Chapter 199 He is a bird, flying over a high mountain

Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi went to see a recently released movie, "Breaking Through with the Ball," a comedy directed by Cao Sheng and starring Chen Luofan.

But apart from the beginning being alright, the rest of the movie was a bit awkward and not very enjoyable.

As soon as she came out of the movie theater, Chen Siqi complained, "Look at the movie you chose, I wanted to leave early."

Lu Yanhe: "Why didn't you say so earlier? I wanted to leave halfway through, but I was too embarrassed to mention it because you were watching so intently."

“I’m just worried that I’ll feel uneasy, and that you, the person who selects the films, will feel guilty?” Chen Siqi said.

Lu Yanhe: "I didn't think of others to the point of feeling guilty for choosing the wrong movie when we went to see it together."

Chen Siqi immediately said, "No wonder, you are not careful at all, that's why you chose such an ugly movie."

Lu Yanhe: "When we were initially choosing films, you also thought this one looked the best."

Chen Siqi: "You made the decision, so take responsibility."

Lu Yanhe: "..."

Lu Yanhe's phone rang at that moment.

"Sister Xiaoyin is looking for me, I'll take this call," Lu Yanhe said to Chen Siqi.

Chen Siqi nodded.

"Hey, Sister Xiaoyin."

"Yan He, are you free tonight?" Xu Xiaoyin asked. "We're planning to have dinner together with the guests who came to the event today."

"Sister Xiaoyin, I won't be coming. I'm still with my classmates," Lu Yanhe said.

"Okay, okay, then I'll invite you to dinner alone next time to express my gratitude," Xu Xiaoyin said.

"You don't need to be so polite."

Lu Yanhe hung up the phone.

Chen Siqi asked him what was wrong.

Lu Yanhe gave an explanation.

Chen Siqi said, "You should go. Since you want to have a closer cooperation with Jiangyin Publishing House, getting to know their leaders will be beneficial for your future cooperation, right?"

"It's fine whether I go or not. Sister Ziyan said I don't need to worry about these things, she'll take care of them. I just need to focus on my own things," Lu Yanhe said.

Chen Siqi glanced at him and asked, "Do you trust others that much?"

"Um?"

"It's always better to have everything in your own hands."

Lu Yanhe thought for a moment and nodded, “What you said makes sense, but there will be other opportunities in the future. There’s no rush to get to know them this time. Besides, I think that although it’s better to have many things under your own control, no one can control everything. You always need to have people you trust and rely on them in many ways.”

Chen Siqi put her hands behind her back, looked at him thoughtfully, and said, "I didn't expect you to still have the ability to trust others."

"Why...why not?" Lu Yanhe asked, puzzled.

"Never mind, it's nothing. You're lucky to still have this ability," Chen Siqi said. "But it's a pity I don't."

Lu Yanhe stared blankly at Chen Siqi, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Then you can trust me."

Chen Siqi turned to look at him with a blank expression.

Lu Yanhe suddenly felt embarrassed and turned his head away, not daring to meet Chen Siqi's eyes.

He heard Chen Siqi say, "Okay, I'll give it a try."

-

"I told you long ago, why would a celebrity like Lu Yanhe come?" At the dinner table, a senior executive in charge of marketing at the publishing house, upon hearing the news that Lu Yanhe wouldn't be coming, had a "I knew it" look on his face and said to the others, "These celebrities, if you don't pay them, why would they come to have dinner with you?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Xiaoyin immediately said, "No, he's not that kind of person. Last time we did a live broadcast, there were only a few of us, and he ate with us. Today he made plans with his classmates and it's inconvenient for him to come."

"Sigh, you believe him just because he said he made plans with his classmates?" the executive said. "It's all just an excuse. If he really wanted to come, no reason would matter."

“But… he really did have plans with his classmates.” Xu Mingyue said cautiously when Xu Xiaoyin started to refute her. “At lunchtime today, when I was waiting for a table with my classmates, he generously let us share a table.”

The others at the dinner table looked at the executive, smiled, and said, "Artists are all different. Xiao Lu has always been a good kid. Don't judge him based on past experiences. He's worked with us several times. I've met him a few times. He's a good kid."

“Yes,” Liu Cheng said. “Lu Yanhe came to support us today, but he didn’t ask for any payment.”

Several people chimed in with their own rebuttals.

Liu Jiazhen and Mingyin looked at each other, unsure of how to react in this situation.

They also witnessed once again how easily Lu Yanhe could get involved in unexpected trouble.

-

At 10 p.m. that night, Lu Yanhe's name appeared on the trending search list, although it was only ranked at the very bottom.

Then, an hour later, Lu Yanhe's ranking moved up.

Chen Ziyan messaged him, saying: This documentary was worth making. The Langhua government even paid for you to trend on social media.

#Get to know Langhua with Lu Yanhe#

Lu Yanhe's side didn't do any marketing, nor did Yemai.com. On the contrary, Langhua saw the popularity and invested in publicity, hoping to take advantage of this trend to attract a group of people to Langhua for tourism.

Before going to bed that night, Lu Yanhe saw a comment in his comment section asking: "Has Lu Yanhe recently changed his publicity team? He's trending on social media every few days, so frequently, but he doesn't have any works to show for it. Is this kind of forced promotion really okay?"

Below is a highly-rated reply: If you see Lu Yanhe as an artist, he does have very few works (but not none; you can listen to the song "Remembering"). But if you see him as a normal 19-year-old, there's so much to say about him. I'm not trying to flatter you, my friend. If you could score 657 on the college entrance exam, if your show's viewership could exceed ten million, if you could record a city documentary that could increase the number of searches for that city on travel apps by a hundredfold, you could also be trending.

This reply left Lu Yanhe both amused and exasperated.

He often faces doubts, but rarely is he protected like this. Seeing such words of support for him, Lu Yanhe was somewhat moved.

Then, Lu Yanhe's life suddenly became leisurely again.

After filming wrapped up, and with no other work to do, I had plenty of time to do my own things.

For Lu Yanhe, this personal matter was simply reading books.

His livestreaming time has started to increase again.

He Lan is always present during Lu Yanhe's live streams. Since their last meeting, Lu Yanhe has added He Lan as a friend. However, He Lan has never contacted him; she only likes his posts on WeChat Moments, rarely even leaving comments.

Lu Yanhe had been livestreaming his reading for a few days when someone from Yemai.com suddenly contacted Chen Ziyan.

"Could we have Lu Yanhe come to our Yemai.com to do a live broadcast?"

Chen Ziyan was stunned.

"ah?"

Lu Yanhe's live stream currently maintains a viewership of around 10,000, which isn't a particularly impressive number in the live streaming world. Chen Ziyan never expected that such a low viewership would attract attention.

People on Yemai.com say, "Yan He is very popular on our Yemai.com website; everyone likes him."

"But your Yemai.com didn't do any live streaming, did it?" Chen Ziyan said. "It's not very meaningful."

The people at Yemai.com said, "We can create a separate live streaming interface for him."

Chen Ziyan thought about it and politely declined.

There's really no need for that. Besides, Lu Yanhe has already accumulated a lot of fans on the current live streaming platform. At the same time, the number of viewers is around 10,000, but often the cumulative number of viewers for a single session will exceed 100,000. The number of followers for Lu Yanhe's live stream has also exceeded 100,000, which is a remarkable number.

Sending Lu Yanhe to change positions at this point would be a losing proposition no matter how you look at it.

Lu Yanhe does have an account on Yemai.com.

However, this is also a signal.

Chen Ziyan realized that Lu Yanhe's fans, who were not many from an objective point of view, had a very strong appeal in the eyes of companies in certain fields.

In fact, Chen Ziyan was also vaguely surprised. She saw the shadow of a "popular culture leader" who was popular in the last century in Lu Yanhe.

The stars and artists of that era, in addition to their professional skills, also possessed a leading influence on "popular culture".

People tend to unconsciously imitate and follow the style of whoever they like.

It's not that Lu Yanhe has such abilities now, but his path is completely different from other celebrities, which reminds Chen Ziyan of the artists of that era.

"Ziyan, why are you suddenly spacing out?" Tu Song waved his hand in front of Chen Ziyan.

Chen Ziyan snapped out of her reverie and smiled at Tu Song. "It's nothing. I was just thinking about something. Where were we?"

"Speaking of 'The Golden Era,' there's an OST for me to sing." Tu Song's eyes gleamed with excitement. "Is that true?"

"Hmm." Chen Ziyan remembered and continued, "Besides singing, I also plan to send you abroad for further studies. You have a great voice, so let's explore your potential."

"Mmm." Tu Song nodded immediately.

-

That morning, Lu Yanhe was lying on his bed reading when his phone rang.

It's Teacher Liu Qin.

"Teacher Liu!" Lu Yanhe answered the phone immediately.

"Yan He, your admission notice has arrived," Liu Qin said. "Do you have time to come to the school now?"

“Sure, I’m free!” Lu Yanhe replied immediately.

Of course I'm free!

Lu Yanhe went to school full of anticipation and excitement.

As soon as I arrived at the school gate, wow, there were quite a lot of people there, all of them seemed to have received the news and come to pick up their admission notices.

It seems that many students are not comfortable filling in their home address for mailing, so they filled in their school address instead.

As soon as Lu Yanhe appeared, everyone's eyes turned to him.

Lu Yanhe was used to being watched, but this time was different.

He sensed an incredible envy in the eyes of many people.

This was the first time Lu Yanhe had appeared at school since his college entrance examination scores were released.

As Lu Yanhe walked into the school gate, his gaze followed him all the way in.

Lu Yanhe walked all the way to the classroom, with many people following him in the corridor.

"Whoa whoa whoa—" Li Cui exclaimed in shock, "Lu Yanhe, you've finally shown up!"

His classmates all looked at him.

Lu Yanhe looked at them, smiled, and said, "Don't make it sound like I was living in seclusion before."

Li Cui: "I knew you went to film a movie, but you finally came today. You did so well on the exam, can't you buy each of us a drink?"

"How dare you say that!" Mei Ping rolled her eyes at Li Cui.

Lu Yanhe smiled and said, "It's alright, if everyone wants to drink, I'll treat you all."

"Mr. Lu is so generous!" Li Cui immediately exclaimed with delight.

Mei Ping: "Lu Yanhe, don't be fooled by this guy. Why should you buy him a drink?"

Just as Lu Yanhe was about to speak, Luo Zicheng's voice suddenly rang out behind him.

"Meiping, what are you doing? Lu Yanhe has made money now and wants to treat everyone to drinks, and you're stopping him."

Lu Yanhe turned his head and his gaze fell on the latter.

Luo Zicheng was also looking at him.

He said, "Anyway, they're not short of money at all now, are they?"

Li Cui's smile vanished.

“I asked Lu Yanhe to treat me because he scored 657 on the college entrance exam, not because he’s rich. Are you crazy? What does this have to do with him being rich?” Li Cui retorted directly.

Luo Zicheng pursed his lips, "I just admire Lu Yanhe a little, why are you so aggressive in criticizing me?"

"I can't tell." Li Cui said, her eyes narrowed and her arms crossed over her chest. "I only detect a sour smell."

Mei Ping nodded in agreement, "That's right, it has a sour smell."

Luo Zicheng sneered.

“That’s true. Lu Yanhe is not only a star now, but also a star who can get into Zhenhua High School. His future is bright. If you don’t support him, who else should you support?” He glanced at Li Cui and Mei Ping with disdain.

Lu Yanhe gazed calmly at Luo Zicheng and asked, "Are you envious of me?"

Luo Zicheng's cold smile vanished instantly.

"What do I have to envy about you? I don't want a life like yours without parents."

Lu Yanhe felt a sharp prick in his heart.

Luo Zicheng continued, "So what if I didn't do as well as you on the exam? Don't think you can look down on people just because you're superior."

"Luo Zicheng, are you out of your mind?!" Mei Ping shouted angrily, "If you're mentally ill, you should go see a psychologist!"

Li Cui stood next to Lu Yanhe and said seriously, "You can't invite this person. I thought he would change after the college entrance examination, but he is still so black-hearted and foul-mouthed."

Lu Yanhe looked at Luo Zicheng and smiled faintly.

"Why would I look down on you? You're right, you have your parents' support, so it doesn't matter if you fail the exam. I can't do that; I can only rely on myself, so I have to work hard to get into Zhenhua." Lu Yanhe knew exactly what to say to hurt Luo Zicheng's feelings. Seeing Luo Zicheng's increasingly angry face, he continued, "Where did you get your final exam result? Are your parents happy? Aren't they especially proud to have a son like you?"

Luo Zicheng clenched his fists.

"Lu Yanhe, you've gone too far!"

"You son of a bitch!" Li Pengfei suddenly appeared behind Luo Zicheng, shoving him on the shoulder and making Luo Zicheng stumble. "Say one more word to me, and I'll give you black eyes first, then send you to a top-tier hospital to find the best doctor to treat your injuries. Do you want that?"

Lu Yanhe breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Li Pengfei appear.

Li Pengfei shoved Luo Zicheng aside, muttered "Get lost" under his breath, and looked at Lu Yanhe, "Are you stupid? Why are you arguing with this kind of person for so long? Just beat him up! Oh, right, you're an artist, so it's not appropriate for you to do it. Fine, you'll have to hold back and wait for me. I'll beat him up for you."

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly looked at Luo Zicheng with a fierce gaze.

Luo Zicheng was momentarily intimidated by his gaze, his hair stood on end, and he immediately took two steps back.

Lu Yanhe patted Li Pengfei on the shoulder, "We've all graduated, and we won't see him again anyway, so let it go."

Li Pengfei snorted coldly, "Luckily, he graduated. He was so jealous of you that his eyes were practically black; it was disgusting to look at."

At that moment, Liu Qin arrived.

-

Liu Qin personally delivered the admission notices to each of them.

About a third of the students came to the class today.

When Liu Qin sent out the admission notices, everyone, even though they already knew which school they had been admitted to, still felt excited and expectant, and carefully took out the admission notices.

"Let me see what Zhenhua's admission notice looks like," Li Pengfei said, leaning closer.

As soon as he said that, other classmates gathered around to see.

Lu Yanhe showed it to them generously.

Li Pengfei happily raised his hand and rubbed Lu Yanhe's head.

"Well done, Lao Lu!" Li Pengfei was even happier than Lu Yanhe.

Once you receive your acceptance letter, you can go back.

Lu Yanhe didn't leave immediately. Instead, he waited until Liu Qin's group had all left before going to find Liu Qin and thank her.

Without Liu Qin, it's hard to say whether he could have gotten through his senior year of high school so smoothly, or whether his grades could have improved so easily.

Liu Qin was a very good homeroom teacher, and Lu Yanhe always thought so.

After she finished speaking, Liu Qin nodded with a smile.

"You are a miracle. You created a miracle that is hard for everyone to believe. You must always remember this. No matter what difficulties you encounter in the future, you can create miracles."

Her tone was encouraging as she held Lu Yanhe's hand and spoke earnestly.

"Come back and visit me whenever you have time, so that my students can witness the miracle firsthand," Liu Qin said.

“Okay.” Lu Yanhe nodded. “I will definitely come back to see you often. You have my contact information. If you need me, please contact me.”

"Hmm." Liu Qin patted Lu Yanhe's hand, then suddenly remembered something, "Little Lu, do you know what I admire most about you?"

"ah?"

“What I admire most about you is that no matter what situation you are in, you never care about your surroundings, you only care about where you want to go,” Liu Qin said. “You must stick to this, don’t care what others say about you, and don’t care how the outside world evaluates you, just care about where you want to go and where your goal is.”

Lu Yanhe looked at Liu Qin in surprise, "Teacher Liu?"

"The lack of parental care is an irreparable regret in life, but there is still much more happiness in life that you can discover." A warm smile appeared on Liu Qin's face. "Love is not just one kind, and happiness is not just one kind. Jealous people can only sit at the bottom of the well and laugh at birds for having to endure wind and sun, but in the eyes of the bird, it sees a vast sky, a sky that the frog at the bottom of the well that laughs at it cannot see."

Liu Qin looked at Lu Yanhe tenderly.

"You definitely understand what I'm talking about."

Lu Yanhe's eyes instantly reddened, and his nose felt a little sore.

"Thank you, Teacher Liu, I understand." He nodded with a smile, then quickly said, afraid he would burst into tears in front of Liu Qin, "Then I'll be going now."

"Okay, go ahead."

Lu Yanhe didn't turn back. He opened the door and stepped into a burst of intense sunlight.

(End of this chapter)