Lu Hao's face was filled with extreme surprise.

Fu Yuanying smiled a little embarrassedly, "For such a big thing, if we don't discuss some conditions, it feels like a joke, don't you think?"

Lu Hao shook his head and smiled, then put down his wine glass.

"you say."

"Look, for the exclusive partnership agreement for the next three years, I need a small promise from you: to make at least one film of the quality of 'The Dancing Girl of Izu'."

Hearing this, Lu Hao couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Hey! I was so scared! I thought it was some other condition, but it turns out to be this. This is so simple."

As he spoke casually, Lu Hao reached into his pocket, took out a crumpled piece of paper, and handed it to her.

"have a look."

Fu Yuanying was surprised and took it with confusion.

This... is simple?

Smooth out the wrinkled paper, which is covered with words.

It's a book title and a few lines of dialogue.

No Longer Human

——Since I was a child, I have been trying to please the people around me. This is my last courtship of mankind.

——Repeating the same things day after day, following the same routine as yesterday. If you can avoid intense joy, you will naturally not be overwhelmed by great sorrow.

——Cowards are afraid of even happiness. They will get hurt when they touch cotton, and sometimes they will even get hurt by happiness.

——My life is full of shameful things.

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Seeing these words, Fu Yuanying was completely stunned.

These words, like steel needles, pierced deep into her heart.

It made her feel as if she had been stripped of her clothes and all her disguises had been taken off, and all the secret and indecent little thoughts in her heart had been exposed, causing her to feel an inexplicable sense of shame and great panic.

Is...is that so?

It's always been like this since childhood, right?

In that kind of social environment, many people would think this way, right?

Looking at her unpredictable expression, Lu Hao smiled without saying anything.

Mourning is one of the inherent cultural codes in island culture.

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