Chapter 527: Not every road can let you walk into Rome confidently (120,000-character update!)

*Young Days* has already been broadcast to the fifth season.

It is of course a very popular variety show, not only are the stars popular enough, but the various data of this show are also eye-catching, and it has never lacked business.

However, if you want to say it is one of the most popular shows in the country, you feel it is still a bit short.

Because it has never had that "explosive" feeling that everyone is chasing.

Some variety shows can do this.

Even if you haven't watched it, you have heard of it and know some of the memes in it. For example, *Running Man* and tearing name tags, for example, *Singer* and someone quitting the competition, for example, *Extreme Challenge* and the Men's Group.

This show *Young Days* belongs to being very popular in its own circle, and the simultaneous broadcast data must also belong to the first in the fault, but it hasn't reached the "national" level.

It's already the fifth season.

Who knows, before the first episode was broadcast, this show suddenly became like a new show, with one hot search news after another, sweeping everyone's internet world overwhelmingly.

And Icefield Video also laid out ground advertisements under such heat—

Because it was already popular enough on the internet, there was no need to add fuel to the fire.

The second episode, the heat and ratings declined slightly compared to the reunion of the eight people in the first episode.

However, the third episode relied on the eight people going to the Icefield Video headquarters to participate in the project review meeting, and according to their experience as artists, helping various projects to conduct Icefield Video's assessment and defense for them, attracting a lot of attention.

Because this episode of video, every project, very directly displayed elements such as a show, invited artists, commercial value, influence, market positioning, etc., in front of the audience.

Everyone directly saw a first-tier video platform's market positioning and judgment for many artists.

Simply put, it is grading.

Lu Yan He and the others, as artists themselves, stood in the position of the project team and had to persuade the judges together why the artist combination of this project was good and correct.

Among them, the most explosive points were three places.

The first place, when Peng Zhixing was defending a cultural talk show, talking about the invited artist lineup, he said: "Two-thirds of the artists in this have been interviewed by me. I can say that they are all rare in this industry, truly having their own thinking, or their thinking mode is different from ordinary people. And this is a lineup that has never appeared before. Being able to gather these people together, I can imagine how wonderful the sparks they collide with are."

"Just now I heard the judges say that there are no very popular stars in this artist lineup, which makes you have concerns. I instead think that as a cultural talk show, the premise of the show's success is that the collision of many viewpoints in it can form extensive discussions. If there are very popular stars among the show's guests, with the current fan culture, I think this is instead unfavorable for this show to exert its own advantages."

The explosive point is: Peng Zhixing does not recognize the star fan culture.

The second point lies in Xiao Yun.

When she was asked about a fashion PK show where the invited artists were not fashionable enough, she spoke bluntly: "Very fashionable artists, why come to this show to cooperate with new designers? Could it be that the new designers you invited are already so excellent that they cannot cooperate with artists who are not so fashionable? Fashion itself is a concept. Letting an artist who is already very fashionable be very fashionable in the show is not a skill. Being able to make artists who look not so fashionable fashionable in the show, that shows that this show is successful."

"So far, there hasn't been a fashion-themed show in the country that has become popular, at least I haven't seen one. Instead, I watched a beauty pageant when I was a child, letting a group of girls who were not good-looking in the public sense compete together, and the winner could get the opportunity for plastic surgery, and there were some later programs similar to big transformations. There is a contrast before and after, and the audience is interested. I just want to see those fashionable and shining stars, I can see them elsewhere."

"Actually, just like me, people often say my private clothes are very earthy, saying I am a person who wears ugly clothes. You just gather artists like us who are always scolded for being earthy and having earthy temperament, find three to five, and go on this show to see if they can be made fashionable, and see what fashion is. There is definitely something to watch."

The explosive point goes without saying.

The most dramatic scene is that Xiao Yun's "self-explosive speech" was directly invited to join this show.

Xiao Yun: "..."

The third explosive point lies in Li Zhibai.

Because among the invited artists of this project, there was actually Cheng Hai.

And I don't know if it was deliberately making trouble, one of the judges suggested taking Cheng Hai down—because no one knew who he was, he was no longer found.

Li Zhibai's face turned black.

The atmosphere on the scene instantly solidified a bit.

Lu Yan He and Yan Liang were inexplicably a bit nervous.

They were very afraid that Li Zhibai would lose his face on the spot.

The relationship between the three of them and Cheng Hai was actually really not bad, not bad at all. Especially Li Zhibai and Yan Liang, who were under Zhou Ping'an for a long time before and met often.

It's just that this industry is like this. It's not that you can always be good friends if you can.

Ups and downs, you are popular and I am outdated, you have an accident but I have climbed the blue cloud, the disparity is too big, the gap itself exists, and it cannot be ignored.

And it doesn't mean that Li Zhibai's mood will be better when facing Cheng Hai being so despised.

It doesn't mean that.

What made Lu Yan He and Yan Liang unexpected was that Li Zhibai took a deep breath and didn't break out.

He said: "Cheng Hai debuted with me, Yan Liang, and Yan He. We were in a group. He is not so popular now, but this is the right time for you to invite him, because he is about to become popular again."

A group of people were surprised.

"Why do you say that?"

Li Zhibai said bluntly: "Because now in our agent's hands, there are only two people, Yan Liang and him. Cheng Hai might not have developed smoothly before because Zhou Ping'an's energy was all on me, Ma Zhiyuan, and Yan Liang. Now I have left, Ma Zhiyuan has collapsed, and Yan Liang doesn't need him to manage much. If Cheng Hai still can't become popular, then Zhou Ping'an can retire."

After a speech, the whole audience was silent.

Lu Yan He covered his mouth with his hand and whispered to Yan Liang: "Zhou Ping'an saw it, should he be so angry that he jumps?"

Yan Liang covered his face with one hand and said softly: "Maybe his heart disease is about to commit. Why did he have water in his brain to choose Ma Zhiyuan between Li Zhibai and Ma Zhiyuan?"

Lu Yan He laughed: "Ma Zhiyuan... collapsed."

After this scene happened, a copy appeared on the screen:

—When you cover your mouth, did you forget that you still have sound equipment on your body? —

The broadcast volume of the third episode exceeded 100 million in one day, exploded three big hot searches, and followed by a bunch of small hot searches.

While Zhou Ping'an won the "angry enough to jump" hot search, Ma Zhiyuan also directly posted a Weibo response: Thinking of me so much, still thinking about whether I collapsed or not? If I collapse, I will collapse at your house.

*Young Days* exploded.

Li Zhenzhen looked at the beautiful data reflected in the background and smiled slightly.

A show, doing it to the fifth season and suddenly exploding, this was also something no one expected.

While the advertisers were happy, Icefield Video also laughed loudly.

Especially this episode, which made several Icefield Video shows popular before they were broadcast, and received expectations, especially the fashion competitive show that Xiao Yun participated in. The audience for this subject matter itself was not small. Once a suitable point was found to cut into it, the market was not small—especially the implantation of brands in the fashion field, that was directly splashing money in.

Li Zhenzhen came out of the Icefield Video headquarters, drove alone, and came to Chris Cafe.

She made an appointment to meet someone here.

Lu Yan He.

Ten minutes later, a thin and tall man wearing a duck-tongue cap and a mask walked in, looked around the store, and after his eyes settled on Li Zhenzhen, walked towards this side.

He took off his mask and smiled at Li Zhenzhen: "Sister Zhenzhen."

Li Zhenzhen asked with a smile: "How have you been resting lately?"

"Okay, quite well, reading books and scripts at home every day," Lu Yan He said.

Li Zhenzhen: "You are not on the cover of major fashion magazines in September this year, and many of your fans have opinions."

More and more male stars are also invited to shoot fashion magazine covers, mainly because the endorsements behind them will help them buy—similarly, their female fans are also a very crazy consumer group.

Lu Yan He waved his hand and said: "No time to shoot this year."

"The *Birth of an Actor* you are preparing, actually I also prepared a performance competitive show before, do you still have an impression?"

Lu Yan He nodded and said: "Remember, but it seems it didn't continue because of some reasons later?"

"Yeah, because it's hard to invite people," Li Zhenzhen shrugged, expressing helplessness. "Actors who have already become famous are not willing to come to the show to be contestants, or they hope we promise that their PK with others will definitely win. For actors who have already become famous, such PK is indeed very cruel. Once they lose, they may be considered inferior in acting, and even leave an impression of not being able to act in front of the public."

Such a situation does indeed exist.

Lu Yan He nodded.

Li Zhenzhen said again: "So when I heard you were going to do this show, I was quite shocked, and after thinking about it, I knew why I didn't do it."

"Why?" Lu Yan He asked.

"Because I didn't find a convener like you," Li Zhenzhen said. "For a show producer like me, if I can't have a group of artists who trust me, then I am actually very difficult to do an innovative show. Artists are afraid of being pitted. Indeed, many shows, for the sake of ratings and heat, will pit artists, specifically editing artists to a negative image, the more scolded, the more popular."

Lu Yan He nodded and said: "It is indeed like this."

"Now it's just regret, why didn't I think of letting you be a convener at that time," Li Zhenzhen laughed.

Lu Yan He also laughed.

"However, it is also fortunate that the show was not done at that time," Li Zhenzhen said. "At that time, one of the mentors who was originally set, I just found out, it turned out that he had a relationship with you."

Lu Yan He was stunned.

He looked at Li Zhenzhen with some surprise.

The smile on Li Zhenzhen's face disappeared, and she looked at Lu Yan He thoughtfully and asked: "Yan He, do you know Chen Pinhe?"

The expression on Lu Yan He's face froze.

Just with such an expression, Li Zhenzhen actually understood, and there was no need for Lu Yan He to answer again.

Li Zhenzhen sighed softly and said: "A few days ago, I came back from Venice and asked my dad. He had been unwilling to say it before, but a few days ago, he finally told me a name."

No need to ask, it was this name.

"Originally, I wanted to ask clearly why he targeted you at the beginning, and wanted to resolve the matter at the beginning, it can't always be blocked here," Li Zhenzhen said sorry. "I originally wanted to know this name from my dad, and then tell you, please be on guard against him, don't be pitted by him. But you actually already knew, right?"

Lu Yan He nodded hesitantly.

"Yan He, sorry, I didn't mean to pry into your private affairs."

"It's okay," Lu Yan He shook his head. "I don't think there is anything shameful about this matter."

Li Zhenzhen: "But this matter makes him very wary. My dad said he is very wary of letting others know of your existence."

Lu Yan He: "Guessed it."

Li Zhenzhen: "Has he... looked for you?"

"No," Lu Yan He shook his head. "Except for meeting in work occasions before, we have never communicated privately."

"Does he know that you know about this?"

Lu Yan He: "Don't know, but should have guessed it."

From beginning to end, Lu Yan He was very calm. But his calmness made Li Zhenzhen even more... heavy-hearted. She didn't know how to describe her mood, but she was very sure of one thing: if Lu Yan He performed so lightly on this matter, it could only mean that he had experienced a lot of pain. That stage had passed, and he could control his emotions.

Li Zhenzhen: "Is there anything I can do for you?"

"No, Sister Zhenzhen, thank you," Lu Yan He smiled at her. "Thank you for helping me confirm this matter."

"Didn't you already know?" Li Zhenzhen asked.

"I mean, thank you for helping me confirm that he did indeed prevent me from staying in the acting industry behind my back," Lu Yan He said. "Before, it was actually just my guess. Before this show of yours, I had already been driven away from Star Entertainment once, I had terminated my contract with Star Entertainment once, you might not know."

Li Zhenzhen was stunned.

Lu Yan He: "Just as you said, he is very wary of others knowing the relationship between me and him, so he tried to let me stay away from him, and never be able to approach him."

The corners of his mouth curled up.

A contemptuous smile.

"He might not have thought that I never thought about acknowledging him," Lu Yan He looked at Li Zhenzhen and said: "Sister Zhenzhen, do me a favor."

"What?" Li Zhenzhen asked. "You say."

"If it is convenient, please ask your father to pass a word to him. He doesn't want to acknowledge me, it doesn't matter, anyway, I didn't want to acknowledge him either. However, there is no need to try to cut the grass and remove the roots in order to cover up this secret," Lu Yan He's face gradually cooled down, his face like frost. "Carrying a human life is worse than a scandal of having an illegitimate child."

Li Zhenzhen didn't react at first, and when she reacted, her face already showed shock and astonishment that she wanted to hide but couldn't.

"You are pressing step by step, and you are asking someone to pass a word? Afraid that others won't know."

Chen Ziyan smiled.

Lu Yan He shrugged and said: "Bluff him. He has had no reaction. I can't just wait like this. If he has always been a shrinking turtle and has no reaction, then there is no way."

Chen Ziyan said: "Yan He, although I know you don't care about this matter, I still want to remind you that if others know you are Chen Pinhe's illegitimate child, it is not a devastating blow to your acting career, but it is definitely more harmful than beneficial. Your success, your honor, will all be attributed to him by many people. Just like the achievements made by all celebrity children, even if he has never done a thing for you in his life, others won't believe it."

Lu Yan He: "I won't shout to the whole world that I am Chen Pinhe's son."

"You asked Li Zhenzhen to pass a word for you, at least two people knew your relationship."

"They already knew, so I let them pass the word."

"Knowing is one thing, participating in more details is another," Chen Ziyan reminded Lu Yan He very seriously. "Yan He, on this matter, once it involves others, you must be very cautious."

Lu Yan He didn't expect Chen Ziyan to be so serious.

Was his behavior too reckless?

Maybe.

At that moment, even if he didn't admit it, he had to say that he felt the pleasure of burning the boats.

Chen Ziyan's words were like a head-on blow, making him wake up a little.

What is there to burn the boats.

Worked so hard for so long, paid so much hardship, you sink your boat, why should my pot be broken.

Star Entertainment.

Zhou Ping'an's office.

At this moment, Ma Zhiyuan was like a rooster whose eyes were red from fighting, standing in front of Zhou Ping'an, clenching his right hand, and angrily questioning Zhou Ping'an.

"Li Zhibai humiliated you and me on the show, don't you fight back?"

Zhou Ping'an looked at him and said: "Fight back what? Now everyone laughs at me, saying that I gave up on Li Zhibai and chose you, having eyes but not knowing pearls. Do you think I have eyes but don't know pearls?"

Ma Zhiyuan: "Do you regret it?"

"I do regret it, hiding from me and getting other female stars pregnant, and trying to cover the sky with one hand, dealing with it myself, and finally ending up like this. Do you say I regret it or not?" Zhou Ping'an patted the table. "Look at your attitude now, I didn't give up on you, you gave up on yourself first. I told you not to have any involvement with Li Zhibai, Lu Yan He, and Yan Liang, and you retorted on Weibo, it feels good to retort, right? I tell you, the show I finally got for you has gone yellow again!"

Ma Zhiyuan looked at Zhou Ping'an in disbelief.

"What did you say?"

"Is it cool now? Satisfied? Do you think you are still that big star who can have someone pay for your temper no matter how you play?" Zhou Ping'an looked at Ma Zhiyuan with disgust. "There are many stars whose private lives are exposed, and there are many stars who have experienced troughs. Like you, when something happens, the wall falls and everyone pushes, everyone falls into your broken well, no one is willing to give you a chance. I am begging for you here, and you are pretending to be a big master and pretending to be awesome on Weibo, get out!"

This was the first time Zhou Ping'an roared the word "get out" at Ma Zhiyuan.

Ma Zhiyuan's face turned pale in an instant, unbelievable.

Fu Li, who was outside Zhou Ping'an's office, suddenly heard the roar of "get out" from Zhou Ping'an, and was so scared that she took a step back, looking at the door in surprise.

Although Zhou Ping'an had a big temper and liked to be yin and yang, he really didn't scold "get out" directly like this.

Fu Li was curious about who was inside, causing Zhou Ping'an to have such a big temper.

She frowned hesitantly, thinking, maybe she should come back to find Zhou Ping'an later.

Finding him now feels like hitting the muzzle directly.

Of course, Fu Li still stayed nearby and first looked at who was in Zhou Ping'an's office.

When she saw Ma Zhiyuan walking out of Zhou Ping'an's office, Fu Li immediately realized.

So it was him.

Then it's not strange.

Fu Li also didn't look down on Ma Zhiyuan.

Ma Zhiyuan was so popular before, purely because he caught the dividend of the wind outlet.

Caught up with the best time for idol artists.

Lucky, ate good food for a few years, didn't cherish it well, and also made death, playing a good hand of cards into a mess.

If it were her who had such luck—

Fu Li's heart rose with unwillingness.

She had signed with the company for a few years. She thought she would become popular immediately, but several times when she just emerged, she was pressed down. The play she talked about well was blocked, the show she talked about well was also told not to use her, and even black materials were dug up, making her not popular yet, first black a wave of out of the circle—

Fu Li knew that this was the handwriting of the three "first sisters" in the company.

In Star Entertainment, no young actress can cross their joint blockade.

And now, Liu Zhiyin is also coming to the company immediately.

Fu Li's sense of crisis is heavier.

Liu Zhiyin's route is a bit of a collision with her.

Although she is an actor and Liu Zhiyin is an idol, the appearance and style of the two are very similar.

Fu Li took a deep breath.

She cannot sit still.

Now, Sui Xiaodie has left the company, and Jiang Yuqian is going to film overseas again. The company can't possibly stuff all the resources into Zhang Lan's hands alone.

She has already eaten the defeat of the third season of *Friends*, and can't eat it.

Fu Li has already set her eyes on a play. That play was looking for Jiang Yuqian, and the heroine has not been set yet. Jiang Yuqian definitely can't act, she wants to take it down.

Mid-September, a rainy night.

Lu Yan He got out of the car and walked into the restaurant.

The crew of *Seventeen Layers* was having dinner here tonight.

The director's bureau.

Except for Shen Yue who was in the group, the leading actors all came.

And screenwriter Feng Qiyue.

The second season of *Seventeen Layers* will start filming next month.

Lian Bei organized the bureau in advance, after all, they hadn't gathered for a long time.

When everyone was filming the first season of *Seventeen Layers* together, the atmosphere was very good.

It belonged to the kind where the relationship between all the leading actors was good, which was rare.

The performance of this drama *Seventeen Layers* was very good, and the trilogy plan at the beginning also proceeded smoothly.

The second season had two more episodes than the first season, with a total of fourteen episodes.

Everyone's salary increased.

Especially Lu Yan He, when he signed the contract for the first season, this male lead was already a high configuration, and had no advantage in salary negotiation.

Now it belongs to the extent that Jingtai would smash money to keep Lu Yan He in this series.

After all, this is also the only explosive model of Jingtai at present.

And if Lu Yan He exits the leading actor lineup, the price of overseas streaming media copyright will also fall directly.

The global popularity of *Squid Game* also drove the long-tail effect of this drama *Seventeen Layers*.

*Seventeen Layers* has accumulated a group of drama fans both at home and abroad.

This is also the key reason why the second season of *Seventeen Layers* proceeded smoothly.

Lian Bei was especially happy and said: "It's not easy for our drama to maintain the original cast in the second season. I don't need to say more, everyone knows. Our Chinese dramas don't have two series that can always maintain the original cast. As a director, I raise a glass to thank everyone for always caring about this drama *Seventeen Layers*. I am very happy to continue to cooperate with everyone."

Although the drama is Jingtai's, the trilogy was planned by Lian Bei as an early project initiator.

As a director, who doesn't hope that the roles in their play can be played by one actor from beginning to end.

But often things go against wishes.

The supporting role becomes popular, so they don't come to act as a supporting role.

The protagonist's schedule is too full, and the filming time is extended again and again.

Whether it is Lu Yan He or Chen Bige, two top stars can return as promised, which can almost be called a miracle.

And Jiang Jun, after *Squid Game* and *My Own Swordsman*, is still willing to return to play a supporting role, which also moved Lian Bei.

*Seventeen Layers* itself features an all-star lineup. In the second season, the all-star lineup has been upgraded—

Careers are all jumping up.

Li Yuefeng said with a smile: "Then I have to thank the director first for letting me return in the second season."

Li Yuefeng, who died in the first season, finally returned to the second season as his twin brother, and used this line as his character's main line, joining the protagonist group with the motivation of avenging his brother, which is reasonable and didn't play the resurrection set.

Everyone toasted happily.

Someone at the dinner table was drinking alcohol, Lu Yan He was drinking fruit juice.

He said he was cultivating his character, drank a bit too much some time ago, and had to slow down for a while.

No one had any objections.

"Li Yuefeng, are you in love?"

At the dinner table, Lian Bei suddenly asked such a sentence, which scared everyone.

Li Yuefeng was a bit panicked and said: "No, director, why did you suddenly ask me this?"

"I saw you eating at Zhoufuhui last week, a very beautiful girl took your hand into the private room, so I didn't greet you. Isn't she your girlfriend?"

"That's my sister," Li Yuefeng breathed a sigh of relief and smiled. "Scared me, I thought I was having a scandal with someone again."

"However, speaking of which, you have had quite a few scandals in the past few years," Chen Bige suddenly said. "I have seen many reports."

Li Yuefeng: "Most of them are hype by producers and platforms, promoting new plays."

"What era is it, they still play this set?" Chen Bige raised her eyebrows in surprise. "Isn't it usually that solo fans are more than CP fans?"

"Sister Bige, you even know solo fans and CP fans?"

"That's it, I filmed *Rouge* with Huang Kairen, and my fans split into two groups, arguing every day, arguing until I wanted to block them," Chen Bige said bluntly.

Li Yuefeng laughed and said: "So even at your status, you will still encounter such troubles?"

"Basically, as long as there are roles with emotional scenes, they will appear, more or less," Chen Bige said. "I heard from others before that in order to avoid being too smoky, many crews don't use this promotional method. After all, current fans don't accept this promotional method."

"What should be hyped will still be hyped," Li Yuefeng shook his head. "It's just that the form of hype has changed."

"What has it become?"

"It used to be hyping that two people fell in love because of the play, now it's directly hyping CP feeling," Li Yuefeng said. "Then release some behind-the-scenes footage when we are filming, specifically intercepting the kind of ambiguous pictures, disguised as paparazzi or stealing, making us even if we deny it, it's deliberate denial."

Li Yuefeng is a typical traffic actor.

He and his team are actually very avoidant of hyping CP and having scandals, which is very unfavorable to his persona and fan base.

However, the crew hyped it hard. Even if they didn't cooperate, they still hyped it. For the sake of traffic, marketing accounts also added fuel to the fire. Every time he denied it, some pictures and videos similar to "real hammer" would circulate, and the so-called "real hammer" was just everyone talking and laughing together, or even doing some intimate and ambiguous actions when rehearsing. Deny once, release a little, deny again, and release a little more. The news was hyped up as they wished, and the scandal was also firmly established in the public's impression.

Li Yuefeng is not defending himself, but filming a play, having a scandal once, is he so unable to hold back?

"Our play doesn't seem to have hyped CP much?"

"The selling point of this play is not CP," Lian Bei said. "However, before I filmed that fairy drama, the male and female protagonists hyped it up, and the teams on both sides communicated well and hyped it together, and even specially faked a date, and let people take pictures."

"If all parties reach a consensus and are willing to hype, then of course everyone is happy. If the actor is not willing, and the crew still wants to hype hard, then it is indeed not authentic," Feng Qiyue said. "However, I have encountered it once. A crew, the second male and second female, they don't know what they are thinking, don't know if it is for attention or what, they started dating before the broadcast. The play was broadcast for two months, they came in two rounds from confession, to dating, to quarreling, and breaking up, news was all over the sky. Not long after the play was finished, the two announced their breakup."

"Haha, I know who you are talking about," Chen Bige immediately laughed.

Lu Yan He and the others who haven't stayed in the entertainment industry for a few years really don't know.

"Who?"

"Don't you know who it is?" Chen Bige was surprised instead and asked.

Lu Yan He: "Could it be that I should know who it is?"

"You know," Chen Bige said. "From your company, Zhang Lan."

Lu Yan He widened his eyes in shock.

"But you have to admit that although they did it excessively, they did successfully step on the male and female protagonists to get to the top," Feng Qiyue said. "Decent is not decent, but there is nothing to say."

"Who are the male and female protagonists of that play?" Li Yuefeng asked curiously.

"Li Hualan and Zhou Fu."

Lu Yan He had no impression of these two names.

"Not very popular, you young people might not know," Chen Bige said.

Lu Yan He smiled incredulously.

"So that's why Zhang Lan is so wary of the second female lead of her new play?"

Even if she reveals people's old bottom, she has to kick Fu Li out.

She knows how she got to the top, so she firmly does not allow a second female lead who is a threat to herself to appear.

Lu Yan He didn't expect that the gathering of *Seventeen Layers* would turn into a gossip sharing night.

Lian Bei was actually a gossip enthusiast, and he was very clear when communicating.

Instead, Lu Yan He didn't know many things and hadn't heard of them.

Later, he couldn't help but ask, why do you know so much?

Jiang Jun said with a smile: "I also know little."

"You two look like you are not so gossipy, who would share with you," Chen Bige waved her hand and curled her lips. "Gossip, whether it can be shared, depends on the eye."

"..." Lu Yan He was speechless.

Around ten o'clock in the evening, everyone was ready to disperse.

At this time, Chen Bige stopped him.

"Sister Bige?" Lu Yan He looked at her suspiciously.

Chen Bige said: "You wait a moment, I have something to tell you."

Lu Yan He nodded suspiciously and said okay.

After everyone left, Lu Yan He went to Chen Bige's car.

"Sister Bige, what do you have to tell me?"

"Recently, someone came to ask me about you. At first, I didn't feel anything, thinking she just liked you, was your fan, and was curious about your things. But later... I heard a friend mention it, and then I knew that person also asked her about you, and they were all very private things. I thought about it and always felt something was wrong, so I still have to tell you."

Lu Yan He was a bit surprised, but immediately thought of a possibility.

"Who is asking about me from you and your friends?"

Chen Bige's expression was a bit complicated. After hesitating for a while, she still said it: "Zhang Yuezhen, Chen Pinhe's wife."

The expression on Lu Yan He's face stiffened for several seconds.

He didn't know if Chen Bige saw it.

It turned out that the bait was thrown for so long, it was not that no one took the bait, but that someone had already taken the bait in a place he didn't see.

That night, Lu Yan He lay on the bed, thinking silently, what exactly did he want to do in this matter, and what did he want.

Want father's love?

Bullshit, get out of here.

Then want the other party's remorse, admitting mistakes, apologizing?

He would be so disgusted that he would vomit his overnight meal.

Thought for a long time, from the life before he crossed over, from the life belonging to Lu Yan He's original body that he inherited, looking for it bit by bit, what exactly did he want.

If there was nothing, where did his impulse to burn the boats come from?

Maybe it was just simple revenge, can't look at him living well?

Also possible.

Lu Yan He tossed and turned on the bed, thinking left and right.

He couldn't figure out what he wanted.

Because he didn't have anything he needed from Chen Pinhe.

The fourth stage of *Young Days*, which is also the last stage of this season's recording.

The filming location of the show was placed at a barbecue stall.

In the recording of this stage, they will act as apprentices to help the couple at the barbecue stall prepare a big job—

Two days later, they will provide barbecue for 109 employees of a company.

And their work is from roasting to making, from preparation to service, all-in-one package.

The stall owner couple only guides them.

Eight people were shocked.

Lu Yan He didn't expect that Li Zhenzhen and the others actually came up with such a move.

From farm work, to Venice, and now returning to the fireworks of the world in the barbecue.

The director group is trying their best to let them present the most real side in this show.

And until this stage started, they were very shocked to realize that in this season of the show, not a single flying guest was invited.

Everyone was very surprised.

Privately, everyone asked Li Zhenzhen.

Li Zhenzhen said: "It's rare to gather once, so I thought, this season is just you eight people. If flying guests come, you still have to take care of their emotions and reactions, and you can't really relax. We still hope to see you really relax in this show."

"Relax?" Peng Zhixing laughed, "It's making us work and making us prepare barbecue for a hundred people, where is it easy!"

Li Zhenzhen said with a smile: "Not easy physically, but the brain is relaxed. You are getting busier and busier at work, especially all kinds of people and things to deal with. Coming here, I hope you can put the things in your head aside first."

"Go, why is what you said so moving?" Li Zhibai said.

Li Zhenzhen: "Why are you so easily moved?"

"Sigh, after recording this show, we have to meet again next year."

"Suddenly the fifth season is also about to be recorded."

Lu Yan He listened to them saying one after another, keeping a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"What's wrong with you? The state is not quite right," Li Zhibai noticed that he spoke less today and asked in a low voice.

Lu Yan He shook his head and deliberately yawned, "Didn't sleep well yesterday."

"Stayed up late to write the script again?"

"Yeah."

Li Zhibai: "Your work and rest are becoming more and more irregular. Didn't you used to be quite regular?"

"Don't have to go to school anymore," Lu Yan He yawned again, this time for real. "After recording this show, are you going to enter the group?"

"Yeah, enter the group in two weeks, and film for two months," Li Zhibai said. "After filming this movie, next year I will film *Nineteen Years Crime Record* and your *Sword Fairy*."

Lu Yan He said: "The filming time of *Sword Fairy* is estimated not to be short. I want to film it in one breath, not make it a seasonal drama. This story is also not suitable for a seasonal drama."

Li Zhibai nodded: "I also have this feeling when reading the script."

"Don't forget to practice martial arts," Lu Yan He said. "This drama really needs your action to be good-looking. If you don't fight well, no matter how well you act, there is no such feeling."

"Got it, don't worry," Li Zhibai said. "I have started fitness, at least go to the gym once a week."

Lu Yan He laughed.

"Go once a week, you have the nerve to say."

Li Zhibai: "For a lazy ghost like me, it's already not easy, and I asked the coach, just practice slowly like this, enough. When entering the group, my figure will definitely have muscle contours."

"Contours..." Lu Yan He accurately captured this word, wanted to say something, but stopped.

Li Zhibai himself laughed.

"Enough to see."

After chatting with Li Zhibai for a while, Lu Yan He's mood eased a bit.

"Dong dong!" Someone knocked on the door.

"Come in." Chen Ziyan didn't raise her head.

Lu Qingzhen opened the door of Chen Ziyan's office and walked in.

"What are you doing?" Lu Qingzhen saw Chen Ziyan burying her head in hard work, a bit surprised. "Now it is advocated to be paperless office, what are you writing hard here?"

"Signing the contract," Chen Ziyan signed the contract one by one.

Although the company has her signature seal, Chen Ziyan still insists on sending some important contracts to her for hand-signing.

All those involving Lu Yan He are in this range.

Lu Qingzhen: "What contract? Does Yan He have any new cooperation?"

"No, some supplementary agreements on business endorsements, as well as many previous projects, have new derivative authorizations," Chen Ziyan said. "After Xu Tianming and Chen Yin came, the business volume of Linghe immediately surged. The two of them are quite adaptable."

"They were also picked out by you, one attacking the city and land outside, one guarding the backyard well at home, the combination of the two is indeed not bad."

Lu Qingzhen asked: "What is Yan He doing now?"

"Recording the show, *Young Days* still has the last stage not recorded," Chen Ziyan said. "There is a contract for the sixth season here, look, the fifth season hasn't been recorded yet, the contract for the sixth season has been sent over."

"There is nothing strange about this. I don't know what happened to this season of *Young Days*, it suddenly became popular in a mess," Lu Qingzhen said. "I feel that the artists in it, all opened their orifices, suddenly have variety sense, very expressive, and can give memes."

Chen Ziyan: "It's been recorded for five seasons, isn't it normal to have progress."

"Variety sense is not something that can be improved by hard work and learning," Lu Qingzhen said. "It can only be said that these people are really tea bowls matching tea lids, matched together, and adjusted for chemical effects in five years. This is only the fifth season. If it really keeps going, doing it to the tenth season, twentieth season, what will this show be like?"

Chen Ziyan: "What are you thinking about so far."

Lu Qingzhen: "Chatting, suddenly looking forward to it."

"You came to me... just for chatting?"

"Yeah," Lu Qingzhen nodded. "Don't want to work, tired."

Chen Ziyan smiled.

"It's also hard work for you during this time."

The business of *Birth of an Actor*, many are negotiated by Lu Qingzhen.

"Fortunately, not too hard, the business of this show is easy to talk about, nothing more than chatting about concepts, chatting about fit, chatting about how much money to give, chatting about specific KPIs," Lu Qingzhen said. "Except for the large volume and complexity, there is no other problem. Don't need to beg for sponsorship, this feeling, comfortable."

"Don't just be comfortable, since you are fine now, help me boil a cup of coffee, I am sleepy, just yawned several times."

"Didn't you rest yesterday?"

"Rest of course rested, didn't rest enough, recently there are more and more things, the brain is not enough to turn," Chen Ziyan signed the last contract, put it aside, and took out another document from the drawer, carefully reviewing it. "There is a script from Hollywood looking for Yan He, it's a horror movie again."

"Ha? How many is this?"

"The sixth one," Chen Ziyan said. "*The Mist* is popular before it is released, especially because of the racial discrimination thing, bringing Yan He to be popular together, making several film parties indicate that if Lu Yan He is willing to act, they are willing to change the race and skin color of the role. However, there is no other subject matter looking for him, all are horror movies, which is really helpless."

Lu Qingzhen: "Then for Hollywood people, the representative work is *The Mist*. Everyone knows him because of this type of movie. It's not strange that no other movies are looking for him. After it is released, the situation will be much better."

"I recently hope to get a script from a top director, even if it's just letting Yan He go in to act in a role of only five to ten minutes," Chen Ziyan said. "In the next two to three years, Yan He almost has no works to go to the film festival, just one *Love Letter*, which has been scheduled by the Hexi Film Festival next year. If there are no works at the film festival in these two or three years, I am worried that Yan He's biggest advantage in the international film scene will be lost."

"Do you want Yan He to always give people an impression of being active at the film festival?"

"Yes," Chen Ziyan nodded. "Because Yan He has too many commercialized subject matters in the next few years, he definitely doesn't lack heat, nor does he lack popularity, but excessive commercial exposure will also weaken his biggest advantage. If it gives everyone an impression that Yan He is popular and starts acting in commercial films, genre films, and doesn't shoot art films, that would be terrible."

Lu Qingzhen asked: "Then do you have a goal?"

"The goal actually exists, the key is—how to let Yan He enter the casting vision of those big directors, Asian roles are still too few," Chen Ziyan sighed.

Lu Qingzhen: "Then it doesn't have to be always looking for European and American big directors. Asian big directors, you can also inquire. India, Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan... these countries have world-class big directors. And with Yan He's popularity in Asia, their recognition and welcome degree for Yan He are definitely higher than those European and American big directors. To tell the truth, Ziyan, there are still quite a few people in Europe and America who don't say it on their lips but look down on Asians in their hearts."

Chen Ziyan: "I know, but that is not the reason why I don't take the initiative to attack. Whether they look down on it or not, what I care about is that we can finally use results to tell them solidly that it doesn't matter whether they look down on it or not."

"Then—Ziyan, have you considered changing a train of thought?" Lu Qingzhen suggested.

"Change what train of thought?"

"It doesn't have to be a horror movie. My meaning is, Yan He can completely take the road of commercial films and big stars overseas first, there is no need to slowly accumulate from art films."

Lu Qingzhen said solemnly: "Yan He may not necessarily have works to participate in the film festival in the next two or three years, but if Yan He can brush his face in A-level blockbusters, first brush up his international popularity, relying on the reputation Yan He has made at international film festivals in these few years, it is not a waste of time at all. World-class big directors' works, we can still look for them at the same time—it's just not limited to this range, there is no need to limit this range because Yan He has no stock to participate in the film festival."

"You and I both know that as long as the fame is big enough, anyone's film is easier to knock on the door."

What Lu Qingzhen said of course makes sense.

Chen Ziyan also agrees with this truth.

It's just that, it seems that "all roads lead to Rome", but different roads mean that you will enter Rome with a different identity.

Lu Yan He's achievements are actually taking a shortcut. He is taking a shortcut in the evaluation system that has been running in the film world for hundreds of years.

Without achievements at the film festival, without the pursuit of world media, he would of course succeed, but he would not be so unique and no one could compete.

The core that Chen Ziyan wants to firmly grasp is not what height Lu Yan He's future will grow to, but when he has already obtained a unique advantage, how to defend this advantage, help him climb to the top of the mountain with half the effort, instead of suddenly seeing another road, feeling that the road can also climb to the top of the mountain, then change the track to climb.

Among the top movie stars recognized in the country, only Lu Yan He, Shang Yongzhou, Chen Bige, and Chen Pinhe are actors whose starring movie box office has not entered the top 20 in film history.

And they can still be considered top in this situation because awards, honors, and audience recognition have brought them a transcendent status and social recognition.

Now, Lu Yan He goes to take the box office route?

This is not a question of whether fish and bear's paw can be obtained. If it can be obtained, then Chen Ziyan has nothing to struggle with.

The problem is exactly that if you eat fish, you don't have time to eat bear's paw.

You only have one mouth, no parallel timeline.

And you chose to eat fish, when you want to eat bear's paw again, others may not be willing to give it to you.

That dish of others is not that no one else wants to eat, and it won't wait for you all the time.

Chen Ziyan pondered for a long time, still firm in her idea. ===== CHAPTER 528 =====