Chapter 216 Resounding
On August 5th, it was officially announced that "Jump Up" would be published as a physical book by Jiangyin Publishing House.
The novel, which had already garnered attention, attracted even more interest after the announcement of its physical publication.
Of course, this event did not raise as many questions as when Yemai.com first announced it. Only a few people made sarcastic remarks about how even celebrity books have publishing houses to produce physical copies.
For the general public, this is no big deal. The physical publication is simply the release of the book "Jump Up" in physical form. In most people's minds, this is a perfectly normal thing, and it would be strange if it didn't happen.
Chen Siqi and Xu Mingyue met at Jiangyin Publishing House almost every day to hold meetings, review manuscripts, and discuss specific issues such as editing and layout of the book.
Lu Yanhe was not involved much.
Because he is about to participate in the Beijing-Taiwan gala, he has to attend the rehearsal tonight and the official start will be tomorrow night. It will be broadcast live, and there will be no way to make up for any mistakes. Lu Yanhe is going to sing someone else's song this time, and he is under a lot of pressure.
He set off for the rehearsal that evening. Since Chen Ziyan hadn't found him a suitable assistant yet, she personally brought a driver to take him there.
This surprised Lu Yanhe, and even made him feel embarrassed.
"Sister Ziyan, I can go by myself."
"Tonight won't do. We need to make an appearance for you. How many artists will be there tonight? If you go alone, people will think you're not well-liked by the company."
"Didn't we say before that I should run on my own before I really became famous, and it would be fine if I didn't have an assistant?"
“But I can’t let you wander over there alone and make a fool of yourself.” Chen Ziyan didn’t say that she was still worried about Lu Yanhe going to Beijing and Taiwan alone. The attitude of that Director Li towards Lu Yanhe made Chen Ziyan have to be more careful and vigilant.
Seeing that Chen Ziyan insisted, Lu Yanhe didn't say anything more, lest he appear ungrateful.
He nodded, feeling that although he wasn't as tactful as Chen Siqi, he at least had some sense of propriety and was trying to learn these social skills.
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The building in Jingtai is very large, and this is Lu Yanhe's first time here.
When he arrived at the door, he was startled because there was a large crowd of people on the side of the driveway, who all looked like fans who had come to see their idol.
They were all trying very hard to identify whether their favorite celebrities were in every passing car.
Lu Yanhe suddenly heard someone calling his name in an attitude that seemed to be about to get out of control.
The emotions were extremely intense.
Lu Yanhe turned his head in surprise and saw a girl in the crowd calling his name in his direction with heartbreaking cries.
This scene inexplicably crashed into his memory.
Upon arriving at the door, Lu Yanhe prepared to get out of the car.
There were cameras and staff from Beijing and Taiwan at the entrance, with many people piled together. It was a completely different situation from when they went to the Northern Lights to record "Little Songs Gathering".
Chen Ziyan accompanied Lu Yanhe as he got off the car.
As soon as he got out of the car, a surging roar of shouts of "Lu Yanhe," "I love you," and "Husband, I love you" came from the direction he had just come from.
Lu Yanhe was startled.
He was no longer the naive, unknown artist he used to be, but he was quite surprised to see such a grand spectacle.
Chen Ziyan: "Don't linger here, or they'll keep calling. Just say hello to them and hurry inside. There are cameras filming here."
She whispered it in Lu Yanhe's ear.
Lu Yanhe immediately did as Chen Ziyan said, which immediately drew an even more exaggerated shout. He and Chen Ziyan hurriedly entered the building.
Someone came to pick them up.
They traveled along, constantly filmed by cameras.
The people who came to pick them up greeted them with smiles and exchanged pleasantries.
Lu Yanhe and Chen Ziyan chatted politely with the people for a while.
Chen Ziyan asked, "When is our rehearsal later?"
The person in charge said, "According to the schedule, it will be around 8 p.m., which is an hour and a half later. We have prepared boxed meals for you, which will be delivered to your rest room shortly."
"Okay." Chen Ziyan smiled slightly. "Thank you, you've worked hard."
We arrived at a long corridor, and upon entering, we saw a nameplate on each room.
Lu Yanhe's nameplate was in the middle room, but what surprised Lu Yanhe next door was that it was Song Linxin and Cheng Hai.
Lu Yanhe glanced at the room labeled Song Linxin's, then looked away and went straight into his own lounge, which was also his dressing room.
The Beijing-Taiwanese team is indeed a large team with ample space. The lounge is also very generous, with one room prepared for each person, unlike last time when I had to share a lounge with several other people.
After Chen Ziyan accompanied Lu Yanhe into the lounge, she said, "Then you can rest in the lounge for a while. I'll go and say hello to a few acquaintances in Beijing and Taiwan. If anyone wants to come in, remember to check their work badges. Work plans that haven't been reported in advance, wait until I confirm them before proceeding."
Chen Ziyan was practically giving Lu Yanhe instructions like a mother hen.
Lu Yanhe nodded and agreed.
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When Chen Ziyan came out of Lu Yanhe's room, she ran into Song Linxin and her group.
Chen Ziyan glanced at them; there were five people in total, including her agent Zhou Meng, her assistant, and other team members.
They outnumbered and outmatched.
Chen Ziyan bumped into them in the narrow corridor, and she couldn't pretend she didn't see them.
Feeling guilty, Zhou Meng took the initiative to greet Ziyan with a smile, calling her "Sister Ziyan".
Chen Ziyan gave her a faint look and nodded, which was considered a greeting, rather than completely ignoring her.
This attitude alone already reveals a lot.
Song Linxin knew Chen Ziyan and knew that she was Lu Yanhe's agent.
Upon seeing her, Song Linxin couldn't help but feel nervous and uneasy.
Song Linxin was worried that Chen Ziyan would temporarily abandon Lu Yanhe for her sake, so she gave her a barrage of sarcastic remarks.
As a result, Chen Ziyan didn't say anything, and didn't even give her a glance.
This momentarily stunned Song Linxin. While she breathed a sigh of relief, she also felt a faint pang of pain in her heart.
When Song Linxin arrived at the door of her lounge and saw that the room next door had Lu Yanhe's name on it, she was even more surprised.
She stood there stunned, at a loss for what to do.
Seeing her like this, Zhou Meng opened the door to the lounge and said, "Let's go in first."
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With nothing to do in the lounge, Lu Yanhe idly turned on his phone, started a live stream, and began reading.
He's been so busy lately that even his livestreaming time has become fragmented.
Despite this, Lu Yanhe still persisted in live-streaming his readings.
Lu Yanhe's live stream audience has stabilized at over 10,000 viewers.
This data is outrageous.
Because Lu Yanhe's live stream footage is mostly just one frame.
The fact that such a scene could consistently maintain over 10,000 viewers is incredible, even to the live streaming platform.
There's really nothing to see here.
A survey revealed that many people enjoy watching Lu Yanhe's live-streamed reading videos. They do their homework, rush to finish work, or simply read along with him, feeling that such a live stream provides an invisible sense of companionship, or to some extent, it can alleviate their procrastination.
The background in the live stream was different from where Lu Yanhe usually streams, so when people saw that the background of Lu Yanhe's live stream had changed, they started guessing where Lu Yanhe was. After guessing for a while, someone noticed that there was half a dressing table in Lu Yanhe's screen and asked if Lu Yanhe was in the dressing room. It was only then that fans who knew that Lu Yanhe was going to perform at the Beijing TV gala brought up this matter and guessed that Lu Yanhe was waiting for rehearsal.
A little while later, dinner was served.
It was delivered by the staff.
It was a boxed lunch, two portions in total, one for Lu Yanhe and one for Chen Ziyan.
Since Sister Ziyan wasn't there, Lu Yanhe started working on his own.
I was indeed hungry.
The boxed lunch was pretty good: stir-fried beef with yellow peppers, scrambled eggs, sweet and sour pork ribs, stir-fried bok choy, an egg, and a bottle of yogurt.
Lu Yanhe's eyes lit up when he opened the package, and he started eating after taking apart the chopsticks.
The comments section surged due to Lu Yanhe's rare appearance eating.
At first, everyone's discussion was quite normal, focusing on how cool Lu Yanhe's eating movements were or how watching him eat made them hungry.
But about ten minutes later, a group of people suddenly appeared out of nowhere and mocked the Beijing TV station for providing Lu Yanhe with a boxed lunch that was not as good as that of other artists.
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When He Lan saw this comment, she was stunned for a moment, mainly because she didn't understand what it meant. It wasn't until she saw someone post a screenshot in the live chat that she realized it was a screenshot of a social media update posted by Chen Ziliang. Twenty minutes earlier, Chen Ziliang had posted a photo of a boxed lunch, but the lunch was much more lavish than Lu Yanhe's. The dishes were all individually packaged, with a total of six dishes, plus a soup and a cold dish. He commented: "Thank you to Beijing and Taiwan for preparing such a sumptuous dinner for our rehearsal."
Compared to the dinner in Chen Ziliang's photo, Lu Yanhe's boxed lunch does look rather meager.
Lu Yanhe was focused on eating and had no idea that many people in the comments section were starting to defend him.
Many of Lu Yanhe's fans went to the official account of Beijing TV to question them about why the artist was being treated differently.
After Lu Yanhe finished eating, he glanced at the comments section of the live stream and realized what had happened.
Lu Yanhe's eyes widened suddenly, somewhat surprised.
Knowing that some fans had even gone to the official accounts of Beijing and Taiwan to cause trouble, he quickly spoke up and said, "Uh, I just saw everyone's comments. There's no need for everyone to make such a fuss over such a small matter. Our boxed lunch is quite delicious. Chen Ziliang is a senior, and his team has more people, so it's normal for them to have more dishes. Don't try to stand up for him, and there's nothing wrong with that you need to stand up for."
Lu Yanhe didn't know if Chen Ziliang had more dishes because his team had more people.
In fact, Lu Yanhe knew that it was perfectly normal even if it was prepared specifically for Chen Ziliang.
Chen Ziliang was already a top-tier male singer, so it's perfectly normal that he received better treatment than Lu Yanhe.
Just like when Lu Yanhe was filming "The Golden Era," the boxed lunches he received were better than those of the extras.
The principle is the same.
Lu Yanhe felt there was no need to question these things.
It's not like Jingtai didn't prepare dinner for him, nor was it a very simple dinner; it was actually quite good.
Lu Yanhe didn't want people to think he had been wronged and to make a scene on his behalf.
Suddenly, at that moment, someone opened the door from the outside and rushed in.
"Lu Yanhe, what do you mean?!" The person who rushed in was none other than Chen Ziliang, who had appeared in the chat room of Lu Yanhe's live stream before.
Lu Yanhe was speaking into his phone when Chen Ziliang suddenly rushed in, startling him so much that he almost dropped his phone.
He glanced back at Chen Ziliang and said, "Wait a minute, my live stream isn't off yet."
He shut down his live stream, not even having time to glance at the barrage of comments that were already starting to surge.
After closing the live stream, Lu Yanhe stood up and turned to look at Chen Ziliang.
"What did you say?"
Chen Ziliang pointed at Lu Yanhe, his face extremely ugly. "You did this on purpose, didn't you? I just posted an update showing everyone the boxed lunch that Beijing TV prepared for me, and you started live-streaming yourself eating, deliberately letting everyone see that what I'm eating is different from what you're eating, so that people will criticize me? If you have any complaints, just say so. What's the point of resorting to such underhanded tactics? How can you be so malicious?"
Lu Yanhe was enraged by Chen Ziliang's words.
"Don't make baseless accusations! Who the hell pulled any dirty tricks?" Lu Yanhe angrily questioned Chen Ziliang. "How would I know what you posted? I was live-streaming myself reading a book. In the middle, a staff member brought in a boxed lunch, and I started eating it. Do you have a persecution complex or something, thinking that even eating a boxed lunch is targeting you?"
“Your fans are like lunatics, coming to my comment section to curse me. Who the hell am I not targeting if not you?” Chen Ziliang pointed at Lu Yanhe. “You’ve been jealous of me for a long time, haven’t you? I mocked you when you recorded ‘Little Song Gathering,’ and this time I even stole your duet with Song Linxin. Ha, do you think I don’t know what you’re thinking?”
Lu Yanhe was so angry he laughed.
"Wow, that's amazing! I haven't even said anything yet, and you've already said so many things that I've wronged, and you still have the nerve to criticize me? How can you have the nerve to do that?"
Lu Yanhe pointed to the door that Chen Ziliang had opened behind him. Behind him, a number of people who had been drawn out by Chen Ziliang's angry roar had already gathered in the corridor.
Lu Yanhe didn't know who these people were; they were just staff members or people from other artists' teams.
Lu Yanhe asked firmly, "Why don't you tell them what you just said again, and see how they view what you said? Damn, how can I still see someone like you acting like a villain with such righteous indignation? Speechless."
(End of this chapter)
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