Being laughed at for his drinking capacity, Lu Yanhe gave up the idea of being stubborn and just lay down to let people laugh at him.
Yan Liang rambled on for a long time and was finally ready to leave.
"I'm getting ready to go out," he said.
He changed into a formal suit, carried a big schoolbag, and prepared to go out.
Lu Yanhe: "Come on."
"Um."
On the first day of winter vacation, Lu Yanhe did nothing but start learning live streaming.
In the class group, Li Cui said: Lu Yanhe has started reading again. I am really impressed by him now. I always wondered how he could make such rapid progress. Now I find out that it is all due to his hard work, studying for more than ten hours a day.
Someone immediately asked: "How do you know he started reading again? Are you in school?"
Li Cui said with disdain: He has been live streaming for so long, how come you don’t know yet?
That person: Live broadcast room?
Li Cui: Yes, Lu Yanhe opened a live broadcast room before, and he broadcast his studies every day. After our evening self-study was over every day, he went back and continued studying.
That person: Are you really that hardworking?
Li Cui immediately sent him the link to Lu Yanhe’s live broadcast room: You can watch it yourself, I’m still lying on the bed, and others have already started doing the questions.
Mei Ping: So they have improved to rank over 100th in the grade. I’m impressed.
Li Cui: Maybe Lu Yanhe can really get into the top 30 universities in the country in the end.
Mei Ping: Terrible.
Jiang Haitian: Boss.
…
During the last winter vacation, Lu Yanhe's days were boring.
Apart from eating, drinking, defecating and urinating, it's all about studying and sleeping.
He broadcast live for more than 15 hours almost every day, and everyone in the live broadcast room was stunned.
After all, before the winter vacation, Lu Yanhe would only broadcast live for such a long time on a certain weekend at most. Usually, he would stop broadcasting when Yan Liang or Li Zhibai came back.
However, during this winter vacation, Li Zhibai and Yan Liang were away almost every day because they were busy with work and Zhou Pingan gave them a lot of work to do.
Lu Yanhe stayed in the house alone and didn't have to worry about disturbing anyone, so he kept himself in the room to study.
The fans in his live broadcast room were all shocked, but as the days passed, they accepted it and got used to it.
The platform was shocked when they saw the backend data. They noticed that hundreds of users were staying in this live broadcast room and did not come out.
Is the fan effect so strong?
Then I looked again, oh, it was the live broadcast room for learning, okay, not surprising.
Many people use this live broadcast room as a background board for study.
However, this anchor is really good. He can sit at the desk all day long, reading books and doing exercises, and do nothing else.
Regardless of whether he is creating a character or not, this perseverance is real.
It’s just like those who criticize public figures for doing charity to build a persona. Regardless of whether they are building a persona or not, as long as they donate real money and it is not fake or fraudulent donations, it is charity.
The platform has been quietly giving Lu Yanhe some recommendations, slowly attracting traffic.
During the peak period of Lu Yanhe's live broadcast room, the number of simultaneous viewers exceeded 10,000, and under normal circumstances, the number of viewers was close to 3,000.
In fact, for Lu Yanhe, having such a long period of time as the winter vacation gave him a feeling of doing something big from the very beginning.
After a semester, the knowledge structure of the three subjects, liberal arts and comprehensive studies, had been established, making this time a good time to sort it out. In Chinese, math, and English, the focus was on tackling difficult problems and weaknesses. In Chinese, the focus was on the classical Chinese text, math was the final major question, and in English, Lu Yanhe was improving his ability to write the final essay.
Before crossing over, Lu Yanhe's scores in Chinese, math, and English had already reached 120, 140, and 135, respectively. After half a semester of study, he felt that his true scores had reached 120, 145, and 140, respectively. His Chinese score remained unchanged, because after reaching 120, raising it further was a daunting task.
And the score happens to be the least important thing in the college entrance examination - what is important is the ranking you get.
Now the gap between me and Zhenhua and Yuming is still in liberal arts.
Now Lu Yanhe's actual level of liberal arts has reached about 230 points (total score 300 points), but liberal arts, like Chinese and foreign languages, are easy to improve in the early stages, and then it starts to rely on accumulation and foundation.
It is difficult to improve the score linearly, because in the end, it really depends on your literacy.
But literacy is something so mysterious that there is no clear written standard.
This is how Lu Yanhe basically spent every day during this winter vacation.
Reading, live streaming, eating, sleeping, occasionally Li Zhibai or Yan Liang would come back, we would have a meal together, and occasionally play a game or two...
The company no longer had anything to do with him.
Oh, but another producer approached him to buy the copyright of "Memorial" because they wanted to rent it to a singer to perform at the party they were producing.
Lu Yanhe took the authorization agreement he had signed with Song Linxin before as a template, signed one with them, and authorized it out.
Thanks to this era where copyright protection has gradually been put in place, if you travel back ten or twenty years, it was also an era of rampant piracy and no one cared whether you bought copyrights.
Because his rendition of "Memorial" still brings him some meager income on the music platform, as well as two authorizations and the remuneration for the previous two program recordings, Lu Yanhe's pockets are gradually getting fuller. Together with the subsidies issued by the company in the past few months, his savings have finally exceeded 30,000 yuan.
There won’t really be a day when you’re kicked out of your home and have to beg on the streets.
On the night of New Year's Eve, Yan Liang and Li Zhibai returned to their homes.
Lu Yanhe didn't go anywhere.
He was an orphan. Before he was fourteen, his grandmother, the only person who treated him well, passed away. He was then taken to Yuming by his uncle, and he became truly alone from then on.
His uncle didn't call him, and he didn't call back either.
It was as if they had forgotten the existence of a relative like the other.
On this night when lights were on in every house and wanderers from all over the country were returning home, Lu Yanhe sat alone in his room studying without starting a live broadcast.
From time to time, cheers and excited sounds can be heard outside the window. Although there is a smoking ban in the city, it still cannot stop some people from secretly lighting a few cigarettes, which appear briefly in the night sky.
Lu Yanhe heard the sound of fireworks and occasionally looked up.
I can't help but miss my parents, but I dare not think about them, dare not think too much.
He could only shake his head, clear his mind, and continue to concentrate on reading and doing exercises.
It was New Year's Eve, a night no different from any other ordinary night in the past.
Lu Yanhe knew that Li Zhibai and Yan Liang would stay at home for a few days during this period.
He is usually very busy and has no time to go back, especially Yan Liang, whose home is not Yuming's.
Because the eggs were all gone, Lu Yanhe went to the supermarket outside the community to buy eggs on the second day of the Lunar New Year.
A boiled egg every day provides him with nutrition.
At this time, there were almost no people in the supermarket.
There are couplets and red lanterns everywhere, which looks very festive.
Lu Yanhe came out carrying two boxes of eggs and a carton of milk, his breath turning into frost in the cold wind.
There were basically no people on the road.
Many people living here are not from Yuming. At this New Year's holiday, they have already returned to their hometowns with their families, making the place seem half empty.
Suddenly, two "beep" sounds were heard from the side.
Lu Yanhe didn't react at first until the "beep" sound rang again.
He turned around in surprise and saw Qiu Ling's car on the almost empty road.
Somewhat magical.
Lu Yanhe walked over and looked at the woman who had pulled over and lowered the window in surprise.
"Sister Qiu Ling, why are you here? Didn't you go home?"
Qiu Ling: "Stop talking. I was called back last night for work. I worked all night to arrest someone. I just got off work and was about to go back to sleep. How about you? Why didn't you go back?"
Lu Yanhe paused and said, "Prepare for the exam. It's coming up soon."
"Tsk, high school seniors are just different. They work so hard." Qiu Ling's dark circles were big and flashing. "Did you have breakfast? If not, let's go get some noodles together. I'll sleep better after I'm full."
Lu Yanhe, carrying eggs and milk, nodded and said, "Okay."
"Come up."
Qiu Ling drove Lu Yanhe two hundred meters and stopped the car on the side.
I finally found a noodle shop that was open today.
"Sister Qiu Ling, are you always so busy at work?" Lu Yanhe asked.
Qiu Ling: "Busy, but that's secondary. The key is that sometimes things come very urgently and I have to overcome many difficulties on my own. I'm actually doing relatively well. Those police officers who are actually on the front lines are even busier and more exhausted. They're busy like spinning tops, and many of them have occupational diseases."
Lu Yanhe nodded thoughtfully: "Sister Qiu Ling, have you ever thought about changing your job? It's so busy and tiring."
"Why change?" Qiu Ling said, "Although it's busy and tiring, if I hadn't wanted this job before, I wouldn't have chosen it. If I really can't do it anymore, I'll consider switching to a less busy position. Not all police positions are as busy as my current one."
Lu Yanhe still doesn't know what Qiu Ling does specifically, he only knows that she often has to deal with some very serious cases.
"I've been keeping an eye on that matter for you." Qiu Ling suddenly said.
Lu Yanhe didn't react for a moment and didn't understand what Qiu Ling was referring to.
Qiu Ling said, "As for the incident where you were pushed into the river, there was no surveillance at the scene, and no suspicious people were photographed nearby. There was only an anonymous letter you received, but that, too, couldn't be traced. There were no useful clues. Are you sure you were pushed in? Didn't you lose your footing, or was it possibly an illusion?"
Lu Yanhe shook his head. "Sister Qiu Ling, I'm absolutely certain that I was pushed down there. There was a strong force behind me pushing me down there. Although I didn't see that person, they haven't appeared since then."
"It's mainly because we can't find anyone suspicious around you. No one has any motive to persecute you." Qiu Ling sighed. "The person with the most ill will towards you is your agent. He's thinking of terminating your contract."
Lu Yanhe nodded. "Yes, that's what I'm confused about. But, Sister Qiu Ling, I told you before that the person who wanted to kick me out of the company wasn't Zhou Ping'an. He was just following orders. He hinted to me before that the ones who really wanted to kick me out were people from outside, and the higher-ups who ordered him were also on someone else's side. They didn't want to kick me out of the company, but they wanted to kick me out of the entertainment industry so that I couldn't be a star. I have a suspicion myself: is the person who wanted to kick me out of the entertainment industry the same person who attacked me? My past is really simple, and I don't have any interpersonal relationships, but these two things happened to me inexplicably. I don't think it's a coincidence, although I still don't know what secrets I have."
Qiu Ling nodded.
"I will continue to investigate, but in your case, since there are no leads or evidence, no one else will follow up except me to help you keep an eye on it," Qiu Ling said. "You should also understand that this whole matter is based solely on what you described in your report. There are no witnesses or evidence. We have many other cases to deal with and don't have the energy to focus on your case."
Lu Yanhe actually understood the implication of Qiu Ling's words.
The police may even think that the incident of someone pushing him into the river is not true, and even the anonymous letter may not be real and may be forged.
This feeling of not being believed is a bit uncomfortable, but it is probably because he is also a parasite. When he came to this world, his original body had been pushed into the river, and all his memories were inherited, including fear and terror, but they are more or less not as good as his own personal experiences. Looking at these things, he also feels a bit like looking at others.
Lu Yanhe did not completely immerse himself in this angry emotion, and he would never cry out in anger like Ma Jingtao, "How can you not believe me?"
"Yes." Lu Yanhe nodded. "Thank you, Sister Qiu Ling. I'm very grateful that you can take the time to help me keep an eye on this matter."
Of course danger existed, but after that incident, it never appeared around him again. Lu Yanhe also adhered to the concept of "a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall" and never went to remote places alone. Every day he went from school to bus to school, or walked with Li Zhibai and Yan Liang. Except for the time when he encountered Zhou Pingzhi killing and hijacking, which made him panic, there was no other danger.
"But was my parents' death truly an accident?" Lu Yanhe asked. "From what that anonymous letter revealed, it seems there's something else behind their deaths."
"I've also investigated this matter, and it was indeed an accident," Qiu Ling said. "Your father died of lung cancer, and your mother died from the NIU virus that was circulating back then. Both are documented. If there truly was a hidden cause, it would likely have been a human-caused death like a car accident. Lung cancer or the NIU virus are both pathological causes of death, and they can't be fabricated."
Lu Yanhe nodded.
What Qiu Ling said was consistent with the original body's memory, with no difference. It seemed that it was indeed not what he had originally thought.
He originally thought that there must be some hidden reason behind his parents' death. Maybe they were persecuted and the cause of death was disguised.
Pathological deaths such as lung cancer and NIU virus infection do not sound so easy to be caused by humans.
There's nothing else to say.
Lu Yanhe and Qiu Ling ate some noodles together and then left.
Qiu Ling wanted to go back to catch up on her sleep, while Lu Yanhe went back to continue studying.
-
On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Li Zhibai finally ran back.
Lu Yanhe was quite surprised and asked him what happened and why he came back.
Li Zhibai looked unhappy and said, "I'll just be nagged if I stay at home anyway, so I might as well come back early. I'll be much more comfortable here."
“…”
Li Zhibai asked again: "Old Lu, what have you been doing these days?"
"Reading."
"Have you been reading?"
"Yeah, I've been reading."
Li Zhibai looked at Lu Yanhe in disbelief. Besides being unable to believe it, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
"I saw that you didn't broadcast live anymore, so I thought you took a break and rested for a few days."
"There's nothing else to do anyway," said Lu Yanhe.
Li Zhibai: "How about we play some games together today?"
"Okay."
The two of them took over the controllers and played the game for an hour.
Lu Yanhe made little noise while playing the game, but Li Zhibai could still shout “Ahhhhhhhhhhh” from beginning to end by himself.
"I'm telling you, I'm really impressed." Li Zhibai suddenly remembered something and said, "Zhou Ping'an asked me to go filming in March."
"Filming?"
"Yeah." Li Zhibai nodded. "There was a crew, there was a role, someone stood up the crew at the last minute, and then they were going to pass me on. When I looked at the role, oh, it was a cool, rich second-generation guy, a complete idiot. But Zhou Pingan insisted it was perfect for me, saying the character was good and I would be famous for it. I really wanted to scold him."
"Just try it out first. You acted pretty cool in your last audition." Lu Yanhe said with a smile, "Maybe it's a good fit for you."
"Damn, you actually said that?" Li Zhibai frowned instantly when he heard it.
Lu Yanhe said, "Actually, it's great to be able to play a role that's somewhat similar to yourself when you first start acting. Otherwise, how can people like us who haven't received any acting training and don't know how to act act?"
Li Zhibai: "Then doesn't this make me acting like myself? Damn, am I usually that kind of person?"
Upon hearing this, I realized that this was the crux of the problem.
Li Zhibai felt that this character was not very noble, he was rude, showed off his wealth, behaved in an exaggerated manner, and spoke without thinking. He was also a rich second-generation, so it was easy for him to feel that he was "making insinuations".
"Don't think that way. What's the point of playing yourself? It's all just acting," Lu Yanhe said. "Even though Zhou Ping'an is a bad person, he certainly wouldn't let his most popular artist play a role that would ruin their image. If the role was really something that would be criticized, he wouldn't give it to you."
This sentence convinced Li Zhibai.
"..." Li Zhibai was silent for a moment, "Then let me take a look at the script."
Lu Yanhe thought, moreover, if Zhou Pingan has already decided to let you play the role, even if you don't want to, Zhou Pingan will find various ways to make you agree.
-
What Lu Yanhe said to Li Zhibai was sincere.
He felt that Li Zhibai should also try to be an actor.
The entertainment industry in this world is pretty much the same as the one he came from, both are at a similar stage, with film and television dramas being king, the music market sluggish under the impact of the shrinking physical market, and the domestic environment lacking a mature performance stage for artists. On the contrary, music festivals are in full swing, providing a breeding ground for some singers who are not very famous but have great style.
He, Li Zhibai, and Yan Liang all had similar vocal abilities—nothing exceptional, just the ability to sing. Honestly, it's difficult to become a singer with these qualities without luck. Even though Lu Yanhe possesses a seemingly limitless repertoire, capable of churn out a hit song every year for decades, "Memorial" left a profound impression on him: his own rendition of the song sparked a minor sensation, but Song Linxin's cover of it truly catapulted it to social media fame.
Not every popular song is not picky about the singer.
Before being sung by Angela Chang, "A Diao" was only well-known in the folk music circle.
It's not even the difference in singers, the difference in stage and publicity intensity will determine how popular a song will be.
"Never Left" had been on the air for many years before appearing on "I Am a Singer". It was thanks to this variety show that was well-timed and well-placed that it became popular all over the country.
Lu Yanhe's golden finger only opened up some basics - he knew a lot of good works, and these good works had the foundation to explode in the original time and space, but this did not mean that as long as he copied them, he could replicate the miracle.
He had thought so before, but the result of Memorial made him feel that things were not as simple as he thought.
Therefore, people still have to combine their own advantages to do what they want to do.
Coming to such a time and space, he can "create" many songs later. With the right time and conditions, he can also "create" many film and television works. But if he really wants to gain a foothold, he still has to find something that truly belongs to him.
They all have some talent in acting, so they can give this path a try. Whether it will work and how far they can go are all matters of the future. They can take it one step at a time. This is why Lu Yanhe was determined to seize the opportunity to perform in "The Golden Age".
An opportunity is like a key. No one knows whether it is the key to open the door to your final success, so you cannot give up any of them.
-
The winter vacation for high school students is over soon, and the new semester starts soon. A group of people start a new torture with great fanfare.
After arriving at school, on the first day, I took the answer sheet of the last monthly exam of the previous semester, which was also the final exam, to see the results.
The school was relatively merciful and did not announce the results while they were staying at home.
Lu Yanhe ranked 148th in the grade, moving up a little bit again.
Li Pengfei ranked 274th in his grade, which was also a significant improvement.
What made them both happier than this incident was that Su Su came back.
His injury needed some further treatment, after all, the knife had pierced his chest directly.
But he insisted on coming back to teach his students.
I had to sit down and because I couldn’t speak loudly, I got a little bee and wore a headset to give lectures to everyone every day.
Seeing him like this, Yin Xiangyu teased him privately, saying that after all this, Su Su could represent the school to select model workers and touching people.
As a result, when the word got out, many people thought it was indeed possible. If we don’t commend Teacher Su’s spirit, then who should we commend?
To commend that gossipy person?
Therefore, Yin Xiangyu, who was originally going to be nominated for the competition based on seniority this year, was intercepted by his own words.
That’s all for later.
…
The closer the college entrance examination is, the faster time goes by. I feel that time is not enough and there are still many areas that need to be filled.
Lu Yanhe's sleeping time was further compressed.
I used to make sure I slept at least six hours a day, but now I only sleep five hours.
In March, Li Zhibai reported to the crew and started filming the first play in his life. Yan Liang got very outstanding results in the joint examination and started the school examination.
Time flies by with every breath.
Lu Yanhe's strength was no longer carefully hidden. The more than ten hours of study live broadcast every day during the winter vacation allowed him to show more strength in the monthly exam at the end of February.
He scored 115 in Chinese, 125 in Math after giving up the last question of the last three big questions, and 122 in English after slightly reducing the score. Finally, thanks to his hard work, he scored 241 in liberal arts, including 87 in politics, 88 in geography, and 66 in history.
Lu Yanhe's ranking directly jumped into the top 100 in the grade, shocking the entire school.
His worst aspect is history.
However, their class's history ranking improved dramatically, and they ranked third in the grade in the exam here.
Yin Xiangyu saw that the students in Class 3 all had dark faces these days.
He used to be ranked last in the grade, but after changing his history teacher, he has risen to third in the grade.
“…”
This was also a slap in her face.
-
Lu Yanhe made it into the top 100 in his grade for the first time, shocking the entire grade group.
But this time, everyone was only surprised, not confused.
During the winter vacation, Lu Yanhe live-streamed his studies for more than ten hours every day, and many teachers and students in the school knew about it.
Many people are viewers of his live broadcast room.
Liu Qindu said: "Lu Yanhe's remarkable progress is due to his teacher's teaching and his own hard work."
He really tried his best.
The students in Class 3 all know how much effort Lu Yanhe puts into his studies.
Can a person make such great progress in just five or six months?
This was the result of Lu Yanhe controlling his own performance.
"He truly puts every minute into learning, constantly thinking and replenishing his knowledge." Lao Chen told the teacher in his office, "Every night during his livestream, he memorizes ten words with his fans, ten minutes each. But I've seen him memorize ten words in three to five minutes each time, and then move on to other words. If he truly devotes 100% of his attention to a word, it wouldn't take him ten minutes. He's making such rapid progress because he's truly committed to learning well."
Lin Jue said in class, "What should everyone learn from Lu Yanhe? He thoroughly studies every knowledge point, including why each warm and cold current appears, why it appears in this place, and what impact it has on the surrounding area. By thoroughly studying the geographical logic here, you can apply what you have learned to other situations. You no longer need to memorize things by rote. If you are asked about the sea area marked by a certain longitude and latitude, combined with the landform characteristics of the nearby coastal areas, you can even deduce whether it is a warm current or a cold current."
Every piece of knowledge is actually human experience, and behind the experience there are the laws that govern its appearance.
Lu Yanhe understood these rules, and thus he became faster at learning anything.
He devoted almost all his energy to studying.
Even eating is a race against time. Li Pengfei said that every time he eats with him, it feels like someone is snatching the food from him and he has to finish within ten minutes.
Lu Yanhe said, "I really set my sights on Zhenhua and Yuming. It's only two or three months away. I'll give it a try. I won't have another chance later."
In the middle of March, Yan Liang's art exam results came out. He was successfully admitted to the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts and was only waiting for his cultural scores in the college entrance examination.
Because of this result, Yan Liang became a hot topic again after a long time.
After all, it is Beijing Art Institute.
Then, Yan Liang, who was originally scheduled to return to No. 13 Middle School to prepare for the art exam, was also arranged by Zhou Ping'an to have a full set of private teachers to help him prepare for the college entrance examination and tailor a preparation plan to ensure that he would be admitted to the Beijing Academy of Arts.
In the group of three people, only Li Zhibai was left to occasionally make comments.
Sometimes it was that an actor was mentally ill, sometimes it was that the director was inhumane and made him wait for eight hours in vain on the set, sometimes it was that the scene that was about to be performed was too stupid, and so on.
The snow melts and the sky clears, and new buds sprout from old trees.
From thick down jackets and cotton-padded jackets to jackets and windbreakers, and then, slowly, the clothes became thinner and thinner.
Li Pengfei held his face in his hands and asked Lu Yanhe in the crowded cafeteria, "Have I lost weight? Why do I feel like my bones are pricking my hands when I touch my face?"
Lu Yanhe looked at him speechlessly.
"Go ask Xu Zijun."
When Li Pengfei heard the name, he felt like he was facing a formidable enemy. He immediately turned around and looked around, fearing that what Lu Yanhe had just said had been heard by others.
"Keep your voice down! Don't let anyone hear us. I told you, this is a secret between us!"
Lu Yanhe: "...No one suspects you two now."
Li Pengfei suddenly felt a little melancholy.
"Old Lu, I'm a little worried about something now."
"What's up?"
"What if she and I get admitted to different places?" Li Pengfei asked. "Do we have to be in a long-distance relationship for four years?"
"Why are you thinking about this now? Maybe you can go to the same university in the future." Lu Yanhe said, "There's no point in thinking about this now. It's better to find a way to get higher scores. Then you will have more choices later and can stay in the same place with her."
Li Pengfei sighed. "I'm really worried now. What if I do really badly on the test and my dad wants to send me abroad?"
Lu Yanhe: "I don't think your father has that idea. If he wanted to send you abroad, he would have sent you away long ago. He also urged you to study hard every day."
"My grades are too bad. Even if I try my best, I can't get into a first-tier university. I'll be very satisfied if I can get into a good second-tier university." Li Pengfei is very self-aware. "I can now rank in the top 200. I feel like my family's graves are smoking."
"There are still more than two months left. Give it a try. No one knows what will happen until the very last moment," Lu Yanhe said. "Besides, you might even do exceptionally well on the college entrance exam. Anyway, don't overthink it. Do what you can do now. Don't overthink things that are useless now."
Li Pengfei pursed his lips, looked at Lu Yanhe, and said, "You really sound exactly like my brother now."
Lu Yanhe: “…”
