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    Chapter 60 Return to normal

    Gao Huan never contacted Julien again.The story about the “flu” was not continued.Julien called after returning to London, and he answered the call and distanced himself politely. When the other party asked why his tone became strange, he didn’t even make an excuse and just said: “No, you are overthinking it.”

    But after a few times, both parties knew it well, and Julien stopped sending any ambiguous messages.The relationship between the two people was quietly adjusted back to an extremely familiar and extremely safe position – investor and short film director.No one tried again, and no one broke up.

    One night, before Gao Huan fell asleep, he suddenly felt a little strange to himself. Didn’t he once cry and make trouble in front of someone, asking for an explanation?Now, I just quickly withdraw my expectations and let my emotions lose focus. There is no anger, no pain, and even no digestion process.The door he thought he was going to open was not actually opened.

    Gao Huan’s work intensity quickly returned to the range he was most familiar with.Even slightly exceeded.

    After the German platform enters the implementation period, it is no easier than the negotiation stage – every implementation detail means real responsibility.There is a time difference of seven or eight hours from China, so Gao Huan’s party can be held from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m.

    wide awake.Efficient.Emotional occupancy approaches zero.

    A while ago, “Hertz” was completed in stages. Gao Huan briefly slowed down the pace, and the team even felt a little untimely relaxed.Someone finished their coffee before the meeting.Someone dared to say “Watch it next week” on a Friday afternoon.

    Now the illusion is over.

    Peter and Olivia privately send each other memes like “The boss is xx” to keep each other warm.Grace also noticed that Gao Huan’s schedule was inhumanly full. She never said nonsense like “you need to rest” or tried to arrange any “forced relaxation” for him.Since he canceled his vacation, he is now clearly in a workaholic state. It can probably be understood that work is his comfort zone.

    September is here again, and the Moonlight Short Film Festival opens in Lisbon.

    Gao Le attended as scheduled.She had graduated for a year and was working with a film crew and only took one day off.Julien arrived there three days before the award ceremony. The man with white hair and glasses who had dinner with him last time was a senior executive of a French production platform he had met, and he was indeed a member of the jury.Although he didn’t say it clearly at the time, the other party said he was optimistic about him and “Hertz”.His introduction at that time almost erased the achievements of others and only talked about his own creative ideas.

    Gao Huan did not appear in the itinerary. He was not needed on this trip.Haoyue Media’s production coordinator is on hand, and for the company, “Hertz” has completed the step it needs to complete.Next, it’s time to see the world.

    The awards ceremony of the Short Film Festival is certainly different from a well-known ceremony like the Oscars: there is no red carpet, no lineup of big stars, and there is not even a photography area or background board.The people who received and presented the awards were all very simple, some wearing suits, some wearing T-shirts and jeans.There was no director switching between dozens of cameras in the venue.So when Gao Le was called to the stage as the Best Actress, the camera only captured her generous and relaxed acceptance speech, but failed to capture the stiff smile on Julien’s face who could not tell whether it was happiness or jealousy.

    In addition to winning best actress, “Hertz” also won best sound effects.

    Domestic media took advantage of the situation and sorted out Gao Le’s resume and Haoyue Media’s development in recent years. The voices were surprisingly consistent, and the tone was also rare and restrained, which can be regarded as positive.

    Gao Huan was singled out by several public accounts as a “rich second generation transformation example”, and the pictures he chose were very careful – either a group photo at the group’s annual meeting, or a work photo that was released to the public a few years ago. The picture was clean and the distance was safe, as if he deliberately avoided any overly personal details.

    The next day, Gao Xuefeng sent a message “Haoyue Group’s daughter won the European Film Festival” and read it several times. He clicked on Gao Le’s unedited original picture of the scene and zoomed in and out to read it carefully ten times.There was an obvious smile on his face all day long, and his two secretaries couldn’t help but wink at each other: [Is the iron tree blooming???】

    Lin Yi also saw the message from the push notification.

    At the end of June, finals week is the busiest time for national universities.Lin Yi was nominated as a full professor candidate last year.After the battery laboratory project made a breakthrough in the adhesive direction, it began to work more actively with Zhiling to promote the implementation plan, and meetings, evaluations and docking were arranged intensively.During this period, he himself received a formal invitation from the Technical University of Munich to study there for ten months. The direction and resources were very clear.The dean was even happier than him, and made no secret of it. He started counting the time for him early – once he left, he would be basically a full professor when he returned.

    He had just come out of the laboratory in the morning, holding a printout of adhesive test data in his hand, when a notification popped up in his mailbox.

    He had always treated those kind of group monthly reports as background noise.Today I don’t know why, but I ordered it.

    During the few seconds that the page was loading, he was still thinking about the schedule at Zhiling Auto.When the screen popped up, Gao Le’s name came into view first, followed by an unintentional group photo.

    He stopped.

    In the photo, Gao Huan is standing on the side of the conference table. He is wearing a short-length white shirt and no tie. Two buttons of his collar are unbuttoned. He is talking to two foreign employees with his head lowered.It wasn’t a staged pose, it was more like a casual click of the shutter when someone interrupted the discussion.This photo was taken in the office a few days ago. In order to cooperate with the monthly promotion of Haoyue Media, special personnel from the headquarters urged it twice. Olivia forced Gao Huan to take the photo in the conference room, and finally passed it on.

    Lin Yi subconsciously enlarged the picture.

    It was not any specific moment in his memory, nor was it a picture that he could easily complete.His impression of Gao Huan was still clear, but he suddenly found that those impressions were no longer enough to cover the “now”.He pushed out from the photos and found that it had been a long time since he tried to imagine what kind of daily life this person was living at this moment.

    The text in the email continues to unfold, talking about overseas production, phased results, and future layout.He closed the page without looking further.

    The lights in the laboratory were as usual, and the data was still waiting for him to go back and confirm.The invitation letter from the Technical University of Munich is still lying quietly in the inbox.

    Everything looks normal.

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