Global Film Emperor

Chapter 260 Receives Film Offer
Lu Ze paused, staring at Chen Yongbin for two seconds without drinking. He put the teacup on the coffee table, took out a cigarette from his pocket, and offered one to Chen Yongbin, but Chen Yongbin didn't take it. Lu Ze lit it himself.

It's another heavy topic, just like children with congenital disabilities, a nightmare for parents. In Lu Ze's view, this topic is even more deadly than children with disabilities.

Firstly, during early pregnancy checkups, parents can choose whether or not to bring their child into the world. Technology has given parents a choice. While family ties are certainly a bond, if you don't watch your child grow up step by step, the emotional connection between people and their flesh and blood is not particularly deep or difficult to sever most of the time.

On the contrary, when a child goes missing, such a good child, whether cute or well-behaved, is stolen, the feeling for the parents is truly devastating.

Lu Ze could understand that feeling. At first, there was bewilderment, then a heart-wrenching pain that made parents willing to go bankrupt to find their child, but in the end, there was only despair at the loss of any news about their child. Why did he know this so clearly? Because in the system space, his child had also been stolen.

He searched for ten years in the system space, until the course ended. That course was for truck drivers, but he spent most of his time looking for his child and was ultimately judged to have failed by the system.

The sense of loss didn't subside even after the course ended. When he was being whipped, Lu Ze even felt a sense of relief, as if he had received the punishment he deserved.

For the next three days, he locked himself in his room and slowly recovered. But even now, he can't bear to look at missing child notices. They make him think of the child he carelessly lost in the system space, and his eyes well up with tears.

Chen Yongbin was a little surprised. He didn't know why Lu Ze seemed to turn into a villain as soon as this topic was mentioned. He was so depressed that if he were in a comic book, his head would grow bigger, he would exhale a puff of white smoke, and then float away.

This made his expression serious. Lu Ze was said to be childless, but the possibility of having illegitimate children could not be ruled out. If he was too embarrassed to ask, he could only keep quiet and drink his tea silently.

"I understand, I will prepare well."

"Don't feel too much pressure. It would be great if you were selected, but it doesn't matter if you weren't. Relax. This theme is for the good of the children. It can serve as a warning and expose some common scams used by human traffickers. No matter who takes the photos, it's a great thing, don't you think? Hey~ Lu Ze? Lu Ze?"

"Hmm? I'm listening, I'm listening. Teacher Chen, please speak."

Now Chen Yongbin is increasingly convinced that Lu Ze has an illegitimate child who has been abducted. He looks at Lu Ze with some sympathy. In other professions, having an illegitimate child is a shameful thing, but it is normal for celebrities to have secret marriages.

Moreover, Lu Ze is not married and has no negative scandals. Even if Lu Ze has an illegitimate child, Chen Yongbin, although an elderly man, would not look down on Lu Ze. After all, celebrities today face much more pressure than they did decades ago, and it is normal for them not to want to expose their children.

"Have some tea and go back to rest. Today's performance must have been quite tiring. Get a good night's sleep and start working on the audition script tomorrow or the day after."

"it is good"

Lu Ze absentmindedly picked up the teacup, and very improperly brought the rim to his lips, slowly slurping the tea into his mouth. Chen Yongbin wasn't angry, but just frowned as he watched Lu Ze pick up his coat and sway as he stood up.

"How about I ask a student to take you home? I'm a little worried about you looking like this. I'll have Xiao Zhang take you home."

"No need, I'm fine. I'll be going now, Teacher Chen. You can sit down and don't worry about me."

As Teacher Chen watched Lu Ze's departing figure, it wasn't an act; she genuinely created a sense of desolation and couldn't help but sigh. In truth, she felt a little regretful. Why had she agreed to let Lu Ze enroll? If she had known it would turn out like this, she would have stopped him from being a year older.

She felt even more contempt and hatred towards human traffickers, not because he and Lu Ze were so close that they were practically inseparable, but because when someone close to you has their child stolen, you always feel pity.

"What a disgrace. These bastards."

“diu~diu~”

Reaching the parking lot, Lu Ze opened the car door and got in. His face was still gloomy, but after starting the engine, he suddenly shuddered, his emotions gradually returning to control. He pinched his thigh hard. "Brother, your child wasn't lost in this space. Where am I supposed to find your child? Don't drag me down with you. If I get this role, maybe I can save a few more children. Your child is a child, and other people's children are children too. I can't help you, but at least I can serve as a warning to others. If I don't get selected, won't you get a beating?"

Lu Ze leaned back in his seat and gave a helpless explanation. The scene looked rather strange, with someone talking to himself in the car. But then, his mental state improved a lot. He shifted into Drive, lightly pressed the accelerator, and left the theater.

Back home, Lu Ze lit a firecracker for the cripple and watched it start to float. He then made himself a bowl of fried rice, ate a bite, opened a can of beer and put it on the table. He turned on the TV and listened to the news anchor reading the news. His mind gradually went blank, and he began to recall the feeling of losing his child during class.

The recollection went very smoothly; he still remembered every detail. This was excellent material that Lu Ze could use, which gave him a lot of confidence. This was the foundation for his competition for the role. No other actor had ever lost a child, but Lu Ze had. Who could compare to him in this respect?
Besides, his acting skills are actually quite good, so I suddenly felt incredibly confident.
The cripple's intake is getting bigger and bigger. At first, he would feel so lightheaded from just a little catnip that he couldn't walk, but now he struggles to crawl to Lu Ze's feet and chews a hole in Lu Ze's socks. He probably thinks the socks are mice.

Lu Ze still wears cheap socks, always buying pure cotton socks from Taobao. Anyway, the calluses on his feet are quite thick, so as long as they are pure cotton, there is no difference in the feel. He just leaves them for the cripple to chew on.

I picked up the lame cat, put it in the cat cage, and closed it. Then I went upstairs, turned on the treadmill, and ran for ten kilometers. After that, I went downstairs to the bathroom, took a good shower, read a book in bed for a while, and then turned off the bedside lamp and went to sleep.

"Ding Ding Ding"

At eight o'clock in the morning, Lu Ze had just put the rice in the pot to cook porridge and was still brushing his teeth when his phone rang. He pushed open the bathroom door, vigorously rubbed the water off his feet on the carpet, walked into the bedroom, picked up his phone, and glanced at it. It was Shen Jinghan calling, probably because the film offer had been sent, much earlier than Lu Ze had expected.

"Hello, Aunt Han, good morning."

"Good morning, Aze. Have you eaten? There's a job here that needs you to come to the company. We just got a film offer. Are you interested?"

"Is it that movie contract about human trafficking?"

"You heard? Oh, right, you're in the same drama troupe as Mr. Chen Yongbin from the Imperial Theatre, right? Yes, he sent me the offer this morning at 7:30. After discussing it, I called you. So, are you interested?"

"Of course I'm interested. There are dozens of second-tier actors involved. I've never filmed a scene with such a large scale before. I'm quite interested. By the way, which company is producing it?"

"China Film Studio, Shining Red Star, I need to go to the airport around 10 a.m. and fly to Sichuan Province at 1:30 p.m. When can you arrive? Let's talk when we meet."

"Get to the company by nine o'clock, I'll eat now."

After dinner, Lu Ze didn't bring the cripple this time. He just put it in its cage and left. The play had already ended yesterday. After discussing the movie, he went home. The cripple could endure it for an hour or two.

After driving to the company, Lu Ze happened to meet Meng Nixin at the company entrance. The two nodded to each other, but neither of them spoke. After walking down the corridor, they pushed open Shen Jinghan's office door. She was sitting at her computer desk as usual, fiddling with her computer. The film contract invitation and audition script were placed on the desk.

"coming?"

"Ah."

Lu Ze walked over, sat down in a chair, reached out and turned the film contract and script around so they faced him, pulled them in front of him, and stared at them intently.

Title: "Find You"

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(End of this chapter)