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After Su Mo received the call, he walked to the side of the road and waited. Not long after, a cool Aston Martin stopped in front of him as if a gust of wind passed by.

Lu Yan stuck his head out, tilted his head slightly, and said with a smile, “Get in the car.”

Su Mo didn’t say anything, got into the car and fastened his seat belt.

Lu Yan didn’t even say hello as the car sped away again. Due to inertia, Su Mo even rushed forward slightly.

The car was driving quite fast, of course this was only relative to the normal speed of the car, not as fast as a sports car. But because the top was open, it was enough for the people in the car to experience the feeling of speeding.

Fortunately, it was already very late at night and there were almost no vehicles on the road. The few vehicles that occasionally passed by were not much slower than them.

It was the first time that Su Mo saw Lu Yan driving so fast.

In fact, Su Mo rarely saw Lu Yan driving. Usually when the two were together, Su Mo was the one driving, and Lu Yan would take over when he got tired. And usually, Lu Yan drove more steadily than Su Mo.

It was only today that Su Mo found out that Lu Yan was such a good racer that even Chen Yue was no match for him.

How many secrets did he have?

However, if Lu Yan was not going to say it, Su Mo was not going to ask. Even the closest people should give each other some space, saying everything was not necessarily a good thing.

Of course, if Lu Yan wanted to talk, he would be happy to listen.

Finally, Lu Yan parked the car on Jiangbin Road.

After getting out of the car, the two walked to the guardrail by the river. They looked across the guardrail at the river flowing quietly at night. The wind blowing from the river brought a moist breath.

Lu Yan turned around and leaned his back against the guardrail, resting his hands on it, tilting his head back, closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, then smiled and said, “I haven’t driven like this for a long time. It feels great!”

Su Mo said calmly, “You’re not feeling well and you’re still racing with others. Are you trying to kill yourself?” Although he said this, there was no hint of blame in his tone. He knew that Lu Yan was always very sensible, and he believed that he would not joke about his own life. He knew better than anyone how much Lu Yan cherished his life.

Lu Yan raised his head, smiled at him, and suddenly asked, “Do you have cigarettes?”

Su Mo glanced at him and nodded, “It’s in the car. I’ll get it.”

The two stood face to face, their heads almost touching. Lu Yan had his back to the river, a cigarette in his mouth, and Su Mo blocked the wind with one hand while lighting a lighter for him. The two were very close, their posture was ambiguous and warm.

Neither of them was addicted to smoking and they rarely smoked, but they still smoke one or two occasionally.

After lighting the cigarette, Lu Yan leaned back again, and Su Mo put the lighter into his pocket.

Taking a deep breath and slowly exhaling the smoke, Lu Yan looked at the night sky that was getting darker without the lights in the distance, and suddenly said, “When I was admitted to university, I started racing with others.”

Although those past secrets didn’t need to be known to others, Su Mo was not like other people. Maybe because it was too late at night and his emotions were fluctuating, he had a special desire to tell them at this time.

Lu Yan spoke slowly and calmly, “It’s very expensive to go to acting school, and I didn’t have any money. I didn’t have any relatives or friends who could lend me money, and I didn’t want to use that person’s money. It just so happened that I had just passed my driving test. My coach saw that I had a talent for learning to drive and knew that I was short of money, so he asked me if I wanted to learn racing from him, the kind of informal private racing. As long as you are brave enough and have good skills, you will get money if you win. I agreed.”

“I remember the first time I raced with someone, I was quite scared, and my palms were sweaty when I finished. Of course, I didn’t win that time, and I didn’t have any money, so my coach paid for me. I don’t know where he got so much confidence in me, but it turned out that he had a good eye. After playing for a year, I never lost again. And slowly, my mentality changed.

At first it was for money, but later it became more than just for money. I became addicted to the extreme speed and the crazy feeling, and I could hardly stop. Even when I met someone with better skills than me, they were not as brave as me, so I always won. Now I think I am so lucky that nothing happened. It was not until the coach who taught me racing died suddenly that I stopped doing this. “

At this point, Lu Yan paused, and Su Mo asked, “Is it because of the racing?”

Lu Yan did not answer immediately, but smiled, with a hint of sarcasm, “No. He owed a lot of money and could not pay it back. When the loan sharks were chasing him for debt, he fell off the overpass and died. The reason he borrowed money was because his wife was seriously ill and needed money for treatment, but in the end she was not cured.”

“…” Su Mo felt that nothing he said would be appropriate, so he simply stopped talking.

Lu Yan didn’t care and continued, “They didn’t have any relatives. At that time, I was no longer short of money because of racing, so I cremated them and placed them in the cemetery. Suddenly I realized that life is impermanent and we should cherish it, so I stopped doing it. Later, I never touched it again, and I rarely even drove until today.”

Lu Yan turned around, facing Su Mo, spread his arms, and said with a smile, “You see, I was also young and crazy at that time.” He held Su Mo’s hand and looked into his eyes, “I knew how to cherish what I had when I had nothing, let alone now that I have you. Don’t worry, I won’t do anything to hurt myself and make you worry. In fact, I didn’t try my best tonight. I’ve played against many young men like this before, and I know their bottom line very well. “

Lu Yan smiled and said, “At that time, they were my biggest financial backers. Almost all of my living expenses and tuition fees came from them.”

Su Mo still didn’t say anything, so Lu Yan continued, “I must let them know that I am the only one who is qualified to stand by your side, no matter from which aspect. I don’t care how they look at me, but I can’t let others say that Su Mo has no taste and the man he likes is actually a wimp.”

Su Mo finally burst out laughing and raised his eyebrows, “Who dares?”

Seeing that he finally smiled, Lu Yan reached forward and hugged him, resting his chin on his shoulder, so his voice was a little muffled, “Yes, they don’t dare.”

Su Mo hugged him with his backhand and sighed, “I don’t care what others think of me, I only care whether you are safe. But I know you always know your limits, so just do whatever you want. Just remember one thing, you and I will share life and death together!”

“Yeah, I know!” Lu Yan hugged him even tighter.

The river wind was cold at night, but they felt warm as they embraced each other.

After the rare holiday, he continued to work non-stop.

This time, Qin Feng arranged for Lu Yan to act in a costume movie, which was very interesting.

The movie was called “The Biography of Wang Xuance”, which tells the most glorious period of Wang Xuance’s life.

Lu Yan was not very familiar with history and only knew a little about Wang Xuance. It was only after he took on this play that he began to study his life in detail.

Wang Xuance was an envoy during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty and was sent to India four times. During his second official mission to India as the chief envoy, he was involved in the throne usurpation incident at the time and was reduced to a prisoner. After escaping riskily, he did not return home immediately. Instead, he went north along the Indian mainland and arrived at the then Kingdom of Nepal. He borrowed troops from Nepal and attacked back. In the end, he defeated the larger force with a smaller one, creating the legendary feat of “one man destroying an entire country.”

The master of Japanese fantasy literature, Yoshiki Tanaka, was very interested in him and even thought that “it would not be impossible to regard him as the protagonist of an adventure movie with a Hollywood style.”

However, because his deeds mainly took place outside the country, there were not many records of him in history books, which had led to many people not knowing him well today. This glorious period of his had almost been forgotten in the turbulent history.

The film that Lu Yan took on mainly told this legend.

This was a very legendary character, and it is also a very interesting story. But if that were the case, Qin Feng would not have been so eager to take on the film. After all, making a film is not like writing a novel, and it is not enough for the story itself to be interesting. It also depends on the director’s ability to tell the story clearly, brilliantly, and attractively.

So what moved Qin Feng was not the story itself, but the person who told the story, that is, the director of this movie – Cui Jian.

Cui Jian was a director from the same period as Wang Yi. They became famous at almost the same time. If Wang Yi was a very famous director in China, Cui Jian was not far behind him. It was said that it was easy to win awards when shooting Wang Yi’s movies. In fact, it was the same for Cui Jian. There had even been several film festivals where the competition for the best film was between the two of them, and the others were just supporting roles.

Although Wang Yi had won more awards than Cui Jian at domestic film festivals, Cui Jian had won more awards at international film festivals than Wang Yi. He was the only director in China who had won the Best Picture Grand Slam at the three major international film festivals. Based on this, he was able to surpass Wang Yi in public opinion and become the most important director in China.

Cui Jian and Wang Yi had different styles. Wang Yi was good at making movies with delicate emotions, which was what people often call the literary and fresh style, but he could bring this type to the extreme, and no one could surpass him. Cui Jian was better at the grand style, and he had a characteristic that his movies could especially highlight the characters, especially the protagonists. His characterization of the characters could be described as penetrating and very vivid, which also made it particularly easy to win the Best Actor and Best Actress awards for his movies.

Therefore, there was no actor who did not aspire to be Cui Jian’s male or female lead.