[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-playboy-of-huayu-how-did-a-celestial-immorta":3,"chapter-the-playboy-of-huayu-how-did-a-celestial-immorta-the-playboy-of-huayu-how-did-a-celestial-immorta-chapter-103":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Playboy of Huayu: How Did a Celestial Immortal Transform Me?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2297729,4495,"Chapter 103: Heart-to-Heart on the Half-Mountain","the-playboy-of-huayu-how-did-a-celestial-immorta-chapter-103",103,"\u003Cp>The two leaned against the railing on the hillside road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Kuan searched his memories of his past life; because he had basically never had contact with Liu Yifei’s business, his understanding of her was not particularly deep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, in his impression, he had almost never heard her speak of these sad memories to the media.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When talking about her parents and family, she always responded with gratitude and warmth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If one were to call this suffering, how could it not be?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Kuan smiled and said, \"These are all insights from your life. Take acting, for example; an excellent actor must have different life experiences.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You must travel ten thousand miles, read ten thousand books, work hard, and temper your body and mind.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You must constantly observe the states and images of different people around you, deal with people from different industries, and learn to weep and to laugh.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Go through a romance, experience the pain of heartbreak, make some delicious food with your own hands, and savor the taste of food.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All of this will eventually merge into your performance, becoming your muscle memory and psychological memory, allowing you to better shape characters and grasp the chain of action.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Yifei pursed her lips and nodded; she understood what Lu Kuan meant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was indeed still a bit too immature; currently, the only roles she could play well were those whose character images aligned with her own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She suddenly turned her head: \"What about you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What about me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You were still a Daoist Priest two years ago; you haven't experienced much more than I have! Why do you understand so much?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boss Lu instinctively wanted to light a cigarette.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My suffering has already cycled through forty years in my past life, and it remains vivid to this day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I started fortune-telling for people when I was 10. When I see a person, I can see the eight sufferings of their life, and I can see their present and future lives. Of course I understand a lot.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was too exaggerated, so naturally, Liu Yifei did not believe it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She stared fixedly at Lu Kuan’s sharp-angled profile, and suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xiao Lu, you look like a time traveler.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A clap of summer thunder exploded, startling them both; it was the prelude to a thunderstorm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Kuan felt a jolt in his heart, but his expression remained calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How so?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Yifei laughed: \"Just like Xiao Wanzi and Xiang Shaolong; your head is full of one idea after another, as if nothing can stump you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Love Through Time and Space\" was released in the mainland this May, and together with the 2001 \"A Step into the Past,\" it opened the floodgates for the Chinese public's imagination regarding time travel, and from then on, it became unstoppable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Next time I'm going to ask your senior brother if there was an omen of the nine stars aligning when you were born!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boss Lu joked: \"You guessed right; I actually am a time traveler.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then did you know me in that time and space? What was I like?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Kuan hesitated, not knowing how to say it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that time and space, you might have been infinitely glorious, but you also had to face slander and rumors everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether your heart was ultimately bitter or sweet, outsiders naturally could not know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Before I traveled through time, you weren't a star, and I didn't know you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You probably just quietly went to university, fell in love, got married, had children, and lived an ordinary life.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at her experience of retiring from the industry for various reasons in his past life, what was wrong with being a happy, ordinary person?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, it's raining!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiangjiang has a subtropical monsoon climate with heavy summer rains; the two had walked quite far and hurriedly turned to head down the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boss Lu looked at Liu Yifei, who was wearing a thin white hoodie, and instinctively wanted to tease her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xiao Liu, are you cold? Do you want a jacket?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Yifei looked at him in surprise; why was this jerk so gentle to her today? Had he been possessed by something dirty?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No need.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, I need it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Kuan snatched the white hoodie from her hands, covered his head with it, and laughed as he rushed into the rain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Yifei was left behind, stomping her feet in anger, and followed after wiping the rain from her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Xiaoli soon arrived in Xiangjiang to reunite with her daughter, so Lu Kuan could safely head north with A Fei, though he was subjected to a good deal of grumbling from Huang Pi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had made money and poached someone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, he was unwilling to offend such a big client, but no matter how much he inquired through Wang Minhui, the latter refused to reveal his background.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>August 27, 2002, Beiping Hanghua Trade Office Building, Wenjie Culture and Media Company.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spotless new office was about 500 square meters, which was clearly more than what Wenjie Culture actually needed at the moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Boss Lu, who had the \"Heavenly Eye,\" knew that office rents would skyrocket year by year along with housing and land prices, so he simply rented it for five years at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Wenjie couldn't purchase or build its own office space in five years, then Boss Lu would have really regressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the eve of setting off for Venice, Lu Kuan gathered all current company employees to hold the first internal meeting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the sparrow is small, it has all the vital organs; Wenjie Culture and Media, in its initial stages, had just barely formed the embryonic structure of an organization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boss Lu sat at one end of the desk, spinning a fountain pen in his hand, listening to Sun Wenwen read the appointment notices.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at every employee he had personally recruited and positioned, Lu Kuan felt as if he had returned to his past life, thinking of himself as he was when he was holding sway in a public relations firm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, everyone quiet. By the company's decision, the following is established.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Establish the first-level organization, the President's Office, and appoint Sun Wenwen as Assistant to the President.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Establish the first-level organizations: Finance Department, Legal Department, and Human Resources Department; all related work will be temporarily handled by Sun Wenwen.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sun Wenwen felt a bit dizzy reading this; if it weren't for the 12,000-a-month salary Boss Lu offered her, this Renmin University law master might have cried on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although each department had basic staff, she was still the one coordinating the work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Establish the first-level organization, the Artist Management Division, and appoint Lu Yao as the General Manager of the division, and Yang Siwei as Assistant to the General Manager (intern).\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Signed artists: Zhang Songwen, Wang Baoqiang, Huang Bo.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Songwen’s acting skills were far from mature compared to his future self and still needed training and tempering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Baoqiang could play roles that fit him well, but his current range was relatively narrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Bo was a talented player; he just needed to be trained step by step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were also the four roles reserved for \"Crazy Stone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yao was poached by Lu Kuan from \"Shenjiang Service Guide\"; he was still immature, but Wenjie Culture didn't have many artists yet, so they would grow together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Establish the first-level organizations: Copyright Management Department and Media Operations Department; related work will be temporarily handled by President Lu.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one understood hoarding copyrights better than him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Media Operations Department still needed to recruit more people to be responsible for the company's, artists', and film and television works' full-channel media promotion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Establish the first-level organization, the Film and Television Production Department, which will oversee departments such as film, television, theater, and variety show production.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Signed directors: Ning Hao and President Lu himself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The film and television production department is usually a labor-intensive department, and larger film and television production companies have their own fixed teams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Smaller companies only have a core team and hire directors, cinematographers, and other professionals when there is work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Given Wenjie Culture's current scale, it was naturally operating as an asset-light company, and many departments had not yet been established.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Lu Kuan's own film was still using the filming team from the Youth Film Studio.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The so-called \"nurturing war through war\" and \"training through war\" meant that company development and talent cultivation must also be carried out in practice and actual combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vast majority of employees and artists were very confused, not knowing why they had been chosen by Lu Kuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that didn't stop them from actively aligning themselves with this young director whose debut work had entered the main competition section of the Venice Film Festival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially at yesterday's first dinner, Lu Kuan invited Tian Zhuangzhuang, Zhou Jielun, Feng Yuanzheng, and others who were preparing to go to Venice together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were also Zhang Jizhong, Zhou Xun, Zhang Yadong, Fan Bingbing, Liu Bei, and other entertainment industry figures who came in person to congratulate him, all sending flower baskets and blessings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These things allowed everyone to see a glimpse of their boss's connections in the entertainment industry, which was very helpful for boosting employee confidence and cohesion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the literary and art world ultimately relies on works to speak for themselves; Lu Kuan looked at the budding Wenjie Culture with satisfaction, looking forward to this trip to Venice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1585,"2026-06-20T06:05:17.358Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","9e0525540898c06277de6321c0697a5c9a19d5cf483a098a449ba4b884e9a2d7","the-playboy-of-huayu-how-did-a-celestial-immorta-chapter-104","the-playboy-of-huayu-how-did-a-celestial-immorta-chapter-102",343,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-playboy-of-huayu-how-did-a-celestial-immorta-cover.jpg"]