Jiang Se's appearance matched Gu Jiaer's requirements. However, she had not listed down any acting experience. She was also not a student from the film academy. She was pretty, but that was all she was.
"Pretense to Reality" was important to Gu Jiaer. He had even written the script himself, and it had been edited several times before it finally passed.
He intended to contend for the Baihua Film Awards with this film and win it so that fame would follow the merit. Therefore, he was also careful in choosing his sponsors. He was worried that the sponsors would specify for some talentless artiste to be the male or female lead and ruin this film in which he had poured much of his energy and time.
He made repeated considerations for the female lead before deciding on Zhao Ruoyun whose looks and acting skills were up to his standard.
