Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Zhao He didn’t wait long in the private room, and saw the waiter leading a man in a shirt and holding a suit jacket in his hand. He rubbed his somewhat unclear head, “Are you Lu Chengyu’s boss?” He looked the man up and down. Although the brand of his clothes and shoes could not be seen, he could still tell that they were not cheap.
Yan Mu walked to the sofa and squatted down. Seeing that Lu Chengyu had fallen asleep after drinking, he shook his shoulder. Seeing that Lu Chengyu did not respond, he knew that he was very drunk, and said to Zhao He: “Thank you for taking care of him.” After that, he asked the waiter to help support Lu Chengyu. He carried the man on his back and walked out the door with steady steps.
Zhao He stared at Yan Mu carrying him out of the private room in amazement. After a moment of hesitation, he picked up Yan Mu’s coat that he had forgotten on the sofa and chased after him. When they arrived at the parking lot outside the KTV, he saw Yan Mu putting Lu Chengyu into a Maybach. He immediately sighed, “F**k, it’s a limited edition car!”
Although his family was rich, he was only a small rich man in Beijing, where there were many wealthy families. His father couldn’t afford this type of car, and even if he could, he won’t spend money to buy it for him. Taking the opportunity to take a few more glances at the car, he saw that Lu Chengyu had been placed in the passenger seat by his boss and his seat belt was fastened well, so he handed the coat back to Yan Mu, hesitated for a moment and said, “There’s no one at his home. Everyone drank a lot today. Please take care of him.”
“I know, thank you for reminding me.” Yan Mu covered Lu Chengyu with his suit jacket, turned on the air conditioner in the car, nodded to Zhao He, then started the car and drove away.
Yan Mu drove very steadily, so when he arrived downstairs of Lu Chengyu’s building, Lu Chengyu was still sleeping soundly, without even changing his position.
After unbuckling his seat belt, Yan Mu looked at the building in front of him, and helped Lu Chengyu out of the car. His expression changed slightly. Even though he was not fat, it was quite difficult to help him up after he lost consciousness.
Lu Chengyu felt dizzy, as if he had lost control. He turned over and over in pain on the bed several times, and then sat up with the quilt in his arms. He looked around and found that it was actually his room. How did he get back? He accidentally drank too much last night. He forgot that this was when he had just graduated from college, not eight years later when his drinking capacity had been improved. Time was a sharp knife that not only made people older, but also made people more and more adaptable to this society.
Hearing the noise outside, he was stunned, jumped off the bed, and saw a terrifying scene when he went out. The big boss of his company actually walked towards him with fried eggs and milk. He was stunned for several seconds before he said, “Boss?”
“I called you last night, and your classmates said you were drunk.” Yan Mu saw that he had woken up, turned around and put the breakfast on the dining table, then went back to the kitchen to take out his breakfast. Seeing Lu Chengyu still standing at the door, he said, “Your stomach must be uncomfortable, don’t you want to eat?”
“No,” Lu Chengyu went back to the bathroom to quickly wash his face and brush his teeth, then sat down at the dining table and started eating the eggs fried by Yan Mu. He had to say that these eggs were much better than his. After taking a sip of milk, he said gratefully, “Thank you.” In terms of relationship, he was an employee and Yan Mu was the boss. Generally speaking, only employees pleased their bosses, and no boss took care of their employees. If an employee encountered the opposite situation, it could only mean that the employee was out of luck.
Yan Mu came to pick him up because his classmates said he was drunk and took care of him all night. What kind of spirit was this? This was a revolutionary friendship, a spirit like Lei Feng[1].
“It’s a small matter, no need to thank me. I used your guest room without your consent last night, I’m sorry.” Yan Mu’s eating posture was very standard, so standard that it seemed like it was measured with a ruler. Lu Chengyu even found that the amount of food he ate was almost the same every time.
Hearing what the other party said, Lu Chengyu hurriedly said: “Boss, you took care of me for a whole night, and you still had to prepare the room yourself. It’s my turn to say sorry.” This time his apology was absolutely sincere, just like the thanks just now, really without any discount.
Then, after Lu Chengyu said this and had drunk half a glass of milk, Yan Mu opened his mouth and said: “If you can prepare the guest room soberly, I won’t have to take care of you.”
This kind of joking words, spoken by such an expressionless person, simply had a critical effect. Lu Chengyu almost choked on the milk. He smiled dryly and said, “Next time I will drink less.”
“Yeah,” Yan Mu nodded in agreement, “Drinking alcohol hurts the liver, it’s not good.”
Lu Chengyu nodded under the other’s serious eyes and said, “I’ll remember that.”
Then he saw a look of “you can still be saved” in the other’s eyes, so he had to silently lower his head and continue to fight with the poached egg.
After Lu Chengyu finished eating, Yan Mu insisted on collecting the dishes, and then left Lu Chengyu’s house wearing yesterday’s clothes. Before leaving, he specifically told Lu Chengyu to eat lunch on time and not to go to work today.
Lu Chengyu watched the other person’s back as he entered the elevator, touching his chin and thinking, it seems that no matter what kind of group it is, there are different people, such as the rich second generations.
Just when the elevator door was about to close, Lu Chengyu heard Yan Mu’s voice again from inside the elevator.
“Remember to come to work on time tomorrow.”
However, all bosses in the world were the same.
After returning to the house, taking a shower and changing clothes, Lu Chengyu sat on the sofa in the living room and found a plate of fresh fruits under the coffee table. Needless to say, it was Yan Mu who must have gone out to buy it this morning.
Looking at these fruits, he couldn’t help but smile.
It was almost noon when Lu Chengyu went out and found a casserole restaurant to sit down. In the end, he only ordered two light dishes. If you drink too much wine, your stomach would rebel and you couldn’t eat anything else.
The casserole pigeon soup tasted very good, which stimulated Lu Chengyu’s appetite. And when he was eating happily, he heard people at the next table complaining. He turned his head and saw two men in their thirties sitting face to face. Both of them had bitter faces, messy hair, and looked a little embarrassed.
Not many people may know these two people now, but Lu Chengyu was very familiar with them, because they were the director Zhang Shuo and screenwriter Qu Lingbei who later became very famous. It was rumored that the two had been good brothers for many years. In the early years, they shot a movie with an investment of only one million, but the box office reached 900 million. That low-budget movie made several artists famous, and also made Zhang Shuo and Qu Lingbei stand out in the entertainment industry.
The two of them worked together to shoot several well-received and commercially successful movies after that. In the year when Lu Chengyu died in his previous life, the two of them were already big names in the circle. No one expected that when the two of them failed to make it, they would be in such a miserable state.
“Why don’t we just forget it,” Qu Lingbei tilted his head back and took a sip of wine. “We have been running around for several months, and no one has paid attention to us.”
“If I had one or two million, why would I need to beg those grandsons,” Zhang Shuo wiped his face, “We have wasted so much effort. If we quit, wouldn’t all the previous efforts be in vain?”
“It’s in vain,” Qu Lingbei smiled bitterly, “A few days ago, my relative found me a job. The salary is pretty good. I want to try it.” His child was about to go to elementary school. Although his wife had always supported him, he couldn’t watch his wife and children suffer because of his dream. What kind of man would he be then?
Zhang Shuo fell silent. He knew the difficulties of his friend. The other party was not like him who could feed the whole family with a full stomach. He had a wife and children at home. It was impossible for him to keep wasting time like this.
“Are you two planning to make a movie?” Lu Chengyu had no shame for eavesdropping on other people’s conversations. He asked with the look of a young man who was very curious, “What kind of movie are you going to make?”
Zhang Shuo saw that the person asking the question was the young man at the next table. He knew that their conversation was overheard by the other party, so he said with some discomfort, “We don’t have money now, what kind of movie can we make?”
“Will it cost a lot of money?” Lu Chengyu remembered that Qu Lingbei had talked about this experience in an interview with a TV station later. The general idea was that just when the two had decided to give up, the owner of a large supermarket became very interested in their script and finally invested two million to let them make the movie successfully. Who knew that the movie would become a hit, bringing them to the peak of their lives and making the supermarket owner a lot of money.
“That’s not true. Even if our movie is a low-budget one, it will cost two or three million.” Zhang Shuo saw that Lu Chengyu looked like a good person and was curious, and he even thought he was a young man who wanted to be an actor, so he shook his head and sighed, “Young man, it’s not easy to get into the entertainment industry.”
“I don’t want to get into the entertainment industry, but I like watching movies. If it’s only two or three million, I can pay you to make it,” Lu Chengyu said in the other’s unbelieving eyes, “or we can find a place to discuss the details.”
He didn’t have much cash on hand, but he could still take out two or three million. Although Zhang Shuo and Qu Lingbei didn’t have much hope, they had no way out now, so they might as well listen to what this young man had to say. Anyway, it wouldn’t hurt to listen.
However, after they sat down in the teahouse, and really negotiated the details, and found a lawyer to sign the contract, the two of them realized that they had been running around for so many days without any results, but they actually met a noble person in a restaurant?
The first payment was transferred to their accounts that afternoon. Zhang Shuo looked at the balance on the card and smiled so hard that his fat face was distorted.
This was simply a sum of money that fell from the sky, making them a little dizzy.
Lu Chengyu was in a good mood. For him, this was an opportunity that fell from the sky. He read the script in the afternoon. The two of them were going to shoot “Flying Bird”. This movie was still a successful example of low cost and high return several years later. Even many movie investors envied and hated the supermarket owner. What kind of shit luck could he have to pick up this money.
However, Lu Chengyu knew very well that the supermarket owner didn’t have much money. Even when he signed a cooperation agreement with Zhang Shuo, the money in his hand was not enough to make a movie. However, this person got on the back of Huading in the middle of the process. After making a small amount of money in real estate, he transferred the later investment money of “Flying Bird”. This person’s name was Huang Chuan, who later became a famous investor in the film and television industry and was also the bast**d who wanted to take advantage of Lu Chengyu.
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[1] Lei Feng was a soldier in the People’s Liberation Army who was the object of several major campaigns in China. The most well-known of these campaigns in 1963 promoted the slogan, “Follow the examples of Comrade Lei Feng.”