Chapter 722 Celebrities and Their Assistants (5800 words)
When Li Zhibai arrived at the hotel restaurant, Yan Liang had already started eating.
Yan Liang was too lazy to wait for him any longer.
Although Yan Liang wasn't dressed up as meticulously by his team as he usually does when he goes out, he now looked like a young college student, sitting neatly and eating noodles.
However, when Li Zhibai sat down, Yan Liang appeared exceptionally "refined" compared to Li Zhibai, who had a head full of bird feathers and attracted attention.
Yan Liang was also stunned by Li Zhibai's wrinkled T-shirt and his hair that swayed like seaweed.
"You did this—" Yan Liang looked at Li Zhibai and clicked his tongue, "You had quite the fun last night."
Li Zhibai pointed at Yan Liang in disbelief.
"What are you thinking? Who do you take me for?"
"Don't tell me you're some innocent young man." Yan Liang looked at Li Zhibai expressionlessly. "If you dare to say that to me, I'll throw this bowl of noodle soup all over you right now."
Li Zhibai coughed violently twice.
He really couldn't bring himself to say that he was still an innocent young man.
This thing wasn't like that eight hundred years ago.
Seeing his reaction, Yan Liang chuckled twice, his laughter growing even colder.
Li Zhibai suddenly realized what was happening and looked at Yan Liang in shock.
"You're not still...?"
Yan Liang: "..."
Li Zhibai: "Hahahaha, why are you so temperamental? Are you being sarcastic?"
Yan Liang: "Screw you."
Li Zhibai hissed and said, "Looks like I need to introduce you to a girlfriend."
"Do I need you to introduce me?" Yan Liang sneered. "Your own girlfriend is a slut."
Li Zhibai: "Last night she was X, but now she's agreed to tell you who she is."
Yan Liang was taken aback.
Li Zhibai turned his head and looked to both sides, wanting to speak.
As a result, many people around them were secretly taking pictures of them.
Li Zhibai: "..."
Yan Liang noticed it too.
He rolled his eyes at Li Zhibai and said, "Shut up."
Li Zhibai shut his mouth, but at this moment, his eyes and eyebrows were full of smugness, as if he wanted to show off.
Yan Liang silently gave himself a two-word assessment: in heat.
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Lu Yanhe slept until 11 o'clock before waking up.
Yesterday we filmed a long night scene, and didn't finish until 5 a.m., and didn't go to sleep until 6 a.m.
Actually, he wasn't fully awake yet; his body's biological clock had just woken him up.
He got up, sat on the edge of the bed in a daze, his mind blank and unable to process what was going on.
Because he stayed up all night yesterday, his scenes didn't start filming until 3 PM today.
Actually, you could sleep a little longer.
However, he has to start work early tomorrow morning, and he's worried that if he continues to sleep, it will affect his sleep tonight.
He yawned deeply and texted Wang Biao: Are you awake?
Wang Biao didn't reply; it seems he hasn't woken up.
Lu Yanhe then said in his work group with Wang Biao, Zou Dong, and others: "Please prepare an iced Americano for me this afternoon, the extra strong kind. I need it to keep me going."
Yu Xiaoyan replied instantly: Okay, Brother Lu, would you like a cup now? I just happened to be buying coffee at the coffee shop outside the hotel. Brother Xiao Biao told me yesterday that you would want to drink coffee when you woke up today [smiley face].
Lu Yanhe: I'm already suffering enough, I can't stand the bitterness of a double iced Americano. Do you have any with fruit juice? Could you buy me a cup of iced coffee with fruit juice, sugar-free? Thank you.
Yu Xiaoyan: Received, will be delivered within ten minutes.
Lu Yanhe yawned again, stood up, stretched, and stretched his neck and arms. A clicking sound came from his neck and shoulders, which startled him.
Ten minutes later, Yu Xiaoyan really did arrive with the coffee.
"Thank you." Lu Yanhe accepted the coffee that Yu Xiaoyan had bought at the door.
Yu Xiaoyan: "Brother Lu, we'll head to the film set at 1:30."
"Okay." Lu Yanhe nodded.
Yu Xiaoyan: "Then I'll go down first. If there's anything I need you to do, just let me know anytime."
Lu Yanhe nodded, took the coffee back to his room, and found a piece of sugar-free cake in the bag.
Speaking of which, Yu Xiaoyan and Xing Lecheng had worked as his assistants for a while.
However, they didn't get into character as quickly as Wang Biao did back then, and their presence wasn't as strong. Unlike Wan Qingqing and Song Jiang, who were constantly criticized and disliked by Wang Biao, they were always in front of Lu Yanhe, unlike Yu Xiaoyan and Xing Lecheng.
Most of the time, Lu Yanhe even "ignores" them.
However, this may also be related to their personalities.
Lu Yanhe knew that when the two of them first came to work as his assistants, they were both a little self-conscious and embarrassed to speak.
Although Yu Xiaoyan was still rather simple and somewhat reserved today, at least she took the initiative.
This is a good sign.
Lu Yanhe also thought this was a good thing, so that Wang Biao wouldn't keep himself in a high-speed state and unable to stop.
As a result, in the afternoon, Yu Xiaoyan followed Lu Yanhe to the film set, but Wang Biao still did not appear.
Yu Xiaoyan said that Wang Biao had a fever and was receiving intravenous fluids at the hospital.
Lu Yanhe asked in surprise, "How high is it?"
Yu Xiaoyan: "Thirty-eight and seven degrees."
Lu Yanhe: "Let him get some rest."
He thought for a moment and then sent another message to Wang Biao: "You should rest well in the hospital. You can leave the recent work to Yu Xiaoyan and Xing Lecheng. Don't worry about it."
Wang Biao replied very quickly: It's okay, the doctor said the fever should be gone by tomorrow.
Lu Yanhe: Now that your fever has subsided, you should rest for a couple of days. Don't try to tough it out. It's not a critical time that you need to endure it.
Wang Biao: I don't trust either of them.
Lu Yanhe: What's there to worry about? I'm not missing a hand or a foot. With all of you gone, I'll just be a little more inconvenienced. It's not like I have muscular dystrophy and need you to do everything for me.
Wang Biao: You're making me feel so unfulfilled, Brother Lu!
Lu Yanhe: If you rush back to work in the next few days, you'll make me feel guilty.
Wang Biao: ...
Lu Yanhe: Let me give you a piece of advice: if you can't lead a team, you'll end up working yourself to death.
Wang Biao: ...
Lu Yanhe: Get some rest.
"Is Wang Biao alone in the hospital now?" Lu Yanhe suddenly remembered and asked Yu Xiaoyan.
Yu Xiaoyan nodded.
Where is Xing Lecheng?
“Xing Lecheng was handling some work-related coordination at the hotel,” Yu Xiaoyan said. “Originally, Lecheng wanted to accompany Brother Xiaobiao, but Brother Xiaobiao said that many work-related messages needed to be dealt with promptly and couldn’t be delayed, so he asked Xing Lecheng to handle them.”
There's really no effective way to handle this. All I can do is reply to the other party as soon as possible with "received," and then say some empty words to let them know that I will seriously consider it and give them a reply as soon as possible.
Ninety-nine percent of the jobs will eventually be turned down.
Nevertheless, because of Chen Ziyan's style, Wang Biao was also very particular about "etiquette" in handling these matters. No matter what kind of work invitation it was, no matter who the other party was, and no matter what kind of work it was, the result could be a refusal, but the way it was handled had to be "appropriate".
Lu Yanhe quickly called Xing Lecheng: "Lecheng, go to the hospital and keep Wang Biao company. He's alone with a fever and getting injections. Keep an eye on him. Don't worry about what he says. It's okay if he doesn't reply to work for a day or two."
Xing Lecheng honestly agreed.
Lu Yanhe shook his head and said to Xiao Yan, "Keep an eye on Wang Biao. It's your own body. There's no need to push yourself so hard all the time. It's not like you have to risk your health."
Yu Xiaoyan nodded.
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To some extent, a celebrity's team often determines how an industry perceives that celebrity.
Only a very small number of people can have direct contact with celebrities themselves; those who need to interact with them frequently are their staff.
Lu Yanhe's two key lieutenants are Wang Biao, who became his assistant by chance, and Zou Dong, who was recruited by Chen Ziyan to be responsible for his security and travel.
An artist's work performance often stems from the people in these two positions.
He felt that his luck was not only due to the fact that every work he created seemed to be blessed by God, going smoothly and becoming a huge success, but also due to the people he encountered.
From Chen Ziyan, a manager who plans carefully and has a grand vision, to Wang Biao and Zou Dong, who are only responsible for a small part of his work, everyone is reliable.
Over the years, through so many events, and so many moments when "a thousand-mile dike could be destroyed by an ant hole," we have relied on them, each guarding their own territory. The larger ones are like city gates, and the smaller ones are like sluice gates. As long as it is an opening, they have guarded it as solid as a rock.
This also made Lu Yanhe very generous to his core people, whose annual income was comparable to that of a junior executive in a company. In particular, Wang Biao and Zou Dong's income was definitely no less than that of the ministerial level management in Linghe.
Lu Yanhe really couldn't understand why a very famous celebrity's top assistant could only earn an ordinary monthly salary of ten or twenty thousand yuan.
It's not that he thinks they should give more, but he understands very well that if he wants the people around him to truly see his kindness as their kindness and his success as their success, they must be a community of shared interests and share both honor and disgrace.
If you don't care whether you do a good job or a bad job, and you only get that fixed salary every month, and then get some "euphemistic" performance bonus and year-end bonus during the New Year, who can really take your work as their own from the bottom of their heart?
Lu Yanhe himself couldn't do it anyway.
Why can Wang Biao and Zou Dong earn such high incomes?
This is not their base salary.
A large portion of their annual income comes from performance-based bonuses awarded by Lu Yanhe based on their work performance throughout the year—the kind of bonuses that are truly substantial.
Moreover, Lu Yanhe would even set aside one or two projects each year, giving them an investment of 100,000 or 200,000 yuan.
For a project, there is no shortage of such funds. Lu Yanhe simply takes out a portion of his share to invest in them and let them make some money.
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"Your assistant seems a bit slow on the uptake."
The person who said this is Liu Bai, one of the actors in "You Are the Apple of My Eye," and the one who played one of Ko Teng's classmates who didn't grow up much.
The character in the movie is relatively simple, but he is a different person in private. He is referring to Li Yuefeng's assistant.
Upon hearing this, Li Yuefeng asked, "What happened to him?"
“I saw him try to get you a drink, but he got the wrong one twice. Doesn’t he know what you usually drink?” Liu Bai asked.
Li Yuefeng: "He took it according to my usual habits, but I had an upset stomach yesterday, so I can't drink anything spicy or cold today. He didn't know that."
"I see." Liu Bai smiled. "I thought that someone as big a star as you would have an assistant who wasn't very bright. My assistant, I don't know where my company found him, was incredibly stupid."
"What's wrong?" Li Yuefeng asked.
"I don't even know how to explain it to you." Liu Bai shook his head. "Let me just say this: I got angry with her this morning. Guess what happened? She took my schedule and got my makeup time wrong. I was supposed to arrive an hour early, but she got it wrong."
Li Yuefeng: "I was wondering why you were late."
"Sigh, don't even mention it." Liu Bai sighed helplessly. "I told the company to find me a new assistant as soon as possible, but they said I can only use an assistant with a monthly salary of three thousand yuan, otherwise I can't afford to support them. I'm really fed up. No human rights for minor celebrities."
Li Yuefeng glanced at him silently without saying a word.
After a while, a girl wearing black-rimmed glasses cautiously approached.
She was the assistant who followed Liu Bai around every day.
She nervously handed a cup of coffee to Liu Bai and said, "Brother Bai, this is your iced Americano."
Liu Bai frowned immediately upon receiving it.
"Didn't I already tell you that for an iced Americano, you need to take out the ice cubes?"
The girl with black-rimmed glasses stammered, "That...that shop said they couldn't take the ice out."
Liu Bai glared at her with displeasure.
"You're so stupid, you can't even do something this simple."
"sorry."
Li Yuefeng frowned slightly and picked up his phone.
Liu Bai glanced at him, seemingly realizing what was happening, and said, "Never mind, let's leave it at that."
The girl with the black-rimmed glasses breathed a sigh of relief and left.
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Li Yuefeng reflected on himself. He probably wasn't as overly harsh on his assistant as Liu Bai, right?
He admitted that he was not a very good-tempered person and was not very considerate of others, but he would not go so far as to call people stupid all the time.
However, that girl with black-rimmed glasses does seem to be one of them...
Coffee shops can usually do things like removing ice; you just need to ask. Why can't they do it?
Li Yuefeng subconsciously felt that Liu Bai's assistant had simply forgotten and was just making up an excuse.
However, when he told the story as a joke, his assistant retorted, "It's not that she forgot."
"Huh? How did you know?"
His assistant said, "It's because she followed Liu Bai's instructions and asked the coffee shop to remove the ice, so the cup wasn't full. You know how iced coffee is; once you remove the ice, a third of it is gone. As a result, Liu Bai insisted that Xiao Mo had stolen some, and in the end, he even deducted the money for the coffee from Xiao Mo's salary."
Xiao Mo is Liu Bai's assistant.
Li Yuefeng was shocked.
"Has Liu Bai lost his mind?"
His assistant shrugged. "He did a lot of rubbish. He was clearly sleeping in late and was late, but he blamed Xiao Mo for making a mistake on the call sheet and pushed all the blame onto his assistant. He even yelled at her in front of the crew."
"Wow, this is amazing."
"yes."
"This girl is so pitiful, being his assistant."
"Xiao Mo was also very frustrated. She had applied to the company several times not to be Liu Bai's assistant anymore, but because she had only been with the company for a short time, the company made her work with Liu Bai."
Li Yuefeng asked, "I don't think I have that kind of weird problem, do I?"
"It's alright. Although you're a bit short-tempered and self-centered, you're generous with the red envelopes you give out," the assistant said with a grin. "That's why we can tolerate it."
Li Yuefeng exclaimed, "Damn it! I actually won you over with money?"
The people in the car were laughing and joking, but no one responded.
Li Yuefeng cursed inwardly.
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"Depend on!"
Although Yan Liang had prepared himself mentally, he still couldn't help but let out a swear-like exclamation of shock when he heard Jiang Yuqian's name from Li Zhibai.
He had just sat down in the chair when he suddenly sat up again, staring at Li Zhibai in shock.
Li Zhibai immediately raised his right hand and pressed down on Yan Liang's shoulder, pushing him back down.
"Calm down."
Yan Liang: "How can I stay calm? You really—I—I'm fucking mad!"
He suddenly paused, then asked, "Yan He doesn't know yet, does he?"
"I don't know, I haven't told him yet," Li Zhibai said.
“He was definitely more shocked than I was,” Yan Liang said.
Li Zhibai: "What's so shocking about that?"
Yan Liang: "...Hehe."
Li Zhibai: "You're the only one who knows about this right now, so you need to keep it a secret. Not a single word can leak out."
"I'm speechless," Yan Liang exclaimed. "I need emergency medical help."
Li Zhi looked down at Yan Liang with disdain.
"Are you having trouble breathing and need me to give you CPR?"
Get out of my way!
Li Zhibai looked puzzled. "Is it really necessary to be so shocked?"
"No, I'm not shocked." Yan Liang shook his head expressionlessly. "I've known for a while that you're a sister-complex person."
“Damn, you’re the one who’s a siscon,” Li Zhibai retorted.
"Have you ever liked a girl younger than you?" Yan Liang asked in return.
Li Zhibai: "Who I've liked, you have no idea."
"You had feelings for Sister Qiuling." Yan Liang's eyes flashed with threat. "If you have the guts, then deny it."
Li Zhibai opened his mouth, but all the syllables were blocked in his throat as if under a "forbidden spell," unable to come out.
Yan Liang: "Heh, speechless now?"
Li Zhibai touched his hair, shut his mouth, and turned his head away.
Yan Liang: "I want to see how Yan He reacts when you tell him this."
Li Zhibai coughed twice, his arrogance vanishing.
At that moment, Li Zhibai's assistant knocked on the door.
"Brother Bai, we need to head to the film set."
Li Zhibai quickly smacked Yan Liang on the head, "Let's go."
Yan Liang immediately retaliated, striking back with the palm of Buddha.
"You're still being arrogant at a time like this!"
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Yan Liang brought a car full of coffee, milk tea, and snacks to visit the film crew.
The people at the scene were cheering.
The film was shot on campus, and in addition to the crew, there were many student extras from the school.
While the crew members were distributing the items, the students watched from a distance.
After Yan Liang noticed this, he realized he hadn't bought enough, so he quickly went to the producer to ask how many students were there and urgently placed an additional order, asking them to send two more truckloads over.
Not only that, Yan Liang also specially arranged an ice cream truck so that everyone could eat ice cream on the spot.
"Wow, Yan Liang, you're being way too generous! It's putting pressure on me," Li Yuefeng said.
Yan Liang laughed and said, "Shouldn't I be a little generous when I come to visit the set? I'm only visiting this once anyway, so if I'm going to treat everyone to food, I have to be generous so that I can leave a good impression on you all, right?"
"That's outrageous," Xiao Yun said, shaking his head as he ate his ice cream.
Her assistant reminded her worriedly, "Xiao Yun, you can't eat anymore. You need to control your weight. You've already—"
"Stop!" Xiao Yun quickly told her assistant to shut up. "Don't say anything!"
He became enraged.
The assistant sighed.
Li Yuefeng laughed loudly.
"You need to be careful, Xiao Yun, or you might get fatter and fatter during the filming of this movie."
"You should be the one worrying. Don't act too greasy playing a high school student," Xiao Yun complained.
While complaining, she took a deep breath, made up her mind, and decided not to eat it.
“It’s a waste,” Xiao Yun said.
“It’s a real waste to just throw it away like that,” Li Yuefeng nodded. “If someone takes a picture of it, you’re in big trouble. Once it’s trending on social media, a lot of people will definitely criticize you.”
Xiao Yun rolled her eyes at Li Yuefeng.
She said, "Then I'll control myself after I finish this."
She immediately ate the rest in one bite.
Her assistant looked utterly dejected upon seeing this.
Xiao Yun's mouth was so frozen she couldn't close it, but she still had to tell her assistant, "That's enough!"
Li Zhibai quickly pulled out his phone to take a picture of Xiao Yun exhaling through his mouth.
Commonly known as an ugly photo.
Yan Liang looked at his friend with disdain; his fondness for watching the drama unfold had never changed.
At that moment, a girl wearing black-rimmed glasses walked past, carrying a box.
"Xiao Mo," Li Zhibai called out to her.
“Teacher Li.” She stopped in surprise and nodded slightly to Li Zhibai.
"What's that big box you're carrying in this sweltering heat?" Li Zhibai asked. "Liu Bai is nowhere to be found; we've been looking for him for ages."
Xiao Mo stammered, then gave an awkward smile, "Then I'll tell him when I see him."
“Okay.” Li Zhibai suddenly remembered something and asked, “Have you had ice cream? It’s free and unlimited today, Yan Liang is treating.”
Xiao Mo: "I...I'll eat later, thank you."
She nodded and bowed slightly to Yan Liang.
"Don't mention it," Yan Liang said.
Xiao Mo left with the box.
"Was that an insulated box?" Xiao Yun said, watching Xiao Mo's departing figure.
(End of this chapter)
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