Recalcitrant

Whether to accept "No Man's Land", Lu Shaoheng gave Chen Yao two choices.

One is to agree to pick up immediately, and the other is to think about it first and agree to pick up later.To sum it up in one sentence, he is going to decide on Chen Zhuo for this film, and he cannot choose.

This is in line with Lu Shaoheng's usual style.

The next day, Chen Yao called Lu Shaoheng and formally refused again.Lu Shaoheng didn't say anything on the face, and even chatted with Chen Zhuo in a good mood about the few florets that have just appeared on the big screen recently.

As soon as he turned his head, he deducted the post-production and publicity expenses of "Golden Que Fengyuelu". It can be seen that the threat Lu Shaoheng made to Chen Zhuo in the convenience store that night was not a joke .

"Lin Manni from Xinyi Entertainment, I have been with her for more than half a year, and we agreed to sign a contract with us as soon as the contract with Xinyi expires." Jiang Xiaobo just came back from the outside, so he rushed into Chen Yao's room without taking a sip of water. The office accused Lu Shaoheng of the crime: "Guess what she said today? She said that Juxing is also interested in her, and they are in contact. There is no rush to sign the contract."

Juxing suddenly throws an olive branch to Lin Manni at this time, it's hard not to be suspicious.Although Chen Zhuo and his company have been doing well over the years and have become well-known, there is still a big gap compared to established flagships like Juxing.

There is an old saying that a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and a broken boat has three catties of nails. Moreover, Lu Shaoheng must have promised generous conditions in order to recruit people from Chen Zhuo.

"Lu Shaoheng is so domineering. Now that he is short of people, he wants to force you to help. Why?"

Of course Jiang Xiaobo knew what Lu Shaoheng's purpose was, wasn't it just to force Chen Yao to accept his bad movie?Although he also hoped that Chen Zhuo could come back, Lu Shaoheng's method still made him so angry: "If you are really determined not to accept, he can do this again. Otherwise, I will give a few people from Juxing Shareholders make a phone call to see what he can do!"

Unlike Jiang Xiaobo, who was filled with righteous indignation, Chen Zhuo's mental state was much more stable. On the second day after meeting with Lu Shaoheng, the relevant materials of "No Man's Land" came into his hands, as if he was sure that he could not refuse.

"No need." Chen Yan flipped through the rendering of the scene design, no emotion could be seen on his face: "He——"

He's always been that way.

Jiang Xiaobo saw Chen Zhuo's unsalty attitude, hated that iron could not be made into steel, and snapped angrily: "He is just spoiled by you to be lawless!"

On the other side, Lu Shaoheng was pressing harder and harder, while Chen Zhuo still adopted an attitude of remaining the same and allowing Lu Shaoheng to make trouble for him, and he made up his mind not to let go.

After more than half a month, Lu Shaoheng's fist seemed to hit cotton, without any echo.

But no matter how deadlocked the two are, daily contact is still indispensable. After all, many of the previous projects were shot by the two of them together. To a certain extent, they can be regarded as people on the same boat.

On Friday night, there was a dinner party for the production party. As soon as Chen Yao walked into the box, he saw the old god Lu Shaoheng sitting on the main seat, with his head slightly tilted, listening carefully to what the people around him said to him.

It's not unusual for Lu Shaoheng to come out to socialize today. I heard that he has been unable to be a hands-off shopkeeper in the recent period. He has personally taken charge of a lot of work, and even the time spent fooling around has been reduced a lot.

According to Jiang Xiaobo's analysis, it is likely that the staff of Juxing left one after another, and there is no trustworthy person around him, so he can only roll up his sleeves and do it himself.

It can be seen that Lu Shaoheng is really short of people.

"Mr. Chen is here! Hurry up, please come in!"

Chen Zhuo entered the door as if nothing had happened, and sat down on the empty seat next to Lu Shaoheng.Lu Shaoheng raised his head and warmly greeted Chen Yao, and poured him a cup of tea with his own hands.

"How are you doing recently?" Lu Shaoheng pushed the teacup in front of Chen Yao and asked.

"Thanks to you." Chen Zhuo looked at the steaming heat coming out of the cup, and said expressionlessly, "Jiang Xiaobo lost weight for several laps."

Jiang Xiaobo couldn't hold his breath. He must be so angry that his head was smoking these days. Thinking of this, Lu Shaoheng couldn't help laughing.Looking up at Chen Zhuo's eyes, Lu Shaoheng suppressed his smile pretending to be serious, and he was about to tease Chen Zhuo a few more words, when a producer at the same table said to him: "Mr. Lu, Mr. Chen, a Come and get together and whisper something?"

Lu Shaoheng stopped talking and temporarily put aside his grievances with Chen Zhuo. At least at this moment, they will stand on the same front.

The dinner party lasted until ten o'clock in the evening. During the dinner, Chen Zhuo drank some wine and was not allowed to drive. Everyone knew about his relationship with Lu Shaoheng. When the party ended, he naturally took Mr. Lu's car to go home. No one who was ignorant came out. messy.

Lu Shaoheng's car was parked on the basement floor, and the two got on the elevator affectionately under the gaze of everyone. When the elevator door opened again, it was Chen Zhuo who came out first, and Lu Shaoheng followed him leisurely .

The two people who had just sang and cooperated tacitly at the wine table, now walked one after the other in the empty parking lot. There was only a few steps between them, but it seemed like an insurmountable gap.

After returning to the car, the atmosphere between the two finally dropped to a freezing point. Now there are no outsiders, and there is no need to do superficial efforts. Chen Yao stopped talking to Lu Shaoheng, and turned his head to look out the window and closed his eyes as soon as he sat in the co-pilot Resting my mind, I didn't speak a word to him from the beginning to the end.

Chen Zhuo didn't speak, so Lu Shaoheng was naturally not interested in putting his hot face on his cold butt. He closed the car window tightly and drove away from the hotel in a wobbly manner.

The traffic was smooth at night, and there were not many red lights along the way.Until the car arrived at the destination, Chen Zhuo showed no signs of waking up.

It was rare for Lu Shaoheng to be considerate tonight. Instead of waking Chen Yao up immediately, he parked the car downstairs at Chen Yao's house, turned off all the lights in the car, and sat quietly beside him.

The neighborhood is very quiet at night, with warm yellow street lights spreading forward layer by layer along the garden path.The temperature just dropped a few days ago, and the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor was huge. After a while, a layer of white fog formed on the front windshield.

The two stayed in the dark like this for half an hour, when a little wild cat landed on the front hood with a "click" and ran away quickly.

Only then did Lu Shaoheng move his body, as if he had just arrived, he lightly touched Chen Zhuo's arm, and said, "Mr. Chen, we're here."

Chen Yao opened his eyes and glanced out of the window, and found that he had already arrived at the downstairs of the house, then opened the door and got out of the car, without giving Lu Shaoheng a look from the beginning to the end.

Sitting in the car, Lu Shaoheng looked at Chen Zhuo's back leaving under the street lamp, and a special impulse suddenly surged in his heart.

He started the car, turned on the lights, and followed behind Chen Yan at a speed slower than walking. One person and one car were blocked on the motorway of the community, walking forward at the speed of a turtle, which was very unethical. Heart.

Finally, Chen Zhuo stopped.

"Chen Zhuo, are you still angry?"

Seeing that Chen Yao's attitude had softened, Lu Shaoheng pressed down on the car window, leaned half of his shoulder out of the window, and said to the person not far away: "I'm going on a business trip tomorrow, and you won't even say goodbye to me? "

The filming of "Tomorrow" is coming to an end, and the production cycle of this film has been lengthened again and again, causing the cost to seriously exceed the standard.The manager of the production department has already been fired by him. This time, Lu Shaoheng decided to fly to the crew to personally supervise the remaining filming work.

Hearing that Lu Shaoheng was leaving tomorrow, Chen Zhuo condescended to turn around and glanced at him. At this time, Lu Shaoheng was lying on the car window in an out-of-shape manner, with his elbows resting on his chin, and the smile on his face was careless, just like the one in the movie Love-hate playboy.

"Goodbye." After Chen Zhuo dropped these two words, he turned his head and continued walking.

Lu Shaoheng drove up and followed: "Are you really not considering making movies again?"

This time Chen Yao was finally willing to stop, and said a few more words to him: "You know, I haven't made a movie for a long time, and the one I made before..."

Chen Zhuo's last two works three years ago, due to a sudden change in style, the quality declined sharply, and they are still the main talking points used to attack him in the fan-black war. There are even rumors that Chen Zhuo retreated behind the scenes. Unexpectedly, the main reason is that Jiang Lang's talent is exhausted, and he can no longer shoot good works.

"If I have to make a film, I can't guarantee you the box office or word of mouth." Chen Yao continued.

"I'm not afraid of the person who poured real money into it. What are you afraid of?" Lu Shaoheng smiled and said to Chen Zhuo: "Chen Zhuo, try again. I'll make films for you like in the past, okay?"

Chen Zhuo didn't immediately agree to Lu Shaoheng's good or bad, he stepped towards him, and suddenly said irrelevantly: "Last time you said that if I am willing to take this movie, I can ask you a condition .”

Speaking of this, Chen Yao stopped, stood outside the car window, lowered his head and asked Lu Shaoheng: "Is it true?"

Chen Zhuo stood against the light, with a thick black shadow covering his hood, making it impossible to distinguish his expression for a while.

Lu Shaoheng didn't expect him to mention this matter suddenly, he was slightly stunned, but he quickly raised his head again, met Chen Zhuo's gaze, and asked with a smile: "What do you want?"

"I owe it first." Chen Yao didn't give his answer right away, but just looked at Lu Shaoheng and said, "I'll talk to you after the movie is finished."

"Then it's settled." Lu Shaoheng stretched out his little finger from the window and said to Chen Zhuo, "Pull the hook."

"Save this little trick of yours to deceive others. Let's go." Chen Zhuo smiled, turned around and was about to leave.

"Hurry up." Lu Shaoheng urged: "If you pull the hook, you can't go back on your word, or be careful that I will turn my face and deny anyone. My character is very bad."

Lu Shaoheng played tricks, Chen Zhuo had always had nothing to do with him.He had no choice but to turn back, stretch out his hand to hook his little finger, and his thumb gently stuck to his fingertip.

Lu Shaoheng's fingertips were sweaty, a little wet and a little cold.

But at this moment, Lu Shaoheng suddenly grabbed Chen Zhuo's hand, yanked forward, staggered Chen Zhuo, then stretched out his arm, hugged Chen Zhuo quickly, and before he could react, Back off quickly.

The warmth in his arms came and went, Chen Zhuo didn't even have time to keep him.

"I know you are more suitable for this movie than Wang Wenyu." Lu Shaoheng let go of Chen Zhuo's hand, and the teasing and ridicule on his face disappeared without a trace.

He looked up at Chen Zhuo, and rarely showed his sincerity: "I believe in my own judgment, and I also believe in you."

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