Chapter 962: You're Still Laughing!

The day after the script reading meeting, the screenwriter serving as the text editor would send the modified script to the main creators for confirmation.

And everyone had also formed a principle in the cooperation of the past few years: usually, they don't casually put forward opinions.

Because perhaps from your perspective, this opinion is correct, but it will affect other characters and affect the whole show.

Filming until now, *Friends* is also in its seventh season. Counting the three seasons of *Friends* (the original), this is already the tenth season.

A long-running show.

And Lu Yanhe is still in the creation, and it seems that his creative passion has not diminished at all.

Including Yan Liang, everyone was shocked.

In fact, originally *Friends* didn't have only one screenwriter creating this story; they had episode screenwriters.

While keeping it from conflicting with the main thread, there were actually several screenwriters creating scripts.

And Lu Yanhe was able to write this show to the tenth season (he himself was responsible for writing eight seasons), and still couldn't see the meaning of an ending. On one hand, the original version had more than 20 episodes per season, while here, one season had only a dozen episodes; on the other hand, after the characters and story were established, Lu Yanhe himself would also add some original content in it.

These original contents had nothing to do with the main character thread, just some attempts of his own. After broadcasting, no audience raised objections to these original contents, so Lu Yanhe was relieved.

Up to now, Lu Yanhe really didn't have a plan for which season this show would end.

According to the current main thread, this show is actually only at the content of the original seventh season this season.

Lu Yanhe was also thinking about one thing: when exactly should this show be written to?

Really write it down forever?

Such a question would almost appear in his mind once every year.

However, the thoughts every year were different.

Just like last year he felt that there was nothing wrong with just writing it down like this, this year he suddenly felt that sometimes, drawing a period at a certain place is a kind of fulfillment.

Lu Yanhe chatted with Yan Liang privately.

Yan Liang said: "At this stage, I indeed don't hope it ends so quickly. There might have been a few years in the middle where I felt that the schedule was reserved for it every year at this time, but now I don't have this thought. I enjoy having a familiar show waiting for me to join the crew at this time every year."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"Actually, I am too. As an actor, you always join a project and then leave a project, always dealing with different projects. Only *Friends*, every year at this time, a meeting once a year."

Yan Liang: "Are you a bit tired of it?"

"No." Lu Yanhe smiled. "Maybe it's the old problem acting up again, thinking about the meaning of this thing again."

"At least the audience is not tired of our story, so don't think about the meaning thing first." Yan Liang said, "You don't have to worry about it becoming a long and smelly foot-binding cloth, really."

Lu Yanhe: "I am not thinking about this this time. What I am thinking is, if a sitcom keeps filming, will there be a day when everyone will lose the filter for this group of people's stories because of the sense of reality accumulated over a long time? Just like, we always move towards marriage, towards the secular, towards many trivial things."

"Will it?" Yan Liang shook his head. "*Friends* although the plot is always melodramatic, it never makes people feel secular. In fact, it is an emotional utopia for modern people, isn't it? Everyone is yearning for the world in *Friends*."

Lu Yanhe: "It can also be said like this. I don't deny this point, but people will always disenchant some things as they grow older. When you were a child, you firmly believed in what kind of person you would become in the future. Ten or twenty years later, you might firmly feel that such a person is really a silly idealist."

Yan Liang: "If you decide not to do something because of these ethereal things that might happen in the next ten or twenty years, I think it's very strange, even ridiculous."

Lu Yanhe: "Hmm?"

Yan Liang: "Who knows what will happen in the future? When *Friends* was filmed to the fourth or fifth season, many people already said that this show's fate was about to end, because there had never been such a long TV series in the country. But now, we have filmed to the tenth season, this story has walked for ten years, and it is still the hottest TV series, no one else. So many years, every year the average number of viewers per episode is the first. People now haven't abandoned it. Will people ten years later abandon it, deny it? You manage them? Or are you particularly worried that a show that is very good until now will be evaluated as having a bad ending later, ruining the show's good reputation instead?"

In fact, when *Friends* reached the last two seasons, the reputation was indeed not very good, because the overly melodramatic plot and character relationship development triggered a lot of people's complaints.

But it eventually withstood the torrent of time and became a classic among classics.

What Lu Yanhe couldn't be honest with Yan Liang about was that his deepest worry was that if this show continued to be written and made for a few more seasons without ending, he would really have to rely on his own pure originality.

By then, would this story still withstand the market's expectations and tests for it? -

Not long after, Li Zhibai was furious.

He complained to Lu Yanhe angrily, how come he finally had more scenes in this show and started to have a trend of becoming a regular, and he started thinking about ending *Friends*?

Lu Yanhe was very speechless.

"This has nothing to do with you."

Li Zhibai: "You say it has nothing to do with it, who knows if it has anything to do with it."

"Don't mess around, I have a headache right now."

"What's there to have a headache about, just keep writing." Li Zhibai said, "So many stories have happened in each of our lives and work, why can't you write them in?"

"Are you crazy? If our affairs were written into *Friends*, it would definitely explode."

"You manage it." Li Zhibai said, "Anyway, they are all stories that happened in the plot, happened to the characters, who would substitute real people."

"People who know some truth will add fuel to the fire and say that these plots come from someone's real experience."

"Deny it and it's over." Li Zhibai said, "The most important thing is, in fact, in this show, every character has already merged with you yourself. Many audiences regard the characters as you, and regard you as the characters themselves. Of course, you and Yan Liang are relatively better, but you also have to admit, it's only relatively better."

Lu Yanhe said: "Then I am still okay. The way I look in everyone's eyes should still not be linked to that rough-lined, slow-reacting, and of course a bit silly look."

"Is it meaningful for you to deny it at this time? Don't you know that many of your fans think you are like that in private? What kind of genius's real life is like a mentally disabled person."

"I—" Lu Yanhe was speechless for a moment.

"What you are like, the public doesn't know." Li Zhibai said, "If you don't even admit this, then I really have nothing to say to you."

Lu Yanhe: "I don't need to say anything to you either."

"As a loyal fan of *Friends*, I strongly demand that you are not allowed to end it." Li Zhibai said righteously, "You must film it season by season. I'm not joking, this is very important. Don't deprive us loyal fans of our spiritual pillar every winter."

Lu Yanhe: "..."

Li Zhibai: "This show has accompanied the most senior fans for ten years. How do you let them accept that this show is about to end."

Lu Yanhe: "I didn't say it was going to end immediately either. What did Yan Liang tell you?"

"It's not going to end immediately, it's also about to end." Li Zhibai said, "No, I don't allow it." "Need your permission."

"Need." Li Zhibai's tone was full of threats.

Not starring in *Friends* with Lu Yanhe and Yan Liang had always been a heart disease of Li Zhibai.

Although this heart disease, saying it's big is not big.

But for him, saying it's small is not small.

This matter, Li Zhibai himself was embarrassed to tell Lu Yanhe and Yan Liang.

How to say it? How to open his mouth?

No way.

Jiang Yuqian knew a little bit.

She actually quite envied it.

Why can men have such a strong relationship?

Still say women love to be jealous?

Isn't this also a disguised jealousy? Because Lu Yanhe and Yan Liang filmed it together, but he didn't.

Jiang Yuqian likes Li Zhibai, to a large extent, because he is simple enough.

Jiang Yuqian originally didn't want to find someone in the circle to fall in love with. Yes, let alone get married, she didn't even want to fall in love. Because it's complicated, those who mix in this circle, especially those who are actors, not many are not complicated. It's not to say that complicated is not good, complicated is not a good person, but, because Jiang Yuqian's own work environment is already complicated enough, she doesn't want the person around her to be someone who needs to be considered in all aspects, whose mind needs to be pondered and guessed.

Li Zhibai would mind this matter, Jiang Yuqian was not surprised at all.

Don't look at Li Zhibai looking boisterous and carefree, in fact, his mind is not big.

Especially on some people he cares about.

"If Yan He really doesn't want to do *Friends* anymore, don't force him."

"He doesn't really not want to do it." Li Zhibai said, "You don't understand him. He just has a brain twitch from time to time, has some problems, but if he really doesn't intend to do something, he won't ask Yan Liang what he thinks at all. He doesn't realize it at all. He is subconsciously wanting us to pull him."

Jiang Yuqian: "... Really? Could this be that you guys are too confident?"

"If it were just me who felt this way, maybe, but Yan Liang also thinks so." Li Zhibai said, "Don't think Yan He is a god-like person. He just has a bit of talent. Besides that bit of talent, he is also an ordinary person, really, don't think he is really strategizing, thinking everything through."

Jiang Yuqian: "I just think, for how long a show should be filmed, he should have a good idea in his heart."

Li Zhibai: "That's not it, he is not like this at all, really."

Jiang Yuqian: "You tried your best to make your character return this season, what, preparing to be a regular in the future?"

"At least appear every season." Li Zhibai said, "Otherwise, I would have only guest-starred in this show a few times, that would be too boring."

"*The Hundred Dollar Coffee Shop*, when will Yan He go to guest star?"

"He said he would film it when he goes to visit the set next week." Li Zhibai said, "I was just about to ask you, when are you going to film?"

"I am going to the United States to film for a few days next week. Wait until I come back from the United States. I don't need to join the crew at the end of the year. Besides some ceremonies to attend, the time is relatively relaxed." Jiang Yuqian said, "I heard that *Fast and Furious* will start filming next year?"

"Yan He told me so." Li Zhibai shrugged his shoulders, "There are quite a few shows to film next year. Besides *Fast and Furious*, I also have to film a movie."

"Long Yan's *The Liar*?"

"Right." Li Zhibai said, "Brother Lin Suyang took the script for me."

"*The Liar* script also came to me." Jiang Yuqian said, "Since you took it, I will also consider whether to take it."

"In this script, it seems there is no particularly heavy female character."

This is a man's show.

Jiang Yuqian said: "The casino boss character, the scenes are indeed not many, but it is a very tense, domineering female boss character. I am quite interested. Long Yan told me that as long as I can give a 2-week schedule, it will be fine. I didn't expect the male lead to find you."

"..." Li Zhibai was a bit depressed, said: "Long Yan is contacting both sides, doing it on purpose, right? My character has a scene of being teased and flirted with by you. They specifically found us to act. Isn't this just wanting to hype it up?"

"They definitely have such thoughts." Jiang Yuqian asked, "Are you unwilling for me to play this character?"

Li Zhibai stammered and couldn't explain clearly.

Jiang Yuqian pursued for a long while, and then understood. It turned out that because of the character relationship in the film, the male lead played by Li Zhibai was still a relatively green "chick" when he met the casino female boss, and was teased until his face was red. Li Zhibai was unwilling to play such a screen relationship with Jiang Yuqian on the screen.

"..." Jiang Yuqian was speechless for a moment, then laughed loudly.

Li Zhibai was even more annoyed and ashamed, with a straight face, ignoring Jiang Yuqian.

Jiang Yuqian laughed even more violently.

Li Zhibai looked at her, then looked at her again, really couldn't stand it, directly raised his hand, and covered Jiang Yuqian's mouth.

"Don't laugh."

Jiang Yuqian stopped laughing, blinked her eyes, and nodded.

Li Zhibai then let go of his hand.

As a result, as soon as his hand let go, Jiang Yuqian laughed again.

"You actually care about this!"

This time, Li Zhibai didn't just cover Jiang Yuqian's mouth.

He was annoyed and ashamed, directly moved his whole body over, and pressed onto Jiang Yuqian's body.

Jiang Yuqian lay directly on the sofa.

Li Zhibai used his head to press against Jiang Yuqian's head, threatening: "You're still laughing!" ===== CHAPTER 963 =====