Chapter 964: Cannot Appreciate Together

The rain kept falling without stopping.

A car drove forward along the road by the river.

Two beams of headlights pierced through the darkness of the rainy night.

This car drove until it was under a bridge hole before stopping.

Lu Yanhe got out of the car.

At this time, a person also got out of a car parked on the other side.

Ma Zhiyuan.

The two looked at each other across the road.

Besides the buzzing engine sound of the car, there was only the sound of rain and wind.

The empty bridge hole seemed to become a pier that could slightly shelter from the wind and rain.

Subsequently, Ma Zhiyuan walked over to this side.

His face became clear in Lu Yanhe's line of sight.

Over the years, many people had actually mentioned some of Ma Zhiyuan's recent situation to Lu Yanhe.

Many people said that Ma Zhiyuan was still the same as before, even if something happened and his career was ruined, he still had the same temper as before, unruly and arrogant.

Arrogant.

However, the moment Lu Yanhe saw Ma Zhiyuan walking over from across the road today, when he saw his face clearly, saw the expression on his face clearly, Lu Yanhe had a strong feeling—

He had changed.

He was of course still unruly, but his unruliness had become deeper and colder.

This was beyond Lu Yanhe's expectations.

Ma Zhiyuan walked in front of him.

"You are in the crew?"

Lu Yanhe didn't answer, but asked back: "You just said on the phone that you have key evidence about why Star Entertainment suppressed me back then?"

Ma Zhiyuan nodded.

Lu Yanhe's brows didn't relax, and he continued to ask: "What do you want?"

"So straightforward?" Ma Zhiyuan's mouth curled into a sarcastic smile. "I thought you had been pretending to be a good person for so many years, so... noble, and wouldn't be like someone like me, so—mercenary?"

"Mercenary?" Lu Yanhe not only kept his limbs calm, in fact, in front of Ma Zhiyuan, even his facial features were calm, striving for a sense of high-and-mighty compassion—in this world, few people made Lu Yanhe perform so deliberately.

Ma Zhiyuan: "I know you won't admit it."

"It doesn't matter, I admit it, so what?" Lu Yanhe's voice sounded calm. "In this world, there is a kind of person who can only see others forever, seeing others as idealistic, so he feels they are stupid, seeing others care about interests, so he feels they are mercenary. One day, he sees a person whose behavior is ugly, but instead feels he is real. Do you know why?"

Ma Zhiyuan looked at him silently.

Lu Yanhe: "Because he doesn't know he saw himself. He just subconsciously feels that everything about this person is understandable. He doesn't even know why he understands an ugly person, because he only sees others."

Ma Zhiyuan: "Are you mocking me?"

Lu Yanhe: "You can understand it that way."

Ma Zhiyuan laughed.

Lu Yanhe: "I think, we don't need to continue talking nonsense between us, right? What exactly do you want? You wouldn't give me these things for free. Since you called me, it means the things you want are things only I can give you."

"Let me star in a work you wrote, a commercial film, an art film, a low-budget film, all are fine." Ma Zhiyuan said something shocking.

Lu Yanhe looked at Ma Zhiyuan incredibly.

If it were asked in the current entertainment industry who wouldn't be willing to participate in Lu Yanhe's works, Lu Yanhe felt that there were only a few.

But in this list, besides Chen Pinhe, there must be a Ma Zhiyuan.

He believed that Ma Zhiyuan's hatred for him was as much as his for him.

Especially since Ma Zhiyuan had just exploded a film during the National Day slot, although the attacks in public opinion afterwards made him fall into an irrecoverable situation again—

But to be honest, this bit of irrecoverability, for Ma Zhiyuan, was "not afraid of itching with more lice."

What could happen?

A person like Ma Zhiyuan, who is wrong from the values, will never blame himself or consume himself for these things that have hurt others.

How could Ma Zhiyuan come to Lu Yanhe at this time to ask for a play to act in for the sake of his career future?

Lu Yanhe: "What is this?"

Ma Zhiyuan: "I need to let everyone know that you and I have become friends again and can cooperate."

Lu Yanhe heard this sentence and directly sneered out loud.

"What kind of joke are you making?"

"I am not joking, Lu Yanhe." Ma Zhiyuan stared at Lu Yanhe. "A while ago, all those people jumped out to crusade against me, could it be that there was no instruction from you behind it?"

"Do you still need me to instruct others to do anything like this now?" Lu Yanhe shook his head. "You overestimated yourself."

Ma Zhiyuan's forehead veins bulged.

The wind and rain were raging.

Lu Yanhe looked at Ma Zhiyuan's complexion at this moment, feeling extra relieved in his heart.

It's just a pity that Li Zhibai and Yan Liang couldn't appreciate it together.

"Hmm, also, I refuse."

Ma Zhiyuan was stunned.

Lu Yanhe slowly raised his hand and turned his wrist, as if his joints were a bit sore after keeping a posture for a long time.

"If it were before my friends crusaded against you, acting for you, acting would be acting." Lu Yanhe smiled slightly, because when he said this, he thought of his friends. "However, now, those things, whether you give them to me or not, I don't care that much. Although I don't know what you hold in your hands, no matter what it is, it won't affect my current life. And in my current life, no one is more important to me than these friends. Acting with you is no different from stabbing them. So, even if I am mercenary, I won't do this deal." Ma Zhiyuan was silent.

Lu Yanhe: "Your affairs, you go toss about yourself. You hurt so many people back then, including me. I don't want to help you whitewash at all. I didn't kick you when you were down, it's just because I am now... how should I say it? Too good. My life and career are too good. You may never understand the kind of good where you don't even want to dirty your hands to take revenge on someone. Even when you were at your most popular."

Ma Zhiyuan's eyes were already filled with fierce color.

Killing the heart.

Lu Yanhe tilted his head.

The front car door opened.

Zou Dong got out of the car.

"Alright, I'm done talking."

"I'm leaving."

Lu Yanhe took two steps forward, and just as he was about to get in the car, Ma Zhiyuan suddenly shouted: "Lu Yanhe, do you think you will be smooth sailing for a lifetime? I don't believe there is no problem with you!"

Lu Yanhe heard Ma Zhiyuan's words, paused his steps, smiled and shook his head, didn't look back, and got in the car.

"Are you stupid! You should have agreed first, get the things from his hands and then turn against him!" Li Zhibai said with hatred for iron not becoming steel after hearing Lu Yanhe directly refuse Ma Zhiyuan.

Lu Yanhe: "... I can't do this kind of thing."

The meaning of hatred for iron not becoming steel in Li Zhibai's eyes became stronger.

"Forget it, no matter what, it is seeking skin from a tiger. Once you get involved, you won't be able to wash it clean." Lu Yanhe said, "Why cooperate with him, no need."

Li Zhibai nodded.

"You say so, I can accept it a bit."

Lu Yanhe: "Also, what Star Entertainment has done in the past, what Zhou Ping'an has done in the past, I know, evidence, I also have. I have said everything to that point. With his character, if the things he holds are hard enough, he will be more arrogant than me, will want to suppress my spirit, but he didn't. In fact, I don't think he can hold any things, as long as he doesn't know why Star Entertainment suppressed me back then."

Li Zhibai knew that Lu Yanhe was talking about Chen Pinhe.

"Hmm, if he knew about that, he would probably fear the world wouldn't be chaotic."

"Sometimes I also think, this matter has actually become my weakness." Lu Yanhe shrugged his shoulders helplessly. "Study hard, work hard, work conscientiously, and then, be a good person, a kind person. Even so, there is still a weakness that can be controlled by others, even if this matter—I don't think I have any problems from the bottom of my heart, and there is no problem itself, but it will still be a stain. Once someone knows, it will become the biggest stain of my life. No matter what achievements I get, standing in what position, mentioning me, it will definitely carry a definition of Chen Pinhe's illegitimate child. I also think it's ridiculous, is this my problem? No. Even, most people who mention this matter won't think it's my problem, nor will they laugh at me because of this. However, the label is on me."

This is an unsolvable question.

This is also the reason why no one around Lu Yanhe who knows about this matter has said to him—at worst, just tell everyone the truth.

Things in life that can be changed by hard work, no matter how difficult, will not make people feel desperate.

However, there are many moments in life that you can't do anything about no matter how hard you try—often such moments make people feel desperate.

For Lu Yanhe, this is not enough to make him desperate.

But it is like an old stain on a piece of glass.

It can't be wiped off no matter what, it can only be left on that piece of glass.

Li Zhibai hugged Lu Yanhe's shoulder, patted it, and said: "Even if one day, this matter is really exposed, it's fine. Rumors and criticism are the standard configuration of every legend, not this one then that one. We have all acted in many plays about the love and hate of various characters, what are we afraid of in reality? Act. You can act in the play, you can also act outside the play. As long as you look like you don't take it seriously at all, the audience will be infected by you, don't take it seriously, you are the best actor, afraid of a fart."

Li Zhibai's comfort sounded a bit inexplicable.

However, Lu Yanhe understood.

"What exactly Ma Zhiyuan holds needs to be figured out." Chen Ziyan said on the phone. "Otherwise, this is a time bomb, and I don't know when it will explode."

"Is there a way?"

"Find a familiar, trustworthy person to dress up as a paparazzi to contact him, see if you can get it out." Chen Ziyan said. "I will also go see Zhou Ping'an, see what he knows."

Lu Yanhe: "Hmm."

"Yan He, I think, we might have to be prepared for this matter to be exposed in the end." Chen Ziyan said. "Especially when we decide to take action against Zhang Yuezhen later, unless she is dead, otherwise, when she enters an unsafe state, she has no need to keep this secret. Chen Pinhe and her should really have problems now, the two have already lived separately—although this matter is done very secretly."

Lu Yanhe took a deep breath.

"It's okay, Sister Ziyan, although I am indeed a bit unwilling to face the result of exposure, I am already prepared for exposure." Lu Yanhe said. "At worst, I will take this opportunity to rest for a few years, let those boiling discussions turn over."

"Okay, if you can think like this, I am relieved." Chen Ziyan said. "Your way of dealing with Ma Zhiyuan this time is right. For a person like him, any transaction is a pit in the future, we can't lose big because of small."

"Hmm, don't say publicly releasing a signal of reconciliation with him to everyone, even non-public is not okay. Isn't this slapping the face? He just wants to use this signal to alleviate his current terrible professional situation."

"Indeed, if the signal of your cooperation with him is released, his situation of being crusaded against will change." Chen Ziyan said. "After all, this will be seen by others as your supportive attitude towards him. He is quite good at calculating."

"He has always been such a person."

When Zhou Ping'an learned from Chen Ziyan that Ma Zhiyuan actually went behind his back and tried to make a deal with Lu Yanhe with evidence of Star Entertainment's suppression of Lu Yanhe back then, a fire suddenly rose up.

How dare he?!

Then, it was a familiar sense of powerlessness.

After so many years, Ma Zhiyuan has always been this virtue, daring to do anything, not caring about anything, the logic of acting is a beast, all relying on instinct, no brain.

Zhou Ping'an suddenly realized that he had done one thing wrong.

He shouldn't have been afraid of the wolf in front and the tiger behind because of Ma Zhiyuan's little threat.

Should have stopped the loss in time.

"He thinks he holds some amazing things, in fact, you all know what is going on." Zhou Ping'an's heart was like a stormy sea, but on the surface he still tried to control his calm. "He doesn't know that Lu Yanhe actually knew long ago. What is Yan He's attitude?"

Chen Ziyan didn't answer, just looked at Zhou Ping'an.

Zhou Ping'an knew what Chen Ziyan was considering.

He said: "During the National Day slot before, you should be able to see my true attitude towards Ma Zhiyuan."

So many people crusaded against Ma Zhiyuan, the momentum of public opinion was scary.

And Zhou Ping'an didn't have any actions—

This point, being in the entertainment industry, Chen Ziyan should be able to see easily.

Having public relations and not having public relations are two completely different situations—although it is said that having public relations may not necessarily reverse public opinion.

Chen Ziyan: "Parents whose children scream and make trouble on the high-speed rail will not be considered irresponsible, their silence will also be seen as acquiescence. You and us re-established cooperation, it is not easy to come by. Because of Ma Zhiyuan, you lost Li Zhibai, I suggest you weigh it carefully." ===== CHAPTER 965 =====