This director is vindictive.

Chapter 359 Saying Yes at the End of Time
Three days later, He Xi posted a photo with Chen Mo and Yang Mi on Weibo, with the caption: "After having an in-depth conversation with Director Chen Mo, I was surprised to find that their idea was actually very touching - using 'perfection' to contrast with 'regret'."

The wedding surprise will be presented in the form of a science fiction short film, telling how future humans will achieve time travel based on the theory of "The Heartbroken," echoing the core of "The Heartbroken": all lonely explorations will eventually be proven valuable by time.

This could even be a very unique sci-fi reality film; let's wait and see!

Even the original author, He Xi, was won over. Although there were still some doubts, such as saying that she had succumbed to capital, etc.

However, this viewpoint is clearly starting to lose its footing.

And public opinion has begun to reverse.

"The Heartbroken was too heartbreaking. I hope they can make something different. Perhaps the ultimate combination of science fiction and romance would be a good choice!"

"I'm moved to tears! Professor He Xi's personally approved adaptation plan is so touching—using the perfect wedding to make up for the regrets in the original work is the best tribute to those who are heartbroken! Do those who criticize commercialization have to believe that scientists are noble only if they are forever poor?"

"Chen Mo has really opened up a new perspective! By linking a sci-fi wedding with 'The Heartbroken,' he's essentially using online traffic to support scientific research. Seeing He Xi's Weibo post about 'paying tribute to the theory of time travel,' I suddenly understand why they chose a space-themed café to discuss things!"

"It was too early to criticize this. This isn't just a radical adaptation; it's practically adding a 'parallel universe' ending to the original story! Think about all the research that gets buried in reality. At least He Xi's theory gets recognized across time in the movie—that's romantic enough!"

"As a fan of twenty years, I was initially shocked when I saw the crossover wedding. But after hearing Chen Mo say 'using celebrity popularity to generate scientific buzz,' I suddenly felt relieved—if this can get more people to read the original work and pay attention to the current state of scientific research, I'll accept the commercialization! (Tearful emoji x3)"

"The original version was indeed too despairing. If we were to make a film based on the original, it would simply be a sentimental and despairing movie, hoping to bring a glimmer of light into the darkness. Great maternal love and great heartbroken people shouldn't remain in such despair! Hope that's belated is still hope!"

To put it bluntly, the initial controversy among the public was not so one-sided.

There are no truly "evil people" in "The Heartbroken," but the film is filled with utter despair.

Moreover, times have changed.

People's attitudes toward those "doctors" and those "researchers" have also changed completely.

Therefore, it is natural to hope that they can be less desperate and heartbroken.

Given Chen Mo's own influence, it's no surprise that public opinion shifted so quickly in this round.

However, Chen Mo was starting to have a headache.

Because in fact, the only "science fiction element" in "The Heartbroken" is actually "time travel"!
However, it cannot be confused with the original space-themed wedding.

Chen Mo and He Xi also talked about this.

He Xi said with a smile, "Actually, it's not like that. After all, if we're going to go back to the past from the future, then the future can be set up so that humanity's journey is already to the stars and the sea. That would make a space-themed wedding quite reasonable!"

“If we can go back to the past, then it’s perfectly normal to go to space and hold a wedding, isn’t it?” He Xi said again.

Chen Mo nodded with a smile; that was indeed correct.

After all, space is king, and time is supreme.

The universe, the universe, isn't it just time and space?
"So, does Professor He Xi have any ideas about the adaptation?" Chen Mo asked.

The dome projection in the café switched to the spiral arm of the Milky Way, and the starlight made He Xi's glasses flicker.

He paused for a moment, then suddenly pulled out a stack of yellowed manuscripts from his bag: "This is the sequel to 'The Heartbroken,' which was never published back then."

The first page of the manuscript was titled "The Smiler," and the protagonist was a future scientist who, after verifying He Xi's theory, traveled through time to his mother's sickbed.

Chen Mo paused for a moment—suddenly feeling a sense of overlapping thoughts.

Indeed, he also considered how to link the wedding with "The Heartbroken".

Time travel would be a great angle.

Although the story of "The Heartbroken" mainly focuses on He Xi in the past, there is not much description or portrayal of the future.

But why can't we make use of it?

Just like I said, I use perfection to highlight loneliness!

Using time travel to interpret all lonely explorations will be proven valuable by time!

However, Chen Mo was surprised.
So you already...

"You've long envisioned a happy ending?"

He Xi smiled and shook her head: "No, this piece wasn't published because it undermined the tragic power of the original work."

His finger traced the description of "future scientists folding theoretical models into paper cranes and placing them in their mothers' palms," but now...

"It's been so many years, perhaps it's time to give those who are heartbroken a little hope, isn't it? Actually, it was inspired by you that science can also have a romantic ending!"

“But…” He Xi frowned slightly.

"Just what?" Chen Mo asked.

He Xi pushed up his glasses, the lenses reflecting the nebula projection of the coffee shop: "The time travel setting in 'The Heartbroken' is very restrained—future people can only observe the past like watching a holographic documentary, but cannot interfere. If we follow this logic, the 'future scientist pays tribute to He Xi' scene in the wedding easter egg doesn't make sense."

Chen Mo lightly tapped the rim of his coffee cup with his fingertips, dry ice steam swirling around his wrist: "Professor He, novels need to be rigorous, but movies are the art of creating dreams. Since future technology can create time-space converters, isn't breaking through the limitations of 'one-way observation' even more romantic?"

He suddenly leaned forward, his pupils reflecting the formulas on the other person's paper: "Like the Riemann Hypothesis—mathematicians spent 160 years verifying the first 10 trillion solutions, but that doesn't stop us from capturing its beauty in a film first."

He Xi frowned and drew a Möbius strip on the manuscript paper: "But once the past and future are allowed to communicate, the 'grandfather paradox' will be triggered—if a future scientist tells He Xi 'your theory is correct,' and He Xi achieves great success as a result, then why would a person from the future travel back in time to encourage him? It's like..."

Chen Mo suddenly grabbed a grape from the fruit plate and tossed it into the air: "Just like this grape—do you think it fell because of gravity, or because I will catch it at some point in the future?"

As the grapes fell into his palm, he took He Xi's hand and said, "The audience doesn't care about the closed-loop logic; they just want to see a genius who was let down by the times finally receive a bouquet from the future."

He Xi stared blankly at the formula stained with coffee on the manuscript paper: "But science fiction fans will accuse us of violating the basic law..."

Chen Mo smiled and opened his tablet to show netizens' comments: "Look at this one—'If a movie can make a child admire scientists instead of celebrities, I'd accept it even if they filmed a black hole as a heart!'"

He pointed to another comment about a 'parallel universe': "We can say that this is a branch timeline, just like the manuscript number in your novel that wasn't burned—there's always some universe where He Xi waited for his star."

He Xi suddenly burst out laughing and wrote a new formula next to the word "traffic": "So your solution is... to use 'parallel universes' as a fig leaf?"

Chen Mo blinked: "No, it's using 'possibility' to pay tribute to all 'unfinished' things—just like when you wrote 'The Heartbroken,' you probably didn't expect that twenty years later a celebrity would use it for their wedding, right?"

"Furthermore, why is the concept of parallel universes just a fig leaf? If going back to the past is achievable, then why isn't the existence of parallel universes science fiction enough?"

"In the source code, the world of the final source code could be a parallel universe. So why don't we go back to another parallel universe when we travel from the future to the past? Moreover, there's a theory in online novels about time turbulence, which could also be explained scientifically, couldn't it?"

He Xi suddenly laughed.

"So, you're planning to let He Xi's mother, Xia Qunfang, see a different ending for He Xi in another time and space?"

Chen Mo nodded and said, "That's right. Although they can't change He Xi's fate in that timeline, they can give a mother a glimpse of her son's happy ending in another timeline. Even if she can never reach that timeline, at least as a mother, seeing that scene would surely bring her comfort, wouldn't it?"

"Of course, this is just an idea, and it hasn't been finalized yet. If Teacher He has any better ideas, we can share them and discuss them together." Yang Mi and Liu Yifei were the most concerned about the outcome of Chen Mo and He Xi's discussion.

The other women have been teasing Yang Mi quite a bit lately.

The main problem is that Chen Mo's two previous weddings went very smoothly, but Yang Mi's wedding was the one that caused some trouble.

This has caused such a huge public opinion storm.

As an "accomplice" and "instigator," Liu Yifei actually felt quite guilty towards Yang Mi and Chen Mo.

Naturally, everyone hopes for a good outcome.

Although He Xi's Weibo post seemed to have reversed public opinion, in reality, this was only temporary.

Therefore, the two of them stayed at home waiting for Chen Mo, wanting to know the result as soon as possible.

However, when Chen Mo saw Yang Mi and Liu Yifei, he couldn't help but smile, because one of them was wearing a T-shirt with "I am a prime number" printed on it, and the other was wearing "Ω" shaped earrings.

They are all clearly custom-made.

Seeing Chen Mo return, Yang Mi put down the novel "The Heartbroken" in her hand, her eyes still red, and stepped forward to ask urgently, "So after Teacher He Xi agreed to adapt it, how will the movie and the wedding documentary be linked? And I always feel that our space-themed wedding is too thin, missing something?"

Liu Yifei nodded and said, "In 'The Phoenix Brings Auspiciousness,' the process is already quite complicated, so it highlights the elegance and sense of ceremony. But in Zhao Liying's fantasy-themed wedding, there are actually quite a few 'plots' involved. The collaboration of various fantasy IPs makes the ceremony full of ritual while adding a lot of 'plots'!"
And what about a space-themed wedding? Does it have to be a carbon copy? Maybe some songs like "The Heartbroken" will be made, so those who have experienced heartbreak can witness it together?

“I’ve discussed this with Professor He Xi. The time-space converter can take people to the past, but this past might be a different parallel dimension in the river of time, that is, another spacetime. So I was thinking, could we have a wedding that transcends time?” Chen Mo said with a smile.

"A wedding that transcends time?" Yang Mi was a little dumbfounded.

"Silly! You can travel through time with Chen Mo at the wedding, like to the world of 'The Return of the Condor Heroes', and see another version of you (Guo Xiang), and Bai Qian too. But here's the problem: it seems like Chen Mo isn't the male lead in any of those stories." Liu Yifei was initially a little jealous, but then she couldn't help but laugh, looking rather smug.

Chen Mo was speechless. He didn't have any feelings about being cuckolded or anything like that.

Chen Mo rubbed his temples helplessly. Liu Yifei's wild idea made him both laugh and cry: "Your idea is quite creative, but I refuse!"

Yang Mi, upon hearing this, also sensed something was amiss. After realizing what was happening, she couldn't help but reach out and tickle Liu Yifei, saying, "Fairy Sister, what are you up to? Such a great idea, I think you should keep it!"

"No way! Ah, Yang Mi, where are you putting your hands? I'll fight you!" Seeing that Yang Mi was getting more and more outrageous, and even started kneading dough, she immediately started waving her arms and making a scene with Yang Mi.

Chen Mo was speechless as he watched the two of them start fighting over a mere disagreement.

He reached out and pulled Yang Mi over, pinching her cheek.

"Alright, let's get down to business!"

Yang Mi slapped his hand away, but her fox-like eyes lit up: "Actually, we can do it the other way around—let the 'Yang Mis' from parallel universes attend our wedding!"

She suddenly turned around and pulled a stack of storyboard sketches from the coffee table drawer: "Look, this is my design for the space station dome. The holographic projection can simultaneously show Zhongnan Mountain from 'The Return of the Condor Heroes' and the peach blossom forest from 'Eternal Love'."

Liu Yifei leaned over and pointed at a sketch, exclaiming, "Wait! This design of someone wearing a mecha suit and a phoenix crown is too much!"

Before he could finish speaking, Yang Mi covered his mouth, and as the two wrestled together, Chen Mo noticed that the sketch also depicted a "scientific research version of Yang Mi" wearing a white lab coat, who was using a virtual screen to demonstrate the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis.

Chen Mo was speechless. Good grief, do you even understand mathematical formulas? And you even proved the Riemann Hypothesis.

If it were actually shown, I'm afraid the brilliant mathematicians and netizens would laugh their heads off.

Just because it says it proves the Riemann Hypothesis doesn't mean it actually proves it, okay?

"Professor He Xi is right."

Chen Mo suddenly spoke up, and the two women immediately stopped their playful fight.

He picked up the sketch that had fallen to the ground and pointed to an inconspicuous pencil annotation in the corner: "Look here—'When the wedding march plays, starlight from all parallel universes arrives simultaneously.'"

That scene involuntarily surfaced in his mind, and he himself felt that the image must have been very beautiful.

Yang Mi's ears suddenly turned red: "This is the note I made when I was thinking about our wedding."

Her fingers unconsciously traced the star trails drawn with a silver highlighter on the sketch: "Actually, what touched me the most was not the time travel setting, but what you said this afternoon—to let the persistence of every time and space be seen."

Liu Yifei thoughtfully picked up the original copy of "The Heartbroken" from the side of the fruit plate and turned to the page with the folded corner: "So, in the movie's post-credits scene, the future scene that He Xi's mother saw could be our space wedding?" Her fingertip stopped on the paragraph about "burning the manuscript".

"Use holographic technology to make galaxies bloom within flames."

Chen Mo suddenly turned the tablet towards them, and on the screen was information sent by He Xi: "Professor He Xi changed the ending of 'The Smiler' to a triple nesting - when a future scientist goes back to the past, he discovers that He Xi's theory has already been known to the world through a wedding documentary in a parallel universe."

The email attachment included a new paragraph describing how a holographic projector in front of Xia Qunfang's hospital bed was playing a loop of footage of a space wedding.

"Wait a minute, then who does He Xi marry? Jiang Xue? In another time and space?" Liu Yifei asked in astonishment.

Chen Mo and Yang Mi were both taken aback.

Yang Mi's eyes lit up immediately, and she said, "I won't play Xia Qunfang anymore, and I won't play the scientist anymore. How about I play Jiang Xue?"

Chen Mo looked at her sly eyes and couldn't help but rub his forehead.

Good grief, have I gotten myself stuck again?

She plays Jiang Xue, and in another time and space, He Xi and Jiang Xue hold a wedding. Does that mean he has to play He Xi?
Seeing Yang Mi's eager expression, Chen Mo suddenly reached out and flicked her forehead: "Dream on!"

He turned around and pulled out a stack of documents from his briefcase. “Professor He Xi specifically noted that the wedding in the film must maintain the purity of ‘The Heartbroken’.”

The paragraph circled in red on the document reads: "Jiang Xue attended as a witness, not the bride. In the video brought by the future scientist, He Xi stood alone on the podium."

Liu Yifei suddenly burst out laughing, pointing at Yang Mi's face, which instantly fell flat: "Some people can't even get married in a parallel universe!"

"Who cares! I've only been married once!" Yang Mi grabbed a cushion and threw it at him, but the tips of her ears turned red.

She turned around and grabbed Chen Mo's arm: "My space wedding can't really turn into an academic conference, can it?"

Chen Mo swiped open his tablet and brought up the 3D model: In the vast sea of ​​stars, a ring-shaped space station was slowly unfolding its petal-shaped platform. With a light tap of his fingertip, the holographic projection immediately split into seven parallel wedding scenes—a Han-style wedding surrounded by Dunhuang flying apsaras, a cyberpunk ceremony with a robotic arm handing over the ring, and in each scene stood a bride in different attire, but all of them had Yang Mi's face.

“This is…” Yang Mi’s fingertips passed through the holographic image, and seven “selves” turned to smile at her at the same time.

"Miss Yangs from parallel universes".

Chen Mo pressed the play button, and all the images suddenly collapsed towards the center, converging into a dazzling ring of stars on the space station dome. "The moment you say 'I do,' all the blessings of time and space will cross dimensions to come to you."

Liu Yifei suddenly pointed to a corner: "Wait! Why is that version in the white coat calculating formulas?" In the picture, the "scientific research enthusiast" was using a laser pointer to deduce something in the air, surrounded by glowing symbols.

Chen Mo smiled and clicked on the note: "The Easter egg that Professor He Xi insisted on adding - Dr. Yang, who is proving the Riemann Hypothesis, is actually calculating the optimal gravitational parameters for the wedding."

He mimicked He Xi's gesture of pushing up his glasses: "In his words, 'True romance is letting a black hole witness love.'"

(End of this chapter)