The whole country celebrates the National Day holiday.
Lu Yanhe still woke up at 5:50 as usual, started reading English, reciting ancient poems, sorting out the knowledge points he had recorded the day before that needed further consolidation, and then focused on studying history.
If there is nothing to do in the morning, Li Zhibai usually does not get up before ten o'clock.
Yan Liang came back from running and asked Lu Yanhe if he planned to stay in the room and read today.
Lu Yanhe said he wanted to go to school.
Yan Liang nodded and said, "I have to start preparing for the exam too."
Lu Yanhe asked, "Are you going to school too?"
Yan Liang showed a hint of embarrassment, shook his head, and said, "The company arranged a tutor for me to prepare for the art exam. He will teach me body shape and other things. They have also arranged cultural courses."
The reason why he was embarrassed was that he knew that the company had not arranged these things for Lu Yanhe, and he was afraid that Lu Yanhe would feel uncomfortable after hearing it.
Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "You are going to take the art exam, and it would be best if the company arranged the courses for you."
It would be a lie to say that I don’t feel uncomfortable.
But Lu Yanhe would not transfer these emotions to Yan Liang.
He also knew that this had nothing to do with favoritism, and he and Zhou Ping'an no longer had "each other".
At 8:20, Lu Yanhe arrived at the gate of the community. While waiting for Li Pengfei, he also sent a message to Jiang Yuqian: "Sister Yuqian, could you please give me the contact information of Director Luo Yuzhong? I have something I want to tell him."
Lu Yanhe didn't know whether Jiang Yuqian would give it to him.
But since both of them are willing to let him play in "The Golden Age", Jiang Yuqian should help him, right?
Lu Yanhe held such hope.
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When Jiang Yuqian woke up, it was already half past ten in the morning.
She got out of bed, her white silk pajamas swaying as she walked, occasionally revealing a pair of straight, white, long legs.
For a while, Jiang Yuqian relied on her legs to gain popularity online. On the one hand, it was due to the company's operational marketing, and on the other hand, it was because her popular pictures and animated pictures touched the hearts of some people. Her long legs made them feel swayed.
She took her cell phone and lay down on the sofa in the living room. When she opened it, there were many unread messages.
One of them was the one sent by Lu Yanhe at 8:20 in the morning.
Jiang Yuqian frowned slightly.
Want director Luo Yuzhong's contact information?
Jiang Yuqian sighed.
Yesterday, Zhou Ping'an presented Luo Yuzhong with an offer that was outrageous. He offered Lu Yanhe an 800,000 yuan salary for his role in "The Golden Era"—an astronomical sum for Lu Yanhe's current status. No production company would agree to it, as he wasn't worth it. Furthermore, Zhou Ping'an also requested a role for Cheng Hai and Yan Liang.
Zhou Ping'an is not crazy. He must know that Luo Yuzhong will not agree to such an offer. It is obvious that he wants to use this to reject Luo Yuzhong.
Jiang Yuqian didn't even ask Lu Yanhe whether he knew about this.
It doesn’t matter whether Lu Yanhe knows about it or not, because the decision-making power of this matter is in Zhou Ping’an’s hands, and nothing Lu Yanhe says will be of any use.
Because of this incident, Jiang Yuqian herself felt embarrassed.
It was she who recommended Lu Yanhe to Director Luo Yuzhong. Now that this kind of thing has happened, Director Luo Yuzhong must be furious.
Jiang Yuqian wanted to just let it go. Even if Lu Yanhe was great and suited to the role, with an uncooperative agent like Zhou Ping'an, there would be too much trouble for the crew in the future. Jiang Yuqian didn't want to take any risks. Even if she was the leading actress, she was still a junior to Luo Yuzhong.
She put down her phone, rummaged through the refrigerator, and took out a bag of oatmeal and a carton of milk.
Make yourself some milk oatmeal at noon.
Brush teeth, wash face, apply facial mask... Thirty minutes had passed by the time she finished cleaning herself and returned to the living room.
Jiang Yuqian picked up the phone again.
I don't know why, but now that I've made the decision, Lu Yanhe's tactful, polite and neither humble nor arrogant appearance keeps appearing in my mind.
Finally, she recalled Lu Yanhe's last expression on the day of the audition. The nostalgia and loss in his eyes inexplicably touched her heart.
never mind.
Jiang Yuqian thought, if she helped him again, it would depend on him how well he could accomplish this task.
She sent a message to director Luo Yuzhong: Director, Lu Yanhe just asked me for your contact information. I think he must have something to say to you. I saw that you admired him very much on the day of his audition, so I gave him your business card.
After sending the message, she pushed Luo Yuzhong's business card to Lu Yanhe.
Lu Yanhe replied after a while: Thank you Sister Yuqian!
Jiang Yuqian thought about it and reminded: Do you know what conditions your agent offered to the film company?
Lu Yanhe: I don’t know, Sister Yuqian, Zhou Pingan never contacted me from beginning to end. I only knew that the director chose me because I heard it from other people in the company.
Lu Yanhe: Did he offer any difficult conditions?
Jiang Yuqian sighed.
really.
She sent the conditions Zhou Ping'an proposed and said: The director must be very angry. You should contact him, explain less and apologize more, and then explain it clearly when he is in a better mood. However, if you can't change Zhou Ping'an's attitude, don't force it.
Lu Yanhe: Okay, thank you Sister Yuqian, I understand.
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Looking at the message sent by Jiang Yuqian, Lu Yanhe's heart sank to the bottom.
Sure enough, Zhou Ping'an had no intention of letting him star in "The Golden Age" at all, and came up with such a mean trick.
Luo Yuzhong took a fancy to Lu Yanhe and chose him to act.
Zhou Ping'an and his team were unable to directly refuse a director of Luo Yuzhong's level, so they came up with this method.
Forcing Luo Yuzhong to give up on his own initiative.
If Jiang Yuqian hadn't told him about this, he wouldn't even know what Zhou Ping'an had done.
It's so disgusting.
Lu Yanhe's eyes flashed.
"Old Lu, what are you thinking about?" Li Pengfei suddenly patted him from behind.
"Ah?" Lu Yanhe came back to his senses.
Li Pengfei said, "You didn't respond when I called you just now."
Lu Yanhe: "I was distracted just now, what happened?"
Li Pengfei said, "I'm asking you, do you want some coffee? I'm ordering some. I'm so sleepy. I've been studying all morning and my head is dizzy."
"I don't need it, drink it yourself."
Li Pengfei took out his mobile phone and ordered takeout for himself.
"It's almost half past eleven. It's almost time for lunch." Li Pengfei's eyes lit up. "I finally understand what it means to study until you're starving. This phrase is so apt."
Lu Yanhe looked at him and smiled speechlessly.
Just then, footsteps were heard in the corridor.
Several people came over.
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The school was on vacation and not many people came to study on their own like them.
Therefore, the sound of footsteps was particularly obvious.
A scene that shocked Lu Yanhe and Li Pengfei appeared.
Li Luzhi walked into the classroom with two men in black suits and a plump woman dressed simply.
Each of them was holding a lunch box.
"Oh, you've been studying for the whole morning. You must be tired, right?" Li Luzhi walked in with a smile on his face and asked.
Lu Yanhe and Li Pengfei both widened their eyes in disbelief, looking at him and the three people behind him somewhat at a loss.
"Dad, why did you bring so many people here?" Even Li Pengfei was a little confused.
Li Luzhi said, "I'm bringing you lunch."
Li Pengfei swallowed hard and said, "Even if it's just to bring me lunch, there doesn't need to be such a big fuss, right?"
Li Luzhi: "You and classmate Lu have studied so hard, so of course you need to eat well to replenish your body. Let me tell you, this is all made specially by the chef that Dad hired."
As soon as he gave a call, two men in black suits who looked like bodyguards behind him quickly put several desks together to form a larger square table.
Afterwards, the middle-aged woman who looked like a nanny opened the food box with nimble hands and feet. Surprisingly, there was not food inside, but a tablecloth and cutlery.
She spread the tablecloth and set the tableware before bringing out the food and setting the table.
They seemed to have received professional training, their movements were done in one go without any pause, and after finishing, they left the classroom very quickly.
Li Luzhi was the first to sit down. He looked at the two young men, who were almost petrified, and said, "Sit down and eat."
Li Pengfei took a deep breath and said, "Dad, luckily Lu Yanhe is the only one in the class today, otherwise I would really lose face at home."
Lu Yanhe knew Li Pengfei. Although he always said that having wealth at home would give him nothing to worry about, he was not someone who liked to show off his wealth in front of his classmates. He was always very low-key, completely different from Chu Saiying who liked to show off and thought she was superior to others.
Lu Yanhe sat down generously and said, "Thank you, uncle."
When Li Pengfei saw Lu Yanhe sitting down, his embarrassed mood caused by his father's flamboyant style eased a little, and he sat down as well.
Li Luzhi was very enthusiastic towards Lu Yanhe and said as soon as he opened his mouth, "I wish my son had become friends with you earlier."
Li Pengfei knew what his father was going to say and immediately interrupted him with a dark face, "Dad, stop it now and don't say anymore."
Lu Yanhe probably guessed what Li Pengfei's father wanted to say.
He was probably too surprised to see that Li Pengfei had changed his attitude towards studying recently and started to work hard, so he attributed all the changes in Li Pengfei to Lu Yanhe.
Li Luzhi said with a smile: "Okay, if you don't want me to say it, I won't say it. Let's eat. This tuna sashimi is your favorite. I ordered it specially. It was caught from the sea this morning. Try it."
Lu Yanhe looked at the neatly arranged plate of sashimi in front of him in shock. What shocked him was Li Luzhi's words just now: "It was just caught from the sea this morning."
Yuming is not a coastal city.
Li Luzhi certainly wouldn't brag about this sashimi. All he could say was that rich people really don't care about money when it comes to eating what they want. Maybe it was caught from the sea and then sent directly to the plane?
Or what?
It was sent all the way to Yuming, then sliced on the spot and packed into the lunch box sent to Class 3, Grade 12, No. 13 Middle School.
Li Pengfei enjoyed the meal very much.
There are eight dishes on the table, and we can’t finish them at all.
Li Luzhi barely moved his chopsticks, just kept picking up food for Li Pengfei and Lu Yanhe.
"Eat more! This black chicken soup has ginseng in it. Remember to drink a bowl of it later to replenish your body. You high school students study from morning till night every day. It's too hard. Even staying up all night is not as hard as you."
Every time Li Luzhi opened his mouth, Lu Yanhe would be shocked.
But the shock was too much, and Lu Yanhe felt a little sad in his heart.
No matter how exaggerated these dishes are, they are all prepared by Li Luzhi for his son.
At this moment, Lu Yanhe missed his parents very much, his parents from his original world.
His family is very ordinary and not as rich as Li Pengfei's family, but his parents will prepare a table full of dishes to make him happy and satisfied.
Lu Yanhe envied Li Pengfei very much.
Because he no longer has a father who loves him so much.
"By the way, Yan He." During the meal, Li Luzhi's address to Lu Yan He had changed from classmate Lu to Yan He. "I saw information online, and you're an idol artist?"
"right."
"So, are you planning to take the art exam?"
"I won't take the art exam, I'll just take the college entrance exam," Lu Yanhe said. "I'll go to the university I can get based on how many points I get on the college entrance exam."
"Aren't you planning to be an entertainer in the future?"
"It depends on the opportunity. If there is a chance, I would definitely like to continue doing it," said Lu Yanhe.
Li Luzhi nodded and said, "I heard you recently opened a live broadcast room. Pengfei follows your live broadcast every night after returning home to read books. This model has given me some new ideas. My company is currently promoting a new social software that originally focused on information sharing among students, but your live broadcast made me realize that we might want to open up a new online study room function."
"Online study room?" Lu Yanhe was a little surprised.
"Yeah," Li Luzhi said, "a few days ago, weren't you leading everyone in memorizing words every night? This is actually quite inconvenient. You're live streaming, but you can't connect to the microphone with everyone. You just recite in Chinese, and the people watching you live have to memorize English on their own. It's very mechanical. But if there is such an online study room with a host, and some auxiliary functions are added, such as people in the study room selecting some words from the vocabulary together and allowing everyone to memorize words together, there should be a huge market for it among students."
Li Pengfei seemed to be hearing about this for the first time, and showed an expression of extreme shock, with the words "Be a human being!" written clearly on his face.
Lu Yanhe laughed and said, "I don't know how many students are willing to use this online study room function, but there are definitely many teachers who would like to use it. Especially during holidays like this, the teachers are eager to install a surveillance camera in our homes to see if we are studying hard."
Li Luzhi laughed.
"It seems like it's feasible." He nodded. "Once this new feature is developed, I'd like you to try it out in your livestream. Of course, it won't be free. I'll pay you a commission based on the market price. What do you think?"
Lu Yanhe looked at Li Luzhi in surprise. He didn't expect to get such an opportunity to make money.
Can a live broadcast room for learning really make money?
What Li Luzhi said helped Lu Yanhe recover a lot from Zhou Ping'an's disgusting behavior.
"Sure, I'm willing," Lu Yanhe said with a smile. "If such a feature were to be released, it would be much more convenient for me and the friends who follow me in the livestream to learn every day, and I could also earn some extra money."
Li Luzhi: "This is also the inspiration from you."
Li Pengfei never thought that his father's visit today would actually bring Lu Yanhe a profitable cooperation.
However, will Zhou Ping'an take over this cooperative promotion work?
Lu Yanhe wasn't sure about Zhou Ping'an's attitude. This promotional collaboration was purely about making money, not the kind of exposure you'd get from appearing on TV shows or filming. Maybe Zhou Ping'an would agree? If not, then there was nothing he could do. After all, it was Zhou Ping'an's decision as to what work to accept and what not to accept.
He suddenly felt that it would be good to have such a termination agreement. If he could maintain the current situation until the end of the college entrance examination next year, just as Qiu Ling said, he would still have many opportunities and he would be able to fly freely from then on.
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After lunch, Li Luzhi took people to pack up the things, put the desks back in place, and left in a hurry.
"Son, I have a dinner party tonight, so I won't come. Aunt Zhang will bring you dinner, so just wait." Li Luzhi said before leaving.
Li Pengfei: "I can deliver dinner, but please don't make such a fuss about it."
"Okay, study hard."
As soon as the others left, Li Pengfei made a face at Lu Yanhe.
"Don't you think my dad is exaggerating?"
"That's great." Lu Yanhe said, "I envy you for having a father like this."
Li Pengfei suddenly remembered that Lu Yanhe's parents died early and he was an orphan.
He cursed himself inwardly for being crazy, complaining about his father in front of Lu Yanhe, not caring whether he was exaggerating or not.
"I'm so sleepy." Li Pengfei covered his round belly. "I feel sleepy after eating. I'll lie on the table and take a nap for a while."
Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "Go to sleep."
He took out his cell phone and reopened the chat window with Jiang Yuqian.
First apply to add Luo Yuzhong as a friend.
——Hello Director Luo, I am Lu Yanhe. As long as you are willing to let me play in "The Golden Age", I will do it no matter what.
Make your attitude clear right from the start.
This was the only message he could send to Luo Yuzhong before he accepted his friend request.
Lu Yanhe didn't know whether Luo Yuzhong would agree to his friend request.
If he agrees, it means that Luo Yuzhong definitely still prefers him to play the role.
If you don't agree, and Luo Yuzhong is still angry, then think of other ways.
Lu Yanhe has made up his mind that this time, he will do at least everything he can and try his best to keep this opportunity.
Ten minutes later, the phone rang.
He immediately picked it up and took a look, and Luo Yuzhong agreed to his friend request!
He let out a long sigh and immediately sent a message to Director Luo Yuzhong: "Director Luo, I'm so sorry. I just heard about the conditions my agent proposed to you. I feel guilty for causing you so much trouble. I'm calling you now. Is it convenient for you? I hope to be able to act in this movie. Please don't take my agent's conditions to heart."
Lu Yanhe had pondered these words for a long time.
How to calm Luo Yuzhong's emotions in the first place, and make his attitude clear to him, that he really wanted to play in "The Golden Age", and at the same time tell him that the unreasonable conditions proposed by Zhou Pingan would not become an obstacle to cooperation.
Two minutes later, Luo Yuzhong called.
Lu Yanhe immediately walked out of the classroom and went to the end of the corridor to answer the call.
"Hello, Director Luo."
"Xiao Lu, I'm very pleased to see you take this approach." Luo Yuzhong sighed, seemingly not taking his anger out on Lu Yanhe. "Yuqian also mentioned to me that your relationship with your agent isn't going well. I think he's probably raising these conditions for ulterior motives. If he really wants to discuss a collaboration, this isn't the way to go."
"Yes, I'm sorry."
"You should just listen to your agent's arrangements on this matter, right?" Luo Yuzhong said.
Lu Yanhe didn't expect Luo Yuzhong to ask this question directly.
He said, "Until the college entrance examination is over next year, I have to follow his arrangements. But after that, my contract with the company will be terminated. Director Luo, I heard from Sister Yuqian that your drama will be filmed in the second half of next year. After the college entrance examination is over, I will be able to resume my status as a free agent and make my own decisions."
This was the only thing he could come up with to convince Luo Yuzhong after thinking about his own situation for a long time.
"Terminate the contract?"
"Yes." Lu Yanhe said, "I have signed a termination agreement with the company. The agreement will take effect after the college entrance examination next year."
Luo Yuzhong was surprised.
"If you're worried, I can give you a copy," Lu Yanhe said. "Director, I've never acted before, and I don't know where to start as an actor. Your appreciation is like fate suddenly opening a door for me. I know I must seize this opportunity, and I promise you that I will overcome all difficulties to act in this play. As long as you are willing, whether it's the salary or other conditions, I will obey your will."
Luo Yuzhong fell silent.
Lu Yanhe thought, did he express it too much?
Will this put too much pressure on Luo Yuzhong?
However, this is not something he can control now.
He has nothing but sincerity.
Luo Yuzhong said: "Xiao Lu, let me think about it carefully, and I will contact you again."
Lu Yanhe was somewhat disappointed that he did not receive a positive answer.
But Luo Yuzhong's next words made him happy.
"Take a photo of your termination agreement and send it to me," Luo Yuzhong said.
He was still persuaded!
Lu Yanhe was surprised and excited. "Okay, I'll post it right away. Thank you, Director!"
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After hanging up the phone, Lu Yanhe looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside the building. He felt as if there was a breeze and bright moon in his heart, and a sense of comfort filled his heart.
Only at this moment did he feel a tingling sensation in the soles of his feet.
When he made this phone call with Luo Yuzhong, he was actually very nervous and uneasy. On the one hand, he was full of hope, but on the other hand, he was worried about being rejected by Luo Yuzhong.
It was rare for Lu Yanhe to let go of his reserve and directly express his earnest attitude towards an opportunity.
I always want to save face and am afraid to admit my persistence and obsession with an opportunity.
But he has nothing now, no golden finger, no system, no background, and no interest relationship that can impress Luo Yuzhong.
The only thing he could do was to take the initiative to fight for an opportunity for himself, just like today.
Maybe he will succeed, maybe he will fail, but if he doesn't fight for it, he thinks that he will regret it every day in the future, wondering why he didn't work harder or be more proactive.
here you go.
He encouraged himself in his heart.
