Xu Xiuwen's performance was subpar, but director Hang Fei didn't scold anyone. Instead, he allowed them to take a break before resuming shooting.
The crew found the situation amusing. Some were surprised by Xu Xiuwen's inexperience, while others suspected he was pretending to be a novice to take advantage of Bai Yue'er.
During the break, Bai Yue'er approached Xu Xiuwen. She cornered him, leaving him no way out.
Bai Yue'er stared at him in silence. Xu Xiuwen, trying to act calm, asked, "Do you need something?"
Pointing to her lips, Bai Yue'er suddenly asked, "Do you want to kiss again now?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Xu Xiuwen was startled and jumped up from his seat.
Bai Yue'er was equally surprised by his reaction. She rolled her eyes and said, "You weren't nervous last night. Why were you nervous just now during the shoot? Are you doing this on purpose?"
Xu Xiuwen immediately retorted, "Why would I do that on purpose?"
Bai Yue'er nodded lightly, "That's good. I'll say this for the last time—don't worry about what happened last night. I won't tell anyone, especially not Weiwei. Don't act like you've seen a ghost every time you see me. Am I that scary?"
With Bai Yue'er clearing the air, Xu Xiuwen replied directly, "Got it."
And then started filming again.
After all, the kissing scene was not that difficult. Xu Xiuwen completed the kiss scene in one go once his worries were put to rest.
After this candid conversation, Xu Xiuwen also let go of his worries.
In the crew, the situation has returned to the previous situation. Occasionally bickering with Bai Yue'er, occasionally having heart-to-heart talks, everything is as usual.
Before we know it, it had already been two months of filming.
For two months, Xu Xiuwen followed the crew to different locations for filming.
When shooting in Jinling, Shi Xiangming visited the set a few times.
Xiao Youran also visited the crew several times, but each time she was alone
In a blink of an eye, it was time to shoot the final scene.
It was Sunday, November 20th.
The final scene was filmed smoothly in the auditorium of Jiaotong University.
With the director's final "cut," the whole drama was completed.
Lu Hu, the set manager, took the lead in throwing fireworks.
Over the two months, the team had grown close, and some female students couldn't hold back their tears.
Hang Fei remained focused, knowing that there was still much work to do in post-production.
The wrap-up party was scheduled for that evening at a restaurant on Dong Street near Jiaotong University.
Tang Weiwei had reserved a private room in advance.
Over the two months, Tang Weiwei had transformed from a novice into a competent financial manager, keeping the shooting budget within 900,000 yuan.
The director still had post-production tasks requiring about 100,000 yuan more.
In total, the budget for "Boys Over Flowers" from preparation to post-production amounted to 1.3 million yuan—a significant sum in 2005.
Efforts must be rewarded.
Xu Xiuwen has already watched some of the short clips provided by Hang Fei. Although the limited short clips cannot represent the entire drama, it can be seen that the quality is not bad and does not appear shoddy due to the low shooting budget.
Post-production, such as editing, soundtrack, etc., are mainly completed by Hang Fei, so he has a lot of courage on his shoulders.
After two months of contact, Xu Xiuwen got to know Hang Fei better and felt at ease with his style of doing things.
The affiliated company is responsible for the later approval and other processes.
On the contrary, Xu Xiuwen can relax and have nothing to do in the short term.
As for the final distribution, because they are not one of those famous film and television production companies, people from TV stations will not take the initiative to contact them, so if they want to distribute it, they have to find a way on their own.
Based on the suggestions of the affiliated companies, you can find your own way, or they can distribute it, but they have to take a portion of the profits.
Xu Xiuwen refused without thinking.
Because Xu Xiuwen was planning to leverage a connection through Hang Fei's classmate's uncle, who worked in procurement at Jiangsu TV.
Hang Fei was going to ask his classmate to contact the other party's uncle to see if they could have a relationship.
Hang Fei is very confident in the TV series he has made. He believes that as long as he can send the film to the purchasing department, the people in the purchasing department will definitely spend money to buy it after watching it.
After the closing banquet in the evening was over and the students from the Arts Institute were sent away, Xu Xiuwen stood under the street lamp in front of the hotel and let out a long sigh of relief.
Turning around, Xu Xiuwen saw Tang Weiwei and Bai Yue'er in front of him and chuckled, "Let's go, it's time for us to go back to school."
In any case, the filming of the TV series has come to an end.
The next day, Xu Xiuwen, who had not been in class for two months, appeared in the classroom for the first time.
It has been two months since the military training and the welcome party, and the sensation he caused before has gradually subsided.
Some people were very excited when they saw Xu Xiuwen, such as Su Yanyan.
Su Yanyan was still sitting in the first row. When she saw Xu Xiuwen walking into the classroom, she immediately stood up excitedly and shouted: "DaDa, hello!"
Xu Xiuwen was directly embarrassed!
He had already heard from Bai Yue'er that Su Yanyan was his fan, but he didn't expect her to call him "DaDa" in front of his classmates.
After all, she was his fan, so Xu Xiuwen couldn't be too indifferent. Nodding towards her, Xu Xiuwen walked towards the back of the classroom.
Two months without coming to class, Xu Xiuwen was almost unrecognizable to his classmates, especially the girls in the class.
Many girls started experimenting with makeup, although the skill level wasn't commendable, the change was significant.
During the days he was absent from class, Xu Xiuwen heard from Yang Baishan and Liu Zhihao that many girls in the class had started dating people from other classes.
Yet, they both remained single, so every time this topic came up, they sighed, implying that the girls in the class had no taste.
Upon returning to the classroom, Xu Xiuwen initially intended to listen attentively, but having missed two months of classes, he was completely lost and couldn't understand anything. So he decided not to bother and started goofing off instead.
At noon, the five people in the dormitory went to the cafeteria for lunch, with only Shi Xiangming absent.
He went to find Bai Yue'er.
However, from Xu Xiuwen's understanding of Bai Yue'er, Shi Xiangming definitely had no chance.
Unless he could do something significant to completely change the girl's perception of him, no matter how hard he tried to impress her, the girl wouldn't like him.
After lunch, they returned to the dormitory.
The people in dorm 412 didn't have the habit of taking afternoon naps, and the dormitory was noisy, so there was no way to sleep.
Xu Xiuwen turned on his computer, logged into QQ, and started peeking into the group chat.
The book "Three Lives Three Worlds" started strong and continued to gain popularity as the word count increased and the story developed. It had been at the top of the Jinjiang ranking for a month now.
Most readers liked this genre of novels, and even those who initially didn't like it became hooked as they read further.
Many readers hoped Xu Xiuwen would write longer chapters, but he didn't want to drag the story, so he decisively ended it where appropriate.
The ending was straightforward and concise.
Xu Xiuwen was very satisfied with the success of "Three Lives Three Worlds." With the completion of the entire book, his royalties had exceeded 1.5 million.
Three consecutive successful books had already begun to earn Xu Xiuwen the title of "genius writer" among book fans.
However, Xu Xiuwen remained clear-headed.
He wasn't proud or complacent because of the success of his books. After all, the three books were works recognized by the public in his past life, so achieving good results was expected.
Xu Xiuwen was engrossed in peeking at the screen when suddenly the door of the dormitory was pushed open from the outside, and Dong Jun rushed in directly.