Chapter 444 Everyone is telling him to rest well.

At the Jose Film Festival, the Audience Choice Award is a very special one.

This means that it is the audience's favorite film in the main competition, excluding votes from media and film critics, and is entirely determined by audience votes.

Every year, the Best Film and the Audience Choice Award at the Jose Film Festival are fiercely contested, with each film ultimately achieving greater success.

Their achievements here include not only box office success, but also competition for other major awards, and even rankings by top film magazines.

This year's Best Film at the Jose Film Festival is a Danish film called "Whispering in the Wind," which tells the story of a little girl and her grandfather living in the mountains.

Lu Yanhe hadn't watched it, but the word-of-mouth was indeed excellent. In particular, major media outlets had given it extremely high praise.

However, its shortcomings are also obvious. Some viewers felt that the movie was too boring, as it was basically just everyday life without much plot twist.

Many viewers still want to see a story with a more complete plot and development.

In addition, Chen Bige also won the Best Actress award at the Jose Film Festival for the first time, taking home the Best Actress award at a top international film festival and reaching another peak in her career.

The topic of "Rouge" quickly spread across the internet.

When a film wins an award at a film festival of this caliber, the news is so big it'll be on the national news broadcast.

Lu Yanhe was also excited while watching the live stream.

This marks the third film in which Lu Yanhe has participated to win a major international film festival award.

Lu Yanhe felt genuinely excited and joyful.

When accepting the award, Wang Zhong said very seriously in his acceptance speech: "I originally thought I was here tonight to help Yan He win the Best Screenplay Award."

Lu Yanhe, however, did not feel any regret at all.

He would much rather win the Audience Choice Award than the Best Screenplay Award!

HP immediately announced the award-winning news of "Rouge" on various social media accounts and announced that it would hold special screenings of "Rouge" around the world, thus starting to generate buzz.

As a screenwriter, Lu Yanhe won a major award for his very first play.

What is Lu Yanhe's facial nerve disorder? What's wrong with Lu Yanhe lately?

There's nothing there.

Everyone genuinely believes that Lu Yanhe is a very good person!

As his junior year is about to end, Lu Yanhe has already won his second international award.

Aside from the Best Director award for "Three Mountains," his starring role in "Late Spring" won the Venice Jury Prize, and his screenplay for "Rouge" won the Audience Choice Award at the Jose Film Festival. The significance of these two awards is enough to place him in the same tier as Shang Yongzhou.

Zhenhua University immediately sent a congratulatory message, congratulating Lu Yanhe, a student from the School of Humanities, on winning the Audience Choice Award at the Jose Film Festival for his independently written film "Rouge".

Thus, both films written by students from Zhenhua University have won major awards at top international film festivals.

Yu Ming was very envious.

Why didn't Lu Yanhe come to Yuming in the first place?

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Lu Yanhe received countless congratulatory phone calls.

Led by Huang Tai from Longyan, major companies have been enthusiastically approaching him to commission scripts.

The project "You Are the Apple of My Eye," which hasn't even officially started yet, has once again attracted the attention of many people who want to compete for it.

One company offered a guaranteed minimum of five million and a 5% share of the box office revenue.

Previously, such a condition would have been unthinkable.

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Because of the award won by "Rouge", the actors who were to star in "Love Letter" also came to Lu Yanhe to subtly ask if "Love Letter" would also be submitted to the film festival later.

Lu Yanhe actually felt that the movie "Love Letter" was very similar to "Rouge". Both of them were made in the style of art films to please the audience.

None of them set excessively high viewing thresholds, and they released very intense emotions, even if in a relatively restrained way.

In fact, after the film "Rouge" won an award, Lu Yanhe immediately received emails from several international film festivals, inviting his new film "Love Letter" to participate in their film festivals, including the Venice International Film Festival and the Jose Film Festival.

To be fair, even with two major awards in hand, Lu Yanhe's multiple identities, coupled with the fact that he is not a director—and as directing is an art form—makes him unlikely to be a primary consideration for film festivals, whether as an actor or not.

However, in this situation, Venice and Jose immediately lowered their guard.

Not to mention other film festivals.

In fact, besides these four major film festivals, there are other film festivals in the world, some of which have their own unique characteristics and can discover several films that have a wide influence in the global film industry every year.

Lu Yanhe's fighting spirit at international film festivals has been incredibly strong in recent years.

In the eyes of overseas film festivals, he was like a shooting star that suddenly appeared in front of everyone, shining with a light that no one could ignore.

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However, while Chen Bige and Huang Kairen were frequently photographed by the media after the "Rouge" crew returned home in glory, Lu Yanhe remained holed up on the campus of Zhenhua University and basically never came out.

Many media outlets wanted to interview Lu Yanhe.

In fact, besides the media, Chen Ziyan also politely declined invitations from official departments and organizations to organize seminars and other formal publicity events related to the award.

Wang Zhong, Chen Bige, and Huang Kairen all attended a high-level film seminar, but Lu Yanhe was not present.

His sudden disappearance has finally sparked increasing discussion.

What exactly happened to Lu Yanhe?

Why hasn't he shown up? Why has he been hiding on the Zhenhua campus?

Many people even used the word "hide".

Many people are asking this.

Lu Yanhe felt that not responding would only make these questions grow.

So, Lu Yanhe responded in his comment section: After returning from Jose, I went for some check-ups. The doctor said I was too tired and under too much pressure, and I needed to rest. So, I took a break for a while.

I'm too lazy to make up any other excuses.

As a result, Lu Yanhe's response quickly and forcefully went viral, trending on social media.

Surprisingly, after this response went viral, almost no one questioned him or accused him of playing the victim.

Online, most comments are saying things like, "Lu Yanhe has really been working too hard these past few years," "He really should take a good rest," and "If he doesn't rest, I'll think he's an alien lurking on Earth."

Actually, everyone knows the answer.

How could Lu Yanhe not be tired?

What he has accomplished in these three years is something other actors might never achieve in a lifetime.

Studying at a top university, balancing her work as an artist, filming in her spare time and becoming a workaholic in the entertainment industry, writing her own scripts, doing live streams from time to time, and serving as the editor-in-chief of "Jump Up" magazine... The intensity of this work seems immense, enough to make your heart race.

Lu Yanhe persisted in this way.

Lu Yanhe's popularity with the public was fully demonstrated in this incident.

Everyone is telling him to get some rest.

However, Lu Yanhe was surprised to receive a large amount of tonics.

Just then, Lu Yanhe suddenly received a message from Chen Siqi: "The doctor said you were under too much stress. What happened? When did this happen?"

Lu Yanhe's heart skipped a beat.

Oh no, this is bad.

He had been consciously keeping this matter a secret from Chen Siqi, not wanting her to know or worry about it.

It's impossible to hide it any longer.

Lu Yanhe had no choice but to call her immediately.

"It's nothing serious, just that I need to rest. I didn't think there was any need for you to worry, so I didn't tell you," Lu Yanhe explained as soon as he opened his mouth.

Chen Siqi said, "I don't believe what you're saying now."

Lu Yanhe: "..."

Chen Siqi asked, "Who accompanied you to the doctor? Which doctor did you see? I need their contact information."

Lu Yanhe: "Sister Ziyan went with me. I'm not lying to you, and I'm not just trying to comfort you. Really, I swear."

Chen Siqi: "Okay, I understand."

Chen Siqi added, "I've already bought a plane ticket for three hours from now. I'll arrive at Zhenhua at 8 PM. Come pick me up at the entrance."

Lu Yanhe: "..."

He wanted to say that there was no need to make the trip, that everything was fine.

But he didn't even need to say it; he knew it would be useless.

Chen Siqi won't stop coming just because of what he said.

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Lu Yanhe's response has caused quite a stir and a major upheaval in the entertainment industry.

If this statement hadn't been so sudden, it wouldn't have shocked everyone so much.

After all, Lu Yanhe didn't even attend the film seminar, which everyone understood could only mean that Lu Yanhe's problem was really quite serious.

It's not just a minor issue.

Otherwise, I would have gone anyway.

Actually, it wouldn't matter if Lu Yanhe didn't attend. Wang Zhong and the others knew Lu Yanhe's situation, so after explaining it to the department, they all understood. Not only did they understand, but now Lu Yanhe was like a lucky charm; nobody wanted to see anything happen to him, so they all told him to take good care of himself and get plenty of rest.

After Chen Siqi arrived at Zhenhua, she saw Lu Yanhe's condition with her own eyes and confirmed that he was not putting on a brave face or pretending, and only then did she believe what he said.

She made a special trip to see Chen Ziyan again and talked to her. After learning that Lu Yanhe really had no other problems hiding from her, Chen Siqi glared at Lu Yanhe and scolded him: "If your first reaction to something like this is to hide it from me again, then we should break up!"

Lu Yanhe was completely stunned; he hadn't expected Chen Siqi to react so strongly.

Fortunately, Chen Siqi didn't say anything else besides that.

Lu Yanhe could only repeatedly assure himself that he would not do it again.

Chen Siqi scolded him: "You have so many things to do, and the pressure is so great that you're going to have a nervous breakdown. You don't even know what's going on with you. You don't know what you're doing, acting like an ascetic!"

Lu Yanhe silently endured the scolding.

Chen Siqi added, "You're not to worry about 'Jump Up' anymore. Don't review any more print versions. I'm going to remove you from your position as editor-in-chief."

Chen Siqi spoke with self-righteousness, showing no intention of discussing it with Lu Yanhe.

Of course, Chen Siqi did not have the authority to remove Lu Yanhe from his position as editor-in-chief.

But she didn't hesitate at all.

She confessed to the matter decisively, using an imperative sentence without a doubt.

She doesn't need any authority in front of Lu Yanhe.

Many of Lu Yanhe's tasks were thus divided up and taken away by Chen Siqi and Chen Ziyan.

It has to be said that the amount of work he had to deal with each day suddenly decreased significantly.

Basically, I can now focus solely on my studies and the preparations for "Love Letter".

And so, he took leave until the end of May.

The sunlight turned a honey-golden color, and the leaves cast green shadows in the sunlight.

Li Zhibai has finally finished filming and returned.

The three of them finally sat down together for a meal after a long time.

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Second update, goodnight!

(End of this chapter)