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Li Zhibai was in pain.

Very painful.

It was not because of anything else, but because he had never realized that there were so many strange people in the entertainment industry where he had been for so many years.

In order to find a suitable producer and director for "Nineteen Years of Crime Records", Li Zhibai did not know how many people he had met this month.

Because there are no professional agencies for producers and directors in China, if they want to find producers and directors for a project, they can only introduce them through video platforms, film and television companies and friends around them.

Li Zhibai has filmed many dramas himself, and he knows some production companies and friends. However, even the people introduced by these acquaintances were more surprised than one another.

The people he met in the crew before were very strong in their professional aspects.

This also gave him an illusion that everyone was very reliable at least in their own professional field.

But he did not realize that the projects he would participate in in the past were all productions of at least A level in this industry, and the people who could participate in this project were the best talents in various fields.

People with poor business level would not even have the opportunity to meet him.

This caused him to have a cognitive bias in this industry.

Li Zhibai said to Lu Yanhe: "No, I still can't do this like you, and pull a bunch of people to do it. I don't have that much ability. I have to find a production company to do it together. They can put more pressure on me. This first work is just my tuition."

Lu Yanhe was surprised that Li Zhibai would choose to compromise.

"Okay." Lu Yanhe also supported Li Zhibai's doing this, "In fact, if you go to them to do it, you can save a lot of time."

Li Zhibai's work on "Nineteen Years of Crime Records" this time is still very different from Lu Yanhe's project. Li Zhibai's previous success as an actor could not make others trust his ability as a producer. And the failure of the movie version has made his bargaining power short.

If Li Zhibai wants to pull a good team to make this drama, he can't do it by his own strength for the time being. Then he can only choose to take a step back and compromise a little on his own interests, so as to reach cooperation with others.

Finally, after some negotiations, "Nineteen Years of Crime Records", produced by Li Zhibai, signed a cooperation agreement with Dengta Video. Dengta Video will buy the broadcasting rights and its production company will undertake the production. Li Zhibai, Lu Yanhe and Yan Liang all invested in their personal capacity and served as co-producers.

Li Zhibai played the villain in this drama, and the hero of this story, the policeman, was played by Jiang Jun at the recommendation of Lu Yanhe. This is mainly because Li Zhibai's salary has accounted for more than half of the budget for the actor's salary, and the salary of the other hero cannot be too high. After weighing the pros and cons, Jiang Jun is the most suitable.

In the end, Jiang Jun was able to get the consent of Dengta Video to play the hero of this drama. There is another very important reason, he is the hero of "Squid Game". In the industry, Jiang Jun is one of the male stars to be exploded.

The drama version of "Nineteen Years of Crime Records", which has been tossed for a long time, has finally made formal progress.

Lu Yanhe feels more and more that his filming of "Love Letter" is really the result of the right time, right place and right people. Fortunately, he had the help of Luo Yuzhong and Liu Bige. Otherwise, with his mediocre skills, he might not even be able to start the filming.

Not every actor has the ability to organize a coding team.

However, actors of Lu Yanhe, Jiang Yuqian, and Li Zhibai's level actually have the resources to participate in the production process.

Lu Yanhe also thinks this is a good thing. Especially for actors like Jiang Yuqian, who seem to have passed the peak of popularity, if they just keep waiting, waiting for the script, waiting for others to come to them, they may be completely eliminated by the market.

Any top actor must have the ability to do his own project. This ability does not mean that he has to do it himself, but that he can organize it.

Just like Jiang Yuqian found Ye Luo to work on "Telephone".

Li Zhibai did not find such a person, so he could only agree to the conditions of Dengta Video and rely on the power of Dengta Video.

But this is not a bad thing. He has to eat one bite at a time. Li Zhibai experienced the production of the drama "Nineteen Years of Crime Records" and he had his first experience.

He will know what kind of people are needed to create a drama, what links it needs to go through, and what the twists and turns are.

He will also get to know talents from various departments and trades in this process.

When Li Zhibai has the opportunity to do a second film and television project in the future, whether he has the ability to organize it himself at that time, he will be more confident than this time, and know more clearly what he has to face and what to do.

A person's growth is accumulated bit by bit.

At this time, Miao Yue told Lu Yanhe that she finally decided to take over the adaptation of the script of the TV series "Rouge Button".

Lu Yanhe was a little surprised, but not surprised.

With Miao Yue's soft and strong personality, it is unlikely that she will refuse a challenging script adaptation.

"What about your own script?"

"Move it back. I can write my own script anytime, but if I don't take over the TV series adaptation of "Rouge Button", I think I will regret it every time I think about it in the future."

Lu Yanhe certainly supports his classmate's decision.

He knows Miao Yue's ability.

She may not be able to give a successful drama adaptation, but she will never perfunctory or make random changes.

"It feels like you are like a magnet, slowly attracting everyone around you to you."

Li Pengfei made a rare trip back to Yuming to have dinner with Lu Yanhe, he joked.

Lu Yanhe asked with a smile: "Then when will you be attracted to me?"

Li Pengfei asked: "Is there anything you need me to do?"

Lu Yanhe: "You suddenly ask me if there is anything I need you to do. Of course I can't answer it."

Li Pengfei: "The main thing is that I don't know what I can do when I'm with you. I don't have any particularly outstanding abilities, so what can I do?"

"I don't need you to do anything special for me, it's just... we used to see each other every day when we were in high school. After we went to college, you weren't in Yuming, and I was busy filming, so we didn't even see each other during the winter and summer vacations." Lu Yanhe said, "If we can work together, we can meet often."

Li Pengfei: "You have the nerve to say that you are filming every winter and summer vacation, and you never take a break."

"Before, we had to attend classes during the winter and summer vacations, so of course we could only arrange filming during the winter and summer vacations." Lu Yanhe said, "This situation should get better in the future."

"But I will graduate soon, and there will be no winter or summer vacation." Li Pengfei complained, "However, no matter what I do after graduation, I will definitely return to Yuming."

"Why are you so sure you're going back to Yuming?"

"Zijun wants to stay in Yuming. If I don't go back to Yuming, where will I go?" Li Pengfei said, "Didn't Chen Siqi buy a house in Lingyang District, and the editorial department of "Jump Up" will work there in the future?"

"Yes, I forgot about it."

Li Pengfei: "My name is still on the first issue of "Jump Up". I am the founder of the magazine. Will your office hang my photo?"

Lu Yanhe: "...You can ask Chen Siqi yourself."

"Forget it." Li Pengfei shrugged, "Be low-key."

Lu Yanhe: "Do you want to return to "Jump Up"?"

"What are you talking about? If I was interested there, I would have stayed there." Li Pengfei said, "I hate people who read books so much. How do you expect me to finish a magazine? That's nonsense. My dad wouldn't dare to Think so."

"Did your dad ask you to go back and take over?" Lu Yanhe asked.

Li Pengfei: "I don't want to take over. That's my brother's business. I've told you my goal in life. Do nothing and live happily. I will rely on my dad for the first half of my life and me for the second half of my life." How wonderful it would be to have a happy and beautiful life by being raised by a brother and avoiding brotherly feuding and internal strife in the company.”

"Every time you say that, I feel that you are not so willing to enjoy such a beautiful life. You just don't want to have any possibility of fighting with your brother."

Li Pengfei smiled.

He put his hands on the back of his head and leaned back.

"If I didn't know you, I might just wait to die."

"Why did Xu Zijun let you wait to die like this?" Lu Yanhe said, "She is the real reason for your unwillingness. Don't say it's me. I'm not that capable."

Li Pengfei let out a long sigh.

"Come on, we haven't seen each other much in the past few years. How come you know so much about what I'm thinking?"

"If we had to meet often to know what you were thinking, then we would no longer be friends."

The two looked at each other and smiled.

For a moment, both of them felt like they were back in their senior year of high school.

"Let's organize a class reunion sometime." Li Pengfei said, "We haven't seen each other for a long time."

In the past few years, high school classes have actually organized several class reunions, large ones that all classmates would notify, but because they were all during the winter and summer vacations, Lu Yanhe was unable to attend each one.

Lu Yanhe nodded and said yes.

He added: "But why do you suddenly think of organizing a class reunion? I've never seen you interested before."

Li Pengfei said: "Li Cui called me a few days ago. He mentioned to me that Jiang Haitian's father was in a car accident and passed away six months ago. I didn't even know about it. Jiang Haitian never told me that he was in high school. I had a good time with him when we were young, and then we went to college. Although we didn’t keep in touch often, we didn’t lose contact. I am a good classmate, but gradually we become alienated. I still hope that there can be such an event so that everyone can get together regularly, at least to understand each other's current situation, and to know who needs help in time. "

Lu Yanhe looked surprised.

Only then did he realize that Li Pengfei had such a motive for organizing a class reunion.

"So that's it."

"Um."

Li Pengfei smiled and asked, "By the way, do you still remember Mei Ping?"

"Of course I remember, she is very active in the class." Lu Yanhe said.

Li Pengfei said: "She seems to be getting married soon."

"Ah? Getting married? So soon?" Lu Yanhe was shocked.

Marriage seems to be a very distant thing for them at this age. Lu Yanhe did not expect that it would happen to his peers around him so soon.

"Yeah." Li Pengfei said, "You didn't expect it, right? I was shocked too."

Neither Lu Yanhe nor Li Pengfei were single, but they had never thought about getting married so early.

"Will you and Chen Siqi consider this matter recently?"

"We just agreed to rent a house together after graduation."

Li Pengfei: "You two are renting a house together? Why don't you just buy one? With your financial strength, you should have been able to afford it a long time ago, right?"

"Because I haven't paid enough social security for a long time, I'm not eligible to buy a house." Lu Yanhe said, "Unless you buy a house in Lingyang District, there is no purchase restriction there."

Li Pengfei: "Well, okay. If you tell others, they may not believe that you two are still renting a house."

"What's wrong with renting a house? The place where Li Zhibai, Yan Liang and I live now is still rented." Lu Yanhe said.

"It's mainly because it doesn't match the perception of you big stars among us ordinary people." Li Pengfei joked, "In our minds, you have already lived in that kind of big mansion."

Lu Yanhe: "It's boring to live in a mansion, at least I don't think it's boring now. Such a big house, there are only one or two of us living, it's empty."

"Do you think it's just one or two of you? Butlers, chefs, security guards, cleaners... Generally, people who live in mansions have a professional logistics team." Li Pengfei said.

Lu Yanhe was surprised and asked, "Is it so exaggerated?"

"What's so exaggerated about this? If you have money, you will always try every means to improve your quality of life. Isn't money meant to be spent? If you don't improve your quality of life, what's the point of making all this money? Put it in the bank and turn it into numbers?"

Li Pengfei's words made Lu Yanhe fall into deep thought.

"I must admit that I have always had the idea that no matter how much money I make, I should not waste it."

"This is not a waste."

"Indeed." Lu Yanhe nodded.

Li Pengfei: "Yanhe, don't forget that Chen Siqi is a girl who grew up in luxury. Don't use your idea of ​​​​saving money on her."

Lu Yanhe: "I didn't say that money should be spent frugally. Of course I saved money when I didn't have money before. Now I don't have money, right?"

"That's fine."

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In fact, there are people who go in regularly to clean the place called Ziyuan Bridge.

Lu Yanhe and the other three often go out to film, and the house is often empty.

When signing the contract with the agency, in addition to the confidentiality clause, there was also a clause that the agency would be responsible for the daily cleaning and management of the house.

However, these would usually be done when the three of them were not around, so Lu Yanhe was generally not aware of this.

Paying for services.

This is a very normal thing.

Lu Yanhe knew that he had a bit of an "ordinary family" mindset before.

In fact? He had already begun to enjoy the convenience of "paying for services", but he still thought he was in a state of self-sufficiency as much as possible.

His food, clothing, housing and transportation were all taken care of by Chen Ziyan, Wang Biao and the entire team.

It was said to be an assistant service at work, but many things in Lu Yanhe's life were also handled by Wang Biao.

Whether it was work or life, he had long been out of the mode of the general public.

This sounded a wake-up call for him.

It was not anything else.

It was that when acting, the "ordinary state" he thought of might not be the real "ordinary state".

Lu Yanhe, who was always self-reflective, wrote this down in his memory notebook.

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Two days later, he saw the broadcast trailer of the third season of "Friends" on the Internet.

This season, Zhang Lan joined and became one of the protagonists of the third season of "Friends".

However, this season has experienced another big change, the director has changed.

Bai Jingnian left Beijing and Taiwan and went to Northern Lights Video to shoot "Wulin Wai Zhuan" written by Lu Yanhe.

The director of this season of "Friends" has changed to Yu Yao.

Lu Yanhe doesn't know what style Yu Yao's previous directorial works were.

From the trailer, Zhang Lan's role is not much, basically on par with the other five leading actors, and she didn't do anything to steal the show, which made her first appearance receive much better audience feedback than Chen Ziliang in the second season.

However, the story of the third season seems to continue the bloody style of the second season.

From the trailer, Zhou Zhixi, played by Bai Jin, is even suspected of being pregnant, and it may be Hu Fan, played by Yan Liang.

This clip in the trailer was unsurprisingly hotly discussed and searched.

After two years of fermentation, the drama "Friends" has basically become the drama with the largest long-tail effect.

The strong audience base is beyond the imagination of many people.

The number of people who pay attention to the plot and character development of this drama has reached a very exaggerated level.

Especially after the reputation of the second season collapsed and the director was replaced in the third season, the fans of "Friends" now have a posture of scolding Jingtai to the end of time.

However, no matter what, the popularity of the third season of "Friends" is still far higher. Just a trailer came out, but it overwhelmed the popularity of all the TV series on the air.

This is the power of the king of dramas.

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"The data of the trailer can be synchronized with the previous advertisers to tell them that their doubts can be completely dispelled. Even if "Friends" does not have Lu Yanhe and changes the director, it is still the most watched and expected drama by the audience."

Xu Bin said to Hu Siwei.

Hu Siwei nodded.

The popularity of the trailer for the third season really made all of them feel relieved.

At least, the audience's expectations for "Six" are still there, and they have not lost interest because of the negative reputation of the second season.

After Hu Sisi nodded, he did not leave Xu Bin's office immediately.

"What's wrong?" Xu Bin looked at Hu Siwei and asked, "Do you have anything else to say?"

Hu Si thought for a while. As the producer of "Six People", he felt that he still needed to speak out.

"Xu Taiwan, although the trailer is very popular, there are loud voices of doubt. If the controversy continues like this, it may affect the ratings." Hu Siwei said, "We really don't invite Bai Jingnian back to direct. Season 4? The actors all said that the filming of this season was...much worse than before."

Xu Bin frowned.

"The second season was also very controversial, but in the end the ratings were still stable. This shows that the controversy will not affect this show."

Hu Siwei shook his head, "On the video platform, the replay rate of the second season is one-third less than that of the first season. Especially the clip where Chen Ziliang appeared, on the video website, 62% of the viewers skipped it directly."

This was not the first time Hu Siwei told Xu Bin these data.

Xu Bin also knew it a long time ago.

"Now that you invite Bai Jingnian back to direct the fourth season, aren't you shooting yourself in the foot?" Xu Bin said angrily.

When Bai Jingnian wanted to leave, it was because he felt that he was not taken seriously and was not taken seriously in Beijing and Taiwan, so he left in anger.

Hu Siwei said: "You have already seen the material of the third season. Compared with the previous two seasons, it has become worse to the naked eye. If we have to wait until the third season to be criticized by the audience before inviting Bai Jingnian back to direct , that’s really shooting yourself in the foot. If you ask for it now before the third season is aired, you still have a little bit of initiative.”

Xu Bin: "I don't believe that he is the only one who can direct "Six People". If he is so capable, how come he didn't show up until "Six People"? He has made so many movies before, but why didn't he get any hits?"

Hu Siwei: "...If he is incompetent, how could Lu Yanhe and Northern Lights Video invite him back to direct "Wulin Gaiden"?"

Xu Bin's face was gloomy and ugly.

Hu Siwei continued: "To be honest, I can say now that the reputation of the third season will be worse than that of the second season, and the ratings may not be stable. If Bai Jingnian cannot be invited back to direct, then the fourth season will be worse." It’s hard to say whether Ji can film in Chengdu.”

"What's the meaning?"

"Yan Liang and Wen Minglan have not signed contracts for the fourth season yet." Hu Siwei said, "After the end of the first season, we only signed an agreement with them for the second and third seasons. The two of them are rivals. The two actors who were most dissatisfied in the third season even had conflicts with the director on the set, and their opinions on the filming were very different."

Xu Bin's face turned even uglier.

"The two of them... have expressed this before. If "Six People" does not make changes, they will also consider leaving."

Xu Bin, who was in high spirits just now because of the good data in the trailer, could no longer be so high for a while.

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"Minglan and I have reached an agreement. If they continue to film "Six People" as they are doing now, we would rather not appear again."

Yan Liang told Lu Yanhe on the phone.

"At that time, they even arranged for me and Minglan to sleep together after being drunk."

Yan Liang had never told Lu Yanhe about this before, so Lu Yanhe now sounded like he was incredibly shocked.

"Both of us got angry, so we asked them to delete this plot and rewrite it." Yan Liang sighed, "Now they are making "Six People" more and more like a bloody drama. Well, when we were filming the first season, you said that "Six People" would become a state of life that many young people yearn for. I feel that they are not filming a state of life that everyone yearns for, but deliberately creating conflicts. "

Lu Yanhe: "Have you ever seriously talked to them about this? Who arranged this kind of plot in the script?"

Yan Liang: "Someone in Beijing and Taiwan suggested this, saying that the richer and more unexpected the plot will be, the more topical it will be. So the screenwriter will follow this advice. Anyway, the current directors and screenwriters will not talk to the TV station. People are naysayers.”

Lu Yanhe: "..."

"I just think it's a pity that such a good story and characters, such a good first season, and a sitcom that can't go wrong if you follow it, have been turned into what it is now." Yan Liang was very annoyed, "What a waste of you Written script and characters.”

Lu Yanhe: "It's okay, Yan Liang. If it doesn't work, we won't act in the future."

Yan Liang: "I should join you and stop acting after the first season."

"That's not the case. You can still watch the second season even if Chen Ziliang's part is deleted." Lu Yanhe said.

Yan Liang was still on fire. Hearing what Lu Yanhe said, he immediately laughed.

"Oh." Yan Liang smiled and sighed again.

In any case, it is always sad and depressing for a series that could have become a classic to end up continuing its journey.

Lu Yanhe asked: "Are you almost finished?"

"It's almost time. The director is wrapping up the work. My movie should be finished in three or four days." Yan Liang said, "I won't have to rest after finishing filming, and I have to cooperate with the promotion of the third season of "Six People". This time I have to I really don’t want to cooperate. If I don’t hold back and accidentally say something I shouldn’t say, that would be quite annoying.”

Lu Yanhe said: "Haha, you are such a cautious person, you won't do it. When you come back, your promotion will be promotion, and you will still have time to have a meal with us. By the end of December, I will go to film "Love Letter" 》

Yan Liang said: "I will go and observe when the time comes."

"By then? You won't have to cooperate with the promotion of "Six People" by then?"

"I didn't sign a month-long promotion period with them, so I just finished my cooperation." Yan Liang's dissatisfaction with Beijing and Taiwan can be felt over the phone.

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However, Lu Yanhe did not expect that the third season of "Six People" had just been announced, and over there, Northern Lights Video suddenly contacted Lu Yanhe and said that it wanted to release "Squid Game" at the end of December.

Although one is a TV series and the other is an online series, they are broadcast at the same time. In this era where everything is digitized, it is obviously a bit like competing in a competition.

Lu Yanhe was shocked and asked them, "Squid Game" was completed so quickly?

Northern Lights said that "Squid Game" is their most important project, and they have been working overtime to make it in time for the winter vacation.

For this kind of subject matter, middle school students are a viewing group that cannot be underestimated.

"Squidward" is also a short series. The original version only had nine episodes, each episode was sixty minutes long.

The script written by Lu Yanhe was changed into twelve episodes in total, and each episode was filmed for about fifty minutes.

Northern Lights plans to make "Squid Game" a daily broadcast mode, and it will be broadcast in twelve days.

Lu Yanhe was a little confused. For this kind of short drama, you either release the entire episode in one go, or you broadcast it weekly. What's the point of broadcasting it daily?

However, other video platforms naturally have their own considerations, and Lu Yanhe will not intervene to adjust such things.

"Squid Game" is finally going online, and Lu Yanhe is also very nervous.

The main reason is that Lu Yanhe himself doesn’t know why this drama is so popular——

Therefore, he was afraid that when he wrote the script, he would not write out the truly attractive aspects of it.

But it is an indisputable fact that this show is a hit.

Lu Yanhe will never question why a work is so popular with the audience. He will only ask himself, have you figured out why it is liked by everyone?

If you don’t figure it out, then you are actually unqualified as a creator.

Northern Lights Video released the trailer for Squidward three days after the trailer for Season 3 of Six.

It was also at this time that Lu Yanhe knew why Northern Lights Video had made "Squid Game" a twelve-episode daily broadcast model, because Maxine, the international streaming media broadcaster of "Squid Game", would broadcast the last episode in China. On the same day, the entire episode was released online at once.

Lu Yanhe: "..."

He thought there was some special reason for the daily broadcast of twelve episodes.

After working on it for a long time, it turned out to be just this.

If the third season of "Six" is based on the previous two seasons and has attracted much attention, then "Squid Game" was written by Lu Yanhe at the beginning of the project and has the same battle royale theme as "Seventeenth Floor". It's been long expected.

These two dramas were scheduled to be broadcast as if they were fighting in a ring, making everyone as excited as if they had been shot to death.

Everyone loves to watch the ring.

Especially——

The intersection of these two dramas lies in Lu Yanhe.

The busy media directly took the title: Avenger Lu Yanhe.

No one has forgotten the conflict that Lu Yanhe had with Beijing and Taiwan on the drama "Six People".

This is not a past that can be whitewashed by a "great reconciliation" between him and Jiang Lan on the same stage.

In fact, the time we were on the same stage was just the same stage.

After that, Lu Yanhe and Jingtai did not collaborate on any more dramas.

Judging from Lu Yanhe's current output and the frequency of cooperation with Northern Lights Video, we can already see the problem.

Everyone has an idea of ​​what Lu Yanhe's true attitude is towards Beijing and Taiwan.

Who will have better broadcast performance in the third season of "Six" or "Squidward Game"?

At this time, not many people were particularly optimistic about "Squid Game". After all, the latter is a new drama, while the former is a drama king that has accumulated two seasons. Even if the reputation of the second season of "Six" collapses, the basic base is still there.

Of course, with the configuration of "Squid Game" and the current data, it will definitely not be bad, and it will definitely be a hit.

Especially it will be launched on Maxine——

Based on Lu Yanhe's past performance, compared to the domestic broadcast performance of "Squid Game", everyone actually wants to see whether "Squid Game" can continue to be popular overseas.

This time, Lu Yanhe does not appear in "Squid Game".

Can Lu Yanhe’s “miracle of successful learning” be replicated?

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Six thousand words guaranteed, two thousand words extra.

The extra update event lasted for a week, which is quite incredible.

I also tried really hard.

I recommend reading my old book "I Became a Scandalous Diva Overnight". (End of chapter)