venice, and doing a warm-up for the Korean drama version of "Rouge" by the way was a very convenient but highly effective thing.

Lu Yan He was of course willing.

Speaking of which, it was all giving him face.

But because more and more stars came to attend, originally only preparing to hold a red carpet photo session at the very beginning of the activity, he couldn't broadcast six dramas, and let guests walk the red carpet for all six dramas.

But now because different movie screenings had different stars participating, especially the movie "Rouge," Venice was a bit wanting to hold a separate red carpet photo session for the movie "Rouge."

In this regard, Lu Yan He didn't care, it depended on how Venice planned it.

After Lu Yan He got the "Rouge" screening event invitation letters for the three of them, he also sent the invitation letter for the banquet on the 5th evening together, inviting them to participate.

After finishing this matter, Lu Yan He went online to flip through the comments on the fifth season of "Young Days."

After a night of calmness (recovery), although everyone was still scolding that suddenly scary ending, they were very satisfied with the other content.

Just like Lu Yan He's own feeling when recording this show, everyone could also feel a sense of warmth like deep water flowing.

For a show about friendship, this evaluation could be called a five-star review.

Lu Yan He flipped through everyone's evaluations, smiled from time to time, took screenshots of some interesting comments, and sent them to their big group.

Many people in the big group were sending screenshots today, and everyone was also very concerned about the comments on the internet like him.

Until noon, the pointer pointed accurately to twelve o'clock.

Lu Yan He put away his feigned ease and casual mood and sent a message to Chen Ziyan: Is there any movement or news on his side?

Chen Ziyan: No, he didn't have work today either, I asked around.

Lu Yan He: Then is he playing dead?

Chen Ziyan: Not necessarily, maybe he is in a mess, doesn't know what to do, at a loss.

Lu Yan He: Sister Ziyan, you say, if he was the one who tricked me to the river four years ago and pushed me down, should I take revenge?

Chen Ziyan: I suggest you be calm, don't make a decision on impulse. First of all, there is no evidence that he pushed you into the river.

Lu Yan He: Mm.

Chen Ziyan: It's okay, Yan He, we have already thrown the bait down, step by step, things that haven't been thought through, let them continue to be thought through, let's do the things we have already thought through bit by bit.

Lu Yan He: Okay.

At that time, Chen Ziyan asked Lu Yan He, have you thought clearly about what you want?

Lu Yan He said, actually he hadn't thought too clearly either.

Chen Ziyan said, then you have to think clearly.

Lu Yan He asked, is it okay to think clearly about a part first?

Chen Ziyan nodded and said, of course it is.

Lu Yan He said: "At least, I want him to know that I already know my true life experience, I want to make him uneasy, want to make him realize that there is a bomb that doesn't know when it will explode, want to make him anxious all day long, want to make him unable to sleep well at night."

Chen Ziyan: "Isn't this childish?"

"I don't know if it's childish, but this is what I have thought about for a long time and always wanted to do."

A flash of determination to burn the boats appeared in Lu Yan He's eyes.

"In the bottom of my heart, such anger has been brewing for a long time. It has never disappeared. Many times I thought I didn't care, thought he was just a symbol. But every time I think of him in the luck of thinking no one knows the truth, thinking he easily got rid of me, this trouble, and lived for so many years out of the matter, my anger rushed to the top of my head. I even have an impulse to burn with him. I didn't even realize it myself."

Love?

No love.

Blood is thicker than water?

Can't get thick.

He is not the original owner, he is a transmigrator.

He is not short of fatherly love, doesn't need to humbly beg for a handout of love.

He inherited hatred, and because of the love he possesses, he cannot forgive this hatred.

Hatred is hatred.

True hatred is the dripping water that wears through the stone in ten years, is the surging waves ready to go under the calm, is the unforgettable memory that cannot be released in the middle of the night.

Lu Yan He didn't lie; he didn't even realize himself that he had hidden hatred for so long in his heart.

In fact, it hadn't disappeared for a single day.

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