Chapter 676

Some people, you need "time to see their heart".

But for some people, you only need one glance to know that they are not the person you like.

Lu Yan He doesn't like the "self-important" style that Yang Zhoujin vaguely reveals.

Actually, Lu Yan He knows very clearly that in China, in the eyes of some so-called "powerful people", celebrity artists are just actors.

Even though with the development of the era, the assets behind the first-tier celebrity artists are far more than some so-called wealthy people, some old concepts are always deeply rooted in the bones of some people.

Lu Yan He hasn't encountered this kind of person directly, let alone someone who expressed such an attitude to his face. However, he has heard of quite a few, and in fact, he has also heard Yan Liang say that he has encountered them.

Li Zhibai's family itself has a large group. Even if he has already taken being an artist as his main business, others won't treat him as a pure artist.

Although he doesn't have such a family background, ever since he was admitted to Zhenhua University through the college entrance examination, with this layer of golden body, there really hasn't been anyone who doesn't have eyes who would belittle him as an actor in front of him. When he started to be a screenwriter and produce film and television dramas, no one did that anymore.

Only Yan Liang, in the eyes of these people, really has no background at all.

He is popular, he is hot, his successive works are all hits, and he has gained fame overseas. However, he is still just an actor, at most a relatively popular actor.

So, on some occasions, some people directly express "disdain" and "contempt" for Yan Liang.

Lu Yan He and Li Zhibai haven't encountered these things, but Yan Liang has.

These people, some will act a little, not showing it too much, and some are just like Yang Zhoujin, not even acting.

He directly ignored everyone else present and went straight to Lu Yan He, as if only Lu Yan He was worthy of sitting and eating with him.

How could Lu Yan He give him this face?

People who are familiar with Lu Yan He actually know that Lu Yan He hates this kind of person the most.

"I don't know why Zhan Yun would like him."

After Yang Zhoujin left, Yan Liang sighed softly.

Lu Yan He shook his head and said: "I don't know, but he is handsome and rich, it's not strange that Zhan Yun likes him."

Yan Liang nodded: "That's true."

He smiled, looked at Lu Yan He, and asked: "Although Yang Zhoujin's family is not in the entertainment industry, he is still a quite famous rich second-generation kid. You don't give him face like this, he might be cursing you in his heart."

"Let him curse. If I have to care about being cursed just because I didn't agree to eat, I wouldn't be able to care even if I cared to death. There are many people who want to eat with me," Lu Yan He shrugged. "If he wasn't Zhan Yun's boyfriend, I wouldn't even have bothered to pretend to give him face and find an excuse."

"This kind of person, born with a golden key in his mouth, probably never lacks female celebrities throwing themselves into his arms," Yan Liang said. "In the eyes of this kind of person, the entertainment industry is probably really just a vanity fair of sound and color."

"Of course, it's very possible," Lu Yan He nodded. "So, I think works are the hard truth. This sentence is absolutely correct. As long as you have solid works, no one can ride on your neck and look at you. Otherwise, sometimes facing this person's contempt, you really don't have the confidence to despise them back."

Yan Liang suddenly nudged Lu Yan He with his elbow.

"Look."

Yan Liang signaled Lu Yan He to look at Yin Xincheng.

The latter was sitting in his chair, staring blankly.

Usually, Yin Xincheng is quite lively, basically belonging to the type who is full of energy and has nowhere to vent. On the set, it's hard to see him sitting alone and staring blankly.

"He must have been hit," Yan Liang said.

Yan Liang said before that he felt Yin Xincheng liked Zhan Yun.

The so-called hit probably refers to Yin Xincheng seeing Yang Zhoujin and feeling that he is not as good as the latter, so he is a bit hit?

Lu Yan He thought to himself, Yin Xincheng's acting shouldn't be affected, right?

The unstable factor in the last season was Yin Xincheng, because his girlfriend broke up with him, he caused a disappearance.

Although it's not good to say so, people with a criminal record are indeed more worrying, just like worrying about the recurrence of an old illness.

Out of trust in Yin Xincheng, and also out of the psychology of not wanting to make Yin Xincheng feel that he doesn't trust him, although he had worries in his heart, at this moment, Lu Yan He still didn't say anything or do anything.

Fortunately, during the formal filming process, Yin Xincheng didn't show any problems.

Everyone's filming still had laughter and NGs from time to time, but the overall atmosphere was very comfortable.

However, I don't know for what reason, everyone tacitly didn't mention Yang Zhoujin.

Not only did Lu Yan He not mention it, but those girls didn't mention it either.

Including Zhan Yun.

When entering December, snow fell with a rustle, bringing everyone into the real winter.

The second season of "Seventeen Layers" has also finished one-third of its broadcast.

The word-of-mouth and feedback of this season are slightly lower than the first season.

This is something that cannot be avoided. Ten sequels, nine have worse word-of-mouth than the previous work.

The second season of "Seventeen Layers" being able to stabilize the word-of-mouth and not let everyone feel it's rotten already belongs to doing very well.

During the promotion of this drama, Chen Ziyan didn't do any promotional marketing for Lu Yan He. Mainly because Lu Yan He's exposure hasn't stopped for a while, and the heat of "Seventeen Layers" itself, as well as Lu Yan He's own star effect, has already kept his topic at a high exposure position. There is no need for extra promotional marketing.

Lu Yan He is no longer a young actor in the rising period who needs extra, planned major exposure to promote his career development.

In fact, in the entire promotion of the second season of "Seventeen Layers", Jingtai's promotional focus was not on Lu Yan He—Lu Yan He understood this point, after all, he almost didn't cooperate with Jingtai for promotion.

Li Yuefeng's return is a major highlight of the second season of "Seventeen Layers", but it is also a major point of criticism. Because using the setting of twins to resurrect in a sequel has long been used to, and Li Yuefeng's character arc in the first season was so good, the second season because of "revenge" and wanting to find trouble with the protagonist group made the audience hate it.

However, as the truth is slowly revealed in the later stages, when the audience learns that Li Yuefeng has reached an agreement with the protagonist group from the beginning to deceive the game designer through "pretending to be opposite" to confront the mastermind behind these deadly games, there will be a big change in his character and him.

Chen Ziyan said: "Li Yuefeng's character arc is actually much better than your character. Your character is still relatively labeled, and the change before and after is not big enough. Unlike Li Yuefeng, although the drama hasn't aired yet, I can roughly guess what kind of rhythm his later promotion will be."

Lu Yan He nodded: "If he can go further through the second season of 'Seventeen Layers', that's also good."

Li Yuefeng's career ambition, as well as his own willingness to fight and work, made Lu Yan He actually respect him quite a bit, and he was also willing to let Li Yuefeng occupy a greater promotional dividend than him when he didn't want this extra exposure.

Originally, everything was quite good, until Jingtai was discussing the performance contract for the third season with Lu Yan He, Jingtai revealed a piece of news during the drama promotion—

Chen Pinhe's character will appear in the third season to warm up for the spin-off drama starring him.

Lu Yan He and Chen Ziyan couldn't sign this contract immediately.

"Is the salary not satisfactory?" As soon as Jiang Lan heard that Lu Yan He encountered difficulties in signing the contract, she immediately called Chen Ziyan.

Chen Ziyan said: "It's not a salary problem. You want to develop a spin-off drama, these are all fine, but letting the male lead of the spin-off drama appear from the third season destroys the original conception of the third season. We don't want to see the script of the third season being so crudely added with a character."

Jiang Lan was stunned, completely not expecting this to be the problem.

Chen Ziyan continued: "The third season is the final season. This story has had a very complete setting from the beginning. Jiang-tai, the reason why Yan He is willing to continue to act in the third season is out of trust in Director Lian Bei, and as an actor, the professional ethics of hoping to complete a character completely. But if you are for the sake of developing a spin-off drama and don't even care about the integrity of this story and want to destroy the original setting of the script, then we don't need to continue acting, what do you think?"

Jiang Lan completely didn't expect that a character from a spin-off drama starring Chen Pinhe appearing in the third season of "Seventeen Layers" would lead to such strong opposition from Lu Yan He.

However, Jiang Lan didn't think about anything else.

Lu Yan He's requirements for the script are famous for being high.

A few days ago, Lu Yan He also made it to the trending list because "Rouge" didn't choose the popular first-tier actor Li Yuefeng, who was interested in acting, but chose an unknown stage play actor Yang Shiyi.

Jiang Lan didn't think otherwise, really thinking that Lu Yan He didn't want to see the script of the third season destroyed.

She hurriedly brought the script outline of the third season to the crew of "Friends", wanting to communicate with him face-to-face about this matter.

She wanted to tell Lu Yan He that even if she arranged a scene for Chen Pinhe's character in the third season, it wouldn't be much, just a few appearance shots to warm up for the spin-off drama, and it would absolutely not destroy the integrity of the work itself.

Lu Yan He still shook his head.

"Sorry, Jiang-tai, let me give you an example. The male lead of the spin-off drama you invited is Chen Pinhe. Even if it's just a few shots, as long as he appears, the focus will be on him," Lu Yan He said. "This will greatly destroy the halo of the protagonist group of 'Seventeen Layers'. This is different from a cameo. Everyone who sees his character will be very clear, 'Hmm, although this story has ended, it's not over yet, it will continue to be filmed.' At least in the worldview of 'Seventeen Layers', the integrity of our story will be destroyed."

What Jiang Lan was a bit depressed about was that she found she couldn't understand what Lu Yan He was talking about.

However, Lu Yan He's past brilliant record made Jiang Lan subconsciously think that if she didn't understand what Lu Yan He was talking about, was it her problem?

Actually, Lu Yan He also knew how ridiculous this reason he said was.

But this was already the most high-sounding reason that he and Chen Ziyan could find.

In short, not acting in the third season of "Seventeen Layers" with Chen Pinhe is the consensus reached by Lu Yan He and Chen Ziyan.

The things the two of them considered were actually the same.

No one knows what kind of moths will come out later if he acts in a drama with Chen Pinhe, especially if it's Jingtai's drama.

Judging from their previous exchanges, as long as they really fought, neither side would stop.

What if they have to be in the same frame?

Once they collaborate, this might be something that cannot be avoided.

There are too many unpredictable things after collaboration, and it's hard to estimate what kind of impact it will have.

Lu Yan He could only use such a reason to refuse to appear in the third season with Chen Pinhe.

Jiang Lan was puzzled, and after going back, she felt even more outrageous.

For the sake of the integrity of a work, even the male lead of the spin-off drama can't show his face a few times?

In the film and television industry, whether it is movies or TV dramas, this is a very common practice. Jiang Lan vaguely felt that something was wrong.

She had dealt with Lu Yan He so many times before, and never felt that Lu Yan He had a paranoid obsession in this regard.

"Could it be that Lu Yan He doesn't want to act in the third season, so he deliberately used this as an excuse to quit?"

When she communicated with the station head Shen Tailin about this matter, she put forward her own ideas.

Shen Tailin smiled inscrutably and said: "You asked Chen Pinhe to appear in the third season of 'Seventeen Layers', it would be strange if Lu Yan He acted."

"Huh?" Jiang Lan naturally understood the implication of Shen Tailin's words and asked: "What's wrong? Is there a conflict between Lu Yan He and Chen Pinhe? I haven't heard of it before."

Shen Tailin said: "Conflict? Hehe, you can also understand it this way. If you hope Lu Yan He acts in the third season, give up the idea of letting Chen Pinhe appear in the third season. Let me tell you this, Lu Yan He will absolutely not act in this drama with Chen Pinhe."

Jiang Lan was really strange.

Why would Shen Tailin say that?

Clearly, Lu Yan He and Chen Pinhe have never collaborated before, so where did the conflict between the two come from?

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Jiang Lan had to understand from her own information channels to see what kind of grudge there was between Lu Yan He and Chen Pinhe.

A friend in the media industry said: "You don't even know this? Before, the male lead of the movie 'Doomsday' was set to be Chen Pinhe, but later Chen Pinhe didn't know why, he refused to act, and then Jiang Jun took this movie. Don't you remember who the third-ranked producer of this movie is?"

Jiang Lan suddenly realized.

"Jiang Jun being able to take this movie is basically Lu Yan He's effort behind the scenes," the friend said. "I even heard a version, but I can't guarantee whether this version is true or false. It is said that the director of 'Doomsday', Luni Reese, wanted Lu Yan He as the male lead at first, but the parameter executives chose Chen Pinhe. Anyway, the two of them must have fought before, just not publicly on the table."

Jiang Lan: "I understand."

She was very helpless.

She called Chen Ziyan.

"Yan He and Chen Pinhe have a grudge, you should have told me directly," Jiang Lan said. "If I hadn't learned about 'Doomsday' from a friend, I wouldn't have known that you two had fought before. If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have brought up the idea of letting Chen Pinhe cameo in the third season."

Chen Ziyan, who received the call, was confused, and then reacted. Can the "Doomsday" incident be used like this?

Wait, so, can the fact that Lu Yan He and Chen Pinhe don't get along be justified?

The thing that gave Chen Ziyan the biggest headache before was the relationship between Lu Yan He and Chen Pinhe on the scene. Neither side was willing to make their real relationship public, but it was an indisputable fact that the two couldn't even act together. Then many things would look very strange to outsiders.

For example, this time with the third season of "Seventeen Layers", Lu Yan He refused to act and couldn't say why he refused to act, so he could only find a reason that was absurd in name to achieve "justification".

Chen Ziyan coughed lightly and said: "How can such things be said directly? And this matter, Chen Pinhe's side is indeed not authentic. Obviously, Luni's first choice was Lu Yan He. Chen Pinhe's side didn't know where they exerted their strength, making parameter change the choice to him. Competing in China is fine, but going overseas and still grabbing roles like this."

Jiang Lan sighed, "Having said that, I can also understand why you were determined not to act in the third season of 'Seventeen Layers' with Chen Pinhe before."

Chen Ziyan: "You know, Chen Pinhe is a senior, and we can't really say anything bad to complain about him."

"Yes," Jiang Lan said. "I understand, I won't let Chen Pinhe's character appear in the third season. Let Yan He continue with the contract."

"Since it's all said, that's fine. We need to add a clause to the performance contract for the third season."

"What clause?" Jiang Lan asked.

"The clause that Chen Pinhe cannot act in this drama," Chen Ziyan said.

Jiang Lan took a deep breath.

"Fine."

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Lan shook her head.

"These stars are really hard to deal with."

Subsequently, Jiang Lan suddenly reacted to another thing.

Chen Pinhe snatched Lu Yan He's role, and Lu Yan He's approach was not to snatch the role back, but to directly become the producer and let Jiang Jun get the role.

This is much harder than him snatching the role back directly.

At this moment, Jiang Lan suddenly wanted to know, how exactly did Lu Yan He do this process? -

Chen Ziyan told Lu Yan He about this matter immediately.

"It completely exceeded my expectations. For some reason, the 'Doomsday' incident was used by Jiang Lan as the reason why you don't want to act in the third season with Chen Pinhe," Chen Ziyan said seriously. "However, this matter inspired me. In the future, we can use this as a reason to refuse to collaborate with Chen Pinhe."

Lu Yan He listened to what Chen Ziyan said, thought for a while, and said: "Sure, no problem."

"It's just that this might have some impact on your reputation in the industry, because in fact, actors snatching roles from each other is a very normal thing, especially when nothing has been decided yet. If you keep holding on to this, it makes you look too petty. Of course, actors who are petty about their roles being snatched and can't let go for a lifetime, this situation is also common," Chen Ziyan said. "Anyway, that's the situation, I'll tell you clearly first."

"Hmm," Lu Yan He said. "Understand, Sister Ziyan, I think this is quite good."

"Fine, then we will use this as a reason in the future," Chen Ziyan sighed. "I'm relieved, I don't have to rack my brains to think of reasons every time."

Lu Yan He laughed, "It's hard for you, Sister Ziyan."

"It's really hard for me, I'm not exaggerating," Chen Ziyan said righteously. "Fortunately, Lu Qingzhen helped me think together."

"Does Qingzhen-jie also know about me and Chen Pinhe?"

"She doesn't know," Chen Ziyan said. "I just need to tell her that I don't want you to collaborate with Chen Pinhe. She won't ask why, she will only help me think of reasons together. This is the tacit understanding I have had with her for many years."

"Your relationship with Qingzhen-jie is really good."

"That's for sure, you have friends like Li Zhibai and Yan Liang, and I also have friends like Lu Qingzhen," Chen Ziyan said.

Lu Yan He laughed.

What Lu Yan He didn't expect was that this matter soon spread to Chen Bige's ears.

Chen Bige called Lu Yan He in surprise and asked: "Do you have a conflict with Chen Pinhe?"

Lu Yan He: "Yes, Bige-jie, where did you hear this from?"

"I heard it from my agent, because I heard before that you had some problems when negotiating the contract for the third season with Jingtai," Chen Bige asked. "How can you have such a big conflict with Chen Pinhe that you don't even want to collaborate? Do you need me to help mediate in the middle?"

"No need," Lu Yan He refused directly. "Bige-jie, it's okay, this is a matter between him and me, don't worry about it."

Chen Bige: "Fine."

Chen Bige said again: "Then he is going to act in the 'Seventeen Layers' spin-off, aren't you very depressed?"

"Depressed is not the word, unhappy is true," Lu Yan He said bluntly. "However, there is no way. The copyright of 'Seventeen Layers' is not in my hands, and I don't intend to continue acting in this series."

The implication is that if the copyright were in his hands, or if he intended to continue starring in this series, he would absolutely not let Chen Pinhe set foot in this series.

Chen Bige pondered for a moment after hearing this and asked: "What exactly is the matter between you and him that you have such a deep conflict? Is it just because of the movie 'Doomsday'?"

"Anyway, it's just those things," Lu Yan He said. "Bige-jie, it's okay, still the same sentence, this is a matter between him and me, don't affect your relationship and cooperation with him."

Chen Bige: "Cooperation? Then I don't want to cooperate with him either."

"Huh?" Lu Yan He was stunned, "Why?"

Chen Bige said: "This person, on the surface, is a good man, but in reality, he has cheated many times. When I collaborated with him before, I even accidentally bumped into him bringing his assistant into his room late at night."

"Huh?" Lu Yan He was stunned.

"At that time, I had just debuted not long ago," Chen Bige said. "Although I can't be considered a chaste woman, at least I never deceive others and don't step on two boats. You know how disgusting he is. Even once he was photographed, he insisted that the person was his cousin, who grew up with him, so they had intimate actions, but I know that's not the case at all."

Lu Yan He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but couldn't say anything.

At one moment, he even wanted to ask Chen Bige who the assistant she saw was.

But he stopped immediately.

Lu Yan He is already twenty-three years old, and Chen Bige is less than thirty-six this year. No matter how early she debuted, the person she bumped into definitely wasn't his mother. Lu Yan He knows that Chen Bige didn't debut as a child star.

Even so, at this moment, Lu Yan He's mood was still blocked, and there was an inexplicable discomfort.

He was afraid of leaving traces in front of Chen Bige and being heard by Chen Bige, so he immediately found an excuse, saying he had to film, and hung up the phone.

He sat in the chair, experienced a few seconds of being out of his wits, and then slowly returned to calm and became rational again.

It's nothing, this is something that should have been thought of long ago.

Very normal.

It's nothing.

Lu Yan He took a deep breath. (End of chapter)