Chapter 714

In June in Yuming, it hadn't reached the hottest time yet. Most of the time, it could be considered clear and bright, and one could even say the climate was pleasant.

When Lu Yan He and Chen Siqi got off the plane and walked out of the airport together, they unsurprisingly ran into many fans who had come to pick them up.

In this era, it seems his personal information is still difficult to protect.

No matter how flight information is protected, it will leak out, and then converge into such a result.

Although Lu Yan He has said many times not to pick him up or drop him off at the airport, and that he doesn't like this kind of fan support activity, it has no effect at all. There are always people who want to run over, want to see him with their own eyes, and want to loudly call out their love for him.

Lu Yan He and Chen Siqi wore sunglasses and headphones, and only after arriving at the car under protection could they take off this armor.

Chen Siqi said: "I feel like the number of fans coming to pick you up has increased again."

Lu Yan He: "Seems like it."

Wang Biao said: "After Little Brother Lu won Best Actor at the Xitu'er Film Festival, there was an extra batch of career-focused fans."

"Career-focused fans..." Chen Siqi shook her head.

Career-focused fans used to refer to a group of fans who hoped their idols would work hard on their careers and pay attention to their idol's career achievements.

Now, career-focused fans are fans who follow a star artist because they are particularly awesome and have shining achievements, having a sense of achievement of 'sharing the honor.'

Lu Yan He's current achievements are no longer at the level of leaving his peers far behind. He can already be said to be standing at the top of Chinese actors.

Now he doesn't lack works, doesn't lack awards, and doesn't lack popularity; a hexagonal warrior.

The key is that he is still young.

So young, with a handsome and dashing image, it is exactly the time when 'appearance is justice.'

Chen Siqi asked: "Do you have any work next?"

"Rest for a few days, film some new quarterly advertisements for endorsements, and then prepare to join the set to film *Storm Calmer No. 1*," Lu Yan He said. "It's okay, I can rest for a period."

Chen Siqi: "Then are you unable to record *Young Days* again this year?"

"Wang Biao is coordinating the time," Lu Yan He asked. "Wang Biao, how is *Young Days* being recorded this year?"

Wang Biao said: "It seems that Sister Zhenzhen plans to do a set-visit season this year."

"Ah?" Lu Yan He was stunned.

"Taking the artists who cannot come to record *Young Days* this year due to work as the objects of the set visits, and recording the program at the place where the other party is," Wang Biao said. "Sister Zhenzhen said that if everyone's time cannot be coordinated in the end, then record it like this, saying that we cannot be absent again."

Hearing this, Lu Yan He was a bit surprised, stunned, and even didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"So if I still don't have time to record the show this year, are they going to bring the show to my film set?"

"Yes," Wang Biao said. "Sister Zhenzhen said that even if you can't spare a day or two to record the show, there is always time to eat a meal."

Lu Yan He: "... Alright."

It is really not easy for a show to persist until now.

Especially since everyone in the show has developed very well and is all currently popular.

"Actually, why does Sister Zhenzhen always want to record this show in the summer? Every summer is the busiest time for everyone."

In the entertainment industry, summer is indeed generally the peak period for work.

There is also December, with various grand ceremonies.

Wang Biao said: "I will suggest it to Director Luo later."

"Don't, don't, don't, I was just saying it casually," Lu Yan He said immediately. "However, how is the preparation for the show *China's Good Songs* going?"

"It should be starting recording very soon," Wang Biao said. "They spent almost a year collecting songs and finding singers. It should start recording in the third quarter of this year. Director Luo even came to ask about our schedule. She knows you might not be able to record the entire show, but she still wants to invite you to record one or two episodes as a guest star."

Lu Yan He: "If I have time, of course I can go."

"Director Hou has also invited you to participate in the graduation season gala, and is waiting for our reply," Wang Biao said. "Are you going?"

Lu Yan He thought for a while, and he asked Chen Siqi: "Is *Jump Up* also a sponsor of this graduation gala?"

"You actually know?" Chen Siqi looked at him with some surprise.

Lu Yan He smiled and said: "Director Hou came to tell me."

The annual graduation season gala has over ten million viewers every year and is an event where major brands compete for advertising space.

In addition to the summer special and winter special, *Jump Up* now also specifically does a graduation special.

Therefore, starting this year, Chen Siqi also went to communicate with Beijiguang Video to discuss the embedded sponsorship of *Jump Up* in the graduation season gala.

The price of this embedding is not low. However, after calculation, Chen Siqi thinks it is worth it.

The magazine *Jump Up* now has a monthly circulation of over 400,000 copies, which means the sales revenue for each issue is over 12 million, and the advertising revenue for each issue is also stable at over 5 million.

The income from the magazine itself is enough for them to do such a promotion.

Not to mention the media matrix and cultural creative service income that comes with the magazine.

Chen Siqi still holds this concept—

You can never stand on the original gold mountain and eat away at your resources.

If you have one gold mountain, you have to go find a second one.

*Jump Up* is the same. Although its popularity has been opened up, among the young group, almost everyone has heard of this magazine, but those who haven't bought it are definitely the majority.

Chen Siqi just wants to try every possible way to create all kinds of 'purchase willingness' and 'purchase impulse' to expand the magazine's buying group.

If it weren't for her constantly doing such things, it would actually be very difficult for *Jump Up* to maintain a monthly circulation of over 400,000 copies.

This is simply an incredible number.

Lu Yan He said: "Then I'll go, but I haven't prepared any new songs, I can only sing previous songs."

Wang Biao said okay.

"Little Brother Lu, you actually haven't sung your old songs in public many times. It's not like you have to sing new songs every time you appear; that's too exaggerated."

Lu Yan He: "... That's true."

He turned his head and asked Chen Siqi: "You shouldn't be going to the editorial department today, right?"

It is already two o'clock in the afternoon.

Chen Siqi shook her head, "No, but I have to go to the Seventh Middle School."

"Hmm?" Lu Yan He was a bit confused, "Why go there?"

"Today, eight of our signed authors are having a book signing at the Siqin Bookstore next to the Seventh Middle School, and I want to go take a look," Chen Siqi said.

Lu Yan He: "Alright, then are you going directly there? Or going back first?"

Chen Siqi: "Go back first. I mainly want to treat these eight authors to dinner tonight, so I'm not in a hurry to go to the scene to accompany them."

"Do you treat them to dinner every time they hold a book signing?" Lu Yan He was a bit surprised.

"For this kind of large-scale book signing with eight authors at once, and if it's in Yuming, I will rush over," Chen Siqi said. "In order to stabilize our middle school student reader group, in recent years, we have not only established connections with bookstores near all schools, but basically, at the rhythm of at least one book signing per year, we invite our signed authors to do activities at local bookstores."

A book signing usually has three to five hundred people participating, which is considered a lot.

However, it still has to be done, because these three to five hundred people are the solid core readers.

Organizing such small and medium-sized book signings long-term and continuously is a very time-consuming and labor-intensive thing for the staff of 'Jump Up.'

But Chen Siqi has been insisting on pushing this model, and the effect has also become obvious after a few years.

The sales of these bookstores near schools are very stable and show an overall growth trend on a quarterly basis.

It is not an easy thing to stabilize the sales of a magazine in such an era.

Chen Siqi spent a lot of effort and put in a lot of work, not only supporting Linyu to do a TV commentary column, attending various public occasions with *Jump Up* magazine to promote the magazine, but also spending huge sums of money to place advertisements in the graduation season gala, and also putting effort into small, time-consuming and labor-intensive things like promoting *Jump Up* partner bookstores and author book signings, only then, against the background of the decline of print media, did she manage to make the sales of *Jump Up* stable with growth.

Lu Yan He admired her from the bottom of his heart.

Back home, Chen Siqi's first thing was to take a shower.

Lu Yan He then packed his suitcase by himself. After taking things out one after another, Chen Siqi also finished washing, blew her hair, and said: "Are you going to be home alone tonight?"

"Hmm," Lu Yan He said. "A bit tired, I want to sleep after I finish showering later."

Chen Siqi nodded.

"Then do you need me to help you pack dinner and bring it back tonight?"

"No need, I'll just eat something casually," Lu Yan He said. "I ate a bit too much yesterday, so I need to pay attention these two days."

An actor can never indulge for too long.

Chen Siqi also understands.

She nodded and said: "Then I'm going."

"Bye-bye." Lu Yan He walked over and kissed her.

Lu Yan He had a very long dream.

In the dream, he returned to the days before he traveled, when he was studying at school.

There, there was no colorful life like now, and no thousands of people calling his name.

There, he was just an ordinary student, in a crowded classroom, waiting remotely for the college entrance examination that was actually close at hand.

Except for scores, he didn't need to consider other things.

Lu Yan He hadn't dreamed of this time for a long time.

He had almost completely integrated into his current life, and the life before traveling had instead become like a dream.

Until he returned to this dream, everything became vivid again.

And when he saw *The Legend of the Condor Heroes* on TV, he was actually thinking—

Right, hurry up and turn to CCTV-6, see what movie is playing, maybe I can copy one or two movies into my memory.

So, he picked up the remote control and changed the channel.

Mom complained: "It was watching fine, why did you suddenly change the channel?"

Lu Yan He didn't know how to explain it to his mom.

As a result, when he turned to CCTV-6, he found that the movie playing was actually *Switch*.

Lu Yan He felt his eyes go dark in the dream.

He woke up.

The sunset hadn't completely set yet.

In the gap of the curtains, orange-red light permeated in.

Lu Yan He sat up from the bed, savoring this dream, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, scratching his head.

It was simply an inexplicable, absurd dream.

However, it was so real that even after he woke up, he was still immersed in a sense of loss and nostalgia for the past.

He lay on the bed, not in a hurry to get up, recalling the things of the past, those things that had been sealed in his memory.

At this very moment, his inner emotions were in an extremely subtle situation.

It was as if everything had suddenly lost weight.

He seemed to be floating in a lake without a shore.

"Do you still remember who you are?" he asked himself.

Why ask this?

Lu Yan He looked at the ray of sunset in the gap of the curtains, staring blankly with a blank expression.

He used to stare blankly like this too, for example, when the teacher was standing on the podium talking non-stop.

He wasn't actually that serious; sometimes, he seemed to be listening, but he was actually distracted.

At that time, what was he thinking about when he was distracted?

Was he thinking about breaking free from an ordinary, tiring life and living another life?

Virtual and real, real and virtual.

Lu Yan He let his thoughts diverge completely, letting it think whatever it wanted.

No need to worry about whether 'thinking like this' would lead to anything.

Then, the moment the sunset completely sank into the ground, everything became calm.

Lu Yan He climbed out of bed, put on his slippers, and prepared to go out.

The moment his hand was on the doorknob, a thought suddenly popped into his mind.

—Would he travel back if he opened this door?

When this thought just flashed through his mind, he had already twisted the doorknob and opened the door.

At that moment, he was a little flustered.

Until he saw that a miracle like traveling didn't happen to him a second time.

He was still in Lu Yan He's world.

At that moment, he quietly breathed a sigh of relief again.

He scratched his head.

He had actually become familiar with this world.

Lu Yan He sat on the sofa and picked up a magazine placed on the side.

This was last month's *Jump Up*.

He hadn't read it yet.

So, he sat on the sofa and opened it to read.

This issue of the magazine published Liu Zhiyin's column again, still recalling the time she was in a girl group overseas.

Liu Zhiyin wrote at the end of this column: I often have an illusion that that was already a past life. Whenever I say this, the agent in the country will laugh at me, saying I'm young but old-fashioned. However, I swear, I have no falsehood at all; I really feel this way.

Lu Yan He sent a message to Liu Zhiyin, saying: It's very magical. Just when I had this feeling, very coincidentally, I saw your column.

Liu Zhiyin seemed to be holding her phone.

She replied quickly: You're back in the country?

Lu Yan He: Hmm, just got back today.

Liu Zhiyin: I'm holding a concert in Yuming tomorrow, and I'm rehearsing right now.

Lu Yan He: Concert? Congratulations, I didn't know before.

Liu Zhiyin: Because you were filming abroad, I didn't tell you either.

Lu Yan He: Are there still tickets? I want to come and see.

He had never been to Liu Zhiyin's concert.

Liu Zhiyin: I'll ask them. How many tickets do you want?

Lu Yan He: Can you give me two? If so, I'll ask Siqi if she has time tomorrow.

Liu Zhiyin: Two tickets are not a big problem, wait a moment.

Getting tickets the day before the concert, those who know, know how difficult this is.

However, because it was Liu Zhiyin herself who wanted them, and they were for Lu Yan He, the team worked hard to coordinate and managed to spare two from the family and friends tickets they had reserved.

The director heard that Lu Yan He was coming to the concert and came to ask Liu Zhiyin if they should arrange a segment tomorrow night to interact with Lu Yan He.

Liu Zhiyin said: "Don't arrange it for now, I have to ask his opinion first."

For a singer holding a concert, if other stars come to watch on-site, it is not only a face-saving and promotional point, but also conducive to subsequent concert ticket sales—

However, for Liu Zhiyin, her concert is now not a matter of worrying about ticket sales.

Basically, tickets are hard to get, and tickets are hard to find.

Liu Zhiyin's strength lies in the fact that in these years, although she also sings OSTs for film and television dramas, she doesn't take this as the main focus.

Whether she participates in music variety shows or sings OSTs, she is very selective, only singing works that are similar to her own 'singing style.'

Liu Zhiyin herself is not a singer with particularly good vocal conditions. Debuting as an idol, even after returning to the country, she didn't force herself to change, stuffing herself into some packaging to cater to the market at that time.

While working hard and increasing her exposure, she was also using all methods and channels to establish her 'idol personality' to the public.

To put it bluntly, it's a persona.

However, this is different from the persona of many stars. Her 'idol personality' is an image of 'star packaging' based on her true personality.

A hardworking, competitive, high-standard, dream-chasing female idol.

Such an idol personality is a bit mediocre, but it is also the most popular path.

Including her column in *Jump Up* magazine, which is updated every quarter, it always talks about her struggle experience overseas.

The background she presents is that she is an ordinary girl chasing dreams.

Under massive exposure, Liu Zhiyin's struggle story from trainee to girl group to returning to the country, combined with her image as an idol artist, is completely known by many people.

This also makes many fans who like her, to some extent, attracted and moved by her experience.

Because most people are actually born mediocre and yearn for brilliance.

So far, Liu Zhiyin hasn't filmed many dramas, mostly guest appearances, just one or two shots. The roles with real parts and stories are all roles very close to her 'idol personality,' an image of a stubborn, unyielding, hardworking girl.

Her music goes without saying, almost all of it has this background, even OSTs, she never sings works that conflict with this background.

Therefore, after the first two years of 'acclimatization' after returning to the country, Liu Zhiyin's popularity in the country soared, possessing a large group of real fans, and also having the confidence to hold a concert now.

Idol-type singers like Liu Zhiyin generally don't hold concerts because it's hard to sell tickets. Don't look at some singers who seem very popular, with data performance that breaks records at every turn, but once they need a concert that requires real money, they immediately show their true colors.

Liu Zhiyin is the first among this batch of young idol singers to hold a concert tour.

Lu Yan He caught the second show of the Yuming station.

After Chen Siqi knew that Lu Yan He wanted to take her to see Liu Zhiyin's concert, she was amazed.

"What's wrong?"

"I found a channel to buy tickets for everyone in the editorial department," Chen Siqi said with a smile. "I invited everyone to go see it, so I do have to go, but I can't accompany you; I have to accompany them."

Lu Yan He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but closed it, turning it into an "Alright."

The tickets had already been sent to him by Liu Zhiyin.

Two tickets, it would be a waste if he went alone.

The people from *Young Days*, he didn't need to ask, if they had time to go, they definitely already had tickets.

Lu Yan He thought for a while and found Li Pengfei: Are you in Yuming? Do you have time today?

He hadn't been in touch with Li Pengfei for a long time either.

After Li Pengfei graduated, he didn't work either, running around the country. Plus, he wasn't in the entertainment circle, so the opportunities for him to meet Lu Yan He became fewer and fewer. Of course, it wasn't to the point of not meeting a few times a year, but compared to the frequency of meeting every few days before, it was much less.

Since the two of them started studying at different universities, meeting became much less.

Thanks to him and Xu Zijun dating, because Xu Zijun stayed in Yuming all year round, sometimes they could meet by taking the opportunity to meet Chen Siqi and Xu Zijun.

Li Pengfei: I'm at the airport, arriving in Yuming in four hours, what's up?

Lu Yan He: Liu Zhiyin's concert tonight. I originally wanted to ask Siqi to go see it with me, but she made an appointment with the people from *Jump Up*, so I'm asking you, do you want to go together?

Li Pengfei:... Alright then.

Lu Yan He: Then when will you arrive at the airport? I'll come pick you up.

Li Pengfei: You're quite free.

Lu Yan He: Just got back to the country yesterday, resting these few days, no work, plenty of time.

Li Pengfei: Okay, then help me buy some pan-fried buns and bring them over. I don't want to eat the things on the plane, they are too hard to eat.

Lu Yan He: Send me the shop address.

Li Pengfei: OK.

Lu Yan He only then remembered to ask: Where did you go?

Li Pengfei: Came to Yulong Snow Mountain.

Lu Yan He:?

Li Pengfei: There is a public welfare mountaineering association that asked me to take photos for them.

Lu Yan He:?? You're working as a photographer now?

Li Pengfei: Just doing it casually, not professional.

Lu Yan He: Alright.

Lu Yan He packed up, carried a laptop, went to a nearby bookstore to browse, bought a few books he was interested in, then found a cafe with few people, went in and sat down, read books, wrote scripts, killed more than two hours, and then drove to the airport.

He stood in the arrival hall wearing sunglasses and a hat, standing in a corner not seen by too many people. Actually, not many people noticed him either.

After Li Pengfei came out, Lu Yan He waved at him and walked over.

Li Pengfei had a suitcase in his hand, carried a huge bag on his back, and held a handbag in his other hand.

"You have quite a lot of things."

"Lots of equipment," Li Pengfei said.

Lu Yan He took the handbag from his hand, a bit surprised.

"It is a bit heavy."

Li Pengfei: "Can you handle it?"

"Although heavy, I can," Lu Yan He followed Li Pengfei all the way down to the parking lot.

First opened the trunk to put things in. When preparing to get in the car, he noticed two girls standing three or four meters away, holding mobile phones, hiding their excitement, looking at Lu Yan He.

Don't know when they started following.

Lu Yan He waved at them, "Go back early."

The girls didn't expect Lu Yan He to greet them, nodding in a flattered manner.

"Remember to help blur the license plate number for the photos and videos," Lu Yan He urged again.

The girls nodded.

Only then did Lu Yan He get into the car.

Li Pengfei sat in the passenger seat and said: "Are you recognized everywhere you go now?"

"Almost, but not as exaggerated as you think," Lu Yan He said. "It's often some public itineraries where many people know in advance where I'm going. In this case, I'll be surrounded by many people. Generally, when going out normally, if I arm myself, as long as I don't drill into crowds, at most I'll be recognized by a few people like just now."

Li Pengfei: "Won't you be besieged if you go to the concert with me tonight?"

"Our tickets are family and friends tickets, in the inner field, and we can enter through the VIP channel, don't worry," Lu Yan He said. "Are you going home first?"

"Hmm."

Lu Yan He selected the navigation.

The current Li Pengfei is dark and thin, completely different from the image of the young master who looked like he was raised with wealth in high school, more capable, and also has a sense of clumsy and solid power.

"It seems more and more people like wild travel now," Lu Yan He said.

"After staying in the city for a long time, I want to go to nature to accept the call of the wild," Li Pengfei's mouth curled, "Those who really like it are actually one in a hundred."

"You seem to like it very much."

"Hmm, I like it very much," Li Pengfei nodded, "Pure."

Lu Yan He smiled and said: "Really can't imagine, you are running into the mountains every few days now."

Li Pengfei: "What, discriminating against me?"

"No, just didn't expect it," Lu Yan He said. "The person who used to shout every day about mixing food and waiting for death is now running in the wilderness every day, tanned dark."

"Xu Zijun asked me a while ago when I plan to get married," Li Pengfei said suddenly.

Lu Yan He was stunned.

"What did you say?"

"I said, I haven't thought about this matter yet."

"Then have you thought about it during this time?" Lu Yan He asked.

Li Pengfei said: "I thought about it, I found I don't want to get married."

Lu Yan He's heart skipped a beat.

"Don't like her as much anymore?"

"Not really," Li Pengfei shook his head, "Just feel that once married, it seems many things have changed, and the current life cannot continue."

"That shouldn't be the case," Lu Yan He said. "It's just a matter of getting a certificate."

Li Pengfei: "I told her I haven't prepared for marriage, she said she is not in a hurry to get married, but she hopes I have a plan for the future."

Lu Yan He looked at Li Pengfei like this and suddenly reacted.

Actually, the problem Li Pengfei is facing is that he has no plan for the future.

Silence for a moment.

Lu Yan He thought for a long time and said: "You know, both Xu Zijun and I have to rely on our own efforts to live a little more easily, so I can't say I think you are very good like this now, but I understand you. If possible, I actually want to live as freely as you. For her, I think it's the same. She might not even want a promise from you, just that she feels you and her will go further and further away, so she has no sense of security."

Li Pengfei nodded.

"I want to have a stable family, I am a person who must get married."

Xu Zijun said firmly to Chen Siqi.

At the same time, Xu Zijun was also telling Chen Siqi about herself and Li Pengfei.

"I initially thought it was good that he had something he liked to do. He likes mountaineering, outdoor activities, likes photography, I support all these, but in the last two years, I feel he is becoming more and more immersed in these things."

Xu Zijun was very helpless.

"He has never thought about things in the future, nor does he have a plan. This is what I find most unacceptable. Even if he told me he still needs ten years to do these things and will only get married at thirty-five, I would be fine, I could, it doesn't matter. However, even if it is like this, he hasn't told me."

"Does he still love you?" Chen Siqi asked.

Xu Zijun hesitated for a moment, "Should still love me, right?"

"What aspects is it reflected in?" Chen Siqi asked again.

"No matter where he goes, he will definitely come back once after finishing a place," Xu Zijun said.

Chen Siqi: "Li Pengfei, his growth experience is different from ours. He doesn't lack family love, nor has he lacked material conditions. He has everything, so he doesn't care about these secular things that we care about very much. This is innate."

"I know," Xu Zijun said. "Actually, there are many girls who have taken a fancy to him over the years, including when mountaineering, he is often shown favor by some girls."

"He tells you all?"

"Occasionally, not always, but I know," Xu Zijun said. "He is very indifferent, very relaxed, and has a casual attitude towards many things. The point I like most about him is also this. I am very tense every day, I care about too many things and want to grasp too many things in my hands. Only when staying by his side can I relax a little."

Chen Siqi didn't speak.

"However, I also know that I am too different from him, and what I want is also very different from what he wants," Xu Zijun sighed. "I thought that if I worked hard, made money, and tried to narrow the gap between him and me, we could be together more easily, but I slowly found out that it seems all problems that can be solved by hard work are actually not the core problems."

Chen Siqi: "Zijun, I actually can't give any advice on your problems, but I just suddenly thought, I don't know if you have thought about it, if one day Li Pengfei becomes a man who has plans, is pragmatic and down-to-earth, will you still like him? Can he still bring you the feeling that can make everything relax?"

Xu Zijun was silent.

Chen Siqi laughed, "The reason we fall in love with someone doesn't necessarily become the reason we always love him. If the reason you love him changes, I want to say, since he loves you, the reason he loves you will also change. Not wanting to plan life at twenty-five, not wanting to consider marriage, I can't say this is normal, but I can't say it's abnormal either. Instead, I feel that the longer you are with him, the more you love him, the more you can't lose him, so you have less and less sense of security, and start to need a plan, a promise, even if you yourself know that these are actually things that can not be fulfilled."

Xu Zijun looked at Chen Siqi in shock, not knowing what to say for a while.

Chen Siqi: "I can only say, don't be in a hurry, you can wait a bit longer, take a look."

Xu Zijun sighed.

"What you said might be right."

Chen Siqi: "Also, don't pretend to be generous, pretend to trust him 100%."

"Shouldn't it be like this?"

"If you are not truly generous, truly trust him 100%, every time you pretend, your anxiety increases by one point," Chen Siqi said seriously. "Giving us a sense of security is the duty of their men. Don't let them feel that they don't need to bear this duty. After a long time, just like doing housework, they naturally think it is a woman's business."

Xu Zijun was originally holding her face very seriously, but hearing Chen Siqi's last teasing, she couldn't help but laugh.

"That won't do."