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Before coming to Yanjing Airport, Lu Yuan specially bought these three books, and then stuffed them into his carry-on bag so that he could read them when he was bored on the plane. Of course, he also bought a pair of sunglasses and put them on very showily, and tried hard to look cool on his face, pretending that it was not his first time to take a plane.

When he was sitting in the car before, Lu Yuan had searched the Internet for many questions about what to pay attention to when flying, and even watched a video guide called "How to Fly for the First Time". Therefore, Lu Yuan did not seem too embarrassed in front of the boarding gate. When he entered the waiting room, Lu Yuan calmly took out his headphones and listened to an unknown English song. Although he really wanted to look around to see what new things there were in the Capital Airport, Lu Yuan resisted the urge and leaned back in his seat with his eyes closed.

He is pretending to be profound.

After all, I am now a person of status, and it is really embarrassing to look around.

He was very satisfied with his performance.

At least when I look at myself in the mirror opposite, I look like a completely cool and pretentious person, which is so real.

Just before boarding the plane...

“Beep, beep, beep.”

"Hello?"

"Um?"

"What, what? What did you say?"

"Hello?"

"Ah? I... didn't understand. Can you speak in English?"

"What?"

“Can you speak Chinese?”

Lu Yuan received a strange phone call and didn't understand what was said on the phone.

He looked at the phone number and saw that it was an area code starting with 0034...

Lu Yuan stared at it for a long time. Although he had never seen such a number before, he knew that it was not a domestic call.

At least it doesn't look like a domestic call.

The person on the other end of the phone sounded quite enthusiastic and festive, but Lu Yuan couldn't understand a word they said.

When the other end saw that Lu Yuan didn't understand, they switched to English.

Lu Yuan could barely understand the English, but the other party spoke very quickly, so Lu Yuan could only make out the words "congratulations" and "award"...

Scam call?

Are scam calls so professional nowadays?

You're using this messed up foreign language?

Isn’t this level really too high?

“…”

Lu Yuan, who was confused, laughed at the thought of this. He had never seen such a scam call before.

It seems quite interesting!

But Lu Yuan still hung up the phone.

But a few minutes after he hung up, Lu Yuan's phone rang again. Lu Yuan looked and saw that it was the same number. When Lu Yuan answered the phone again, the other end spoke fluent English that Lu Yuan could not understand at all...

This time Lu Yuan was unhappy and speechless.

Damn it!

Even if you are committing fraud, can't you use Chinese?

How could I be fooled by you when I can't understand your English at all?

Are you really too professional?

Or do you think I don't understand English and you are just showing off in front of me?

“…”

Lu Yuan took a deep breath and hung up the phone again.

This time, the other party did not call Lu Yuan, but sent two very long text messages.

Lu Yuan opened the text message and was furious.

One was a long message in English. Lu Yuan stared at it for a long time and finally recognized a few words like congratulations, winning, and sorry. As for the other one, it was a distorted text that Lu Yuan had never seen before...

What do you mean?

Bullying me because I don’t understand?

Bullying me because I am uneducated?

Are you interested or not?

You are so professional in fraud, you need to find those highly educated people!

What's the point of looking for someone like me who knows nothing about foreign languages?

nerve!

Lu Yuan took a deep breath, feeling unhappy, and was about to delete the text message. However, at this moment, the boarding reminder sounded. Lu Yuan put his phone down, slung his bag over his shoulder, and walked onto the plane with a calm expression.

…

After getting on the plane, Lu Yuan looked out the window and couldn't help feeling a little emotional.

I didn’t expect that my first time flying would be at this time, and I was not sitting in economy class but first class.

This made Lu Yuan feel inexplicably happy, especially when he saw the long-legged, exotic stewardess smiling at him, this feeling of happiness became even stronger.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that you don’t have to pay for the first-class ticket yourself…

Well, the ticket was given by Director Zhang Tong.

This undoubtedly made Lu Yuan feel like he had reached the peak of his life, adding to the feeling of satisfaction.

"Director Zhang, this way please..."

"Is Xiao Lu here?"

"It should be here. I see no one is down there."

"Oh, that's good."

"Director Zhang, let me help you carry your luggage."

"OK."

Zhang Tong was the last one to enter the cabin. After he entered the cabin, his assistant helped him carry his luggage and put it on the shelf. The long-legged stewardess helped him take off his coat and hang it up, and helped him adjust the air conditioner...

A great director is a great director, his style is different.

Lu Yuan felt emotional.

However, despite his envy and emotion, Lu Yuan continued to maintain a calm expression and stood up slightly.

"Director Lu, congratulations! The movie is a big hit!"

"Haha, luck, luck..."

Zhang Tong's eyes lit up when he saw Lu Yuan. He opened his arms and gave Lu Yuan a warm hug, his eyes full of admiration.

Zhang Tong hugged her hard and passionately.

Lu Yuan was not used to this kind of enthusiasm.

"Don't be so modest. You are still so modest even though you broke the record."

"Records? What records?"

"Don't you know the record of small investment and big box office?"

"ah?"

"You made the movie yourself, so you don't pay attention to the box office trends and past records?"

"No...I've been busy lately, so I haven't paid much attention."

"Are you sure you're not pretending?"

"Director Zhang, do I look like a pretentious person?"

"Well, although it doesn't look like it now, your movie had no publicity at all in the early stage, and then suddenly came out in the later stage, which makes people have to suspect that you are a pig pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger!"

"Really not. Director Zhang, you know I'm a very honest person... I never pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger."

"Why do I feel like you are flattering yourself? You are so hypocritical."

"How is it possible...I am really sincere!"

Zhang Tong thought Lu Yuan was a very interesting person. When chatting with him, he would inexplicably want to tease him, especially when Lu Yuan looked sincere yet a little hypocritical, he became more interested in teasing him.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, the two sat opposite each other and started chatting. Of course, most of the time it was Zhang Tong who was talking and Lu Yuan who was listening.

After all, Lu Yuan’s vision was not as broad as Zhang Tongguang’s, and it was his first time going abroad, so Lu Yuan could only listen and watch many things...

In front of Zhang Tong, he is just a younger brother.

This kind of listening behavior made Zhang Tong very satisfied. After all, most talented young people are rather arrogant, but when it comes to Lu Yuan, from the first time you meet him, all you see is humility and low-keyness.

He doesn't seem to have the arrogance of young people.

Zhang Tong naturally felt that this young man was teachable and had a promising future, so he couldn't help but start talking to him.

Zhang Tong talked about Chinese films, then foreign films, and then foreign film awards. He was talking with saliva flying all over the place, and he kept lamenting that domestic films now have no achievements in overseas competitions, and they can't even get a nomination award. Especially in recent years, domestic films generally pursue young and handsome actors to have high box office, and few films can go abroad to win awards...

"Xiao Lu, make your next movie well and try to win some awards abroad to bring back honors for you young directors."

"Khan, these things are too far away for me."

"How can you say it's far away? People should be ambitious and have dreams, you know? Especially for young people like you, you should be a little more arrogant. Don't be so low-key all the time. You should show off occasionally. When I was young, I traveled to many countries. At that time, I was much more arrogant than you..."

"Oh, by the way, Director Zhang, your English should be pretty good when you go to other countries."

"Of course. When I made my first film, I went to England alone without an assistant."

"Oh, then can you help me find out what this English text message means?"

"Bring it here, I'll help you take a look."

"good."

When Lu Yuan took out his cell phone, opened the text message and handed it to Zhang Tong, a faint smile appeared on Zhang Tong's face.

But after seeing the content of the text message, the smile on Zhang Tong's face suddenly froze.

Then he stared at Lu Yuan's sincere, honest, and naive face again.

"You kid, you said you are very honest and never pretend?"

"Oh, yes, what's wrong?"

"Not bad, not bad! You played this trick really well. Even an old hand like me almost believed in your lies!"

"What?" Lu Yuan was stunned.

"Just now I felt that you were just pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger, Xiao Lu, when it comes to pretending to be cool, I suddenly realized that I was not as good as you when I was young... This kind of unintentional pretending to be cool, wow, so smart, really smart!"

"Director Lu, what do you mean? I don't understand..."

"Keep pretending. You seem to be casually taking out your phone to ask me to help you read English, but in fact you are showing off your six nominations for the Spanish Yago Awards..."

"What? Nomination invitation?" Lu Yuan was still stunned.

"Tsk tsk, are you still pretending? I suddenly realize that your acting skills are pretty good. That surprised expression is so natural. If there is a role in the next movie, come and make a cameo appearance. I should have thought that a talented college student like you would not know English... You have fooled me!" Looking at Lu Yuan's confused look, Zhang Tong suddenly laughed.

"???"

Lu Yuan was still confused.

What?

What prize?

I won a prize?

6 nominations for what Spanish award?!

etc!

I really don't understand English.

Lu Yuan looked at Zhang Tong helplessly, his face was full of the expression of a shameless pretender...

He feels a little aggrieved!

And he couldn't stand this grievance!