Become famous another day.

"We just received a message saying that the director of our drama "Silent Stairs" was changed just before filming began, right?"

In a TV interview the next day, the reporter asked Lu Yanhe.

Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "Yes, due to some unexpected circumstances, our original director was unable to continue directing, so we temporarily invited Chen Yu, who was working on another project of our Jump Up Theater, to direct "Silent Stairs."

"Did the pressure of changing directors at short notice affect the filming for you and the crew?"

"Of course there are, but we also unexpectedly discovered a great director because of this." Lu Yanhe smiled brightly, "Just wait and see, Director Chen Yu will make very good works in the future. I am very happy that "Silent Stairs" is his first independent directorial work."

"This also adds one more new director to your list of collaborations with," the reporter said with a smile.

"Ah, yes, it is." Lu Yanhe responded and nodded, "It really is."

"Normally, actors like you usually participate in the industry's top productions, but it seems that you still participate in many film and television projects that we didn't expect. If "Silent Stairs" is a project supported by Jump Up Theater, then why did you choose to participate in the film of Malaysian director Huang Tianlin at this time? Moreover, as far as we know, you are not playing a protagonist?"

The controversy about this matter has never ceased.

Ever since the news broke, there has been a lot of discussion on the Internet.

Many fans left messages expressing their incomprehension of his choice and decision.

Lu Yanhe said: "Because it is a low-budget art film, and the role I play is not the protagonist."

The reporter was stunned, as if he didn't understand what he was saying at all.

"what?"

"I mean, actually, if you're talking about big productions and top projects, I have no shortage of such projects. In terms of movies, I've already shot "Burning", and in terms of TV series, I also have "The 17th Floor" and "Friends". As an actor, I hope to present more multifaceted things to the audience, especially fans who really like to see me explore different types of performances."

Lu Yanhe said frankly: "I hope that I can work with directors from different countries and cultural backgrounds in different types of film and television dramas in the future, whether it is the leading role or the supporting role. As long as it is a role I have never tried before and the script is good enough, even if I am not the most important person in the work, I can use my power to help this work be seen by the whole world. Why not?"

The reporter was stunned and silent for a long time before he said, "You have such a big vision."

Lu Yanhe smiled and waved his hand.

"No, I'm just a greedy actor. I want awards and box office, I want commercial films and art films, I also want the audience's applause and the sense of accomplishment as an actor."
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Airport, arrival hall.

Helan waved to Chen Siqi who came out, walked over and handed her a thermos cup of coffee.

"Thank you for your hard work on the business trip."

Chen Siqi smiled at Helan and asked, "Why are you so happy?"

He Lan said: "Yan He's TV interview was just broadcasted, and some of the things he said in it made me very happy."

"Hmm? What did he say again?"

"It's not important what he says, what's important is that he knows exactly what he wants to do." He Lan helped Chen Siqi take her suitcase and said, "The news that Yan He was going to act in that Malaysian movie before made many of his fans confused. Many people were also very angry and felt that he didn't value his career and took random roles."

Chen Siqi smiled.

"Just listen to what they say. They didn't understand Yan He at first when he accepted many roles, whether it was Three Mountains, Late Spring, or The Mist... What was the result? They never looked at the facts in the past. They just thought that if it wasn't a big director or a big production, it wasn't worthy of Yan He. In this regard, Sister Zi Yan and I are the same. Even if we have doubts about Yan He's film selection, we won't stop him. Facts have long proved that we don't have his vision, so we should be more self-aware."

Helan: "But many actors can't stick to their choices like Yan He did. Did you know something happened yesterday? Didn't Zhang Lan not join the crew after she acted in "The Flowing Light" with Yan Liang? She had been in contact with a crew of a drama about urban women for a while and was about to sign a contract, but when the news came out, her fans launched a large-scale boycott."

"Ah? Why boycott?"

"On the one hand, it's because this drama is about an ensemble cast, not a female lead, and there are three female protagonists. On the other hand, the character she played was not well-designed by fans, because she played a housewife with a husband and a daughter, and later her husband cheated on her, and she even forgave her husband." He Lan said, "So Zhang Lan's fans were very angry and thought that Zhang Lan should not play such a role."

Chen Siqi: "Who will replace Zhang Lan?"

"It was replaced by Zhen Hongyu." He Lan said, "After Zhen Hongyu's fans knew she took on this role, there were some objections, but Zhen Hongyu directly responded to her fans in the comment section."

"What did she reply?"

"She said she knew what she was doing."

Chen Siqi: "Zhen Hongyu actually received quite a lot of attention in The Birth of the Actors, but because she has never been out of fashion, her popularity and fame have always been very high, which seems to make her not benefit much from the show. But she should have never been cut off from acting offers, right? Both she and Zhang Lan chose this drama, which shows that the script and role are attractive and worth playing. These fans haven't even seen the script, but they are making up these things, which is too much."

"There is no other way. The current public opinion environment is too strict in judging the morality of the content and characters. I can understand the boycott by those fans. However, understanding is one thing, but if an actor wants to play a role well, the character itself must not be a perfect person morally. Apart from the fans of idol dramas, how can the audience really like a moral saint?"

Chen Siqi: "That's the truth, but it's useless. Many people won't listen to it."

The two walked out of the airport and came outside.

A hot wind has swept in.

"It's a bit hot." said Chen Siqi.

"Well, the temperature has been a bit high these past two days, but it will drop soon," said Helan.

Two people stood on the side of the road, waiting for the driver to come over.

"Siqi?" A surprised voice sounded.

Chen Siqi and Helan turned their heads to look at the same time.

None of them seemed to have expected to meet an acquaintance here - to be precise, two people who looked like a mother and daughter.

The woman who looked like her mother was wearing an elegant suit, dressed like a rich lady.

The girl who looked like the daughter was also dressed exquisitely like a rich girl, but her look towards Chen Siqi was not very friendly.

Helan didn't know them.

"Aunt Du, Li Lin." Chen Siqi looked at the two of them with a little surprise.

These two people haven't seen each other for several years.

Du Fang, Liu Wei'an's good friend.

Li Lin is also a student at No. 13 Middle School, but has always been at odds with Chen Siqi.

Back then, at Chen Siqi's birthday party, the two of them had ridiculed Chen Siqi in front of everyone, which led to the scene where Lu Yanhe brought Li Zhibai, Yan Liang and others to help Chen Siqi out of the predicament.

"Oh, it's been a long time since we last met. You've changed a lot since you grew up. You're so beautiful and you do such a great job." Du Fang looked at Chen Siqi with genuine admiration in her eyes and wanted to hold her hand without saying anything.

Chen Siqi took a step back without giving her a chance.

"Auntie Du, what can I do for you?"

This step made Helan understand the relationship between them.

Well, the relationship is not very good.

At least Chen Siqi really dislikes the two people in front of her.

"Mom, why are you trying to please her? She's the president of Tiaoqi Group now. How can she still look down on us, her old acquaintances?" Li Lin looked at Chen Siqi with disgust.

Some people around looked over curiously.

Du Fang immediately glared at her daughter.

"How did you talk?"

Helan saw their car coming and smiled slightly. She changed her attitude towards Chen Siqi and became very "secretary". She said respectfully and considerately: "Mr. Chen, our car is here. Time is tight. We have to get in the car."

Chen Siqi nodded and smiled faintly at Du Fang and Li Lin, "Then I'll leave first."

"Siqi, let's go out for afternoon tea when we have time." Du Fang said immediately.

"Mom!" Li Lin pulled her mother's sleeve dissatisfiedly.

Chen Siqi turned around as if she had heard nothing.

Helan had already stepped forward to help Chen Siqi open the back door of the car.

The driver got out to pick up the luggage.

Chen Siqi got into the car leisurely.

Helan closed the car door, took two steps toward the passenger seat, and took a special look at the two of them. Of course, there was no emotion involved, she just showed a secretary's attitude - leaving an impression on the two people her boss knew.

After the car drove away, Du Fang glared at Li Lin.

"Can you understand something?!"

Li Lin said dissatisfiedly: "Does she look good to you if you try to please her so enthusiastically?"

"At least she can help your dad!" Du Fang said angrily, "If your relationship with her hadn't been so strained, and you were friends with her, it wouldn't be so difficult to talk to her now!"

Li Lin angrily asked back, "It's obviously because you have a good relationship with Liu Wei'an that you told me to have less contact with her and not to be friends with her since I was a child. Now you turn around and blame me?!"

Du Fang was speechless for a moment.

Li Lin: "Don't expect Chen Siqi to come to help us. You have looked for Liu Wei'an so many times, but have you seen her look for Chen Siqi once? She knows that Chen Siqi will never forgive her."

"Chen Siqi will never forgive her, that's normal, but we don't have any principled hatred towards her, why won't she forgive us? Doesn't she need someone to help her in our circle in the hatred between her and Liu Wei'an?" Du Fang glared at Li Lin with disgust, "Don't just grow fat without brains! You are already 23 years old, you should understand things."

Li Lin was so angry that she screamed in public.

Everyone around looked over.
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Helan noticed that after Chen Siqi got in the car, he seemed to be in a low mood and didn't speak for a long time.

Come to think of it, it might be related to the two people I just met.

Although Helan didn't know what the situation was between the two of them, she knew that Chen Siqi had a very bad relationship with her family.

She has been working as Chen Siqi's secretary for some time.

Chen Siqi would go back to her grandparents' house from time to time to visit them, but she had never been back to her parents' house.

Of course, Helan also knew why Chen Siqi didn't go back.

In the past, Liu Wei'an actually came to the company to look for Chen Siqi twice.

Chen Siqi didn't even see her.

Later, someone in the company told her that this was Chen Siqi's stepmother. After being with Chen Siqi for a long time, Helan gradually realized that the reason why Chen Siqi was unwilling to mention her family and never went back to see her father must be related to the past.

The two people just now were obviously from the past.
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In fact, Chen Siqi often thinks about one thing: what would her life be like if she had not started the magazine "Jump Up" with Lu Yanhe on a whim after graduating from the college entrance examination?
Sometimes, life really changes drastically due to a choice that no one expected.

There was not even a fierce argument between her and her family, nor did the expected breakup occur. They just separated gradually and tacitly.

Chen Siqi sometimes really feels it is a bit ironic.

It was nothing more than the irony of all the possible quarrels that I had thought of.

In fact, to her father, she is really just a burden.

She left, and he really hadn't thought about coming to see her at all.

When she was a child, she had thought that when she grew up and was able to support herself one day, she would never tolerate Liu Wei'an again. By then, her father would definitely be angry. She thought very clearly that if that time really came, she would force her father to make a choice: would you choose her or me?

As a result, there was no need to go to that step at all.

Human growth means that the things that we thought when we were young that we would do and face when we grow up often do not actually appear in our future life.

Chen Siqi took a deep breath and dispelled the negative emotions that had arisen in her heart from seeing Du Fang and Li Lin.

Okay, that's it.
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Chen Siqi didn't have time to go back to Ziyuan Bridge. She had to go to the company to deal with the backlog of things in the past few days.

The company is in a period of rapid expansion, and there are too many things that require her to make decisions.

After arriving at the company, Chen Siqi worked until eight o'clock in the evening. She didn't even know when it got dark before she finished reading all the plans and reports on her desk and gave her suggestions for how to deal with them.

She turned her neck and it made a crackling sound.

She had to stand up and stretch her limbs in the office.

At this time, Helan knocked on the door and came in.

"Siqi, Yan He is here."

Chen Siqi showed a look of surprise.

Lu Yanhe walked in with two lunch boxes and smiled at her.

"I heard that you only had a box of dumplings in the evening?"

"Isn't a box of dumplings enough?" Chen Siqi asked in surprise.

Lu Yanhe: "It's not nutritious enough. This is the pigeon soup and some cold dishes I packed from the restaurant. It's the one you like."

Chen Siqi was pleasantly surprised. "Aren't you having dinner with Tom White tonight?"

"Well, I came here after I finished eating. This soup was made at the restaurant where we had dinner." Lu Yanhe said, "On the way here, I happened to pass by the cold dish shop you like, so I went to buy one."

Chen Siqi smiled and nodded, "Okay, then are you going back home tonight? Or are you going to sleep here?"

There is a lounge for Chen Siqi here.

Chen Siqi rested here many nights.

Lu Yanhe said, "I don't have work tomorrow morning, so sleep here tonight. I'll have lunch with you tomorrow before going back."

"Okay." Chen Siqi nodded.

"Have you finished your work today?"

"Just finished." Chen Siqi said, "I sat there for five or six hours. I was ready to change clothes and go for a run, but you brought a midnight snack to tempt me again."

"Don't run anymore. Let's go for a walk after dinner." Lu Yanhe said, "Just stretch your muscles."

"Yeah." Chen Siqi nodded.

She suddenly remembered something and said to Helan, "Lanlan, you can go home now. I have finished my work here and have nothing else to do."

He Lan said, "I can't leave work yet, Siqi, please give me the documents you have processed first. Several departments are waiting for your opinion, and time is very urgent."

“Are they still working overtime?”

"The majority of the troops have left, but there are a few jobs tonight that we're anxious to get your opinion on, so we're still waiting." He Lan said, "I'll handle it, you can take a rest first."

Chen Siqi heard this, thought about it, and said: "Then it would be better for me to explain it to them in person."

She said to Lu Yanhe: "Wait for me for ten minutes."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

Lu Yanhe carried two lunch boxes and said, "Then I'll wait for you here? Or where should we eat?"

There is only a small coffee table for meetings in Chen Siqi's office.

Chen Siqi said: "Just wait for me here."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

Helan picked up the documents that Chen Siqi had just processed and went out with Chen Siqi.

Lu Yanhe took out the lunch box, put it on the coffee table, and sat down on the sofa.

When Chen Siqi came back, she found that Lu Yanhe had fallen asleep on the sofa.

Chen Siqi's smile froze and he moved more gently.

She walked over quietly, sat down on the floor in front of the coffee table, and looked closely at Lu Yanhe's sleeping face.

Chen Siqi was already very familiar with this face.

She knows exactly what it feels like to touch every place with her hands.

The two have been together for such a long time, but there haven't been many passionate, desperate moments. It seems different from the kind of love in novels, movies and TV dramas that is so passionate that it seems to burn the whole world.

However, in more subtle aspects, both she and he expressed their love with incredible tolerance and consideration.

Chen Siqi herself couldn't believe it. In the past few years, she had never doubted Lu Yanhe for a moment, wondering if he might have betrayed her.

And she was also very sure that Lu Yanhe's love for her was no less than hers for him.

why?
Is it because of their respective special growth experiences?

Chen Siqi looked at Lu Yanhe's face quietly for a long time.

Until Lu Yanhe suddenly woke up.

He opened his sleepy eyes.

Chen Siqi smiled.

"I fell asleep?" Lu Yanhe also laughed.

Chen Siqi nodded and said, "You fell asleep, are you tired?"

"A little bit, but not that tired actually. I didn't sleep on the way here. Maybe it's because your sofa is too comfortable. It makes me sleepy when I sit on it."

Chen Siqi: "Is this sofa so comfortable? Then I'll ask them to install one in your RV. It's not that big anyway."

Lu Yanhe smiled, "I think it's okay."

He saw the unopened lunch box on the coffee table.

"You haven't eaten yet?"

"I just came in a while ago." Chen Siqi said, "You slept for less than ten minutes, I estimate."

Lu Yanhe opened the lid of the lunch box, and the fragrance instantly filled the air.

Chen Siqi took a breath of satisfaction, "It smells so good."

Lu Yanhe looked at Chen Siqi sitting on the floor and asked, "Won't it be cold sitting on the floor?"

“The floor isn’t cold.”

Lu Yanhe also sat down cross-legged on the floor.

"Have you met Director An Jian?"

"I saw it." Chen Siqi nodded, "He didn't admit that the anonymous letter had anything to do with him."

Lu Yanhe: "Did you confront him directly?"

"No, I just suggested that it might be Xin Pingqing who directed and acted in this incident. He then mentioned himself and asked me if I had suspected him as well." Chen Siqi smiled. "I asked him why Xin Pingqing's father committed suicide. He said that Xin Pingqing's father had always suffered from depression. Later, when Xin Pingqing's father got into trouble, he and Xin Pingqing's family had no contact for a long time. It was only during this filming that someone told him that Xin Pingqing was Xin Siyang's son."

Lu Yanhe showed a look of doubt.

"Why does it sound like you're trying to cover up something?"

"I think so too," Chen Siqi said. "I asked him how he planned to resolve this matter. If this matter was not resolved, he would continue to direct new films in the future, and maybe this person would continue to send anonymous letters. He said he didn't plan to be a director until this matter was resolved."

Lu Yanhe looked surprised.

"what?"

"Unbelievable, isn't it?" Chen Siqi shook her head. "To be honest, I don't quite understand whether An Jian directed and acted in this incident himself. I don't know why he did this, but I also feel that... he will never be a director again? To be honest, the price is too high. I originally thought that he might have done this because of something that made him unable to direct the play "Silent Stairs". "

Lu Yanhe: "Forget it. We can't figure out what's going on for now, so just ignore it. Before this matter is resolved, we just don't need to cooperate with An Jian anymore."

Chen Siqi nodded.

"Ah."

Chen Siqi smiled again: "It can be considered a blessing in disguise to be able to discover Chen Yu. I have already sent him two more scripts. Let's see if we can continue to cooperate in the future."
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Recommend the old book "I Became the Scandal Heroine Overnight" and the new book "The Demon-Catching Sword" (End of this chapter)