This director is vindictive.

Chapter 357 Sci-Fi Wedding: Dancing on a Grave?
To be honest, there's nothing wrong with adapting "The Heartbroken" into a movie, but it's problematic to link it with a space-themed wedding.

Chen Mo's brain CPU has been fried!

Because this is just ridiculous, okay?
The film "The Heartbroken" is actually a family story disguised as science fiction, and its overall tone is sad.

Making this film a promotional video for a space-themed wedding and creating a synergy between the two films is really difficult!
The third season of the Huayun Wedding Attire series features a space theme for Chen Mo and Yang Mi's wedding, which has already been announced.

As for casting Yang Mi as the mother, although we discussed it last night, to be honest, it's really outrageous.

"So here's the question: how do we incorporate 'The Heartbroken' into a space wedding?" Chen Mo posed the question to Yang Mi, the female lead.

And sure enough, the smile only shifted and didn't disappear; the same goes for things like burning out the CPU.

Anyway, Chen Mo had no clue what to do for the time being.

But Yang Mi was getting a little frustrated.

Actually, she didn't really agree with Liu Yifei's bad idea last night, but she agreed to it in a daze.

"Liu! Yi! Fei!" Yang Mi shouted through gritted teeth as she watched the fairy sister secretly trying to open the door and run away.

"Well, Mimi, you're the bride at this wedding. I'm just here to give advice, so don't look at me. I don't know anything about acting. I can only act, not write scripts!" Liu Yifei said helplessly.

"How about we let netizens discuss it?" Seeing that Yang Mi looked a bit scary, the fairy sister rolled her eyes and started to shift the blame.

"I think it's a good idea!" Chen Mo said, suppressing a laugh.

God knows what kind of terrible ideas those idiot netizens will come up with.

However, it must be said that this suggestion is not bad. Although netizens will definitely have all sorts of bizarre ideas, sometimes they can provide inspiration!

"A creative idea contest?" Yang Mi's eyes suddenly lit up, her fox-like eyes narrowing slyly. "Then we'll have to set up a prize!"

She jumped out of bed barefoot, not caring that her silk robe had slipped off her shoulders, grabbed her tablet, and started editing a Weibo post: "#SpaceWeddingCreativeContest# I've been tricked by a certain fairy sister! Now I desperately need a brilliant idea to link 'The Heartbroken' with a space wedding~ The best idea will win."

Chen Mo wrapped his arms around her from behind, resting his chin on her shoulder: "What kind of reward is Boss Yang planning to give? It's not an autographed photo, is it?"

"Get lost!" Yang Mi nudged his chest with her elbow. "Emmmm, can I be a wedding guest? The men as best men and the women as bridesmaids? How about it?"

Chen Mo and his harem are synonymous with online traffic.

Not to mention, the Huayun wedding dress series and the space-themed wedding are already highly anticipated.

Therefore, Yang Mi's sudden Weibo post soliciting submissions immediately drew a lot of attention from netizens.

However, the style of the scene left both Chen Mo and Yang Mi completely dumbfounded.

Netizen @ScienceFanNotScienceFan: "The Heartbroken x Space Wedding? This collaboration is like dancing on a grave! I suggest making it a 'Heartbroken: Ghost Wedding' with ashes scattered across the galaxy, quantum entanglement forever~ (doge)"

Netizen @Civil Affairs Bureau Matchmaker on the Run: "Got it! Show a holographic projection at the wedding, the bride floats out of a coffin-shaped space capsule, and the background music is a remix of 'Mom, Love Me Again.' It's full of sci-fi atmosphere and will make the guests cry in the bathroom!"

Netizen @心眼子: "The ultimate collaboration between the underworld and the supernatural! I suggest Sister Honey wear a wedding dress version of her funeral shroud, holding a calculus urn, and I've already thought of her lines: 'Son, today Mom isn't marrying a man, she's marrying the eternity of mathematics!'"

Many netizens were in stitches.

The main issue is that "The Heartbroken" is essentially a sad story, but what about a wedding? Plus, Chen Mo has a history of such behavior.

For example, Zhao Liying's fantasy-themed wedding included a scene of nine dragons pulling a coffin.

So there's nothing wrong with a wedding in the underworld.

For example, a fan of Chen Mo said: Director Chen Mo's new book is available for pre-order! Here's a bonus: In the time loop, Sister Mi remarries repeatedly, and each time the groom is He Xi from a different dimension (physical meaning + metaphysical meaning).

Fans of the "Fairy Sister" (a nickname for a female celebrity) say: "The Fairy Sister is hiding her merits and fame! On the surface, she suggested 'The Heartbroken,' but in reality, she secretly wanted to film 'The Space Ghost Marriage Record': Sister Honey's wedding dress is made of shroud material, her veil is made of calculation draft paper, and her wedding vows are 'I will die in the Riemann Hypothesis!'"

An anonymous investor said: "I, Wang Duoyu, will invest in this project! Requirements: 1. The wedding cake should be shaped like a tombstone; 2. The wedding favors should include a deluxe edition of 'Micro-Continuity Theory'; 3. The kissing ceremony should be changed to the couple spraying each other with ashes, symbolizing 'knowledge merging into the stars and the sea'!"

One silly netizen commented: "I suggest fast-forwarding directly to the scene where Honey yells 'cut' at the wedding, then cries and says, 'Let's do it again! This time I want to be a happy illiterate in a parallel universe!'—perfectly echoing the tragic core of the original work (not really)."

"Serious discussion: What if we changed the mother in 'The Heartbroken' to travel through time to find a wife for her son, only to discover that she's a mathematical formula... Wouldn't that create a closed loop? Honey's line: 'Son, Mom has brought you a prime number!' Wedding vows: 'I hereby declare humanity and mathematics officially united!'"

"Netizens' imaginations are more ruthless than aliens'! Latest proposal: Let Chen Mo cross-dress as Honey Sister's husband, let the fairy sister play the formula, and let the three of them perform 'My Wife is a Prime Number' (Honey Sister is on her way with a 40-meter lightsaber)."

The topic quickly became a trending topic, and even more outrageous ideas emerged under the #ChenMoScienceWedding# tag!

It's no wonder netizens are being so silly; according to them, Yang Mi and Chen Mo were the ones who were silly first.

Who in their right mind would think of linking a sad story like "The Heartbroken" with a wedding? It's completely unrelated!

Chen Mo and Yang Mi stared at the constantly refreshing absurd comments on the tablet screen, their expressions shifting from shock to distorted contortions to utter despair.

Yang Mi's fox-like eyes widened, and her fingernails unconsciously dug crescent-shaped marks into Chen Mo's arm: "Have these netizens drunk pesticide or what? They've even started a ghost marriage?!"

Chen Mo swallowed hard, his Adam's apple bobbing. As his fingers trembled, he scrolled to a comment about "ashes scattered into the Milky Way" and finally broke down in laughter: "Pfft, actually that quantum entanglement proposal is quite romantic!"

Before she could finish speaking, Yang Mi covered her face with a pillow. During the struggle, her silk nightgown slipped down, revealing the lingering teeth marks on her lower back.

"Romantic my foot! Take a look at this!"

Yang Mi angrily clicked on the top-rated reply—a netizen photoshopped the cover of the original novel "The Heartbroken" into a black and white funeral portrait style, changed the title to "Rebirth: I Hold My Seventh Day Memorial Ceremony in Space", and added the caption "Sister Mi: My son married mathematics, and I married a black hole."

Liu Yifei was hiding in the bathroom pretending to blow-dry her hair when she heard the noise and peeked out, only to find Chen Mo rolling around on the bed with a tablet in his hand: "Hahaha, what the hell is this? A shroud wedding dress? Are netizens turning the Civil Affairs Bureau into a funeral home?!"

He laughed so hard tears streamed down his face, while Yang Mi was furious.

"Liu Yifei, what a mess you've made! What a terrible idea!" Yang Mi lunged at the fairy sister with bared teeth and claws, but suddenly froze when she saw the other's phone screen—Liu Yifei had somehow taken a screenshot of Chen Mo's old photo in women's clothing and was using a photo editing app to Photoshop a widow's headscarf onto him, with the caption "The widow He Xi is seeking a husband online."

Chen Mo was once again amused by the hilarious ideas of netizens.

He clicked play directly.

It turned out to be a parody video made by some silly netizens.

The content is a remix of the eerie background music "Mom, Love Me Once Again," with a cheerful electronic voice singing "Ashes mixed with rice are so fragrant and sweet~"

Yang Mi completely broke down, burying herself under the pillow and pounding her fists repeatedly.

Just as Chen Mo and Yang Mi were both amused and exasperated by netizens' bizarre and outlandish ideas, an even more severe storm of public opinion quietly arrived—the original author He Xi's readership and science fiction fans spoke out, questioning whether linking "The Heartbroken" with a space wedding was a desecration of the original work's tragic core.

On Weibo's trending topics list, the hashtag #TheHeartbrokenAdaptationControversy# quickly climbed to the top three. Renowned science fiction writer @StardustWalking posted: "The Heartbroken tells a story of loneliness and the eternity of maternal love in a pre-modern era, but now it's being packaged as a wedding gimmick? This undermines the seriousness of science fiction literature!"

The comment section quickly flooded with thousands of agreeing comments, with some even posting the passage from the original novel where the mother organizes her son's manuscripts before her death, questioning: "How are you going to 'romantically' incorporate this into the wedding? Are you going to have the bride carry an urn of ashes down the aisle?"

Yang Mi's Weibo private messages were flooded with angry readers. Some even photoshopped a composite image of her wearing a wedding dress and holding an urn of ashes, captioned "Sister Mi's wedding theme: The end of science is a ghost marriage." Chen Mo scrolled through these comments, his brows furrowing deeper and deeper.

To make matters worse, even He Xi herself suddenly reposted a reader's protest on Weibo, accompanied by only three sighing emojis. Although there was no direct criticism, the attitude was clear.

Chen Mo frowned as he scrolled through the escalating public opinion, discovering that even mainstream media outlets had begun to get involved.

The Wenyi Bao (Literary Gazette) WeChat account published an article titled "Beware of the Erosion of Science Fiction Literature by Entertainment." Although the article did not name names, the implication that "a well-known director adapted a classic tragedy into a wedding promotional video" was all too clear.

A popular science blogger launched a poll asking, "Do you think 'The Heartbroken' is suitable for a wedding collaboration?" Nearly 80% of the participants chose "This is an insult to the spirit of science."

The top-rated comment reads: "If even the poignant sentiment of 'If I hear the Way in the morning, I can die content in the evening' from He Xi's writings is to be exploited, then Chinese science fiction will truly become a tragedy!"

Meanwhile, Chen Mo's Weibo was flooded with inquiries from countless netizens and fans.

"Originally, Chen Mo's adaptation of 'The Heartbroken' was indeed good news, after all, there is a real lack of good works in domestic science fiction films, but Director Chen, please wake up!"
In the film *The Heartbroken*, the mother burns her life savings to print her son's manuscripts before she dies. Now you want her to scatter paper money at a wedding in space? This is even more outrageous than the Shanghai Fortress incident!

"Brother Mo, blink if you've been kidnapped! Honey's wedding dress isn't really going to be turned into a data stream shroud, is it? I suggest fast-forwarding to the ring exchange scene and changing it to ashes mixed with rice (doge)."

"Please leave this novel alone! I cried so hard when I read the part about 'Mom doesn't actually understand your thesis, but Mom believes in you,' and now you're telling me that this part is going to be set to a wedding march??"

"Director Chen, please reconsider! The original novel's tragic sentiment of 'being half a step ahead is genius, being a full step ahead is madness' has been turned into 'being a step ahead in holding a ghost marriage' in your version? Teacher He Xi is about to burst from her coffin!"

Looking at all this, Yang Mi bit her lip and looked at Chen Mo: "We're doomed. Have we gone too far?"

Chen Mo reached out and hugged her, comforting her, "It's okay, it's not a big problem!"

To put it bluntly, the biggest problem with this matter is that it was sent out without sufficient preparation beforehand.

While the story of "The Heartbroken" is indeed tragic, it doesn't mean that linking it to a wedding makes it something heinous or undermines the seriousness of science fiction literature!

At least Chen Mo felt it wasn't that bad!

"What should we do now?"

Yang Mi slammed the tablet onto the bed, a rare hint of panic flashing in her foxy eyes: "Everyone's reaction has been so strong, and thinking about it carefully, it seems like we really went a bit too far this time."

"Sister Mi, I'm sorry, I..." Liu Yifei also became a little flustered.

Her original intention was simply to think the story was good, but she never expected it would cause such a huge public opinion storm.

Actually, the novel "The Heartbroken" isn't that famous.

However, this wave of public opinion has ironically made more people aware of the story.

However, this incident served as a reminder to Chen Mo that instead of agonizing over how to adapt the story, he should talk to the original author instead.

After all, the other party is the original author of this story.

Chen Mo took a deep breath, suddenly grabbed his phone and dialed Zhao Ming's number: "Contact He Xi immediately and tell her that we want to talk about the original intention of the adaptation in person."

After hanging up, he quickly edited a long Weibo post:

"We sincerely apologize for the controversy surrounding the adaptation of 'The Heartbroken.' While the initial creative call for submissions was indeed ill-considered, our intention was absolutely not to diminish the weight of the original work. On the contrary, we hope that by combining science fiction with warmth, we can draw more attention to the 'lonely individuals of a forward-thinking era'—just as the theory of micro-continuity ultimately made the fantasy of spacetime transformation a reality, we want to use the 'perfection' of a wedding to pay tribute to those 'heartbroken individuals' who have been let down by the times. Specific plans will be announced after obtaining Professor He Xi's approval. Thank you for all the criticisms and suggestions."

Chen Mo's influence is still different!

After all, his influence and public image were built over many years through his works and influential events, such as the Welfare Festival!

Therefore, they won't be completely discredited just because of some negative criticism.

Many netizens still believe him more!
@ScienceFictionOldBookworm (8.2 likes): "I finally breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Director Chen's response! Actually, the core of 'The Heartbroken' is 'the truth that has been misunderstood will eventually shine,' which doesn't conflict with the 'timeless romance' of the space wedding. I suggest showing in the post-credits scene how future humans use the micro-continuum theory to achieve time travel, traversing time and space back to the past to witness every moment along the way—isn't that a hundred times more sophisticated than the ghost marriage proposal?"

@HeXi's die-hard fan (6.5 likes)

"As a fan of the original novel, Chen Mo's mention of 'paying tribute to loneliness with a perfect ending' suddenly touched me. The unsatisfying part of the original novel is that since it can be proven that He Xi's theory is correct and that the time-space converter was indeed created in the future, why not let He Xi's mother at the time point see the miracle created by her son? Or show He Xi a different happy ending on another timeline? Oh my god, my tears suddenly started falling!"

@MoviePlannerAcha (4.9 likes)

"Chen Mo really has a grand vision! Actually, we could have taken inspiration from the father-daughter storyline in 'Interstellar,' and changed the original mother-son relationship into that of a husband-and-wife team of aerospace engineers. The husband dedicated his life to theory, and the wife played a recording of his blessing at their wedding. I cried while writing the script!"

@MiMi'sFoxTail (Fan Club, 12.3k likes)

"Make way, everyone! This is the kind of grandeur our Honey Sister deserves! We suggest covering the wedding red carpet with projections of the original manuscript, and having the line 'Mom believes in you' appear when the wedding dress transitions into a starry sky—what kind of underworld tricks are you talking about? We're going straight for the divine! (Forward this post for a chance to win tickets to our space wedding!)"

@SeriousScienceFictionDiscussionGroup (Blue V verified, 3.8k likes)

"From an academic perspective, I support Chen Mo: the ultimate concern of science fiction is the fate of humanity. Comparing the 'perfect moment' of the wedding with the 'future verification' in the original work precisely forms a closed loop in spacetime. I suggest adding a countdown element similar to 'The Three-Body Problem,' turning the wedding candy boxes into miniature theoretical models."

@CryingCatHead (7.1 likes)

"I just reread the original novel and cried my pillow, and suddenly I got Chen Mo's point! If Sister Mi received a 'theory verified successfully' message from the future at her wedding, and the scene cuts to her younger self staying up all night helping her son calculate the formula, that would be a much more ruthless move than just scattering ashes!"

Although public opinion was swayed by Chen Mo's Weibo post directly addressing the criticisms.

But Chen Mo himself knew that the problem had not been truly solved.

However, he was quite confident!
"Are you relieved now?" Chen Mo said, affectionately pinching Yang Mi's nose.

"Mmm! Thank you, Chen Mo!" Yang Mi suddenly kissed him emotionally and said.

"Hmm, should I excuse myself?" the fairy sister suddenly said.

"You cunning Liu Yifei! I never imagined you were so scheming! Isn't this all your doing? I haven't even settled accounts with you yet!"

Just as Liu Yifei was about to slip away, Yang Mi pounced and grabbed her robe belt. Caught off guard, the fairy sister was spun around, and the water droplets that flew from her hair drew crystal arcs in the morning light.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Chen Mo launched a sneak attack from behind. Just as his fingertips touched Liu Yifei's waist, she slapped his wrist with a towel—the bruises from last night were still there, and the pain made him gasp.

"You're ganging up on me, aren't you?"

Liu Yifei flicked the wet towel into a small whip, and the collar of her bathrobe slipped down during the movement, revealing the lingering hickey on her collarbone to Yang Mi.

Her fox-like eyes narrowed into a dangerous arc: "Oh~ Fairy Sister's scar aesthetics are quite unique?"

Chen Mo suddenly grabbed a handful of cherries from the fruit plate, and two purplish-red fruits were precisely wedged into Liu Yifei's half-open collar. The cool touch made her jump up with a start. The fruit rolled down the silk lining and stopped at the folds of the fabric at her waist, revealing its rounded outline through the semi-transparent fabric.

"Ahhh!" Liu Yifei's ears turned bright red, and as she frantically tried to grab some fruit, Yang Mi had already raised her phone and was snapping a picture right in her face: "Don't move, don't move~ This composition is amazing!"

The scene in the video, with the fairy-like beauty's clothes wide open and her fingertips holding a watery cherry, looks just like some kind of restricted fruit advertisement.

(End of this chapter)