Chapter 87: Liu Yifei Shocked

Mei Yanfang smoked.

Starting from the dusty rivers and lakes, and often falling into the sorrowful fate of depression, she naturally smoked.

Seeing Lu Kuan obtained the doctor's consent to light a cigarette for her, and Mei Yanfang let the doctor go out first.

"Pain, it won't kill me."

"Not being able to do what you like is the most fatal."

Mei Yanfang was still wearing the white shirt of a female lawyer, holding a burning cigarette between two fingers, smiling at the three people with gloomy faces.

The star fireworks illuminated her pale complexion in the dim room, and Mei Yanfang in the smoke had a unique temperament that could not be described.

Liu Yifei was stunned, she didn't know how to describe her feelings.

She only felt that she was a modern girl in Hong Kong movies in the 80s in the last second, and in the next second, this cigarette made her walk out of the poster and the screen, vividly appearing in front of everyone.

"I know you love fans, love your own artistic life, but is it too bitter like this."

"It's okay, get ready to work!"

Everyone in the crew looked at Mei Yanfang returning to the set with abnormal surprise.

The makeup artist looked at the director's blue face and didn't know whether to go up and touch up the makeup.

Boss Lu sighed deeply in his heart. Since he couldn't persuade her, he would finish filming quickly.

"Little Li, Little Wang, touch up the makeup, everyone is in place, cheer up!"

"Yes!" "Received!"

Ning Hao and others were so excited that their eyes were red. Mei Yanfang's dedication moved them and made everyone on the scene realize the persistence of this generation of actors.

Seeing Lu Kuan sat in front of the monitor, watching her performance with ease and grace; the short five-minute scene had everyone watching with bated breath.

"Cut! Passed!"

Seeing Lu Kuan stood up and applauded, and there was applause on the scene.

Mei Yanfang waved her hand somewhat embarrassedly, and had no strength to speak anymore, and was supported by Wang Minhui to walk to the room.

Everyone watched her back as she left, and the back of the white shirt was already wet...

"Is your hand okay?"

Seeing Lu Kuan handed a bottle of water to Liu Yifei, who was in a daze by the balcony.

The crew members were dismantling the equipment, Liu Yifei's mother was pulling Wang Minhui to care about Mei Yanfang's body, and only Liu Yifei had been in this dazed expression since Mei Yanfang had an accident.

The little girl shook her head as if she had realized it later, and touched her moist pretty face guiltily.

Seeing Lu Kuan knew that today's incident had given her a great shock.

Especially the last second, she was in close contact with Mei Yanfang who was twitching in pain, and in the next second, she watched her insist on finishing the play like a person who had nothing to do.

Such a female artist who has already achieved success and fame in the Asia-Pacific region, is it necessary to sacrifice so much for her career?

After a long while, Liu Yifei hesitated and told Seeing Lu Kuan the confusion in her heart.

Seeing Lu Kuan's face was also heavy: "What is an actor? This is an actor. She is a true artist."

"You don't understand, because you don't know what you want yet."

"Why do you want to be an actor?"

Liu Yifei was stunned by his words. If it were normal, she would have a thousand answers to tease, to perfunctory, to deal with.

But at the moment when her soul was shocked by Mei Yanfang, she was speechless.

Why do I want to be an actor?

Maybe it's for fame and fortune, maybe it's to enjoy those envious eyes, maybe it's to make Liu Yifei's mother proud, maybe it's for...

She suddenly found that no matter which one it was, she couldn't support herself to sacrifice herself for art like Mei Yanfang just now.

"Let me tell you a story."

Looking at the little girl who was frowning and thinking, Seeing Lu Kuan wove a beautiful lie.

"When Sister Mei was diagnosed, I asked her, if she found out about this disease in the last few months of her life, what would she do?"

"Just like what she just said."

"Pain, it won't kill me. Not being able to do what you like is fatal."

"She said that although she has been looking for love in this life, fortunately there are fans. She has married fans and married the stage."

"She wants to continue doing what she likes at the last moment of her life, she wants to continue singing, continue performing."

"She wants to wear a white wedding dress to hold the last concert for fans, she wants to sing *Song of Sunset* for the last time, and then walk to the backstage step by step along the upward stairs, waving goodbye to everyone."

Liu Yifei was already deeply trapped in the scene described by Seeing Lu Kuan and couldn't extricate herself, staring blankly at his firm side face in the sunset.

This is Seeing Lu Kuan's lie, and it is also the fact of later generations.

In the last few months of her life, Mei Yanfang held eight concerts in the Red Pavilion.

She wore a white wedding dress, sunken cheeks, thin body, and was in so much pain that she had to wear diapers to complete the swan song.

All doctors were waiting for emergency rescue under the stage, worried that she would pass away suddenly on the stage.

Only 45 days later, this singer at the end of the world passed away and left this world.

Seeing Lu Kuan turned his head and looked at Liu Yifei solemnly. Since they met, he had never had such a serious face.

"During this time on the crew, although you stumbled, you finally started to look like a qualified actor."

"Zhuang Zhong, the teacher in *Whiplash*, said that there is no evaluation more harmful than the word 'not bad'."

"Similarly, there is no reason more beautiful than liking and loving."

"I asked you why you want to be an actor, and you can't answer, because you don't know what you really want!"

"If you want to become a performance artist like you said, and become someone like Mei Yanfang, then there can only be one reason for you to be an actor."

"That is you like acting, so you are an actor, that's all."

Liu Yifei's spiritual world was shattered by his few words, and she looked at the back of the young director leaving and couldn't speak...

Seeing Lu Kuan was indeed shocked today.

He thought of himself who had humbly bloomed from the dust for his dreams in his previous life.

What supported him through the difficult years was nothing more than the word love.

Liu Yifei had the childhood experience of her parents' divorce and moving.

After returning to the country, she embarked on the path of acting. The underage girl was at a critical stage of the development and formation of her professional outlook and world outlook.

She indeed did not have extraordinary talent, but the resilience and perseverance she showed since she started morning practice were all seen by Seeing Lu Kuan.

Why did Seeing Lu Kuan put so much effort into her and Fan Bingbing?

In the first fifteen years of the new century, from the perspective of national popularity, commercial value, and fan scale, Liu Yifei and Fan Bingbing were both rare existences.

Liu Yifei goes without saying, her status once surpassed the "85 flowers", even if she semi-retired for more than ten years, the three dramas that started to return from 2022 could detonate the market again.

And Fan Bingbing's income in 2013 was 110 million, surpassing Zhou Jielun for the first time, and until she was hammered down by the iron fist of the people, her annual income was among the best among entertainment actors.

In other words, these two are the entertainment circle truths verified by the market, worthy of Boss Lu's investment.

Fan Bingbing is a self-taught expert. Seeing Lu Kuan only needs to guide her slightly to reshape her life and star path.

And Liu Yifei is much more naive. Returning to today in 2002, no matter if it is useful or not, Seeing Lu Kuan wants to bury a seed of enlightenment deep in her heart.

Want to try to bring another possibility to her acting path.

He wants to guide this still immature bud in this life to bloom more brilliantly in her artistic career.

He wants to re-forge this exquisite porcelain that was criticized for acting skills by later audiences into a handed-down work that is no less than a treasure in his hands!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 88 =====