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"Some people in Beijing and Taiwan know about your relationship with Chen Pinhe, but Jiang Lan doesn't know."

Chen Ziyan said to Lu Yanhe, "Letting Chen Pinhe star in the spin-off series of "The Seventeenth Floor" is actually an effort for Beijing and Taiwan to continue the glory of this series. After all, you and Chen Bige have clearly stated that you will no longer participate in this series after filming the third season."

Lu Yanhe: "The most disgusting thing is that I still can't tell Jiang Lan that no, Chen Pinhe can't play this role. I have to have a reason to do this. In fact, I don't even have a reason. I can't tell her."

Chen Ziyan nodded and said, "But I don't think this is a big deal. The cooperation between Jingtai and Chen Pinhe is not something we can interfere with."

"It's just disgusting. It would be fine if they were collaborating on other projects, but the problem is that they are collaborating on a spin-off of The Seventeenth Floor."

"Because the only thing that Beijing and Taiwan can show off now is the series "The Seventeenth Floor". Although they still have the copyright of "Friends", the problem is that the two seasons they developed themselves have a bad reputation. No one believes that they can develop the series of "Friends", so they have no choice but to make a move on "The Seventeenth Floor." Chen Ziyan said, "In addition, several key figures in Beijing and Taiwan's "Friends" have left, but "The Seventeenth Floor" is still there."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"So are we just going to watch Chen Pinhe perform?"

“To be honest, if he wants to act in the spin-off series of The 17th Floor, then he should do it.” Chen Ziyan said, “No one knows how this spin-off series will be developed. Even if it can reach the level of The 17th Floor, so what?”

Lu Yanhe: “That’s what I said.”

"So, unless we want more people to know about your relationship with Chen Pinhe, for projects like the Seventeenth Floor spin-off, unless we block him and snatch the project like we did with Doomsday, we can't just tell people that we hope they don't work with Chen Pinhe." Chen Ziyan shook her head. "Even in China, if we tell people this, they might not buy it. Chen Pinhe's popularity, status, and even appeal in China are all top-notch."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"Yes."

He had to admit this.

Chen Ziyan asked: "So, what are you going to do?"

"I—" Lu Yanhe hesitated for a moment, "I don't know. It feels like nothing I do is appropriate."

"Yes, I think so too." Chen Ziyan nodded, "I don't think a project of this level is worth our effort yet."

Lu Yanhe said: "That's it, just pretend you know nothing."

"Oh, no, you can't pretend you know nothing." Chen Ziyan said, "Don't forget what rubbish Beijing and Taiwan have done. You have made it clear that you don't plan to cooperate with Beijing and Taiwan in the future. Who knows how they will play their cards? It's not impossible that they will step on you to promote Chen Pinhe. We have to negotiate the performance agreement for the third season with Beijing and Taiwan. There are a lot of things to do here."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"There's one more thing." Chen Ziyan smiled slightly, "I don't intend to let go of a play in "Seventeenth Floor" just like that."

"What do you mean?" Lu Yanhe asked.

Chen Ziyan said: "A drama starring Chen Pinhe is clearly an S+ level drama. If possible, I would like to send a few actors in."

"ah?"

"How much money have you made for Beijing and Taiwan with your talent and strength? Why can't we use their projects to promote a few actors for us?" Chen Ziyan said, "You are so generous and willing to act in the third season, so they should also show some appreciation. Originally, they announced the spin-off series later, and waited until you acted in the third season. It was a done deal, and there was nothing we could exchange for what we wanted to do. But they were impatient to announce the project at this time, not letting me get a piece of the pie. This is not my style."

Lu Yanhe frowned and said, "But, Sister Zi Yan, isn't this a collaboration with Jingtai again?"

"Yan He, Beijing and Taiwan are first-tier TV stations. We have so many artists in Shihuo, it is impossible for all of them not to cooperate with Beijing and Taiwan." Chen Ziyan said, "Don't be afraid of cooperation, but you can't suffer losses. You don't cooperate with them because they have cheated you before, but many of us are new and not famous yet. We need the resources of Beijing and Taiwan. At this time, there are too many people and too little meat. I can't let them all not cooperate with Beijing and Taiwan."

Lu Yanhe understood what Chen Ziyan meant.

Although he felt a little uncomfortable, he also understood that what Chen Ziyan said was right.

Reasonable.

Chen Ziyan: "Also, think about it, even if you don't cooperate with Beijing and Taiwan in the future, how much money did you make for them in the past? Why did they take advantage of us? We didn't suffer any loss in the future. Another thing, think about it, in the spin-off series of "The Seventeenth Floor", Chen Pinhe is the leading actor, but how did Li Yuefeng do the marketing at the beginning? After "The Seventeenth Floor" was broadcast, you were obviously the male lead, but when it came to Li Yuefeng, it became a dual male lead. In the end, because of the relationship with Beijing and Taiwan, it was him who was nominated for the best actor, not you. If it weren't for your thick blood, in the drama "The Seventeenth Floor", Li Yuefeng really stole the tower successfully and became the male actor with the biggest bonus in this drama. What they did to you, we can do the same to Chen Pinhe."

Lu Yanhe suddenly understood and his eyes lit up.

"Is this still possible?"

"Yes." Chen Ziyan nodded. "So, don't be afraid of cooperation or not. Even if we cooperate, it's still unclear who will get the biggest bonus. Chen Pinhe is already in the top position. Only others are taking advantage of him, not him taking advantage of others. Anyway, no matter what, he is the disgusting one."

Lu Yanhe suddenly became alert.

“This is fine.”

-

The performance of the second season of "The Seventeenth Floor" has been on the rise since its premiere.

Lu Yanhe did not do too much marketing promotion for himself because there was really no need.

Li Yuefeng bought all kinds of press releases like crazy.

However, compared with the first season, his press releases this time did not overtly or covertly criticize Lu Yanhe.

Li Yuefeng now has a good relationship with Lu Yanhe, and the two are also friends. During the promotion of the second season of "Seventeenth Floor", Li Yuefeng mentioned many times that he has a good relationship with Lu Yanhe.

In the meantime, Lu Yanhe posted a Weibo saying: Because I am preparing for the second season of "Friends", I don't have time to participate in the promotion of the second season of "The Seventeenth Floor", but it doesn't matter, as long as you have a friend who is willing to mention you wherever they go, you will not miss any promotion.

Below is a nine-grid picture, each of which is a screenshot of Li Yuefeng mentioning Lu Yanhe in an interview.

Lu Yanhe posted this Weibo because he saw someone diss Li Yuefeng, saying that Lu Yanhe had never publicly talked about his relationship with Li Yuefeng, but Li Yuefeng had been showing off his good relationship with Lu Yanhe everywhere.

Lu Yanhe felt that he and Li Yuefeng had a very good relationship now, so it was only right for him to step forward and maintain their friendship.

Not to mention, now during the promotion period of the drama, as the leading actor of the second season of "The Seventeenth Floor", it is only natural for him to create some topics to promote "The Seventeenth Floor".

As expected, his Weibo post became a hot topic.

However, at this time, a media outlet got the news from somewhere that the original male lead for the TV version of "Rouge" was Li Yuefeng, but because Lu Yanhe was not satisfied, he was finally replaced by a little-known Yang Shiyi.

At this moment, the "friendship" between the two of them suddenly seemed very fake.

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"We didn't release this news, and we don't know who released it."

Li Yuefeng's agent Wu Bai told Chen Ziyan on the phone.

"Sister Zi Yan, you should know that if this news is released, it will not be good for us, Li Yuefeng. We are not the ones hyping this up."

Chen Ziyan: "I know, we don't think you are trying to hype this up. I called you to discuss how to respond to this matter."

Wu Bai asked: "Do you have any ideas?"

Chen Ziyan: "This is a fact, and it's hard to deny it. But if we really deny it, it will not be good for Yuefeng. Although we all know that roles are suitable or not, and it doesn't mean that an actor with high popularity and good acting skills will definitely get a certain role, but others will not understand it that way. Once we admit that the show originally wanted to find Yuefeng, but finally changed to Yang Shiyi, a newcomer, the media will start to write that Li Yuefeng is not as good as a newcomer, and make all kinds of smear attacks."

"Yes." Wu Bai sighed, "This is the media environment now, and there is nothing we can do."

Chen Ziyan said: "I was thinking, why don't we both communicate and say that we did contact this project before, but because the schedule was not suitable, we did not discuss it further. This would be better for both parties."

"Okay." Wu Bai said.

The most versatile reason is that the schedule is not suitable.

However, it is also the reason that least hurts either party.

After the two reached an agreement, Wu Bai suddenly groaned and said, "Sister Zi Yan, wait, things have changed."

"ah?"

"Yan Liang just posted on Weibo."

"Ah? What did he post?"

"He said that Lu Yanhe also wanted to play roles in many dramas, but because the roles were not suitable, he was not chosen in the end. Does that mean he and Lu Yanhe can no longer be friends?" Wu Bai said in an incredible tone.

He didn't seem to understand why Yan Liang would post such a Weibo.

Chen Ziyan, who was already familiar with these people's tricks, felt a pang in her heart.

"Wait, maybe we don't have to respond."

-

Just as Chen Ziyan expected, not long after Yan Liang posted this microblog, Li Zhibai also posted a microblog: What should I do? He didn't ask me to act in Rouge and Friends, so is our friendship just a fake one?

What Lu Yanhe didn't expect was that Jiang Yuqian also came to join in the fun: Although I have acted in "Squid Game" and "Telephone", and will soon act in "Doomsday" and "Red Eye", "Rouge", "Love Letter" and "Wulin Waijia" did not ask me to act, so Lu Yanhe and I must be just a formal friendship.

As a result, after these few people started to make fun of it, many people who had worked with Lu Yanhe started to make fun of it.

Huang Kairen said: They didn’t ask me to act in “Doomsday” because it was too plastic.

Zeng Qiao reposted Huang Kairen’s Weibo: At least you still acted in "Wulin Waijiao", what about me?

Jia Long reposted Zeng Qiao’s Weibo: At least you acted in "River of Silence" with him. He never acted with me. He just gave me the script of "Lost on Journey". It's so plastic.

Kong Fan, who filmed "Late Spring" with Lu Yanhe @Lu Yanhe, you found Yan Lingyu in "Legend of Sword and Fairy", and Wang Jing in "Telephone" and "Squid Game". Tell me, why did you never find me and Qingqing? Is our friendship too plastic?

…

More than a dozen actors participated in the "crusade" against Lu Yanhe.

For a while, the hot search list was full of entries related to Lu Yanhe.

Li Yuefeng:? ? I wanted to take this opportunity to show off my pity to Lao Lu and ask him to tailor a script for me, but why are you guys here to join in the fun?

A public opinion crisis about the fake friendship between Lu Yanhe and his co-actors died down just like that without any hesitation.

-

"Have you seen how popular Lu Yanhe is in the entertainment industry?"

Zhang Yuezhen took a deep breath and shook his head. "For such a small matter, so many people took the initiative to stand up and speak for him. The general smear campaign will have no effect on him at all."

"If you think about it, you can understand how it will work," Chen Pinhe said. "He is working on so many projects now, and so many people are making a living from him."

Zhang Yuezhen said, "I told you at the beginning that we should set up our own company and gather all your people together. After all, the power of one person is limited. Even if you have won six Best Actor awards, you are just an actor. No matter how high your status in the industry is, if it is only you, others will at most be polite to you outside, but they will definitely not stand by you when something really happens."

Chen Pinhe: "Did I not want to start a company in the first place?"

Zhang Yuezhen: "Didn't you refuse to trust me and work with me on this company?"

Chen Pinhe was silent.

Zhang Yuezhen: "You should know now who is the one who treats you well, right? Without your own power, even a young man like Lu Yanhe dares to challenge you."

Chen Pinhe: "So what do you want to do next?"

"We'll do it step by step," Zhang Yuezhen said. "First, make a comeback in China. After the news that you'll be starring in the spin-off of "The Seventeenth Floor" was announced, it immediately attracted the attention of the industry, and the projects and scripts that came to you increased several times. Before, everyone thought that you didn't want to act much. After all, our production has been very low in the past few years. Generally, if we want to find you to act, we have to fight for a long time. Now we want to send a signal to the outside world that you will make a comeback."

“I never quit at all.”

"No matter what you think, in everyone's mind, you have rarely appeared in the past few years. This is an indisputable fact. The only work you have done is "White Pearl." Zhang Yuezhen said, "Now, you are going to make a full comeback."

Chen Pinhe looked at Zhang Yuezhen in silence.

Zhang Yuezhen added, "In addition, I plan to start a company and sign some actors. You should be able to see from "Doomsday" that it is useless to fight alone. No matter how many dramas you take, you can only act in a few. You have to have different cards in your hand. In this way, you will have more ways to play with different platforms and production companies. You can't always rely on your status in the film industry to get the other party to agree to our requests."

Chen Pinhe said, "You have already thought about closing this company, right?"

"Yes, you actually knew it a long time ago." Zhang Yuezhen nodded, "I said, I hope your career will be better."

"But I don't want to end up having to take them with me wherever I act."

"Honey, look at all the projects that Lu Yanhe has been involved in. Which one of them hasn't involved people he's familiar with?" Zhang Yuezhen said. "You're an artist. You want to protect your reputation and don't want others to think you're worldly and money-minded. I understand all of this, but the reality is that unless you accept that more and more people can ride on your head and that the projects you're involved in are snatched away by others, otherwise, you must have greater power and voice to protect these things."

Chen Pinhe looked at Zhang Yuezhen and didn't speak for a long time.

Zhang Yuezhen: "Believe me, this company will definitely do more good than harm to your career. We are husband and wife. No matter what others do, you are definitely the most important in my heart."

Chen Pinhe: "By then, there will definitely be some projects that I will have to act in because of the development of this company, right?"

"Don't you think Lu Yanhe doesn't have it?" Zhang Yuezhen said, "Husband, there is no way, unless you tell me now, okay, you don't compete with these people, it doesn't matter, you have already won so many Best Actor awards, even if you retire from now on, and never act again in this life, you are still a Best Actor in film history, and no one in your generation can achieve more than you. But if you can't retire now and don't want to give up all this, you want to compete, then I can help you compete, but we can't compete in the wind and drink the dew. We are not fools, who would be willing to suffer because you are Chen Pinhe? Who would be willing to pay for you without expecting anything in return just because they like your plays?"

Zhang Yuezhen held Chen Pinhe's hand.

"As long as you are willing, you can strive to win the Best Actor award at the four major international film festivals, the Best Actor Oscar, the Best Actor Emmy Award or the Best Actor Golden Globe Award in the future." Zhang Yue looked at Chen Pinhe sincerely, "The premise is that you are willing to believe in me."

-

Here, Chen Ziyan was also talking to Lu Yanhe about Chen Pinhe and Zhang Yuezhen.

"Zhang Yuezhen's family has some background." Chen Ziyan and Lu Yanhe shrugged their shoulders. "Not to mention, she was able to snatch Chen Pinhe from so many people at the beginning, which required some skill."

Lu Yanhe asked: "So, what you mean is that when we fight Chen Pinhe later, Zhang Yue will be a very difficult person to deal with?"

"Yes." Chen Ziyan nodded. "Comparatively, Chen Pinhe is actually easier to deal with. He is just a bodhisattva with a golden body." (End of this chapter)