Roman Holiday 1

Su Jue glanced at him, “There’s another saying, if a man doesn’t indulge in romance when young, he’s wasted his youth. You’ve already entered old age ahead of time.”

Lu Yan smiled, “Is it okay for you to say that about your elder brother?”

Su Jue choked again. He was usually the one who left others speechless, especially in front of Li Ran. He was used to it. Now someone finally made him speechless. The feeling was really beyond description. Forget it, he won’t bother with him, who made him the “sister-in-law”? Su Jue complained silently in his heart.

Later, the two most talented men at the banquet were here, and more ladies came to chat with them. However, with Su Jue blocking the way, Lu Yan was happy and relaxed. Lu Yan was drinking a little wine on the side, smiling occasionally, watching Su Jue chatting and laughing among a group of beauties, handling the matter with ease. He often made the other person happy with just a few words without too much ambiguity, and sent away batches of people who came over. Most of them were ladies, but there were also some gentlemen. As the vice president of Starry Sky, Su Jue might not be noticed by many people, but as the second son of the Su Group, almost everyone wanted to make friends with him.

It was not until the theme of the dinner was about to begin that the crowd gradually dispersed and no longer gathered. Even Su Jue could not help but feel a sense of relief.

Lu Yan raised his thumb and said with a smile, “President Su is very charming. It really opens my eyes.”

Su Jue glanced at him unhappily, “Double the punishment today because you’re here.”

Lu Yan chuckled, “Thank you, president Su.”

Su Ju snorted softly, “I did this for my elder brother. Don’t say I didn’t take care of you when the time comes.”

Lu Yan smiled even more happily, “Yes, yes, thank you for your care, president Su.”

Needless to say, the next day’s entertainment section of the newspaper reported that Lu Yan was attending socialite Fang Qiong’s charity dinner. After finishing the filming of the previous TV series, Lu Yan also finalized the next movie to be taken.

In fact, he didn’t have to work so hard. He was already very popular. Even if he didn’t have any new works for the time being, there were still a lot of programs and announcements waiting for him to participate. What’s more, he was now practicing hard for the concert. However, Lu Yan had never been a person who liked to rest on his laurels. He always looked forward. Besides, acting was what he was most interested in. At his young age, why would he care about how hard it was?

This time he took on a literary and artistic love movie, which was a bit sad to say. In his previous life, he had been filming for more than ten years, but Lu Yan, who had never played the leading role, had never had the opportunity to play a supporting role in such a love movie. He had never even played a couple with any actress in a film or TV series. The treatment in this life was completely different, but apart from the previous TV series “When the Wind Rises”, this was also Lu Yan’s first movie with love as the theme.

The movie was called “Falling Flowers” and the director was Li Shihong. There were not many well-known female directors in China, and Li Shihong was the most famous one among them. She had always been good at shooting movies with female themes, and love art films were her best.

It was a coincidence that he got the chance to act in this movie. Li Shihong had invited Lu Yan a long time ago, hoping that he could play the leading role in her movie. But Lu Yan had already taken on “The Order” at that time, so he had to decline. 

As a result, some problems arose in Li Shihong’s own film crew, and all the originally planned filming plans were scrapped. By the time she was able to regroup and start filming again, the originally agreed male and female protagonists had already accepted other roles. Coincidentally, Lu Yan was free at this time, so she immediately extended an invitation to him.

Lu Yan couldn’t refuse this sincerity. Moreover, Li Shihong was the best female director in the country. Although her movies were not very popular, they were definitely good. After reading the script, Lu Yan agreed to take the role.

“Falling Flowers” told the story of a couple who, after seven years, find their relationship increasingly dull and their life increasingly lacking passion. Both find such days boring, and after thinking rationally, they decided to break up. But before breaking up, the heroine suggested that they revisit the places they had traveled together when they were in love, as a breakup trip, and the hero agreed.

The story began here. The film would constantly switch between the past and the present. The unfamiliarity and indifference of the two people now would contrast sharply with the romance and passion of the two in the past. How sweet the past was, how ironic it was now. During this journey, the two people kept recalling how much they loved each other. When the day came when they decided to break up, both of them were very reluctant, but various considerations prevented them from having the courage to speak their minds to each other. At the last moment, the heroine turned and left, and the hero suddenly rushed forward, hugged the heroine, and the two kissed in tears.

So this could be considered an open ending.

It was not a very original story, but director Li Shihong’s shooting technique was worth looking forward to. The place where the hero and heroine fell in love was Rome. Therefore, a large part of the film would be shot in Rome, which was not good news for Lu Yan at the moment.

After explaining the situation in detail to Mr. Zhu, Mr. Zhu expressed his understanding and said that for now, Lu Yan no longer needed too much guidance and just needed to practice more, so filming abroad would not delay anything. Only then did Lu Yan feel at ease to follow the crew.

It was already the last day, and the journey had come to an end, just like their love. This was where everything started, and where it would end.

Ji Feng looked at Yu Jin bathed in the morning light. Her hair swayed slightly as she turned around, like the strings of a musical instrument placed on the desk, which once again touched his heartstrings after many years. However, he no longer had the courage to express his feelings as frankly as he did back then.

Ji Feng had a complicated expression, as if he had a thousand words to say, but in the end it just turned into a light sigh. He looked at Yu Jin, and the nostalgia and reluctance in his eyes were so clear even to the usually carefree Yu Jin, but she didn’t say anything.

Ji Feng forced a smile, “Are you leaving?”

“Yeah.” Yu Jin responded lightly, but did not move forward immediately. The two looked at each other for a long time, and Yu Jin finally said, “Don’t you have anything to say to me?”

Ji Feng’s lips trembled, hesitating to speak, and finally uttered two words bitterly, “Take care.”

Yu Jin’s smile froze, her expression was very forced, she nodded, said nothing more, turned and left.

“Yu Jin!” Ji Feng suddenly shouted.

Yu Jin suddenly turned around.

Ji Feng rushed over and hugged her.

The two hugged each other tightly.

Ji Feng lowered his head, found Yu Jin’s lips, and pressed them hard. They kissed deeply in the morning light, as if this was the last time in their lives.

Tears that came from nowhere slowly flowed down the tightly closed eyes and fell on each other’s lips. They didn’t know what it felt like.

The whole movie should end with this shot, but it was not filmed in the order of the plot.

The morning in Rome was exceptionally crisp. The fresh scent of grass and trees mixed with the slight humidity in the air smelled particularly refreshing.

This set of shots was shot three times in total. It wasn’t because Lu Yan and the leading actress’ acting skills were unsatisfactory, but because the director was striving for perfection and wanted to shoot from different angles.

After the shoot was over, Lu Yan took the cup of water handed to him by Song Hui and rinsed his mouth carefully.

The heroine Tian Yue came over and said, “I didn’t wear lipstick today. I just put on some lip balm, orange flavor. How is it?”

Lu Yan said calmly, “It’s a bit greasy.”

Tian Yue tilted her head, pointed at the water cup in his hand, and said with a smile, “If you act like this, I will think you are disliking me, and I will feel very hurt.”

Lu Yan frowned slightly, “I really don’t like the taste.”

Tian Yue deliberately said, “Then I’ll change the flavor next time. How about strawberry?”

Lu Yan raised his eyebrows, “It’s the same.”

Tian Yue laughed, “So, it’s not because of the taste, but because of the person, right?”

Lu Yan said frankly, “That’s right.”

“You are so honest. Aren’t you afraid that I will be angry?” Tian Yue deliberately frowned.

Lu Yan smiled, “Because Sister Tian Yue likes to hear the truth.”

“Haha, you are really good at talking. This way I can’t be angry with you.” Tian Yue laughed, “But just now, I didn’t feel that you were reluctant at all. I almost thought you loved me deeply. You are worthy of being the Cannes movie king”

“The acting skills of the Golden Bell Award winner are equally amazing.” Lu Yan reciprocated.

Tian Yue was a few years older than Lu Yan and debuted earlier than him. She won the Golden Bell Award for Best Actress a few years ago. She had a cheerful personality and got along well with Lu Yan. She usually liked to jokingly call herself a senior in front of him.

Lu Yan felt that there was no need to feel restrained when getting along with her.

“I heard you have a girlfriend?” Everyone has a gossipy heart, and the Golden Bell movie Queen was no exception.

Lu Yan smiled and said, “yes, a lover.”

“Is she an insider?” Tian Yue didn’t understand and automatically asked a question.

“no.”

“Then,” Tian Yue rolled his eyes and smiled, “Does she mind if you kiss another woman?”

“It’s a job, and he knows that.”

“Hehe, you may say that but you may not mean it in your heart. Women are very stingy, you don’t understand.” Tian Yue said earnestly.

“Maybe.” Lu Yan responded disapprovingly, and added in his heart that he was not a woman.

“However, if I had such a handsome boyfriend, I would tolerate him kissing other people.” Tian Yue said with a smile.

“I didn’t expect Sister Tian Yue to be so generous.” Lu Yan teased.

“It depends on the person. I’m not generous at all.” Tian Yue said seriously.

Soon Tian Yue’s assistant came over and took them to have breakfast. Lu Yan looked at her back, thinking about the conversation between them just now, and somehow he became interested.

Song Hui also brought breakfast, but Lu Yan waved his hand and walked to the open space at the back alone.

When there was no one around, he took out his cell phone. The view here was wide and he didn’t have to worry about being eavesdropped by the wall. He quickly dialed a familiar number, and the call was picked up after two rings. Because of the time difference, it was noon there.

The person on the other end of the phone was a little surprised, “Why did you call so early today?”

They talk on the phone or send text messages every day, but usually in the afternoon for Lu Yan and evening for the other party.

“It’s late. We just finished filming a scene,” Lu Yan emphasized in a low voice, “It was the final kissing scene.”

“Hmm.” There was a response from the other end.

It was a normal reaction, but Lu Yan asked, “Do you mind if I kiss someone else?”

“This is your job, I understand. Don’t worry, I won’t take it to heart.” Su Mo said seriously.

As expected, it was just as he said, his lover was so reasonable. Lu Yan thought, but why did he feel so uncomfortable in his heart? Could it be that he was affected by what Tian Yue said?

Lu Yan pondered for a while, but the person on the other end of the phone became nervous, “What’s wrong, Lu Yan, why aren’t you talking?”

“Yeah,” Lu Yan responded softly, and then said in a somewhat depressed mood, “I miss you a lot.”

Lu Yan clearly heard the person on the other end of the phone breathing quickly. After a long while, he whispered, “I miss you too.”

Imagining the other party’s reaction, Lu Yan’s mood became cheerful again. Looking at the gradually rising sun, his eyes were full of smiles. “I really want you to see the sunrise here, too. It’s so beautiful.”

There was silence for a while, and then he said firmly, “There will be a chance.”