This director is vindictive.

Chapter 57: Script reading or melon-eating party?
Fortunately, Wang Kai was just pretending to be a sissy and was still acting. When he heard and saw Chen Mo's reaction, he quickly said, "Director Chen, I'm fine!" He still spoke normally.

"I just figured it out." Wang Kai said seriously.

"So fast? Who is your teacher? So powerful? What did he tell you?" Chen Mo was truly amazed.

"My teacher is Mr. Su Ke. Actually, he is also an actor, but he usually gets along with us like a friend. He didn't say much, but just asked me why I could have a stable job but I quit it to take the entrance exam for the Central Academy of Drama." Wang Kai still respected his teacher very much and said with a smile.

"Then what?" Chen Mo asked curiously.

"Then? I figured it out myself! I've loved acting since I was a child, but because of Chen Jiaming's role, the outside world's opinion of me affected my mentality, and I forgot my original intention. Since I chose to be an actor, I should respect and treat every role seriously." Wang Kai was stunned for a moment and then said.

Chen Mo couldn't help but sigh. Sure enough, these actors who were able to make it big later on were not simple people.

Although Wang Kai had relatively few resources on the big screen in his previous life, his acting skills were recognized.

"What are you wearing?" Chen Mo pointed at the outfit he was wearing.

"I'm just adapting myself in advance. To be honest, when I played the role of Chen Jiaming, although I played it, my whole body was resisting it. To put it bluntly, I was refusing to play such a role in my heart, or maybe it was that kind of idol burden. So now I think about it carefully, if I didn't have that mentality at the time, could I have played it better? Looking back at my previous performances, I feel a little ashamed. I feel like I have forgotten my original intention and did not take that role seriously." Wang Kai said with a smile.

"That's good. Don't worry. Even if it's hard for you to break through your screen image because of this role, I can arrange a role for you to transform." Chen Mo said with a smile, thinking that he still held the copyright of Wang Kai's other famous work "Langya Bang".

"Thank you, director!" Wang Kai didn't expect to have such a gain.

The early preparations for "Love is Not Blind" are proceeding in an orderly manner. The leading actor has been decided, and other roles have been arranged one after another.

Of course, there were some people with connections among them, so Chen Mo turned a blind eye. After all, this was different from online movies like "Mr. Vampire".

However, even if he is a relative of someone, his strength and reputation are actually pretty good, so Chen Mo didn't pay too much attention to it.

In fact, to put it bluntly, in the movie "Love is Not Blind", the director is not even that important, because the outstanding parts of this movie do not belong to the movie, but to the text.

It is precisely because of this that Chen Mo chose this movie as his first theatrical movie.

After all, he had made a theatrical movie in his previous life and messed it up.

Soon, before filming began, the first script reading for "Love Is Not Blind" was held.

However, Chen Mo did not expect that Bao Jingjing, the homegirl writer, would become the protagonist of the topic.

Because this movie is about to start shooting, the main actors of the crew have carefully read "Love is Not Blind" before this, and learned about the relevant creative background, etc. Naturally, they are very curious about the author who can write such an interesting work.

It turned out that Bao Jingjing was indeed a "strange person with strange things", turning the script reading party into a "book fans' meeting"!
"Teacher Bao, are there really only 13 numbers in your phone?" Wang Kai couldn't help but ask in surprise.

"Oh, don't call me teacher. You can call me Dahua, or Sister Hua. My online name is Dahlia, and netizens call me that. But, you see, I actually don't like answering calls from strangers. It's tiring to talk to them." Bao Jingjing said.

"How many numbers are there in your cell phones?" Chen Mo was also a little surprised, and then asked everyone.

He picked up his phone and looked at it. Wow, there were more than two hundred numbers.

“I have 193!” “I have 120!”

“I have 368.”

Almost everyone present had over a hundred numbers in their cell phones.

So I became more and more curious about this Dahlia.

Wang Kai was particularly curious about the character of Wang Xiaojian, so he couldn't help but ask, "Sister Hua, does Wang Xiaojian really exist? I mean in real life."

Everyone looked curious.

"Yes, in fact you all know him, hehe." Bao Jingjing seemed particularly happy when talking about Wang Xiaojian, and she even kept the other person in suspense on purpose.

"We all know each other?" Everyone looked at each other.

"That's me!" She pointed at herself, then added, "Let me tell you, Huang Xiaoxian was based on a close friend of mine, and Wang Xiaojian is me. Didn't expect that? Hahaha!"

Naturally, no one thought it would be like this.

"Dahua, I saw you wrote in your statement: The story here is based on personal experience, but it's not entirely personal. That relationship was long ago. I've let go of what I must, and I'm still working on what I can let go of. But the hatred I must remember is, frankly, engraved in my bones... So, the heartbreak part of the story is my personal experience, and it seems to be vivid every day. But as a novel, I wanted to give it a bright ending in the part where I find rebirth.

Also, in "Love Is Not Blind," you wrote: "There are many good young men on the market. There must be one who is humorous but not pretentious, gentle but not vulgar. He doesn't need to be very dignified in appearance, but with just a smile, he can touch my heart."

"Ahem, in the novel, the boyfriend cheats and marries someone other than Huang Xiaoxian. What about reality? Have you found the one who captures your heart?" Bai Baihe asked curiously.

This question also makes everyone extremely curious. For many people, writing reality into novels is itself a magical thing.

And this Dahlia is so interesting, so naturally everyone is more curious about her life than her novels.

Bao Jingjing blushed, a rare occurrence, and said shyly, "Actually, before I wrote this diary, I had a fight with my boyfriend, so I came to Shanghai for a month. After I came back, my boyfriend and I were in a cold war and didn't contact each other. I was feeling really down at the time, and I wanted to look for some advice online on how to get through a breakup, but I couldn't find any. So I just recorded my daily experiences here because the feeling of a breakup is really hard to endure, and I thought others could use it as a reference."

"But, hey, after the first day I wrote, he replied anonymously online: 'This sentence doesn't sound like Beijing dialect, it's not authentic, it should be said this way.' I knew it was him from the accent. We communicated a few times, and on the third or fourth day, he couldn't help but ask to meet. After that, we realized it was a misunderstanding, and we reconciled."

Chen Mo also understood why "Love Is Not Blind" became a healing film.

It turned out that she and her boyfriend had reconciled a long time ago.

"Actually, I wrote Love Is Not Blind because I didn't understand why I couldn't just talk to others about a broken heart. My initial motivation was that I'd experienced a broken heart myself, and I wanted to talk about it with others. But the indifference of those around me was like adding insult to injury, like the last straw that broke the camel's back.

While society faces numerous major problems, we too can face personal tragedies. The pain of a broken heart truly is immense. You can ignore them, or pretend you don't know them, and that's helpful, but you can't poke at their pain points; that's inhumane. Bao Jingjing then discussed her original intentions and the process behind writing this work.

"Clap, clap, clap!" Everyone applauded.

(End of this chapter)