Chapter 197 There is one more me in my life (2)
After the opening ceremony of the event, Lu Yanhe's work was finished and he could leave first.
Xu Xiaoyin and the others were busy taking Liu Jiazhen, Mingyin and others to the autograph booth to prepare for the subsequent autograph session.
In fact, a long line had already started to form at the autograph booth.
Xu Mingyue was still in charge of Lu Yanhe. She came over and asked, "The car is already downstairs. Do we want to go back now?"
Lu Yanhe shook his hand and said, "It's okay, no need. I have an appointment with my classmates later. I will walk back by myself later. You don't have to worry about me."
Xu Mingyue nodded.
"Okay, here's my contact information. If you need a car when you leave later, just contact me." Xu Mingyue handed over a small card with her phone number on it.
Lu Yanhe took a look and waved his hand.
Xu Mingyue thought the other party didn't want it, and felt a little embarrassed.
Lu Yanhe took out his phone and said, "Let's just add each other as friends."
Xu Mingyue was stunned.
She had thought about adding Lu Yanhe as a friend before, but he was a big celebrity and she was just an intern. If she added him as a friend, it would probably cause him a lot of trouble and annoyance.
For this reason, Xu Mingyue came up with the idea of writing her phone number on a small card.
Lu Yanhe asked doubtfully, "Is it inconvenient?"
"Ah, no, no! It's convenient." Xu Mingyue nodded and immediately took out her phone, still a little embarrassed. "I just didn't expect you to be willing to add me as a friend. I thought you guys were reluctant to add strangers on WeChat."
"How can you be a stranger? I've seen you many times." Lu Yanhe said with a smile, "You've been so hard on my side these times."
Xu Mingyue looked at the smile on Lu Yanhe's face, and her heart seemed to be blown by the breeze and flowed by the clear stream.
She suddenly thought of Helan.
No wonder Helan likes Lu Yanhe.
Wait, Helan?!
Where is Helan?
Xu Mingyue's expression suddenly changed and she turned to look around.
Helan also said she would come today, why haven’t I seen her yet?
Lu Yanhe noticed Xu Mingyue suddenly looking around and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Ah, no, a classmate of mine said she would come today too. She is your fan, but I haven't seen her." Xu Mingyue said.
Lu Yanhe said, "Maybe he went to the nearby area to walk around. I'll be leaving now. Bye."
"Yeah, thank you for your hard work." Xu Mingyue smiled and saw Lu Yanhe off.
Lu Yanhe also began to look around, looking for Chen Siqi.
We searched for her everywhere but couldn't find her. Not only her, but even Li Pengfei and the others were gone.
Could they all have left?
He took out his cell phone and sent a message to Chen Siqi: Where are you?
After sending the message, he realized that Li Pengfei had sent him a message before: We are leaving first, bye, I still have to go to Jiangshan’s book signing to queue up for an autographed book.
Lu Yanhe: Did Chen Siqi go with you?
Li Pengfei: No, we broke up with her.
Lu Yanhe breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, the young reporter who had previously found Lin Yu and the others suddenly found Lu Yanhe again.
"Lu Yanhe, can we do a simple interview now? I'm Zhou Shuchun, a reporter from the Art Newspaper."
Lu Yanhe came back to his senses and looked at Zhou Shuchun in surprise.
"Sorry, I'm not doing interviews right now."
Lu Yanhe refused.
He was anxious to find Chen Siqi.
Zhou Shuchun persisted, "There were rumors about you and Jiang Yuqian dating before. Although you later denied it, many people still think you are in a relationship. Do you want to respond to this rumor?"
Lu Yanhe was about to say, "You already know we've denied this, so what else is there to respond to?" But when he saw the feigned smile on Zhou Shuchun's face, he knew that this was a trap. They just wanted to get a response from him. No matter what form the response was, it was still a response and could be used as the headline of the report.
Lu Yanhe: "Please contact my agent. I don't accept private interviews. Thank you."
After he said that, he turned and left.
Zhou Shuchun caught up.
"You're avoiding talking about it. Does that mean you've tacitly agreed to this?"
This sound is too harsh.
Lu Yanhe deeply felt that the so-called truth is one thing, but whether he can do it is another.
Chen Ziyan has said many times that no matter what kind of provocation, one should not be provoked and should not answer a single word.
At that time, Lu Yanhe said that it was no problem and he could do it.
Now, Lu Yanhe felt like he wanted to fight back every minute and every second.
I can only bear it.
At this moment, Chen Siqi's voice rang out.
"Why do you keep pestering Lu Yanhe? Can't you see that he doesn't want to answer your questions?"
Lu Yanhe paused, and Zhou Shuchun immediately stopped as well.
The latter looked at Chen Siqi in surprise.
Chen Siqi looked at him unkindly.
"Who are you?" Zhou Shuchun also looked at Chen Siqi with a bad expression.
"What do you care who I am?" Chen Siqi suddenly pointed her phone at Zhou Shuchun. "You're a reporter, right? I saw Lu Yanhe clearly said he didn't want to be interviewed by you, yet you still followed him aggressively, forcing him to answer you. Is this the right thing to do?"
Zhou Shuchun became furious when he saw Chen Siqi suddenly taking out her cell phone to take a picture of him.
"What are you filming?"
"Take a picture of you." Chen Siqi said, "You can take a picture of Lu Yanhe, so why can't I take a picture of you?"
Zhou Shuchun: "I'm a reporter, not an entertainer!"
"So what? What law says that celebrities can be photographed at will, but you can't?" Chen Siqi's aura was fierce, not a bit of the youthfulness of a recent high school graduate. Her attitude also stunned Zhou Shuchun. "How about I go ask Jiangyin Publishing House right now, have you discussed your desire to interview Lu Yanhe with them in advance?"
Zhou Shuchun was shocked by Chen Siqi's aura.
He was not originally a media invited by Jiangyin Publishing House. His unit was "Art News", which had nothing to do with the publishing industry. He came here because he heard that Lu Yanhe would appear today, and wanted to get Lu Yanhe's first-hand response information about the scandal between him and Jiang Yuqian.
Unexpectedly, Lu Yanhe's classmates were more stubborn than the other, and Lu Yanhe didn't respond. Now a girl like this shows up... Wait.
Zhou Shuchun suddenly remembered where he had seen this girl.
Isn’t this one of Lu Yanhe’s high school classmates?
Zhou Shuchun immediately pointed at her and said, "Why are you so arrogant? You are Lu Yanhe's classmate."
"I'm his classmate, so what? Just because I'm his classmate doesn't mean I can't stop you?" Chen Siqi didn't feel guilty at all, and she didn't back down. Her aura grew stronger as she glared at Zhou Shuchun, "You said I was arrogant, but tell me, how was I arrogant? I was arrogant just because I stopped you? Then wasn't it even more arrogant for forcing Lu Yanhe to accept your interview? How can you interview people like that? You don't even give us a heads-up, you just show up and force us to interview you. Is that what you call an interview?"
Chen Siqi's speech speed became faster and faster, as if shooting at Zhou Shuchun like a machine gun.
Zhou Shuchun was driven away by Chen Siqi.
He probably didn't expect to meet such a girl who squeezed him out at lightning speed.
Lu Yanhe looked at Chen Siqi in amazement.
Although he had known for a long time that Chen Siqi was very good at this, after all, she had helped him get rid of some difficult people before, he was still shocked by her fierce side.
"Are you stupid? If you can't handle this guy, just ask for help. Why are you just hiding like a quail?" Chen Siqi turned around and complained about Lu Yanhe.
Lu Yanhe: "...I didn't expect him to follow me so persistently."
Chen Siqi asked: "What are we going to do now?"
Lu Yanhe said, "Let's go to the book fair. It's rare to see so many publishing houses here today. We can see a lot of books at once."
"Okay." Chen Siqi nodded.
"Or do you have somewhere else you want to go?" Lu Yanhe asked.
"I don't have any." Chen Siqi immediately shook her head. "Since we're already here, it's okay to just visit the book fair."
Lu Yanhe didn't know whether Chen Siqi was interested in the book fair. As the two of them walked along, he looked at Chen Siqi frequently, wanting to know her true thoughts.
However, he couldn't see any thoughts or emotions from Chen Siqi's face.
“Have you ever been to a book fair before?”
"No." Chen Siqi shook her head directly. "I'm different from you. I'm not very interested in fictional stories like novels."
"Will you be bored walking around here?"
"Fortunately, I didn't feel bored. It was my first time seeing what a book fair looked like. It was much richer than I imagined. I originally thought it was just a large bookstall," said Chen Siqi.
When Lu Yanhe heard Chen Siqi say this, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
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After Liu Jiazhen and Mingyin started signing autographs, Xu Xiaoyin breathed a sigh of relief.
She handed the scene over to other colleagues, took out her cell phone and checked the comments online.
The live event just now was broadcast live.
Xu Xiaoyin had a hunch that Lu Yanhe’s sharing just now would be liked by many people.
Because his sharing was sincere, without any pretense, and all of his real words.
However, after logging in, it seems that this shared speech did not receive the expected popularity.
Only a few thousand people watched it, and most of the comments were positive. Some were surprised that Lu Yanhe could say such words, while others were surprised that Lu Yanhe actually loved reading. There were all kinds of comments, but there were only a few dozen in total.
Xu Xiaoyin didn't understand why so few people were watching.
Was it that their promotion was lame? Did few people know about the event? Or was it that the event itself was unattractive?
Xu Xiaoyin turned off her phone in disappointment, and looked up to see Xu Mingyue.
"Mingyue, has Lu Yanhe left?"
"No, he said he had made an appointment with his classmates and told me not to bother with him anymore," said Xu Mingyue.
Xu Xiaoyin: "What do you think of Lu Yanhe's speech today?"
Xu Mingyue hesitated for a moment and said, "He hardly used the manuscripts I wrote for him. He prepared them all on his own."
Xu Xiaoyin nodded. "You'll just have to get used to it. While many guests will use the scripts we provide, some will choose to speak their mind. We invited Lu Yanhe to come because we wanted to leverage his influence to support our event. I'm surprised he's willing to share his true feelings on such an occasion, but I also admire him."
"Yeah, me too. My roommate is a fan of Lu Yanhe. I used to never understand why people would chase stars. I also like looking at those good-looking stars, but I couldn't understand why I had to spend more time chasing them and treating them as idols. After getting to know Lu Yanhe, I gradually understood. He is younger than me, but his words and actions have taught me a lot. He only graduated from high school, but he is more experienced in socializing than me who just started my internship."
Xu Xiaoyin looked at Xu Mingyue gently and said, "Don't underestimate yourself. Lu Yanhe debuted as a star at the age of fifteen. Although he is younger than you, he entered adult society several years earlier than you. Of course, he is more experienced than you. This can be cultivated. You have been busy running around for this event and provided us with a lot of help. Thank you for your hard work."
Xu Mingyue quickly shook her head and said, "I want to thank Sister Xiaoyin for providing me with so many opportunities and for her tireless guidance."
Xu Xiaoyin helped her revise the manuscript she wrote for Lu Yanhe no less than three times.
"We're having a dinner together at the publishing house later this evening. You should come too," Xu Xiaoyin said to Xu Mingyue. "Although the president won't be coming, several other leaders from the publishing house will be here. This is a chance for them to get to know you."
If Xu Mingyue hopes to work at Jiangyin Publishing House after graduation, it would certainly be a very valuable opportunity for the publishing house's senior management to get to know her in advance.
Xu Mingyue immediately understood Xu Xiaoyin's intention.
Her eyes lit up with excitement, and she nodded and said yes.
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"There are quite a lot of people coming here today. I thought that in this day and age, there are almost no people who read physical books." Chen Siqi looked at the bustling crowd around and said to Lu Yanhe.
Lu Yanhe has put on a mask.
He said: "There are still many people who like to hold a paper book in their hands and read. Many people in my live broadcast room said that they have developed the reading habit of reading paper books since childhood. However, with the increasing development of e-reading, children nowadays are accustomed to e-reading. Maybe one day physical books will really be completely replaced by e-reading. In fact, whether it is physical books or e-reading, they are just a form. The form will be updated, but people's demand for books, stories, and words will not disappear."
Chen Siqi glanced at him thoughtfully and said, "Every time I hear you say this, I'm surprised."
"Um?"
"I don't look like an entertainer," Chen Siqi said. "If you talk to me about film and television dramas, music, or stage performances, I feel like I can get used to a lot of things."
Lu Yanhe was silent.
"Maybe I'm one of those kids who grew up reading physical books, so I'm a little reluctant to let go." Lu Yanhe was actually talking about the time before he traveled through time. "We didn't have cell phones or internet, so I would read all kinds of magazines with my classmates. If a classmate bought a novel, everyone would borrow it and read it, but we had to be careful not to let the teacher find out and confiscate it. I love reading novels. For a long time, reading novels was my only spiritual entertainment."
