Chapter 945

It feels good to go crazy for a while.

The result is that most of Lu Yan He's inventory has seen the light of day.

Film projects that could have been filmed for ten years are now all exposed at once.

Li Zhibai even called immediately to ask if his account had been hacked.

Are these projects real?

Lu Yan He said: "It's real."

Li Zhibai: "Do you have so many scripts on hand?"

"Yeah, not every one is written out, but I'm already very clear about what each story is like. I've thought it through," Lu Yan He said. "Originally, I didn't intend to take them all out at once. Isn't it because I was suddenly provoked? Saying I'm forming cliques in the entertainment industry, saying I'm deliberately suppressing Chen Pinhe..."

Li Zhibai: "I understand."

He said again: "Then you must have gotten your wish. With these dozen Weibo posts sent out, the big cannon fired, it feels like the market share is going to be occupied by you."

Lu Yan He said: "I've been hanging up new incoming calls while I'm on the phone with you."

"Who told you to do such an outrageous thing? You won't be able to have peace next. Major film companies will probably scramble for these projects of yours," Li Zhibai said.

Lu Yan He said: "I guessed it, but I have to take Sister Ziyan's call first. I won't talk to you anymore."

Lu Yan He hung up the phone.

Chen Ziyan's call had already come in.

"Hello, Sister Ziyan."

"Does it feel good?" Chen Ziyan asked as soon as she opened her mouth.

It wasn't the expected head-on output.

Lu Yan He was even more embarrassed.

He laughed.

Chen Ziyan: "I'm convinced by you."

Lu Yan He: "... I was a little crazy, a youthful madness."

"You're almost thirty, big brother, and still youthful madness."

"Middle-aged chat about youthful madness."

"Forget it." Although it was just a phone call, Lu Yan He felt like he could see Chen Ziyan rolling her eyes.

Lu Yan He: "Sorry, I was wrong."

"Shut up. There's no need to apologize without sincerity. I didn't call to hold you accountable," Chen Ziyan said. "Over in the United States, some latest situations have been investigated."

"Oh?" Lu Yan He asked in surprise, "What situation?"

Chen Ziyan: "I felt it was strange from the beginning why Zhang Yuezhen could help Chen Pinhe get so many resources. Although Chen Pinhe had won awards at the four major international film festivals before, those were not Hollywood resources. How did he suddenly succeed as soon as he took the international route, being able to star in *Death Stranding* and get *Doomsday*."

"Yeah—" Lu Yan He had been in Hollywood for a few years, so of course he knew the rules of the game in Hollywood. Put this way, it is indeed a bit rare. You come to play a supporting role, Hollywood is OK, using you to raise the status of the work, but you come to play the lead? You have no commercial value in Hollywood, why? Do you have someone like Lu Yan He to strongly escort you? No.

"So, what did Zhang Yuezhen do?"

"We heard some gossip. Zhang Yuezhen used to hang out in the socialite circle here, taking the 'Madam route.' However, she used this line to collect a lot of black material on people. At critical moments, she used inducements on some people and threats on others," Chen Ziyan smiled. "Of course, because of this kind of thing, everyone covers it up and doesn't say it, so the matter is very secretive. It was Hua Ruzhen who knew you didn't get along with Chen Pinhe. She gave me some hints in this regard and gave me clues, so I followed her clues and dug out some things."

Lu Yan He was shocked.

Chen Ziyan: "This woman is ruthless enough."

What surprised Lu Yan He even more was Hua Ruzhen's attitude.

"She gave you hints?"

"That's right," Chen Ziyan said. "The news that you and Chen Pinhe don't get along has been around for a long time. She once asked me if it was true. I said yes. She asked me again if there was a possibility of reconciliation. I said, the appearance of discord comes from deeper contradictions and cracks, cracks that cannot be stitched up. Then she understood."

Lu Yan He: "Alright."

"She is still deeper in the Hollywood circle."

"Yes."

Chen Ziyan said: "Look, I told you, a person who has broken the bottom line will not maintain their bottom line in other aspects."

Lu Yan He said: "What about Chen Pinhe? Is he that clean?"

"Him," Chen Ziyan took a deep breath. "I'll tell you the truth, Yan He. I have been watching this matter of yours for these years, checking and looking. Chen Pinhe, he is indeed a hypocrite through and through, selfish and cold, but he also really cherishes his own feathers and almost never lets his hands get dirty. Everything I know is that Zhang Yuezhen acted as a white glove for him. He only needs to walk the red carpet cleanly and in a suit."

Lu Yan He: "So... forget it, dogs biting dogs, no one is worth sympathizing with."

Chen Ziyan nodded: "This attitude of yours is right."

Lu Yan He asked: "Then what do you plan to do next?"

Chen Ziyan said: "With so many enemies, you can naturally use others to take revenge. The enemy of an enemy is a friend."

"What about the handle she holds?"

"A handle is only a handle for a very few people when very few people know about it. When a secret is no longer a secret, the threat is no longer a threat," Chen Ziyan said. "Zhang Yuezhen is doing something that involves entering the game with her own body, so she shouldn't dream of getting out easily."

Lu Yan He: "Understood, learned."

Even just listening on the phone, Lu Yan He could feel Chen Ziyan's certainty of victory.

Two weeks after *Buried 2* was released, the global box office directly exceeded 200 million dollars, of which 100 million dollars in box office came from China.

Li Zhibai's box office appeal in China is still super first-tier.

The films he starred in, so far, have never had a box office lower than 500 million RMB.

Not counting the box office in China, *Buried 2* also took 100 million dollars in box office.

Compared with the first film, *Buried 2* is no longer just a small-budget dark horse small hit, but has directly entered the sequence of truly big sellers.

Parameters even sent another script to Li Zhibai.

A horror film script they were preparing to develop themselves.

Li Zhibai directly refused after reading the script.

"I don't like this kind of horror movie where people kill each other. It's boring."

He didn't have any intention of needing to be polite to Parameters as a newcomer, directly denying the script's appeal to him.

Parameters said that such a theme has good box office prospects.

Li Zhibai said: "If I wanted to film movies with box office prospects, my schedule would have been booked until five years later."

Parameters: "..." They understood why Li Zhibai's nickname in the Chinese media was "Pull Brother."

How popular Li Zhibai is in China, Parameters, although they didn't experience it personally, could see it in various media.

A Korean media outlet wrote about Li Zhibai, and the title was written like this—

*In China, Lu Yan He only has a higher industry status than him, but he is not more popular than him*.

This sentence was later used by many foreign media to describe Li Zhibai, a bit like "one passes to ten, ten passes to a hundred."

Therefore, Li Zhibai saying this, Parameters didn't find it surprising.

If Li Zhibai really wanted to film Hollywood movies so much, after *Buried* became a small hit, he could have taken the opportunity to break into Hollywood.

The success of one *Buried* was enough for him to knock on the door of Hollywood.

However, in fact, the focus of his subsequent career development remained in China.

"What about the movie that came to you before?" Lu Yan He asked.

Li Zhibai had met a director here before. At that time, Li Zhibai had concerns about the script itself, wasn't sure, and even asked for Lu Yan He's advice.

Li Zhibai shook his head and said: "In the end, I refused. We couldn't reach a consensus on the creation."

To some extent, Li Zhibai is even the pickiest about scripts among the few of them.

In this regard, Lin Suyang is not as strong as Zhou Ping'an.

Zhou Ping'an would very strongly insist on letting Li Zhibai act in projects he thinks have good prospects.

Lin Suyang respects Li Zhibai's own ideas more.

The result of this is that Li Zhibai's projects in recent years are either Lu Yan He's or those he has controlled and operated himself from the beginning.

In the long run, for Li Zhibai as an actor, the development is unfavorable.

Lu Yan He can have the current momentum, there is a very important reason—

There are too many partners who hope his momentum will become more and more fierce and sufficient.

If he is good, everyone is good.

Lu Yan He is worried that Li Zhibai seems to be on a path with a good upward trend, but is actually getting narrower and narrower.

Of course, it doesn't matter.

Just the fans and popularity Li Zhibai has accumulated over the years, and the works he starred in in the past, not to mention anything else, one *Chinese Paladin*, one *Those Years*, are enough for him to be popular until twenty years later.

Parallel space-time where he does "male version of Liu Yifei" in the entertainment industry (internal entertainment blood cow).

Lu Yan He just thinks that with Li Zhibai's thickness of blood, coupled with his image and natural star charm, if operated well, he can completely aim to be a generation superstar. Just like Lu Yan He's outlook on Yan Liang, in the future, Yan Liang can be a combination of Tom Cruise and Keanu Reeves, reaching the top in the action superstar field through several classic series of blockbusters.

When he reacted, he was shocked.

Damn, isn't this a typical "hope for son to become dragon" mentality?

Control, control it!

Alarm bells rang in Lu Yan He's mind.

Don't do "for your own good."

Li Zhibai is his friend.

Nothing is more important than him doing what he wants to do.

Why must he become a generation superstar?

You are yourself.

Lu Yan He pulled back from the brink and controlled his mouth that was about to start "preaching."

Li Zhibai, however, understood Lu Yan He's hesitant action.

"Did I refuse too willfully?"

"No, not at all," Lu Yan He shook his head and smiled. "Just do what you want to do. Before, everyone opposed you not to collaborate with Liu Manbo on *Grass Flying* again, but didn't the result prove that the second chance you gave him was the right one?"

Li Zhibai narrowed his eyes.

"So, actually, you still think my refusal was a bit hasty?"

"To tell the truth, a little bit, but that's not important," Lu Yan He shook his head. "I'm serious."

"Alright." Li Zhibai shrugged. "If you really think I refused a script wrongly, you must tell me. I believe in your vision."

"Yeah, don't worry. If I really think that script is absolutely worth acting in, I will definitely force you to act in it. The hesitation I just had has nothing to do with the script itself, so I reacted later, and told you it's not important."

"OK." Li Zhibai nodded.

Lu Yan He smiled and patted Li Zhibai on the shoulder.

"Congratulations, *Buried 2* also achieved such good results. Although the media doesn't understand and feels that I did a lot of work on the script of *Buried 2*, in fact, it has nothing to do with me. It was discussed by you and the screenwriters. The market also proved the correctness of your ideas. Don't always feel that you can't read scripts. Your script aesthetics are very good."

Li Zhibai: "You suddenly praised me so seriously, it really makes me unable to adapt."

Lu Yan He: "Then adapt more. I feel that there will only be more and more such times in the future."

Lu Yan He certainly won't be stingy with his praise in front of Li Zhibai.

To tell the truth, Li Zhibai was able to get the two projects *Nineteen Years of Crime Records* and *Grass Flying* done, and neither lost money commercially, and the latter was a big hit—

Even if this relies on Li Zhibai's own traffic and popularity, it is extremely difficult. Traffic is there every year, and those professional operators may not be able to guarantee no commercial loss, let alone a half-baked person like Li Zhibai who started halfway.

Of course, Li Zhibai's luck is also very good.

Who knows what Li Zhibai's way of playing cards not according to common sense can eventually become?

Lu Yan He also knows that although he opened a golden finger, he is actually on a very routine path, step by step.

Such a path is of course not wrong; it is an orthodox broad road.

But not everyone has to take this path.

Just like those who have always followed the principle that film is higher than TV, after the appearance of streaming media, no one expected that the production quality of many dramas would even surpass ordinary films.

A group of Oscar Best Actors and Actresses returned to the peak of their careers relying on big dramas on streaming media.

Li Zhibai's *Grass Flying*, seriously not relying on Lu Yan He, fought a beautiful battle on streaming media and won the love of overseas audiences. Even if this is mainly concentrated in the Asian region and has not truly gained a large-scale viewing craze in Europe and America. This is also very difficult. There are only a few Chinese dramas that can truly set off a viewing craze in the Asian region every year, and in recent years, these few have more or less something to do with Lu Yan He.

Next, Lu Yan He's drama projects are mainly on Arctic Light Video.

Whether it is HP or Maxine, if they can't grab Lu Yan He's projects, will they still maintain their investment in Chinese dramas like in previous years?

Without creators who make them compete, they might shift their focus elsewhere.

Therefore, the success of Li Zhibai's *Grass Flying*, and even the success of *Seventeen Layers: Reboot*, are helping to improve the commercial value of Chinese dramas on overseas streaming media—it is Chinese dramas, not just Lu Yan He's Chinese drama projects.