Chapter 606

"We just received a message saying that our show *Silent Staircase* changed directors right before filming started, is that true?"

In a television interview the next day, a reporter asked Lu Yan He.

Lu Yan He nodded and said: "Yes, due to some sudden unexpected circumstances, our original director was unable to continue directing, so we temporarily invited Chen Yu, who was originally working on another project at our Jump Up Theater, to direct *Silent Staircase*."

"Did the pressure of such a temporary change of director affect you and the crew's filming?"

"It definitely did, but we also unexpectedly discovered a very remarkable director," Lu Yan He smiled brightly. "Just wait and see, Director Chen Yu will film very good works in the future. I am very happy that *Silent Staircase* is his first independently directed work."

"This also adds another name to the list of new directors you've collaborated with," the reporter said with a smile.

"Ah, yes, it is," Lu Yan He reacted and nodded, "It really is."

"Logically speaking, an actor like you usually participates in the industry's top-tier productions, but it seems you still participate in many film and television projects we didn't expect. If *Silent Staircase* is supported as a project of the Jump Up Theater, then why did you choose to participate in the film by Malaysian director Huang Tianlin at this time? And, as far as we know, the role you play is not a lead?"

The controversy over this matter has actually never stopped.

Since the news was exposed, the discussion on the internet has been chaotic.

Many film fans left messages, not understanding his choice and decision.

Lu Yan He said: "Because it's a small-cost art film, and because the role I play is not the lead."

The reporter was stunned, as if they didn't understand what he was talking about at all.

"Ah?"

"My meaning is, actually, if you talk about big productions and top-tier projects, I don't lack this kind of project. In film, I have already filmed *Burning Fire*, and in TV, I also have *Seventeen Layers* and *Friends*. So, as an actor, I hope what I present to the audience is more multi-faceted, especially for film fans who really like to see me explore different performance types," Lu Yan He said frankly.

"I hope that in the future, I can cooperate with directors from different countries and different cultural backgrounds to film different types of film and television works, whether as a lead or a supporting role. As long as it's something I haven't tried before and the script is good enough, even if I'm not the most important person in the work, I can use my power to help this work be seen by the whole world outside the work. Why wouldn't I?"

The reporter was stunned for a long time before saying: "Your pattern is so big."

Lu Yan He waved his hand with a smile.

"No, I'm just a slightly greedy actor. I want awards and box office, I want commercial films and art films, and I also want the applause of the audience and the sense of achievement of the actor himself."

Airport, arrival hall.

He Lan waved at Chen Siqi who came out from inside, walked over, and handed her a thermos cup containing coffee.

"Hard work on your business trip."

Chen Siqi smiled at He Lan and asked: "Why are you so happy?"

He Lan said: "A television interview that Yan He accepted was just broadcast. Some of the things he said in it made me very happy."

"Hmm? What did he say again?"

"What he said isn't important; what's important is that he knows very clearly what he wants to do," He Lan helped Chen Siqi take her suitcase and said, "Before, the news that Yan He was going to act in that Malaysian film made many of his film fans very uncomprehending, and many people were very angry, feeling that he didn't cherish his career and took on random roles."

Chen Siqi smiled.

"Just listen to those words. How many times has Yan He taken on roles, and they were uncomprehending at first? *Three Mountains* was the same, *Late Spring* was the same, including *The Mist*... What was the result? They never look at past facts anyway, only thinking that as long as it's not a big director or a big production, it's not worthy of Yan He. In this regard, Ziyan-jie and I are the same. Even if we have doubts about Yan He's film selection, we won't stop him. Facts have long proven that we don't have his eye, so we should have a little more self-knowledge."

He Lan: "But many actors can't insist on their own choices like Yan He. Something happened yesterday, do you know? After Zhang Lan acted in *Flowing Light* with Yan Liang, didn't she not join any crew? She had been in contact with an urban female-themed crew for a while and was about to sign a contract, but the news leaked out, and her fans launched a large-scale boycott."

"Ah? Why boycott?"

"On one hand, because this show is an ensemble, not a big heroine show; there are three female leads. On the other hand, the role she was in contact with, fans thought the character setting was bad, because she played a housewife with a husband and daughter, and later her husband cheated, and she forgave her husband," said He Lan. "So Zhang Lan's fans were very angry, thinking Zhang Lan shouldn't play such a role."

Chen Siqi: "Then who replaced Zhang Lan?"

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"Zhen Hongyu replaced her," said He Lan. "After Zhen Hongyu's fans knew she took this show, there were also some opposing voices, but Zhen Hongyu replied directly to her fans in the comment section."

"What did she reply?"

"She said she knew what she was doing."

Chen Siqi: "Zhen Hongyu's attention in *The Birth of an Actor* was actually quite high, just because she hadn't been out of style, and her popularity and heat had always been very high, making it seem like she didn't benefit much from the show. But her film offers should never have been broken, right? She and Zhang Lan both chose this show, which shows that this script and character are charming and worth acting. These fans haven't even seen the script and are doing these things, it's too much."

"There's no way, now the entire public opinion environment is too serious about moral judgment of content and characters. I can also understand the boycott behavior of those fans, but understanding is one thing, but if an actor wants to play a good role, the character itself is bound not to be a perfect person in morality. Except for those fans of idol dramas, what audience really likes a moral saint?"

Chen Siqi: "The truth is the truth, but it's useless, many people won't listen."

The two walked out of the airport and came outside.

A wave of hot wind swept over.

"It's a bit hot," said Chen Siqi.

"Hmm, the temperature has been a bit high these past two days, but it will cool down soon," said He Lan.

The two stood on the side of the road, waiting for the driver to drive over.

"Siqi?" A surprised voice sounded.

Chen Siqi and He Lan turned their heads to look at the same time.

They seemed not to have expected to meet an acquaintance here—to be precise, two people, who looked like a mother and daughter.

The woman who looked like the mother was wearing an elegant suit, completely dressed like a rich wife.

And the girl who looked like the daughter was also dressed like an exquisite rich girl, but her gaze toward Chen Siqi was not very friendly.

He Lan didn't know them.

"Aunt Du, Li Lin," Chen Siqi looked at the two of them with some surprise.

These two people really hadn't been seen for a few years.

Du Fang, Liu Weian's good friend.

Li Lin, also a student of the 13th Middle School, but had always been at odds with Chen Siqi.

Back then, at Chen Siqi's birthday party, the two of them had satirized Chen Siqi in front of everyone, which led to the scene where Lu Yan He brought Li Zhibai, Yan Liang, and the others to help Chen Siqi out and support her.

"Oh my, it's really been a long time. A girl changes eighteen times, really beautiful, and her work is so outstanding," Du Fang's eyes were full of sincere appreciation, and she was about to hold Chen Siqi's hand without saying anything.

Chen Siqi stepped back directly, not giving her a chance.

"Aunt Du, is there anything you need?"

This step made He Lan understand the relationship between them.

Well, the relationship is not very good.

At least Chen Siqi doesn't like these two people in front of her.

"Mom, why are you sticking your hot face to her cold butt? She is now the president of the Jump Up Group, where can she still look up to us old acquaintances?" Li Lin looked at Chen Siqi with full disgust.

People around looked over curiously.

Du Fang immediately glared at her daughter.

"How are you talking?!"

He Lan saw their car drive over, smiled slightly, changed from the posture of being close to Chen Siqi just now, and became very "secretary-like", respectfully and considerately saying: "Chen Zong, our car is here, time is tight, we have to get in the car."

Chen Siqi nodded, and gave Du Fang and Li Lin a faint smile, "Then I'll go first."

"Siqi, let's go out for afternoon tea when we have time later," Du Fang said immediately.

"Mom!" Li Lin pulled her mother's sleeve with dissatisfaction.

Chen Siqi seemed to have heard nothing and turned around.

He Lan had already stepped forward to help Chen Siqi open the back door.

The driver got out of the car to get the luggage.

Chen Siqi got into the car leisurely.

He Lan closed the door, and in the two steps to the passenger seat, she specifically looked at the two of them. Of course, there was no emotion mixed in, just showing a secretary's posture—for the two people her boss knew, leaving an impression.

After the car drove away, Du Fang glared at Li Lin.

"Can you be sensible?!"

Li Lin said with dissatisfaction: "Do you think she will have a good face for you if you stick your hot face to her cold butt so enthusiastically?"

"At least she can help your dad!" Du Fang said angrily, "If you hadn't had such a stiff relationship with her back then and were friends with her, it wouldn't be so hard to talk to her now!"

Li Lin asked back angrily: "Isn't it because you were good friends with Liu Weian that you told me to have less contact with her since I was a child and not to be friends with her? Now you are blaming me?!"

Du Fang was speechless for a while.

Li Lin: "Don't expect Chen Siqi to help us. You have looked for Liu Weian so many times, have you seen her look for Chen Siqi once? She knows that Chen Siqi will never forgive her."

"Chen Siqi will never forgive her, that's normal, but we don't have a principled hatred with her, why won't she forgive us? Doesn't she need someone to help her speak for her in our circle regarding the hatred between her and Liu Weian?" Du Fang glared at Li Lin with disgust. "Don't just grow fat and not grow brains! You are twenty-three years old, you should be sensible."

Li Lin was so angry that she let out a scream in public.

Everyone around looked over.

He Lan noticed that after Chen Siqi got in the car, her mood seemed a bit low, and she didn't speak for a long time.

Think about it, it's probably related to the two people she met just now.

Although He Lan didn't know what the situation was with the two of them, she knew that Chen Siqi's relationship with her family was very bad.

She had been Chen Siqi's secretary for a while.

Chen Siqi would go back to her maternal grandparents' house to see the old people from time to time, but she had never returned to her parents' house once.

Of course, He Lan also knew why Chen Siqi didn't go back.

Once, Liu Weian actually came to the company to find Chen Siqi twice.

Chen Siqi didn't see her.

Later, someone in the company told her that this was Chen Siqi's stepmother.

After being by Chen Siqi's side for a long time, He Lan gradually realized that Chen Siqi didn't want to mention her family, and never went back to see her father—it must be related to the past.

The two people just now were clearly two people from the past.

Chen Siqi also often thought about one thing: if she hadn't started the magazine *Jump Up* with Lu Yan He on a whim after graduating from high school, what would her life be like?

Sometimes, life is really a choice that no one expected, and it changes drastically.

Even, she and her family didn't have intense quarrels, nor did they have the expected breakup, and they just separated gradually and tacitly.

Chen Siqi sometimes really feels a bit ironic.

Not for anything else, but for the irony of the various possible quarrels she once thought about.

In fact, for her dad, she was really just a burden.

She left, and he really didn't think about coming to find her at all.

When she was a child, she thought that when she grew up and had the ability to be self-reliant, she would never endure Liu Weian for a word again. At that time, her dad would definitely be angry. She thought very clearly that if it really came to that step, she would force her dad to make a choice: do you choose her or me?

As a result, it didn't even have to go to that step.

Human growth is that things you once thought you would definitely do and face when you grow up actually often don't appear in your future life.

Chen Siqi took a deep breath and dispelled the negative emotions that had grown because of seeing Du Fang and Li Lin.

Alright, that's it.

Chen Siqi didn't even have time to return to Huiziyuanqiao, she had to go to the company to deal with the things that had accumulated over the past few days.

The company is in a period of rapid expansion, and there are too many things that need her to make decisions.

After arriving at the company, Chen Siqi worked until eight o'clock in the evening, and she didn't know when the sky turned dark, before she finished reading the various plans and reports on her desk and gave processing opinions.

She turned her neck, and it creaked.

She had to stand up and move her limbs in the office.

At this time, He Lan knocked on the door and came in.

"Siqi, Yan He is here."

Chen Siqi showed a look of surprise.

Lu Yan He walked in with two lunch boxes and smiled at her.

"I heard you only ate a box of dumplings tonight?"

"Is a box of dumplings not enough?" Chen Siqi asked in surprise.

Lu Yan He: "Nutrition is not enough, this is the squab soup I packed from the restaurant, and a little cold dish, the one you like."

Chen Siqi was pleasantly surprised, "Aren't you having dinner with Tom White tonight?"

"Hmm, I came over after eating. This soup was made in the restaurant where we had dinner," said Lu Yan He. "I happened to pass by the cold dish shop you like on the way, so I went to buy a portion."

Chen Siqi nodded with a smile, "Alright, then are you going back tonight? Or sleeping here?"

There is a lounge for Chen Siqi here.

Chen Siqi has rested here many nights.

Lu Yan He said: "I don't have work tomorrow morning, I'll sleep here tonight, and I'll go back after having lunch with you tomorrow."

"Good," Chen Siqi nodded.

"Is your work finished tonight?"

"Just finished," said Chen Siqi. "I sat for five or six hours, and I was ready to change clothes and go for a run, but you brought a midnight snack to tempt me again."

"Don't run, let's go for a walk after eating," said Lu Yan He. "Just move your muscles and bones."

"Hmm," Chen Siqi nodded.

She suddenly remembered something and said to He Lan: "Lanlan, get off work, my work here has been processed, there is nothing else."

He Lan said: "I can't get off work yet, Siqi, give me the documents you processed just now, several departments are waiting for your opinions, time is very urgent."

"Are they all working overtime?"

"The main force has already left, but there are a few jobs waiting for your opinions tonight, all waiting," said He Lan. "I'll handle it, you rest for a while."

Chen Siqi heard this, thought about it, and said: "Then I'd better explain it to them in person."

She said to Lu Yan He: "Wait for me for ten minutes."

Lu Yan He nodded.

Lu Yan He carried the two lunch boxes and said: "Then I'll wait for you here? Or where should I eat?"

Chen Siqi's office only has a small tea table for guests.

Chen Siqi said: "You just wait for me here."

Lu Yan He nodded.

He Lan took the documents Chen Siqi had just processed and went out with Chen Siqi.

Lu Yan He took out the lunch boxes, put them on the tea table, and sat on the sofa.

When Chen Siqi came back, she found that Lu Yan He had fallen asleep on the sofa.

The smile on Chen Siqi's face paused, and she lightened her hands and feet.

She walked over lightly, sat on the floor in front of the tea table, and looked at Lu Yan He's face after he fell asleep at close range.

Chen Siqi is already very familiar with this face.

She knows what it feels like to touch every place with her hands.

The two have been together for so long, there are no burning moments of thunder and fire, and it seems a bit different from the kind of passionate love in novels and film and television works that seems to burn the whole world.

However, in more subtle places, whether it is her or him, both express their love with an incredible tolerance and understanding.

Chen Siqi herself couldn't believe that in the past few years, she had never doubted Lu Yan He for a moment, doubting whether he might have betrayed her.

And she was also very certain that Lu Yan He's love for her was no less than hers for him.

Why?

Is it because of their special growth experiences?

Chen Siqi looked at Lu Yan He's face and watched quietly for a long time.

Until Lu Yan He suddenly woke up.

He opened his sleepy eyes.

Chen Siqi smiled.

"Did I fall asleep?" Lu Yan He also smiled.

Chen Siqi nodded and said: "You fell asleep, are you tired?"

"A little, but actually not that tired. I didn't sleep on the way here. Maybe this sofa of yours is too comfortable, and I get sleepy as soon as I sit on it."

Chen Siqi: "Is this sofa that comfortable? Then I'll have them install one for you in the RV, it's not big anyway."

Lu Yan He laughed, "I think it works."

He saw the lunch box on the tea table that hadn't been opened yet.

"Haven't eaten yet?"

"I haven't been in for long," said Chen Siqi. "You've been asleep for less than ten minutes, I guess."

Lu Yan He uncovered the lunch box lid, and the fragrance swept up instantly.

Chen Siqi took a satisfied breath, "So fragrant."

Lu Yan He looked at Chen Siqi sitting directly on the floor and asked: "Aren't you cold sitting on the floor?"

"The floor is not cold."

Lu Yan He also sat cross-legged on the floor.

"Did you see Director An Jian?"

"I saw him," Chen Siqi nodded. "He doesn't admit that the anonymous letter has anything to do with him."

Lu Yan He: "Did you show your cards directly to him?"

"No, I just suggested that it might be Xin Pingqing who directed and acted this matter, and he took the opportunity to mention himself, asking if I had suspected him too," Chen Siqi laughed. "I asked what the reason for Xin Pingqing's father's suicide was, and he said that Xin Pingqing's father had always had depression. Later, after Xin Pingqing's father had an accident, he didn't have much contact with Xin Pingqing's family. It had been a long time since they had contact. It was only this time filming that someone told him that Xin Pingqing was the son of Xin Siyang back then."

Lu Yan He showed a look of doubt.

"How does it sound like it's trying to cover up?"

"I think so too," said Chen Siqi. "I asked him how he plans to solve this matter. If this matter is not solved, he will continue to direct new films in the future, and maybe this person will continue to send anonymous letters. He said he doesn't plan to be a director until he solves this matter."

Lu Yan He showed a look of surprise.

"Ah?"

"Unbelievable, right?" Chen Siqi shook her head. "To tell the truth, I don't quite understand whether An Jian directed and acted this matter behind the scenes. I don't know why he would do this, and I feel... not being a director in the future? To tell the truth, the price is too high. I originally thought that he might have been unable to direct *Silent Staircase* because of something, so he made such a scene."

Lu Yan He: "Forget it, if we can't figure out what's going on for the time being, don't worry about it. Before this matter is resolved, we won't cooperate with An Jian again."

Chen Siqi nodded.

"Hmm."

Chen Siqi smiled again: "Being able to discover Chen Yu can be considered a blessing in disguise. I have already sent him two more scripts, to see if we can continue to cooperate later."

Recommend the old book *I Became a Scandal Heroine Overnight* and the new book *Sword of the Demon Hunter* ===== CHAPTER 607 =====