Chapter 619: Little Devil, Little Devil in Charge

Can be sold globally—

This sentence moved Chen Siqi.

They have been trying to find ways to promote the sales and distribution of *Jump Up* overseas.

However, in the environment where physical books are increasingly declining, it is indeed difficult to go against the trend like in China.

In the past two years, they have thought of various ways, but they have not seen any improvement for the time being.

In the field of overseas publishing and distribution, it has always been in a state of loss.

The main reason is, of course, not the environment of physical books—if there is a reason for failure because the environment is not good, then there is no need to take action at all.

However, movies are universal globally. Taking this international film festival as an opportunity, invite all film critics to write an article to record this trip. The point is to write about their attitude towards movies and their comments on watching movies this time. These film critics have audiences all over the world. Although they may not have as many followers as other celebrities and stars, those who truly pay attention to them will definitely read them as long as articles are published.

Chen Siqi inexplicably felt that this plan was feasible and reliable.

"The print volume in each place may not be very large. Except for China, Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, where the first print volume can reach 10,000 copies, in other places, according to our calculations, it is about a few thousand copies," Linyu also directly put the market estimation calculation table she made with the marketing department in front of Chen Siqi. "However, we are all very optimistic about the long-term sales of this book."

Chen Siqi nodded, picked it up and looked at it, and said: "I think it is feasible. However, we haven't communicated with the film critics who came to participate in the film festival about this matter before. We have to communicate with them as soon as possible to see if they are willing to participate."

Although she said so, Chen Siqi felt that it should not be difficult.

The main business of film critics is to write articles.

For them, there is no difficulty or problem.

Linyu said: "Our project can actually apply for some cultural funds in our country, so that we can reduce our loss risk."

Chen Siqi shook her head directly: "Our film festival has no official background. If it receives funding from cultural funds, it may be used by some foreign media to render some negative things. This is not conducive to our entire overseas development plan for *Jump Up*. This book must be made in Chinese first. When the time comes, we will talk to overseas publishers one by one to see how to cooperate specifically. The costs we need to bear in the early stage are actually manuscript fees and translation fees, as well as some basic costs for book publishing. How to do it later, we will see the situation, no rush. Even if it loses money in the end, it doesn't matter. Losses in publishing are small losses, as long as it is conducive to the main contradiction of our entire *Jump Up* brand establishing influence overseas."

Linyu breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's great that you agreed to do this," she said. "I was worried that you wouldn't want to do it. After all, there are so many things in the film festival now, and the sales prospect of this book is not very good."

"No, I think the idea of this book is great. A film festival, if you do it, you do it, what can be left behind?" Chen Siqi said. "We do have on-site audience Q&A, forums, and a few live broadcasts, and there will be video and audio left behind. However, these can only become a kind of record material. But this book can continue to be sold—if we can make it a 'treasure' that movie lovers know. In fact, among movie books, many books are like this. They are not famous to the public, but they have been selling well in their own small fields."

Linyu nodded.

"Then let's start pushing it," she said with a smile.

"You also hope I write an article?" Lu Yan He showed some surprise.

"Yes," Chen Siqi nodded. "As one of the planners of this film festival, you will also participate. If you don't write an article, this book is incomplete. Of course, from a commercial point of view, having you write an article is also conducive to our cooperation negotiations with various publishers."

Lu Yan He heard this and didn't hesitate much, "Okay, I'm just afraid I won't write well. It's okay to write some small articles myself, but compared with these professional film critics, my articles seem superficial."

"Different types, and you are a filmmaker, a filmmaker who has achieved such great success worldwide, you say you are superficial?" Chen Siqi rolled her eyes at Lu Yan He, "I advise you not to be too humble. Excessive humility is also a kind of arrogance."

Lu Yan He laughed.

The phone suddenly rang.

It was actually a call from Wang Zhong.

"Director?" Lu Yan He answered the phone in surprise, "Any instructions?"

"I want to ask, will you hold parties or gatherings at the film critics' film festival you are holding at the end of the month?" Wang Zhong said. "If there are any, I would like to ask you for a few invitations. There are a few kids in my company who are their readers. If there is a chance, I want to see them with my own eyes."

Lu Yan He said: "We have made a plan for three activities that will invite friends in the industry to participate. How many people do you have there, Director? I will send the invitations to you."

"Okay, I have three people here. Send me four invitations. I'll go over together when I'm free," Wang Zhong said. "The film festival you and Siqi are doing is not easy, right? You didn't even get sponsorship, you just did it yourself?"

Lu Yan He: "We are doing it for the first time, afraid that there will be too many external factors, which will change the nature of this film festival, so we are a bit cautious. We didn't do a large scale, and the cost is not very high, so we bear it ourselves."

Wang Zhong: "Okay, I wish your film festival all the best. See you later."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Yan He told Chen Siqi the meaning of Wang Zhong's call with a smile.

Chen Siqi: "The industry is still quite concerned about our film festival. Many film and television companies, including platforms, have contacted us, wanting to participate and do it together, but I refused. It's just a film critics' film festival. Our Chinese movies basically don't rely on the overseas market. They just think it's fresh and join in the fun. They don't really think such a film festival is worth them doing anything."

Lu Yan He: "Less outsiders, more pure discussion, try to arrange content unrelated to movie discussion in those social occasions, which will make everyone feel comfortable."

"Hmm." Chen Siqi nodded.

Lu Yan He is a typical personality of this kind.

He does not resist social interaction, but he does not want to be in a social state at all times.

He prefers to have a concentrated period of time to handle a certain type of thing, just like when running promotion.

If you have to act, write scripts, accept interviews, and deal with other chores all day long, and then one or two unfamiliar people come to greet you, people will really explode.

Chen Siqi: "It's just that *Love Letter* is not screened at the film festival this time, and several film critics who came to participate expressed their doubts."

Lu Yan He said with a smile: "*Love Letter* is not a movie suitable for discussion and analysis as a text at such a film festival."

Chen Siqi: "But this movie should start promotion, right?"

"The early promotion has never stopped, but it is indeed about to start centralized promotion for the Qixi Festival release," Lu Yan He nodded. "Although I have been emphasizing that the box office of this movie may be 100 to 300 million, not too high, people in the company still feel that the box office can be rushed."

"You can't look at this kind of movie with common sense. As long as it is related to the four words 'youth love', it is either as you said, generally a small box office. If it weren't for you and Sister Bige acting, under normal circumstances, it would be tens of millions. But once this film triggers a topic and touches the emotional point of everyone mourning youth, the box office will rise like a tornado," Chen Siqi said. "This kind of movie is different from hard industrial movies, and it is different from that kind of brain-hole creative movie. It especially looks at social discussion."

Lu Yan He nodded.

"Sister Zixing and I have already made a promotion plan."

"Sister Zixing? Isn't she busy with the production of *China in Classics* and other programs?" Lu Yan He said. "Not long ago, she just finished *Birth of an Actor*, and now she finally returned to do the cultural programs she likes."

Chen Siqi said: "We decided to do a new program and use this program to promote *Love Letter*."

"What?" Lu Yan He looked at Chen Siqi in disbelief, "Do a new program for the promotion of a movie? Is this too exaggerated?"

Chen Siqi shook her head: "Not exaggerated. The program *Confession on the Rooftop* is still very popular and enduring. What we want to do is actually a bit like that. We want to do a program called *How Are You? I'm Fine*, collecting ten unrequited love stories nationwide, writing unrequited love stories into a letter, and inviting the person who is unrequitedly loved to read this letter."

Lu Yan He widened his eyes in shock, "Let the unrequited lover write the unrequited love story into a letter, and let the person who is unrequitedly loved read the letter on the program? What kind of operation is this?"

Chen Siqi: "The end of the program is to ask the person who is unrequitedly loved to guess the identity of the letter writer. If they guess correctly, we will provide a dating trip and provide an opportunity for them to re-familiarize and communicate. If they don't guess correctly, the person who is unrequitedly loved will never know who wrote the letter and who unrequitedly loved them."

Lu Yan He: "Who came up with the idea for this program?"

"Sister Zixing," Chen Siqi said. "I just said that the theme of *Love Letter* is letters and unrequited love, and then she came up with this idea."

"Why do I feel like this program will explode?" Lu Yan He said. "However, the premise is, where can you collect these stories?"

Chen Siqi: "Sister Zixing's team has already started collecting relevant stories through their channels. Of course, we will also collect them publicly nationwide, which is also part of the promotion of *Love Letter*. However, we plan to start broadcasting this program two weeks before the release of *Love Letter*. Before the release of *Love Letter*, only two episodes will be broadcast, two unrequited love stories, so as not to cause audience fatigue. We will control these rhythms, you don't have to worry."

Lu Yan He: "The idea of this program... I can imagine what kind of attention and discussion this program will trigger as long as the people and stories found are good enough."

Chen Siqi smiled.

"But it's quite difficult to find people, so we don't have a fixed number of how many episodes to do and how many stories to find. The parties must look good, satisfy everyone's beautiful memories of the person they unrequitedly loved in their youth, have regrets, and have relatively special and moving stories. We strive to find three such stories," Chen Siqi said.

Lu Yan He took a deep breath.

"I don't know what to say... Just now I told you that I felt the box office of *Love Letter* might not be high, but after hearing your promotion method, I suddenly felt that the movie box office might really explode."

Chen Siqi: "Linghe paid us an eight-figure promotion fee, so we have to show some real skills."

There was a proud smile on her face.

"Moreover, this program can also earn a copyright fee by the way," Chen Siqi said. "We have already communicated with Arctic Light Video and Icefield Video about this program, and the program will be broadcast on these two platforms together."

For such a program, there are no celebrity artists, and the production cost is actually very low. Instead, in order to let more people know about this program, it is necessary to promote the program itself.

Chen Siqi said: "You took tens of millions of promotion fees to find us to do movie promotion, and we have to take a large part of it to do program promotion, but we all feel that this program has a high degree of adaptability to movie promotion and is worth doing."

Lu Yan He: "I also think so. Just listening to you talk about the idea of this program, I feel it is worth doing."

No program has ever done this before.

Lu Yan He's schedule suddenly became busy.

One is the preparation of early promotion materials for *Love Letter*—

Recording talk shows, shooting magazines, and recording various promotion materials together with Chen Bige and Zhang Ruozhi who just finished the college entrance examination, etc.

Second is the preparation of the International Film Critics Film Festival—

Although Lu Yan He doesn't need to do specific work, many important figures need to be contacted by him personally, including the chairman of the Hexi Film Festival who said he would come.

Third is the script for the second season of *Friends* and the script for the second season of *Squid Game*.

Lu Yan He wrote the former smoothly, only needing to adjust according to their actual situation. The characters and plots have very clear originals. But the latter... Lu Yan He had to start original creation himself. Originally, Lu Yan He really wanted to give up the second season of *Squid Game*. He had self-knowledge. He was not a real genius screenwriter, but just a traverser with a "golden finger." However, Maxine and Arctic Light Video strongly wanted to develop the second season of *Squid Game*, and Lu Yan He also wanted to try whether he had the ability to stand on the shoulders of giants to write a sequel story based on the predecessors.

While Lu Yan He was busy with these things, Chen Ziyan finally waited for good news.

When filming *Tropical Rainforest* before, Lu Yan He proposed to sign a contract with Huang Feng.

Huang Feng's mother, Huang Fenglian, proposed that she hoped they could help arrange for Huang Feng to return to China to study and receive education.

Chen Ziyan has been busy with this matter, researching policies, finding people, finding relationships, running around, and finally helped Huang Feng contact an international school that can accept him.

After several communications, Huang Fenglian finally agreed to let Huang Feng sign a contract with Shi Huo and become a foreign client of Shi Huo.

Huang Fenglian brought Huang Feng to Yuming. Chen Ziyan arranged for people to be busy finding houses and renting houses for them, from the handling of various materials to the preparation of toiletries, etc., all available.

No way, Huang Feng's situation is special, and Chen Ziyan can only worry more.

Lu Qingzhen laughed and said: "You signed a child, and you are busy around, almost becoming his mother."

Chen Ziyan said: "What can I do."

"I am really looking forward to seeing the movie *Tropical Rainforest*, to see how good this little boy's acting is, and it is worth you making such a big move to sign him," Lu Qingzhen laughed.

"If you have nothing to do in the evening, have dinner with us?" Chen Ziyan said. "Yan He invited their mother and son to dinner. Huang Feng will be our company's artist in the future, you can also get to know him."

Lu Qingzhen nodded and said okay.

At five in the afternoon, Lu Yan He's alarm clock rang, and he woke up like a dream, turning his neck.

He had been sitting in front of his laptop typing all afternoon.

Very painful.

Writing the second season of *Friends* was as smooth as writing the second season of *Squid Game* was painful.

He also made a decision. If he wants to open a golden finger, he must open it to the end. Like *Squid Game*, which only opened a beginning and has no sequel for him to continue to open, he will not do it in the future.

Lu Yan He got up to look in the mirror, found a baseball cap to wear, and put on sunglasses.

In the hot weather, he didn't want to wear a mask.

Zou Dong was already waiting for him downstairs.

On the left side of the back seat was the gift for Huang Feng later.

This was bought by Zou Dong for him.

"Brother Dong, this shouldn't be any limited edition, right?" Lu Yan He asked.

This is a schoolbag with various stationery that Huang Feng will use later.

Because Zou Dong went to "Baixing", the brand Lu Yan He endorsed, Lu Yan He asked one more question.

Zou Dong: "They wanted to give me a limited edition at first, but I changed it. Didn't you say? Ordinary and practical is fine."

Lu Yan He nodded: "Although he is in an international school, he is a contracted actor of Shi Huo and also acted in a movie with me. With the speed of domestic media digging for information, his classmates and parents will know his background, so it is better to be low-key."

Zou Dong nodded.

Lu Yan He asked: "Brother Dong, is Xiao Yu also going to junior high school?"

Zou Dong nodded and said: "Promoted to junior high school this year."

"Where?"

"Your alma mater, the junior high school department of No. 13 Middle School," Zou Dong said with a smile.

"Oh—" Lu Yan He laughed immediately, "My little junior."

Zou Dong said: "Relatively lucky, three points higher than the admission score line."

It seems that Zou Yu participated in the enrollment examination of No. 13 Middle School.

Being able to enter No. 13 Middle School through the examination, the grades must be very good.

Lu Yan He said with a smile: "This has to be celebrated, right?"

A smile appeared on Zou Dong's face, saying: "I discussed it with his mother, and we will find a day to celebrate for him later."

Lu Yan He nodded: "I am in China, you don't have to accompany me all the time. You don't have to worry about me. You can coordinate if you take a day or two off occasionally."

Zou Dong nodded, but didn't answer.

In this regard, he has always had high requirements for his professional ethics.

Even if Lu Yan He said so, he would not ask for leave unless it was really necessary.

Especially when Lu Yan He has work.

On this point, if Wang Biao is very passionate about this job and does it like a fish in water, Zou Dong has dogmatic professional requirements for himself, and they reach the same goal by different routes, so Lu Yan He never has to think about how to do so-called "subordinate management" when facing them.

On the contrary, precisely because they have always been in their positions, done their duties well, and never overstepped, Lu Yan He hopes they can go further. Just like promoting Wang Biao from an assistant to his executive agent.

Successfully bringing Huang Feng to China to study made Huang Fenglian feel a little more grateful to Lu Yan He and Chen Ziyan.

Chen Ziyan said that Huang Fenglian is different from many overseas Chinese who have immigrated for a long time. She probably lived in China when she was a child, so she has always had an idea of wanting to return to China.

It's just that because of family, marriage, children, and work, this idea could never be realized.

And after having children, her biggest bond in the local area became the children.

With children, if you want to move from one country to another, there are more problems to face and deal with.

Especially a single mother.

Although Lu Yan He only dealt with Huang Fenglian simply and only spent less than two weeks with her and Huang Feng, Lu Yan He quite appreciated Huang Fenglian. She might not be as capable as Chen Ziyan and Xin Zixing, just an ordinary woman. But when facing the opportunity that her son could become a movie star and could directly earn a high signing fee, she only grasped this opportunity and put forward a requirement that she thought was more beneficial to her son in the long run.

A kind of person Lu Yan He particularly appreciates is definitely not someone who is particularly excellent in a certain aspect. Of course, he also appreciates this kind of person. But to be able to describe it with the word "special" is to transcend general judgment and evaluation—

That kind of person who can be decisive at a critical moment, within their own cognitive range, without shrinking, without hesitation, but not asking too much.

This is the kind of person Lu Yan He particularly appreciates.

He also hopes he can become such a person.

Everyone's starting point is different, life experience is different, and stage is different.

Huang Fenglian won Lu Yan He's respect with this choice for her son.

"Will you officially enroll in September this year?"

After taking his seat, Lu Yan He asked.

Huang Fenglian nodded with a smile.

Lu Yan He looked at Huang Feng: "You are going to change to a school to study soon, are you nervous?"

Huang Feng looked at Lu Yan He with a calm and even slightly contemptuous look, and asked: "What do I have to be nervous about."

Lu Yan He: "..."

"Okay, then you have courage, I appreciate you." Lu Yan He gave Huang Feng a thumbs up.

Huang Feng's eyes always showed a clever spirit, full of aura.

He asked: "Should I call you boss in the future?"

"Call me uncle." Lu Yan He corrected.

Huang Feng: "Are you married?"

"No, why?"

"Mom said, those who are not married should be called brother." Huang Feng emphasized.

"Then why did you never call me brother when you were filming on the set?" Lu Yan He asked.

Huang Feng: "I clearly called many times."

"Those were when acting. When not acting, you talked to me directly and never called me brother," Lu Yan He said.

Huang Fenglian looked at Huang Feng with some surprise when she heard this.

"Xiao Feng, why are you so impolite?!" She didn't seem to have noticed this before.

But it's normal. When Huang Fenglian was on the set before, she wasn't with Huang Feng all the time.

In fact, when Huang Feng was on the set, Huang Fenglian was not there. She was responsible for the financial work in the crew, and there were too many things to deal with every day. Basically, when Huang Feng arrived at the set, he became the responsibility of all the adults in the crew, helping to watch him together.

Huang Feng's mouth flattened, "You actually reported me at this time!"

Lu Yan He: "I didn't report you. I pointed out your impoliteness in front of you."

Huang Feng: "..."

His eyes showed something similar to "rolling eyes".

Lu Yan He was overjoyed.

Chen Ziyan and Lu Qingzhen watched from the side, and the corners of their mouths were curled up with smiles.

Lu Yan He said: "However, you were brought by me. If anyone bullies you, you can tell me, I will cover you."

Huang Feng nodded and said: "Okay, then you cover me when you are old."

Little devil.

The smile in Lu Qingzhen's eyes could not be hidden.

She finally understood why Lu Yan He made such a big move to sign Huang Feng to Shi Huo.

There are so many child stars in China, and Lu Qingzhen has seen many of them. The one who can be so "little devil" and so cute and likable like Huang Feng is the first one.

Huang Fenglian called Lu Yan He Mr. Lu.

She asked: "Do you have any arrangements for Xiao Feng's filming later?"

"It must be mainly about studying. If there are suitable roles in the future, you can coordinate to act on weekends. You can help him take one or two. I mainly have a movie idea, he can star in it."

When Lu Yan He said this, everyone at the table looked at him with some surprise.

Lu Yan He actually has ideas again?

Of course, Huang Fenglian was surprised.

"Starring?"

Movies like *Tropical Rainforest*, where a child like Huang Feng plays the lead, are hard to come by.

Talented actors can certainly show amazing acting talent at a young age.

For example, Yuya Yagira in *Nobody Knows*, Quvenzhané Wallis in *Beasts of the Southern Wild*, and Abigail Breslin in *Little Miss Sunshine*.

But even if they won Best Actor or Best Actress and were in the spotlight for a while, the film industry does not have enough projects and scripts for them to continue on the path of child stars. The only child star who was truly popular and had scripts tailored for her was Shirley Temple.

Yuya Yagira was silent for many years before his career slowly improved with a few Japanese dramas and returned to the public eye.

Even if Quvenzhané Wallis starred in *Annie*, which had good box office results, she still slowly disappeared.

Now Lu Yan He actually said he had a movie idea for Huang Feng to star in?

Even if Huang Fenglian is Malaysian, she knows how popular the movies Lu Yan He wrote are.

"Has the script been written?" Chen Ziyan asked with some surprise.

Lu Yan He shook his head, "Not yet, but the story has been thought out very completely. If the movie performs well—I think it will be very good, I hope to develop it into a series of movies."

"Can you reveal the theme of this movie to us now?" Lu Qingzhen asked, "I am too curious now. Is it a style closer to art films, or?"

"Comedy, commercial-oriented, but it is a very cute commercial comedy," Lu Yan He looked at Huang Feng, smiled, and said: "A story about a child fighting wits with two stupid thieves to protect his home."

"Not a road comedy?" Lu Qingzhen said, "I thought if you made a comedy movie again, you would continue to do the style of *Lost on Journey*."

Lu Yan He shook his head and said: "A completely different style. This film is actually more suitable for holidays and suitable for the whole family to watch together."

Huang Fenglian was a little surprised and excited.

"Mr. Lu, I didn't expect that you... you have already made plans for Xiao Feng." Huang Fenglian really didn't expect that if Lu Yan He told her when signing the contract that he had a movie series he wanted Huang Feng to star in, Huang Fenglian would actually not hesitate for so long.

She was because she followed Huang Tianlin and knew that in the entertainment industry, many people were left alone by the company after signing, and few were valued. Therefore, she was not so impatient to agree to Lu Yan He under the drive of the "star dream", but put forward the requirement that she wanted Huang Feng to return to China to go to school.

If Huang Feng could really star in a movie written by Lu Yan He, Huang Fenglian would not struggle with these things.

She is not stupid, she knows the gap between the movies Lu Yan He wrote and the *Tropical Rainforest* directed by her brother.

The latter may only allow Huang Feng to have an acting experience, but the former can truly help Huang Feng embark on the path of an actor and be seen by the film industry.

Lu Yan He waved his hand with a smile and looked at Huang Feng.

"However, if you star in my movie, I have requirements for you." Lu Yan He said.

Huang Feng frowned and asked: "What do you want to do?"

Compared to the excitement of his mother, he wasn't excited at all.

Regarding being a star, he understood a little if you said he didn't, but if you said he did, he really only understood that little bit; he had no practical concept of it.

Lu Yan He said: "I hope that no matter how famous you become in the future, you will not break the law, you will not drop out of school halfway, and you will not decide early on to just be an actor or a star, and then think that you can just muddle through the college entrance exam and that getting into an art school is enough."

He added: "I know you don't understand what I'm saying now, but I hope you will make this promise."

Huang Feng asked: "Do you mean that I have to get into a good university in the future?"

Lu Yan He: "I don't know about a 'good' university; who knows if you'll be good at studying? Even if you try your hardest and can't get a good score, you've done your best. But I hope you won't waste your studies and your life just because you became famous and wealthy early on."

Huang Feng said angrily: "Who are you looking down on? I can definitely get into a good university."

Lu Yan He smiled.

He turned his head to look at Huang Fenglian.

"I hope you can sign the contract between Huang Feng and Shi Huo until he comes of age," Lu Yan He said bluntly. "At least until then, I will require the company to keep an eye on the people and things around him, so he doesn't go astray or get tempted to stop studying properly."

Huang Fenglian's eyes turned slightly red at this moment.

She really hadn't expected that Lu Yan He would say these things and care about these things.

"Of course, of course, thank you," Huang Fenglian said. "Thank you very much."

"As long as you agree," Lu Yan He said with a gentle smile. "I hope you don't think I'm meddling too much. Perhaps you don't understand, but I decided to bring him to China and have him be an actor at such a young age; in fact, I have already led him away from his original life trajectory. I am very afraid that I will lead his life in a terrible direction, and I cannot accept that."

Huang Fenglian nodded.

"Mr. Lu, now that you've told me this, the heavy stone in my heart has finally fallen. I was actually hesitant and didn't agree to sign the contract because I was afraid he would encounter a bad company, afraid he would be forced to make money, afraid that at such a young age, he would have to work hard to earn money, and afraid that he wouldn't be able to study properly. If he couldn't continue as an actor, he wouldn't have the skills or a trade to find a good job later."

As Huang Fenglian spoke, tears welled up in her eyes.

She sobbed once, then turned her head to wipe her eyes with the back of her hand.

Huang Feng looked at his mother with a puzzled expression, seemingly not understanding.

Chen Ziyan handed a tissue to Huang Fenglian and patted her shoulder gently.

"Sister Lian, let's work together to guide Huang Feng well."

Huang Fenglian smiled with some emotion and gave a response.

After dinner, Lu Qingzhen drove Huang Feng and Huang Fenglian away.

Chen Ziyan got into Lu Yan He's car.

She asked: "Yan He, what is the name of the movie you planned for Huang Feng?"

Lu Yan He's eyes curved with a hint of a smile as he said: "Home Alone."

This movie should be a beautiful childhood memory for many children.

Chen Ziyan asked: "Are you planning to direct it yourself? Fully funded by Linghe? Or do you need a larger investment and need to cooperate with outside companies?"

"We can just fund it ourselves," Lu Yan He said. "The production cost of this movie can be very low."

A film where basically all the scenes are completed in one house.

Huang Feng is the absolute lead, but his salary won't be high—it can go up for the sequels, but it definitely can't be high for the first one.

Both bumbling burglars need character actors to be more effective, so there's no need to look for famous actors.

The only place where famous actors are needed is for the parents in the movie—especially the role of the mother.

But that role doesn't have much screen time.

Especially for this movie, the directing difficulty isn't high, and he has clear storyboards in his mind.

Therefore, Lu Yan He felt that this movie didn't need much production cost at all.

Perhaps the most expensive cost would be his screenwriting fee, followed by the design of those traps and the production of props.

Chen Ziyan nodded upon hearing this.

"Alright then, I won't interfere," she said. "Are you going to be the director yourself?"

"No, the production difficulty of this movie is not high, and the artistic requirements for the director are not high either," Lu Yan He said. "It's just a relatively creative popcorn comedy movie from a child's perspective. I want to find a suitable director from outside."

"Okay." After Chen Ziyan nodded, she couldn't help but shake her head with a smile.

"You've suddenly brought out another movie series. Yan He, I'm being serious, I'm suddenly questioning whether my ability is failing to keep up with your talent," Chen Ziyan said. "After all these years, you're the only one who has made me have this thought."

Lu Yan He smiled.

"I'll take that as your affirmation of me, Sister Ziyan." After Lu Yan He finished speaking, the smile on his face faded slightly. "It's just, Sister Ziyan, I am truly afraid that this will ruin Huang Feng's life."

The child actor in "Home Alone" later ruined his own life, which made Lu Yan He very afraid of history repeating itself.

At such a young age, becoming a national sensation with fame and fortune all coming at once—can he handle it?

How should one balance all of this that came so suddenly?

A thirty or forty-year-old adult might not even be able to face the ego inflation brought on by overnight fame, let alone a child and his ordinary parents.

Lu Yan He said: "If this movie achieves the expected effect in my heart, Huang Feng will become the most famous child star in the country, and all kinds of temptations will come one after another. Not to mention Huang Feng, even his mother, Sister Fenglian, is not someone like you who has experienced many things and forged a strong heart. Can she face everything that might happen in the future?"

Chen Ziyan said: "Don't worry about rain before you've even stepped out the door. I know what you're worried about and what you care about. Rest assured, I will arrange a reliable agent to manage him and will have the company keep a constant watch. As for his mother—I hope she can still have a job, so she can have a track to stay in contact with this society. Just as you said, she has seen the danger and cruelty behind the fame and fortune of this industry, and she can be more vigilant when facing those things."

"Then what do you think she is suitable for?" Lu Yan He asked.

"She worked in finance before," Chen Ziyan said. "Since her son is at Shi Huo, it wouldn't be appropriate for her to stay at Shi Huo. What do you think about her going to Linghe? Don't have her follow the crew; just have her do relevant financial work at Linghe. Linghe is a film and television production company, so she can be considered to be working in this industry, and she can gradually learn more about it."

Lu Yan He thought for a moment, nodded, and said: "I'll talk to Chen Yin about it."

"Hmm, but remember not to assign her any critical or task-heavy positions," Chen Ziyan said. "First, we aren't familiar with her yet, so don't let Chen Yin misunderstand that she was arranged to be there because of some connection to you. Second, her focus must definitely be on taking care of Huang Feng, so the work at the company can only be secondary."

Lu Yan He nodded: "Understood."